Hi Gordon and thank you I just new you would come up with an answer I,ll send this over to Margaret and see what she says Cheers George --- On Sun, 17/10/10, Gordon Evans <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Gordon Evans <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Fw: RE: Trevaskiss To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, 17 October, 2010, 0:48 Hi George Thanks for posting Margaret Berry's response to your recent enquiry. I of course appreciate & respect everything Margaret has said, but would like to comment as follows. Ancestry has a marriage :- 22 September 1836 St Thomas, Southwark, Surrey James GILBERTSON, and Sarah Esther POPLAR Followed by these Census entries :- 1841 Guys Hospital, London James GILBERTSON, 50, labourer, S (born in Scotland) Sarah, 50, S (born in Scotland) Sarah POPLAR, 14, S (born in Scotland) 1851 Guys Hospital, London James GILBERTSON, 60, labourer & Chelsea Pensioner, born Shetland Sarah, wife, 60, born Shetland Elizabeth POPLAR, niece, U, 32, servant, born Shetland Elizabeth YOUNG, niece, 2, born Southwark, Surrey The indications being that Elizabeth YOUNG was the daughter of Elizabeth TREVASKISS (b1813 Woolwich) and James YOUNG who married on 8 April 1848 in Southwark St Thomas. Elizabeth TREVASKISS being a daughter of Esther POPLAR, born c1786 in Scotland? Best regards Gordon From: "GEORGE HIGHTON" <george.highton@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:24 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Fw: RE: Trevaskiss >Hi Gordon ,Walter and anyone interested in the Trevaskiss saga >I wrote to Margaret Berry re-the Maiden name of Esther Trevaskiss >Here is Margaret’s reply: > >Hi George, >Yes I remember the Trevaskiss research we did while you were here in >February. I also >remember your showing me that information about Sarah Ann >Trevaskiss giving the information at the time of her second marriage >indicating her mother’s maiden name was Poplar. We looked at Black’s >Surnames of Scotland (a standard work for Scottish research), and there was >no >entry there for the surname Poplar. We also went through the entire >website of Scotlands People covering 1500-1950, with not even one entry >for the surname of Poplar. So we decided it couldn’t be right, that >perhaps Sarah Ann was remember Poplar as a place and confusing it with >a >surname. >Interestingly the only entries for Esther Poplar on the IGI (and there are >three) are either in Stepney or Bethnal Green which are, of course, very >close to the parish of Poplar in the East End of London. >I still feel that the Boyn connection fits although, as I told you in >February, we can’t actually >prove it. >Best regards, >Margaret ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message