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From: Russ Sims <>
Subject: TWENTYMAN Mauritius and India
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:42:41 GMT
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Hi Mike,

Thank you making contact. It has been a struggle sorting out the
TWENTYMANs who seemed to have wanderlust and appear in several countries.
What I will do is e-mail you directly what I have on my TWENTYMAN line.
There seems likely to be a connection as there can't be too many TWENTYMAN
families wandering the Indian Ocean. I also have TWENTYMANs appearing in
India, e.g. COL. WILLIAM LAURENCE TWENTYMAN was born December 12, 1834 in
Ile Maurice (Mauritius), and died December 17, 1888 in Oran, Algeria, but
was in India in about 1864.

You will see that there is also a large contingent of TWENTYMANs who
stayed in South Africa, indeed are still there.

Where abouts is your TWENTYMAN family vault to which you refer? I have
only details of one UK grave in Highgate cemetery of which I would like to
find the inscription some time.

Hope this is useful,

Russ



on 04 November 2005 at 21:00 +0000 wrote:
>Hi there
>
>My 3rd great grandfather Jean Francois Chopin was born in Mauritius (St
>Louis 1/1/1774) he found his way to England and then joined the East
>India Company where he lived in Calcutta. His son John Howatson Chopin
>and his wife died very young (24) but 1 month before his wife died his
>son was born he was looked after by Wm H Twentyman (married Elizabeth
>Mary Phipps) and Elizabeth May Twentyman. We always supposed that they
>were just friends of the family but we discovered that John Howatson
>Chopin's brother James Michael Chopin married Amy Matilda Northam (her
>parent were Frances Phipps and Samuel Northam)and John Phipps, Charles
>Horatio Twentyman and Wlliam John Twentyman are all buried in the same
>family vault. We have the names of a few others is there a possible
>link between the families?
>
>Best Regards
>
>Mike

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