- sailed before the mast to Australia,
- went farming in Canada, jilting a fiancée there,
- worked for a firm of legal publishers,
- was apprenticed to Speaight and son,
- and took photographs in St Moritz (and Andermatt?).
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Coriniana
Between being born in 1873 and marrying in 1902, Walter Charles Corin
Pettman and Baker of East Kent
Margaret Castell (1813-1887) married Thomas Pettman in Islington in 1832. They were both "of this parish". Was Thomas really living in Islington in 1832?
Thomas Castell, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, died between 1815 and 1822. When? Where?
Edward Baker joined the customs service around 1786 in Sandwich - is there any record of this?
In 1841, Thomas Pettman dedicated The Missionary Hymn to the Revds T Fisher and Adams, and for the benefit of "the organ fund". Thomas Fisher, aged 34 in 1841, lived in Preston by Wingham and was a Methodist minister. What is known about him? What organ? There was a Methodist church in Hardres Street...
Before 1844, Thomas' children were baptized at St Peter's Thanet - thereafter at St George's Ramsgate. Does this indicate that he moved then?
Thomas had songs published by Coventry and Hollier (Moonlight 1835) and Cocks (Goodbye 1840) - is there any record of these?
Thomas Castell, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, died between 1815 and 1822. When? Where?
Edward Baker joined the customs service around 1786 in Sandwich - is there any record of this?
In 1841, Thomas Pettman dedicated The Missionary Hymn to the Revds T Fisher and Adams, and for the benefit of "the organ fund". Thomas Fisher, aged 34 in 1841, lived in Preston by Wingham and was a Methodist minister. What is known about him? What organ? There was a Methodist church in Hardres Street...
Before 1844, Thomas' children were baptized at St Peter's Thanet - thereafter at St George's Ramsgate. Does this indicate that he moved then?
Thomas had songs published by Coventry and Hollier (Moonlight 1835) and Cocks (Goodbye 1840) - is there any record of these?
Monday, 12 November 2007
Watts of Bunmahon
Who was mentioned in Richard Watts' will, dated 1875? The original was lost in the Four Courts fire. Does anything else remain?
William John Watts married Lucy Lavinia White in 1900. They had four children, all alive in 1911.
Who was the fourth, and what happened to them all?
When Anna Maria Watts (1858-1928) emigrated to Boston in 1885, she was "of Piltown, Ireland". What was she doing there?
Matilda Watts (1848-1909) married Robert Clement Dawes in Dublin in 1892. She left on her own for Massachusetts in 1902. Why alone, and what was Robert doing? Where were they at the time of the 1901 census? And where were Robert's older children in 1911 (and Fanny Cuolahan, too)?
John Downs was of 3 Frederick St., Limerick in 1877 when he married Elizabeth Watts. His father Thomas was a shopkeeper - was this also in Limerick?
William John Watts married Lucy Lavinia White in 1900. They had four children, all alive in 1911.
Who was the fourth, and what happened to them all?
When Anna Maria Watts (1858-1928) emigrated to Boston in 1885, she was "of Piltown, Ireland". What was she doing there?
Matilda Watts (1848-1909) married Robert Clement Dawes in Dublin in 1892. She left on her own for Massachusetts in 1902. Why alone, and what was Robert doing? Where were they at the time of the 1901 census? And where were Robert's older children in 1911 (and Fanny Cuolahan, too)?
John Downs was of 3 Frederick St., Limerick in 1877 when he married Elizabeth Watts. His father Thomas was a shopkeeper - was this also in Limerick?
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