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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Sunday 18 April 10 15:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tanya

Sorry didn't get your message until now. Did you find the place ok? I went with my dad (Bill) and brother (David), I looked around at afternoon tea to see if I could see you or Brenny as we had name tags on, but no luck. I met my cousin for the first time and she had lots of great photo's of my dad his dad and his mum which was really nice to see. I finally got to see what my nana Ruby looked like, she was beautiful. My boss was there aswell as his wife was a Thorpe, so that was a bit weird.

anyway it was a good day, it would be nice if we could all catch up like that every so often.

Linda :D

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Tuesday 02 February 10 10:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tanya and Brenny

Yeah my dad will probably want to go so I'll be there.
Yeah I'm surprised they don't have any of the cottage too, that book of mind has a couple of photo's, though my brother has it the moment.

Well I've got both your emails will send mine.

Linda  :D

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 13:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Brenny

So Jane is my g granddads sister, cool! anyway looks like you're up to speed with everything more so than myself. Yeah if you want send your email that's fine.

Linda ;)

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Tuesday 26 January 10 07:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Brenny

I'm from John and Mary's line as well they are my gg grandparents. Their son William is my g granddad then he had a William (my granddad) and the my dad is William.

Do you know which of john and Mary's 10 children belong to your line?

My dad told me yesterday that there's going to be a reunion for the Thorpe family in April near the old cemetery in Rockingham/Kwinana, he read in the West Australian in the 'can you help' section. When I find out the correct details I will let you and Tanya know and anyones who's interested.

Cheers Linda :D

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Tuesday 08 December 09 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tanya

You obviously live in Perth too then. Yeah okay sometime in the new year might be good. I live near Fremantle way so maybe we could meet in Fremantle? What do you think?

I'm not sure of any Fred's and that name doesn't look familiar at all, sorry. However, I have just recently found another relative via my job. My bosses wife's dad is John Thorpe (Jack, as he calls himself) and is the same generation as my dad and his brother. So I figured out that they have the same g/granddad - John Thorpe b. 1832 son of Benjamin and Jane. This is how I found out that my dad's grandfather was William son of John and Johns (Jack) grandfather was Edward also son of John. So William and Edward are brothers therefore that makes my dad and Jack 2nd cousins?? I think, I get a bit confused with this stuff.

Anyway I have a book that Jack wrote mainly about his time in the war and being a POW, but also he talks a bit about his roots and where he came from. I will bring this along with a couple of other things I have.

Linda  :)

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Friday 04 December 09 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tanya

Well I see that Elizabeth is the youngest of the 8 children and the sister of my gg/granddad John Thorpe MAR Mary, they had 10 children. My g/granddad William Thorpe was the 1st born he MAR Ms Gaye and they had 3 children. My Granddad William Thorpe (yes another William) the 2nd born MAR Ruby and they had 2 children. My dad William Thorpe (yes i know another William) the 2nd born and 18years younger than his brother MAR Faye and they had 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls the oldest boy is also a William my younger brother.

Sorry no photo's of any other line of Thorpe's only a few of the John and Mary Thorpe side. Though I have scanned some photo's of the cottage hopefully they will get to you as I'm not a 100% sure if I've done it right. You might get 2 of each or something strange like that. Oh yeah by the way we do live in Perth.

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Wednesday 02 December 09 11:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tanya

Thanks for getting back to me. So it looks like we are talking about the same people. Any info you have would be great. I have a book called Kwinana Third Time Lucky By Laurie Russell, it has some pictures of the cottage before it turned to ruins. It also has some background on us Thorpe's.

You haven't said but I'm guessing you yourself are a Thorpe. If you don't mind could you tell me where you fit into the family tree?

And again any info would be great!

Linda... Merry Christmas Everyone! ;D

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Shropshire / Re: Benjamin Thorpe & Jane Hill
« on: Friday 17 July 09 10:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tanya

I was just looking through some different area's trying to find some info on the Thorpe family when I came across you.

Benjamin and Jane are a part of my descendents - there son John is my dads ggranddad and [my dad isn't sure but he thinks Edward was his granddad] - my dads father was William Thorpe married Ruby. Some of my dads family lived at 'Thorpe Cottage' in the Rockingham area it has two large pine trees which were planted sometime in the 1920's. I will continue to look further to find out if Edward is my dads grandfather. My father is another William Thorpe and is in his early 60's.


Thanks! Linda :D

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