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Somerset / Re: I Might Be Able to Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Friday 19 April 19 03:45 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for confirming that detail re Daniel Herbert for me. I wonder whether there is the record of his sibling's death in the weeks before his birth ...   if you could find that for me please.
My research is the Ross Bridge  in Tasmania where Dan was the convict overseer. The bridge is unique in the world owing to its 180 carved archstones and 6 keystones. Most of them have been attributed to Dan Herbert, transported for highway robbery in Saddleworth Yorkshire, in 1827.
I cannot find a record of his apprenticeship; I can only suppose he gazed up at the hunky punks and maybe went to Bath to be influenced and impressed by stone carvings.

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Somerset / Re: I Might Be Able to Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Sunday 07 April 19 04:40 BST (UK)  »
I have found that Daniel Herbert was baptised in the Paul Street Independent on Feb 1st 1802; I wonder whether there is a record of his birth? I believe his father, Daniel, was a corporal in the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, stationed in Exeter in 1801 until October 1802 when the troops moved to Nottingham. I wonder why, then, the christening happened 40 miles away in Taunton? His mother was Mary, probably nee Rogers; I wonder if there is a Rogers family there? Is there mention in the Paul St records of a child of Corporal Herbert's dying 29th Jan 1802?
I'd be grateful to know these things.

Jennie

 

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