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Hi Peter,

I am afraid you may have sent this query to the wrong person.  I am interested in the Bowles family from Hartlepool.  Long line of Drapers/Haberdashery, something that continued down to the present day.

Good Luck
Kind Regards,
Kiwi

Hi Steve,

It's a small world, after your posting I googled the cemetery and was stunned to find it was huge! something like 42 acres, you have a massive job ahead of you*laugh* Are you there on a working holiday or is the move permanent?  I did the working holiday thing over 50years ago, stayed in London for a while and travelled around.

I was a bit shocked to see some of the cemetery had been reused, not a pleasant thought, the word restoration sounds much more acceptable. 

Do you have a grave photo you could email?

I have permission to give you the London area Pinching email address when the private messaging system opens up to you along with mine.  Another Pinching descendant from Horatio Pinching's line is in America, I will ask if he is agreeable for you to contact him.

Kind Regards,
kiwi

Hi Coloradohighlander,

Yes I am in NZ, when you have made 5 postings i will be able to send you a private message with my email address, that way we won't clutter up the board with repeat information. 

'My' William Hamilton Ennis Pinching (b1838) was the brother of Horatio Nelson Pinching (b1841) and Richard Lloyd Pinching (b1843) in Walthamstowe.  Their father was Richard Lloyd Pinching (b1796).

Horatio N Pinching (b1841) married Frances Sophia Wildbore and from what I can see lived and died in London.  His son  Daniel Peacock Wildbore Pinching (born 1872) moved to Jersey and went on to have a son Daniel  and that is the son that went to Canada. 

At least that is what I have,  I could be wrong, the repeat names make for confusing sometimes.

Kind regards,
kiwi

Hi Steve,

Well what a nice surprise.  Thank you for getting in touch. I am connected to William Hamilton Ennis Pinching who came out to NZ and settled here.  From the postings on Rootschat you will see that they were all given the most fantastic names which made tracing some of them a bit easier.

You may be interested to find that there are still Pinchings in London, one of whom has been in touch with me and generously supplied me with lots of family information.
The Pinching family certainly travelled settling in NZ, Australia and the USA, some served in the British Army in India as well as the British Navy and HM East India Company. 

When you have made three postings the PM (private messaging) system will open up to you making the exchange of email addresses easier.

Kind Regards,
Kiwi

Thanks lizdb, looks much more likely.

I take it that is the 1861 in Claypond, Wiltshire.  If it is the right family then the Hannah Tucker witness  at the wedding could have been the Grandaughter, she would have been about 17. (would that have been old enough to be a witness I wonder?)

The occupation of bricklayer only appears once in the records we have here and that was on the wedding cert.

Lots of food for thought

Kind Regards,
Kiwi