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Bradley - Suffolk & Essex Campleman - Hull & SE England Catt/Cattley - Kent & London Courtney - Wirral & Liverpool Coyne - Ireland & Chester De Normanville - France, London & South Australia Divall - Sussex & Lewisham Greenway - Sussex & London Griesel - Germany, London & Essex Grubb - Lewisham Holbrook - London & Essex Hopkins - North Shields, Wirral & Liverpool Ingersoll - USA, Norfolk & London Laird - Surrey & London Lovel - North Shields Milleman - Holland, Kent, London & USA Molnar - Hungary & London Murray - Kincardineshire, London & South Australia Paver - Hull & London Pearl - Suffolk & Essex Robson - Lewisham & London Skinner - Essex Smart - Essex, London, Canada & Seattle Starr - Norfolk & Westminster Still - Kent/Sussex, Essex
15th May 2018
Alexander Robb and Eric Finlason and the Tailors of Aberdeen and
the Murrays
Cousin Alexander “Deacon” Robb was a famous local character in nineteenth century
Aberdeen, a Deacon of the Tailors in the Incorporated Trades and a published poet - with
perhaps more in common with William McGonagall than Robert Burns. His father, also
Alexander Robb, married Isabel Murray, Andrew’s sister, on 14 July 1781 in Banchory
Devenick.
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On the 6th February 1855 in the Free Presbyterian Church, Port Adelaide, Margaret Murray
married Eric Finlason. Sadly just over a year after her marriage, Margaret died. Her death
certificate states that she died from natural causes in Forest Creek, and had lived three
years in Adelaide, and one year in Victoria, which confirms her arrival in South Australia in
1852.
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20th November 2017 - Ingersoles, Pains, Osbornes and Cuffs
It’s
so
easy
to
get
sidetracked,
and
it’s
those
Ingersoles
again.
That
has
led
me
back
to
the
Essex
parish
registers
for
the
Pain
and
Osborne
families
of
the
Brentwood
area,
and
the
Marylebone records and Australian newspapers for another branch of the Ingersoles.
I
did
find
something
interesting
in
the
Moreton
burial
register.
Usually
all
you
get
is
a
name
and
a
date
of
burial,
perhaps
an
age,
and
perhaps
parents’
names
if
a
child,
and
very
occasionally
-
if
unusual
-
a
cause
of
death:
“accidentally
drowned”,
“crushed
by
cart”.
William
Wilson,
the
rector
of
Moreton
from
1796
to
1822,
I
suspect,
would
have
loved
to
have
had
access
to
a
computer
spreadsheet,
though
that
didn’t
prevent
him
from
creating
one
of
his
own.
Each
double
page
spread
in
the
register
is
divided
into
nine
columns:
surname;
christian
name;
abode;
descent,
profession
&c.;
date
of
death;
date
of
burial;
where
buried;
age;
distemper
&c..
He
provides
more
information
than
a
modern
death
certificate,
and
even
after
1813
continues
as
far
as
possible
to
give
descent
and
profession
details
in
the
pre-printed
book,
though
the
date
and
cause
of
death
is
lost,
except
where
there has been a coroner’s warrant.
I
was
following
up
a
Thomas
Osborne
who
had
married
Elizabeth
Hadcock
in
Moreton
on
the
25th
January
1774,
hoping
to
rule
them
out
as
the
Thomas
and
Elizabeth
who
had
been
having
children
in
Ingrave
from
1777.
The
Moreton
couple
didn’t
have
any
children
baptised
in
that
parish,
which
was
a
bad
sign,
until
I
found
their
burials.
Thomas
was
90
when
he
died
on
the
17th
January
1807
from
“A
gradual
decay
of
nature”;
formerly
a
farmer,
and
from
Tappers,
he
had
been
baptised
on
the
6th
March
1716/17
to
parents
Thomas
and
Elizabeth
who
were
also
from
Moreton.
His
wife
died
shortly
after
him
aged
77,
from
“A
dropsical
complaint”,
so
they
would
have
been
61
and
47
respectively
when
they
married,
which
explains
the
lack
of
children.
