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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania
« on: Friday 28 August 09 01:09 BST (UK)  »
Hello, all. Thank you so much for the information you have shared.

Thanks Cando for your 2 pms today with even more information. I may be ordering the record re CH Roope.

I have pm'd Paul (thanks Jen) so should be in contact before long.

I agree that the odd convict or other black sheep of the family can make the family tree more interesting than the sometimes boring upper-crusty family members.  ;D  ;D  ;) I would have been happy with whatever I found. It was just very interesting to be able to find out so much about his family :) :).

Hilary, from Ontario, Canada.

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania
« on: Friday 28 August 09 00:45 BST (UK)  »
Hello all. Thanks for all the help.

A special thanks to you, Cando, for all the information you have sent me in your 2 pms today. I really appreciate it.

I have pm'd Paul, so should soon be exchanging information with him. Thanks Jenn for telling me how.

I doubt that Lavington Roope was a convict. He emigrated to Tasmania as a young man and seems to have been a prosperous businessman. He also was granted a gold mining license. At the age of 25 he married Lydia Tidmarsh Carter, the daughter of Hobart's first Lord Mayor William Carter. LR owned a huge property in New Town Hobart 7008 Tasmania called Wendover (called Risdon Park when he and family lived there). Roope Street in New Town, Hobart 7008 is named after him. 

Many thanks to everyone who helped me find out all this information, and much much more.

Hilary, from Ontario, Canada.
 

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania
« on: Thursday 27 August 09 13:38 BST (UK)  »
Hello, Paul. It's wonderful to hear from you. This is what I have on your great-grandfather RHR, mostly thanks to Jenn, above, who sent me a link to Australian newspapers (thanks again, Jenn!).
Raymond Hamilton Roope, b. 1857, married Constance King. The Mercury (Hobart,... Tuesday 1 January 1884, page 4. Family Notices ROOPE-KING.-On "October 26, at the Cathedral, Colombo, Raymond  Hamilton Roope, Nanuoya, Ceylon, third son of the late Lavington Roope, Esq., Tasmania, to Constance Ada, youngest daughter of the late. William Cutfield King, Esq , Taranaki, New Zealand.” Captain WCK was  killed during the native wars in Taranaki Captain William Cutfield King First Taranaki War (shot, Woodleigh estate, Henui, New Plymouth February 8, 1861) (Taranaki Herald, Taranaki, New Zealand).
Children Lavington Roope, Julian Roope (b. 1884) and Wellington Roope.
Died in Siam (Thailand) 1887. This info is from family records, and may not be accurate. Which son are you descended from?
Do you know anything about RHR's siblings, particularly Charles H. and Mary?
My great-great-grandmother was a Roope from Dartmouth Devon. I have loads of info about the family and their involvement in the wine trade with Portugal, as Hunt, Roope & Co.
I'm new to this group; what's the best way of sharing this with you?
Hilary

 

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania
« on: Wednesday 26 August 09 01:41 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much Sue. That's definitely my Lavington George Roope!
But perhaps not Raymond Charles Roope. I have found that Raymond Hamilton Roope married Constance King, not a Mabel.
I'm very interested in George Hunt Roope though (Hunt is a family name). Does it give any indication of when he was born, or how old he was when he died?
Thanks ever so much again.
Hilary

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania
« on: Tuesday 25 August 09 16:02 BST (UK)  »
Thank you SO much, Andcarred, Jenn and Leanne!! :) :) :) :)

This is very helpful indeed.

Hilary, still searching, but now with much more information.

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Australia Lookups completed / Lavington ROOPE in Tasmania -COMPLETED
« on: Monday 24 August 09 21:16 BST (UK)  »
Hello.
I am looking for the children of Lavington Roope, b. 1821 Devon, d. 1881 Hobart, Tasmania, m. Lydia Tidmarsh Carter in Hobart, Tasmania in 1846.
Have looked in Tasmanian Archives Office records and found ROOPE Lavington George b. in 1847 and ROOPE Raymond Hamilton b. 1857 but all other siblings (there were several) are either marked as F for female or M for Male. :(
Can you help me find their names?
They lived in New Town, Hobart, Tasmania.
Thanks very much.
Hilary 

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Family Bibles / Re: Fownes (Devon) Family Bible - part 1
« on: Monday 27 October 08 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much for the Fownes family information, Bruce. Some of it I knew and some was new to me.

This is the URL for the article about the Kittery fire. Don't know if I can copy it here:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23393040-details/Blundering%20plumber%20burns%20down%20%C3%BD%C3%BD5m%20mansion/article.do

Ray Freeman, in "Dartmouth and its neighbours", says, 'In 1717, John Fownes bought the whole manor of Kingswear including the buildings at Kittery. He added a Georgian front to an old building, later called Kittery Court.'

Re Dinden House, from the 1960s until about 1990 some now deceased distant cousins of mine, Rita and Hugh Brooking Clark (Clark's Shoes) lived there. It is a lovely house not unlike Richard de Vere's in "To the Manor Born".

The Fownes also owned (built?) Nethway House, Kingswear, dating from 1689, where a 1st cousin of mine (several times removed), John Brooking, lived in the nineteenth century.

I have seen the memorial to war hero Gerard Broadmead Roope, in St. Petrox Church in Dartmouth.  He is also a distant cousin of mine.

John Yarde Fownes and Margaret Roope's surviving child Maria married a Rev. Davies. She was still alive in 1828, as she is mentioned in a letter of that year from JYF to William Newman Roope.

This has been very interesting. If you should want to contact me by email (eg if you can't access the link to the Kittery fire from here), it is (*)

I may have more information somewhere about the Fownes family, but I think that's about it. Let me know if you would like to know anything more about the Roopes.

Thanks, Hilary.


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Family Bibles / Re: Fownes (Devon) Family Bible - part 1
« on: Saturday 25 October 08 14:52 BST (UK)  »
Hello, Bruce.

I found the Fownes family bible very interesting indeed, and I am descended from Charlotte Roope, the sister of John Yarde Fownes' first wife Margaret nee Roope.

I have seen the monument to Margaret in the Dittisham Church. It reads:

Sacred to the memory of Margaret Fownes, Wife of John Yarde Fownes Esq. of London, and eldest Daughter of Roope Harris Roope Esq. at Chipton in this Parish, who died at Lisbon 19th February 1803, aged 30 years. Also of Willoughby Ilbert Fownes their Son, who died 20th April 1803, aged 5 months. Also of the above John Yarde Fownes Esq. who died 23rd October 1839 aged 67 years.

I had wondered why she was in Lisbon, where her brother William Newman Roope was a wine merchant, but apparently she went "in the hopes of recovering her health". Perhaps she had TB. Her elder brother George had died  of TB in 1796, and perhaps they thought the Portuguese climate would help in her recovery.

John Yarde Fownes stayed in close contact with the Roope family even after Margaret's death. A cousin of mine has a letter dated July 26 1828, from JYF to Mragaret's brother William Newman Roope (who was by then a merchant in Madeira), detailing the death of another Roope brother, Jonah Lavington Roope, this time of typhus. 

I have also seen (from the outside) Chipton Farm, and Kittery Court, mentioned in the Bible. Kittery Court in Kingswear was bought in 1828 by another Roope brother, Benjamin. Kittery Court was burned down a couple of years ago by a plumber's accident, when it was being renovated.

I would be interested in knowing more about the Fownes family.

Hilary

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