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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / Re: George Levesley, Master Mariner of Spalding
« on: Monday 31 December 12 13:20 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks Trish, and how interesting that William Levesley was a writer.

Keith. Thanks also. I would definitely like to send you a private message. I haven't used this site much before so I'm not sure how to do that. Would it be possible to let me know?

Lisa


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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / Re: George Levesley, Master Mariner of Spalding
« on: Sunday 30 December 12 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for information about the Levesley master mariners from spalding. I have picked up quite a bit from these threads and from ancestry about George (born 1821) who married Isabella Priestley. Also their son James Henry levesley (born 1865) in Spalding. George's father seems to be William, and mother Mary. But I would like to know more about the life of master mariners in spalding if possible, particularly the Levesley family.

Many thanks.

Lisa :)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Baites - a solid brick wall
« on: Saturday 09 June 12 21:35 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks Jenny and Jennifer and for taking the time to help me try to find Frederick Charles Baites.

 I had found those entries for the family (with an absent Charles) but hadn't appreciated the significance of the 1871 census showing Elizabeth as married rather than widowed.  I will have another look around to see if I can find any details of this mystery man with my new clue.

Thanks again.

Lisa

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London and Middlesex / Re: Baites - a solid brick wall
« on: Sunday 03 June 12 22:55 BST (UK)  »
Jennifer

Yes, that's right. Thanks for clarifying.

Lisa

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London and Middlesex / Baites - a solid brick wall
« on: Sunday 03 June 12 16:31 BST (UK)  »
I have posted on here before about Frederick Charles Baites.  He is the great grandfather of a friend whose family tree I am doing.  I love doing it and my friend says she wouldn't know where to start on modern things like the internet.  So it's a happy merger of interests.

But try as I might, any details of her main ancestor, Frederick Charles Baites, are frustratingly drawing a blank every time.  All I have on him is one (or possibly two) census entries.  The definite one is in 1861 which gives him (listed as Charles Bates) as living at 22 New Street Court, with wife Elizabeth (who I know to have been Elizabeth Drewell), born 1811 in Lisbon - but a British subject.  He is a shoe maker. This is definitely the man I'm after.  The other possible entry is 1841 which has Charles living with the Whale family at St Mary at Lambeth (I can't read the address).

Apart from all the obvious sites, I have searched the overseas military births, the registers of the British Factory in Lisbon and also St George's chapel in Lisbon.  I have no marriage for Frederick, or death though I suspect these were both in London. I would love to know more about him but also who his father and mother were but there are just no clues anywhere.

If any one can solve this mystery I would be so grateful.  I can then finish my project for my friend - who is dying to hear where she has come from.

Lisa

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Europe / Born in Lisbon but British subject
« on: Saturday 03 March 12 16:42 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for information about Frederick Charles Baites. The only thing I have to go on is the 1861 census which has him as living in the Camberwell/newington area of London. He was born around 1811 and the entry says he was born in Lisbon but was a British subject. I have read about the British factory there including the posts on here. But the location of him, and his parents, before and after that is a mystery. He married Elizabeth Drewell but again no sign of any confirmation that a ceremony took place. Any help gratefully received.  :)

Lisa

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Proving an Italian link in London
« on: Saturday 05 March 11 11:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much Rob. All good tips which I will follow up.  As you say it all fits with an Italian connection which it would be great to prove.

Lisa

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Proving an Italian link in London
« on: Saturday 05 March 11 09:45 GMT (UK)  »
I would love some help in proving that an ancestor, who was living in London in 1839, was in fact Italian by birth (or perhaps that his father was).  They fit the mould of Italian migrants to London in that the family lived just outside Clerkenwell and were picture frame makers and looking glass makers.  But I am unable to get that last link in the chain that proves the Italian connection.  The details are :

Thomas Galli (or Gally or Gallie) married Sophia Powell at Christchurch Spitalfields in 1839.  His father George was alive at the time.  In the 1841 census Thomas (Gallie) is living in St George in the East and was London born and living with other family members but there's no sign of George or even Sophia in the census.  It is George that I would love to be able to prove was Italian....as the family myth has it.  I guess he would have been born around 1790s.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Waterman and Lighterman apprenticeships 1860s
« on: Tuesday 18 May 10 22:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much Marty.  That's really helpful.  I had also checked out the parishchest website for their information on watermen and lightermen.  This ancestor - Thomas Keefe - was a catholic so unfortunately doesn't appear in any of the parish registers on that webpage.  But it certainly has lots of general information which is very interesting.

Lisa

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