CUMBER FAMILY CHANNEL ISLANDS
Can anyone assist with Cumber from the Channel Islands. They were mainly chemists, although we have a female photographer/artist and a bird stuffer - yes that was a trade many years ago!
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Hello Ann. My ARNOLD line also includes several chemists from Guernsey .. and my profesional training is also as a chemist!
Henry Joseph CUMBER (1828-1905) and my 4G uncles Adolphus (1816-1885) & Eugene John (1821-1899) ARNOLD were all chemists/ druggists in St Peter Port. Henry J's father Henry (ca 1796-ca 1845) was an apothecary/surgeon/cupper/druggist in SPP. I believe the family were Quakers. Henry Jnr's wife Julia Amelia was a sister of Julius ARNOLD's wife Eliza Perry nee DAVIS - my 3G grandparents, who emigrated to NZ in 1864. Adolphus & Eugenes' sister Eliza Cordelia ARNOLD (1810-1841) m Jean de Garis TOUZEAU (1801-1848). Both died young and their orphaned sons John Arnold (1839-1891) and James Frederick (1840-1915) TOUZEAU were also chemists who came to Queensland in the 1860s
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How exciting to have a link to other chemists in Guernsey I was beginning to think that they were the only ones. My Great Grandfather was one of the last Cumber Chemists, his chemist was in St Sampsons, it is still a chemist and is called Stonelakes. We visited it in 2007 and spent a week on the island researching the Cumbers. If I can be of any assistance to you in your research please get in touch. Have you tried any of the Guernsey forums?
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I am directly descended from Henry Joseph Cumber too, through his descendent Kenneth Martin Henry Cumber who migrated to New Zealand in 1908... I see this thread is a few years' old; I hope you are both still here and we can pick up this conversation again? Heather (Melbourne, Australia)
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