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The Lighter Side / Re: Who in your family.......?????
« on: Thursday 10 November 05 16:44 GMT (UK)  »
I would like to meet this guy here. John Jackson........who started out as a tailor in LASTINGHAM and ended up as a famous portrait painter in London. He was a an anomaly-both religious since he was a Methodist, but quite fun loving. He died poor unfoortunately, leaving his widow with very little, but he was a very generous man by all accounts.


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The Lighter Side / Re: Bizzare Census Facts
« on: Thursday 10 November 05 16:12 GMT (UK)  »
There was also one person in the 1881 census who couldnt tell his (look it up yourself-it really is there....) from his elbow (1)

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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Thursday 10 November 05 14:38 GMT (UK)  »
I have discovered that Robert Lincraft Heffer, born 4 Jan 1824 at Temple Bristol, Richard Heffer's son, was also a cork cutter.


Don't know if you already have him, but he is in the 1851 census.

Nikki

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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Tuesday 08 November 05 18:57 GMT (UK)  »
Here's another one who I think was an ancestor_I am still researching him. He is on the 1851 census as Richard Hoffer, but Piggot's directory and IGI have him down as Heffer. I am wondering if he came from Denmark of somewhere to the port.

PIgots directory 1830 Bristol
HEFFER Richard        Cork Cutter                   16?? Peters Street, Bristol

I am trying to find out more about him. I think he had a daughter, Mary Ann, who married a David Morgan. Mary Ann Morgan was the landlady at the Ship In in Pipe Lane around 1888.

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