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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Sunday 20 October 13 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi I am working on the family tree.
Does anyone know how many children William Abbey and Mary Hawecroft had? In an old family tree composed by memory without official record, there is listed 8. William *1790, John, Duke (must be Marmaduke), Bartholomew, John 2nd time,Luke, Mark, Matthew who must be born 3 Apr 1785.


regards
hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Tuesday 28 May 13 19:25 BST (UK)  »
My grand mother told me that Abbeys were on agricultural branch in Russia. She ment that they knew some new or at least better methods than russians those days how to cultivate land. Their task was model farming or teaching new methods. I wonder if there were advertisements in newspapers or farmer's magazines or how else did people get the idea to leave England for Russia. Does anyone of you know?

Kind regards
hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Sunday 12 May 13 16:04 BST (UK)  »
Hello all.
It really has been quiet around Abbey topic. This is great news. I am still in the process of sorting out old photographs. Many greetings from Finland.

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Sunday 24 July 11 17:44 BST (UK)  »
Dear Fel,

Your Alfred is the one I have been looking for. He really visited Finland a couple of times during 30's second time either 1938 or as late as 1939 and yet once after the WWII late 40's. He would have liked to take my mother with him to England, but Zoe (Bully) didn't allow that.
Alfred is one of William and Eleanor (born Lee) Abbey's sons and many children. There is a photograph of Eleanor Lee in a rocking chair sent by tiggertwo in these family pages.
My mother had understood that Alfred had a colourblind son Jim ?   
I come from the line of Lily (Alfred's b. 1863 sister).
Regards
hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Thursday 21 July 11 20:08 BST (UK)  »
Dear Fel and Tiggertwo

Lily had two daughters Eleanor and Alice.
Eleanor had two daughters Zoe (born 1901 and called Boullie or Bully) and  Tania (born 1903). Tony (Anthony) is Tania's son.

Zoe was my grandmother.

About Abbey history.
First time I ever received information of connection to France and to huguenots was a biography of Edwin Austen Abbey to which Mocca refers in the message 24th of August 2010.
There was explained that being huguenots they found a refuge in England during the massacres.

Does anyone have any information of Alfred Abbey?
He had a son called Jim. Alfred collected stamps. He visited Finland a few times.

regards to all
hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Wednesday 14 April 10 20:56 BST (UK)  »
Sorry for mixing up addresses!

It is  M.V Abbey's Bashilovka address, which I ment. That site and Abbey House there has vanished and was not far from where Moscow Dynamo stadium is now.

Voznesenskaya address I have not been aware of.

hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Wednesday 14 April 10 20:49 BST (UK)  »
tiggertwo

Yes, I would say that Nell is one short version of Eleonora. I've been in Moscow found the site where Walter lived at Znamensky 1 (Street name has been changed since). The other address where Alfred and Eleonora lived exist no longer because new streets and houses have been built there. Anyway it is not far from where Moscow Dynamo stadium is today.

hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Sunday 11 April 10 19:15 BST (UK)  »
Hello Seamike

I must try to find out to which branch of the Abbey family Alfred and Eleonora from Vosnezhensky belong to. All Abbeys are related. Walter Abbey from Znamensky 1 is related to me and same person who once lived in Samara and later in Moscow and got out of Russia for England with his family.

hessu

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Europe / Re: My ABBAY/ABBEY family went to Russia c.1838 !!
« on: Thursday 18 February 10 20:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
No, I have nor I have seen any official documents. I got the date a long time ago from relatives. I know that due to a tradition the search was in the Selby area. It was only some years ago that I heard from relatives of a Willïam Abbey from Skeckling with Burstwick and also that somehow the person disappeared. Now we know that he disappeared to Russia. We had had no other knowledge that it was in the 19th centenary when Abbeys left England for Russia.

hessu

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