Frederick A Courbarron - Mary Hamilton Pt 1
This sadly - but only for now - is where we leave the Courbarron family line. My Courbarron ancestors settled in Jersey Channel Islands in the very early 1800’s - 1805 if memory serves me correctly - but at the moment I only have bare details on Frederick A Courbarron. His parents information will take me a while to gather together as it will involves census searches. Fortunately more people from the Channel Island are now posting such info online, a few years back it was not available at all or else you had to pay for such info.
Back in the mid-90’s, and pre-computer, it was a slow process of writing letters by hand (remember doing that?) and waiting for replies to arrive. A basic enquiry would take about 2/3 weeks to go around. That’s how I did my Channel Islands research back then. Well, all my research really. But now, onto Frederick and Mary. This section will go into several chapters I suspect; not so much on Frederick ( until I get more info on his parents, etc) but as Mary was a ‘Brownhall’ Hamilton there is a raft of stuff about her and her very fascinating life.
This is where it all gets fun.
Frederick Augustus Courbarron was born 1826 in Jersey in the Channel Islands. Not alot is known at this stage about his parents but I do know that his father’s name was Augustus Courbarron and he was born around 1805 in Jersey to French parents from Brittany. His mother, too, was born in Jersey of French parentage. His parents arrived in the Channel Islands from France around 1800/01 and Frederick and several siblings are listed on a ‘people count’ (not actually a census) from the year 1805.
Fredericks parents were farmers on the island, possibly in the town of Millbrook as that is where his own children were born later on. Farms tended to remain in families in those days so it is a good assumption that Frederick inherited his father’s farm.
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