Show Posts
1
Sussex / Re: west sussex records office
« on: Monday 02 November 09 15:47 GMT (UK) »Hi
Just found your reference to Dennett Jaques and I have a question for you. Do you know the names of Dennetts children?
I am decended from a George Frederick Robinson Jaques whose father was Richard Jaques a compositor who I believe was from Brentford, Middlesex. I think I have found him in 1841 living with Charlotte Robinson and Jane Jaques. If this is the right person, then I believe that these two ladies are related to Dennett and therefore so would George.
The problem that I have is that my George keeps changing his name -one census he is Jaques, then the next he is Robinson, so at the moment I am trying to find out whether he has been telling the truth (he wrote in the family bible that he was the son of Richard Jaques and Mary Ann Goater).
Also, he was living in Crawfordjohn from at least 1851 onwards and was down on the census as a Tailor!
You see my dilema?? My great Aunt thought that there was French royal blood and that he may have gone to Scotland because of a religious feud with the family?, others think that he was Hugenot. Either way, the local minister refused to marry him - he's a real puzzle.
Can you help? Cheers!