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Devon / Re: Michael Patey of Brixham
« on: Saturday 28 April 12 10:25 BST (UK) »
To Trish 1120 and dob7
Thanks for your research. I know most of the information about Michael Patey's descendants except I hadn't noted the birth of Selina was 1847. I haven't found a birth reference for her with Michael as her father. However the Michael Patey death in Kingsbridge in 1839 must be another Michael because the death record says he lived in Salcombe. It is strange that that is the only Michael Patey recorded. The death reference you noted for 1851 I think is for a Miriam Patey.
Most of my Michael's children and his widow moved to Grimsby to work the North Sea fishing when the new docks opened in the 1860's. Louisa met my great grandfather Robert Henry Brydges, a fisherman from Barking in Essex, who had also moved to the new fishing grounds. I shall keep hunting for my Michael Patey perhaps though his descendants who my still live in Devon.
Thanks for your research. I know most of the information about Michael Patey's descendants except I hadn't noted the birth of Selina was 1847. I haven't found a birth reference for her with Michael as her father. However the Michael Patey death in Kingsbridge in 1839 must be another Michael because the death record says he lived in Salcombe. It is strange that that is the only Michael Patey recorded. The death reference you noted for 1851 I think is for a Miriam Patey.
Most of my Michael's children and his widow moved to Grimsby to work the North Sea fishing when the new docks opened in the 1860's. Louisa met my great grandfather Robert Henry Brydges, a fisherman from Barking in Essex, who had also moved to the new fishing grounds. I shall keep hunting for my Michael Patey perhaps though his descendants who my still live in Devon.