Garry, First of all, apologies for the hypertext and gobbledegook which is inserted into my original text - probably by a gremlin somewhere. I certainly wouldn't have sent if I'd known that was going to happen. As I said in that email, I did transcribe the address as it had been written which was definitely "Colemans Road". I must now look at the census returns for Colenutt's Road for the mid-1800s and see if any likely Taylers (or Taylors even) lived there. Many thanks for this new line of enquiry. Susan -----Original Message----- From: Garry & Doreen Cooper [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 July 2008 16:32 To: Susan Johnstone; [email protected] Subject: Re: [IoW] TAYLER, GROVES and Australia Susan, Speaking as an ex resident of Ryde I have never heard of Coleman's Road. Are you sure of the spelling because there is a Colenutt's Road, which you will find, whatever the search facility you use. Garry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Johnstone" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:02 PM Subject: [IoW] TAYLER, GROVES and Australia >I have recently found an old family > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/bible-family-history.ashx> Bible. Inside, > it > had an ancient small envelope (addressed to Miss H > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/tayler-family-history.ashx> TAYLER, > Colemans > Road, Nr <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/ryde-family-history.ashx> Ryde, > Isle of <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/wight-family-history.ashx> Wight) > containing a slip of paper with the name and address of "Barnabus > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES, > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/carpenter-family-history.ashx> Carpenter, > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/brook-family-history.ashx> Brook > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/cottage-family-history.ashx> Cottage, > Stanley > Street, East > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/collingwood-family-history.ashx> > Collingwood, > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/melbourn-family-history.ashx> Melbourn, > South > Australia". I have transcribed the original spellings and errors. The > writing is very old-fashioned, with some "s" appearing as "f". > > Barnabas and <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/barnaby-family-history.ashx> > Barnaby were quite frequent names in the > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES family > of > the Isle of <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/wight-family-history.ashx> > Wight, and several of them were carpenters, but I suspect this piece of > paper refers to the brother of my x2 great-grandmother Elizabeth > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/wheeler-family-history.ashx> WHEELER nee > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES (the > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/bible-family-history.ashx> Bible comes from > that line of my family). That Barnabas, bc 1817 was son of Benjamin & Mary > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES, and we > "loose" him after the 1851 census of > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/england-family-history.ashx> England. > > I see from Ancestry.com that a Barnabas > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES died in > 1879 in Victoria, Australia, and that another Barnabas > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES was on > the > electoral roll in > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/collingwood-family-history.ashx> > Collingwood, > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/melbourne-family-history.ashx> Melbourne in > the first half of C20, which sounds exceptionally promising! > > I am aware that there is a (related) family of > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES, > including > a Barnabas, who emigrated to Tasmania, but does anyone have any further > information on the line of the Isle of > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/wight-family-history.ashx> Wight > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/groves-family-history.ashx> GROVES family > who > lived in <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/collingwood-family-history.ashx> > Collingwood, > <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/melbourne-family-history.ashx> > Melbourne, in the second half of C19 and early C19, please? > > > > And can anyone tell me where Colemans Road near Ryde was - as opposed to > the > one between Newport and Yarmouth? I cannot find it on Google maps nor on > the > OS, so assume it must have been renamed or built over or . > > Susan <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/johnstone-family-history.ashx> > Johnstone > > > > > ************************************** > You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message