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From: "Helen Brown" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Re: Walter RIDLEY and Sarah ABBOTT
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:11:04 +1100
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I haven't managed to find a link between Francis and Edward Gary but if
anyone does I will be most interested to hear. Will Edward being born in
Quebec and Francis a generation later in Derby it's not easy! There may not
be one. It looks to me as though the Abbotts had been in Quebec for some
time before Edward's birth. The name Compton is probably from there too, a
place name. Or any other information about the families would be welcome.
Helen

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From: "Douglas Burbury" <>
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Re: Walter RIDLEY and Sarah ABBOTT


> At 05:39 PM 8/01/2006 +1100, Helen Brown wrote:
>>The Abbotts at that time appear to be the Francis Abbott family of Hobart
>>and the Edward Abbott family of Launceston.
>>Can anyone confirm whther Sarah Abbott (married Walter Ridley) was a
>>member
>>of either of these families. Neither is well documented that I can find.
>
> I can't help with the Sarah ABBOTT problem, but I have tangential
> interests
> in both of these ABBOTT families and I have some questions of my own,
> which
> I wonder if anyone can answer.
>
> 1) Is there any known link between Francis' family and Edward's family?
>
> 2) Does anyone know the origin of the association of the name "Ashby" with
> Major Edward Abbott? Dr John Morris suggests in his book "History In Our
> Streets" that Ashby Street in East Launceston got its name from the
> property of "Ashby" in the Midlands (which is highly likely seeing that
> Edward's son John Abbott was an original grantee of land in the area), but
> that begs the question: what I really want to know is where the property
> of
> "Ashby" in the Midlands got its name.
>
> 3) Who has the original of the diary of Alfred Abbott (son of Francis)? I
> don't recall the exact details but I think the diary was discovered during
> a competition run by the ABC in the 70s to unearth previously forgotten
> historical records.
>
> Douglas
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