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From: "Tony Gott" <>
Subject: RE: Stray Gardner
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:15:12 +0100
In-Reply-To: <0C217FAB63B41D4FA2B8E30B4E5AE85C028C03@conductor.2cc.local>


Robyn:

Many thanks for the info :)

> John was apparently born in Shetland in 1856, son of John. SA John was a
> seaman and lighthouse keeper for a while at Cape Jaffa (coincidentally I
> received the SA genie mag this week with a review of new booklet on this
> lighthouse and a Tamar GARDNER, the wife of a lighthouse keeper died there
> in 8/1/1881. Haven't cracked this one yet but I'm working on it!).

> Tamar GARDNER was the wife of William but I can't get any further on her
> yet. Seems a bit of a coincidence that her husband was the next lighthouse
> keeper to John Jameson and Isabella Smith.

The only Tamar Gardner who married a William that I know of married a
William Tulloch on 16 Dec 1869. He was still alive in 1891.

I wonder if there is some connection with that shadowy figure Sholto
Gardner, husband of Jacobina Winwick. I'm not sure we found all their
children, and they did have a son Robert who was probably the one who went
to New Zealand and died there in 1879.

Tony

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