apologies, yes I have already looked into this - I think Helen died in 1843.
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Thread: George Butcher Twynam 1867-1947
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05-08-2016, 2:57 PM #11
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05-08-2016, 3:03 PM #12
Thomas Snelgrove son of William and Mary, baptised 4th Feb 1798 at Bishopstoke. There is a note on the record: "1 wk nee Snellgrove" I've no idea what it means.
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05-08-2016, 3:06 PM #13
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thanks for that - no, I've no idea what that means either
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05-08-2016, 4:42 PM #14On the 1911 census Ellenor, living in Herne Bay, Kent says she had had 8 children with 4 already dead. She died 1912.Alma
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05-08-2016, 4:51 PM #15George Butcher Twynam 1867-1947Alma
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05-08-2016, 5:15 PM #16
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yes, I think I've asked myself the same question. When I first received the birth certificate I assumed his mother's maiden name would be Butcher - but then I couldn't find a Butcher/Twynam marriage.
Do you agree that the George Butcher on the 1871 and 1881 censuses is George Butcher Twynam ? If he went to school at Arreton I suppose he would go into the register as George Butcher. Then I guess at some point someone told him what his real surname was - otherwise he could easily have gone through life as George Butcher. Except perhaps he would have to produce a birth certificate at some point ? I wonder if he ever had contact with his mother. On the 1939 register he is actually living in Herne Bay with his spinster stepsister Mary Evans Twynam (he was widowed in 1936).
Thanks for your interest.
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05-08-2016, 5:28 PM #17
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the legitimate children I know about are
Ann Twynam 1846-1903 unmarried (edit - perhaps not legitimate !)
Elizabeth Twynam 1847-1898 unmarried
Walter Twynam 1851-1917 - disappears off censuses but died in Nassau, Bahamas. I found a Bahamas newspaper article implying that his father had at some point bought land on the Bahamas which Walter junior went out to farm (he was a dairyman) - married, 6/7 children
Mary Evans Twynam 1855-1942 unmarried
Henry Wyatt Twynam 1858-1928 married, no children
Thomas Twynam 1859-1931 married, 3 children
Ellen Susanna Twynam 1862-1898 unmarried, born after her father's death
so that's seven children, 3 dead before 1911
edit - Mary Evans Twynam seems to have been executor for her brother Walter's will in 1917. In the 1920's two of his children visited their uncle Henry Wyatt Twynam in Norwich, from their home in the Bahamas.
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05-08-2016, 5:42 PM #18
Yes, I certainly agree he is plain George Butcher in 1871 and 1881. He would have needed a birth certificate to claim his OAP and possibly before then. I think the fact he was living with his half sister in 1939 does suggests he knew who his natural mother was, otherwise how could he explain his surname being Twynam, same as Mary Evans Twynam.
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05-08-2016, 5:47 PM #19Walter Twynam 1851-1917 - disappears off censuses but died in Nassau, Bahamas. I found a Bahamas newspaper article implying that his father had at some point bought land on the Bahamas which Walter junior went out to farm (he was a dairyman) - married, 6/7 childrenAlma
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05-08-2016, 6:50 PM #20
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