Census Lookup - John Bruce

[Printer]

Hi AMBLY,

Wow! Thankyou very much. I have been trying to send you a reply to your message but having a bit of difficulty. Will continue until successful. Thankyou again. I am so thrilled with all this information. Regards.

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Hi AMBLY.

I think the message was sent - twice. Did you receive it? Cheers.

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[jtheriac]

Hello there.  My name is Janet Theriac, and I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA!   My grandfather was the John Besford/Bedford you are writing about, and my grandmother was Jane Ann Walker, his second wife, also called Annie Walker!

My sister has done extensive research on our family so it was nice to see this post as it filled in some missing links for us!

[Printer]

Hello Janet,

That is wonderful. Delighted that the information from Ambly has been of help to you, as it has also been to me. I would like to exchange other family information if you would like to make contact.  Please send a personal message so that we can do so. Regards.

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[jtheriac]

Printer - are you related then to Thomas Bruce and Elizabeth Besford?   Also, I can't find where to send you a private message.  I'm new to these boards!   Thanks.

[jtheriac]

Hi Printer 

I'm finding bucket loads about the BESFORDS....

MARRIAGE: Can't find?
Jane BRUCE or BREWIS
Anthony BESFORD or BEDFORD

The Surname is oft-recorded as BEDFORD, and from 1900 onwards, seems to take that form in most records I found.......

In short many of them ended up in the State of Indiana in the  US, including the parents, Anthony and Jane.

Anthony eventually made his way back to England and died there 1919.
Jane died in the US in 1909.

I'm trying to keep it all straight and comprhensible,  so will try and put all the information up in some sort of order :-)

Cheers
AMBLY

This is true - they came  and settled in Shelbourne, IN, and then John and Annie settled in Vincennes, IN, where they raised their family.   My grandfather, John, and his brothers worked in the coal mines in that area.  Jane is buried in Shelbourne, IN.  My grandparents are buried in Vincennes, IN.   I am the daughter of Martha Bedford, their youngest daughter.   My grandmother, Anna, was a wonderful, hard-working woman. She was known as Anna Bedford, not Annie.  She passed away in Bevier, Missouri, in 1973.  I never knew my grandfather.  He was a lot older than grandma.   I do know that my grandmother dearly missed England and her siblings ( Ethel, Minnie and Wiliam).   My grandfather and grandmother took excellent care of his first wife, Barbara Potts, when she was ill and dying.   My grandma was a young woman who worked as a maid at the Blue Bell Inn.  Thusly, how she met my Grandfather.

Lots more to share with you, but we never knew Elizabeth's maiden name or much about her so now we do!  Thanks!

[MrsDusty]

I have just started looking into my family tree and while searching for William Lowther Davison (AKA Barrass) I stumbled on this thread. I couldn't help notice you have researched Barrass in Northumblerland, this was my maiden name and would love to know if we are looking into some of the same people.

I belive William was taken in by a family named Barrass as a child. I think he married Margret Findlay in 1896 and they had 4 sons: Richard Findlay (my grandfather) George, William Lowther and James.

Please let me know if you have looked into this line of the barrass family.

Dawn

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Hello Dawn,

In reply to your query, my reasearch for Barrass starts with William Barrass (1796-1865) who married Margaret Absalom (1798-1853). Their children: Francis (1818-1887), James (b 1821), William (1823-1825), Grace (1825-1879), William (1827-1907 A), Elizabeth (1829-1918 A), Margaret (b 1831), John (1835-1924 A), Robert (1837-1922 A) and David (b 1939). The "A" after date of death is Australia.

If you are descended from any of these lines I would be happy to exchange details.  Regards.

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[CJB123]

Interested in your Barrass research, Wm Barrass and Margaret Absalom were my gg grandparents.  My g grandfather, Wm, b 1827, came to Australia.