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Tewkesbury Emigrants

We receive an increasing number of very welcome emails from Tewkesburians who live overseas and so we thought it might be appropriate to include excerpts from recent indexing of the indexing of the Tewkesbury Register which remind us of townspeople who have emigrated - for better or for worse!

from Edition 12/12/1896 p1/5: "Birth At Hyderabad, India, a son to William James Cox, late of Tewkesbury". After checking the database we wonder if he was William J. Cox; Son; ; Male; 15; Engine Driver son of James Cox; Head; Married; Male; 38; Shoemaker & Emma Cox; Wife; Married; Female; 9; Shoemakers Machinist; born in Kettering; who in the 1881 census were living at 12 Chance Street? Why was he in India? - in the Army?

Edition of 09/07/1881 p1/6: "Died 30/05/1881, James Humpidge, youngest son of late Thomas Humpidge, on 'homeward voyage from Asia to Calcutta'". According to the 1851 census, was this James Humpidge, Son; Unmarried; Male of 17 High Street, the son of Thomas Humpidge; Head; Married; Male; 55; Draper; Hartpury and Hannah Humpidge; Wife; Married; Female; 52 of Gloucester? Was he serving in the armed forces?

Edition 24/06/1922 p5/4: Success In Australia: Mr. H Badham received letter from Mr. Thomas Pitman, 2nd son of Mr. George Pitman. He says 'I was known as 'Young Tom' at John Garrison's printers for years. I have been very successful as a boot manufacturer known in Melbourne for years'. This must surely be from the 1871 Census, Thomas Pittman; Son; ; Male; 17; Brewer of 20 East St son of George Pittman; Head; Married; Male; 44; Stocking Maker & Elizabeth Pittman; Wife; Married; Female; 42; Stocking Maker. Why did he leave Tewkesbury? Was it because of the closure of the local boot manufacturing industry?

Edition 15/10/1881 p1/5: "Died at Eldorado, Texas, USA; James Huntley aged 37 youngest son of Thomas Huntley Barton Street". This must be James P Huntley; Son; Unmarried; Male; 17; Grocer who, in the 1861 Census was living at 19 Barton Street, the son of Thomas Huntley; Head; Married; Male; 57; Shop Keeper & Mary Huntley; Wife; Married; Female; 58 born in Harbledown, Kent. Does gold underpin this story?

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