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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Washbourn
« on: Sunday 20 July 14 21:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lisa, Our family has been speculating for several generations about the identity of 'Aunt' Emma Everley, but no-one has managed to solve the mystery. The name Everley has been incorporated into the names of several of our relations eg my grandfather Henry Everley Arthur Washbourn( a GP in Nelson , and my uncle Richard Everley Washbourn (who was a Rear Admiral and Chief of the Naval Staff in N Z in the early 1960s, and this Richard's son is Jonathon Everley Washbourn.  I don't think that anyone has previously made that connection with the Everley name and the Tillingdown owners, so that's exciting! When Emma died she apparently left everything to William, despite not having seen him  since he left for NZ decades before.... Presumably they wrote to each other regularly .There was a feeling in the family that most of Emma's bounty was taken by the English lawyers who were handling her estate and only a small fraction of the money's reached NZ there was apparently a fine portrait William's father Richard mounted on a hunting steed that was sold cheaply at auction in Devizes after Emma's demise. I have some great letters that the sisters  wrote, mostly to their brother Arty who stayed in Golden Bay... often difficult to decipher as they tended to write a page and then spin the page 90 degrees and write another page over the top of the original.. if that makes sense! Also 3 or photos of the sisters Nell, Maud and Florence which would be exciting for you to see ! I'm new to this site , so how would it be best to send you material that I have? Can one post photos on this site? I live in Nelson, but travel often to the Wellington to see family

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Washbourn
« on: Sunday 13 July 14 23:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lisa, I am also descended from William Washbourn, via Henry Phillip ('Darby'), an older brother of Eleanor('Nell'). William is my gt gt grandfather. As Scoobie 2010 points out, our branch of the family has long puzzled over the identity of William's mother, and the relationship of 'Aunt Emma' Everley to William and his father Richard Washbourne. I'm away from home Nelson) for the next couple of days , so haven't access to the family records that I have at home, but I think I have a couple if photos of Florence/ Eleanor and Maud and also a few letters that these 3 girls wrote to their brother Arthur('Arty') in the 19th century. I am spending a night with a cousin who lives in Feilding on Friday night...Feilding/ Kimbolton area being the area, I think, that Nell and Maud settled around.

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