Deb D's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[Eyesee]

Google Books comes up with a mention of the Coins book, but only a snippet view.

Does mention though

The name was again changed in 1863 to Dickson, Tatham & Co. Tatham was a nephew
of Duncan Dunbar, the millionaire owner of the Dunbar Line of first class...

You may already have these

The Times, Friday, Jan 08, 1847; pg. 7
On the 7th inst, at Poplar Church, William Smith, eldest son of W. S. Brown, Esq., of Brunswick-terrace, Commercial-road, to Phoebe, eldest daughter of Christopher Tatham, Esq., of Poplar, and niece of Duncan Dunbar, Esq., of Limehouse.

There are a few other death and marriage notices for children of Christopher Tatham, but not sure if they are sisters of DDT or half siblings, Robert Gordon, Elizabeth Patty, and Augusta Louisa. Robert Gordon died at 69 East India Road, Poplar on 3rd Dec 1895, aged 66. Says he was the eldest son of Christopher Tatham, Surgeon. In saying that one could assume that DDT had died by then.

Ian C

EDIT
Just found a marriage notice for Robert Gordon Tatham in the Morning Chronicle of July 6 1857, when he married Emma Dixon on 2nd July at All Saints, Poplar. That article says he was second son of Christopher Tatham.

Christophers death notice in the Morning Chronicle Apr 2 1861, saying he died on 28th March.

[Deb D]

Thank you, everyone, for trying to help - it's a frustrating puzzle, isn't it?

Robert Gordon Tatham - DDT's half-brother, - incidentally, was my gt-gt-grandfather ... unfortunately the marriage to Emma Dixon didn't last, ending in the divorce courts (and all over "The Times") about seven years later.  Their son Christopher Robert came to Australia, and his sisters who remained at home never married.

Eyesee, those names belong to half-siblings of DDT ... and the Tatham referred to in the Dickson, Tatham & Co notes, I believe, was actually Robert Gordon's brother Christopher, and so not technically Dunbar's nephew.  Am I being pedantic, or semantic? 

Again, many thanks, it's not an easy one to solve and I realise we may get nowhere even with so many great minds working on it!

Deb

[regross]

Hi,
Mary Ann wasburied 18 Dec 1857 in  grave number 95242 at Geelong Eastern Cemetery   . Only person with that surname to show up in a surname search.

http://www.gct.net.au/search.html#

Also son Duncan John's birth surname was trasncribed as Fatham and Justina was born in Chilwell which is now part of Geelong. This place of birth makes much more sense than Chiltern which is 400 kilometers north of Geelong.

See this scavenger hunt in 2005 in respect to the same family discussed in part of it page 82 is one place.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,62599.0.html

There is a report in
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4836471?searchTerm=duncan+tatham listing him as as swearing to the death by execution of a prisoner in 1856.

Same paper has a Duncan Dunbar sailing from Melbourne to Sydney on the Glen Isla in 1858 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/7302559?searchTerm=duncan+tatham

A D. Dumbar left Australia for NZ in 1861 on the Ceres
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=42

Can't a marriage or a death for him in NZ.



good hunting

Robyn

[Tephra]

Hello everyone and get ready for this weeks Scavenger Hunt.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,403453.0.html

Good Luck and Good Hunting.

As usual, this Hunt will remain open for any further information which may come in.

Barbara

[toni*]

Tuesday already, thats cos yesterday was a bank holiday i wonder how many man hours are wasted with people saying is it Tuesday i thought it was Monday

see you on the next hunt .... maybe

[Deb D]

Hi,
Mary Ann wasburied 18 Dec 1857 in  grave number 95242 at Geelong Eastern Cemetery   . Only person with that surname to show up in a surname search.

http://www.gct.net.au/search.html#

Also son Duncan John's birth surname was trasncribed as Fatham and Justina was born in Chilwell which is now part of Geelong. This place of birth makes much more sense than Chiltern which is 400 kilometers north of Geelong.

See this scavenger hunt in 2005 in respect to the same family discussed in part of it page 82 is one place.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,62599.0.html

There is a report in
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4836471?searchTerm=duncan+tatham listing him as as swearing to the death by execution of a prisoner in 1856.

Same paper has a Duncan Dunbar sailing from Melbourne to Sydney on the Glen Isla in 1858 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/7302559?searchTerm=duncan+tatham

A D. Dumbar left Australia for NZ in 1861 on the Ceres
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=42

Can't a marriage or a death for him in NZ.



good hunting

Robyn

Thanks, Robyn - have had a look around, seems that "Duncan Dunbar" was the name of a ship.

Incidentally, I've fished out my old notes - when the children sailed back to England, we believe they were aboard the "Thames", which was captained by Marmaduke John Tatham (who died when he was a passenger aboard the "Scoresby", out of Calcutta in 1866).  The children are named on the manifest as Elizabeth Tatham, aged 3, and John Tatham, aged 1.  Also aboard is a Jane Brown, aged 25 - this is inconsistent with "Aunt Phoebe", so my initial recollection about who accompanied them, was incorrect.  Phoebe was born 26/11/1821 and would have been 37-38 by then.  I don't know whether her husband, William Smith Brown, may have had a sister named Jane.  She certainly wasn't one of Phoebe's children as they were all too young.

BTW Lesanne - I must have missed the mention of the fellow who blew up Sydney and the dynamite store!  Can you fill me in?

Deb

[Lesanne]

  From memory... It was an old newspaper snippet.   Now, that could be The Times (England or Australia) probably English one. I think I posted it in the 2005 search...  Maybe google it.

I remember finding family attending Lancing College. It's just down the road from me in Sussex. They have an Archive.   

[James R. Yeowell]

I presume you have the children of William Smith Brown and Phoebe Tatham already?

They were:

1. Phoebe Duncan Brown - born Dec. Qtr. 1847, Poplar
2. Duncan Brown - born Dec. Qtr. 1849, Poplar Registration District
3. William Edward Brown - born Sep. Qtr. 1851, Poplar R.D.
4. Margaret Emily Brown - born Dec. Qtr. 1855, Poplar R.D. (married Harry Rivers - Sep. Qtr. 1888, Hatfield R.D., Hertfordshire)
5. Francis Dixon Brown - born Sep. Qtr. 1857, Poplar
6. Arthur Kaye Brown - born Dec. Qtr. 1859, Poplar, died Jun. Qtr. Poole R.D., Dorset

William Smith Brown was a Justice of the Peace and died Mar. Qtr. 1892, Portsea R.D., Hampshire and his wife, Phoebe, died Mar. Qtr. 1891 in Hatfield R.D., Hertfordshire.

I am sure you know all this already though.

By the way, I have been trying to unravel the Shores family as well -- they married into the Tatham (twice) and Molison families.  Do you have anything further in relation to them?

I am not a family member, I am just filling in the blanks from the June 2005 Scavenger Hunt.

Regards,

James R. Yeowell.

[tulipoo]

Hi tephra,
Have I come to the right department to join your scavenger's hunt?
Tulipoo