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Messages - Michael Kift

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 21:21 GMT (UK)  »
Pels,
Again my thanks, what is it that makes you continue the search, and where do you look?
For me it is like a 'who dunnit'.  My problem as a novice is learning the ropes, so to speak.
Believe me every bit of todays info is safely tucked away on my hardrive, backed up, copied onto an external drive and backed up on there too.
I have been doing searches for a cousin, now in Australia, who shares my mums side of my tree, and have done quite well, but finding this forum has helped so much, that I wish I had found it sooner.
 
I have always felt that I would be a nuisance in asking for help, but here it is so freely given, that I don't feel so bad about it.

Many, many thanks.
If I can help you in anyway, you only have to ask.
Kindest regards.
Mike

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 18:12 GMT (UK)  »
Pels, Welsh Lady,

Just a big thank you for looking so hard on my behalf.

I am at the age where I only have the occasional JUNIOR moment,
and have never done anything like this before.

Do please let me know if you turn up anything else.

I am sure I will be needing further help from this forum before too long.

My grateful thanks to you both. Time to eat.

Kindest regards
Mike

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 17:40 GMT (UK)  »
Pels, Welsh Lady,

Are you Pels looking at 1871 RG 10 piece 2197 folio 79 page 5

Berry Cross Langtree.
 
Tanton Samuel Head    M51
Tanton Elizabeth Wife   F44
Tanton Elizabeth Daughter F11 would have been too old, (31 in 1891)

The other Thomas I found was 1871 census
RG10 2197 folio31 page 11 at Yard, East, Peter(s) Marland.
He was 42
Tanton Mary also 42 listed as Mother
Tanton James 29 Brother

Welsh Lady I have Elizabeth as born Dec 1867  5b 505 Torrington,
 
I am trying to keep up, but debbie and friends have a website problem and I have had a couple of email requests to try various links to access.
 

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Blonde Welsh Lady, ;D

How you do it baffles me.
A lady who turned out to be my second cousin 'found' me through Genes Reunited and she had already done an awful lot on the main lines of the family so I am trying to help to fill in the gaps so to speak.
Thank you so much
Kindest regards
Mike.

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 16:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you DS.

Another piece in the jigsaw of life drops into place.

Best wishes.

Mike

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 16:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Pels,
You have helped already, Creek is much more likely to have been the name than Crech (or Greek). ;D
 
I went to school in Ilfracombe with a fellow named Creek. My 'Crech' was from find my past.com.

As for working backwards, that is all I seem to have been doing on this one.
Thank you.
Mike

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Devon / Re: Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 15:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Pels,
All I have to go on are the two witnesses at the ceremony, Richard Greek?? whom I believe was Richard Crech, shown as head of the household in which Elizabeth was living in the 1891 census, and Florence Tanton, who could have been her mother but nothing to that effect was recorded.

Also in the household was Mary Ann Crech, wife of Richard, and Elizabeth Tanton was shown as sister-in-law, so am I right in thinking that Mary Ann would have been nee Tanton? Mary Ann was 29 years old (1891)

Thank you for taking an interest.
Kindest regards
Mike

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Devon / Thomas Tanton - Gamekeeper
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 15:06 GMT (UK)  »
I hate to ask again so soon......... :-[

But the friendship and assistance I received from my first post makes me think you won't mind.

My Grandfather married Elizabeth Tanton in Ilfracombe October 1891,
Her place of birth was listed as Torrington, and her father was Thomas a gamekeeper. She was 21 years old.
I have found several Tantons, and printed out a 1871 census that looked a possibility, but seem to be stuck, as that Thomas appears not to have had children.
Has anyone been doing a similar search I wonder? ::)

Best wishes to all
Mike

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Devon / Re: Passmore-Barnstaple
« on: Tuesday 16 January 07 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Newfy,
I was rather envious of him, his surname was Passmore 41, unmarried and living as a lodger with a widow of 39. Could he have been a brother to Jane's Husband, I wonder?
Thanks for the suggestion, new to me, Chelsea of course. Greenwich.... mean time, meridian..........
Cheers
Mike

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