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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Monday 16 June 14 18:37 BST (UK)  »
My email is (*), and I can save you quite a lot of work! This is just wonderful. Please email me so that we can communicate personally? Amongst other things, I can put you and your Dad in contact with family in Bermuda - direct family, as they are descended from your Dad's aunt ! 

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Monday 16 June 14 18:08 BST (UK)  »
This is just brilliant. So you are Douglas, born 1958? I have a lot of family history and have been working on it for years. Horatio has been very illusive but I do have some stuff, mainly from the Maritime History Archive in Canada. Could we swap info? I have done my (our) family tree as text boxes within Excel, and I have loads of pages of history in Word.

I'm so pleased to hear about your father - it makes our ancestors feel closer somehow.

I lived and worked in France for many years, and have been in London since 1995, and I am Ruth, descended from your grandmother's brother Arthur Leonard Damacastria/Doncaster.

I'm so happy to hear from you!

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Monday 16 June 14 17:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi there. Does this mean that you are a MacKenzie? Am I right in thinking that your father was either Kenneth, Leonard, or Donald? That would be very exciting, as I've had no luck tracing the children! I have in my tree a marriage Mackenzie-Burbery (2 daughters, 2 sons); a Mackenzie-Matthews (1 son); and Mackenzie-Pomfrett (1 son). However I've not been able to verify any of the info.

Look forward to hearing from you!

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Glamorganshire Completed Lookups / Re: docks staff
« on: Sunday 08 June 08 01:44 BST (UK)  »
Is there by any miracle one Horatio Doncaster on the docks staff list?? Many thanks.
Ruth

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Sunday 01 June 08 23:41 BST (UK)  »
Yes, and Susanna died at the same address in 1898 (both deaths registered by a Maria Hall). It must have been cramped for them all, living in 2 rooms ..

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Sunday 01 June 08 23:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Sunday 01 June 08 23:01 BST (UK)
Do you have a copy of their 1878 marriage cert as it should show his fathers name and occupation

Yes, it gives his father as John Damacastria, fisherman (it does not say that he was deceased, but I have not found him, either).

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Sunday 01 June 08 23:03 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Sunday 01 June 08 22:44 BST (UK)
Did he marry Susanna Cork or Lottie Metters in 1878

What were their childrens names and where and when were they born

There is an 1880 death in East Stonehouse for a James H Damacastria b 1876

James Horatio Damacastria, their first-born, was born Back Street, Kingsand, Maker, Counties of Devon and Cornwall. 28.4.1979, died 11.8.1880.
Kate Lilian Damacastria born East Stonehouse, Devon, 19.12.1881, married Henry Dennis
Arthur Leonard Damacastria (my grandfather) born East Stonehouse, Devon, 23.11.1884
Blanche Elizabeth Doncaster born Bedminster, Bristol, 16.9.1887
Sarah Jane ("Polly") Doncaster born Bedminster, Bristol, Q1 1891.

Surname was changed from Damacastria to Doncaster some time between 1885-1887.

Thanks again!

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Horatio Doncaster
« on: Sunday 01 June 08 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Sunday 01 June 08 22:44 BST (UK)
Did he marry Susanna Cork or Lottie Metters in 1878

Many thanks - he married Susanna Cork, and they had 5 children together.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Horatio Doncaster
« on: Sunday 01 June 08 22:19 BST (UK)  »
Has anyone heard of this man? He was apparently a seaman, fireman, dock labourer. He changed his name from Damacastria to Doncaster and I really need to found out where he originated. He was born in 1854, if his death certificate is correct - it gives his age as 47 when he died in May 1901. He married in Devon, then spent some years in Bristol, then finally ended up in Cardiff, dying at 40 Ordell Street in Roath, Cardiff. I have found him on no census, ever. He was my great grandfather. Many thanks.

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