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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 10 June 10 18:08 BST (UK) »
At least that answers your question now lbeit you still don't know where he is !!
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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 10 June 10 18:17 BST (UK) »
Indeed.....I still tend to think he went over there.....maybe he's the Richard Harper you found & the age on the shipping list is incorrect.....maybe he went over earlier.....George Asher ended up in Apalachicola (!), Florida working in the sponge trade (as in the sea, not in cakes...at this time Apalachicola was the world's leading supplier of sponges.....his father/stepfather in England was a dealer in sponges when he died & the man behind the trade in Florida was a German Jewish immigrant....as were George's family in England) I don't know if George went out with the specific intention of going there or not....if he did, then maybe Richard Harper went out earlier/later with that place in mind.

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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 10 June 10 18:20 BST (UK) »
Can Jen B see the image of the SS Rob Roy with Richard Harper on it 18 May 1840 ?  Would it have any other details or confirm the age is correct please ?  ???
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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 10 June 10 18:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks for asking, dettori......George Asher's age is correct on the Ontario's shipping list, but is exactly 10 years out on the 1880 Apalachicola census....maybe Richard Harper is on an Apalachicola census ? Haven't been able to find a son of Richard Harper who could be the one you found....doesn't mean there wasn't one, of course

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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 10 June 10 18:38 BST (UK) »
Where and when was Richard Harper born ?

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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 10 June 10 20:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your continued interest, dettori.

Don't know....he married Mary Simpson at Basford, Nottingham on 16/12/1819, but we can't find the birth of a Richard Harper in Nottingham (when I say "we", I mean the Nottingham expert Dizzifish...thanks, Dizz) She's found 4 Richard Harpers in Nottingham born too late to be him....but none of them have got a father named Richard

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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 10 June 10 21:06 BST (UK) »
No progress with any US Census either I'm afraid cannot see a Richard Harper in Apalachicola  :(
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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 10 June 10 21:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks, dettori.....he may have died in England & we just can't find his burial

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Re: Richard Harper on New York passenger list c 1840 ?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 11 June 10 19:53 BST (UK) »
Dizz has found the death notice for a Richard Harper in Nottingham in 1840 (but can't find a burial)....so that could well be him. Thanks again dizzifish
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