Comments on: Emma Hester Parker

By: Rosalind Robinson

Rosalind Robinson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:03:22 +0000

Hello everyone! John Curry in Canada has just been talking to me on the phone and told me to click on this site. This is amazing! My grandfather-Thomas Hindmarsh Curry- and John's grandfather Ralph were brothers. So we're all related. I live in Darlington-my mother was Lydia Curry. Strangely John and I were put in touch with each other due to an article concerning my Paternal great grandfather. It's been great catching up with him.
Would love to hear from any of you anytime. Best wishes to all for the New Year. Rosalind Robinson (nee Jones)

By: Carolyn Beadle

Carolyn Beadle — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:27:38 +0000

Hello Margaret

I would love to contact you regarding the Curry family. Would you be willing to share your email address with me?

Many thanks.

Carolyn

By: Margaret Connor

Margaret Connor — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:22:31 +0000

Hello
I was amazed to find your article about Emma Hester Parker and so I decided to contact you.
My grandmother was Isabella Edington Curry, a daughter of James and Hannah Curry who was engaged to George Waite, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1881, and she followed out here to Dunedin in 1882. I have been doing some family research and would be thrilled to hear from you and share what information we have. I have some family photos and also a copy of the diary that Isabella kept on her trip out which she sent to her mother and it has been handed down through the eldest daughter.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Margaret Connor nee Waite

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:15:54 +0000

Hello Carolyn.

You may well be right. This James Edington Curry appears to be both your great great grandfather and mine, which makes us distant cousins, x-times removed, or nth cousin, or something? I'll have to work it out exactly, on a piece of paper.

I will try to find my scan of his picture and email it to you. I don't think it's a very clear image though. I'd love to see your pictures.

By: Carolyn Beadle

Carolyn Beadle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:33:05 +0000

Hello
I believe that the James Edington Curry you are referring to is my great great grandfather who was married to Hannah Emm Hester in 1848 Whitechapel, London. I understand he was also an artist and we have a painting of his as does another member of the family. I would love to have a photo scan of James Edington Curry. I could also scan and forward you a copy of his painting. I also have a number of unidentified pictures which I believe some are of the Curry/Hester family. If we could identify some of these that would be something!

I look forward to your reply.
Carolyn Beadle

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:38:21 +0000

John, thank you for the information about Ralph Curry. On my late grandmother's document, someone has handwritten 'school master' over what was faintly typed underneath, so it may well be that the original was 'sail maker'.

I've sent the Photo scan to you by email, and my Aunt is sending me a 'Curry Family Tree' which I'll email over as well.

By: John Curry

John Curry — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:03:59 +0000

Dear Patrick, Many thanks for your swift reply to my posting. Our common ancestor was Ralph Curry, born ca.1798 in North Shields, His wife was Isabella Edington, also from North Shields, born 1804. Ralph died in 1841 in Hartlepool, where he was a sailmaker, not a schoolteacher. His wife took over the business till she died in 1861, when it passed to my Great Grandfather Edington, born 1841. Ralph had 10 children, 3 of whom died in infancy.

I would be delighted if you could send the larger Photo scan. The only photo I have of "old" Currys is a very small group photo of my Grandfather Ralph, but there does seem to be a family resemblance. Like most people I started my Tree far to late in life, when older relatives had passed away, so most information has come from the Net, and spending the last 40 years in Canada has certainly restricted my research. Thanks again for your swift reply, Yours, John Curry.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:31:52 +0000

John, do you perhaps recognise this man as James Edington Curry? I have a much larger scan of this image, which I can provide to you if required. I think this is him. My father, Kenneth Taylor (90), has a variety of family trees he's produced on paper. I will ask him if he has one that might be of interest to you, especially the one you refer to. Thank you for getting in touch. It's very nice to hear from a distant relative for the first time. Our common ancestors are the parents of James Edington Curry (my great great grandfather) and Edington Curry (your great grandfather), which means, according to this cousin chart that we are third cousins once removed. My late grandmother wrote that her grandfather's father - our common ancestor but whose name I don't know - was a school master who died when his children were small.

By: John Leslie Curry

John Leslie Curry — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:46:43 +0000

Dear Mr.Taylor,
I was fascinated to read the article concerning Emma Hester Parker and her mother. Her mother's father, James Edington Curry, was an elder brother to my Great Grandfather Edington Curry. Emma's writings about Hartlepool brought back many memories for me, for which I must thank you. The article mentions a Curry Family Tree. Would this by any chance be on-line anywhere, as I am sure I have many gaps in the Tree I have been endeavouring to draw up. Yours trully,
John Curry, Mississauga, Canada.