Jonathan Denny

From: Geoffrey
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 03:19:14 EDT
Subject: GOLDRUSH MOST WANTED - DENNY

Dear People,
According to a recently discovered newspaper (Wandsworth [Surrey, England] Borough News) obituary, published 4th October 1907, my wife's first cousin four times removed, Jonathan DENNY (1829 - 1907), was an adventurous man in his younger days:

'At twenty years of age, in 1849, the spirit of adventure led him to become one of the forty-niners, as they have since become known. He went to California, making a seven months' voyage to join in the rush for the newly-discovered gold fields on the American continent. In 1852 he returned to England and commenced business as a corn merchant.'

We would be very interested to 'hear' from anyone for whom this name 'rings bells'.
Yours, etc.
Geoffrey in Cambridgeshire, England.