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From: "Susan Frye" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AM-EMI-L] Attention Ron Field
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:35:27 -0700
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Ron,

I have no idea if we are in any way related but my gr. grandmother
lived in South America, Demerara, Br. Guiana and married Edmund
Lawrence DONNELLY. Her name was Henrietta Eliza Anne FIELD
and was born in 1852 in Ireland. When they married, my great grand-
parents were in British Guiana. They married in 1880. Edmund was
born in the West Indies, I believe, Barbados. On their marriage cer-
tificate there is a witnessed named Edmund FIELD, I don't know if this
was her father, brother, uncle of even a relative. My gr. grandfather
was a clerk and worked at the Great Diamond Plantation where an
Edmund FIELD was the manager in the late 1880s, early 1890s.

Does any of this sound familiar to you. I have no idea where in Ireland
my gr. grandmother came from. My gr. gr. grandfather, James Henry
DONNELLY, also came from Ireland and migrated with 4 or 5 of his
brothers to the West Indies, circa 1840 - 1850.

This is one of my major block walls in my mother's roots. Her maiden
name is DONNELLY. Other family names in the West Indies are
THOM, BEARD, WATTLEY, CLUKIES and YEARWOOD.

Good luck hunting!

Regards,
Susan Gardner Frye



----- Original Message -----
From: Field, Ron (CIII) <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: [SOUTH-AM-EMI-L] Field family update


> Hi all,
>
> I have received the following information yesterday in the mail from a
> cousin in New York.
>
> "If you go to the main RR station on the Plaza Britannia, in Buenos Aires'
> Retiro district, an immense high ceiling pigeon-plagued structure with
> tracks for many trains, you will find a large plaque immediately on your
> left as you enter. This commemorates the construction of the station in
the
> early 20th century. William Field's name is prominently visible, along
with
> other English railroad men.
> This William Field had two daughters, I believe one of the daughters
was
> named Grace after her mother. One daughter married a man who became the
> minister of the large British/ American Protestant Church in Buenos Aires,
a
> congregation which was still in good working order when we visited
Argentina
> in 1981. I believe there still maybe Field descendants in the vicinity of
> Martinez, Argentina, or in Buenos Aires.
> When we visited Argentina in 1981 on business, we arranged to meet a
> lady who was, I believe, one of the Field daughters, after the Sunday
> service at the suburban branch of the American church in Martinez, about
an
> hour out of town from the Plaza Britannia RR station. Her name may have
> been Grace or Harriet. My guess is that she was in her late 60s and I
> believe I recall she had children."
>
> I'm trying to locate this branch of the family. Would anyone know if the
> church still exists? A contact name for the church? Or ideas as to how I
> might locate them? Any information on my great uncles family would be
> great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Field
> Toronto, Ontario
>
>

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