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From: "Pam Thornbury" <pthorn(a)ihug.co.nz>
To: <MIDMARCH-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday 06 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MM] Gardner
Hello Wendy
"HMS Medusa" was Nelson's flagship in 1801. The inscription seems
to imply that JB Gardner was a Midshipman on that vessel. Have a
look at this website:
http://www.admiralnelson.org/ships.htm
Since Nelson thought so much of Gardner that he gave him an
inscribed telescope, you might want to look at his letters and
Despatches which may mention JB:
http://www.wtj.com/archives/nelson/
Pam
in New Zealand
> I have a telescope with the following inscription:
>
> Present from V. Admiral Lord
> Lise Nelson HB
> Duke of Bronte dc dc
> to J.B. Gardner Mid
> Medusa
>
> Borgo London
> Bansden
>
> I don't know where to start to get information. J.B. Gardner is
> somewhere in my family. I have tracked Henry and Elizabeth Gardner
> with their son, Charles from New York in 1850. They came from England
> and I have a 1890 paper that states that Charles was a native of Isle
> of Jersey and academically trained in both Channel Islands and France.
>
> Henry was listed in 1850 as a Gentleman.
>
> I am hitting a stone wall and the telescope is the only link I have.
>
> Thanks for any input on this.
> Wendy Settle
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