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Hi,

Please see my lookup request

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,473533.0.html

Thanks

Rob

Thanks Linda ... I see this in GR too ...

Sometimes Louis is transcribed as Lewis (not uncommon)

Also, Travessa can be Travesse or Travessey

But, if you check even FreeBMD, you will find BMD's for many Travessa's who you would expect to see on the various returns, and other than these 4 *and 3 in 1911), none ... very odd.

Rob

Thanks Deb,

I already have it and Will Taylors dad was William Taylor, deceased (in 1872).

So, my hit list of Tiverton Taylors was those with a William as well (the one I went for was William and Sarah, the shopkeepers).

William Hawkins was Petty Officer, RN by then. Interesting that when he first came from Ireland he was a Ship's Carpenter.

Anna was 31 and WIlliam 36 when they married - maybe she did not have children.

Rob

Some certs to get now but I have followed this trail ...

Looking for William Henry's parents (he married Anna Matlida Hawkins).

I find William and Sarah in Tiverton - he's a shopkeeper/grocer - follow through census data and eventually we find
them until 1861, 1871 is a mystery (anyone???), but  then ...

In 1881 Sarah is a widow with grandson Bertie George 8yrs - born when Will+Anna married !!! Fits

In 1881 We find Will on duty, Anna (TAYOR!!) visiting friends, the Chambers. Head is a Master French Polisher

We find Bertie G married Mary Louise Offer 1896 in Bristol, and in 1901 he's there with young family and his
occupation is FRENCH POLISHER.

Some nice circumstantial evidence to now follow up with marriage and birth certs. Fingers crossed as this has been a dead end for a while.

Rob

Hi there,

This is a different family line to mine, but I would expect at some point in the distant past they were linked.

Mine are from Stoke Climsland, Callington, South Hill areas of Cornwall.

I visited the Inn in Callington last Easter which my relative ran/owned in 1823! The Bull's Head, opposite the church. I raised a glass to James Crabb !

I have lost track of Benjamin Crabb, b 1815. So far I know he married Catherine Smith in 1843 in Bodmin. He had his daughter Eliza in 1840 (who married Hugo Francis Hawkins, and their daughter Kate was my grandma). They also had other children, James and Edward who only lived a year.  Benjamin worked for Richard Vercoe as a woolcomber in 1843. By 1850 Catherine had children with John Scantlebury, but not married. She died in the Bodmin workhouse in Mar 1854 as did her son 6  months later in Sep 1854, James by John.

Lucy Scantlebury Crabb appears to have survived along with Eliza. I have not traced Lucy as yet.

No trace of Benjamin after the birth of Edward in 1844 (his BC names Benjamin as the father, his death in 1845 was not registered by him though).

So, I need to find something about a Benjamin Crabb, 1815 - ?, parents James and Esther (nee Jenkins). No sign of a death or another marriage.

I suspect he may have gone overseas, but as yet am not sure. There's a hint there may be something to do with mining.

Rob