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Carmarthenshire / Re: Richard Morris THOMAS
« on: Friday 16 December 16 16:54 GMT (UK) »
Hello Chris
You have no idea what value your pictures have, not only to me or the Thomas family here but to the whole history of the country of Mauritius. That might be the first real picture the archives might get.
The shape of his face is somewhat similar to that drawing in our history book,and i'm starting to think the author depicted him as dark skinned because he was a protector of slave,in contrast to the white-skinned colonist figure that is immediately under the drawing of Richard Morris Thomas in the book.
I'm going next week to the authorities with the pictures so as for them to rectify along the future line.
For the family stories here,like mentioned, all Thomas families agree that we descend from an Indian root woman with a foreign colonial officer and that the name Thomas was taken back 6 generations ago. What we are actually looking for on our side is who did the name change so as for us to be named Thomas again.
There is no contest whatsoever that Richard Morris Thomas was Welsh though a branch argue he was maybe french. latest update i had was Midglammorgan or somewhere around cardiff, and was even planning on getting on to the uk (wales more specifically to have a look at the parish's register. I did learn last year about his whereabouts and death location.
The records of his life here are nowhere to be found ( bizarrely the records pertaining to slavery times were burnt in the last decade...by accidental fire )
I will keep you updated if i find anything. But our quest here remains about the line from the 6 generation name change to up the line
On your side do let me know of any updates, especially on Richard Thomas' brothers and sisters if any and his mother
P.s : you might want to google for John Jeremy,he came with Richard Thomas to Mauritius
Cheers
James
You have no idea what value your pictures have, not only to me or the Thomas family here but to the whole history of the country of Mauritius. That might be the first real picture the archives might get.
The shape of his face is somewhat similar to that drawing in our history book,and i'm starting to think the author depicted him as dark skinned because he was a protector of slave,in contrast to the white-skinned colonist figure that is immediately under the drawing of Richard Morris Thomas in the book.
I'm going next week to the authorities with the pictures so as for them to rectify along the future line.
For the family stories here,like mentioned, all Thomas families agree that we descend from an Indian root woman with a foreign colonial officer and that the name Thomas was taken back 6 generations ago. What we are actually looking for on our side is who did the name change so as for us to be named Thomas again.
There is no contest whatsoever that Richard Morris Thomas was Welsh though a branch argue he was maybe french. latest update i had was Midglammorgan or somewhere around cardiff, and was even planning on getting on to the uk (wales more specifically to have a look at the parish's register. I did learn last year about his whereabouts and death location.
The records of his life here are nowhere to be found ( bizarrely the records pertaining to slavery times were burnt in the last decade...by accidental fire )
I will keep you updated if i find anything. But our quest here remains about the line from the 6 generation name change to up the line
On your side do let me know of any updates, especially on Richard Thomas' brothers and sisters if any and his mother
P.s : you might want to google for John Jeremy,he came with Richard Thomas to Mauritius
Cheers
James
took back the name some6generations ago ( i'm still looking for the ancestor who made the change, my guess is it was a father or mother along with his sons, the reasons i don't know. ) Before that we all had south indian family names and all the Thomas i meet here tell the same story about the name change 6 generations before. Especially strangely truthful when you did not know these Thomases before.