http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl? http://www.eblah.com en http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1273502659/ http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1273502659/#num1 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:44:19 ann gillam http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1265295042/ http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1265295042/#num1 I have a beautiful small Chinese ceramic sculpture of two quails on a rock which has passed through my family over the years. I first saw it as a child at my grandfather's (George Raymond Thursfield).  The story behind it was that it was brought back from China by a member of the family who had lived there as a missionary. Could it have been passed down from Ethel Annie Thursfield?  I can't imagine that there were many missionaries to China by the name of Thursfield.

If anyone has any more information about Annie, her husband the Reverend Herbert Sutton Smith and the book he wrote (Yakusa The very heart of Africa), I'd be very interested.]]> Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:50:42 Andy Thursfield http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1257000360/ http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1257000360/#num1
Really looking forward to your Mum's piece about Thomas Thursfield cavalier. For a guess that dates him between 1642-1651.

Pat]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:46:00 pat gould http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1250616613/ http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1250616613/#num1
I am descended from Hannah Thursfield who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1771.  All of the Thursfields in Northumberland and Durham in the early 1800s are descended from her father John T and his wife Eleanor Rowintree.

In the new database on Ancestry which deals with Penal Records, there is a Louisa Thursfield who was born in Sunderland, convicted twice in two years in Warwick (1823 and 1824), had her death sentence commuted, and was sent to Australia in 1825.

I can't find any sign of Louisa's baptism at all.  If anyone has additional information on her I'd be very grateful

Cheers

JoS]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:30:13 JosiahS http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1242285795/ http://www.thursfield-history.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1242285795/#num1 Always willing to help.

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