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05-10-09, 15:11
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Okay,Kite:
He first appears in the directories in 1899 at 9 Farnley Road and is there till 1906. In 1905/6 he is on the Burgess Roll & 1906 on the Parochial Register. In 1906/7 nobody is on the Burgess Roll. Widows are also listed, but nobody is down for that address. In 1907 nobody is on the Parliamentary Roll or the Parochial Register. In 1907, Clement Barber is on the Street Directory. I checked the name index IN THE Street Directory for 1907 but he had vanished from Croydon. NB in one directory he is S Clay Bristow, as if he preferred his middle name. 
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05-10-09, 15:22
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Wow, that's great, Phoenix, thank you very much. So it sounds as if either Jane died before him, or they moved away from that address rather than died there, or she moved out of the house soon after he died. Or, I suppose, since they were Bristows, they could have separated!
I'd never thought of him being known by his middle name, so I'll see if I can find anything using that. I thought of it as one of those annoying middle names but it could be he was known as Clay, couldn't it?
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05-10-09, 15:55
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There is a Mr S Bristow and Mrs Bristow who sailed from Bristol to Kingston, Jamaica 30th July 1906 on the ship "Port Antonio". No children with them, and no info given on the passenger list such as age, address, occupation etc. Is it possible they emigrated to Jamaica at the ages of 74 and about 76 respectively?
The date fits so nicely with their disappearance from the directories etc. and I have never been able to find a death for Samuel. I shall have to find out about where to get Jamaican info from!
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05-10-09, 15:56
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It really does seem possible, esp as there doesn't seem to be a death here for either of them.
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05-10-09, 16:08
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He's the one born 1832 Bermondsey. He didn't have any children. Jane had a daughter by her first marriage Martha Maybrick Ritson, who married a William Woodward and had a son Samuel Stuart Woodward.
There are some possible deaths for Jane but not in obvious places, so I don't really want to order death certs just on the offchance. If only she had an unusual middle name too!
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05-10-09, 16:10
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I wonder if their deaths would be on the GRO overseas indexes if they died in Jamaica? I shall have a look after I've made the kids' tea...
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05-10-09, 17:06
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Quote:
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05-10-09, 18:40
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Lamb stir fry, thank you very much, Merry!
I couldn't find them on the GRO overseas indexes but I suspect that if they died in Jamaica they would only be registered in Jamaican civil registers. I've come across a pay site called Jamaican Familysearch which has the option of a one-month sub for 8 US dollars and doesn't automatically renew subs. I know it's a long shot that I would find anything about the Bristows on there - it does come up with several matches for Bristow on the free search, but most of them are a long time before 1906. But it just so happens that my 4xg-uncle, David Ferrier, was an attorney in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 18th / early 19th century, before he returned to Edinburgh to die, and I would love to find more info about his life in Jamaica so I think I might take out a one-month sub as there are quite a few matches for Ferrier on lawyery things on there, and then I (hopefully) won't have wasted my money if I don't find any of my Bristows.
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