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Gabrielle Josephine Shubrich		 GD008261    Contact contributor     Contributor Number: 32
Born 20/07/1835
Died 01/12/1894
Father: Irvine Shubrick
Mother: Julia Sophia Angelica Dupont
Married Robert Erskine Anderson Crofton
Children.

Notes: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linzi Meryl" To: "John" Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:41 PM Subject: for me to deal with > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Teague" > To: ; ">" < > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 3:33 AM > Subject: Gabrielle Shubrick Crofton > > > Merry Christmas (Almost) cousins, > > Just a note this frosty Christmas from Northwest Tennessee. > I received Linzi's e.mail and saw the CC to Bob--so here is my Gabriell e. > > Gabrielle was the daughter of Commodore Irvine Shubrick and Julia Sophi a > DuPont. The DuPonts in Delaware were related to the South Carolina > Duponts--note the SC Duponts didn't capitalize the "P" in Dupont as the > Delaware one did. I understand the brothers settled in South Carolina a nd > then one went to Delaware. > A cousin of mine, Mrs. Flavia Boyer, did a lot of correspondence with t he > DuPont Family and Library in Delaware in the 1950s and early 1960s. She kept > a scrap book on them as she relished her small kinship to them. She wor ked > in Washington D. C. and did a lot of the research in the various Librar ies > there. > > I met Flavia about ten years before she died--by then living in Birmingham, > AL--and in her later years living with family in New Jersey and then No rth > Carolina. She was a treasure of genealogy and a first cousin to my > great-grandmother. > > I began collecting information on the Cater Family in October 1968. I w as 20 > years old and attending the funeral of my Grandfather in Fort Lauderdal e, > FL. I went back home in Okeechobee, FL and decided I was going to write down > the stories I had heard at the funeral and wake. So I typed down everything > I could remember on a borrowed typewriter which I eventually wore out . But > he was a naturalized citizen from Canada coming to the US in 1911 whe n he > was 6 years old. His father had worked on a farm in Southworld Station, Ont. > and left him with that family and returned to England when his wife and > second child died in childbirth. Dead end. So I tried to trace my great - > grand-Father's family. He dad had died in 1931 with hardly any family > nearby. So I tried to trace my great-grandmother's family and her mothe r was > Irving Emma Cater and all these years later I have forty chapters on th e > Caters and find new information each year. > > Back to Gabrielle---she married Robert Erskine Anderson Crofton. That i s > the connection. > > I have the Hagley library copying some of the letters. They told me the re > are over 200 letters and making up over 900 pages to be copyied. They a re > the one who mentioned the murder charge against Crofton. I am salivatin g. > > I have been told they lived at Fort Sheridan, Ill very close to Chicago . I > have googlesearched the internet and have found som pictures of the for t and > its many buildings. > > So Bob Rogers is a descendant of Phillip Crofton and Linzi is descendan t of > Henry and my (distant) cousin, Gabriella, married their brother. > > My address is 308 Walnut St., Paris, TN 38242. > > I know Linzi lives down under in Australia but where is Bob > located? > > Thanks for your help---I promise to share what I find and some copys of the > letters. > > Sincerely > > Jerry R. Teague