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

[regross]

Hi all,

There is a town TATHAM in the Northern Rivers area of NSW.

I have treid googling to find when it was estalished and how it got it's name, so far no luck.

also found another person seeking Tatham in Vic and NSW
http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/JohnPatten but there were several Tatham 's that migrated so may be no connection.

regards

Robyn

[Deb D]

 

Still waiting!!!!

[Tephra]

Oh the suspense, the suspense ........     

[Deb D]

Dunno about you lot, but I'm getting cabin fever, ... still waiting for that email!!! 

[Tephra]

Perhaps it's time to send another one!!!   Just a gentle reminder.........   

[Deb D]

I'm going to talk to the Hallmark card company, and get them to devise a "Howler" card - like the ones in Harry Potter!

[Tephra]

Do it yourself and get rich       

[Deb D]

Okay, we can all breathe again.  I've just received that email ... which included possibly the last letter received from Duncan John Tatham.  It seems DJT took off - as suspected, having inherited some money from his Uncle Duncan Dunbar's estate (and also from his Tatham half-uncle) - to do some hunting in America.  The letter mentions hunting, and comments on the possibilities of getting scalped by the Sioux (  ), or shot by someone in the event of any disagreement!

Unfortunately, it appears to me that the letter was written well before the 1880 US Census which put DJT in Laramie City.

However the email also mentions that the gravestone for Justina Tatham (died 1870) refers to her father as 'the late Duncan Dunbar Tatham'.  Justina died at Hatfield, Herts., ... anyone feel like wandering around the cemeteries around there?

Will update everyone if I hear more!

Deb

[Tephra]

Finally...............I can uncross me fingers now!!!

The e-mail seems to raise a lot more questions......