Strangers in a Box

Could this be Winifred Elizabeth Hardie born 1900 in NZ?

2011-12-09T15:44:00.001+13:00

Subject: Unknown
Date: about 1903
Photographer: Robert Barcham, Petone, New Zealand

This one was a little harder to find as I didn’t have much to go on except for what you see above. I could find absolutely nothing on the ‘La Cigale Art Studios’ but I suspect it was the name of Robert Barcham’s Photography business. It’s taken me all day to finally click on to the fact that Robert’s surname is Barcham and not Bareham! I couldn’t understand why I was getting very few hits in the NZ BMD records online and those I did get weren’t helping at all.

I then found that Robert Barcham, photographer, in the electoral rolls was living in Masterton in 1900, by 1905 he had moved to Petone, in 1911 he was in Island Bay, Wellington, 1914 he’d moved to Woodville and by 1928 he was in Hastings where he lived until his death in 1960. For those not familiar with NZ Petone is not far from Wellington so the time frame for this photograph is probably just after 1900 to sometime between 1911 to 1914.

Armed with this knowledge I then searched through the electoral rolls for a Hardie family living in Hutt Park, Petone. I’m still not sure whether the initial before Hardie is an ‘R’ or an ‘M’, maybe neither. In 1905 I found George & Elizabeth Hardie living at Hutt Park, Petone, George was an engine driver while Elizabeth is listed as ‘married’. In 1911 Elizabeth Hardie was still living at that address & still ‘married’ but George wasn’t listed, however, it seems he didn’t die until 1930 so he should be there somewhere. In 1928 George shows up again but this time living at 101 Tinakori Rd, engine driver, living at the same address is Winifred Elizabeth, spinster, Elizabeth is not listed so she may be the Elizabeth Hardie whose death is registered in 1918 aged 56 yrs.

On checking the NZ BMD Indices I found the following:-

Births
1891/4605 Hardie Herbert John, Elizabeth & John George
1892/6264 Hardie Ernest Charles, Elizabeth & George
1893/7407 Hardie Cyril George, Elizabeth & John George
1894/13219 Hardie Harold William, Elizabeth & John George
1900/4188 Hardie Winifred Elizabeth, Elizabeth & John George

George’s full name was John George and checking back on the electoral rolls I found one entry for a John George Hardie in 1896 living in Tutaekara (Pahiatua region), he was an engine driver. Although they had been married for at least six years by then Elizabeth is not listed that year, perhaps it was too soon after women were first given the vote in 1893:-

On 19 Sep 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

There doesn’t seem to be a marriage for John George & Elizabeth in the NZ records, nor is there a death for a John George Hardie, no George fits the time frame but there is one George John who does:-

Deaths
1930/12250 Hardie George John 73Y

That gives a birthdate of 1857 which fits in with Elizabeth’s of 1862.

Papers Past was my next stop and here I found an article on Winifred’s marriage in 1928 to Charles Albert Ernest Purdey:-

From this we gather that the bride’s mother wasn’t there, Winifred was the only daughter and that although her father received the guests at the reception he didn’t give her away.

Then we have a coroner’s report on the death of John George Hardie aged 73 in 1930, but was this the right person? Further investigation brought up the final proof in the Public Trust Notice:-

One last note: Charles & Winifred Purdey had a son named Trevor Ian born in 1931 & died in 1947, he is buried with his father in the Karori Cemetery in Wellington. As far as I can find out they didn’t have any other children but as the NZ Birth Indices online stop at 1911 I can’t be positive about that. If it is the case then there are no descendants to claim Elizabeth’s photo, probably the very reason it ended up in a second hand shop.

References:
ancestry.com; NZ BDM Online; Papers Past; NZ History

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So there we have it, absolutely no proof whatsoever that the photograph is of Winifred Elizabeth Hardie but quite a nice lot of information about the Hardie Family of Petone & Wellington.

If any of the descendants of this Hardie family would like to have the above photograph (if it is her) I would be delighted to pass it on. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandoraatkc.net.nz

Amy Mary Trim 1870-1959

2011-12-08T15:58:00.000+13:00

Subject: Amy Mary Trim
Date: Jan 1893
Photographer: Henry Wayland, Rembrandt House, 11 Lee Road, Blackheath, Greenwich
Found: eBay

Births Mar 1870
TRIM Amy Mary Wandsworth 1d 596

Amy was the daughter of Albert Trim & Ellen née Stedman, born 31 Jan & baptised 27 Feb 1870 at St Luke’s Church in Chelsea, Middlesex:-

Albert was a clerk and they resided at 32 Lockington Rd, Battersea. However, in the 1871 census their address is given as 18 Lockington Rd:-

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 706; Folio: 55; Page: 36; GSU roll: 823343.

Albert Trim head mar 30 clerk born Isle of Wight, West Cowes
Ellen Trim wife mar 30 born Petworth Sussex
Beatrice E Trim dau 3 born Chelsea Mdx
Albert S Trim son 2 born Battersea Surrey
Amy M Trim dau 1 born Battersea Surrey

Albert was listed as being a ‘waiter’ on Amy’s marriage to Charles Kendall James in 1896:-

Charles & Amy James were at home in 73 Woodlawn Rd, Fulham, London on the night of 2 Apr 1911 along with her brother William Ernest Trim.

Charles & Amy had been married 14 years & had one child who had died. Dorothy Mary James had been born in the last quarter of 1897 and while visiting her maternal grandparents in Shorrolds Rd, Fulham was baptised at St John’s Church, Walham Green, Fulham on the 10 Jan 1898. Her death was registered soon after in the 1qtr of 1898 at Fulham RD.

So it seems there won’t be any descendants to claim Amy’s photograph but I’m sure there will be some family out there who are descended from any one of her five siblings:-

Beatrice Ellen 1867-1948
Albert Stedman 1868-1897
Tom Parker 1872-1953
Ada Fanny Elizabeth 1875-?
William Ernest 1879-1969

Their father, Albert, was born in West Cowes on the Isle of Wight about 1840. He was aged 8 mths in the 1841 census & living with his widowed mother, brother William and half sister Susan Parker aka Trim. Maria Parker married William Trim on 1 Jan 1832 at Northwood on the Isle of Wight.

Albert Trim married Ellen Stedman in the 3qtr 1865 in Kensington.

References:
ancestry.com; familysearch.org; FreeBMD; Isle of Wight Family History Society

Further details on this family may be seen on the Strangers in a Box database on WorldConnect.
If any of the descendants of this Trim family would like to have the above photograph I would be delighted to pass it on. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandoraatkc.net.nz

Trip to Queenstown

2011-12-08T15:39:00.001+13:00

This large group photograph was in a batch lot of photos I picked up in an antique shop. It looks to me to have been taken sometime in the 1970s or maybe 1980s. I’ve researched some of the names on the back and most if not all of the people seem to have lived in or around the area of Papatoetoe in Auckland. So I would think a social club of some sort. A friend of mine has identified the hotel in the background as being Eichart’s Tavern in Queenstown, NZ.

The names I can read are:- Jimmy Nield, R & Beverley Barthow, Christine Leckie, Margery & Des Sale, Janet Craig, John & Marie Brennan, George & Lorna Pearse, Jack & Wym Ivatts, Ron & Phyl Docherty, Mrs & Miss White, Dorothy & Roy Wilson, Alex & Nan Britton, Robert & Judi Tuppen, Hazel & Arthur Sloggett, Louise Hawley, Nora Murphy, Isabel Holmes, Paul, Gerry, Cathy & Marjorie Stewart. Two I can't read and a few are missing.

If you are related to anyone in this photograph and would like a copy of it please contact me, the first person to do so gets the original.

Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandoraatkc.net.nz

Henry Norton 1818-1893 - Mayor of Carmarthen

2011-11-29T11:27:00.001+13:00

Subject: Henry Norton
Date: before 1893
Photographer: T Fall, 9-10 Baker St, Portman Square, London West
Found: eBay

Photographer, Thomas Fall, was born on 19th October 1833 in Leyburn, Yorkshire. In 1867 Thomas Fall moved down to London to work as a photographer in the famous portrait studio of Elliott & Fry. By 1875 Thomas Fall had established his own photographic studio at 9 Baker Street, London. After he passed away in 1900 the new owners continued to trade under the name of Thomas Fall upto 1990 when they retired. However, it seems this Carte de Visite photograph was taken sometime in the 1890s when head & shoulders only became popular.

Written on the back is ‘Henry Norton father of Frances Marshall’.

Frances Annie Margaret Norton married Frank Marshall in the 4qtr of 1887, their marriage was registered in Carmarthen in Wales. Her birth was registered in Carmarthen also in the 4qtr of 1852.

1861 Census - Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 4141; Folio: 58; Page: 4; GSU roll: 543241.

Here we have Frances at home in 1861 with her parents and four siblings, living at Green Hill, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. Henry was a ‘Common Brewer & Coal Proprietor’, aged 42 born in Longstone Hall, Derbyshire. From that I ascertain that he is most probably the Henry Norton found on the IGI, bap 27 Sep 1818 at Great Longstone, Derbyshire, parents Charles & Elizabeth Norton.

Then I was lucky to hit upon Henry when searching ancestry.com and found the same photograph in a family tree. His parents were Charles Edward Baron Norton & Elizabeth Tucker. Henry was a J.P and the Mayor of Carmarthen from 1859-1873.

References:
ancestry.com; familysearch.org; FreeBMD; Sussex PhotoHistory

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He is most probably well documented on the Internet so I won’t do any further research. If anyone has Henry Norton in their family tree and would like this photograph of him I’d be happy to pass it along at no cost to you. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update of the Strangers in a Box database on WorldConnect.

Dawn Scotting

The Burke Family of Mangatoki

2011-11-10T17:48:00.000+13:00

Subject: Burke Family
Date: c1925
Photographer: James McAllister, Stratford, New Zealand

I found this photograph on TradeMe in 2009 but at the time wasn’t able to place the family at all. Now that the NZ Electoral Rolls are available online I gave it another go but I still wasn’t able to pin them down. It wasn’t until I was searching in Papers Past that all of a sudden there they were after I inadvertently left out the ‘o’ in Bourke:-

I searched on both spellings and found quite a lot of entries, mostly in the Stratford area.

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Alexander Sydney Burke married Lena Maria Dorothy Hartwig in 1899 in New Zealand (Lena’s birth registration name was Lena Cathrina Maria Hartwig).

1900/17318 Burke Rene Gladys Lena Maria Dorothy Alexander Sydney
1902/1698 Burke Unita Sylvia Lena Maria Dorothy Alexander Sydney

The various newspaper articles & electoral rolls puts them living in and around the Mangatoki area of Stratford, Taranaki. They had two daughters, Rene Gladys born 1900 and Unita Sylvia born 1902.

Alexander wasn’t born in NZ so I searched further afield for him. His daughters were bridesmaids for an Albert Thomas Burke also of Mangatoki so I thought they might have been brothers. I searched the NZ BMDs and found that Albert was the son of William & Martha and on the new familysearch.org site I found their marriage plus four birth records of their children. Unfortunately Alexander Sydney wasn’t one of them! So I resorted to wending my way through the 8833 instances of the name ‘Burke’ in the two Taranaki papers where I struck gold!

William & Martha Burke must have arrived in NZ sometime before 1879 when the first of their NZ children was born. I’ve had no luck in finding them in a passenger list yet. Here is their marriage:-

groom's name: William Burke
groom's age & status: 23, single
bride's name: Martha Smith
bride's age & status: 22, single
marriage date: 20 Nov 1866
marriage place: Killoughter, Cavan, Ireland
groom's father's name: William Burke
bride's father's name: William Smith

And a small tree with the children I’ve found so far.

                          William Burke - Martha Smith
                                              m 20-11-1866
                   St Columba Church, Killoughter, Co Cavan, Ireland
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Children born in Drum, Co Monaghan, Ireland
Richard    John William Alexander Sydney Mary Anne James Robert
18.9.1867   -17.1.1869-          -c1871-         -23.8.1873-   -14.2.1875-

Children born in New Zealand
Samuel Joseph Henry Albert Thomas Robert Charles Lillian Norman
-1879 - -1882 - -1883 - -1885 - -1888- -23.6.1893-

St Columba Church, Killoughter, Co. Cavan on the left & the small village of Drum which is in Co. Monaghan but within one mile of the Cavan border. It is located 16 miles from the county towns of both Cavan and Monaghan and four miles from Cootehill in Co. Cavan. Drum Village is the Republic's only Protestant Village and is strongly Presbyterian.

References:
ancestry.com; NZ BDM Records; familysearch.org; Google Maps, Colin Boyle/flickr.com
Church photograph © Eric Jones and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

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Further details on this family may be seen on the Strangers in a Box database on WorldConnect.
If any of the descendants of this Burke family would like to have the above photograph I would be delighted to pass it on. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

The Flower Family of Whangarei, New Zealand.

2011-07-28T00:24:00.000+12:00

A few years ago I picked up a handful of candid photos plus 3 studio photos that all seemed to be connected somehow, it wasn’t until a week ago that I was able to finally connect most of the people in them thanks to ancestry.com having the NZ Electoral Rolls available.

Some of the photographs are addressed to Auntie Hazel so it seems some of her photographs have found their way into an antique shop after she passed away. I’m sure there must be some descendants of the Flower family who would love to have these photographs back again.

The first one is “To dear Auntie Hazel from wee Merle Flower, aged 1 year & 9 months”

Second is “Owen Lawrence Flower, 6 weeks old”.

Merle Jean Flower was the daughter of Wilfred Sydney Flower & Edna Rowe neé Conaghan, probably born sometime before 1928. Wilfred & Edna also had two sons, Donald Barrie & Desmond Wilfred. Alfred Sydney had four siblings one of whom was Lawrence Vivian. Lawrence married Mabel Jane Fussell in 1925 so I would presume they are Owen’s parents in the photo. Lawrence & Mabel may have also had a daughter Lola Joy.

Another brother was John William Flower who married Hazel Evelyn Coup 1936 in Whangarei, presumably she is Auntie Hazel. The last sibling is Catherine Margaret Flower who married George Percival Moore in 1923.

Best Wishes to Hazel from Lizzie and below Lizzie & Luther are the couple in the middle.

To me the middle girl in the first photo looks very much like a younger version of the Lizzie in the second photo. They are both quite small candid photos so I’ve enlarged them for comparison. The second photo has the date of Aug 1951 and ‘4 West View, Wooldale’ written on the back along with the names of the people. I’ve Googled the address but the only Wooldale I can come up with is in Yorkshire, England. So it’s a mystery as to who Lizzie & Luther are at present.

On the front of this photograph is “Dear ‘Aunty’ Hazel and ‘Joe’, Best Wishes for the coming Year from Angus, Evelyn Wilson and family”. I found Angus & Evelyn Wilson living in Paparoa Northland in 1946 which is just a hop, step & a jump from Pahi, Angus was a soldier then, don’t know how they might be connected to the Flowers though.

This one was taken on 16 Mar 1956 at Lake Okataina in Rotorua, the ladies are listed thus on the back ‘Effie, Doris, Elsie, Hazel’, so I think that means Hazel is the one on the left hand end.

This is a photograph of the Dressmaking Staff at D W Jack & Sons of Banks St in Whangarei.

Here you can see the premises of T G Palmer Photographers in Cameron St, Whangarei.

I’m not sure just which one of the two girls in the front Maggie Flower is and neither have a I found a Margaret Flower so far except for Catherine Margaret who could have been known by her middle name. The ‘To Billie with love’ is interesting because the photo below is addressed to ‘Billy with love 1931’.This one is taken in the Bell Studios in Auckland. I didn’t originally think this photo was connected to the Flowers but with both of them being addressed to Billie/Billy it seems like there could be a connection, unfortunately Electoral Rolls don’t give nicknames!

There could be a resemblance between the woman in this photo and the one on the left of the three woman apple pickers above.

The small Flower family tree I found is:-

Sydney Flower married Elizabeth Downie in 1899 in New Zealand. Sydney was born in NZ in 1871 but there are no parents names listed on his birth registration entry. Elizabeth was the daughter of Peter & Margaret Downie & was born in NZ in 1879.

Sydney & Elizabeth had the following children:-

1911/1401 Flower John William Elizabeth Sydney m Hazel Evelyne Coup
1901/2964 Flower Wilfred Sydney Elizabeth Sydney
1899/17449 Flower Lawrence Vivian Elizabeth Sydney
1903/2244 Flower Catherine Margaret Elizabeth Sydney

Their various spouses & children are listed above.

References:
ancestry.com; NZ BDM Records; Coup Family Tree; Vans Family Archive

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If any of the descendants of the above Flower family would like to have these photographs please get in touch with me. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update of the Strangers in a Box database on WorldConnect.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Skinner Family of Cranbrook, Kent & Sussex.

