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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: THOMAS READ AND WIFE ELIZABETH ? BETHNAL GREEN
« on: Monday 08 October 18 20:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, cuffie81, for your speedy response.  I joined Rootsweb only today and have followed your suggestion and tried to contact Lesley, who must indeed be a distant cousin as we are both descended from Thomas and Elizabeth Reed of Bethnal Green.  Seems Elizabeth's origins will have to continue to remain elusive. 
Veronica

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: THOMAS READ AND WIFE ELIZABETH ? BETHNAL GREEN
« on: Monday 08 October 18 20:09 BST (UK)  »
Lesley, I have just been reading the emails that passed between you and cuffie81, having today joined Rootsweb, though I have been a keen family historian for many years.  It would seem that we are distant cousins, both descended from Thomas and Elizabeth Read, you from their son Charles who emigrated to Australia, and me from their eldest son Thomas.  My mother was told that two brothers went to Australia, Charles and George, and that they became carpet factors.  I think, however, that she was misinformed and only Charles went.  It is great to learn that there are descendants in Australia.
Veronica.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: THOMAS READ AND WIFE ELIZABETH ? BETHNAL GREEN
« on: Monday 08 October 18 17:31 BST (UK)  »
I have just discovered your messages to lahpun in January about Thomas Read and his wife Elizabeth.  This couple are my 3 x great grandparents and I have never been able to decide definitely who Elizabeth was, only that she was born in 1791.  Censuses give her place of birth as St Lukes, but I have not been able to find a baptism of any Elizabeth there in 1791 who married a Thomas Read.  I am descended from their son Thomas's daughter, Emily Frances Read - and you are correct in saying that he did not marry her mother Elizabeth Caroline Newman, who at the time of Emily's birth, was married to Friedrich Heyn.  I am not sure what your connection with this family is, or whether it is lahpun who is possibly a distant relative of mine.  But I'd be interested in your comments!

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