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Devon / Maurice W L Trevassa

« on: Monday 09 August 10 16:55 BST (UK) »

Hi,

Please see my lookup request

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

Thanks

Rob

Devon Lookup Requests / Maurice W LTREVASSA

« on: Saturday 07 August 10 17:45 BST (UK) »

Hi, I am unable to locate a birth record for:

Maurice W L Trevassa (sometimes TRAVASSA) 1931

Maurice is sometimes transcribed as MORRIS

He died in 1987, but I need to find the birth record so I can attach him to the correct parents (which at the moment is an educated guess).

Many thanks for looking at this for me (in anticipation or a result!)

Rob

Devon / Louis TREVASSA

« on: Friday 06 August 10 14:22 BST (UK) »

Hi,

Looking up his name ... I find that there are births marriages and deaths, but precious little in any of the census data (this is quite wierd!!) - using GR for searches ... if someone could peek at another collection, I would be grateful.

I have Louis 1858, from Madeira m. Susannah. Their son Louis 1884, marries Mary Perrow 1910 and also Mary Williams 1915.

I am interested in this Louis, any children etc - he died 1918 in WW1 and is buried in France, but was wounded earlier in 1915.

The later Mary Trevassa (nee Williams) goes on to marry George Westaway, who was previously married to Eliza Wheaton. His son William Westaway marries Mary Perrow's sister Charlotte.

So there are some interesting relationships to work out here.

However, any info/help etc on the various Trevessa lines (mainly Totnes and Dartmouth) would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Rob

Antrim / William Hawkins (1841) - Belfast

« on: Wednesday 20 January 10 17:18 GMT (UK) »

Hi

Not been on RC for a while, been chasing Crabb relatives in Cornwall.

Now back on my Hawkins quest.

I am trying to find something about William Hawkins, born 1841, Belfast. His parents were William (1812) and Mary Ann(1810), who I also would like to know more about.

Later they were in Donaghadee and all moved to Plymouth around 1860.

William senior was a ship's carpenter, but William (1841) was gunners mate. I have his RN service record.

I see from the Belfast Registry that there are 3 other younger children in a plot from a William and Mary Ann Hawkins, who could be the right people, and also might explain moving to Donaghadee (2 died of measles and the third premature and unbaptised).

Any ideas where I might dredge up info on these people?

Other children were Hugo Francis (1842), and Anna Matilda (1840). Anna married Henry Taylor (policeman) and Hugo went by the name Francis and married Eliza Crabb.

Regards

Rob

Ireland / William and Mary HAWKINS

« on: Thursday 21 May 09 10:22 BST (UK) »

Hi

I am drawing complete brickwalls with any research about my Hawkins family. I have William (b. c1810) and his wife Mary Anne (b. c1809). Children William (b. c1831, possibly Belfast), Anna (b. c1840, Donaghadee), Hugo Francis (b. c1841, Donagadee). They were in Plymouth by around the 1860's. William senior is down as a ships carpenter. Hugo (who went by Francis usually, my direct ancestor) was a baker/confectioner. He married Eliza Crabb in 1862 in Plymouth, moved to Portsea (Hampshire), and joined the navy as ships cook. William junior was already in the navy as a gunners mate. He was wounded at Fort Pinhoe in 1859. It looks like he stayed in Plymouth as a shore based gunnery instructor.

Anna married William Taylor, a metropolitan policeman. Can't find any children. They stayed in Plymouth, eventually settling in Cornwall in their later years.

William and Mary also stayed in Plymouth.

The 1861 UK census does not show William senior and Anna in the UK. But they are here by 1871. William, Hugo and Mary are here by 1861.

I am trying to trace the family back, plus any possible records of marriages and births. So far pleas to various boards have not come up with anything.

The only possible "sighting" is a William Hawkins in Donaghdee who was superintentant of the public swimming baths (but of course, could be another William Hawkins!).

Given that son William's naval record (and some census info) says he was born Belfast, I am assuming that william and Mary were there in 1831 and moved to Donaghadee by 1840 (when Anna was born).

Of course this all coincides with the famine and they were part of the mass exodus anyway.

I am wondering if they were in some way related to the famous Plymouth Hawins family (many did move to Ireland), and they came back to Plymouth because of the famine and also because they sort of had a "family link" with the place. Of course, the reason could be simply that this is where William in the navy was based and they joined him (more likely I suspect!)

Any help most gratefully received.

Regards,

Rob

Cornwall / William CRABB - woolcomber then constable?

« on: Monday 02 March 09 12:55 GMT (UK) »

Is is likely that someone who was a woolcomber could become a police constable?

I am working on an assumption that William Crabb (c1806) who married Margery was the brother (or perhaps a cousin) of Benjamin Crabb (c1815) who married Catherine Smith and produced my gt grandmother Eliza.

I believe that Ben's parents are James and Esther (nee Jenkins).

William and Margery had Hester/Esther in c1826 and at this time he was noted as being a woolcomber(from info in the Cornwall OPC) database. Benjamin was also a woolcomber. In the various newspaper reports available on the NA, I see various court cases where a William Crabb is named as a constable from Callington. So, could this be my William moving up in the world? Any way to find out?

