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Offline Anne W

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Re: Impossible Brickwall
« Reply #27 on: Friday 08 July 16 07:20 BST (UK) »
What we need I think is for someone to come up with a family bible or something like that. I really don' t know of anywhere else to look !

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« Reply #28 on: Sunday 10 July 16 03:12 BST (UK) »
Something will come up one day. We have been looking for near 40 years and 2 generations for the background of someone connected to the family and just recently LizzieL came up with the information. Good luck. Marilyn

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Re: Impossible Brickwall
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 12 July 16 17:43 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Jo Harding on Monday 18 January 10 11:46 GMT (UK)
The "upper Thames" is the part of the River Thames near to its source. So it is the part of the river round Reading and Henley on Thames. Someone on the Armed Forces board might be able to enlighten you more as to the meaning of this in Naval terms.

The Royal Navy in the age of tall ships is not going to have been concerned with the Thames above London Bridge ... their ships couldn't get there!!

I strongly suspect (but do not take my word for this) that the Naval division between the "upper" and "lower" reaches of the Thames occurred at the confluence with the Medway (on which were sited the Chatham dockyards). So the Upper Thames would be upstream from the Medway to the Pool of London; and the Lower Thames would be the tidal estuary from the Medway to the North Sea.

And if THAT is correct ... then Plumstead is slap bang right on the Upper Thames.
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Re: Impossible Brickwall
« Reply #30 on: Saturday 28 April 18 10:16 BST (UK) »
That's an interesting bit of context for the banns with Maria Todd...

I know this is an old thread but I too am trying to find Robert RR! He is my 5xgreat-grandfather, through his eldest daughter Mary Ann.

She was already married to a Jerseyman, Elie De la Lande, by the time the rest of the family moved to London. Sadly she died young in 1832 - I'm descended from her daughter Mary Ann Sophia (also her only child who survived to adulthood).
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