2011-07-13T00:09:00.000+12:00

Subject: Mary Ann Skinner (supposed, not proven)
Date: c1900
Photographer: Henry W Tubb, Portland Rd, Hove
Found: Sussex, UK

Nick Miskin in the UK very kindly sent me these photographs from an offer he sent to a genealogy magazine, luckily for me no one else claimed them and I became the lucky recipient. I had thought they might be connected to my Skinner family who were from Sussex, sadly that was not the case. However, they are such lovely photos I thought there must be someone connected to them out there who would treasure them so I set about trying to find out who they were.

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From the information that was sent to me with the photographs and various other sources I’ve been able to glean the following:-

On the 9 Apr 1787 James Skinner married Mary Carpenter in St Mary’s Church, Sellindge, Kent. On the marriage entry James is listed as being a bachelor from Beckley, Sussex and Mary a spinster from Sellindge. Witnesses: Sarah Collings and Francis Godden.

On the 29 Mar 1789 James & Mary had a son, Jacob, baptised at Sellindge.

On the 13 Jan 1810 Jacob Skinner married Phoebe Crampton in St Dunstan Church, Cranbrook, he is listed as a bachelor from Staplehurst, Kent and she a spinster. They had at least five children:-

25 Dec 1814 Susanna dau Jacob & Phoebe - at St Dunstan, Cranbrook
19 Apr 1818 Mary Ann dau Jacob & Phoebe - at All Saints, Staplehurst
14 May 1820 John son Jacob & Phoebe - at All Saints, Staplehurst
10 Nov 1822 Jacob son Jacob & Phoebe - at All Saints, Staplehurst
17 Sep 1826 James son Jacob & Phoebe - at St George, Camberwell, Surrey

These three burials were in the Staplehurst parish registers:-

30 Sep 1827 Jacob Skinner abode Cranbrook, aged 38 years
25 Nov 1829 James Skinner, aged 68 years
23 May 1833 John Skinner, aged 13 years, abode Frittenden

Jacob dying two years before his father & other son John a few years later. That puts James’ birth year at about 1761, nothing further found on James.

Jacob’s widow, Phoebe, remarried on 1 May 1828 to John Fenn at All Saints, Maidstone and in the 1841 census they were living at Milkhouse St, Cranbrook with their son Charles Fenn and Phoebe’s son Jacob Skinner (born 1822), ages were rounded down to the nearest 5 years in 1841.

Milkhouse Street – a hamlet in Cranbrook parish, Kent; 2 miles northeast of Cranbrook. It contains the church of Sissinghurst chapelry, a Wesleyan chapel, and ruins of an ancient Church of England chapel. The following was found on the qwiki.com site:-

Sissinghurst is a small village in the county of Kent in England. Originally called Milkhouse Street, Sissinghurst changed its name in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang. The nearest railway station is at Staplehurst. Sissinghurst is situated with Cranbrook to the south, Goudhurst to the west, Tenterden to the east and Staplehurst to the north. It sits just back from the A229 which goes from Rochester to Hawkhurst. Sissinghurst's history is similar to that of nearby Cranbrook. Iron Age working tools have been found and the village was for centuries a meeting and resting place for people travelling towards the south coast.

The following is part of a headstone found in the Cranbrook churchyard:-

In Memory of Jane: wife of William Hoad and daughter of Robert and Jane Crampton: aged (44 years?) also of Phoebe: wife of John Finn and daughter of Robert and Jane Crampton who died May 25 1845 aged 56 years.

This gem was sent to me by Carol who I found online soon after my research started, it was written by her Great Grandfather Walter George Skinner, Jacob & Phoebe’s grandson, when he was 99 yrs old:-

Grand Mother’s maiden name was Phoebe Crampton, B. 1790, and my Grandfather, Jacob Skinner, B.1787, was a Carrier. Made two trips per week to London. He had a good business and moved in the upper classes. When my Grandfather died (Jacob I) my father ran away after the funeral. He was only 3 years old, a woman took him back to his home. After a while his mother (Phoebe) married a man named John Finn. He turned out to be no good. He got away with a fortune. He hated my father (Jacob II) and Father reciprocated in full measure. When he was 12 years old he walked from Cranbrook Common to Brighton 50 miles, got a job as page boy and was blessed with a wonderful memory, memorized both speeches of Prime Minister Ben Disraeli & Gladstone & recited them for entertainment at the hotel. (The hotel was The Royal Oak Hotel & has been newly refurbished and opened last year, 2010, as a hotel again.)

Jacob would have been 12 yrs old in about 1834 but as he was at home in Cranbrook again by the 1841 census it seems his exciting life in Brighton must have ended all too soon.
In 1851 he is living at Hazelden Common, Cranbrook listed as a single 27 yr old lodger in the home of William Potter. (Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1619; Folio: 105; Page: 13; GSU roll: 193520.)

By 1861 he was still in Cranbrook, now married, he was listed as an ag lab servant living in Cambden House, the home of John Wilson a retired schoolmaster. Living in a Cambden Cottage was his wife Mary & daughter Ellen. (Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 507; Folio: 96; Page: 22; GSU roll: 542651.)

1854 25 Dec SKINNER Jacob m Mary Hayward, Cranbrook Parish

Marriages Dec 1854
Hayward Maria Cranbrook 2a 773
Skinner Jacob Cranbrook 2a 773

But I get a bit ahead of myself here! With the photographs came this piece of paper, handwritten on both sides:-

From this I gathered that these were the children of Jacob’s brother James & his wife Julia:-

1849 16 Jan SKINNER James m Julia Elizabeth Manwaring, Cranbrook Parish

I had found James & Julia in the 1851 census with their two young children George & Mary Ann plus John Fenn listed as ‘father in law’, John turned out to be not Julia’s father but James’ step-father. They were also living in Hazelden Common, five houses away from Jacob. (Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1619; Folio: 106; Page: 14; GSU roll: 193520.)

That was when I realised that the Ellen listed above was the daughter of Jacob & Mary so after much toing and froing between the IGI and all the various census up to and including 1911 I found that all the children listed on one side of the paper belonged to Jacob & Mary and the other side was Julia’s death along with her son George the following day.

These are then the children I have for Jacob & Mary (first 3 children died in a plague):-

Walter James born 30 Oct 1855 died 11 Apr 1859 Cranbrook, Kent
Rosa Ann born 30 Jun 1857 bap 11 Oct 1857 died 16 Apr 1859 Cranbrook, Kent
William Alfred born 8 Aug 1858 died 18 Oct 1858 Cranbrook, Kent
Ellen born 21 Feb 1860 Cranbrook bap 6 May 1860 mar 1892 (Charles Pearson) died 1937 Croydon, Surrey
Walter George born 10 Dec 1861 Sissinghurst mar Ellen Josephine Pirtle died 25 Jan 1962 Illinois, USA
Alice born 1867 Sissinghurst mar 1895 (Albert Martin) died 1945 aged 77 Hastings, Sussex
Clara born 1869 died 1894 aged 25 Cranbrook, Kent
Mary Ann born 1871 Sissinghurst mar 1891 (William Grace Mihill) died 1952 Brighton, Sussex
Bertha Elizabeth born 1874 Sissinghurst (living in Hastings in 1911 but nothing further known)
Hilda Julia born 1878 Sissinghurst mar 1899 (Christian P Christenson), nothing further known
Eveline (Evelyn) born 17 May 1879 Sissinghurst died 1976 Hastings, Sussex

All of these photographs originally belonged to Evelyn who was a housekeeper for Nick’s father before he married. Evelyn never married, she was apparently a talented artistic lady who painted watercolours, wrote poetry and was the author of a book published about 1960 (title unknown). She lived in Hawkhurst, Kent before 1938 when she moved to Hastings, Sussex, in the 1950s & 60s her address was in St Leonards on Sea, Sussex.

Subject: Unknown
Date: c1899
Photographer: Thomas Donovan, 1 St James’s St, Brighton
Found: Sussex, UK

This is another of the photos sent to me, couldn’t make up my mind whether this was a girl or boy, I thought probably boy because of the short hair but posted it onto a RootsChat group to get an expert opinion about it including the date, the consensus was a boy with this sage advice from Jim:-

The seated artist by Marion Imp Paris was a design registered in 1892. The Reg. No. 41062 is in the bottom right hand side of the card & on the left hand side is the date code. Although MIP date codes aren't an exact science this one appears to give the date of 1899.

More on the photographer Thomas Donovan can be found on this website.

So what was Evelyn’s connection to these photos? Apart from her having lived in Hove in 1911?

1911 Census
Reference RG14PN5201 RG78PN229 RD80 SD2 ED27 SN26
25 Boundary Rd, Hove, Sussex
Evelyn Skinner lady help 31 spinster born Cranbrook
(living with two elderly sisters)

There was one other photograph that had me puzzled for quite awhile:-

Up until I found Carol I was unable to find a marriage for Evelyn’s sister, Mary Ann, as there were too many Mary Ann Skinner marriages to know for sure which one she was.

Marriages Dec 1891
Mihill William Grace     Brighton 2b 560
Skinner Mary Ann       Brighton 2b 560

Carol had known Gerald when she was younger as he was a cousin of her mother’s, ‘Gerald Myhill also called "Geoff or Jeff", born in England as he had a rich English accent. He was a dispatch rider in WWI & rode a cycle between Amien and occupied Germany. He had a wife & girl child in England’.

Back of postcard photograph of Gerald giving the date of 1 Sep 1915 and his British Army service records .

Here we have his marriage before the war & the birth of his son after the war, apart from the death of Edith in 1945 nothing more is known of Edith or son Charles:-

Marriages Mar 1912
Mihill Gerald G Wille Stockton 10a 121
Wille Edith Mihill Stockton 10a 121

Births Mar 1920
Mihill Charles R Wille Paddington 1a 135

Deaths Dec 1945
Mihill Edith 53 Brighton 2b 311

Soon after the birth of his son we find Gerald arriving at Ellis Island:-

First Name: Gerald
Last Name: Mihill
Ethnicity: English
Last Place of Residence: Brighton, England
Date of Arrival: Jul 24, 1920
Age at Arrival: 27 Gender: M Marital Status: M
Ship of Travel: Baltic
Port of Departure: Liverpool
Manifest Line Number: 0011

The ship’s manifest says he was going to stay with his Uncle W G Skinner who lives at 123 Indiana St, Chrisman, Illinois for an uncertain period. He was 5’ 10” tall, had a pale complexion, brown hair & grey eyes & was born in Brighton, England, read the ship’s manifest here.

The next available US census wasn’t until 1930, I found Gerald living at Melrose Place 105, Peoria Twp, Peoria Co, Illinois with his second wife Julia & a new son Kenneth W aged 2. Here it seems he was called up for WWII in 1941:-

Gerald died on the 5 Jun 1986 and was buried in the Alton Cemetery, Madison Co, Illinois. Nothing more is known of Julia or Kenneth (by me).

Back to his parents in England, I found them in the 1901 census living in Aldrington, Hove:-

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 939; Folio: 67; Page: 20.
1 The Parade, Station Rd, Aldrington, Sussex
William G Mihill 47
Mary A Mihill 30
Gerald G Mihill 7
William G Mihill 4
Evelyn M Mihill 3
Gladys C Mihill 1

That was when I realised that Gerald could be the young boy in the second photo at the top of the page. I also had those photographs dated to around 1900, the boy looks to be about 5 or 6 so that puts the photos taken about 1898 as Gerald was born in Dec 1892. Which means that his mother, Mary Ann, is the person in all four photos although the first one may be another sister, the other three photos definately look to be the same person to me (& others I asked). Around 1899, Henry W Tubb set up a photographic studio in Portland Road, Hove, opposite Portslade Railway Station. Describing himself as an "Artist Photographer", Henry Tubb took studio portraits at his Portland Road studio.

Which brings me to the last two photographs, these are of an older woman, both look to be the same person to me:-

I couldn’t find much on the photographer William A Dennis except that he was living in Croydon in the 1901 census. I had these photos dated too and it seems they were also taken around 1900 with the second one being no later than 1904. On the back of the small photo is this:-

Another sister of Evelyn & Mary Ann, Alice, married Albert Martin in 1895 and this address is the exact same address they were living at in the 1911 census. Alice was born in 1867 so if this photo was taken around 1900 she would have been only 33 and the woman in the photo looks to me to be in her 60’s at least. Which leads me to believe they might be photos of their mother, Mary neé Hayward, born about 1836, she was living with Alice in the 1901 census in Hastings, Sussex. Yet another sister, Ellen, was living in Croydon with her husband & children in 1901 & 1911 so maybe Mary lived with both daughters from time to time.

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That brings me back to Jacob’s brother James Skinner born 1826 in Camberwell, Surrey.

Another excert from 99 yr old Walter George Skinner’s letter:-

My mother's maiden name was Mary Hayward. Their 3 first children died during a plague, she had nursed my Uncle James’ wife who died. Uncle James took his 3 daughters and went to Australia Gold mining making an independent fortune. For some reason he lost it. He married again and saved enough to put him in good shape.

James Skinner’s wife, Julia, died on the 15 Mar 1859 & was buried at Cranbrook. This is where I came unstuck slightly with the names of their children. We know from the above that their son, George, died the day after his mother so that left me three daughters to find. The eldest, Mary Ann, was aged 1 mth in the 1851 census (taken on 30 Mar) so I knew this birth reg was hers:-

Births Mar 1851
Skinner Mary Ann Cranbrook 5 94

Then I had a bit of luck and found a website about the Monaro Pioneers of NSW in Australia and their database of the settlers & their descendants. The children listed for James are:-

Mary Ann born 1851
Ellen born 1853
Julia Elizabeth born 8 Jun 1856

Births Jun 1856
SKINNER Julia Elizabeth Cranbrook 2a 448

There doesn’t seem to be a birth reg for Ellen but in 1853 there is this one:-

Births Sep 1853
Skinner Susan Cranbrook 2a 401

Susan doesn’t seem to appear in any census after that and there is no death reg for her so one wonders if there was either a mistake on her birth reg or her name was changed later?

From searching the Australian NSW Historical Indices I found the following marriages for James’ 3 daughters and a possible marriage for him plus his death a few years later:-

Marriages
3338/1869 ROBINSON JOHN W SKINNER MARY A QUEANBEYAN
3296/1872 BOWMAN ISAAC SKINNER ELLEN QUEANBEYAN
2313/1875 THOMAS FRANCIS ERNEST SKINNER JULIA ELIZATH COOMA
4591/1878 SKINNER JAMES SPOONER ANNA QUEANBEYAN

Deaths
7002/1882 SKINNER JAMES AGE 58 YEARS DIED PARRAMATTA PARRAMATTA

You will find more on the Australian Skinner family on the Monaro Pioneers website.

Final note: I was unable to find out what happened to Phoebe’s son, Charles Fenn, after the 1841 census. John Fenn’s death was registered in the 2qtr of 1853 in Cranbrook.

References:
ancestry.com; Ellis Island; Find My Past; FreeBMD; IGI;
Kent Look-up Exchange; Mid Kent Marriages Index;
Monaro Pioneers; NSW BDM Historical Records;
RootsChat Photograph Dating; Sussex PhotoHistory;
Staplehurst Genealogy & Local History.

Disclaimer: Most but not all of my research on this family has been verified, you must do your own research to be sure it is 100% correct.

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Many thanks must go to Carol Zeilbeck Motley who helped me so much with anecdotes & details from her Skinner family history & without whom I would never have found out so much. Also, thanks to Cindy whose Phoebe Crampton-Skinner-Fenn burial first put me on the right track. Roz from the Kent Look-up Exchange was also very helpful with look-ups in some of the Kent parish registers. Thank you ladies.

If you managed to read right to the end of this saga you will realise I have found a home for the photographs but I’d be very happy to send other descendants high resolution copies of them so please don’t hesitate to contact me if you are connected to this Skinner family in any way. You might just find a few new rellies along the way!

Here is a link to the Strangers in a Box Family Trees on WorldConnect, updated today.

Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

One Lovely Blog Award

2011-03-07T15:09:00.001+13:00

Thanks to Julie of the Anglers Rest blog for awarding me the One Lovely Blog Award. It has been a lovely surprise and I am really delighted to receive it.

