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Huntingdonshire / Re: PRIOR of Winwick lookup please?
« on: Wednesday 16 June 21 02:37 BST (UK)  »
Can't see a baptism for William, however there is a burial for Ann, wife of Robert PRYER at Winwick on 6 Oct 1766.  :-\

Modified to add:
And a burial for Elizabeth, daughter of Robert on 8 Jan 1767, and a burial for a Robert PRYER on 19 Feb 1769.
There is also another marriage for a Robert PRYER to Ann SPRIGS at Winwick on 2 Aug 1767, however it says he was a bachelor, so maybe more than 1 Robert PRYER in the area?

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Somerset / Re: Heighgrove Coal Pit
« on: Sunday 13 June 21 02:46 BST (UK)  »
Hello Robert and welcome to RootsChat,
Beth hasn't been on here since 2013, however hopefully she still has the same email address and will receive notification of your post. I'm sure she would like to hear from you.

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Australia / Re: William Fitzgerald and Nottingham b 1820 - 1828 exact DoB not known
« on: Sunday 13 June 21 02:10 BST (UK)  »
No worries Aby, good luck in your search! Interesting problem, if I get some time I'll have a look too, though it sounds like you've covered all the usual areas already.  :)

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Australia / Re: William Fitzgerald and Nottingham b 1820 - 1828 exact DoB not known
« on: Saturday 12 June 21 07:31 BST (UK)  »
Hello Abygail,
I stumbled across this thread as I am researching Henry Thomas FITZGERALD who you mention in your opening post, who died in 1826 in Tasmania. I gather from your subsequent posts that you have probably discounted his son William Henry FITZGERALD as "yours", but just in case, here's what I think I know so far (though I'm still only at the beginning of my researching this family).

Henry Thomas FITZGERALD arrived in Tasmania in 1823, married Harriet DOWNEY on 4 Dec 1824 and had two children:
1825 - Mary Ann (who married John LEE in 1838, very young I know! However, pretty much confirmed in her obituary)
1826 - William Henry (who I think married Harriet GUNYON in 1852)

As you say, Henry Thomas drowned in 1826 "leaving a wife and two infant children wholly unprovided for". Pretty sure Harrriet then marries George WILLIAMS in 1828, convict from the Lady East, who arrived in 1824, convicted in Middlesex, originally from Bath. His convict indent does not paint a great picture of him, repeatedly absent with his wife and keeping a disorderly house. As you say, a Harriet WILLIAMS died in 1881 aged 80, which is around the correct age, however I haven't yet confirmed whether this is the correct Harriet.

The son, William Henry FITZGERALD lived around Gould's Country, Tasmania and died in 1909.

So I'm afraid this doesn't help you much except to probably eliminate someone.

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The Common Room / Re: The son of Sir George Rooke - George Rooke (1702-1739)
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 21:50 BST (UK)  »
And thanks for clearing up who the Major General was that died in 1725, it shows the problem with newspaper items, sometimes the editors didn't do a thorough job, so they are really only an indication of where to look for records.  :)

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The Common Room / Re: The son of Sir George Rooke - George Rooke (1702-1739)
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 21:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Maiden Stone on Wednesday 09 June 21 20:13 BST (UK)
Quote from: Calpe 1704 on Wednesday 09 June 21 18:31 BST (UK)

So we have still have in play auntie Ursula, but she had only one surviving son, who died in 1736. Ursula died in 1707.

Ursula Rooke will 1714. Was that her?

No, I think from memory that was Finch's wife who was also Ursula, not on my computer now but the will mentions her father and sister (I think).

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Westmorland / Re: Whiteheads Kelleth or Kellet & Flakebridge near Orton
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 11:54 BST (UK)  »
You may already have this information, not sure if he is related to your WHITEHEADs -  there is a George WHITEHEAD of Orton mentioned in "An abstract of the sufferings of the people call'd Quakers for the testimony of a good conscience ..."

https://archive.org/details/collectionofsuff01bess/page/658/mode/2up?q=orton
(pg 659)

(There are other mentions too in this book if you use the search function.)


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The Common Room / Re: The son of Sir George Rooke - George Rooke (1702-1739)
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 11:17 BST (UK)  »
Might have mentioned this before, but knowing now who George snr's siblings were, I wonder whose death this was reported in 1725 - not Thomas or Finch?

"On Saturday last, Major-General Rooke, Brother to the
late Admiral Sir George Rooke, was bury'd at Isleworth in
Middlesex."
   Jan. 19, 1725, The Post Boy

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The Common Room / Re: The son of Sir George Rooke - George Rooke (1702-1739)
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 11:08 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Calpe 1704 on Tuesday 08 June 21 08:00 BST (UK)

I wonder under whose care George was until he went to Pembroke College aged 16?
Once he obtained his BA, I wonder what he did?
By then he was 18 years old.
We know he married aged 21.

We also know he had a good 21st birthday party - from a previous thread:

"London, July 6.
   On Sunday last, George Rooke, Esq; eldest son to
the late Sir George Rooke, Knt. and Admiral, came
of Age. On which Occasion a very great Enter-
tainment was made at the Feathers Tavern in Cheap-
side."
July 6, 1723, The Daily Post

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