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Kent / Re: The KETTLE / DYE / OMER Family of Sandwich, Kent 17-1800s
« on: Friday 16 May 14 01:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi Awarld - Your post is very interesting, as my wife is a great great granddaughter of Charles Henry Kettle, and we have just visited Kettle Park in Dunedin NZ which commemorates his work in surveying and laying out the city. However Wikipedia says that Charles was the son of "the impecunious Matthew Kettle". Your posting of Nathaniel Kettle as Charles' father makes more sense, as he (Charles) called his son Nathaniel. Nathaniel (jr.) was an interesting character himself, as he married the daughter of Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky who features largely in NZ history, and went on to found the very successful company of Williams and Kettle. Sorry I can't help with your direct request.

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Other Countries / Re: Latour / Lantour / Lautour of Calcutta, India
« on: Monday 20 June 11 01:14 BST (UK)  »
Hi Perks1.
I do have a lot of information about the wider family, but very little about JFL Lautour. All I have is that in his will, Francis Lautour, JFL's father, wrote..."to my natural son Joseph Francis Louis Lautour by Mrs Elizabeth Proud, now commanding the ship 'Juno' in the East Indies, £3,500 (and if in India) 8,750 pagodas in lieu of the £3,500 sterling."
I hope that is of some help. I will attach a likeness of Count Francis (if I can work out how to do it!)
Regards,
Kiwi Shepherd.
OK - it won't let me attach the picture because it is too big. Perhaps if you would like the picture you could let me know your email on this forum, otherwise I will try and copy it in a smaller file.
 

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Other Countries / Re: Latour / Lantour / Lautour of Calcutta, India
« on: Wednesday 15 June 11 07:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I may be able to help in a small way. Edward de Lautour who married Catherine Sconce was my great-great grandfather. It was his grandfather Count Francis Joseph Louis Lautour de Quercy who was the first of the family to go to India in 1777. The Count's son Joseph Andrew was a military officer in England until 1814, and his son Edward was born that same year. Edward went to Calcutta at the age of 23 and joined the East India Civil Service. He married Catherine in 1837 and later rose to become a judge in the Supreme Court in Calcutta. I can't help with the other names, although Count Francis Lautour had a son before his marriage, and called him Joseph Francois Louis Lautour, so it is possible I guess that he was the father of your Louis Latour. (That last bit is pure speculation!)
Good luck with your research.

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