Here are the rules for accepting the award:

Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and their blog link.
Pass the award on to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered.
Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

I haven’t done any blog hopping in such a long time that I’m going to have to fill in my picks gradually, I’ve started by choosing a few of my old favourites:

Emmeline Mary Christy 1868-1945

2011-01-06T23:10:00.001+13:00

Subject: Miss Emeline Christy
Date: before 1905
Photographer: Kingham, Victoria Studio, Cauldwell St, Bedford
Found: UK

This attractive young woman is possibly Emmeline Mary Christy born 1868 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire. I say ‘possibly’ because there is a marriage record for an Emmeline R Christy in 1910 although I cannot find a birth record for that Emmeline. There is one other birth record for an Emmeline Christie in 1856 but as that was in Tynemouth I think it’s too far away from Bedford to be her. As Emmeline Mary lived in Ashwell, which is just over the border from Bedford where the photo was taken, I’m presuming Emmeline Mary is the right one.

Emmeline was the daughter of Henry Abram Christy and Matilda Ann née Christy who were married by licence in St Pancras Middlesex in 1860:-

Births Sep 1868
CHRISTY Emmeline Mary Royston 3a 282

Here she is at home with her parents in 1891 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire:-

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1101; Folio 25; Page 12; GSU roll: 6096211.

And with her widowed mother in 1901 in Ashwell:-

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1292; Folio: 26; Page: 10.

I had no end of trouble finding Emmeline in the 1911 census but came up trumps when I searched for her leaving the birth year blank. She had taken 5 years off her age, obviously because she had married a man 16 years her junior!

Reference RG14PN17227 RG78PN1059 RD371 SD1 ED22 SN88

Marriages Sep 1905
Christy Emmeline Mary Pancras 1b 55
TOTT Arthur Christopher Pancras 1b 55

After 5 years of marriage with no children Emmeline possibly died without issue but we’ll just have to wait for the 1921 census to find out! She died in 1945 and Arthur in 1953:-

Deaths Dec 1945
Tott Emmeline M 77 Wigton 10b 620

Deaths Jun 1953
Tott Arthur C 68 Wigton 1a 181

Emmeline’s parents both left wills when they died in 1897 & 1907:-

England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941

Deaths Jun 1897
Christy Henry Abram 61 Royston 3a 257

Deaths Dec 1907
CHRISTY Matilda Ann 73 Royston 3a 338

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to Emmeline Mary Christy please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Is this Joseph Gould Bullingham 1849-1910

2011-01-06T12:50:00.001+13:00

Joseph Gould Bullingham was born in Bromsgrove Worcestershire in 1849, the son of Henry Bullingham & Sarah née Gould.

Births Mar 1849
Bullingham Joseph Gould Bromsgrove 18 246

JOSEPH GOULD BULLINGHAM
Christening: 07 FEB 1849 Bromsgrove, Worcester, England
Parents:
Father: HENRY BULLINGHAM
Mother: SARAH

HENRY BULLINGHAM
Marriages:
Spouse: SARAH GOULD
Marriage: 28 OCT 1846   Bromsgrove, Worcester, England

Marriages Dec 1846
Bullingham Henry    Bromsgrove 18 312
Gould Sarah     Bromsgrove 18 312

In 1880 Joseph married Mary Ann Rendle and they had a son named Francis Carl born soon after.

Marriages Mar 1880
Bullingham Joseph Gould Strand 1b 745
RENDLE Mary Ann Strand 1b 745

Joseph died in 1910 & Mary Ann in 1925:-

Deaths Dec 1910
Bullingham Joseph G 61 Wokingham 2c 238

England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941
Bullingham Mary Ann of 46 Eastern-avenue Reading widow died 13 Jun 1925 Probate London 31 Jul to Francis Carl Bullingham farmer. Effects £4951 7s 9d.

Below are the various census entries for Joseph Gould from birth to death:-

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2047; Folio: 75; Page: 24; GSU roll: 87456-87457.
1851 Census
Star & Garter Inn, High St, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Henry Bullingham head mar 26 innkeeper & farmer born Bromsgrove
Sarah wife mar 24 born Worcester Worcestershire
Gould son 2 born Bromsgrove
Ann dau 6m born Bromsgrove

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 2113; Folio: 79; Page: 6; GSU roll: 542919.
1861 Census
Hanover St, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Henry Bullingham head mar 68 butcher & farmer born Bromsgrove
Elizabeth wife mar 64 shopkeeper (green groceer) born Inkberrow Worcestershire
Joseph G grson 12 scholar born Bromsgrove

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2119; Folio: 24; Page: 41; GSU roll: 831796.
1871 Census
8 Eton Place, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon
Joseph G Bullingham head unm 22 photographer born Bromsgrove
3 siblings & mother at home

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 2197; Folio: 53; Page: 16; GSU roll: 1341529
1881 Census
7 Eton Place, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon
Joseph G Bullingham head mar 32 photographer employing 5 men, 4 women, 2 boys born Bromsgrove
Mary wife mar 30 born Plymouth Devon

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1427; Folio 59; Page 4; GSU roll: 6096537.
1891 Census
Stebbing Park, Stebbing, Essex
Joseph G Bullingham head mar 42 farmer born Bromsgrove
Mary A wife mar 40 born Plymouth St Andrews Devon
Francis C son 9 scholar born Plymouth St Andrews Devon

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1155; Folio: 117; Page: 10.
1901 Census
Hartley Court Farm, Shinfield, Berkshire
Joseph Bullingham head mar 52 farmer employer born Bromsgrove
Mary wife mar 50 born Weymouth Devon
Amelia Bullingham sister in law mar 46 born Preston Lancashire

Reference RG14PN6624 RG78PN328 RD122 SD1 ED11 SN73
1911 Census
Hartley Court Farm, Nr Reading
Francis Carl Bullingham head 30 mar farmer employer born Plymouth Devon
Ida Bullingham wife 30 mar 5 yrs 2 children 2 living born Somerset
Mary Ann Bullingham mther 60 widow independent income born Plymouth Devon
2 daughters Evelyn Mary 4 and Frances Kathleen 2 both born Wokingham Berkshire

Although his occupation is listed only as ‘farmer’ in the two census before his death it seems he was still practicing as a photographer in 1897 as I found mention of him having taken the photos of various people on this website here including the Countess of Essex.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
National Portrait Gallery

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Disclaimer

I originally thought this was a photo of J G Bullingham but in the course of my research I found that Joseph was also a photographer and at some stage was in business with William Heath. I can’t make up my mind about his name on the back of the photo either, is it finely hand written or is it a stamp made from his signature? So that leaves the question as to whether this is a photo of James Gould Bullingham or just a photograph taken by him of someone unknown? I would have thought if it meant he was the photographer then it should say ‘photographer’ and not just ‘photo’.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to Joseph Gould Bullingham please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto either a family member or someone interested in Heritage Photography. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

May Charlotte A Sproule 1862-1945

2011-01-06T00:55:00.001+13:00

Subject: May or Mary Sproule
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Lambert, 82 Milsom St, Bath
Found: UK

Marriages Sep 1899
Hess George Ralph Marylebone 1a 1460
Sproule Mary Charlotte A Marylebone 1a 1460

May (or Mary) is proving to be an enigma to find in any of the census before she was married although she is at home with George in the 1901 & 1911 census:-

Reference RG14PN115 RG78PN4 RD2 SD1 ED28 SN99
1911 Census
4 Harrington Court, Sth Kensington, London
George Hess head 54 mar stock jobber employer born Liverpool
May Hess wife 48 mar 11 years no children born Bath, Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 12; Folio: 23; Page: 38.
1901 Census
32 Newton Rd, Paddington, London
George Hess head mar 44 stock & share dealer born Liverpool
Mary Hess wife mar 38 born Somerset

As May/Mary didn’t have any children there will be no descendants to claim this lovely photograph of her but as you can see there is at least one child of one of her older brothers in the 1881 census so hopefully there are more generations who are still living.

Unfortunately there is no birth registration listed on FreeBMD for a May or Mary Charlotte A Sproule and this is where it gets murky as to what her given name was. From her age in the above census she was born about 1862 in Bath and as you will see from the following census entries she is listed variously as May or Mary:-

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 2873; Folio 118; Page 5; GSU roll: 6097983.
1891 Census
12 Rock Park, Bebington, Birkenhead, Cheshire
Margaret Ellen Sproule head wid 63 living on own means born Horling Kent
Lalla Sproule dau unm 40 born Bath Somerset
May Sproule 28 teacher of English born Bath Somerset
Elsie Wilcox visitor mar 40 born Bath Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 2434; Folio: 129; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341586.
1881 Census
2 Lynvale Villas, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James Sproule M.A. head mar 68 vicar of St Mark's Lyncombe parish born Dublin Ireland
Margaret Sproule wife mar 53 born Hawling Kent
Kate Sproule dau unm 30 born Bath Somerset
Margaret Sproule dau unm 27 born Bath Somerset
May Sproule dau unm 18 born Bath Somerset
Daisy Sproule grdau 8 scholar born Holborn Middlesex

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2484; Folio: 55; Page: 44; GSU roll: 835195.
1871 Census
2 Lynvale Villas, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James Wm Sproule head mar 58 vicar of Lyncombe Bath born Dublin Ireland
Margaret En Sproule wife mar 43 born Habling Kent
Edward Banks Sproule son mar 22 medical student born Bath Somerset
Eliza A Sproule dau unm 20 born Bath Somerset
James W B Sproule son unm 19 scholar born Bath Somerset
Margaret A Sproule dau unm 17 born Bath Somerset
Adela C A Sproule dau unm 13 born Bath Somerset
Mary Ernesta Sproule dau unm 8 born Bath Somerset

It looks like the census enumerator mixed up the names of the two youngest daughters and they probably should have been listed as - Adela Ernesta aged 13 & Mary C A Sproule aged 8.

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 1689; Folio: 10; Page: 13; GSU roll: 542851.
1861 Census
3 Widcombe Cres, Widcombe, Somerset
James W Sprowle head mar 48 vicar of Lyncombe Bath born Dublin Ireland
Elizabeth E Sproule dau 10 born Bath Somerset
James W B Sproule son 9 born Bath Somerset
Margaret A Sproule dau 7 born Bath Somerset
Frederick Sproule son 5 born Bath Somerset
Ada E Sproule dau 3 born Bath Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 749; Folio: 73; Page: 25; GSU roll: 542695.
1861 Census
Margaret Ellen Sproule sister mar 33 clergyman's wife born Halling Kent
staying with brother Wm J Banks 38 landed proprietor born Swansea Glamorgan

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1942; Folio: 146; Page: 21; GSU roll: 221101.
1851 Census
3 Widcombe Cres, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James W Sproule head mar 37 curate of Lyncombe Bath born Ireland
Margaret E Sproule wife mar 23 born Haling Kent
Edward B Sproule son 2 born Bath Somerset
Eliza A Sproule dau 9 mths born Bath Somerset

Marriages Jun 1848
Banks Margaret Ellen Eastry 5 203
Sproule James William Eastry 5 203

Then I found a few Sproule probates that more or less confirmed most of the above:-

UK National Probate Calendar 1861-1941

Sproule The Reverend James William 29 June. The will of the Reverend James William Sproule late of 2 Lyn-Vale-villas in the Parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe in the City and Borough of Bath Clerk who died 5 May 1881 at 2 Lyn-Vale-villas was proved at Bristol by Margaret Ellen Sproule Widow the Relict and Eliza Amelia Sproule Spinster the daughter both of 2 Lyn-Vale-villas and George Edgar Lawrence of 31 Claverton-street in the City and Borough of Bath Surgeon the Executors. Personal Estate £425 15s.

Sproule Margaret Ellen of 27 West-park Whiteladies-road Clifton Bristol widow died 27 Sep 1904 Probate London 23 Nov to Eliza Amelia Sproule spinster and William John Willcox architect Effects £498 14s 10d.

Sproule Eliza Amelia of Strand House Ringmore Teignmouth Devonshire spinster died 6 Aug 1931 Probate Exeter 3 Sep to Margaret Annie Sproule and Ada Ellen Ernesta Sproule spinsters. Effects £2943 3s 4d.

Sproule Margaret Annie of Strand House Ringmore Teignmouth Devonshire spinster died 4 Nov 1933 Probate Exeter 30 Nov to Ada Ellen Ernesta Sproule spinster. Effects £4877 17s.

Hess George Ralph of Pavillon Miraniar Mentone Alpes Maritimes France died 23 Jan 1924 Probate London 12 May to Mary Charlotte Annie Hess widow. Effects £2938 18s 8d.

May/Mary’s husband, George Ralph Hess, died in France in 1924, she herself died in 1945 in the UK so no will found for her as yet (the Probate Calendar only goes up to 1941):-

Deaths Mar 1945
Hess Mary C A 82 Newton A 5b 226

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to May/Mary Charlotte A Sproule please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

More on John William Anderson of Owanyilla, Queensland

2010-12-17T13:08:00.001+13:00

Further to my post on 26 Oct 2009 more information about John has come to light.

I received an email with this information:-

“J.W.Anderson was the Head Teacher of Owanyilla State School from Jan 1890 to - ??? (possibly till mid-1900s) Will try to confirm later.
He had 3 children attending the school 1. 'Jno' Norman Anderson (1891) 2. Mable Anderson (1895) 3. Robert Anderson (1895).”

From this I was able to find the following entries in the Queensland BMD Indices:-

1948/C709 John Norman Anderson John William Margaret Wood
1942/C3647 John William Anderson - - ** born Sunderland, England aged 80 years
1930/C1814 Margaret Anderson Andrew Wood Isabella Davidson

There was only one death for a John Norman Anderson. On further investigation I found the death of John William Anderson, unfortunately it didn’t give his parents’ names but it did give his age at death and where he was born which helped immensely. I then searched in the UK for his birth and possible marriage and this is what I found:-

Births Sep 1862
ANDERSON John William Sunderland 10a 413
Births Sep 1887
ANDERSON John Norman Sunderland 10a 587

FreeBMD Marriages Dec 1886
ANDERSON John William Newcastle T. 10b 38
WOOD Margaret Newcastle T 10b 38
Marriage venue - St Philip, Elswick (from Newcastle.gov.uk)

With another stroke of luck I hit upon the downloadable records of the Index to Registers of Immigrant Ships' Arrivals 1848-1912 where I found the following entries:-

ANDERSON John W 24 Merkara 15 Nov 1887 IMM/122 317 Z1964 M1702, M1703
ANDERSON Margaret 29 Merkara 15 Nov 1887 IMM/122 317 Z1964 M1702, M1703
ANDERSON John N Inf Merkara 15 Nov 1887 IMM/122 317 Z1964 M1702, M1703

After a little searching of Australian newspapers I found in the ‘Brisbane Courier’ an account of the R.M.S. Merkara arriving on the 16 Nov 1887 from London where it left on the 19 Sep 1887. Although John W Anderson’s name is not mentioned in the article there is a small mention of him (presumably):-

“The children also came in for their share. They have been fortunate in having a properly qualified schoolmaster to instruct them. He took both pains and pleasure in his work, so that the school was not the farce it usually is. Upwards of thirty books were given away as prizes, after which the children were regaled with cakes, sweets, etc.”

This 1881 census entry seems like it might be John William at home with his parents & siblings:-

The whole family are listed as being born in Sunderland, Durham except for the father who was born in Scotland. Nothing found on the IGI in Scotland for John M Anderson but here’s a possible marriage, the same quarter that son John William’s birth is registered:-

Marriages Sep 1862
Anderson John Mills Sunderland 10a 500
Crawford Jane Sunderland 10a 500

I also found the family living at the same address in the 1871 census. I haven’t gone any further back on Margaret Wood’s or Jane Crawford’s lines but could possibly do more research if there is an interest in them.

Today I noticed that the Trove Digitised Newspapers had found an obituary for me in the ‘Cairns Post’ dated 30 Sep 1942. It seems like there were more children for John Wm & Margaret and it gives a little more information about John Wm’s life:-

MR. JOHN WILLIAM ANDERSON.

Mr. J. W Anderson died recently at Childers. He had 53 years' duty as a public school teacher, and was at Innisfail when it was named "Geraldton." After retiring from the service, he lived on a cane farm which he acquired for his sons. His wife pre-deceased him in 1930. He was 80 years of age, and leaves three sons, three daughters, twelve grand-children, and one great great grandchild.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
Queensland Historical Records
Queensland State Archives
Trove Digitised Newspapers

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to John Wm Anderson please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address. Many thanks to Cynthia for her help in furthering the research on this photograph.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Leaving a Comment

2010-07-16T09:29:00.001+12:00

If there is anyone still waiting for a reply from me then it is because you haven’t left me a viable email address to contact you. Please everyone, if you are wanting more information on any of the photographs and/or postcards I’ve posted you MUST leave an email address or else contact me on the address provided at the end of every article.

