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From: "David Asprey" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AM-EMI-L] TAIT, Ferdinand Adolphus, Liverpool to Brazil c. 1830
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:59:16 -0000
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on January 27, 2004 9:58 PM Terri Tait wrote

<<<<
I am looking for information on Ferdinand Adolphus TAIT, who migrated to
Minas Gerais, Brazil from Liverpool, England, c. 1830, and went back to
England c. 1834. While in Brazil, Ferdinand married Clara Barbosa, and had
two children: Fernando Eduardo Tait-son and Guilherme Taitson.

Trying to prove that this Ferdinand is the same Ferdinand Adolphus TAIT
(1808-1860), son of William Watson TAIT and Jane DANSON of Liverpool.
>>>>

Have you found FAT in the 1841 and 1851 Censuses. If so, what
occupation/profession did he have?

1830 was the year in which the first party set out from Liverpool for Rio de
Janeiro on the COLUMBIAN (Capt Dalley) to establish the mining operations of
the St John d'El Rey Mining Company. I do not know the names of the party,
under the company's first Superintendent, Charles Herring, but it consisted
of "1 clerk, 1 mining captain, 2 mine carpenters, 2 blacksmiths, 2 dressers,
8 miners, 1 pitman and 2 buddle boys". The initial mines at São José and
São João d'el Rey were a disappointment and both were abandoned - but in
1834 Herring and "six English assistants, all that remained of his staff"
moved further north in Minas Gerais to Congonhas de Sabara and developed the
Morro Velho mine at Nova Lima - and never looked back.

There were already other British mining operations in MG, notably at Gongo
Soco, and of course other developing businesses, that may attracted FAT.


David Asprey


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