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South Africa / Re: Tidbury of Tidbury's Toll, Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Dear Karen - thanks so much  for the reply and will certainly scan what I have and would love to catch up again when you are more settled to see how this whole family is connected. Know it feels great when you do have some more information or perhaps it confirms what you were not so sure about.

Would be so interested to hear more - does your friend live in FBeaufort as I also grew up on a farm around that area called Amhurst and we used to regularly go the Katberg Inn etc. The Patrick Tidbury you are needing more information on - does he perhaps have a second name?

All for now - regards.
Gaelene

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South Africa / Re: Tidbury of Tidbury's Toll, Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Dear Karen - I am also a descendant of these Tidbury's and have done a fair amount of digging into how all the families are related, etc as it is certain that the names are so duplicated.  I have not been very busy lately with any of this and happened to be searching a clip of Donald Grey (Eldred Tidbury) when I noticed this thread and thought I need to share some of the information I have on the family as I do find it so fascinating.

I have connected - to be honest a while ago - with a descendant of your side of the two Tidbury brothers (as it appears to me) who went to SA- here is a quick overview of where I fit in. I have it that their parents were, George and Ellen Tidbury (nee O'Brien) who were it seems married in the Church of St Michael Limerick on 12 June 1842 - George Henry Tidbury was born in October 1849 and Charles Tidbury in December 1852 - both born in Preston Lancashire but the death certificate for Charles Tidbury that I have shows Portsmouth ( well never know how accurate it was in those days) . These two brothers became hoteliers in SA - George Henry at Lower Blinkwater and Charles at Tidbury's Toll in Seymour(then known as Stockenstroom). 

GEORGE HENRY married Elizabeth Ann Cahill and had 6 children - Charles Henry, Wiliam Joseph, Susanna Ellen, Mildred Margaret, Albert George and Norman Maxwell.
 
CHARLES married Emilena Barber and they had 11 children - Charles Henry (again), Walter, Emily, William George, Elizabeth Maria, Robert James, Maude Evelyn, Eulalia Josephine, Anthony Reginald,Myrtle Grace and Everard Vivien. So my grandmother was MAUDE EVELYN - she married Wreford Goodall and they had three boys, Dennis, Basil and Kenneth and one daughter Marjorie -my father was KENNETH Goodall.

I corresponded with Undene Gouverios who did provide me with a lot of the above - she is the grandaughter of WILLIAM JOSEPH TIDBURY who married Matilda Maude Clarke who then had 6 Children - Everett William. Lionel Cuthbert, Constance, Thelma, Edna and Aubrey Aiden - UNDENE's father was EVERETT WILLIAM.

A while ago a researcher from Rhodes University sent me a list of all the Tidbury baptisms done in the Catholic Church in Fort Beaufort as well as a listing of deaths from church registers - it is not complete but did give me a good idea of dates and names of whom to tie up with whom.

I currently live in Dubai and have managed to  do a lot of research via the internet - think I have previoiusly corresponded with Eric Cahill and as well with Eric Smith.

Do let me know how you go and if anything here could be of help - I do hold some newspaper cuttings, etc which I can scan to you as well as the church lists.

Take care and look forward to hearing from you.
Warmest
Gaelene Clarke

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