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26-03-13, 16:56
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Geo Peter Christian
My 5xg-grandparents Francis Freemantle and Isabella Buie got married 1st Sep 1765 at St Dunstan in the West, City of London:
LMA records ancestry Francis Freemantle bachelor and Isabella Buie spinster both of the Liberty of the Rolls married by Banns, witnesses Geo Peter Christian and Saml Buie. Samuel Buie was Isabella's brother (I have loads on the Buie family already) but who was Geo Peter Christian? Or am I misreading his name? 
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26-03-13, 17:27
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It does look like Geo Peter Christian. I've looked at some of the other pages and he doesn't appear to be a serial witness (a John Davis witnesses quite a lot of the others). Can't find an obvious link between the Freemantles and Christians.
Perhaps Francis had a friend or colleague as his witness as he didn't have any family nearby.
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26-03-13, 18:07
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Thanks for looking, Shona. Francis is one of my brick walls! There are a few other Freemantles around the area, even some called Francis, but nothing to connect them to my Francis, who was a victualler and died in 1792. There is a Francis Freemantle who was christened in Salisbury, Wiltshire, 20 Apr 1740, son of Francis and Catherine, but I don't know whether he is my Francis or not.
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26-03-13, 18:12
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There is a George Peter Christian Hammersley baptised 4 Jan 1778 at St Dunstan, Stepney, age 32 days, son of Joseph Hammersley of Ratcliff, colemeeler(?) and Amelia. I wonder whether he was named after George Peter Christian?
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26-03-13, 18:37
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Geo Petr Christian is listed in the apprentice records on ancestry, apprentice to John Russell, cit and wheelwr of London, duty paid 12 Dec 1759.
Then John Russell is a witness at Joseph Hammersley's marriage to Amelia Phillips 13 Feb 1766. So at least that gives us a rough idea of when George Peter Christian was likely born, well, assuming there is only one person of that name! Also it doesn't look as though he would have been a colleague of Francis's.
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#6
26-03-13, 19:43
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This might be a clue - or a total red herring - I have found an Andrew Fromanteel, vintner, London, on the London Lives website. The incident is from 1719.
Here's the link: http://www.londonlives.org/browse.js...0017#highlight I love that site!
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26-03-13, 19:56
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Also on London Lives, there is a fire insurance policy for a Jn Freemantle, Vict, Salisbury. The date is 1778, though.
http://www.londonlives.org/browse.js...8646#highlight
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#8
26-03-13, 22:07
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Interesting, thanks Shona.
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27-03-13, 01:00
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Congratulations, Kite! You've provided me with the only word I think I have ever encountered that offers up one and only one hit on the world wide web when searched with quotes around it: colemeeler. The hit it gets is the Hammersley one Shona already put up.
Last edited by Janet; 27-03-13 at 01:21.
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27-03-13, 01:09
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