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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Guernsey - Thomas BISHOP and Jane CURNOW
« on: Sunday 25 February 24 04:07 GMT (UK)  »
HI Susan

It doesn't look as if I ever replied to you. I am very sorry.

I've been poking around Rootschat looking at previous posts and replies and I found you. I'm in the process of trying to put my family story together in some sort of cohesive something-or-rather!

It came as quite a shock to discover that Thomas made it to NZ and is buried somewhere in Balclutha.  I made contact with a person connected to the genealogy club (I think) to try and find out more with regards to cemetery records as the original records were lost in a fire after Jane's death in 1911. Unfortunately she never got back to me.

You may know where Jane is buried and that may lead us to Thomas and their son Valdimer's plots. I have Thomas dying around 1877 based on Valdimer's death where it was stated that his father had died about 30 years earlier.

It was only a DNA test that found the connection to a second family for Thomas.

I live in Te Awamutu

Robyn


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Sussex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: NUTBOURNE records
« on: Monday 17 January 22 07:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for all this information. Very much appreciated.  :)

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Sussex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: NUTBOURNE records
« on: Monday 17 January 22 03:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there

Thanks for that.

Where was the source of that information please?

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Sussex Completed Lookup Requests / NUTBOURNE records
« on: Monday 17 January 22 02:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there

I am struggling to find where to look for Nutbourne bmd records.

I am particularly interested in the name CHATFIELD and have been trying to find the birth/baptism record for Elizabeth Chatfield born around 1795-1805.

Also Elizabeth's marriage record to Reuben KING sometime before 1841.

My father-in-law has a DNA match to someone with Elizabeth and Reuben's daughter, Lucy who married Edney LATTER in 1859 on Portsea Island and subsequently emigrated to the USA.

There is a tricky CHATFIELD in my tree and am wondering if Elizabeth could be the link through her parents/siblings.

Any help would be very much appreciated.   :)

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Europe / Re: PORTUGAL - possibly Azores
« on: Wednesday 03 November 21 20:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there

There is an Antonio Thomas arriving in NZ from Australia in December of 1870 which could be him. Roughly matches with the time in NZ of 70 years when he died.

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Europe / Re: PORTUGAL - possibly Azores
« on: Wednesday 03 November 21 19:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there

Yes, the 1886 naturalisation in Auckland is my man.

Unfortunately his marriage occurred when parents weren't included on the record so the only reasonably reliable piece of information comes from his marriage notice in the local newspaper.

His death record, although there are parents named, is not a reliable source as it relies on the informant knowing the answers. The informant was the coroner. Names on the death record are F = Antonio Joseph Thomas and M = Susan, no maiden name given. It also says that his father was a stonemason.

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Europe / PORTUGAL - possibly Azores
« on: Saturday 25 September 21 06:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I'm trying to untangle my mother-in-law's Portugese ancestry.

I have had her DNA done and she comes up as a match to descendants of a Lawrence Joseph Thomas who, according to various trees, was born around March 1856 in Fleurs, Azores, Portugal. He made his way to the US and lived in Massachusetts where he died

My mother-in-law's grandfather was Antonio Joseph Thomas who was born in Portugal, possibly around 1852. Clearly there is a connection here. She comes up as a half relation to Lawrence's descendants. Antonio arrived in NZ around 1870.

Interestingly, Antonio had two sons from two different relationships named Lawrence - one as a second name and one as a first name. He also had a son named Joseph.

In the newspaper notice of his marriage to his first wife it states that he is the fifth son of Joseph F Thomas of Portugal.

Not sure where to even start with this!

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United States of America / Re: New Jersey marriage abt 1870 please
« on: Tuesday 04 May 21 11:23 BST (UK)  »
Francis did have a brother, John who seems to fit what you have sent

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United States of America / Re: New Jersey marriage abt 1870 please
« on: Tuesday 04 May 21 11:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi there

Thanks for that.

I'm having trouble tracking down where his wife was born. I only know that her father was William Wilson and I don't know the name of her mother

 :)


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