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Berwickshire / Re: Polwarth MI index
« on: Wednesday 14 March 12 13:16 GMT (UK)  »
Could you please help with Palmer No 96  in the Polwarth Cem Index.   Thank you.

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Cornwall / Re: HUGH in Penzance/Madron - 1800s
« on: Saturday 03 March 12 00:26 GMT (UK)  »
Raining?  No, it's your turn now, we had plenty a few weeks back.  Hot humid and sunny here.
I have heard about those bride ships.  In those old Cornish newspapers i was reading about the immigrant ships and how it was organised back there, and the categories of people they were looking for - I think some people turned themselves into the correct categories just to get away and have a new start, it was all a bit of an adventure back then.  Also published were glowing reports of men who had got ahead and had their own land and homes, something difficult to achieve for some back home. 
Robert Hugh/Hughes stayed in London, became a locksmith, married Sarah Margaret Brown 26 March 1870, had Robert William Hughes b 7 Dec 1870 (my gfather) and two daughters, Sarah A. b 1877 and Lil(l)y b 1877, am researching these girls at present,although not a priority.
Robt Wm Hughes marr Blanche Mary Cornford 29 May 1897 in London, had 6 children, of which the only son died at 9 months, one of the twins died at 3 and half. My mother was the youngest child in the family.  She is the one who had the spirit, lost her first husband in artillery serving on defending London in the Blitz, then joined up herself to WRAF, served, married my father (RAAF/RAF) there and came out just after WW11, and actually she never saw any of her family in England again.   Have been myself to UK and lived there lots, but never been to Cornwall so plan to do that in May this year.

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Cornwall / Re: HUGH in Penzance/Madron - 1800s
« on: Friday 02 March 12 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Wiggy  Nice to hear from you. I did realize it was a couple of years back, and see all the families you are researching, so knew you had moved on. I too did many others trees before finally getting back to my own. Thanks for your info on your old posts anyway.  Thing is to research it further to see if it is the correct connection. 
I think it is John Hugh who married Amelia.  William married first Mary Bryant Newton.  In 1851 Census they have 5 children all under 10 and born in Penzance.  By  1861 Census there is only father William and son Robert - new wife Rhoda , no Mary wife or other four children.  What happened to them?  Did they all die?  Illness?  I read some old newspapers online from that era and see there are a lot of house fires, maybe there was a catastrophe for this family, leaving only the father and son. My line is actually down through William and son Robert from the first marriage.  Death certs of Mary Bryant and those children may provde some clues. 
 I will apply for some more old certs, but it is difficult because of the name change to Hughes, of which there are so many Williams, and some Rhoda's as well.      I was interested to see you are in Australia as am I. 

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Cornwall / Re: HUGH in Penzance/Madron - 1800s
« on: Friday 02 March 12 09:56 GMT (UK)  »
hello Wiggy Hobbes    You have some records that match mine.   I googled names from my family tree and your data came up.  You are following a John Hugh and daughters who came to Australia.   I am following back my William Hughes, of London, born Penzance Cornwall, as was his son Robert.  I know this from the family story, so have been trying to locate them.  I also know that there was a Rhoda in the family, again the family story.
William married to Rhoda Watson, a widow in 1859.  In 1861 Census in London he is William Hughes, has a son Robert Hughes with him, and she has some (of her?) children under the name Watson and Madison. The 1851 Census for the only William Hugh born in Penzance is for one married to a Mary Bryant Hugh with children John, William, Elizabeth, and Robert Gendell Hugh, all born Penzance.  This must be my Robert Hughes, I do not have him with this middle name anywhere else to confirm it is him. I can only go on the birth place and he is the only one for that.  I see on your posts you have linked these two families together despite the difference in spelling of the surname.  I had come to this conclusion also.  I hope it is correct. I have also used the occupations from Census and bdm as lath render, joiner and carpenter to say that William Hugh/Hughes is the same person. I am please (excited) to see you have generations further back. 
 

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