Mary Snowden 1815-1888

2009-11-24T14:10:00.001+13:00

So far I haven’t been able to ascertain Mary’s maiden name. The cemetery is unknown to me but possibly in Diddington or Cuckney where Mary was born, this is the information on her headstone:-

ILMO Mary the beloved wife of James Snowden who died April 5th
1888 aged 72 years. Beloved in life, lamented in death.
Also of Alfred son of the above who died Oct 7th 1882 aged 30 years.
His end was peace. And interred at Laughton.
Also Harry son of Alfred & Sarah Ann Parker, who died Nov 30th
1885 aged 13 years. Not lost but gone before.

Deaths Jun 1888
SNOWDEN Mary 72 Worksop 7b 23

Deaths Dec 1882
Snowden Alfred 30 Sheffield 9c 284

I’ve followed Mary & James through all the census from 1881 going back to 1841, they were living in Dinnington Yorkshire in all of them. I found the following children for them:-

Walter, Harriet, John, Sarah Ann, Henry, Alfred, James, Mary E & Maria.

Walter was 8 mths old in the 1841 census (taken 6 Jun) so that puts his birthdate sometime in Sep/Oct 1840.

Births Dec 1840
Snowden Walter Worksop 15 633

Mary was born in Cuckney, Nottinghamshire and the Worksop registration district includes Cuckney & Diddington. I then looked for a marriage for Mary & James and came up with this one, also in Worksop:-

Marriages Dec 1839
BLAND Mary    Worksop 15 1215
SNOWDEN James     Worksop 15 1215
WALTERS Mary     Worksop 15 1215

Unfortunately there were two Marys getting married in that quarter so I can’t say which one might be her. I’m not even sure that this marriage is theirs although it fits the criteria perfectly ie marriage in the parish of the bride and one year before their eldest child is born.

Why I’m not sure is that I have found quite a few family trees on ancestry.com that all give Mary’s maiden name as TURNER, however, none of them give a source and I’ve been unable to find a marriage between a James Snowden and a Mary Turner.

The Cuckney parish record baptisms have been extracted to the IGI from 1813 only. There is a Mary Ann Turner bap in 1818 but Mary does not give her name as Mary Ann in any of the census, nor is the Ann on her headstone.

It now remains for someone to purchase the above marriage certificate to see if it’s the right one. If anyone does or can give me a source for the Snowden/Turner marriage please contact me.

James Snowden gives his birthplace variously as Haxey, Westwoodside or Isle of Axholme, all in Lincolnshire, this from Wikipedia:-

The village of Haxey lies between the villages of Westwoodside and Owston Ferry, forms part of the Isle of Axholme.

James was baptised on 25 Apr 1813 at Haxey, son of John Snowden and Sarah née Jennings. He died in the 4qtr of 1906 aged 93, his death is registered in the Eccleshall Bierlow RD.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
Wikipedia

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Snowden family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Rex A Thomas of Bridgwater, Somerset, UK

2009-11-21T23:15:00.001+13:00

Today’s photograph-postcard came with an old telegram, the only thing that immediately connected them to each other was the address of Blacklands, Bridgwater.

Subtracting 25 from 1849 I looked for a marriage in 1924 and came up with this one:-

Marriages Jun 1924
GILES Sidney R Thomas Bridgwater 5c 673
Thomas Ethel E Giles Bridgwater 5c 673

Births Sep 1898
Thomas Ethel Ellen Bridgwater 5c 335

Births Sep 1899
Giles Sidney Raymond Bridgwater 5c 321

Ethel Ellen Thomas was the daughter of Henry George (or George Henry) Thomas and Florence Ellen née Baker and there we have the connection with Rex Thomas:-

Births Mar 1914
THOMAS Rex A Baker Bridgwater 5c 503

Sidney Raymond, the son of Sidney Giles and Effie née Hunt, was obviously known by his middle name, in 1911 we find him & Ethel at home with their respective parents:-

Reference RG14PN14286 RG78PN858 RD306 SD2 ED10 SN58
1911 Census
28 Blacklands St, Bridgwater, Somerset
Henry George Thomas head mar 35 14 yrs Brewers Head Caskwasher born Taunton Som
Florence Ellen wife 33 mar 2 children 2 alive housewife born Bridgwater
Clifford William son 13 school born Bridgwater
Ethel Ellen dau 12 school born Bridgwater
Frederick Thomas cousin 32 unm postman PO Govt Serv born Taunton

Reference RG14PN14281 RG78PN858 RD306 SD2 ED5 SN61
1911 Census
172 St John St, Bridgwater, Somerset
Sidney Giles head 39 mar 16 yrs painter Railway Co. born Bridgwater Som
Effie wife 37 3 children 2 alive born Bridgwater
Raymond son 11 school born Bridgwater
Frank son 7 born Bridgwater
May Pearham niece 5mths born Cardiff

Going back one more generation – Henry George Thomas was the son of William & Jane Thomas. Florence Ellen Baker the daughter of John & Harriet Baker.

References:
ancestry.com
FindMyPast
FreeBMD

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Thomas or Giles families please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Ethel May Rudkin 1894-?

2009-11-20T16:18:00.001+13:00

This time we have four pretty postcards sent to Miss Ethel Rudkin on the occasion of her birthday. This one is dated 9 Apr 1920 and is sent from her nephew Leonard, son of her brother Walter.

Ethel May Rudkin was born on or near the 10 Apr 1894 in Witham, Essex, the daughter of Henry Rudkin and Ann née Dawson. Henry was the son of William Rootking and Harriet née Newcombe. William was the son of Isaac Rootking and Sarah née Cook. Isaac was born in Little Coggeshall, Essex but by 1841 was living in Witham where the Rootking/Rudkin family lived for at least the next century.

The last three postcards were all posted in 1913 & addressed to ‘The Parsonage’ which is a bit of a mystery as they were living at Power’s Hall End in 1911 which is the address on the 1920 postcard. Henry’s occupation was a Maltster so their home must have been an old parsonage.

Reference RG14PN10414 RG78PN553 RD201 SD4 ED3 SN42
1911 census
Powers Hall End, Witham, Essex
Henry Rudkin head 54 mar invalid (malster's lab) born Witham, Essex
Ann wife 56 mar born Gt Saling, Essex
Frank son 27 unm gen lab born Witham
Harry William son 24 unm plumber born Witham
Ethel May dau 16 unm daily serv born Witham

Apart from the three children living at home there were three other children.

Walter Charles 1879 who had married Edith Hicks in 1902, their son was Leonard born 1904.
Ernest George 1881 who married Annie Pawsey in 1910.
Eva Jane 1892, who was away from home working as a servant in Sussex, she married Bertie May in 1929.

Apparently there are a lot of other postcards from Ethel’s collection which were all bought at an auction in NZ many years ago, I purchased these four from TradeMe. I wasn’t able to find a marriage for Ethel although quite a few of the cards were valentines from an affectionate Albert. I wonder if she married him, perhaps they migrated to NZ, there must be a reason all the postcards turned up here. I had to laugh at one of her cards posted in Feb 1908, she would have been 15, “meet me Friday night outside just round the corner on the left, from one who loves you, Jim”. Did she make the rendezvous I wonder or did her parents lock her up when they saw the card? Silly Jim, didn’t he think her parents might see it, especially seeing he addressed it to Ethel c/o her mother!

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Rudkin family please do contact me, I would love to pass these postcards onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Fortescue William Harris 1821-1853

2009-11-20T01:41:00.001+13:00

Today’s photograph is unusual in that it is a photo taken from a watercolour miniature painting. Most probably taken to commemorate Captain Fortescue William Harris after his disappearance at sea in 1853.

Subject: Fortescue William Harris
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Tayler & Sainsbury, 158 Strand, London
Found: UK

Royal Geographic Society of London
Vol 1, Sessions 1855-6 and 1856-7, Nos. I to XI.

Harris, Captain Fortescue William, was born in 1821, educated at the Royal Naval School, and afterwards entered the merchant service. After many voyages to China, the East and West Indies, he was appointed to the command of the ' Madagascar' in 1852; went to Calcutta and back, and sailed on the 6th of March, 1853, for Melbourne, Victoria. He left Melbourne homewardbound on the 12th of August the same year, since which time nothing has been heard of the crew or ship, which is supposed to have foundered while coming round Cape Horn.

The Madagascar's Final Voyage

The Madagascar was a large British merchant ship built for the trade to India and China in 1837, which went missing on a voyage from Melbourne to London in 1853. The disappearance of the Madagascar was one of the great maritime mysteries of the 19th century and was probably the subject of more speculation than any other 19th century disappearance except for the Mary Celeste.

As a result of the Victorian Gold Rush the Madagascar was sent to Melbourne with emigrants under the command of Captain Fortescue William Harris. She left Plymouth on 11 March 1853 and, after an uneventful passage of 87 days, reached Melbourne on 10 June. Fourteen of her 60 crew jumped ship for the diggings, and it is believed only about three replacements were signed on. She then loaded a cargo that included wool, rice and about two tonnes of gold valued at £240,000, and took on board about 110 passengers for London.

On Wednesday 10 August, just as she was preparing to sail, police went on board and arrested a bushranger John Francis who was later found to have been one of those responsible for robbing the Melbourne Private Escort between the McIvor goldfield (Heathcote, Victoria) and Kyneton on 20 July. On the following day two others were arrested, one on board the ship and the other as he was preparing to board. As a result of these arrests the Madagascar did not leave Melbourne until Friday 12 August 1853 and after leaving Port Phillip Heads she was never seen again.

When the ship became overdue many theories were floated, including spontaneous combustion of the wool cargo, hitting an iceberg and, most controversially, being seized by criminal elements of the passengers and/or crew and scuttled after the gold was stolen and the remaining passengers and crew were murdered.

Apart from the small amount of information in the above articles nothing much seems to be known about Captain Fortescue William Harris, Google for a change is sadly lacking. I had no luck finding a baptism on the IGI but I did have a breakthrough with a marriage:-

27 May 1841 at the St Pancras Parish Church, Middlesex
Fortescue William Harris & Frances Margaret Sharpe Harvey, both full age, bach & spin, seaman. Fathers/Wm Clarke Harris, R.N. and W B B B Harvey, D..y?

Interesting to see the little note written on the side – No fees paid, poor & without money.

10 days later the 1841 census was taken – have you ever tried to find anyone with the name of Harris living in London in 1841? There was not one with the first name of Fortescue (or Fortesque) but 543 of them named William, and that was just the ones born about 1820! So then I tried Frances, only 28 of them! After scrolling through all the ones living in London I found this entry that I think could be them.

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 701; Book: 11; Civil Parish: St Anne Limehouse; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 20; Folio: 11; Page: 16; Line: 13; GSU roll: 438814.

William & Frances are living in the same house as a Master Mariner and at such a young age this could suggest it was when, or soon after, he was being educated at the Royal Naval School. He says he wasn’t born in Middlesex and Frances is from Scotland which is exactly where Frances Margaret Sharpe Harvey was born:-

Frances Margaret born 27 Sep 1818, daughter of William Harvey of Dublin and Margaret Sharpe spinster daughter of Francis Sharpe Comptroller of Leith. The births of four other children were noted on the same day in March 1819.

William Hervey Esqr of Dublin and Margaret Sharp resident in Leith and daughter of Francis Sharp Esqr Compt. of Customs there, after proclamation of banns were married 4 April 1810.

I’ve been unable to find anything further on either Fortescue or Frances after 1841, no sign of them in 1851, no further marriage for Frances or a death that I can say for sure is her.

I found a marriage for a William Clarke Harris, to Mary Legg on 13 Jan 1814 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, plus a son born in 1826 in Gillingham, Kent, but nothing for Fortescue or his sister:-

I also found a couple of little snippets about William Clarke Harris (the father) in the Royal Navy but that’s where it all came to a halt:-

"A list of the flag officers and other commissioned officers of His Majesty's fleet; with the dates of their respective commissions"
William Clarke Harris 18 April 1811

The Navy List, by Great Britain Admiralty
Officers on the Out-Pensions of Greenwich Hospital
Lieutenants
William Clarke Harris 28 Sep 1816

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
Google Books
IGI
Maritime-Connector
Medway CityArk
ScotlandsPeople
Wikipedia

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All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Albert Patrick D’Alessio 1872-after 1955

2009-11-17T01:51:00.002+13:00

A few days ago in another one of my rummages to find things to get rid of to make room for more I came across this little Birthday Book. The front cover has long fallen off so this is the front page.

I don’t really know why but I purchased this book from an old second hand bookshop many years ago, perhaps because I had just become interested in genealogy. I suppose I was fascinated that it was so old and apart from the cover was still in relatively good condition. I was thrilled to find it again because now I thought I might have a chance of finding out about the D’Alessio family and maybe even a descendant or two.

My research has been the most interesting I’ve done on any family so far and I hope I can do the story justice in the telling of it.

The book is of course the depository of birthdates of those near & dear to the owner and inside is a goldmine of birthdays, this is an example:-

All written in a very pleasant hand-writing style by the owner Albert P D’Alyssio. This is a list of all the names in this book, some with death dates written in next to them:-

Jan 04 Mary S D'Alessio. d 22 August 1933
Jan 06 Theodore G Weber
Jan 13 Kathleen Frances Rowley, 1910
Feb 02 Gladys Sinclair Thom
Feb 04 Anthony John Brickwood
Feb 11 I S John D'Alessio. d 12 July 1907
Feb 23 Bryan M Whitworth
Mar 11 Esther Joly
Mar 16 Albert P D'Alessio, Sat 1872.
Mar 16 Mabel Dorothea Rowley. d 1935
Mar 17 Mary S D'Alessio
Mar 24 George Sydney Herbert D'Alessio, 1877
Mar 26 Edward Hugh D'Alessio Rowley, 1902
Apr 02 Dorothy Gwendolin D'Alessio (Bunty)
Apr 14 Violet Vera D'Alessio, 1906
May 25 Dorothea Mary Rowley, 1905
Jun 18 Hildebrand S Barker, 1869
Jul 09 Margaret Wolters
Jul 16 Joan Brickwood
Jul 28 Winnifred Fanny Sabina D'Alessio, 1899
Jul 29 Edmond M Gibson, 1875
Aug 05 Emily Mortlock/85
Aug 09 A H Barker/63
Aug 09 John Geoffrey Rowe D'Alessio, 1908
Aug 22 Mary Sophia D'Alessio. died 1933
Aug 30 Blanche Winnifred F R D'Alessio. d 28 Aug 1952
Sep 01 David A D'Alessio, 1875
Sep 01 John T D'Alessio, 1875
Sep 07 1905 Wedding Day
Sep 12 John Vincent D'Alessio Rowley, 1907
Sep 29 Sophia D'Alessio
Oct 15 Graeme Charles Brickwood
Oct 18 Peter Alan Brickwood
Oct 27 Arthur F D'Alessio, 1880
Oct 30 Mabel D D'Alessio, 1873. Married June 1901
Nov 16 Edward Ronald D'Alessio, 1904
Nov 18 Elizabeth Madeline D'Alessio, 1943
Nov 21 Mrs Chasney
Nov 27 Edward S J D'Alessio, 1870. d 2 July 1947

At the end were a few pages titled ‘Autographs’ and on the first two was a list of dates & place names:-

Some of the names were illegible or unfamiliar to me but I did recognise some of them and it seems they are a list of the places Albert lived covering a span of 30 years.

