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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 21:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Rubyhenry.... another relation ... this is great!!

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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 21:51 BST (UK) »
What splendid news that you have all caught up with each other! A belated welcome to Rootschat Yazz, Rubyhenry and Pi.
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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 21:59 BST (UK) »
Wow!!   This virtual meeting up of families on Rootschat is just the sort of thing we all dream of!  It's wonderful!  Fantastic!
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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 22:04 BST (UK) »
Thanks Groom !! a family reunion in the making  :)

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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 22:06 BST (UK) »
Yes very exciting JB - four descendants of John and Barbara Torrison get in touch with each other within the space of a fortnight!   Mind you, it would have been a lot earlier if I had actually kept my eyes on the responses to the earlier part of this thread!
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 22:18 BST (UK) »
Yes, but perhaps all the information may not have been available then!
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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 23:08 BST (UK) »
Hans and Barbara are also 4 times great grandparents to me!!

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« Reply #34 on: Monday 08 May 17 21:03 BST (UK) »
Here is my (simplified) line from John (Hans) and Barbara Torrison from them to my paternal grandmother:

1.  John (Hans) and Barbara Torrison (b. Norway, lived in Rotherhithe)

2.  Barbara Torrison (b. 1805, Rotherhithe)  m. Richard Mattingly (Rotherhithe)

3.  Frances (Fanny) Anna Mattingley (b. 1827, Rotherhithe) m. William Shadforth (b. 1831 Hartlepool, Co Durham)

4.  Richard Mattley Shadforth (b. 1852 Hartlepool) m. Margaret Davies (b. Sunderland 1853)

5.  Elizabeth Shadforth (b. 1885 Hartlepool) m. Robert Sedgwick (b. Hartlepool 1879)
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: Norwegian ancestry - who would have thought it!
« Reply #35 on: Wednesday 10 May 17 21:57 BST (UK) »
Hi All,

Here is my simplified line to my paternal grandfather:

1) John and Barbara as above - they lived in St Cathrine Street , now part of St katherine's dock by Tower Bridge

2) Thomas Torrison b1813 (Rotherhithe)m. Rebekah Armstead b 1827

3) Thomas George Torrison (Rotherhithe)b 1847 m Elizabeth Lewis b 1852

4) Thomas Lewis Torrison (Ansty Street, Rotherhithe) b 1877 m Florence Mary Jones b 1880 (Portsmouth)

5) Charles Henry Torrison b 1912 (Charlton) m Dorothy Amelia Wren (Deptford) b 1911

Interestingly my grandfather Charlie was known to us a Farvie which is not too dissimilar to the Norwegian for a paternal grandfather which is Farfar.

Yazz's is:

1 John and Barbara as above

2 Thomas and Rebekah as above

3) John Torrison b 1851 m Ester/Esther White b 1852?

4) Thomas Charles Torrison b 1886 m Florence Milsom b 1887

5) Nellie M Torrison b 1914

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