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Turks and Caicos Islands: Imaginitive explanation
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Roger in Sussex | Report | 28 Aug 2006 09:59 |
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OC I just looked at the Times Archive, and a new Colonial Secretary for the T&C Islands was appointed on May 5 1866. So presumably there are some records at TNA? No mention of the hurricane though. That was all I could find for 1866. Roger |
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Roger in Sussex | Report | 28 Aug 2006 09:48 |
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OC Perhaps he was shipwrecked and liked it there? Did the locals practice polygamy? Was there a church or chapel which might have kept records? Or maybe a Governor if it was a British colony? So many questions..... Roger |
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*** Fuzzy | Report | 28 Aug 2006 08:08 |
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What an interesting story OC, I tell you what you learn something new everyday reading these boards, I googled the islands to read about their history and to see if I could come up with a good answer for why your ancestor ended up there.....I couldn't! apart from the fact that around the time he would have been there cotton farming was big business. anyway I learnt that the islands are an overseas territory of great britain!! Fuzzy |
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Paul Barton, Special Agent | Report | 28 Aug 2006 08:08 |
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Give us a name then, Crone, and let us get on with the job! |
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Georgia | Report | 28 Aug 2006 04:41 |
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Maybe he got sucked into the Bermuda Triangle... the Turks and Caicos Islands lie wholly in it, you know. Did he die in the big hurricane of 1866? I just love how one gets to find interesting stuff out when you read this site! |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 28 Aug 2006 00:06 |
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Well if he was, that's the second member of my family to be press-ganged. The other one waved to me from the same operating table as Nelson - both lost their right arms, Nelson was seen to first, and then my rellie! (A chance find in a library book) OC |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 28 Aug 2006 00:00 |
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Anyone up until 55 was game! Rose |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:57 |
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Portland Rose What - at 69??LOL. Although admittedly I dont know when he went out there...... OC |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:39 |
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Perhaps he was press-ganged by the Royal Navy. Rose |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:38 |
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Georgina Thanks for that, I will have a look. Nell No, I don't know where they are, either! Looks like um, Bermuda? This branch has suddenly become a whole lot more interesting! OC |
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Georgina | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:33 |
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OC have you tried this website it is the museum of Turks & Caicos, I dont know how your rellie ended up there but it looks beautiful... http://www.tcmuseum.org/family_history_research/ Georgina. |
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Unknown | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:32 |
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Very intriguing OC, but I don't know that I can stand any more scandal in your family. The revelations have been astounding. I don't even know where Turks and Caicos Islands are - no wonder the stone mason settled for 'foreign parts'! |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:28 |
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lol Nell! His death is commemorated on a tombstone in his native village - it says he died 'in foreign parts' - I was thinking of France, lol. But I googled and found to my astonishment, his death recorded on a gravestone in the Turks and Caicos Islands - a very unusual first name and correct age, has to be him. I am now wondering if his family owned Slave Plantations from way back and he went out there as a widower to 'help out'. Maybe he married a native girl? Maybe it was his ancestors who, ahem, increased the local population? What a mystery in a family of solid ag labs and farmers. OC |
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Unknown | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:19 |
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OC Perhaps he won an all expenses paid trip to help increase the local population? |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 27 Aug 2006 23:17 |
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Why would one of my rellies, a humble farm labourer of Cheshire, finish up dying in the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1866 at the age of 69? And why is his surname now one of the most common in the area!? OC |
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