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England / Re: Are there Gun maker records for London and Birmingham 1774-1796?
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 16:57 BST (UK)  »
As Stan Cook’s gunmakers index is mentioned in this thread it seems appropriate to provide an update.

Stan Cook passed away in January 2021.  His research material and databases are now with me, initially for storage, but with a medium to long term aim of publishing in some form, hopefully freely accessible. No guarantees on timeframe.  I am doing some occasional very limited lookups when time permits, but not regularly.

Tim Cook

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Monmouthshire Lookup Requests / Re: Henry Collyer (b.Erith Kent) in 1891 census please.
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 08:30 BST (UK)  »
It seems Henry Charles Colyer (b. Erith 1833), and his son, also Henry Charles Colyer (b. Erith 1853), and his son, Henry (b. 1876) were very well travelled for their time!  I have that the first Henry and his wife Mary Ann were in New York from around 1870/1, so possibly missed the 1871 England & Wales Census.  They had three children there, but by the 1880 US census Mary Ann was head of household with 10 of the children there (Jesse and younger).  So presumably by this time Henry Charles had returned to England.  The younger Henry Charles married in Erith in 1873/4, but soon after must have gone out to New York, where he had children, before then travelling and having children in New Zealand, Australia and then Lymm in Cheshire..... as I say very well travelled.  This makes tracing these Colyer's a bit difficult - last night I was using both Ancestry and Find my Past to find immigration and ships passenger records to trace their various movements.  As ships passenger records are not complete, it is not a complete picture by someway - but I will carry on!

As background Henry Charles Colyer (b. Erith 1833) is my 3 x great grand uncle (or something like that!).  I am in the process of putting all my late father's notes on the Colyer's, Hooker's and other related families into Ancestry (all his material is in various obsolete programmes and paper notes).  As well as the usual sources, my father had a lot of discussion with various distant Colyer cousins in the UK, US and Australia - it'll take a while to go through all the letters and emails.

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