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Somerset / The Warren family of NorthPetheridge/Goathurst/Broomfield
« on: Sunday 03 March 24 07:55 GMT (UK)  »
Morning
I am trying to find out the maiden name of Ann Warren 1793-1878
Ann was born in Goathurst and must have been married around 1826. Her first few children were born in North Petherton but I think she was widowed before 1841.
They were a family with money because i am tracking Ann as a mortgage holder for properties in Devon. Her name keeps coming up and i have tied her down to this specific woman but I can't work out where she came from and consequently where the money came from.
I am hoping that when I work this out, a younger 'Mrs Ann Warren' and Miss Eliza Warren will start to fit in somewhere.
Any help would be great.Thank you
Alison

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Devon / Channon's flour mill Honiton
« on: Monday 13 November 23 09:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hi I am trying to find out about the Channon family in Honiton who ran the flour mill on Mill Street in about 1840. I have some names but no dates to tie down which part of the family I am looking at. I know that the father was James Channon who ran the mill but had died before 1840. He left it to his son, also called James Channon and James junior had a sister called Ann or Anna.
That is literally all i know and I can't place them in history. i have taken some guesses but am not sure.
Any local help would be great
Thanks
Alison

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London and Middlesex / Robert Coysh and Mary Watts married 1803 Middlesex
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I am in Devon tracing a Devon sea faring man called Robert Coysh b.1749 but my gut feeling is that after the end of his career at sea he got married in Middlesex in 1803. He disappears from Devon records in 1803 when his ship went aground in Margate but in 1803 a Robert Coysh married Mary Watts in Middlesex and I think it's him

The marriage was in St James, Paddington on June 22 1803 but I can't find any information about him or Mary. Both were widows and my Robert would have been about 54 in 1803. I am hoping that someone knows about either of them, the marriage record doesn't give any idea of their ages or professions so I may be chasing the wrong man but I live in hope.

His Devon family were in Topsham in East Devon and a Robert Coysh was buried there in 1826 and a Mary Coysh in 1827. I think they must be the same people but it's too early for death certificates.

Any help or advice would be great.

Thanks
Alison

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Devon / Robert and George Coysh of Highweek
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 09:05 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I am researching George Coysh 1781-1840 who lived in Topsham. He was born in Highweek near Teignmouth and I am 99.9% sure that his parents were Robert and Dorothy. I am also pretty confident that his father's brother was Andrew and that Andrew and Robert were the children of Richard and Alice.
Of course 99.9% isn't actually proof and so I am hoping that someone may know more about the family or where to go to find out. Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks
Alison

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Armed Forces / HMS Ajax 1807
« on: Thursday 27 July 23 16:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi.
I have been chasing down George Coysh for several years now. He was a Devon man 1781-1840 and all local documents in circulation and in our museum say that he fought with Nelson at Trafalgar but he is not listed anywhere not even at the archives in Kew. I had decided that it was just a local legend until I found a handwritten letter from his grandson in the Devon archives yesterday talking about his grandfather's service on the HMS Ajax, describing in detail his narrow escape in 1807 when the Ajax caught fire in the Dardanelles Operation and even how his grandfather's Trafalgar medal had been given to his mother but an aunt had taken it. The detail is pretty compelling since when the letter was written in 1924 the grandson still lived in the same street with siblings and others who had these family memories.
Kew hasn't been able to help so can anyone please tell me where else I should look to see if George was really on the Ajax.
Many thanks
Alison

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The Common Room / Greenwich Naval School and George Perkin Coysh b.1816
« on: Thursday 09 February 23 10:04 GMT (UK)  »
George Perkin Coysh b.1816 was the son of a Naval Gunner also called George Coysh. Because of his father's career George senior sent three of his sons from their home in Devon to the Greenwich school. I have visited the archives in Kew and got the paperwork and details. (George junior was born in Rochester Kent while his father was still in the service). I have failed to find out what happened to George after he left the school, his father's letter on admission said that  ‘I George Coysh do hereby agree that George Perkin Coysh, if admitted into the school of the Royal Naval Asylum, shall remain there, as long as the Directors thereof, shall think proper; and that he shall be at the disposal of the said Directors, to serve in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, or  the Merchant Sea Service, as they may please to order.’ so who knows what happened to him.
I have been able to track down all other members of the family but am stuck with him. Does anyone know of any websites that specialise in this sort of query, there are others called George Coysh but i can't match them up with mine. I feel that he should be remembered when he was sent so far from home at such a young age. Thanks
Alison

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Hi
I am researching Henry Thorp who was born in Southwick, Fareham in 1794. I know that his parents were Henry and Mary and I think that his father had been married before and widowed. The family must have been fairly well off and possibly in the military.

Henry junior went to Christ's College Cambridge in 1815 and his admission papers show him as having been a pupil of Bishop's Waltham school under Rev T Walters. He had been in the army until Peace was declared in 1815 (he was 19) when he went to Cambridge. The trouble is that I can't see any evidence that he was ever in the army despite newspaper articles about him later in life giving this as fact.

Does anyone recognise this family and please can anyone fill in any gaps in his life?

Any help would be great

Thanks
Alison

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Armed Forces / Napoleonic war (I think!)
« on: Sunday 25 September 22 14:19 BST (UK)  »
Please can anyone help me. I am looking at Henry Thorp, he was born in Southwick, Fareham, Hampshire in 1796 and I am reasonably sure that his mother was called Margaret. In 1835 there was the first of many newspaper articles about him in the Western Times (21 Nov 1835), he was the perpetual curate here in Topsham where I live and research, it said that before he '... beat his sword into a ploughshare, became a minister of the Gospel' he had been in the army but resigned when Peace was declared. He was then on the parish of Peter Tavy in Devon and in 1818 was in Awliscombe where he got married. He sounds like a truly terrible curate and at one time had 71 of his parishioners taken in procession to the Exeter Inquisition in the Holy Ghost Chapel for not paying church rates.
I can find a lot about him in Topsham but despite weeks of searching I can't find any evidence of him in the army. This either means that I am not looking in the right place or that there is yet more sculduggery going on and he was never in the army. Please can someone with more knowledge of military history help me find out which of these is more likely.
Thank you
Alison

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Dorset / Hussey family in South Street Bridport
« on: Thursday 05 May 22 10:16 BST (UK)  »
I am a researcher in Topsham, Devon and trying to trace a Bridport family who arrived in White Street, Topsham in the 1840s. The family were Robert Hussey and his wife Ann (nee Ward) with their children, a family of rope makers and twine spinners who appear to have come for a specific job.

At this time there were suddenly a few families in the rope industry in White Street which is on the quay in the port but before and after the 1851 census there were none. The Hussey parents had returned to Bridport by 1857 leaving two of their adult daughters in Topsham, I know this because in 1857 one of their daughters returned to South Street Bridport to have her baby.

My problem is that I can't match Robert to any other family in Bridport, I can find other Hussey people in South Street but so far I can't connect them. Please can anyone tell me anything about this family?

Thank you
Alison

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