Tucker and Forward Solicitors of Chard

[mark foot]

I wonder if there are records of the address of the firm Tucker and Forward of Chard and when they closed or ideally who and when took them over. I have left search details for Charles Higgins b 1863 Crewkerne who lived at Tatwoth with his family and witnessed a will as sols clerk in Jul 1883 and quickly afterwards has disappeared, possibly drowned.

Many thanks Mark

[JJen]

Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser 01 July 1950 records the address of Tucker and Forward as Fore Street Chambers, Chard.

A link that could be of interest -

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/0ccf1c19-d39c-41cc-a264-38db4416edc6

JJ

[mark foot]

Many thanks Mark

[maddys52]

Not sure if this is the same Charles HIGGINS, there is a mention of Private Charles HIGGINS in Chard in 1884, and another similar in 1883.
Western Gazette, Friday, April 25, 1884, Issue 7707, p.6.

[mark foot]

Many thanks and I think this is very likely him although in any case he was definately wirking for the sols a few months before. It is a mystery why he wiuld leave his job and family and appear to disapear. At his brothers inquest in 1889 it said some 4 years previously a brother had returned from America to try and help George Higgins. With the comment on him drowning from my grandmother, I wonder if he was lost at sea on the return journey? This does seem an expectedly difficult mystery as I would have assumed that there would have been some records. The post I found, in the right period of a Charles Higgins drowing after leaving Portland (I believe in the USA), who was a cook might thow up something. He might of been working his passage home? Thanks Mark