So started the online research, the first place I headed for was the 1911 census on FindMyPast:-

1911 census
100 Cambridge Gardens, Notting Hill W. Kensington, London
Albert Patrick d'Alessio head 39 married 12 years 2 children 2 living Solicitor born Turkey (Smyrna) resident Naturalised 1893
Winnifred wife 32 born At Sea resident British by Parentage
Winnifred Fanny dau 11 born London
John Geoffrey Rowe son 2 born London

2 Adelphi Tce, Paignton, Totnes, Devonshire
Edward S J D'Alessio visitor 40 married 7 yrs 2 children 2 living clerk in holy orders born Smyrna Italian naturalised 1892
Vera Maude visitor 28 born Cuttach India BSubj
Edward Ronald visitor 6 born Poona India do
Violet Vera visitor 4 born Gresford North Wales do

Dorset County Asylum, near Dorchester, Dorsetshire
John Theodore D'Alessio patient 36 single no occupation born Italy resident Italian

As D’Alessio is an unusual name in the UK I looked for others and there were three of them in 1911, they all turn out to be brothers. Back another ten years to the 1901 census on ancestry.com, apart from one other D’Alessio family who don’t seem to be connected, I only found Albert this time:-

1901 census - Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1177; Folio: 24; Page: 39.
74 Montague Rd, West Hillingdon, Middlesex
Albert P D'Alessio boarder unm 29 solicitor born Asia Minor (naturalised BSubj)

After that I searched all the census for England & Wales and only found these two entries:-

1891 census - Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 979; Folio 95; Page 4; GSU roll: 6096089.
St Peter’s College, Radley, Berkshire
John Theodore D'Alessio 15 scholar unm born Constantinople (BSubj)
David Anthony D'Alessio 15 scholar unm born Constantinople (BSubj)

1891 census - Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 616; Folio 113; Page 5; GSU roll: 6095726.
Hampton Court Palace, Hampton, Middlesex
Edward S J D'Alessio visitor unm 20 scholar born Smyrna, Asia Minor
Albert P D'Alessio visitor unm 19 scholar born Smyrna, Asia Minor

David & John, were at St Peter’s College in Radley, Berkshire in 1891 where both Edward & Albert had also been studying, this from the College’s Register of 1847-1904:-

D'Alessio, Albert Patrick; left 1889
B.A. Ch. Ch. Oxf. ; Solicitor
2g Essex Street, Strand, W.C,

D'Alessio, Edward Samuel John; left 1889
B.A. Trin. Hall Camb. ; H.O. 1897 ; m. 1903 Vera Maude, 2 d. of G. E.
Manisty, Esq., late I.C.S., of Gresford, Denbighshire ; Chap, at St. Paul's,
Poona, from 1903
The Rev. E. S. J. D'Alessio,
Poona India

D'Alessio, David Anthony; left 1892 Ob. April 1897
D'Alessio, John Theodore; left 1892
Kadikeui Constantinople

D'Alessio, George Sydney Herbert; left 1894
Kadikeui Constantinople

Australia was my next stop where I hit the jackpot in the National Archives:-

So far this is what I have on Albert Patrick D’Alessio:-

Albert was born of Italian parents in Smyrna, Turkey on 16 Mar 1872. His parents were Isaac Samuel John D’Alessio and Mary Sophia (maiden name unknown). About 1885 he went to England to further his schooling where he studied at St Peter’s College in Berkshire and then became a Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Justice.

He became a Naturalised British Subject in 1893, was Articled (period of training) in Law in Feb 1894 and was Admitted to the Bar in Dec 1897.

On the 7 Sep 1905 in St Peter’s Church in Bayswater he married Winnifred Burgess (née Rowe), daughter of John Rowe (Lieut RN) and Sabina née Hill.

There seems to be a little mystery here because on his 1911 census form he wrote that he’d been married for 12 years and had two children, Winnifred aged 11 and John aged 2, the maths don’t quite add up. Now that I’d found that Winnifred was a widow I searched once more and found that she wasn’t a widow but had been divorced from Robert Percy Howard Burgess in 1904 and that her full name was Blanche Winnifred Frances Roseare Rowe, this from the National Archives in Kew:-

Item details J 77/821/4945
Context : quick reference
Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts
Record Summary
Scope and content Divorce Court File: 4945. Appellant: Blanche Winnifred Frances Roseare Burgess. Respondent: Robert Percy Howard Burgess. Type: Wife's petition [WX].
Covering dates 1904

So it seems daughter Winnifred was his step-daughter, full name Winnifred Fanny Sabina Burgess. Although he does list her as W F S D’Alessio in his birthday book in one of the other letters to the Australian Dept of External Affairs he mentions he has one son and one step-daughter.

Births Sep 1899
Burgess Winnifred Fannie S Brentford 3a 156

Births Sep 1908
D'Alessio John Geoffrey R Kensington 1a 118

Unfortunately the South Australian BMD Registration Office do not have online searchable indices so I thought that was that. Then, on relooking in the Australian Archives I came across these two applications for assisted passage by British migrants:-

D'ALESSIO John Geoffrey Rowe, Dorothy Gwendoline [nee CHASNEY], Elizabeth Madeline [Application by British migrants for assisted passage]
Contents date range 1955 - 1955 Extent
Location: Perth
D'ALESSIO Albert Patrick [Application by British migrants for assisted passage]
Contents date range circa 1948 - circa 1956 Extent
Location: Perth

Then this passenger list:-

Name: Mr J G R DALLESSIO
Date of departure: 5 December 1955
Port of departure: Southampton
Passenger destination port: Fremantle, Australia
Passenger destination: Fremantle, Australia
Ship: FAIRSEA
Date of Birth: 3 March 1910
Age: 45 (calculated from DOB)
Marital status: Married
Sex: Male
Occupation: Clerical
Passenger recorded on: Page 26 of 33
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The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Mr A P DALLESSIO Page 26 of 33
Mrs D DALLESSIO Page 26 of 33
Miss E DALLESSIO Page 26 of 33
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So it seems they weren’t very happy in Australia and must have gone back to England probably sometime before 1915. In the birthday book he has listed ‘6 July 1915 – Druces & Atlee’. I wasn’t really able to decipher the second word but after doing a little Googling I found a firm of Solicitors in London called ‘Druces & Atlee’ who had been there for over 200 years, that was when I realised the second word was ‘Atlee’.

The only D’Alessio records I found in the New Zealand BMD records are these two deaths & one burial:-

1980/27860 D'Alessio Dorothy Gwendoline 2 April 1910
1990/31840 D'Alessio John Geoffrey Rowe 9 August 1908

Purewa Cemetery & Crematorium
Surname D'ALESSIO
First Names Dorothy Gwendoline
Age 69 Years
Date of Death 13 Jan 1980
Religion Anglican
Ashes Disposal Scattered

John & Dorothy had a daughter, Elizabeth Madeline, born in 1943 so I’m presuming she came to NZ with them.

While I was doing the research on this family I was struck with wondering why a family born in Turkey with Italian roots wrote (and probably spoke) such perfect English. Their names seem to have been English spellings right from birth not later Anglicized. So back to Google for a little research on Smyrna. This is a review on a book written by Giles Milton “Paradise lost: Smyrna 1922”:-

Gripping account of a half-forgotten 20th-century war that ended in gruesome ethnic cleansing.The Levantine city of Smyrna (today called Izmir) in 1914 was a vibrant commercial metropolis of 500,000 on Turkey's western coast. These coastal areas had formed part of ancient Greece, writes veteran historian Milton (White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves, 2005, etc.), and even after the 11th-century Ottoman conquest Greeks remained the dominant minority. They constituted two-thirds of Smyrna's prosperous polyglot community of Christian Greeks, Armenians and Europeans mixing freely with Jews and Turks under a benign Ottoman governor. This apparent harmony deteriorated after Turkey entered World War I on Germany's side. Smyrna's Christians mostly supported the Entente Powers, but the governor ignored orders from his superiors to persecute Greeks and massacre Armenians. At the war's close, the Treaty of Versailles gave Smyrna to Greece. Arriving in 1919 to an enthusiastic reception from their countrymen, Greek troops proceeded to loot the Turkish quarter, killing hundreds and enraging Turkish nationalists. Then Greek forces advanced deep into Turkey during a bloody three-year war. Finally overreaching themselves, they were crushed by armies under the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Pursuing the fleeing Greeks, Atatürk's forces reached Smyrna in September 1922 and engaged in an orgy of murder, rape and looting. They burned the city, leaving more than 100,000 dead, and eventually expelled more than one million Greeks from Turkey.

I’ve never read the book but by all accounts a fairly gruesome account of what happened in Smyrna in 1922, and somewhat contentious. Part of this report on the book by Adam Kirsch gives a little insight into the Levantine Dynasties of Smyrna:-

His primary focus is on the "Levantines," the families of European descent who dominated the city's commercial life, using their terrific wealth to create a bubble of graceful living in a sea of poverty, violence, and ethnic tension. Though the rich, well-connected Levantines suffered much less in 1922 than the vast majority of Smyrniots, Mr. Milton dwells on their dispossession and exile as though it were the heart of the story. In part this is because he is following his sources — he makes good use of the unpublished memoirs of Levantine exiles — and in part it is because the contrast between their gilded lives and their sudden ruin is dramatically irresistible.

For the Whitalls, Girauds, Woods, and other Levantine clans, Smyrna — in particular, the rich suburb of Bournabat — was indeed a paradise. They traced their descent from English, French, and Italian merchant families, and were legally citizens of home countries many of them never saw. But by the time of World War I, they had created a virtually self-sufficient aristocratic world. Members of the leading Levantine dynasties did business together, raced yachts together, admired one another's mansions and gardens, and above all, intermarried. "We called everyone aunt or uncle to be on the safe side," one of the Whitalls remembered.

I found a few transcripts of the Smyrna/Izmir church registers deposited by Chaplains in 1995-8 to the London Guildhall library for safe keeping:-

Church of All Saints Budjah, Register of Baptisms, marriages and burials 1866-1943.
1867 Anna Margaret, Isaac Samuel John & Mary Sophia D'Alessio, Budjah (abode), perf by J T Wolters.
1869 Anna Margaret D'Alesio aged 1, Smyrna (abode), performed by W B Lewis. (Burial)
1872 Albert Patrick, Isaac Samuel John & Mary Sophia D'Alessio, Budjah (abode), perf by J T Wolters.
1874 Mabel Dorothea, Isaac Samuel John & Mary Sophia D'Alessio, Budjah (abode), perf by J T Wolters.

Here you will find wonderful information on the Levantine people in Smyrna.

D’Alessio Family Tree

Anthony John D'Alessio, 1801-1864 (buried in Buca Cemetery)
(possible) father of
Isaac Samuel John D'Alessio, died 12.7.1907
+Mary Sophia Unknown, died 22.8.1933
==Anna Margaret D'Alessio, 1867-1869
==John Anthony D'Alessio, 1869-1869
==Edward Samuel John D'Alessio {Reverend}, 1870-1947
    +Vera Maude Manisty, 1882-?
    ....Edward Ronald D'Alessio, 1904-?
    ....Violet Vera D'Alessio, 1906-?
    ....Josephine C D'Alessio, 1917-?
==Albert Patrick D'Alessio, 1872-?
    +Blanche Winnifred Frances Roseare Rowe, 1874-1952
    ....John (Jack) Geoffrey Rowe D'Alessio {Reverend}, 1908-1990
        +Dorothy (Bunty) Gwendoline Chasney, 1910-1980
        ---Elizabeth Madeline D'Alessio, 1943-
==Mabel Dorothea D'Alessio, 1874-1935
    +Unknown Rowley
    ....Edward Hugh D'Alessio Rowley {Lieutenant-Colonel}, 1902-1994
    ....Dorothea Mary Rowley, 1905-?
    ....John Vincent D'Alessio Rowley {Governor of Darfur, Sudan},1907-1996
    ....Kathleen Frances Rowley, 1910-?
==John Theodore D'Alessio, 1875-?
==David Anthony D'Alessio, 1875-1897
==George Sydney Herbert D'Alessio, 1877-?
==Arthur F D'Alessio, 1880-?

References:
Adam Kirsch/NY Sun
ancestry.com
Archives NZ
Barnes & Noble
FindMyPast
FreeBMD
Google Books
IGI
levantineheritage.com
National Archives of Australia
National Archives UK
NZ BDM Records
Purewa Cemetery & Crematorium
The Internet Archive

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the D’Alessio family please do contact me, I would love the birthday book to find a new home. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

John William Anderson of Owanyilla, Queensland

2009-10-26T20:28:00.001+13:00

Subject: John William Anderson
Address: School House, Owanyilla, Queensland
Date: May 1891
Found: England

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find out anything about John (or Jonathan) Wm Anderson at all! The Queensland Historical Records have so many John William or William John Andersons listed that it would be impossible to say which one is him, if indeed any of them are.

On the back of the photo it also says ‘For Father’ and as this photo turned up in England I’m presuming John Wm migrated from the UK somewhere and was sending the photo back to his father.

Queensland Marriages
1904/B3426 Anderson John William Kirby Elizabeth
1918/C1669 Anderson John William McKenzie Kate
1890/C941 Anderson William Jonathan Carroll Maria

Deaths
1903/B3867 Anderson John William John Anderson Beatrice Ellen Reynolds
1912/C4133 Anderson John William John Anderson Margaret Robertson

The parents’ names listed on the Death entries turns up nothing on the IGI either.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
Queensland Historical Records

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Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Alice Pleace – 1869-1876

2009-10-26T14:20:00.001+13:00

Subject: Alice Pleace
Date: c1871
Photographer: Andrew Chandler, 419 George St, Sydney

There won’t be any descendants for this cute little girl but maybe there’s a family member out there who would love to have it.

Henry Pleace was born about 1828 in a place unknown, the first place I found him was in Sydney (Australia) when he married Alice Kippin in 1866.

445/1866 PLEACE HENRY KIPPIN ALICE SYDNEY

Henry & Alice had three daughters born in Sydney, none of whom survived to adulthood:-

NSW Births
1039/1867 PLEACE ELIZABETH C HENRY ALICE SYDNEY
663/1869 PLEACE ALICE HENRY ALICE SYDNEY
1654/1871 PLEACE EDITH HENRY ALICE SYDNEY

NSW Deaths
2073/1867 PLEACE ELIZABETH C HENRY ALICE SYDNEY
1304/1871 PLEACE EDITH HENRY ALICE SYDNEY
201/1876 PLEACE ALICE HENRY ALICE SYDNEY

I’ve been unable to find where Henry came from but Alice may be this one born in 1844 in Surrey, England, going by her parents names listed on her death registration:-

7599/1900 PLEACE ALICE WILLIAM ELIZABETH SYDNEY

Alice Kippin
Christening: 09 JUN 1844 St Johns, Clapham, Surrey, England
Father: William Kippin
Mother: Elizabeth

But without an age at death it’s hard to say for sure. Henry’s death registration gives his age but not his parents’ names:-

1319/1882 PLEACE HENRY AGE 54 YEARS DIED SYDNEY

The following children are all for a William & Elizabeth Kippen but there is a 21 year gap between the youngest and Alice so either she was baptised many years after she was born or she doesn’t belong to this William & Elizabeth:-

JAMES THOMAS KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 08 APR 1810 Mitcham, Surrey, England
JOHN KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 06 AUG 1815 Mitcham, Surrey, England
JABEZ KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 29 DEC 1816 Mitcham, Surrey, England
HENRY KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 04 FEB 1821 Mitcham, Surrey, England
WILLIAM EDMUND KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 22 SEP 1822 Mitcham, Surrey, England
MARIA ELIZABETH KIPPEN - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 28 DEC 1823 Mitcham, Surrey, England

In the 1851 census in England there is an Alice Kippin born in Mitcham which seems to suggest she is the sister of the above lot but she is aged 20 so IF the above baptism is her she was 14 when she was baptised.

1851 Census
Delamere Cottages, 24 Park Cres, Lambeth, Surrey
Alice Kippin serv unm 20 born Mitcham, Surrey

She also could be the daughter of this William & Elizabeth who were married in Wiltshire in 1846, no children on the IGI for them though:-

WILLIAM KIPPIN Marriages:
Spouse: ELIZABETH PRATTEN
Marriage: 28 SEP 1846 Trowbridge, Wiltshire

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
NSW Registry of BDMs

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Pleace or Kippin family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Abel Snook 1834-1907

2009-10-22T13:58:00.001+13:00

Abel Snook was born about 1834/5 in Radstock, Somerset, the son of James Snook and Jane née Witcomb. He is living at home aged 6 in the 1841 census:-

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 948; Book: 8; Civil Parish: Radstock; County: Somerset; Enumeration District: 10; Folio: 17; Page: 26; Line: 21; GSU roll: 474600.
1841 census
Radstock, Somerset
James Snook 25 coal miner yes
Jane Snook 32 yes
Lency Snook 10 yes (Louisa)
James Snook 8 yes
Abel Snook 6 yes
Isaac Snook 2 yes

Abel followed in his father’s footsteps and became a miner in the coal mines. He was still living at home with his parents and older brother, James, in 1851 but by 1861 he had left home and we find him lodging in Dudley, Worcestershire, miner aged 26 and unmarried.

By 1871 he had made his way to Australia where he married Mary Ann Newcombe in Hobart, Tasmania. They had two children, George William 1873 and Charles Stansell 1875:-

SNOOK, ABEL
Gender: Male
Birth 1835 -
Marriage/Relationship: 1871 - HOBART,Tasmania ( NEWCOMBE, MARY ANN )
Death:
FAMILY INFORMATION
Children:
271195 SNOOK GEORGE WILLIAM 1873
271196 SNOOK CHARLES STANSELL 1875

References:
ancestry.com
Archives Office of Tasmania
FreeBMD
IGI
Jewell Family Tree

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Snook family please do contact me. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address. I’m happy to say that I’ve made contact with a descendant related to Abel already but I’d still be pleased to hear from anyone else.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

William Norton Hill – 1861-1929

2009-10-21T16:20:00.001+13:00

Subject: William Norton Hill
Date: 6 Jun 1884
Photographer: Marshall Wane, 82 George St, Edinburgh
Found: UK

William Norton Hill was born in Bristol in 1861.

