----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Cumber" <ccumber@sprint.ca> To: <> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: [ENG-HANTS] LE FEVRE >I have searched extensively for my 3X Great Grandfather Edward or Edmund >LEFEVRE"s birth/baptism record in the Portsmouth area with out success. > But I have now found a rather prominent family of LE FEVRE > and wonder if this is the Portsmouth connection. > Edward spent his adult life in Southwark and Bermondsey,London according > to the Birth Marriage and Death records I have found,he is also listed > with his extensive family on the 1851/61/71/81 and his widow is on the > 1891 Census for Southwark. > On his marriage certificate he gives his fathers name as Thomas LEFEVRE a > silk weaver and on the census records he appears to have been born in > 1800/01 and on all the census returns he gives his birthplace as > Portsmouth. > > In 1826 I found that a Samuel LE FEVRE esq was Mayor of Southampton and > that previously he had held a position as a Customs Inspector also a > W.J.LE FEVRE esq was elected as a junior bailiff at the same time as > Samuel was chosen as Mayor. > Can SKS on the list help me find out more information on this family of LE > FEVRE?? > > Carole in Ontario,Canada > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >