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Who was ‘Ned’ Bushell?
In the previous post I suggested that Edward Bushell of Cleeve Prior, the father of William Bushell of Wells, who was in turn the father of Edward Bushell of Bath and Tobias Bushell of Fladbury, was...
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The Seager family: a new discovery?
My family history research began, more than a decade ago, with my father’s family: the Robbs, who moved to London from Scotland, via Yorkshire, at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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Revisiting the family of William Seager, Victorian law clerk
In the last post I speculated that William Seager, the Holborn law stationer whom I discovered in the archives some time ago, might have been the cousin of my great great grandmother Fanny Sarah...
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My great great grandfather’s grave
I’ve been revisiting my research into my Robb ancestors. In the last two posts, I reviewed the evidence for the claim that William Seager, a law stationer whom I discovered living in Holborn, London in...
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The mysterious life of William Henry Robb
As I noted in the previous post, my great great grandparents William Robb and Fanny Sarah Seager had five children, before Fanny’s death at the age of thirty-six in January 1851. Their first child,...
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Charles Robb – freemason? (and a possible new address for the Robb family)
Newly available records at Ancestry have led me to reassess what I know about my 3rd great grandfather Charles Edward Stuart Robb, and about the Robb family’s early years in London. Charles was born in...
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The Seager family in early nineteenth-century London
In the last post, I reported my discovery that my 3rd great grandfather, Charles Edward Stuart Robb, and his family may have lived at 63 Lincoln’s Inn Fields when they arrived in London in the 1830s,...
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Samuel Hurst Seager in the London land tax records, 1821 – 1830
Continuing with my exploration of the lives of the Seager family in early nineteenth-century London, I’ve found my 3rd great grandfather Samuel Hurst Seager in the London tax records for the years...
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Charles Edward – or Robert Charles – Robb?
A memorandum written by my great great grandfather William Robb in June 1880, when he was sixty-six years old, and entered in the family Bible, includes a list of ‘my brothers and sisters who lived to...
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Alice Martha Stormont Robb and the Timpson family
My great great grandfather William Robb (1813 – 1888) clearly saw himself as the guardian of the family’s Scottish heritage, despite the fact that he was born in Yorkshire and spent most of his life in...
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The first marriage of Alfred Newton Timpson
Alfred Newton Timpson married my great great aunt Alice Martha Stormont Robb, the daughter of my great great grandfather William Robb and his second wife Marianne Mansfield Palmer, in 1874. However, as...
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The Monteith connection
In the previous two posts I explored the life of Alice Martha Stormont Timpson née Robb (1857 – 1895), the wife of Alfred Newton Timpson (1846 – 1921) and the daughter of my great great grandfather...
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The Robb family in Glasgow
In the last post I announced my intention to revisit my Robb ancestors’ connections with Glasgow, in an effort to discover more about the family background of my 3rd great grandparents Charles Edward...
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The Thomson family of Glasgow
I’m revisiting the story of my Robb ancestors’ connection with Glasgow, in the hope of discovering more about their origins, and particularly about the background of my 3rd great grandmother, Margaret...
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The Caribbean connection
In the last post I summarised what I’d been able to find out about the Thomsons, a family of merchants and lawyers in Glasgow in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My interest in the...
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‘John Robb, late of Scotland, a gentleman’
In the last post I wrote about the links between the Thomson and Robb families of Glasgow and the island of Jamaica, including their involvement in the ownership of slaves. I was particularly intrigued...
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The Ricketts family of England and Jamaica
My mother Margaret Ricketts Monteith was the only daughter of John Monteith and Matilda his wife who was the daughter of Viscount Stormont who was engaged as well as my Father’s father in the affair of...
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The Monteith and Thomson families of Glasgow
I’m still trying to trace the family of my 3rd great grandmother, Margaret Ricketts Robb née Monteith, who was born in 1782 and died in 1843. In the last post, I wrote about the Ricketts family of...
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John Young of Glasgow and the Mitchell family of Jamaica
I’m continuing to explore the connections between my Glasgow ancestors and the island of Jamaica. As I’ve noted before, there is strong evidence to suggest that George Robb, the Glasgow merchant who...
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Archibald Grahame, parliamentary solicitor, and the Robb family
In the last post I wrote about the family connections of John Young (1770 – 1827), the Glasgow merchant and former Receiver-General of Jamaica who was the second husband of Penelope Thomson (1777 –...
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