Dear Irene, I have the same information through the LDS and I feel this just MIGHT be the family I am looking for. I only wish it was, (it would be easy wouldn't it) but because of Benjamin's sketchy birth date (he could not read or write) and was tried at Warwick in 1824 for stealing and transported for 14 years, it is a very grey area. He died in 1891 and on his death certificate it states that he was 83 years BUT could he have been say 88? Who knows. I will just have to keep trying. Many thanks for your suggestions. Regards, Kathleen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Irene M. Fullarton" <imf07@optusnet.com.au> To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] (ENG-SHROP) Gittos family name > Hi Kathleen, > > Not sure if this helps but John mar. Mary Malpas 13.12.1795. > > Children Miria c. 22.3.1797, Mianna c. 30.1.1799, twins Benjamin and Anne > b. 9.12.1801 c. 14.3.1802, Sarah b. 13.1.1805 c. 15.2.1805, James b. > 8.5.1810 c. 13.5.1810 and Samuel c. 17.5.1816. Sorry no William but this > is from the IGI so may be his entry was not transcribed or he just wasn't > Christened. All at Bridgnorth. > > Regards, > > Irene. > > At 20:00 18/09/06, you wrote: > >Hello all, > >Many thanks to Graham Price for his advice re St. Mary Magdalene, > >Bridgnorth registers. I have searched through LDS family history library > >films for christenings but my ancestors were baptised before > >1813-1914. Also marriages before 1813. I think that trying to find the > >right John Gittos and Elizabeth Malpas and all their children is not going > >to be as easy as I once thought. My main research is for Benjamin Gittos, > >who was transported to Australia in 1826. All records I have from the > >Archives state that his native place was Bridgnorth Shropshire. He was > >tried at Warwick Assizes in 1824. He also had a brother William Gittus > >who was sentenced on the same day at Warwick, but also came from > >Bridgnorth. Can someone please help with the Shropshire end of this > >saga? Gittos/Gittoes/Gittus are all the same I think. Both Benjamin and > >William died in Tasmania in the 1800s. I have everything relating to this > >end of their lives but not the beginning. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 15/09/2006 > >