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Suffolk / Re: William Thomas CUTHBERT born Ipswich
« on: Sunday 26 September 10 13:03 BST (UK)  »
Sounds good, plenty of time to plan it.

18th March  2015 is a Wednesday so Sat 21st would be most sensible. Venue could be a farm or a hall (probably better for photo displays, catering, bad weather, family photos etc).   

My mum (Muriel Blayney nee Potter, daughter of Arlie Potter nee Carruthers, in turn daughter of Alice Jane CUTHBERT) knows many of the older Cuthberts and Carruthers and between her phone and address book, Facebook contacts, e-mails etc we could probably cover at least one person per "branch" who could then be responsible for passing on the invitations to members of their respective families.

If you and Lurline think about it, we could design a nice "pre-invite" document to send around for people to reply to giving an "expression of Interest" to see if it could be a goer and how big a venue and what sort of catering would be needed.

Keith


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Suffolk / Re: William Thomas CUTHBERT born Ipswich
« on: Sunday 26 September 10 06:51 BST (UK)  »
Ah, I wondered if it was you.
I suspect that William Thomas CUTHBERT's mother (?Mary) was a solo mum who named her children after the father (as solo mums do now in NZ) but didn't record his given name for whatever reason (he could have been married, she may have been a prostitute or a mistress in those pre-reliable contraceptive times etc  :-[).  Clearly Mary was destitute to end up in a workhouse with children and in pre-social welfare times may well have either been trying to supplement her income or hoping the mysterious Mr Cuthbert would make an honest woman of her.  All very sad really.  :(
Pure genealogical research doesn't make moralistic decisions on the value of uncovering the truth  >:( but this looks like it will be a dead end despite accessing any further records (although court records for imposing maintenance have uncovered missing links in other lines).  William himself probably had no interest in finding who his (irresponsible) father was  :-X.
Cheers,
Keith

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Suffolk / Re: William Thomas CUTHBERT born Ipswich
« on: Sunday 26 September 10 03:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi "Jacq", "Mystic Manaia" etc,
I am a gt-gt-grandson of William Thomas CUTHBERT and Jane Mazella CUTHBERT née HOARE and have a free website on them which if you haven't seen is at http://www.keithblayney.com/Blayney/Cuthbert.html with a password required for "living" members, obtainable for any family member by contacting me kblayney@ihug.co.nz (rather than in an open forum like this).
Even if you have looked at this before, I have been regularly upgrading the genealogies, family histories and adding photos and appreciate any additions, corrections, photos etc you can contribute.  Keith (KTB)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Isabella MUIR~ married in NZ in 1851~
« on: Monday 06 November 06 08:42 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, it is on my knee.  Anything you want from it is yours for the asking - do you want me to scan the pages on Isabella and Robert?  Ask any question, send a list of descendants, give you access to Robert's ancestry back to Tristram COXHEAD b~1540....turn water into wine?

Keith




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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Isabella MUIR~ married in NZ in 1851~
« on: Monday 06 November 06 08:09 GMT (UK)  »
Are you still interested in Isabella Muir (bp.15 Apr 1832, d. 30 May 1893) m. Robert Coxhead (bp. 10 Dec 1820) on 17 Feb 1851?  I have access to as much information as you wish, including a photo I took of her gravestone and ALL her Coxhead descendants as I am married to a Coxhead. 

I wasn't aware at the time I took the photo that Isabella is also buried there so I intend to return and rub chalk on the stone to bring up the words.

Isabella was the sister-in-law of my wife's great-grandfather so I have only included a little information on my webpage on the Coxheads which you may check out at http://www.keithblayney.com/Blayney/Coxhead.html (just ask me for the password).

The Coxhead photographers are not related (at least as far back as we can trace)

Keith

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