Notes for John Brookes THURTELL

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Notes for John Brookes THURTELL

The family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900, the 1963 Thurtell family history, and the History of the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968, all in possession of Susan Persia Thurtell Miller, show John Thurtell married Ellen and that he died February 15, 1879, at 67.

According to information from the Norwich Public Libraries a John Brooks Thurtell was living at South Quay, Yarmouth, in 1852. This is probably the same person.

Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 shows that John Brooks Thurtell was a Navy Captain and that a photo of him is in the possession of Charlotte Mackie, Guelph, Canada. It shows that Captain John Brooks Thurtell, born1812, died February 15,1879, aged 67, is buried in Thirkley (?Kirkley) churchyard in Lowestoft. He married Ellen Aldred (N.B. there was a prominent Lowestoft family of that name, including Obed Aldred, a founding partner of the Lowestoft China Works in 1758). They must have been living in Yarmouth in 1845 since a son was born there.

It is highly probable that he is the Capt. J. B. Thurtell shown on an internet listing of "Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists" to Victoria, Australia, shown as reaching Victoria in February 1854 on the ship the Wigram, which departed from a British port and is on fiche 063, page 001, at the Public Record Office in Victoria, Australia. The web site for this index as of October 1999 was http://www.cohsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/db/ship2.pl. Another web site found at the same time at http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/manet/132/caplis3x.htm showed J. B. Thurtell was Captain of the Wigram arriving from a British port in February 1854 on fiche 63, page 1. A lookup request provided in October 1999 by Macbeth Genealogical Serices confirmed that the fiche showed that J. B. Thurtell was the captain of the Wigram on this voyage.

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