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hi was just browsing when came cross this site and topic, my greatgrandfather was paul fountain and have very fnd memories as a child of my greatgrandmother Gertude Abbott, i heard stories of him been 1st white man to find the amazon river and how he was crippled by falling off a horse rearing on his exploring. My grandmother was concieved when he was 68years of age, my great grandmother was some what younger and due to his accident/death my grandmother and siblings had to be put into an orphanage until the Gertude was sent to New Zealand to stay with her brother and family via church hope that helps