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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Irish births - CAULFIELD
« on: Tuesday 05 December 06 19:43 GMT (UK)  »
 ;D

Hi Andy

Most of my information regarding the Cork family side is from a family bible now held by my dad.  We were very excited recently to find a folded document in the pages of the bible which we hadn't noticed before. 

It is a pension document for Richard Caulfield issued by Greenwich Hospital Pension fund allocating a penison of £23 per year for Captain Richard Caulfield.  The pension document states that Richard was 37 at the date of issuing of this pension, which he could receive from 12 February 1880, but only if he was no longer serving in the Navy.  The document itself is dated 3 March 1880.  This would put Richard as having been born circa 1843.

If this is the same Richard, perhaps he was a navy diver.

We had always supposed this was Sarah Tottel's (nee Caulfield) father. 


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Cork / Re: Caulfield and Leader families, Cork
« on: Monday 13 November 06 19:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much - what a fantastic site! 

I'm not able to say Yea or Nay at the moment.  I'm still at the very early stages in looking back through family records. 

When my grandmother was living she talked about her Aunt Frances (whom she called Frances Deacon Leader) who would take her on trips to places in Devon. 

The "yarn" always was that my Grandmother's father should have been entitled to an inheritance which he never received and Aunt Frances Leader was trying to resolve this.  I can't get to the bottom of that and it probably is just a good ol' yarn!!

I've never been able to find any records of this lady, (Frances, from whom I inherited my middle name) but on a trawl through the Ancestory website found the marriage certificate for Julia Anne Deacon Leader who married in 1856 at Newton Abbot, Devon.  I haven't seen a copy of this marriage certificate but on clicking on the "see others on page" I found John James Tottel's name.  This would be my Grandmother's Grandfather. 

Her father was also called John James Tottel and his wife (Sarah Caulfield) and the majority of the 14 children were born in Queenstown, Cork. 

Does any of this marry up with what you know?  Sorry I know it's not that lucid!!

Regards

Kim



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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Irish births - CAULFIELD
« on: Saturday 11 November 06 15:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hmmm.......looks like I'm up the wrong tree here then???  My Great-Grandmother (Sarah Tottel nee Caulfield) is listed in our family bible as being born 28 July 1866 in Queenstown.

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Cork / Caulfield and Leader families, Cork
« on: Sunday 05 November 06 10:13 GMT (UK)  »
My Great-Grandmother was Sarah Caulfield of Queenstown, daughter of Richard Caulfield and Catherine Coghlan.  She married John James Tottel and had 14 children of which my grandmother Catherine Clare was the youngest.

There is some verbal history in the family of a connection with the Leader family (or Deacon Leader) also from the Cork area.  It's difficult to look for "leader" as it confuses the hits.

Any "Leaders" out there?

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Irish births - CAULFIELD
« on: Saturday 04 November 06 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Andy & Frances

I found this reference to the Caulfield family by accident - my Great Grandmother was Sarah Caulfield, daughter of Richard and Catherine.

She married John Tottel and had 14 children, one of which was my Grandmother, Catherine Clara Tottel born in Newquay, Cornwall.

Do you know much more about the Caulfield family?  There seems to be some connection with the Leader family, but I don't know much about this.

Kim

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