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Post by Isambard on Dec 26, 2010 20:06:58 GMT -5
For sometime, as those who follow several other sites may know, I have been searching for a connection between my southwest Cornwall relatives and reputed relatives in the Bath area.
The short story is that in December 1944, my uncle Richard John Newton and a fellow RCAF Lancaster crew member, while on leave from RAF Marston Moor near York, visited a Manor Farm near Bath, Somerset. One of the Manor Farm residents was referred to by my uncle as "Aunt".
Based on that very scant information we (mainly kindly Somerset researchers) have been searching census returns, electoral and telephone registers and such for any ties to Newton, Dunstan and Quick relatives in Cornwall or Plymouth, Devon.
Not surprising, nothing of interest has turned up so far, given the number of Manor Farms in the Bath area and lacking any name for the mystery "Aunt". My uncle's aunts or great aunts, either blood relatives or by marriage and known to be living in 1944 have been accounted for.
Given that my more recent Cornish relatives stayed close to southwest Cornwall or migrated out of Britain, I'm curious about any history of movements between Cornwall and Somerset populations.
Isambard
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Dec 26, 2010 23:27:16 GMT -5
An interesting little problem we have here! In the first place there is certainly a link - MINING! I have one instance of a Martin Trewhella from Towednack who maried Margaret Cox at Nailsea, Somerset in 1850. Martin died 30th July 1850, just seven weeks after being married, from 'a fall into a coalpit'. The 1851 Census shows a Matthew and a John Trewhella at Nailsea and I believe these were brothers of Martin and that they migrated to the US soon afterwards. Of course the problem you have presented us with is set in 1944 which is well beyond the scope of available Census records. But the main problem is with the 'relationship' itself. Was this 'Aunt' really a blood Aunt or was the term 'aunt' used, as it often was, as a term of endearment? If we work on the basis that this was a blood-relative then we have additional problems in that you may need to look well beyond the three names mentioned - i.e. NEWTON, QUICK and DUNSTAN. But we need to start with your Uncle (which obviously also means your father) and work through the variious possibilities and combinations. CT
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