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Trying to find Bridges
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Alistair | Report | 1 Aug 2007 19:39 |
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Thomas Shirreff Bridges (b.1829 - Leith, Scotland) Married to Helen Gibson. Thomas is shown in the 1861 census as 'seaman, away at sea', although his marriage certificate indicated he was a clerk in 1850. He mysteriously disappears, and I have found no trace anywhere of his death. He may be the origin of a family story about Thomas Bridges, a ship's captain lost at sea with all hands. Helen Gibson may well have married Gilbert Gray bigamously after 1861 (her marriage certificate shows an incorrect name for her father), and may have told this story to her daughters. |
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Alistair | Report | 1 Jan 2008 19:49 |
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Mystery solved. Thomas was lost at sea, off Newfoundland, bound for Cork, in a violent storm at the end of October, 1861. |
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Blue Moon | Report | 1 Jan 2008 20:03 |
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Hi Alistair, |
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Alistair | Report | 2 Jan 2008 10:07 |
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Thanks, Fay. |
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Blue Moon | Report | 2 Jan 2008 15:04 |
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Same to you. |
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