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That's very kind of you. The Millgroves have been a bit of a challenge, with gaps in registers and variations in spelling. Charles Millgrove born 1832 moved to Middlesbrough in about 1855. I spent a long time trying to find his death and burial...eventually discovering that he died in Helsingør in Denmark. The family story was that he was a sea captain; he was actually a stoker on steamers travelling between Middlesbrough and Copenhagen! He died at Helsingør Hospital in 1888.
 

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Thanks for all the information. No , you are right, Charles Millgrove born 1832 was xn in 1834 at Frome St John's. Working from memory! Yes, I'm pretty sure that Thomas Millgrove married twice, his first wife being Mary Amesbury, buried as you noted. It's a while since I researched this family, but Louisa who lived with her aunty Mary Carver clinched the relationship between Mary and Charles as half-siblings. Just to confuse things, the Elizabeth who married Oliver Carver was probably their cousin, daughter of Wiliam (and she also had a sister called Mary). Charles, Louisa and another brother William all ended up in North East England. All the male children of Charles and William died in infancy, so I don't think there are any descendants with the surname Millgrove up here. Are you researching the family too? If so, I have more information.

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Many thanks. Sure these are related to "my" Millgroves. My gt gt grandfather Charles Millgrove was born in Frome in 1829, son of Charles Millgrove and Fanny Knight. Have evidence (but no record of baptism) that Charles senior was son of Thomas Millgrove and Mary Amesbury; Thomas was son of William Millgrove and Elizabeth Durand from Great Elm & Corsley. Difficult to piece together a family tree before that, but Millgrove recorded in Somerset/Wiltshire back to 1570s.

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I am a Millgrove descendant. Piecing together a family tree is quite tricky for this family, owing to gaps in records and use of the same Christian names generation after generation. That is true of all family trees however and at least the surname is quite rare! If it helps, some of the Millgrove family in Frome originated in Great Elm, Somerset and Corsley, Wiltshire. The spelling of the surname is quite fluid - Millgrove, Milgrove, Melgrove, Milngrove and even recorded as Musgrove (I have good evidence for this). Let me know if you want more information.
 

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Cumberland / Re: Gill/Teeley family,Millom
« on: Thursday 31 August 17 22:42 BST (UK)  »
Teeley family from Millom are all descendants of James Teeley and Mary O'Brien from Glenmalure, Co Wicklow. All. I am descended from their daughter Elizabeth (baptised 1846) in the direct female line. She was my gt gt grandmother.

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The Common Room / Re: Can't find a birth registration
« on: Thursday 31 August 17 22:36 BST (UK)  »
Millgrove is a surname from Somerset / Wiltshire. I've seen many variants including Melgrove, Milngrove and even Musgrove. I suspect the London Millgrove family are descendants of a branch from Frome area of Somerset. The surname is quite now very rare (I'm a Millgrove descendant).

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