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John Youds late of Bahia & Narcissa Gantois

John Youds late of Bahia & Narcissa Gantois

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 1:28PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 16 Dec 2014 1:52PM GMT
Surnames: Youds, Gantois, Rothwell, Benson, Le Breton, Herrmann
Some recent discoveries about this family:
John was alive in July 1833, when he was presented with a gold snuff box (pictured online). He died intestate later that same year, leaving estate of £1500, administratrix was Narcissa Youds, Liverpool.
Variously described as merchant, ships chandler, ship owner and plantation owner, but not slave trader. He also probably met Charles Darwin in 1832 in Bahia. Age at death not known, therefore not sure how he is linked to John Youds & Elizabeth Rothwell and their sons James and Henry, who were also 'late of Bahia'.
His wife was probably Aimee Narcisse Charlotte Gantois, born 1803 in Mons, Belgium.
5 children: John, he later owned shops and died in Rio in 1873
Charles, business partner with John, was alive in Sao Paulo in 1869
Adele Elizabeth, she married Charles James Benson, they moved to England
Julia Marie, she married Edouard Joseph Le Breton, they moved to San Francisco
one unnamed daughter, she married Ferdinand Herrmann
May get more info if and when more Brazilian records become available.
Details and illustrations on ancestry:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/74854403/person/36323775288

On rootsweb:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Thanks also to April Warren and Joan Knox for sharing their information
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