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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: NORBURY and GRAYHAM/GRAHAM families of Jersey
« on: Friday 20 October 23 20:31 BST (UK) »
Hi Mary
I haven't found anything about John Norbury senior's parentage or actual birthplace, except that I think it was in the Manchester area. Charlotte was, I think, from the South of England, I haven't seen any baptismal registers for Jersey in the 18th century as yet, so she might have been an islander as I can't think of any other reason why she would be in Jersey in 1811, aged about 25/26.
We are actually 4th cousins, as John Henry is our common ancestor. My connection is through his eldest daughter, Ellen (1838-1903), who moved from Southampton, where she was working in the 1861 census, to London where she married George Heselgrave in 1862. George was from Lincolnshire and was living in Southampton with his family at the time of the census and probably met Ellen there. John Henry's wife, Rebecca Tabitha BESSANT, our 3rd great-grandmother, was born in 1816 at Paultons, where her father Henry was a shepherd on the Paultons estate, but unfortunately for him, he was transported to Australia in 1835 for sheep stealing, I don't know if you knew of this little fact ! If I find out more about the Norbury's and the apparent Manchester connection, I'll keep you posted. Colin
I haven't found anything about John Norbury senior's parentage or actual birthplace, except that I think it was in the Manchester area. Charlotte was, I think, from the South of England, I haven't seen any baptismal registers for Jersey in the 18th century as yet, so she might have been an islander as I can't think of any other reason why she would be in Jersey in 1811, aged about 25/26.
We are actually 4th cousins, as John Henry is our common ancestor. My connection is through his eldest daughter, Ellen (1838-1903), who moved from Southampton, where she was working in the 1861 census, to London where she married George Heselgrave in 1862. George was from Lincolnshire and was living in Southampton with his family at the time of the census and probably met Ellen there. John Henry's wife, Rebecca Tabitha BESSANT, our 3rd great-grandmother, was born in 1816 at Paultons, where her father Henry was a shepherd on the Paultons estate, but unfortunately for him, he was transported to Australia in 1835 for sheep stealing, I don't know if you knew of this little fact ! If I find out more about the Norbury's and the apparent Manchester connection, I'll keep you posted. Colin