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Warwickshire / Re: Watchmakers of Coventry
« on: Monday 03 December 12 12:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all, I have only just found this thread again. I too am researching watchmaker ancestors. In my case the name is Furneaux - watchcap makers from Clerkenwell in London, who moved to Coventry in about 1830.
If anyone else is researching this family, they may have found out where they came from before 1765, when Lewis Furneaux - a watchcap maker - married Elizabeth Paine in Clerkennwell, London. I have hit a brick wall here - were they Huguenots or Normans up from Devon?

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs T to Z / Re: TRUSDELL Sarah death cert 3 Feb 1854
« on: Sunday 04 April 10 17:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
I have only just seen your 2008 mention of Sarah Trusdell and as I am chasing all Trowsdale/Truesdell/Trousdales (and other variations) in the Marylebone/Paddington area of London before 1800 - so far without success - you might be able to help.

My direct ancestor is William Trowsdale who married Sarah Sutliffe in 1805. I have found various other Trowsdales/Trusdells in the same area, but so far cannot link any of them to William, or indeed find a record of his birth. William and Sarah's son Charles (my gx2 grandfather) married Eleanor Haytor in 1838, so I am also interested in the Haytor name.

I also have a Thomas Trowsdale who married Elizabeth Dunn in around 1794 (you mention the name Dunn as well), but am not sure if he is connected.

Our family were the "Umbrella Trowsdales" of London, and I too know about William Trowsdale, umbrella maker, from Yorkshire. It seems too much of a co-incidence and very possible that the London family originated in Yorkshire,  but I can't see any way of linking the two families.

Now I am clutching at straws, so if you can help I will be very grateful.

tossiez


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