Lesley
Thanks for looking up Mary Ann Whitcomb. However I cannot fit her, or Charles her Father, into my 'web of Whitcombs'. In fact I cannot find them in any other sources - the nearest is a family named Witcombe in Portsea, so far! The address of 70 Queens Road may provide a clue? Also, as this was an Army type marriage, the couple could have ended up anywhere! (we still had an Empire!)
Fear not though, at least eliminating a possible lead opens up others.
Also may I thank you for introducing me to the British Library Newspapers site. I purchased a Weeks subscription and 'spent many Hours? reading. Got my £s worth! To you, and any other readers, I recommend this site as an indispensable resource for Family research - that is if, as in the Portsmouth case, a publication covers the area of interest.
I made a few useful discoveries, not least the opening up of various family connections and lines of research. For instance from the 'Fatal Accident to a Child' case a certain Kate Martin Snelling and family was introduced to me - although this has risen many 'wild geese'! Why did Kate refer to Thomas Whitcomb as 'my Uncle'??? I can find no family connection although they must have been very close ties. Kate got married the following month, and I assume that the 'trip' with her aunt Mrs Jerrard and the Whitcombs was somehow connected? It all gets so o o o complicated! Of interest is that at that time Thomas appears to have been Landlord of the Anglesea Hotel pub (tap) - rather 'up market'?
Another article put a Mary Ann Whitcomb in rather a bad light (she got six months for robbery!) Not the above Mary I should add!!! but nevertheless the Wife of George Thomas Whitcomb (and daughter of a RN Master), shame! I always wondered why this line never developed - now I know! I'd love to have been a fly on the wall and seen the Whitcomb family's reaction, especially as the younger Thomas was about to enroll in the Police!!
Also it appears that certain Whitcomb(e)s were fairly visible in the Portsmouth, Gosport and IOW areas, and I can see some strong links between them. Example Joseph George Whitcombe was Mayor of Portsmouth in the 1880's, and Charles Benjamin Whitcomb was on the Alverstoke local authority. If I can verify the parentage of George Whitcomb, then he may indeed have been a Cousin to these 'famous' Whitcombs? The answer lies in Portsea though? or lost in time??
I will be back with more questions, don't fear.
Ray
Thanks for looking up Mary Ann Whitcomb. However I cannot fit her, or Charles her Father, into my 'web of Whitcombs'. In fact I cannot find them in any other sources - the nearest is a family named Witcombe in Portsea, so far! The address of 70 Queens Road may provide a clue? Also, as this was an Army type marriage, the couple could have ended up anywhere! (we still had an Empire!)
Fear not though, at least eliminating a possible lead opens up others.
Also may I thank you for introducing me to the British Library Newspapers site. I purchased a Weeks subscription and 'spent many Hours? reading. Got my £s worth! To you, and any other readers, I recommend this site as an indispensable resource for Family research - that is if, as in the Portsmouth case, a publication covers the area of interest.
I made a few useful discoveries, not least the opening up of various family connections and lines of research. For instance from the 'Fatal Accident to a Child' case a certain Kate Martin Snelling and family was introduced to me - although this has risen many 'wild geese'! Why did Kate refer to Thomas Whitcomb as 'my Uncle'??? I can find no family connection although they must have been very close ties. Kate got married the following month, and I assume that the 'trip' with her aunt Mrs Jerrard and the Whitcombs was somehow connected? It all gets so o o o complicated! Of interest is that at that time Thomas appears to have been Landlord of the Anglesea Hotel pub (tap) - rather 'up market'?
Another article put a Mary Ann Whitcomb in rather a bad light (she got six months for robbery!) Not the above Mary I should add!!! but nevertheless the Wife of George Thomas Whitcomb (and daughter of a RN Master), shame! I always wondered why this line never developed - now I know! I'd love to have been a fly on the wall and seen the Whitcomb family's reaction, especially as the younger Thomas was about to enroll in the Police!!
Also it appears that certain Whitcomb(e)s were fairly visible in the Portsmouth, Gosport and IOW areas, and I can see some strong links between them. Example Joseph George Whitcombe was Mayor of Portsmouth in the 1880's, and Charles Benjamin Whitcomb was on the Alverstoke local authority. If I can verify the parentage of George Whitcomb, then he may indeed have been a Cousin to these 'famous' Whitcombs? The answer lies in Portsea though? or lost in time??
I will be back with more questions, don't fear.
Ray
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