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Thank you Patricia.  Yes I had traced quite a bit of Mackworth background in England, it is just fleshing out the Trinidad side of the picture that I am finding trickier. How did a Navy Lieutenant became High Sheriff of Trinidad? What did it entail - representing the Crown, I would presume, but was it just ceremonial like it tends to be today, or was it more?  And generally what their life there was like.  Any information that your husband's uncle's letters might contain would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Antonia

A Thomas Tyser of Loughton, b. 1708, married an Alice (Reeves) in 1730.  Alice died in 1743 and he remarried Susan White in 1745, their eldest son is Thomas Tyser, born 1746.  (It's a while since I looked this lot up in official sources, but I have manuscript memoirs which give family details.) TT b 1746 marries Sarah Dorman and their eldest son is in turn called Thomas.  Hope that helps.
Antonia

Dear Jayson, and all

The family has some volumes written by Robert Tyser's elder brother, Thomas (of Barking, Essex) where he talks of Robert and Arabella Maria going to Cheshire to visit 'his estate'.  TT also transcribes a couple of letters from AMT, written from Normandy in 1819 and 1820, which mostly talk about Paris, going into raptures about Raphael, for instance, or the Catacombs;  but she also mentions

"...Our arrival in England, depends on my Brothers summons, and we are at last, thank God, going amicably to divide the Estates, which will considerably enhance the value of our Portion"

and

"We took him, when he was a month old to Guernsey, where he was christened by the united names of Tyser and Bayley, we did not enter him here at the Mayoralty (which I believe in fact, we were oblidged to do) but proceeded immediately, for a British Island, for as all our small landed Property is entailed, it may be of the last importance to him at some future day to have an easy access to his Register"

this last, and also a reference to his cutting a tooth (!) makes it probable that Robert Bayley Tyser was born in 1820, but I have not yet found confirmation of this christening.

Antonia

ps TT doesn't seem ever to go up to Cheshire with his brother, so I have no clues as to Mrs Whiffin.

I am descended from the Robert Tyser MD who you're talking about, and his wife Maria Walter.  I did not know he had had a child with his 3rd wife Arabella Maria, why can I not find Robt Bayley on the censuses?  When did they go out to NZ?  So many loose ends, so little time...

I attach a picture of Dr Robt, for all your interest

Antonia

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