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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    Janice & Mike Again thanks for all your help a year or so ago. Just to let you know that I'm now in touch with a descendant of John who lives in New Zealand. John died in June 1917 and his wife Caroline in March 1928.
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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    Afternoon Janice I took advantage of Find My Past's free weekend and found that John and his family sailed on the Arawa on 18 November 1884 arriving in NZ on Christmas Eve 1884. They settled in Invercargill and John appears on a couple of Electoral Rolls. Invercargill City Council website has a...
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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    Thanks for this Mike, but Janice seems to have proved that the market gardening Popes were established long before John Pope made his way from Somerset to Birmingham. I do appreciate your help. Glyn
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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    This is much appreciated Janice. John and Caroline did have sons named Edgar (born c1863), William (born 1868) and Ernest (born 1870) so the NZ listing could be them - or a huge coincidence. I'm going to take advantage of Find My Past's free weekend to trace the family. I am hoping that there...
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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    Thank you so much Mike. That has certainly filled in some gaps. It could be John Pope & Sons the nurseryman is 'my' John as he had sons. Also he married Caroline Perkins in 1860 in Kings Norton.
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    Streets where John Pope dairyman lived

    I am trying to track the whereabouts of John Pope. John was born in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset in 1836 and was an older brother of my Great Grandma Charlotte Chappell Pope (later Chase). After his father died his mother Eliza moved to East Stonehouse in Devon where in 1859 she married Charles...
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