Author Topic: Thomas (Theophilus) Upright aka Henri De Melvin  (Read 3430 times)

Offline GrandadsSixpence

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Re: Thomas (Theophilus) Upright aka Henri De Melvin
« Reply #9 on: Monday 27 December 10 21:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi Melvin, good to hear from you.  You will see from the posts my connection to Thomas Theophilus Upright, he was the second husband of my ggg-grandmother, Hannah Staves.  He was a bit of a philanderer, married Hannah in 1873, they had a child in 1875, Beatrice, then he spent all the money left to Hannah by her first husband and scarpered ! Cannot find him between 1881 and 1901.  He turns up in Salford in 1901 with a 'common law' wife, Annie, then he died in 1911 from the tertiary stage of syphilis.  I understand that his brother Edmund Luther who was also known as Edgar Granville died from syphilis related disease also.  I have a picture of both Thomas and one believed to be of Edmund if you are interested.  Drop me a message via private messaging with your email address if you would like copies.  Is your tree on-line, mine is on Ancestry which I can give you access to if interested.  Kind regards, Wendy
Yorkshire - England, Holmes, Brumfitt, Walker, Staves,
Sussex - Hicks, Perren, Veness, Dicker
Hampshire - Hicks, Bacon
Cornwall - Hicks

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Re: Thomas (Theophilus) Upright aka Henri De Melvin
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 05 April 12 16:01 BST (UK) »
 :P     Hello Wendy,long time no root chatting...I have moved into sheltered housing  and been unfit for anything ever since...Did you ever get to the bottom of the Upright court  case at Clerkenwell...would love to have some info...that old rogue...all the family around that time were the same,my Grandfather Edmund Bidgood Upright included...I was on genesconnect with most of my tree ,supplied by Jim from the Canadian branch,but I must have fallen foul of Genes because the tree has disappeared from the site and they want me to start all over again...it took me 5 years to do the first one and with my health as it is right now,I am not able to sit at this machine for very long,,,HO HUM !! the joys of getting older..by the way...I am not Melvin..I am Anna..Melvin-Upright was my birth surname...I think it really should have been plain Upright but my Father James Frederick Melvin -Upright had delusions of grandure..and why not !!!  (my poor brother was named Melvin John Francis Melvin-Upright.....)