Hi Meryl Did you know that a man called Seth Coombs was jailed for theft in Bristol in 1820? Could he be yours? Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Meryl Phillips" <merylphillips@sky.com> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 1:10 PM Subject: [B&D] Looking for Seth COOMBS, c1790 FROME, then Redcliffe 1840s > Hi everyone > > just posting my old and stubborn brick wall. > > Trying to find the birth of Seth Coombs he quoted Frome as his birthplace > when he joined the navy as a boy in 1804. I have his marriage to Mary > Short > in Marton Bigot 1818.Moved to St Mary Redcliffe between 1832 and 1837. > > Children > John - born 1819 Frome > Ann - 1823 Frome > William Seth - 1823 Frome died 1841 > Henry - Frome, 1828 > Sarah - Frome 1831 Died 1832 > Francis James - St Mary Redcliffe 1837 Died 1838 > Sarah - St Mary Redcliffe 1840 > > John landed up in Camberwell and is my direct line. The rest of them > disappear into the ether after the 1841 census and I cannot find them on > the > 1851 census. > > Any help or clues gratefully recieved > > Meryl > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >