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Independent Islands => Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark => Topic started by: Bevty on Monday 29 May 06 02:03 BST (UK)
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Can anybody find any references to Catherine FOWEN and her parents. Catherine was born abt 1833 in Guernsey and married James RAPSEY before 1856. They emigrated from Alderney to New Zealand in 1861. Their dau. Rosa is my gr.grandmother. The name HAVILLAND crops up in some of her descendants - is there a coinnection to de Havilland Farm?
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Guernsey 1841 Census is available free online at
http://members.shaw.ca/jerseymaid/Guernseymain.html
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Hi Bevty and welcome to RootsChat !!
The only Fowen I can find is Mary ! - I'll post it just in case !!
1851
St Peter Port Guernsey
Louisa Saunders 35 St George Bermuda Head
Henry Saunders 9 Colomb Sri Lanka Son
Charles Saunders 8 Colomb Sri Lanka Son
Ella Saunders 6 Colomb Sri Lanka Daughter
Caroline Saunders 4 England Daughter
William Saunders 1 England Son
Mary Fowen 24 Unmarried Cook England
Sarah Parsons 19 Unmarried Servant England
HO107/2530 Folio 382 Page 12
Annie :) :)
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Hi Bevty,
I realise this isn't your Catherine, but with such an unusual name, and the Guernsey connection, I thought I'd post this in case someone can come up with a connection.
1851 HO107/1934 f.383 p.50 Wells, Somerset
Bull Lane
Catherine FOWEN Head W 51 Pauper (soldiers widow) Ireland
Thomas " " Son 14 Errand boy Guernsey
Regards
Daisy
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Grateful thanks for your replies to footie, Liverpool Annie and daisypetal. Catherine's family is still an enigma but I will am still hopefull of finding them. Bevty
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Bevty,
I've recently found out that my grt Aunt, Kura Ethel Doreen RAPSEY (who married Charles HOOPER) is the granddaughter of James RAPSEY and Catherine FOWEN, through their son, Edward Havilland RAPSEY.
Would love to get in contact with you.
Jackie
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Catherine Fowen (dob 27/12/1833) married James Rapsey (dob 13/04/1830) and they emigrated to NZ.
Lived at Clifton Farm, Pareora, South Canterbury, both buried in Timaru cemetery along with their son James John and his wife Rose. A photo of the grave available on Timaru City Council website at www.timaru@govt.nz
2 daughters, Amelia and Rose, married 2 Struthers brothers, Alexander and Henry respectively.
AMELIA
Amelia and Alexander lived in Dunedin and ran a grocery shop. They had 8 children, 6 daughters and 2 sons.
Sons were:-
Edward Hunter Struthers who died very young
Alexander Cameron Struthers who died of war wounds in 1918.
Of the 6 daughters, 3 never married, 2 of those unmarried were twins.
Daughters were:-
Agnes Fowen Struthers who married and lived in Dunedin
Frances Amelia Struthers who married and lived in Dunedin
Alice Rapsey Struthers – twin of Flora
Flora Stewart Struthers – twin of Alice
May Hart Struthers
Evelyn Anna Struthers who married and lived in Dunedin
The last of Agnes’s 3 children is 93 and recently moved to a Rest Home in Te Awamutu. Agnes’s great great grand daughter is also named Amelia
2 of Evelyn’s 3 children are alive, 1 in Dunedin and 1 in Toronto or Ottawa
Frances has a daughter alive and in Christchurch, don’t know about her son
ROSE
Rose and Henry had 6 sons and 1 daughter. Don’t know where they settled.
One of Rose’s grandsons farmed at Hawea Flat and died relatively recently
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Thanks so much dunblane,
I now know a little more about the RAPSEY's that I didn't know before.
Are you related ?
Jackie
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Agnes Fowen Struthers was my grandmother, and the newest Amelia (9 months old) is my granddaughter. She was named without her parents knowing that there had been an Amelia before.
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Family migrated to Nw Zealnd. There son Edward Havilland Rapsey married Ethel Maud Smith in NZ. Children Kura Ethel Doreen Rapsey, ( born 1904 NZ), Nita Rapsey, Robert Rapsey and James Rapsey. Here is some more of Edward..
Edward Havilland Rapsey ref http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-423445.html
Salesman in the Hardware and Electro-plate department of the Canterbury Farmers' Association, was born in 1872, at Pareora. He was educated at the Dunedin and Timaru High Schools, and commenced his business life with an apprenticeship of four years to Messrs Lomas and Struthers, grocers, of Dunedin. He entered the service of the Canterbury Farmers' Association, and has held his present position for some time; he is (was) the oldest salesman in the Association. Mr. Rapsey is a member of Court Southern Cross of the Order of Foresters. He has taken a great interest in football and cricket, and is a supporter and follower of the South Canterbury hounds.
Cheers Val
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I am a descendant of Frances Mary Rapsey, James's daughter, she married John William Blackwood and had five children: Alice and Jim (twins), Toby (great-grandfather) and Edna and Rita (also twins).
Recently my dad and I visited NZ where we visited the gravesites of the Blackwoods and Rapseys. In Dunedin we found the Blackwood grave and in Timaru only James's grave. We also caught up with Frances's great-niece Shirley, she didn't have much photos or info but she showed me a family spiral wheel that someone did for her in the late 80s.
I have been researching the family tree for four years and I have unearthed many photos and info, but I don't have many photos of the Rapseys, only two of Frances. One of her with her husband and children taken in 1900 and another just before her death with her grandchildren Keith (grandfather), Anne, Doug and Nola.
Cheers
William
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Good to hear of your Rapsey connection.
I have not had any new information on the family for a year or two but if you could reply to my email address I can forward some family data and stories I have saved to DVD.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Bev Thompson.
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