Births Jun 1861
HILL William Norton Bristol 6a 69

Back then Bristol was variously referred to as being in Somerset or Gloucestershire so the county boundaries have changed over the years. William was the son of Henry Hill and Maria née Reynolds who also had two other children – Henry Reynolds 1859-1871 and Emma Maria 1862-1871.

Marriages Sep 1857
Hill Henry Isle of Wight 2b 691
Reynolds Maria Isle of Wight 2b 691

Henry & Maria lived in Bristol all their lives, Henry was a Printer employing quite a few men & boys in most census, they died 1883 & 1885 respectively.

Deaths Mar 1883
HILL Maria 64 Bristol 6a 13

Deaths Dec 1885
Hill Henry 74 Bristol 6a 31

In 1898 William married Florence Mary Marsh in Bristol where they had at least four children – Henry Reynolds 1900, Dorothy Grace 1903, Thomas Norton 1906 and Emily Joyce 1907.

Marriages Sep 1898
Hill William Norton Bristol 6a 119
Marsh Florence Mary Bristol 6a 119

William followed in his father’s footsteps with his occupation being Printer & Stationer in the census.

Deaths Mar 1929
Hill William N 67 Bristol 6a 345

Deaths Dec 1931
Hill Florence M 52 Bristol 6a 204

Son Henry Reynolds is not at home in the 1911 census and although they say that their 4 children are all still alive, I can’t find him anywhere, nor can I find a marriage or death for him in FreeBMD. Daughter Dorothy may have married in 1929 and Emily in 1935 although I’m not 100% certain about them.

Marriages Sep 1929
Field Cecil A Hill Bristol 6a 435
Hill Dorothy G Field Bristol 6a 435

Marriages Dec 1935
Ham Arthur F B Hill Bristol 6a 266
Hill Emily J Ham Bristol 6a 266

References:
ancestry.com
FindMyPast
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Hill family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Mrs Parker of Post Office Creek

2009-10-19T19:12:00.001+13:00

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Somewhere in the middle of this map is or was a place called ‘Post Office Creek’. Dunedin is off to the right of the map.

The Waipori Goldfield was discovered in December, 1861, when gold was found on the Yerterburn, afterwards named the Post Office Creek. It developed into a rich and important alluvial field. The Waipori Valley is about twelve miles in length, and has an average width of half a mile.

THE TRAQUAIR HUNDRED AGAIN.
Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 218, 4 April 1872, Page 3
This Hundred, which has been the cause of so much litigation and legislation, has again obtruded itself on public notice. The Post Office Creek diggings, it appears, which were formerly a portion of the Tuapeka Goldfield, have been included in the boundaries of this hundred. This was not known to the parties working there till recently, when an application was made to buy land contiguous to the workings. On the Post Office Creek there are about twenty Europeans and sixty Chinaman engaged in mining. About twenty- five miles of races have been cut, and including these races and dams, &c, there is mining property to the extent of £4000 or £5000 in value, at a low estimate. The selling of land on this diggings would necessarily impede mining operations, if it would not cause their suspension altogether, thereby causing great pecuniary loss, besides throwing a number of men out of employment, and locking up a large area of auriferous land. A deputation from the miners of the Creek, accompanied by Mr. Cable, waited upon the Waste Land Hoard on Wednesday, the 27th ult., and represented the matter. The deputation were requested to put in a written statement. The miners propose that the boundaries of the hundred should be shifted back to the top of the dividing range. "Were that done, it would give them ample room. We are informed that the matter is to be placed in the hands of the Waipori Mining Association. We have little doubt but that on the matter being properly represented, the Waste Land Board will see their way to acceding to the wishes of the miners.

THE COURTS.
Tuapeka Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4563, 2 July 1898, Page 3
Chas, Joseph— Water-race, Post Office Creek, Waipori, — Objected to by Jas. Parker.
Jas, Parker — Water-race, Post Office Creek, Waipori, — Objected to by Chas. Joseph and party.

POST OFFICE CREEK (WAIPORI) GOLD MINING COMPANY.
Otago Witness , Issue 2359, 11 May 1899, Page 20
Mr S. E. Brent has forwarded us the following copy of the report from the mine manager (Mr S. B. Carpenter), dated 2nd May, 1899: " Commenced sluicing on Friday last and have continued since. The ground already opened shows a good prospect. If the rest of the claim should prove to be equally good, the shareholders may safely consider that they own a very valuable property."

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A CLAIM.
Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4720, 10 January 1900, Page 4

Date and No. of Miner's Right: 7/6/99; No. 6179. Dated this 4th day of January, 1900. SCHEDULE. Locality where land is situated and its area —At Post Office Creek, Waipori, a short distance below the gorge within the special claim applied for by applicant by application No. 177/99, being the extended alluvial claim granted to J. R. Parker and F. Parker by license No. 137/99. Area, about 3 acres.

The above is a short exert from an application to take over the claim originally granted to J R & F Parker.

WARDEN'S COURT.
Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5436, 8 May 1907, Page 3
Horace L. Parker : Extended alluvial claim of about 4 acres, Post Office Creek, Waipori.

WARDEN'S COURT.
Tuapeka Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5673, 8 September 1909, Page 3
James R. Parker. — Tail race in block VI., Waipori survey district, commencing at north west corner of applicant's special alluvial claim No. 325/09.

By now you’ll be wondering what this is all about! This photograph is what put me onto the search for a place called ‘Post Office Creek’ probably somewhere near Dunedin:-

After searching many many more newspapers than the ones above I came to the conclusion that I was probably looking for a J R Palmer. On searching the NZ BMDs I found two getting married around the right time frame:-

1898/845 Margaret Josephine McDevitt James Robert Parker
1909/4730 Annie Thomson James Rollo Parker

After a bit more Googling I discounted James Rollo after finding mention of him being in Gisborne (in North Island, Dunedin being in the South Island). More Googling and I suddenly hit the jackpot in one of the forums on ancestry.com:-

Hi ya, looking for any info on the descendents or ancestors of this couple my great grandparents.
Margaret was born 1872 in Alexandra, her parents listed on marriage license as James McDevitt and Annie nee Madden? James Robert was born 1865 in Dunedin, married Margaret in 1898. His parents listed as James Parker and Annie nee Sullivan?

With fingers crossed the message wasn’t too old I posted a reply to Chrissy asking her if her ancestors have ever been in Post Office Creek and this morning the answer came back:-

“Yes they were definately at Post Office Creek Waipori. Also James father who was also James Parker and his wife Annie nee Sullivan. I dont have any pics of either of them.”

We don’t as yet know just which Mrs Parker she might be, and sadly may never know, but I leave that up to Chrissy now. This time I’m thrilled to have found a descendant before I posted my article!

References:
ancestry.com
NZ BDM Records
Papers Past

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I would still love to hear from anyone else who might be connected to the Parkers of Post Office Creek. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Mr MacCorhan or McCrohan of Melbourne

2009-10-18T21:18:00.001+13:00

Subject: Mr McCrohan
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Foster & Martin, Melbourne, Australia
Found: New Zealand

Without a first name I knew I wouldn’t be able to identify Mr MacCorhan but someone just may recognise him.

I looked in the Victorian Historical Index of BMDs and found only one entry of a McCorhan but after doing a little research in Google I think that perhaps the name should be McCrohan. On rechecking the index I found 141 entries for McCrohan.

There is a website for the McCrohan name worldwide and I did find some McCrohan photographs including a house in Melbourne built by Eugene McCrohan and also a family photo but it’s hard to say if this gentleman belongs to that family or not, I certainly couldn’t identify him being in the family photo.

Foster & Martin photographers seem to have been active in Melbourne from 1877 to about 1900.

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If anyone is able to identify the above gentleman please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Arthur Kenneth & Isabella Palmer

2009-10-18T15:59:00.001+13:00

Subject: Arthur Kenneth Palmer & Isabella McLaren
Date: Unknown (after 1915)
Photographer: Broma Studio, Nelson, NZ
Found: South Island, NZ

Arthur Kenneth Palmer was born on 04 May 1883 in Waimea West, Nelson, son of Charles Arthur Palmer and Janet née Kerr. On 28 Apr 1915 he married Isabella McLaren in the Parish Church, Wyndham, Otago. Isabella was born on the 16 Aug 1878 at Camphill, Wyndham, Otago, the daughter of John McLaren and Agnes née Hosie. I don’t know if Ken & Isy had any children.

References:
NZ BDM Records
IGI
Register of NZ Presbyterian Marriages

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Palmer family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Alma May Lee Brody or Broily or ???

2009-10-18T14:41:00.001+13:00

This time I’d like to enlist your help – what do you think Alma’s surname is?

I thought it was BRODY, other people have come up with BROILY or BROELY or BROOLY – whatever it is there is no Alma May Lee under any spelling I can think of in the NZ BMDs. Which leads me to believe that either she was born after 1909 (the cutoff date for searching the NZ records online) OR the photograph was posted to someone in NZ (found in South Island) from another country. I also search the marriages & deaths, still nothing. There is no photographer’s logo on the photo so I can’t even work out when it was taken from that either.

All in all a mystery baby, posting the photograph anyway in the hopes that someone may know her.

Another thought is that the name is spelt phonetically from listening to someone speaking with a foreign accent, could be something like BRIERLEY.

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I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Frederick Richard Theobald – 1859-1903

2009-10-17T01:37:00.001+13:00

Frederick Richard Theobald was born c1859 in England and died Aug 1903 in Westport, New Zealand. His burial record, at the Orowaiti Old Cemetery in Westport, said he was interred on 31 Aug 1902 but his death registration was in 1903. His burial record also says he was born in England and died of natural causes aged 44 yrs.

1903/5642 Theobold Frederick Richard 44Y

I have found no record of him being born in England nor in any of the census there before he was married in NZ in 1891.

Inangahua Times, Volume I, Issue 84, 6 August 1891, Page 2
Yesterday one of those pleasant incidents which, as a rule, occur but once in a lifetime, took place in the Church of England, when Mr F. Theobald and Miss Alice Kirby were married by the Rev. Mr Wilson. Both bride and bridesmaids, sisters of the bride, wore dresses appropriate to the occasion, and needless to add the ceremony was witnessed by a congregation, mainly ladies. The bride and groom are well-known and respected residents of this district.

1891/1451 Alice Mary Kirby Richard Frederick Theobald

Alice Mary is buried in the same cemetery as her husband, she died of consumption and was interred on the 14 Aug 1909 aged 40 yrs.

1909/5921 Theobold Alice Mary 40Y

Also buried in the same cemetery is their daughter Rose Ellen Mary aged 63 spinster on the 6 Jul 1962, she was born in Reefton.

On his marriage registration he is listed as Richard Frederick and on the registrations of his childrens’ births he is listed variously as Frederick Richard or Richard Frederick.

Frederick & Alice registered the births of five children:-

1892/10838 Theobald Frederick Edward Alice Mary Richard Frederick
1894/13982 Theobald Alice Eileen Louisa Alice Mary Richard Frederick
1897/14445 Theobald Sydney James Alice Frederick Richard
1899/2747 Theobald Rose Ellen Mary Alice Mary Richard Frederick
1901/8523 Theobald Esther Julia Alice Mary Richard Frederick

Sydney died in 1912 so this photo was taken about 1904 to 1907.

1912/9227 Theobald Sydney 15Y
1960/37032 Thomas Alice Eileen Louisa 66Y
1962/38669 Theobald Rose Mary Ellen 63Y
1971/36056 Barrett Esther Julia 69Y
1972/28611 Theobald Frederick Edward 12 June 1892

References:
Buller District Libraries - Cemetery Enquiry
NZ BDM Records
Papers Past

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The following photograph came with the previous one and as it was taken at the same studio I thought the two photos might be connected to each other even though the writing is in a different hand. With no surname it’s impossible to tell. The ears have a certain similarity don’t you think?

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Theobald family please do contact me, I would love to pass these photos onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Eleanor Frances Pickmere – 1867-1959

2009-10-16T14:40:00.001+13:00

Subject: Eleanor Frances Pickmere
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Home Studio, Takapuna, NZ
Found: New Zealand

Eleanor never married so there won’t be any descendants for her but she did have quite a few siblings and I’m sure there must be someone out there who would love to have her photograph.

Eleanor Frances was the daughter of Ralph Pickmere and Serena Hannah née Matthews, born on 29 Sep 1867 in Northland, NZ. Her father, Ralph, had arrived in NZ on board the vessel ‘Mermaid’ in 1859 from England.

Mermaid
Ship: 1233 tons
Captain: J White
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Thomas Aickin
Sailed Liverpool July 11th 1859 - arrived Auckland October 19th 1859
Steerage Passengers
Pakmere Ralph

Her mother, Serena Hannah, was born in NZ on 16 Apr 1840, the daughter of Richard Matthews who voyaged with Darwin and Fitzroy on the Beagle to finally settle near his brother and fellow missionary, Joseph Matthews, in Kaitaia.

Ralph Pickmere was living at home in Warrington, Lancashire with his father (John Richard) and older brother in the 1841 census, his mother (Eliza née Thornhill) and two other siblings I couldn’t find:-

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 521; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Warrington; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 7; Folio: 11; Page: 15; Line: 22; GSU roll: 306907.

1841 Census
Bank St, Warrington, Lancashire
Jno Rd Pickmere 45 Attorney yes
Jno Rd Pickmere 15 yes
Ralph Pickmere 14 yes

I didn’t find Ralph in the 1851 census although his parents and siblings were still living in Lancashire, in later census his parents moved to Wales where John Richard died in 1875 and Eliza in 1887:-

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2202; Folio: 159; Page: 25; GSU roll: 87212.
1851 Census
Coalpit Lane, Newton in Makerfield, Lancashire
John R Pickmere head mar 56 proprietor of houses born Warrington
Eliza wife mar 46 born Prescot
Edward S son 13 born Warrington
Fanny C dau 11 ditto
Eliza B dau 9 ditto
Adela M dau 7 ditto

References:
ancestry.com
Donald Ferguson's Family Tree
FreeBMD
IGI
WorldConnect
http://www.wcc.net.nz/history4.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Mermaid1859.htm
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/
http://pearlspad.net.nz/AucklandRussell.htm

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Pickmere family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photograph onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

John Wickham of Mere, Wiltshire – 1790-1875

2009-10-16T00:05:00.001+13:00

Subject: John Wickham
Date: 1 April 1873
Photographer: Stanley, 32 Hertford St, Coventry
Found: UK

It took me awhile to work out what John’s surname was, at first it looked like ‘Wigham’ or ‘Wiigham’ or ‘Wugham’ or ‘Wicgham’. I had no luck finding any of those names in a census or FreeBMD or the IGI except for a few ‘Wighams’ but none of the right age. In the end I realised the G should have been a K – Wickham – and there he was!

Deaths Jun 1875
WICKHAM John 84 Mere 5a 156

I haven’t been able to ascertain who his parents were but I did find him in the various census with his wife and two children, he probably had more who had left home by the 1841 census so it’s hard to say if any of the other Wickhams born in Mere in the various census are his or not.

John was a Gardener by trade and in 1841 he is living with wife Mary, son John and daughter Eliza in Mere.

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 1183; Book: 4; Civil Parish: Mere; County: Wiltshire; Enumeration District: 13; Folio: 29; Page: 2; Line: 4; GSU roll: 464201.

1841 Census
Castle St, Mere, Wiltshire
Jno Wickham 50 gardener yes
Mary Wickham 50 yes
Jno Wickham 20 shoem. yes
Eliza Wickham 20 dressm. yes

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1850; Folio: ; Page: 1; GSU roll: 220997.

1851 Census (indexed under Wiehliam)
Castle St, Mere, Wiltshire
John Wickham head mar 60 gardener born Mere, Wilts
Mary Wickham wife mar 60 born Iwerne Minster, Dorset
Eliza Wickham daur unm 30 born Mere, Wilts

Son John had married Anna Perfect in 1844 and in 1861 they were living elsewhere in Mere with their seven children – Wm John, Jane, Julia, Edgar, Alick, Mary Harvey & Maria Kate. I took a stab that Mary’s middle name of Harvey was John’s mother’s maiden name & I found Mary Harvey on the IGI, she was the daughter of Bennet & Betty (née Applin) Harvey, baptised in Iwerne Minster on 21 Oct 1790, she died in 1870. I found no marriage for John Wickham to Mary Harvey on the IGI, that doesn’t mean to say there wasn’t one, just that the parish they were married at hasn’t been extracted to the IGI.

