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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Monday 25 January 16 19:53 GMT (UK)  »
Adrian, thank you so much for taking the trouble to track all this stuff down. The Val that you mention in #25 was the friend for whom I started this query, now sadly deceased. She would have been over the moon with all this new information. Interesting that there is now a possibility that Charlotte was indeed Richard's granddaughter, as family legend has maintained in South Africa.

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 22:04 GMT (UK)  »
Very interesting. It seems hard to imagine why Charlotte would have accompanied Richard and Frances to the Cape in 1820 if her parents were still alive. Maybe something happened between 1815 and 1820. Oh for a time machine!

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Tuesday 27 October 15 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Found it eventually on page 52 (the one right at the end of the book does not have "Where stationed" filled in)

I agree that it says Madeira  ;D

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Tuesday 27 October 15 11:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks! I went to the beginning but not to the end!!

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Tuesday 27 October 15 10:03 GMT (UK)  »
Good find! I must be very stupid (didn't sleep too well last night) as I can't see where on the Ancestry record it actually says "Maidstone", to see whether it reads "Madeira".

Will be very interested to hear of any confirmation or otherwise you get at Kew

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Friday 02 October 15 00:51 BST (UK)  »
Fabulous information about Isaac and Sarah. It's a pity that the birth dates given for Isaac and Nancy seem to rule out Richard being Isaac's father, and hence Charlotte's grandfather. It would explain why Richard moved to London if Charlotte had been sent to a charity school there. I think Isaac must have been a close relation. I have seen a tree on Ancestry which says that Isaac Senior (Richard's father, who died 1815) was one of a large family of siblings, so if Isaac was a family name Richard may have had at least one cousin called Isaac!

If Richard moved to London to help look after Charlotte, perhaps Hannah died in London? I have looked, but no obvious candidates. Have been away overnight and just got back, so am a bit cross-eyed. Will try to think it though a bit more tomorrow.

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Wednesday 30 September 15 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Adrian

Having looked in detail now at all the records you posted, I tend to agree with you that Thomas and Ann DOWLAN never went to the Cape, and that perhaps Thomas DOBSON was Richard's stepson.

I have made one other discovery by going through records on FindMyPast. It was always said within the family thatCharlotte PICKSTOCK, the 'child' of Richard and Frances who sailed with them in 1820, was not Richard's daughter, and was born in Madeira.

Royal Military Asylum (Chelsea) admissions (British Army Schoolchildren 1803-1932)
Taken from a transcript by Peter Goble
Charlotte PICKSTOCK, born 1809, aged 6, admitted 6 January 1815
Father: Isaac PICKSTOCK, Private, Royal Regiment of Veterans
Mother: Sarah
Discharged 5 January 1820

The RMA aimed to educate orphans of British servicemen in the regular army who were killed in the Napoleonic Wars. The 5th Royal Veterans Battalion was stationed in Madeira from July 1809 until September 1814, so Charlotte could well have been brought up in Madeira. Her discharge from the RMA in January 1820 fits with her sailing to the Cape with Richard and Frances in February.

Was Isaac perhaps Richard's brother?

Every breakthrough brings more questions  :)

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Monday 28 September 15 11:38 BST (UK)  »
Very interesting. I have copies of the original correspondence (at Kew) written by William Shepherd in 1826, who applied to take out family members to existing 1820 settlers. This has been transcribed at

http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/post-1820-letters/s-writers-surnamed-s/1443-2011-01-05-17-07-31

It states that Richard PICKSTOCK applied for his two daughters and their families to join him.
Thos DOWLAN (29) with wife Ann (31) and children Mary (10) and Amelia (3)
Thos DOBSON (27) with wife Mary (29) and son John (1)

It may be that Shepherd got the surnames slightly wrong.

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Lancashire / Re: Pickstock
« on: Friday 11 September 15 10:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for getting in touch, barrow girl. I have sent you a private message. Sadly the friend for whom the original enquiry was made has since passed away, but having transcribed all the 1820 settler correspondence (http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/) I am always pleased to receive information on any of the settlers prior to emigration.

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