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Completed Census Requests / Re: 1891 census for Bayliss of Queenhill Worcs
« on: Friday 29 June 12 11:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Linda,
thanks a lot, I am so glad you responded. I have been researching Isabella Kelly, née Fordyce, wife of Robert Hawke Kelly, for years because she is my favourite Gothic novelist (I am a scholar of the Gothic from Germany), and yes, I would very much like to share finds with you, though I am afraid that I may profit much more from your sources than you from mine. Anyway, there are so many errors concerning the Fordyce/Kelly circle online which i find quite misleading. family search for example lists George Robert Abraham as Isabella Kelly's husband obviously copied from Howard's Visitation of Ireland vol. 5 (1911). And of course you know about the mystery surrounding the Kelly fortune and the question why Robert Hawke, the first-born, was excluded, and what part the Hawke circle played. In her letters to the RLF Isabella Kelly is very vague, and to make matters worse, the crucial page seems to be missing. Robert's second name Hawke seems to indicate that his father may even have had a liaison with a lady of the Hawke family. Given that Colonel Robert Kelly's wife Miriam (no maiden name given) died in 1837 in Madras, India. Since Robert Hawke was born abt. 1759, this would mean that he was born abt 78 years earlier and that Miriam (if she was his mother) must have died at a very advanced age and gave birth to Robert Hawke when she was probably under 20. Or was Miriam's maiden name Hawke?
To sum it up, yes, by all means, let's continue this in private.
thanks a lot, I am so glad you responded. I have been researching Isabella Kelly, née Fordyce, wife of Robert Hawke Kelly, for years because she is my favourite Gothic novelist (I am a scholar of the Gothic from Germany), and yes, I would very much like to share finds with you, though I am afraid that I may profit much more from your sources than you from mine. Anyway, there are so many errors concerning the Fordyce/Kelly circle online which i find quite misleading. family search for example lists George Robert Abraham as Isabella Kelly's husband obviously copied from Howard's Visitation of Ireland vol. 5 (1911). And of course you know about the mystery surrounding the Kelly fortune and the question why Robert Hawke, the first-born, was excluded, and what part the Hawke circle played. In her letters to the RLF Isabella Kelly is very vague, and to make matters worse, the crucial page seems to be missing. Robert's second name Hawke seems to indicate that his father may even have had a liaison with a lady of the Hawke family. Given that Colonel Robert Kelly's wife Miriam (no maiden name given) died in 1837 in Madras, India. Since Robert Hawke was born abt. 1759, this would mean that he was born abt 78 years earlier and that Miriam (if she was his mother) must have died at a very advanced age and gave birth to Robert Hawke when she was probably under 20. Or was Miriam's maiden name Hawke?
To sum it up, yes, by all means, let's continue this in private.