John & Mary Wickham were also living in Castle St, Mere in 1861 (indexed under Wahham) and John was still there in 1871 aged 80.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Wickham family please do contact me, I would love to pass these photos onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Katharine Mary Carrow – 1854-c1879

2009-10-15T01:20:00.002+13:00

Subject: Katharine Mary Carrow
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Elliott & Fry, Portman Square, London
Found: UK

Katherine Mary Carrow was baptised on 7 May 1854 in Johnston, Pembrokeshire Wales to Richard & Kate (née Castle) Carrow.

Births Jun 1854
CARROW Katharine Mary Haverford W 11a 678

Katharine Mary Carrow
Bap: 7 May 1854 Johnston, Pembroke, Wales
Parents: Richard & Kate Carrow
Batch #C081721

In 1861 & 1871 she was living at home with her parents & siblings in Pembroke. In 1875 she married Courtenay E Wellesley and they had at least two children - Edward Courtenay Cannock 1876 and Hyacinth M 1878.

Marriages Mar 1875
Carrow Katherine Mary Haverfordwest 11a 991
Wellesley Courtenay E Haverfordwest 11a 991

I was unable to find any sign of Katie & her family in any English census after she was married until I found her two children living with Katie’s sister, Alice Owen, in Cheshire in 1881. Hyacinth gave her birthplace as Colorado USA which led me to find Courtenay Wellesley living in Colorado in 1880 and in Dallas Texas in 1900. In 1880 he was listed as widowed, so Katie had died sometime before then, in 1900 he’s listed as married (no wife at home) and having migrated to the USA in 1875.

Katie’s daughter, Hyacinth, went onto marry Philip Maud in 1922 in London although I was unable to find her or her brother Edward in any English census after the 1881.

I was also unable to find a birth registration or a baptism on the IGI for Courtenay E Wellesley, I didn’t find him in any census before he was married either! I did find this little snippet when I was Googling which suggests the name Hyacinth comes from his side of the family:-

Will of Lady Charles Cavendish Bentinck; 22 May 1871 (1 item - 2 ff, paper)
Copy will of Lady Charles Cavendish Bentinck:
Devises house in Norfolk Street, Park Lane to her daughter Anne Hyacinthe Cavendish Bentinck.
Legacy of £ 3000 to her son Major-General Arthur Cavendish Bentinck.
£ 1500 to Courtenay Wellesley, £ 1000 to Jane, widow of Richard Wellesley and numerous smaller legacies (£ 200-£ 800) to her Wellesley relations (the descendants of her father), her executor (Farrer).

Trying to work out if Courtenay fitted into the English aristocracy somehow really did my head in, I gave up!

One last mystery! With the above photograph of Katie Carrow came this one, written on the back in the same handwriting:-

Including the date of January 1873 written on the front. Although the photographer’s address is given as Auckland it also mentions Pembroke so that may very well have been where the photograph was taken.

The mystery is that I have been unable to find ANY mention of a Michael Carrow anywhere at all, absolutely nothing in FreeBMD, the IGI, any census in both Wales & England and even Google is no help at all!

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Carrow and/or the Wellesley family please do contact me, I would love to pass these photos onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Charles Headlam Mickman (McMahon) – 1858-1908

2009-10-10T16:14:00.001+13:00

Subject: Charles Headlam Mickman
Date: 16 June 1881
Photographer: H Crane late Mr & Mrs Ward, 287 Walworth Rd.
Found: UK

Charlie was born 1858 in Whitby, Yorkshire, the son of James Turner McMahon and Mary Jane Headlam. On the registration of James & Mary’s marriage their surname is McMahon:-

Marriages Jun 1855
HEADLAM Mary Jane Whitby 9d 619
MCMAHON James Turner Whitby 9d 619

By the time their son Charles was born they had changed the spelling to Mickman. That is the spelling they used in all the census and further registrations.

Births Sep 1858
Mickman Charles Whitby 9d 361

Deaths Dec 1901
Mickman James Turner 72 Easington 10a 273

Deaths Mar 1882
MICKMAN Mary Jane 50 Easington 10a 223

Charlie had at least four siblings – Frederick 1860; Louise 1865; Emily Ann 1869 & Harry Headlam 1873.

Charlie married Annie Eliza Hooper in 1885, Annie was a widow with two young daughters so Hooper may not have been her maiden name.

Marriages Mar 1885
Hooper Annie Eliza Camberwell 1d 838
Mickman Charles Headlam Camberwell 1d 838

As far as I can see Charlie & Annie only had the one daughter, Alice Louisa S who was born in 1896 and married in 1919:-

Births Sep 1886
Mickman Alice Louisa S Camberwell 1d 932

Marriages Dec 1919
Riach Francis Mickman St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1394

Finally, I found this little snippet on James during my Google searches:-

Hannah also married (3) James Turner Mickman, son of Thomas Mickman, on 6 Dec 1883 in St. Thomas, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham. James was born about 1829 in Bradford, Yorkshire. He died 1st Dec 1901 in Station Street, Haswell, Easington, County Durham.

NOTE: James first marriage he was recorded as James Turner McMahon.
Master Shoemaker employing 3 men and 2 boys residing at Flowergate, Whitby in 1861 - with them was Mary Jane's brothers John Headlam a jet worker and William Headlam a Bootmaker.
In 1881 James was a Storekeeper (engine work) residing at Seaham Harbour.
An Innkeeper residing at 7 Coronation Street, Bishopwearmouth at his marriage in 1883.
In 1891 James was a Bootmaker (employer) residing at Haswell Lane, Haswell, Co. Durham. He had left his wife Hannah Jane and was living “over the brush" with Sophia, 2 children from his 1st marriage and Alice from Sophia.
Still at Haswell in 1901 with Sophia and their daughter Alice.
Master Boot and shoe maker at his death aged 72.

References:
ancestry.com
Descendants of Thomas Bishop
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Mickman family please do contact me, I would love to pass these photos onto a family member. Preferably by email but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to leave me your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

WILLIAMS Family - Alfred Ernest 1855-1926; Walter Henry 1862-1894; Sarah (Sadye) Louisa 1865-?; Harold Fillingham 1872-1927?

2009-10-07T01:03:00.001+13:00

Today we have five photographs from the same family.

Subjects: Alfred Ernest & Iseult Margery Williams
Date: Xmas 1889
Photographer: Mr Owen, 29 Catherine St, Salisbury
Found: UK

Alfred Ernest Williams was born in 1856 in Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, the son of Charles Williams and Mary Paddison née Fillingham. The third of nine children (that I’ve found).

In 1885 Alfred married Mary Elizabeth Batchelor and they had two children that I know of, Iseult Margery born 1886 and Brian Moray born 1896 both in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Mary seems to have died in 1912 aged 54 and Alfred in 1926 aged 70, both in Salisbury.

Births Mar 1856
WILLIAMS Alfred Ernest Newark 7b 282

Marriages Jun 1885
BATCHELOR Mary Elizabeth Newcastle T. 10b 179
Williams Alfred Ernest Newcastle T. 10b 179

Births Dec 1886
Williams Iseult Margery Alderbury 5a 177

Births Mar 1896
Williams Brian Moray Salisbury 5a 147

Deaths Dec 1912
Williams Mary E 54 Salisbury 5a 196

Deaths Sep 1926
Williams Alfred E 70 Salisbury 5a 153

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Subject: Walter Henry Williams
Date: Before 1894
Photographer: Mr Owen, Salisbury
Found: UK

Walter Henry Williams was born in 1862 in Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, the son of Charles Williams and Mary Paddison née Fillingham. The seventh of nine children.

Walter married Georgina Emily Betts in 1889 in London and they had at least one son, Kynerith Walter born 1891. Walter Henry died at the early age of 32 in 1894 and Georgina married again in 1907 to George Camden. In the 1911 census George & Georgina Camden were living in Worcester with their two sons, George Henry Lambert aged 4 and Derek aged 1. I couldn’t find Kynerith Walter Williams in 1911.

Births Jun 1862
WILLIAMS Walter Henry Newark 7b 303

Marriages Sep 1889
BETTS Georgina Emily Islington 1b 618
WILLIAMS Walter Henry Islington 1b 618

Births Jun 1891
Williams Kynerith Walter Alderbury 5a 175

Deaths Mar 1894
Williams Walter Henry 32 Alderbury 5a 140

Marriages Mar 1907
CAMDEN George Romsey 2c 142
WILLIAMS Georgina Emily Romsey 2c 142

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Subject: Sarah (Sadye) Louisa Williams
Date: Unknown
Photographer: A J Grossmann, Dover
Found: UK

Sarah Louisa (Sadye) Williams was born in 1865 in Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Charles Williams and Mary Paddison née Fillingham. The eighth of nine children. Sarah was obviously better known as Sadye.

In 1898 Sadye married James Ross Murray and in the 1911 census they were living in Chorlton, Lancashire with their four children.

Births Mar 1865
Williams Sarah Louisa Newark 7b 310

Subjects: James Ross & Allan Ross Murray
Date: c1902
Photographer: A Whitla, 180 Oxford St, Manchester
Found: UK

Marriages Sep 1898
Murray James Ross Chorlton 8c 1435
Williams Sadye Louisa Chorlton 8c 1435

Births Jun 1900
MURRAY Alan Ross Chorlton 8c 887

Births Dec 1902
Murray Joyce Margaret Chorlton 8c 762

Births Jun 1904
MURRAY Charles Donald Chorlton 8c 868

Births Jun 1909
Murray Mary Gwen Chorlton 8c 902

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Subject: Harold Fillingham Williams
Date: Unknown
Photographer: W S Downes,Rembrandt Art Studio, Sleaford

Harold Fillingham Williams was born in 1872 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the son of Charles Williams and Mary Paddison née Fillingham. The ninth of nine children.

In 1906 he married Belle Gillies and in the 1911 census they were living in Kingston, Surrey with their three children. Not sure of the date he died but the death registration below may be his.

Births Mar 1872
WILLIAMS Harold Fillingham Alderbury 5a 202

Marriages Mar 1906
Gillies Belle S. Stoneham 2c 83
WILLIAMS Harold Fillingham S. Stoneham 2c 83

Births Jun 1907
WILLIAMS Edward Denys Salisbury 5a 177

Births Dec 1910
WILLIAMS Eileen M Kingston 2a 391

Deaths Jun 1927
Williams Harold F 55 Ringwood 2b 835

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The other children of Charles Williams and Mary Paddison née Fillingham are:-

George Fillingham born 2qtr 1852, died 3qtr 1852
Emily Agnes c1854, married James Muscutt Hodgson 1879
Florence Annie c1857 (lost sight of after 1891)
Charles Edward c1859, married Mary Elizabeth Dowling 1885
Edith Mary 1860, married John Howard 1886

Emily Agnes & James Muscutt Hodgson had two children in 1891, Muriel Fillingham and Charles Williams.
Charles Edward & Mary Elizabeth Williams had one son in 1901, Humphrey Barrow.
Edith Mary & John Howard had three children in 1891, Dorothy Louisa, Kathleen Emily & Charles Gordon.

Father Charles Williams was born on 24 Sep 1827 bp 26 Nov 1829 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, son of Charles Williams & Mary Smeeton (unknown if Smeeton is Mary’s surname or middle name). He married Mary Paddison Fillingham in 1850. Charles died sometime before 1891.

Mary was the daughter of George Fillingham and Millicent Mary Wood who were married 4 Mar 1817 in Saxilby, Lincolnshire. Mary’s death may be this one:-

Deaths Jun 1919
Williams Mary P 89 Chorlton 8c 652

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References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
1911 Census

If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Williams family please do contact me, I would love to pass these photos onto a family member. Preferably by email but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to leave me your email address.

All the information I have found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Could this be Lionel Leveret Ogier?

2009-10-04T22:34:00.001+13:00

So far Lionel Leveret has beaten me! I have not been able to find anyone by that name on any birth, marriage, death or census anywhere other than the name of a character in an 1873 comedy “Old Soldiers” by Henry James Byron.

The man in the photograph does seem to be rather theatrical in his pose so perhaps he is just an actor. However, I did find mention of a Lionel Leveret Ogier but he too is rather elusive.
Dating the photograph is harder than I thought although I did find that William Smith, photographer of Leeds, was in practice in the 1880s, that doesn’t help much!

While searching for Lionel Leveret I found Lionel Leveret(t) Ogier in an online gazette here:-

The appointment of the following Officers, who have been admitted to the Indian Army on probation, is confirmed from the dates specified:-
Lionel Leverett Ogier - 22nd Nov 1918

There is only one entry for Lionel Ogier in FreeBMD:-

Marriages Sep 1919
Ogier Lionel L Owen Stourbridge 6c 93
Owen Dorothy G E Ogier Stourbridge 6c 93

And this on the Runnymede Roll of Honour Memorial, panel 71:-

OGIER, MICHAEL OWEN. Pilot Officer, 102584.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 77 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
Died 12 March 1942. Aged 20.
Son of Lionel Leverett Ogier and Dorothy Gwynedd Eardley Ogier of East Hanningfield, Essex.
Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Panel 71.
Based at R.A.F. Leeming, Yorkshire, 77 Squadron, R.A.F. lost two Whitley bombers on the same mission to Emden, Germany when Michael died, in addition to which 58 Squadron, R.A.F. also lost a Whitley. Carried out by 20 Wellingtons and 20 Whitleys the raid was not a success, and bombing photographs indicated that the nearest bombs were 5 miles from the designated target. Cause of loss of Michaels aircraft Z9293 KN-D is still recorded as cause unknown, the squadrons other aircraft Z9312 KN-? is presumed to have crashed in the North Sea, from where one of the crew’s bodies was washed ashore, it too is recorded in the same category as Michaels. Whitley bomber Z9293 KN-D was originally a No.102 Squadron, Royal Air Force aircraft, prior to going on the operational strength of No. 77 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

In Memory of
Pilot Officer MICHAEL OWEN OGIER
102584, 77 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died age 20
on 12 March 1942
Son of Lionel Leverett Ogier and Dorothy Gwynedd Eardley Ogier, of East Hanningfield, Essex.
Remembered with honour
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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That’s it I’m afraid, not much to go on for this photograph. If you have a Lionel Leveret or Lionel Leveret Ogier in your family and can identify the man please contact me, I’d love to hear from you.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Geraldine Feodora Hyde – 1863-1935

2009-10-04T12:33:00.001+13:00

Subject: Mary Ann & Geraldine Feodora Hyde
Date: c1866
Photographer: Daniel Jones, 66 Bold St & 11 Church St, Liverpool
Found: England

Geraldine Feodora was born in 1863 Hampstead, Middlesex to parents Henry Barry Hyde and Mary Ann née Bird.

Births Mar 1863
HYDE Geraldine Feodore Hampstead 1a 557

Because of the photo being taken in Liverpool I was unsure at first as to whether I had the right family until I found them in the 1871 census living in West Derby, Lancashire, up until then they had only been associated with Ireland and London.

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 3843; Folio: 118; Page: 4; GSU roll: 841925.

Geraldine’s younger sister, Mabel Mary, was born in Liverpool and I estimate Geraldine’s age in the photo to be about 3 or 4, that as well as M A being the initials of Geraldine’s mother makes me think I have the right family.

Henry Barry was a Banker on various levels in each census, he and two of the elder children were born in Ireland although mother Mary Ann was born in London as were the rest of the children except for the youngest Mabel Mary.

In 1883 Geraldine married Arthur Henry Barrett Brittain {Rev Canon} and from the following information I found in Wikisource it seems they had one son & one daughter. I was unable to find Arthur & Geraldine in any census after they were married until the 1911 when they were living in Towcester, Northamptonshire with their son Arthur Hyde Brittain aged 14. It looks like they might have been in India during those years.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary.djvu/108
INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 1915
Brittain, Rev Canon Arthur Henry Barrett. M. A. ; h. 1854 : 7th s. of late Rev. Charles Brittain; VI. Geraldine Feodora. d. of late Henry Barry Hyde, one s, one d; Educ: King Edward's School. Birmingham ; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1879; Ordained Curate of Wolstanton, 1880 ; Founder and first head of St. Augustine Mission, Pulham ; Junior Chaplain, Madras, 1887 ; Senior Chaplain, and Canon of Madras Cathedral : Editor, Madras Diocesan Magazine, 1903-07 ; Acting Archdeacon of Madras and Bishop's Commissary ; Founder of the Diocesan Soldier's Institutes at Secunderabad and St. Thomas's Mount : Secretary of the Anglican Third Order ; Vicar of Whittlebury-cum-Silverstone, 1909. Address: Whittlebury Vicarage, Towcester.

Their daughter may be:-

Births Dec 1884
Brittain Geraldine Hilda H Fulham 1a 301

Mary Ann died aged 72 in Bath.

