Tag: Apr 21

ROBERTS, Augustus ‘Gussie’ (1906-1963)

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Augustus ‘Gussie’ Roberts was born on April 21, 1906, in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco to Captain William Augustus Roberts Jr (1859-1932) and Edna Mae Brown (1886-1973). His siblings included Bertram Richard (1904), John (1908), Iola Elizabeth (1910), Thomas Paul (1915), Adeline Matilda (1917), Edna Caroline (1922). His half-siblings included Osborne

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CURRY, Thomas Herman (1890-1958)

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Green Turtle Cay’s pineapple industry was in decline by 1890.  The local men turned to the sea to harvest one of nature’s unique creatures, sponges.  The population of this seafaring, loyalist community known as New Plymouth had reached 1500. In April 1890, island residents – my great grandparents – Thomas Wesley Curry (1865-1940?) and Lilla Carleton Curry (1866) anticipated

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