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Subject: Re: [CHINA] Thomas Danswan - left Amoy 1852 arrived Australia
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:25:24 -0000


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Surnames: Danswan, Gimbert
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I was so excited to hear your story as I have been researching now on and off for a year. My great grandfather is none other than Thomas Danswan from Amoy China, who I have as marrying Sarah Gimbert in Murrurundi in 1864, they had 10 children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Maryann, Matilda and Isabella (twins), Emma, Maria, Cornelius, Perceres, Leonard. Sarah was English from Cambridgeshire. She passed over in 1934. I took a trip up there last weekend and found his gravestone along with his 8 month old son Leonard. My grandfather was Cornelius King Danswan and my dad was Ronald Desmond Danswan who passed away in 2003. I have Thomas as registered also as Tai Soon and was naturalized in Aust in 1876. His DOB was 1815 in Amoy and died in Murrurundi 1882....Christine Whitton nee Danswan



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