With ref to Post 31 March 2013
I have just come across your article “Matthew Dunlop and Samuel Frost: Two Bristol gentlemen and their families”. From my point of view there is one unfortunate omission – namely what happened to Agnes Dunlop. I do know a little about her since she is my maternal great grandmother. She married Thomas Hunter Thoms who was born in Scotland. They moved around the country eventually settling in Clevedon. They had six children – one son, George, and five daughters. One of the daughters died young and remaining four lived together as spinsters in Clevedon until they died in their 70’s and 80’s. Both the parents and the four ladies are buried in the graveyard in Clevedon (overlooking the Bristol channel). George Thoms, my grandfather, married Mabel Bunn and they had two daughters – sadly he died relatively young on his way out to India for work. Do you have any other information, particularly with regard to Agnes’s marriage and the burial of the youngest daughter Helen Maud – a family bible suggests that she is buried in October 1877. Thank you.
JP Hedges.
jphedges@totalise.co.uk
Bristol Family History 