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From: "Dave Napier" <>
Subject: Re: [B&D] Free Newspapers!
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:04 -0000
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Hi Liz

Yes - I found that Lockett from the Cato too - he's buried in Arnos Vale
cemetery so I'm going to try to find his grave :)

Regards

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz" <>
To: "D Wilson" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [B&D] Free Newspapers!


> Hi Diane
>
> There is just so much to find out but you have work hard to find
> information. Great that you actually found the real truth to the family
> legend.
>
> I found my MILs father Henry LOCKETT was shipwrecked twice off the Cornish
> coast. The second time his youngest brother was with him and he survived
> for 4 hours and then "expired"! They brought his body back to Bristol on
> the train and his brother, Henry, was devastated. The ship was the Cato.
> The first one was the Constance. I also found Henry's father, Thomas was
> in
> a shipping accident down at Avonmouth - he survived in the hospital for
> several days before he too died of a severely fractured skull. Another
> member of the family, Thomas LOCKETT was caught scrumping apples as a 10
> year old and he and his friend were given 21 days hard labour! I bet many
> of you have scrumped apples!!!
>
> I have also found numerous pieces of information for families who were not
> from the Bristol area.
>
> Cheers
> LIZ
> www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery
> OPC for Street, Somerset
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D Wilson" <>
> To: "'Liz'" <>;
> <>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [B&D] Free Newspapers!
>
>
>> Hello Liz and listers
>> I want to thank you for the tip about the old newspapers and relate one
>> success story.
>>
>> A family tale, unconfirmed, was that my great grandfather Thomas Bindon,
>> a
>> farmer in Brislington, was either stabbed and killed by a poacher or he
>> was
>> actually the poacher (depends on who told the story). His death in 1902
>> was
>> from TB so I had discounted the story.
>
>
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