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Topic: Deb D's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In. (Read 2084 times)
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Tephra
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Welcome to this weeks Scavenger Hunt.........It looks like a really interesting one, taking us from the UK to Australia, back to UK and then to the U.S. Phew.........it's tiring just thinking about it. Have fun.
Good Luck and Good Hunting.
Barbara
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Duncan Dunbar Tatham was born 20th March 1824 to Poplar surgeon Christopher Tatham and his first wife, Justina Dunbar Tatham. Justina was the sister of Duncan Dunbar II, a shipping magnate who was apparently the Ari Onassis of the time. DDT was the second child of three, and the only son. According the "The Times", it seems that, as a young man, he was involved in a scuffle with some felonious types - the newspaper reports indicate they tried to rob him whilst he was in the company of a young lady ... the felons claimed they were trying to blackmail him, because said young lady had removed her bonnet (scandalous!) in DDT's company.
Whatever the reason or cause, DDT then shows up in Australia. I believe he sailed on the "King William", arriving in Melbourne on the 12th September 1851. He worked as a shipping clerk with connections to his Uncle Duncan's firm ... until he, reportedly, passed a couple of letters of credit on Uncle Duncan ... for which he had no authority! Needless to say, his employment with the family firm seems to have ceased at this point.
The next we hear of him, he was married to Mary Ann Judd at St Peter's church in Melbourne on the 7th June 1853. In 1854, their daughter Justina was born at Chiltern, Victoria, ... and in 1856 they had a son, Duncan John Tatham. By this time, they were living in Geelong, and DDT was employed as a warder/turnkey at Geelong Gaol. However in 1857, his wife Mary Ann died. And this is where it gets strange.
There seems to be no trace of DDT after Mary Ann's death.
The two children were reportedly retrieved from Australia by their Aunt Phoebe, and taken back to "Blighty" aboard a Dunbar ship captained by one of DDT's uncles. As it was a Dunbar ship, we suspect the trip was a "family freebie", and records weren't kept precisely. We have found two Tatham children aboard a Dunbar ship, however their names were given as Elizabeth and John ... still not sure they're our babes. Back in England, Justina Tatham was taken in by Aunt Phoebe, and baptised at the age of 8 in Hatfield, Herts. Sadly, Justina died in 1870 aged just 16.
Duncan John was taken in by his grandfather and step-grandmother, Elizabeth Gordon Tatham. He was sent to a good boarding school in Kent, and around the time he left school, he inherited some money from the estate of his half-uncle Christopher. This, too, is interesting, because a codicil on the Will directs that he will be disinherited if he ever signs any of the money over to anyone else; - is this a clue that DDT was still alive?
Next, Duncan John shows up in Laramie City, Wyoming, on the 1880 US Census. He was working as a bartender and living in the home of a Mr Ivinson (the house is still standing, and a local tourist attraction, I believe).
But after 1880 there's no sign of Duncan John ... until a D J Tatham appears on the manifest of the "Port Henderson", which sailed from Kingston Jamaica to Avonmouth, Bristol, in December of 1910.
Is it possible these two fellows can be found?? I'm only one of a conglomeration of distant cousins, who'd love to know what happened to them!
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Onley/Only/Olney In Islington.
Abbott In Islington
Wallwork In Bolton and Walkden
Lamb In Bolton and Ireland
Grundy In Bolton
Blackledge In Bolton
Osbaldeston ?? ??
Barnett in Islington
Binyon in Islington
Kitchen in Bolton
Parker in Bolton
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stonechat
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Wow this is a tricky one. I have rellies who've travelled to various parts but there are some serious movements here.
Will have a look
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Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire NOTE I have moved my website to http://www.cotswan.com |
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Spidermonkey
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Probably a minor thing, but ancestry has Justina being baptised in Walthamstow, Essex not Hatfield, Herts
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Spidermonkey
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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There's a Duncan Tatham coming up on Australian electoral rolls for 1901-1936, but as I don't have ancestry worldwide, I'm afraid that I can't check for you
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Deb D
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Hi everyone, and thank you for taking part 
Toni, the Phoebe Tatham mentioned in regard to a divorce is not our Phoebe, I'm afraid (I had found that one a while back) - that one would have been a Tatham by marriage, where ours was born a Tatham, and only ever married to Mr Brown. It was, I believe, Phoebe travelling as "Mrs Brown" who accompanied the children back to England - will check my notes again to be doubly sure.
Thank you for that link - thanks also to Lizdb for her one - I hadn't found either of them before!
Oo-er ... second edit  ... the half-uncle Christopher from whom Duncan John inherited money ... was his half-uncle Christopher Tatham (son of surgeon Christopher and Elizabeth Gordon Tatham) ... so no connection to the Dunbar estate.
The Duncan Tatham who comes up on the electoral rolls is the right fellow, ... but the entry is a glitch; - I found him via the local Library's Ancestry link. The date for his voter registration was actually 1856, from memory, so no idea how it found its way in amongst the 1901-1936 rolls 
All your help sincerely appreciated,
Deb
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I live in Sydney, Australia, and I'm researching: -
Powell
Tatham
Dunbar
Dixon
Mackwood
Kinnear
Mitchell
Morgan
Delves
Anderson
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