Hi Amberly,
Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry to hear you've given up on Richard Thomas Newill.
However not wanting to bore you with my short story but the info you had acquired on him from the roots chat was really amazing and from so many people. I have now joined .
My interest is in tracing a illegitimate father of a grand parent in my history. I know you can never confirm these kind of details. However in the 1901 census my illegitimate grandfather then three years old was in a household in Portsea Portsmouth. Who else was there but RTN as a visitor from the US on independent means. The grandfather bears the same two christian names as RTN. Given all the history uncovered by the people who replied to your entry nearly a year ago, I cannot believe I discovered all this just by googling RTN.
Further research shows RTN on the 1911 census in Sussex having married Rose Buss with 3 children 5,3, and 1, having shed 13 years and being born in Chicago ( ha ha). He also lost a child, Richard Thomas V Newill, aged less than one year, so he's got a thing about names. Free BMD further shows another Six children between 1912 and 1925. By then he's close to 70 having originally been born 1855 in Medway. His father originally came from Portsmouth. I know all this will prove nothing for me but if you get a fraction of what learned from your Roots chat entry it will have achieved something.
Best regards
PP
