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That's really exciting news Paul. It's marvellous when you make connections with someone famous (not that I ever have myself!).
Also a great coincidence that the connection is one you were interested in for so man years. I am really pleased for you.
But no news on what we started out to find?
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Hi Madmeg,
Yes it is a truely wonderful & amazing find!. I could never of dreamt i would find such a link...the chances of it happening is just mental!
But i am so very proud to have it. And it is wonderful knowing Bill & Buck are still alive and that i have been able to contact them...its just great! :)
Also....yes...i have had more luck with me finding John Wilsons parents.
I brought the right cert this time...lol
Johns parents were William Wilson & Esther Moore. William being the brother of Alice who is Frederick Fleet's grt grandmother.
The strange thing is..my grandmother on my mothers side ALSO married a Frederick Fleet! ..after my own grandfather....LOL..And that my grandfather was born at 11 Hope Street, Reading...where as a relative of my grans on my fathers side also lived at an 11 Hope Street,..but in Portsmouth!!....crazy!...lol
William was a shipwright and from Liverpool..and his father was a Peter Wilson..also a shipwright from Liverpool, mother Frances Dean...AND his father was Peter Wilson born c1750 mother Elizabeth surname unknown as yet.
A number of the siblings of these were also shipwrights..
But I have come to a dead end with Peter born c1750...I cant find anything on him. He and Elizabeth had at least 5 children.
Peter, 1782 Betty 1787 ,Lydia 1790, Sophia 1792, William 1796
And thats it I cannot find anything more so i can move back further.
I am hoping Peter might have come from Scotland...as many Wilsons came down from Scotland to find work in the docks of Liverpool.
It would be truely excellent to find out Peter came from Scotland....But so far..nothing! :(
Also i am having trouble with my grt grandmother Emma Tuck.
She was born in Shoreditch in 1864, BUT there are 2 Emma Tucks born in Shoreditch in 1864 in the same quarter.
I have just purchaed one of the certs...but I still cant be sure i have the right one.
Thing is I did have her parents down as John Tuck & Caroline McCarthy.
As her parents in census returns say John & Caroline.
NOW!....according to the census returns. John was born c1822 in Paddington London....and there is a John Adolphus Tuck who married a Caroline McCarthy born in Paddington. Appears to be the ONLY John Tuck born that time and place.
So.....I HAD.. John Adolphus Tuck as her father & Caroline McCarthy as mother....I got many family links from this connection.
THEN...I am told by a lady that my Emmas father was NOT John Adolphus Tuck.
So explains to me why...And at the time time I believed what she said and decided i had it wrong and had to wipe HUNDREDS if not thousands of folks off my tree.
Anyway.....I was back to square one with John & Emma. BUT the more i looked the more i am convinced i had it right...but cannot remember why this lady said it was wrong.
I have just brought one of the birth certs associated with my Emma..the one i callculated would be more likely to be hers.
It arrived yesterday.
It says....father John Tuck..mother..Caroline McCarthy formerly Cook.!
BUT as it doesnt say what Johns middlw name is...I cant be sure it is the Adolphus Tuck i originally thought it was.
Cle..Caroline couldnt read or right..sihned with a cross.....AND Emma was the same..She marked my grandfathers birth cert with a cross..So i am thinking it must be him!.
I have found a marrriage for Caroline to a Michael McCarthy in Portsea 1849. And then she marries John in 1856 in Portsea.
Cant find anything on Michael..birth or death...Cant find them on the 1851 census.
So....dispite having one of the certs i still cant be 100% sure John Adolphus Tuck is my Emma's father...As a John Adolphus Tuck DID marry a Caroline McCarthy.
Very frustarting as it is stopping me retuning ALL those i had removed when I was told i had it wrong..as i had done alot of work on the link.
Anyway...thanks for reading the up date.....Shows...help from folks like yourself is most useful.
Kind Regards
Paul
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Hi Paul, glad you sorted out John Wilson - lets hope we have the same luck with Emma, which is on a new thread (just in case anybody tries to help on this one!)
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Hi Folks,
Update.
Mary Wilson marries Peter Thompson in 1833.
Peter dies
Mary Thomspon married George Walkington 1838.
Mary dies 1849.
Alice Wilson married Alexander Forbes 1839.
Unsure of Alexander's situation.
Alice Forbes marries George Walkington 1851.
Mary & Alice Wilson were sisters. Daughters of Peter Wilson, my Grt Grt Grandfather.
Worked out using the birth cert of Ann Walkington. Daughter of George & Mary Walkington.
Name of mother stated as "Mary Walkington late Thompson formerly Wilson"
So Grt Grandmother of lookout Frederick Fleet was Mary Wilson..not Alice as I had originally thought. But still related as they were both daughters of Peter Wilson. :-D
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