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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Croydon Betchleys
« on: Sunday 25 July 10 21:59 BST (UK) »
Hello again - after quite a break.
Well, what a headache this James is to us all. I now feel inclined to put aside the transported James altogether.
Just a thought: from the records, the transported James was age 28 at the time of his arrival in Tasmania on 12th January 1820. This gives a birth date of circa 1791/2. (James Betchley snr. and Mary Isted married in 1794). He also seemed to be something of a habitual lawbreaker by nature. The Croydon James, who seemed much steadier on the face of it, died in early 1884, age 87 - which ties in better with the baptism date of 30th September 1796 in East Grinstead. Not that it proves anything at all, of course!
But, one will always wonder........!
Well, what a headache this James is to us all. I now feel inclined to put aside the transported James altogether.
Just a thought: from the records, the transported James was age 28 at the time of his arrival in Tasmania on 12th January 1820. This gives a birth date of circa 1791/2. (James Betchley snr. and Mary Isted married in 1794). He also seemed to be something of a habitual lawbreaker by nature. The Croydon James, who seemed much steadier on the face of it, died in early 1884, age 87 - which ties in better with the baptism date of 30th September 1796 in East Grinstead. Not that it proves anything at all, of course!
But, one will always wonder........!