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Armed Forces / Re: Napoleonic war (I think!)
« on: Sunday 25 September 22 17:17 BST (UK)  »
This is amazing, thank you everyone. There is so much here that I wouldn't have been able to find on my own. I think that 'Bookbox' must be right about his date of birth so I will have to change that, I have never heard of Venn so that is another source that is now available to me.  The Church of England records that 'Hanes Teulu' mentioned said that he was at Christ College in 1818 (definitely the right one since it shows him going on to be the perpetual curate at Topsham) If he matriculated in 1815 at Christ College and was then there in 1818 I assume the matriculation was when he qualified to enter. I have an Ancestry account so will check out the record and also get in touch with the librarian at Christ's followed swiftly by the two links kindly provided by 'GrahamSimons'. I can't believe how much more I now know and I am very grateful for all your help.
Alison

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Armed Forces / Re: Napoleonic war (I think!)
« on: Sunday 25 September 22 16:01 BST (UK)  »
Wow - I've just found him in the Church of England Data base - thank you. More information about him
Alison

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Armed Forces / Re: Napoleonic war (I think!)
« on: Sunday 25 September 22 15:57 BST (UK)  »
He was what was known as a perpetual curate not a regular one so I don't know how much training if any he had to have. I can't find any trace of what his profession was in 1818 when he got married and there are no dates for his time on Pete Tavy so I am a bit at a loss.

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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 / Re: Hussey family in South Street Bridport
« on: Thursday 05 May 22 11:28 BST (UK)  »
Oooh, more family, thank you

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Dorset / Re: Hussey family in South Street Bridport
« on: Thursday 05 May 22 10:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, that looks good, it is such a large local family that it is a bit tricky without knowing Bridport and it's history.
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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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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William and Lucy Wilcock of North Bierley
« on: Monday 07 March 22 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Pauline, that's great thank you, I will contact them and see if I can get some research done
Alison

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / William and Lucy Wilcock of North Bierley
« on: Monday 07 March 22 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi. I am looking into the family of an architect called William Wilcock 1931-1920 and his wife Lucy Booth 1834-1913
They lived in the same area for all of their married life from 1872. Addresses included Moorhead Villas in Ivy Road, Norwood Street and 9 Leeds Road.
I am reasonably sure that Lucy died in North Bierley in 1913 and William in 1920 but I can''t find any gravestones or wills for either of them. I have sent off for death certificates but need the information before they arrive with me so if anyone can shed any light on where I would find details about their deaths and burials I would really appreicate it.
Thanks
Alison

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