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From: "Barry Rasberry" <>
Subject: Re: Christmas in Norfolk - RASBERRY, BUNKLE, HOWARD, RASBURY -
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:39:42 +0100
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Richard,

You wrote << Possibly the Rasberry children are Robert Howard's stepchildren
by a wife previous to Elizabeth Bunkle? >>. Yes, could be.

I'm very much a beginner in this game. Looks like the birth certificate is
necessary. Could someone suggest the best method for this for a noon-UK
resident?

Thanks,
Barry - shivering in Brussels


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ball" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Christmas in Norfolk - RASBERRY, BUNKLE, HOWARD, RASBURY


> Good Morning Barry,
>
> You wrote:
> > There were only 6 RASBERRY households on the 1851 census.
>
> It does not really help your situation, but there are more
> if you check out variant spellings of the name. The
> following appear on the LDS cdrom 1851 census:
>
> Rasbery, Rasbary, Rasberry, Rasbury, Raspberry - and I think
> Rasbro might be one too.
>
> > I've recently found the wedding of Elizabeth BUNKLE
> > & Robert HOWARD in Dec 1870. QUESTION: Where do the
> > RASBERRY's fit now?
>
> Possibly the Rasberry children are Robert Howard's
> stepchildren by a wife previous to Elizabeth Bunkle?
>
> You don't mention what seems the obvious way to answer the
> question so perhaps you have tried it without success? I
> would have thought the first thing to do was to get Charles
> Henry Rasberry's birth certificate?
>
> There is a good transcription of the gravestones in Gayton
> churchyard in the NFHS library at Kirby Hall in Norwich,
> done in the 1960's if I have remembered correctly and there
> were many transcribed there which appeared quite illegible
> to me in the churchyard.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Richard
> --
> Richard Ball
> Norfolk, England
>
>
> Barry Rasberry wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Spent a few days in Norfolk over the holiday looking for any signs of
> > great-grandfather Charles Henry RASBERRY born circa 1873 (thanks 1901
PRO
> > census) but with little success. My conumdrum from the 1881 census
remains
> > but is now more confused. My original question to the lisr read:
> > << Listed in the same household are:
> > HOWARD Robert Head 44 b. Gayton
> > HOWARD Elizabeth Wife 46 b. East Walton
> > BUNKLE Walter Son 14 b. East Walton
> > RASBERRY Charles H Son 9 b. East Walton
> > RASBERRY Arthur H Son 7 b. East Walton
> > RASBERRY Jessie H Daur 5 b. East Walton
> >
> > Was Elizabeth widowed / separated? Who was the father of the 3
Rasberry's?
> > There were only 6 RASBERRY households on the 1851 census.
> > Where does the BUNKLE come into the picture? >>
> >
> > I've recently found the wedding of Elizabeth BUNKLE & Robert HOWARD in
Dec
> > 1870. QUESTION: Where do the RASBERRY's fit now?
> >
> > I transcribed a few BUNKLE / RASBERRY / HOWARD / RASBURY gravestones in
East
> > Walton, Gayton & Harpley whilst I was there if of any interest to
anyone. It
> > was so cold I rushed a bit later on and some of the stobes were very
hard to
> > read..
> >
> > East Walton - pretty church with a lovely round tower.
> >
> > 1. Henry beloved son of Richard & Fanny BUNKLE who died Nov 9th 1881
aged 19
> > years also Alfred William their son who died Nov 13th 1881 aged 8 years.
> > 2. Richard BUNKLE who died Nov 13th 1883 aged 56 years
> > 3. In memory of Mary BUNKLE who died Feb 10 1847 aged 28 years.
> > 4. Elizabeth wife of Willm BUNKLE who died 23rd April 1876 aged 84 years
/
> > Willian BUNKLE who departed this life 22nd Dec 1857 aged 66 years.
> > 5. Memory of James BUNKLE .......... 1868
> >
> > Gayton
> >
> > 1. Charles RASBERRY October 2nd 1908 aged 84
> > 2. Caroline RASBERRY ....
> > 3. James RASBURY .... 190? ..... 88 years
> > 4. Elizabeth RASBERRY Feb 18 1896 Aged 74 / John ? .... Jan 16 1908
> > 5. Ann Maria Rasberry Feb 24 1918 aged 62 (wife of William) + Ivy
daughter
> > 9th Nov 1918 aged 27 years / William Dec 22nd 1940 aged 88
> >
> > Harpley
> >
> > 1. Sarah Ann RASBERRY 8th October 1949 aged 77
> > 2. David RASBERRY 29th January 1951 aged 82
> > 3. Martha wife of Robert Howard 20th Aug 1872 aged 47
> > 4. Sarah beloved of Robert Howard who died May 31 1874 aged 80 ....
Sarah
> > Ann daughter .... Alice Mar 24 1873 13 years ....
> >
> > Barry (in a very cold Brussels)
>
>
>


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