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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: Name of Mary Seacole's father |
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Mary Seacole (Crimean nurse) is to have a statue at Westminster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8106416.stm
I believe that someone has worked out the name of her father (a Scottish soldier) via army lists etc but I haven't seen the name in print. Does anyone know who he was and where he came from?
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Jim
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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great links, thanks |
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Tonym
Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 224 Location: East Sussex
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Paul
Another point that may be of interest and not mentioned in the two quotes above is that she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole the godson of Admiral Horatio Nelson. She travelled widely with him until he died in 1844 and then took off on her own.
Tony _________________ Pte. W. BROWN, Middlesex Regiment, K.I.A Battle of The Somme.
Sgt. J. V. MURPHY, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, D.O.W Monte Cassino, Italy. |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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that's interesting but it was the Scots connection that caught my eye |
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