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Buer families

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Re: Buer families

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:42AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Buer, Tredway, Leaper
Sally,

What a wonderful photograph! This is really the "Holy Grail" of ancestor research to find a picture of one of the people that you are tracing, as a picture conveys so much more than a written document can. Do you have any other pictures from that period?

While I have some great Victorian photos of other parts of my family I only have pictures of my Great Grandmother Jane Ann Buer (Joseph, William 1749, George, William, Charles, Jane Ann)and some of her brothers and sisters from about the time of the First World War, but nothing as old as your picture. I can send you these/post them, if you are interested.

You are right about the confusion caused by the name William in the Buer family. I still managed to get the link between the families wrong even in my last post. Trying again the link should be: William Beaumont Buer (b. 1839), his father: William Buer - Pawnbroker (b.1813), his Grandfather: Charles Buer - Carpenter and latterly Vintner(b.1757 Essex), his Great Grandfather Joseph Buer (b.1706).

Joseph Buer is our common ancester.

William Buer - Pawnbroker's wife Frances Mary Tredway may also be the Granddaughter of my William Buer's (b.1749) wife's (Ann Leaper) sister Elizabeth Leaper (b.1752) who married an Edward Tredway, although we are still trying to find proper proof of this. The Leaper and Buer families both came from villiages less than 10 miles apart in Essex and both families were originally butchers.

I am glad to hear that the Buer name continues, on our side of the family I think that the name goes on but my Great gran only had 2 brothers (with who the family lost touch long ago), but lots of sisters so the name does not survive. I do however recall meeting my Great Gran on several occasions as a boy, so the family is not entirely lost from me.
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