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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Jersey, Channel Islands - Le Duc
« on: Wednesday 12 October 11 18:26 BST (UK)  »
To add to your collection: I also have another branch of the Le Ducs, living in St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. They seem to have arrived in the Islands from Normandy in about 1842, are listed in the 1851 census, but most of the family has disappeared again by 1861 (Dead? Emigrated? Or just returned to France?)

Richard Olivier Le Duc, sailor b 1816 abt in France. Married Augustine Le Ganiy (or Le Gury or Le Ganee)
children:
Mary Adelina Olivia Le Duke (b 1843, St Peter Port)
Augusta Le Duc (St Peter Port, 1848-1931) married William James Austin
Adolphine Le Duc (b 1850, St Peter Port; in the workhouse hospital in 1881- a destitute prostitute, with 2 young children. Presumed to have died there)
Richard Olivier Le Duc (b 1853, St Peter Port).

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Somerset / Re: I Can Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Friday 31 October 08 10:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much for looking!
Deb

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Somerset / Re: I Can Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Thursday 30 October 08 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
Any chance you could do a quick look for JOHN MATTERFACE, Whitesmith (tin) (b 1796) who, I believe, lived in Taunton abt 1812-21, with his young family? He may have married a local girl (Sarah Hooper) at St Mary Magdalene's  on 26 DEC 1811.

Thank you!

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Northumberland / Re: Newcastle Meeting Place
« on: Sunday 31 August 08 13:47 BST (UK)  »
Thought you might be interested in this:
oral family account of MARTHA MARGARET MORRIS BROWN (b1859) ,  as told to her nephew JOSEPH THORBURN BROWN in 1927 and transcribed in 1953; included in the public BROWN FAMILY TREE (ancestry.co.uk) .

According to her, her grandfather [JOHN BROWN, Master Mariner, b1776 circa] was "a member of the oldest Quaker family in the North". The Browns were highly respected Quakers who had originated in a Quaker settlement in Newcastle, living a communal existence shut off from the world by a compound wall, the gate of which was opened twice daily- once at sunset and once at sunrise- to give bread and milk to the needy.

In 1930, JOSEPH was told by a Newcastle resident that the old Quaker wall was still remembered and spoken about. The then Newcastle County Archivist told him that there was an old meeting house which records show to have stood in an old, large walled garden, but there was no proof that it was ever a walled settlement.

I don't know how accurate this account is- but in other respects, MARTHA has proved to be a very reliable source for our family history. 


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