Dear List members, I've joined because by DE LA TECHFORD may have been a French Protestant. Does that mean she would also have been Huguenot? So I am keenly awaiting the "D" list from the Threadneedle St. Church. Or do I have to wait for the "T"s? In any event, here are my names: 1 unknown SMITH --------------------------------------------- Spouse: Jessie Mary DE LA TECHFORD Children: Jessie Mary (ca1857-1918) 1.1 Jessie Mary SMITH --------------------------------------------- Birth: ca 1857, London, England Death: 2 Apr 1918, 7 Melville St, Dunedin. Burial: 4 Apr 1918, Southern Cemetery, Dunedin, New Zealand, #936 Reli: Anglican She (Jessie Mary SMITH ) may have been a talented pianist, according to Jessie MARSHALL (Wellington, 1996). Her father was described, on her death registration, as a piano-maker. Anne SMITH's letter of 3 April 1997, says, "Also, Mum said she had a very musical (great?) grandmother called Helen SMITH-have you found her? She was said to have a French connection-born there or some such." Is her mother, Jessie Mary De La Techford, the French connection? Research: Death reg. #1558 (Dunedin Southern Cemetery #936) See daughter Jessie's marriage registration in 1899, when Jessie Mary ELLIS was alive, and her middle name was given as Mary. Her father's first name is not given on her death registration, just her mother's, and her mother's maiden name. But her father's occupation was piano-maker. Spouse: Charles ELLIS Birth: ca 1851/1852, West Ham, Essex, England Death: 19 Jul 1913, 7 Melville St, Dunedin, NZ Father: Charles ELLIS Mother: Susanna SMITH Marr: 31 May 1873, London, England Children: Charles (1874-1972) Jessie (1876-1954) George (1878-1905) Walter (1881-1952) Alfred (ca1884-1894) Cheers, Denis Wederell, NZSG #10213, 6 Monaghan Avenue, Karori, Wellington 6005, New Zealand. Ph/fax +64 4 476 6432; e-mail <wederell@actrix.gen.nz> ___________________________________________________________________________ Rootsweb Sponsor ______________ Researching: Essex: JONES, NOBLE, MILLER, WEDERELL, London: CONEY, CRACROFT, DE LA TECHFORD, ELLIS, SMITH (bless their hearts), TWEMLOW, WILSON (upper crust only). Staffordshire: COTTERILL. Lancashire: NELSON. Northumberland/Yorkshire/Borders: BELL, HEATLEY, ROBERTSON, SELBIE. All Scotland: MONRO, SELBIE. N Ireland (Co Down): CAMPBELL. All England & (Southern) Ireland: RONALDS. Ireland: DINES/DYNES, McCULLY. Australia (mostly SA): GIL(L)MAN, MONRO (Tasmania), PACKER, POWER. ______________________________________________________________________________