It
seems
likely
that
this
was
a
second
marriage
for
Thomas,
for
in
the
baptisms
a
Thomas
and
Sarah
were
having
children
between
1749
and
1754.
20th August 2017 - Mary Still
Every
now
and
then
an
individual
from
the
past
catches
your
attention
and
demands
further
research.
Such
is
the
case
with
my
great
grandfather’s
second
wife
Mary
Still.
Though by the time they were married she was Mary Blair. Mary was born in 1826, and died
in 1911; she had three children, and outlived four husbands.
Mary
Still
was
born
in
1826
in
that
north-east
corner
of
the
Weald
where
East
Sussex
meets
Kent,
and
she
remained
confused
for
the
rest
of
her
life
about
which
village
or
county
she
had
been
born
in.
Her
parents
were
John
Still,
a
wheelwright,
and
Susannah
Burrage
who
had
married
on
the
7th
September
1806
in
Kemsing
in
Kent.
Their
first
two
children,
Sarah
and
Ann
were
born
in
Woolwich,
and
it's
possible
that
John
put
his
woodworking
skills
to
good
use
in
the
dockyards
there.
By
the
time
Ann
was
baptised
at
the
age
of
four
in
1818,
along
with
new
sister
Triphena,
the
family
focus
had
moved
back
to
the
Weald.
Ann
and
Triphena
were
baptised
in
Ashurst,
as
was
their
brother
William.
Triphena
and
William
later
give
their
places
of
birth
respectively
as
Withyham
and
Blackham.
Mary
Still
was
baptised
in
Speldhurst
on
the
16th
August
1835
along
with
her
sister
Harriet
who
had
been
born
in
1829,
and
Denny
Bottom
or
Rusthall
near
Tunbridge
Wells
remained
the
family
home
for
about
the
next
three
decades.
Mary
subsequently
gives
her
place
of
birth
as
Blackham,
or
Speldhurst or Tunbridge or Tonbridge, with counties being either Kent or Sussex for each!
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12th May 2017 - Starr family
Sarah Twyman Milleman, the cousin of my great great grandmother, and daughter of
William Milleman, Westminster police constable 95B, married James Starr in St Clement
Danes, Westminster on the 5th February 1850, they both give addresses in Vere Street.
Sarah however says her father, William Milleman is a bricklayer, so was she a sister to
Caroline Augusta Murray (née Milleman), rather than a cousin? The only Sarah Milleman
baptised in Margate in or near her birth year of 1826 had as parents William Milleman and
Martha (née Ansell), son and daughter-in-law of William the bricklayer who was Caroline's
father. Sarah is living with Caroline and her mother and step-father in Margate at the time
of the 1841 census, - her parents and younger siblings are already established in London by
this time - so it is possible that she was brought up by her grandparents, or even
considered them her parents.
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18th April 2017 - Cousin Andrew Foster?
In the 1861 census, living with Charles Henry Murray and his family in Camberwell, is an
Andrew Foster, a screw cutter aged 40, born in Middlesex and apparently a cousin to the
head of household. In 1851 he was a work engineer lodging in Greenwich, aged 30, and
born in Shoreditch; 1871 finds him boarding in Beckenham in Kent, an engine driver on well
work, aged 48, and born in Shoreditch. In 1881 he is an inmate in the Hampstead
Workhouse, aged 54 and a railway engine driver born in the City Road, London; he’s still
there in 1891, but now aged 72, he is a retired engine driver, born in Finsbury. In 1841 an
Andrew Foster is a bargeman on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Claverton, he’s 20 and not
born in the county, so this could also be him. He died in Hampstead in 1893, aged 69. It is
possible to pin him down like this as his name is not a common one in the Middlesex area,
especially with a birthdate around 1820.
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Back online. The Murray links are now active and underlined.
With family members from most of the counties of England (also Scotland, Ireland and continental Europe, and
probably Wales and the Isle of Man) this is a collection of stories about people whom I have found interesting. This
page reflects my current research and the sidebar lists the main names already researched to a greater or lesser extent.
