16.2.09

Turtle Vail 1770

Between 1799 and 1804, Turtle and Elizabeth Vail baptised five children at St Nicholas Rochester in Kent. Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Amy Knight of Hartlip in Kent. Four more children were baptised at St Margaret's in Rochester from 1807 to 1813.
Turtle was described as a veterinary surgeon by his grandson, so he may have been a farrier.
As nearly 30 years had elapsed, I have assumed that this is the son born in Sussex in 1770 to Turtel Vail and Elizabeth Bedford.
I have been told that he died in August 1846 at Chatham in Kent.

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