Re: Father of Robert Helson /ontario
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Re: Father of Robert Helson /ontario
Harry Montgomery 3/09/02
hi there was an older brother to my thomas helson (1)called richard, born in lifton around 1810 I think , I am descended from thomas helson(2) son of thomas helson(1) and francis finnimore married at lifton my gr gr grandfather was john helson(2) son of thomas helson(2) (son of above) who married martha addams bridford devon john(2) married margaret phillips dunsford,they had three children percy, wilfred and minnie, minnie died aged 18 percy married some one called harriet their daughter(lilian francis helson) died aged 16 (influenza ) 1918. wilfred is my gr grandfather (married fanny brown of north petherton )married at bourton dorset. going back to richard we know that johns(2) father thomas had an older brother richard whoafter moving to dunsford we could not find any trace of him perhaps this is your relation all we know is that some of the family moved to canada ,i have been in touch with harry montgomery about a land allocation at regina sascatchewan which harry explained about to me, if you can e-mail me I will turf out a couple of copies of wills etc baptims lifton , dunsford, richard ,john (1)( died 1836 and left the business of dunsford iron mills to thomas his brother as he had no issue,) and thomas(2) were born at lifton , mary joseph and ann(richard john d thomas siblings were born at dunsford, ( dunsford and bridford are next door villages, it was my anscestors had the iron mills, as my grandfather was son of wilfred ,my mothers maiden name was helson. the family originated from broadwoodwidger devon several groups of helsons there!, best wishes jane cox e-mail address as [email protected]
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