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J/19 William Lawrence Evershed (1913-1997):
As reported in Dendy's List, Dendy's brother died in August.
After leaving school at 16, Lawrence emigrated within a few months to New Zealand, where after working on farms he eventually became a Dairy Farmer. He married Kathleen in 1940 and they raised a family of five. Dendy was
present in New Zealand in 1993 to celebrate Lawrence's 80th birthday and when he heard the end was nigh he flew out, with Lawrence's daughter Margaret who lives in Europe, to be able to accompany Lawrence on a motorcar tour of
the adopted land he had come to love and to trek down memory's lane. We all join in sending our sympathy to Dendy and his immediate family. |
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Retirements: Dendy has retired from the
role of Family Archivist and this task has been taken over by: (Q/21) Terence Roy Evershed
58 Boswell Rd, Tilgate, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 5AZ. Please send him all the news and full details of events occurring in your branch of the family and keep him up to date with changes of address. Also, I am retiring from producing this Newsletter. In future Terence will do it.
In closing, I must express my thanks to Joan and Howard Bentley who have, year after year, generously printed these newsletters. Peter. |
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An American Tale Verified: On 14 March 1850,
Mary Evershed née Martin wrote from Bayswater, Middlesex to her son Tom (Thomas Evershed
the famous engineer), then in California, and said, amongst other things: 'I am glad you got my letter and Mary Ann had written once since and directed to San Francisco which you ought to have got by the time you went there if it had not fallen into other hands, we find there is or was another person of your name in that town who opened one from Amelia and whose friend at New Orleans wrote to her to know if you were any relation, he is your second cousin being the son of one
Thos Evershed the son of Edward of Pallingham Quay consequently nephew to the present Edward of that place, if he is still there you ought to have met long ere this ...'.This letter crossed one dated 27 March
1850, from Tom to his mother in which he said: 'A letter I suppose from Amelia ford to me here I did not get and found that it has fallen into the hands of a namesake of mine Thos E Evershed of New Orleans
whose letters I had seen in the P O but had not met until I accidently came across him in this place a month ago he tells me his father has been dead some 23 or 4 years he being at that time 4 years old his mother is yet living in New Orleans he has one sister who I think he told me was married he seemed to know but little of his father's early history but that he was an Englishman and formerly resided in some of the northern states & that an old gent used to call sometimes & give them news from home I have seen him but that once do not know what he is doing except he told me he was going up the river & had written to his ma to know who I could be. I suppose this must be the son of
Thos Evershed who died some years ago in America who was brother to Ed. E of P. Quay
was he not. I had not known that there was anyone else of the same name in the States except John & myself so was anxious to know who this could be. Years ago Dendy had copied from an old chart of the Reverend Samuel
Evershed: 'O/16 Thomas Evershed born 17 Aug 1795 married a French Lady in Orleans.' On reading the two letter extracts above we altered this to read 'married a French lady living in New Orleans 1850', put
O/16 Thomas as having died in circa 1826, and inserted 'O/17 Thomas Edward Evershed born circa 1822, living in California 1850' and 'O/17 A daughter' Now, in 1997, (E/20) Bryan Evershed
has found the following on the Internet: 'Madame Emilie Evershed
was a native of France, but it is not known when she came to Louisiana. All of her works though published in Paris, bear on the title page "Emilie Evershed de la Nouvelle Orleans". She died in New Orleans in January 1879 at the age of 79. She was before her marriage
Emilie Gabrielle Poullant de Gebois.' Her published works were: Eglatine ou le secret 1843; Essais poetiques 1843; Esquisses poetiques 1846; Une couronne blanche 1850. Clearly Emilie is
O/16, wife of Thomas Evershed. But now we need to know when and where they were married, exactly when and where Thomas died, the name of their daughter and anything about the lives of Thomas, Emilie and their two children,
especially O/17 Thomas Edward Evershed. This seems to be a task for our American cousins, particularly those in Utah how about a visit to the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints' genealogical centre in Salt
lake City. All information to Terry please, or Bryan on e-mail.
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