Descendant of George Teague (General)

by unknown, Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 22:07 (5000 days ago) @ maurice

By the zize o' thye tree not za good as thow o'll butty. I'd be interested in seeing?

The research I did was not long after Anstis book came out so I need to do some file diving first and I'm not very mobile right now so might take a few days or so but I will get back to you with it.

In the meantime: Unfortunately GGM Hannah's bible only contains details from her siblings down. No body ever seems to have understood why? But if it is of any help her Bible carries the date 1872 and her first born William Junior was born 2nd October 1875 - she had three others over 11 years and she died not many years after her eldest got drowned at Union. Strangely enough her death is not recorded, nor either of the Williams so there's another family mystery that was never unravelled. According to the newspaper report of his death (not funeral) GGF William Martin presided over the Freeminers Association and was also a member of the Coleford Urban District Council whicd was the first Council to be formed in the Forest C 1895 - 1918 I have never bothered to follow any of this through in detail - the fact that he was has always been good enough; and there has always been more important things; he was 68 when he died and lived alone, - collapsed suddenly; was a Forestry worker at the time; and owned the Berry Hill shop. Hannah died not many years after William Junior was killed at Union; broke her heart it was said - probably understandable when you read the reports. Hannah and William are burried at Christchurch between William Junior on one side and Herbert Gwatkin (one of the other casualties) on the other. Not sure if any of this is relevant to your interest but i thought I'd set it down just the same?

One point of curiosity is the dificulty some posters to the Teague / Marfell thread seemed to have as a reult that many couldn't write (the decendents not the researchers). But the Industrial Teagues decendants that I found almost invariably wrote in similar beautiful style. This soon became a quick sifting factor for trawling the microfiches. I took more care where the writing matched; which I initially took as a first indication of the same family - GGM Hannas' writing in her bible is in the same style. Would be interested to know if you or any others experienced anything similar. I'm talking here about direct decendents of.

Nice to hear from you will be back again shortly.

Best regards

Mike J.