I think they are the same family because in 1851 I see them living next door in Callington viz:

James Crabb
Esther Crabb
Julia Crabb
Eliza Edgecombe
----next house
Margery Crabb
Esther Jilbert (Hester)
Julia Crabb
Amelia crabb
Frederick Crabb
Mary Jane Crabb
Thomas J Jilbert (gson)

--- from 1841 we can see William, Margery, Eliza ->Frederick. He is a Constable here. Also, William and Eliza born out of county ... is this likely to be in Devon, as the family were perhaps on the border when they were in the St Teath area perhaps? But by 1841 in Callington.

Where was William in 1851?

More evidence possibly is that James Crabb was from Stoke (maybe the one near Clovelly, I say this because Esther Jenkins was from St Teath). Also, Margery was from St Kew, just down the road from St Teath. Sort of suggests that William was perhaps also in that area at the same time?

Ben was born Callington, so they must have moved at some point.

Does this reasoning and evidence make any sense?

Also, my line of "Crabbs" do not seem to link into the multitude of Crabb trees out there. Is this also perhaps because they are from a line up in the very North of Cornwall/Devon?

Any help here is very much appreciated. And if you have pointers as to what documentation I should look for, that would also be great. I know I will have to trek to the CRO, but it would be useful to have some "plan of action" when I go there ...

Thanks in anticipation,

Rob

Cornwall Completed Lookup Requests / CALLINGTON - Benjamin CRABB c1815

« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 15:57 GMT (UK) »

Hi

I am suspecting that my relative is Benjamin CRABB, b. c1815, Callington, father James and mother Esther.

I would like to find out more about his parents. Also if he had brothers and sisters. I have some from the 1841,
but there may be some who had flown the nest before then. He married a CAROLINE, and I would like to trace this marriage. (In 1841 they are in North Tawton with 10mnth old Eliza, my gt grandmother).

It appears he re-married in 1843, in Bodmin to Catherine Smith. This Benjamin also worked for Richard Vercoe, woolstapler of Bodmin. Benjamin was a woolcomber, and Richard had washroom and 2 woolcombing rooms.
What would the status of this business be?

In the 1851 we have
Richard hd 47
Elizabeth wf 47
Mary Ann dau 23
Emma dau 17
Charlotte dau 14
Richard son 11
Elizabeth SMITH step dau 27
Charlotte TELLAM niece 18

So, Mary Ann and Elizabeth SMITH were born in the same place. I am therefore wondering if Catherine SMITH who married Benjamin was in fact Elizabeth's sister, and of course, Elizabeth (wife)'s child either to an earlier marriage, or before Richard married.

A GRACE CRABB was a witness to the wedding.

So, Callington CRABB's ... James+Esther ... Benjamin, possibly a Grace. Any help very welcome as this branch of the CRABB's does not appear to link with any of the other numerous CRABB trees around.

Thanks already to anyone who helps,

Regards

Rob

Dorset / CRABB family

« on: Monday 16 February 09 11:19 GMT (UK) »

Hi

I am looking for links to:

Benjamin CRABB b. c1816 father James

In 1841 married to a Caroline, daughter Eliza. Living North Tawton. He's a woolcomber.

1843 there's a marriage to Catherine Smith. Witness Grace CRABB.

In 1851, no Benjamin. But Catherine is lodging with John Scantlebury, Eliza (from above)
and daughter Lucy (who's Lucy Scantlebury Crabb, but the BC does not name the father!)
all in Bodmin.

I have drawn blanks for a CRABB famliy in Cornwall/Devon with Benjamin, Grace, James
and children Eliza and Lucy.

I have no other details. I am wonderinf if Benjamin came from the Loders lines?

Any ideas people? Help much appreciated.

Rob

Cornwall Completed Lookup Requests / Benjamin and Catherine CRABB m.1843

« on: Monday 16 February 09 10:58 GMT (UK) »

Hi

The marriage of Benjamin Crabb to Catherine Smith in 1843 was witnessed by a Grace Crabb
and William Hawke (or Hawkes). Fathers both James, one an Inn Keeper, the other is a "Tailor",
but could be a "Sailor".

Both were aged 26 at the time. Benjamin was noted as a batchelor and Catherine as a spinster.

I am supposing that this Benjamin Crabb is my relative who was married to Caroline in the 1841
census and with my relative their daugther, Eliza Crabb, living in North Tawton.

After this Benjamin and Caroline fall off the radar completely.

Catherine re-appears with John Scantlebury, Lucy and Eliza, living in Bodmin in then 1851. She is marked
as "wife of a woolcomber", which is Benjamins profession.

It's now all very odd ... would his condition not be "widower" on the marriage cert? Even so, what happened to Caroline? Where was Benjamin?

There's a Benjamin death in 1848 in Frome ... but then, she is still down as married!

Who is Grace Crabb? Not many of them. Sister or mother?

Anyone got Grace Crabb and/or a link with a James Crabb?

Any ideas on this? See the other two threads for more info.

Any help now very much appreciated ...

Rob