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Kent / Re: Zechariah Foulser NICHOLAS - Middle Name Mystery
« on: Thursday 15 July 10 09:11 BST (UK)  »
This is what Andi has said -

 have traced Zachariah on Ancesty (a family tree website that I subscribe to), which has really good records for London births, deaths and marriages, which I have cross-checked with Census data  to verify a lot of the family connections for people alive after 1841. 
Not sure if you know, but there is also a free website set up by the Mormons which contains church records (baptism, marriage, death). I don't know the www. address -  I always look up Latter Day Saints in Google to find it.
 
From these I have traced Zachariah's line back to the mid 1700's in London.  His grandfather John married Mary Lambourne in London in 1752 and his father John married Ruth Valentine in 1787.  They were all married in Churches, so I'm not too sure about any Jewish connections.
 
The Jemima probably came from Jemima Jones who was Zachariah's daughter in law.  She was born in Salisbury, but with the name Jones I can't get further back than her parents!

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Kent / Re: Zechariah Foulser NICHOLAS - Middle Name Mystery
« on: Thursday 15 July 10 09:03 BST (UK)  »
am forwarding you message to my cousin Andi.....she is really into all of this! will send you her findings which absolutely corroborate yours ..so yes we are distantly related...hard luck.

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Kent / Re: Zechariah Foulser NICHOLAS - Middle Name Mystery
« on: Thursday 15 July 10 08:58 BST (UK)  »
Well there we go how fascinating... I will try and send you a family tree...but don't have a fax machine here in UK as at the moment - am living and working in Athens...Ruth Valentine...that explains a lot as Zechariah Cornelius are Jewish names and I imagine that Ruth chose them as she was prob an Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant..six degrees of separation as they say...my uncle is the guru on all of this born Foulser he changed his name by deed poll to Freeman as he found in the business world no one could spell it. I was brought up in my grandfather's house Arthur Samuel Foulser who was an amazing guy. Will see what I can find and send it to you.

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Kent / Re: Zechariah Foulser NICHOLAS - Middle Name Mystery
« on: Tuesday 13 July 10 22:51 BST (UK)  »
OK ..great..my Uncle has sent me a family tree he started which showed that that Zechariah died around 1851....and had a son called John Thomas who would have been my great great grandfather..I know we are linked to someone called George Foulser who was something of an anarchist trade unionist...and that most of the family were in the Bermondsey area..and that I inherited an old canphor sea chest and was always told it belonged to one of my great grandads..that's about it!

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Kent / Zechariah Cornelius Foulser
« on: Tuesday 13 July 10 19:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi I am directly related to this guy who lived in the East End of London I think...he must be my GGGG grand father...my grandfather was Arthur Samuel Foulser and I know we came from a family closely connected to the sea..

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