Deaths Dec 1935
Brittain Geraldine F 72 Bath

Geraldine’s mother, Mary Ann Bird, was the daughter of Golding & Mary Ann Bird, born 10 Oct 1823 in St Pancras and baptised there on 6 Nov 1823.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
Wikisource

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Hyde family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. Preferably by email but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to leave me your email address.

All the information on this family may also be seen on the next update on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Mary Franklin née Banbury - 1840-1915

2009-10-03T15:52:00.001+13:00

Subject: Mary Banbury
Date: Unknown
Photographer: R Dimberline, 325 Old Rd Rd, London E
Found: England

Mary was the daughter of Nathaniel Banbury and Eliza née Crew, bap on 31 Mar 1840 in Coventry, Warwickshire. Her siblings were - Elizabeth 27 May 1837; Eliza 29 Dec 1846; Sophia 27 Dec 1851; Emma 29 Mar 1842; Charles 10 Jun 1844 and Nathaniel 12 Aug 1835. At the age of 11 she was working as a servant in the 1851 census.

On the 22 Mar 1859 she married Albert Franklin in the St Lawrence Church in Foleshill, War. In 1861 they were living in Lambeth, Surrey & by 1871 they had moved to Bromley, London where they lived until Albert’s death in 1899. In 1911 Eliza was living in Poplar, London where she died in 1915.

Mary & Albert’s children were – William James bp 6 Nov 1859 Coventry; Harriet Maria born c1863 Brixton; Elizabeth Mary bp 5 Aug 1866 Stepney died 1869; Mary Ann bp 25 Apr 1869 Stepney; Emma Rebecca born Aug 1870 Bow; Clara Eliza born c1874 Bromley; Sarah Ann born c1876 Bromley; Edith Elizabeth born Nov 1880 Bromley.

Daughter Clara Eliza married James William Till in 1900, marriage registered in the Poplar RD, the same district that Mary’s death was registered in so I presume Mary was living with her daughter when she died, she was certainly living with her in the 1901 census in Bromley.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Banbury or Franklin families please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. Preferably by email but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to leave me your email address.

All the information on this family may also be seen on the next update on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Amy Louisa Winfield 1875-1953 and James Edward Winfield 1879-?

2009-09-27T00:40:00.001+12:00

Subject: Amy Louisa Winfield
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
Found: England

Subject: James Edward Winfield
Date: Unknown
Photographer: J Reese Jones & Co, Gillingham, Kent
Found: England

James & Amy seem to be the only children of Richard Edward Winfield (a shoemaker) and Emily Louise Clifford who were married on 15 Nov 1874 at St Nicholas Church in Rochester, Kent. [Richard was the son of John Winfield and Louisa Woolley (married 1827) born c1834 in Chatham, Kent. His mother, Louisa, married William Montague in 1858 after John died in 1849.]

Births Dec 1875
Winfield Amy Louisa Medway 2a 474

Births Sep 1879
Winfield James Edward Medway 2a 554

The four of them are at home in Gillingham, Kent in 1881, 2 years later father Richard died aged 49. In subsequent census the two children are living with mother Emily, still in Gillingham.

Amy died unmarried in 1953 and as the death date of James isn’t filled in on the back of his photo I presume he died after Amy.

Deaths Jun 1953
Winfield Amy Louisa 77 Chatham 5b 233

In 1912 James married Elsie Hutchings, nothing further is known about them except that in 1901 James was listed as a Shipwright.

Marriages Sep 1912
Winfield James E Hutchings Medway 2a 1750
Hutchings Elsie J Winfield Medway 2a 1750

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Winfield family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. Email me preferably, but if you do leave a comment please make sure you leave me a contact email address, too many people are leaving ‘anonymous’ comments & I have no way of contacting you. All the information on this family may also be seen on the next update on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Mrs M Goodfellow of Ampton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

2009-09-26T19:05:00.001+12:00

I haven’t been having much luck in placing the people in my photographs lately & this latest one is no exception. It’s a postcard photograph with a short letter written on the back.

Subject: Mrs M Goodfellow of Bury St Edmunds
Date: Unknown
Photographer: G S Cousins, Bury St Edmunds
Found: England

I was unable to find much on the photographer except for this little snippet here:-

Bury Pageant: scenes from a Memorable Folk play - Supplement to Bury and Norwich Post, 9 July 1907; photographs by G S Cousins, official photographer 1907 (HD2733).

Which tells me he was in business at least in 1907. I then searched on FreeBMD for a marriage between a Goodfellow and a lady with a name starting with M in or near the area of Bury St Edmunds, this is what I found:-

Marriages Jun 1908
GOODFELLOW Henry William Bury St. E. 4a 1536
LONG May Florience Bury St. E. 4a 1536

Searching in the various census led me to this birth & the marriage of her parents:-

Births Dec 1880
LONG Florence May Bury St. E. 4a 575

Marriages Dec 1867
DOUEL Eliza Bury St. E 4a 1013
LONG William James Bury St. E. 4a 1013

Florence was listed as May in all the census so had obviously switched her names around by the time she was married.

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 1844; Folio: 69; Page: 3; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341446.
1881 Census
15 St John's St, St James, Suffolk
William Long head mar 34 solicitor's clerk born Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Eliza wife mar 32 born Maldon, Essex
Lizzie dau 13 scholar born Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Annie dau 11 scholar born ditto
William son 9 scholar born ditto
Agnes dau 6 scholar born ditto
Cecil son 4 born ditto
Alice dau 2 born ditto
May dau 3mths born ditto
William father mar 55 grocer's asst born Colchester, Essex
Hannah mother mar 64 midwife born Haughley, Suffolk

I was able to find her in 1891 still at home, in 1901 working as a servant in London but strangely had no luck finding her as a married woman in the 1911 census.

Finding all of this is no proof that May Florence Long is the person in the photo though. If May is in your family tree maybe you can identify her for me.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Long/Goodfellow families please do contact me, I would love to hear from you. All the information on this family may also be seen on the next update on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Mrs Casalis & Family 1891

2009-09-26T17:39:00.001+12:00

Subject: Mrs Casalis & children
Date: 1891
Photographer: Osborne Morley, East London, South Africa
Found: England

I’m afraid just who Mrs Casalis is has escaped me so far! The only Casalis entries on FreeBMD are two marriages, one of which looked promising to start with:-

Marriages Sep 1932
Casalis Maurice P E A Northampton 3b 96
Mary M Timpson Northampton 3b 96

The following year it seems that they may have left England to go back to South Africa:-

Name: Rev Maurice CASALIS
Date of departure: 10 March 1933
Port of departure: Southampton
Passenger destination port: Cape, South Africa
Passenger destination: Cape, South Africa
Ship: CARNARVON CASTLE
Date of Birth: 1876 (calculated from age)
Age: 57
Marital status:
Sex: Male
Occupation: Clergyman

The Rev Maurice is about the right age to be the young boy in the photo, but who knows?

From another source I found this:-

CASALIS, "Maurice" Jules Gender: male
Birth: 1875
Death: after 1947
Occupation: Pasteur consacré le 13/08/1901

It seems Maurice may be descended from, or at least connected to, the French Protestant missionary, Eugene Casalis, who emigrated to South Africa soon after he was ordained at the age of 19. He dedicated his life to the Basuto people and has written a book titled My Life In Basuto Land (1889).

Finally a little bit of information about the photographer from Knowledge4Africa:-

Osborne Morley was born in New Holland (Yorkshire) in August 1850. He emigrated to the Cape Colony where he established a photographic business in King William's Town, then moved to East London where he established a similar concern in January 1883. He lived in East London for about 30 years and became a trustee of the Wesleyan Church and joined the Free Masons' Buffalo Lodge. He became a Town Councillor in September 1885, representing Ward 3 and was re-elected in February 1886. He did not seek another term after his retirement on rotation in February 1889. Morley eventually moved to Johannesburg where he died on 21 July 1926, at the age of 76.

References:
ancestry.com
FindMyPast
FreeBMD
IGI
Martyn Hood Family Tree
WorldConnect

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I found an excellent source for the de Casalis family tree on WorldConnect here but after reading much of it I still don’t really know just who the three people in the photo are. If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Casalis family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & I would love the photo to go to a good home.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Agnes Paxton Brown 1895-?

2009-09-24T08:54:00.001+12:00

Subject: Agnes Paxton Brown
Date: 1895 or 1896
Photographer: F. Elderfield, Farnham, Surrey
Found: England

This gorgeous little girl is the daughter of William Brown & Margaret Emily nee Parfitt. Her birth was registered in the 4qtr of 1895 so it seems the date on the photo should be 1896.

Births Dec 1895
Brown Agnes Paxton Alton 2c 165

This looks like it might be the marriage of her parents:-

Marriages Dec 1894
BROWN William Portsea 2b 1065
Parfitt Margaret Emily Portsea 2b 1065

In the 1911 census she is listed under her full name, living in Petersfield, Hampshire with her parents and five siblings. In 1901 they are living at Marsh Farm in Steep, Hampshire, her father was a Farm Bailiff born in Scotland as was his wife Margaret. All of their children were born in Bentley, Hampshire, they are:-

Annie Carlow; Janet Wilhelmina; William Donald; John Andrew and Wallace.

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That’s all I’ve been able to find out about Agnes. If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Brown family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here when it is next updated.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Walter William John Ewins 1881-?

2009-09-24T01:49:00.001+12:00

Subject: Walter William John Ewins
Date: 7 Mar 1907
Photographer: Pincock Bros, 48 Park Row, Bristol
Found: England

Although this young man has a name that stands out from the crowd I haven’t been able to find out much about him at all.

His birth is registered in 1881 and his marriage in 1911:-

Births Sep 1881
Ewins Walter William J Birmingham 6d 165

Marriages Sep 1911
Ewins Walter W J Westminster 1a 1331
MITCHELL Ethel G Westminster 1a 1331

The only census I’ve been able to find him in with any certainty that it is him is the 1911 census. In the two previous census he is not listed with his full name, not that I can find.

1911
HOUSEHOLD EWINS WALTER WILLIAM JOHN M 1882 29 Fulham London (born Birmingham)

The photograph is a postcard published by Pincock Bros so they may not necessarily be the photographer.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Ewins family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here when it is next updated.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

The Wells Girls

2009-06-28T20:35:00.002+12:00

Mother: Elizabeth Henrietta Umfrey, Florence Mildred, Edith Hepzibah, Elizabeth, Jessie Frances.

Elizabeth Henrietta Umfrey married James Wells in Buckinghamshire in 1865, she was born 1841 in Brill Bucks to Thomas & Elizabeth Umfrey, Thomas was a Linen Draper. Husband James is a mystery so far, no date or place of birth and no death date has been determined (by me).

Within a few months of their marriage they arrived on board the vessel 'Andrew Jackson' in Auckland where they settled.

Ship 'ANDREW JACKSON'
PORT OF AUCKLAND
ARRIVAL
24 August 1865 Capt J McCallum from London
WELLS, James & Elizabeth Henrietta

Their first son, Thomas Umfrey Wells, was born in Auckland in 1867, he later went on to become a headmaster of Richmond Road School in Ponsonby. Tom died on 28 Dec 1949, aged 82, & is buried in the Purewa Cemetery, St Johns, Auckland.

1949/29480 Wells Tom Umfrey 82Y

Mr. Thomas Umfrey Wells, M.A., Headmaster of the Richmond Road school, Ponsonby, was born in Auckland in 1867, and educated at Wellesley Street school, and the Auckland Training College. Mr. Wells commenced his professional career by becoming an assistant teacher at the Wellesley Street public school in 1888. He remained there for about four years, and was then appointed first assistant at Ponsonby school. In 1896 he was appointed headmaster of the Ngaruawahia school, and in 1898 was promoted to the headmastership of the Richmond Road school. Notwithstanding his laborious duties as a teacher, Mr. Wells qualified for his B.A. degree in 1893, and in the following year he took his M.A. degree with honours. Under Mr. Wells the Richmond Road school has made great strides in proficiency, and it now ranks as one of the best in the city. The roll number is about 600, and the average attendance about 530.

Elizabeth doesn't seem to have had her birth registered in NZ but there is an Elizabeth Marian buried in the same plot as her mother in the Purewa Cemetery, no details like age or when buried though. There is a death registered in 1929 for an Elizabeth Marian but she was only aged 36, either the age should be more like 56 or it's not her.

Edith Hepzibah was born in 1872, she married Andrew Alexander Wilson in 1900 & she died in 1956.

Jessie Frances was born c1874 (no birth reg), she married Albert William Day in 1897 & she died in 1951 aged 82.

William Heybourne was born in 1876, nothing more known about William.

Florence Mildred was born in 1882 & died on 5 Nov 1925 aged 42.

There was another Thomas Umfrey Wells born in 1927 but as he was born after the cutoff date for searching the NZ Birth Index I can't say whose son he was.

Thomas Umfrey Wells (1927 – 2001) was a New Zealand-born cricketer who played first-class cricket in England in the early 1950s. All but one of his appearances came for Cambridge University. (2001/16894 Wells Thomas Umfrey 6 February 1927)

Elizabeth Henrietta Wells was aged 77 when she died on 30 Mar 1918, she is buried in the Purewa Cemetery along with her daughters Elizabeth Marian and Florence Mildred. (I hope to get photos of their headstones in the next few days, will add them here when I do.)

References:
ancestry.com
Cemetery Links to Online Databases
Cyclopedia of NZ
FreeBMD
IGI
NZ BDM Records
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Papers Past

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Wells family please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

All the information I’ve found on this family may also be seen on the next update at WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Drake Family of Blenheim

2009-06-27T02:25:00.001+12:00

Subject: Drake Family of Blenheim
Date: c1913
Photographer: Irvin, Tua Marina, NZ
Found: South Island, NZ

As to whether I have the right family is a complete guess on my part - the words written on the back 'Drake Family Blenheim' is all I had to go on.

First I searched in Papers Past for any mention of Drake & Blenheim and came up with an F Drake of Blenheim taking part in the Caledonian Sports Day in Wellington on the 1 Jan 1892, that seemed like a good place to start.

In the NZ Births there were a few named Francis and one Frank who would fit so after looking for marriages, children and death dates for them all I narrowed it down to just one family who had enough children for the above photo.

Frank Drake was born in NZ in 1868, there are no parents listed for him in the index. He may be either the son or grandson of this Mrs Drake:-

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11504, 4 December 1905, Page 3
Another old settler, Mrs Drake, has died at Picton, aged 79 years. She came out with the late Captain Dalton. She was for many years the trusty servant of Mrs J. E. Chaytor, of "Marshlands," Marlborougb, and was much esteemed by all who knew her. (1905/7762 Drake Eva Ann 79Y)

Why I think there is a connection is because of these other death notices:-

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIV, Issue 280, 17 December 1888, Page 2
DEATH. Drake.— On December 15, at Marshlands, William Francis Drake, aged 70.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIII, Issue 92, 20 April 1898, Page 2
DEATH. Drake—On the 18th, at Marshlands, Nellie Victoria, beloved daughter of Frank and Minnie Drake; aged 11 months.

Here we have a map showing Blenheim, Marshlands and Tuamarina where the photo was taken:-

View Larger Map

If Frank is the son of William Francis & Eva Ann Drake then his mother would have been aged 42 when she had him. I haven't been able to determine if Wm Francis & Eva had any other children - the records in NZ don't start until 1840 and for the first 20 years or so they are in a mess!

1893/2591 Edith Minnie Talbot Frank Drake

Frank Drake married Edith Minnie Talbot in 1893, Edith was variously referred to as Edith Minnie or Minnie Edith on the registrations of their children:-

1894/18014 Drake Agnes Annie Minnie Edith Frank
1895/1481 Drake Edith Myrtle Minnie Edith Frank
1897/6100 Drake Nellie Victoria Edith Minnie Frank
1898/11686 Drake Francis Talbot Edith Minnie Frank
1900/18797 Drake Willis Alvin Edith Minnie Frank
1903/15242 Drake Florence Minnie Edith Minnie Frank
1905/10989 Drake John Maurice Edith Minnie Frank
1908/2272 Drake Isabel Marian Edith Minnie Frank

and another girl about 1910. This is who I think they are in the photo:-

One last note - the father, William Francis Drake, is most likely this one I found on the IGI:-

WILLIAM FRANCIS DRAKE
Birth: 18 NOV 1818
Christening: 18 NOV 1821 Saint Savior, Dartmouth, Devon, England
Parents:
Father: WILLIAM DRAKE
Mother: AGNES

References:
NZ BDM Records
Papers Past
IGI

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If anyone has any other ideas I'd be very pleased to hear from you. With such a large family I'm sure there are a few descendants out there who would love to have this photo.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Could this be Myrtle Evelyn Segar of Timaru?

2009-06-26T15:02:00.001+12:00

Subject: Unknown perhaps M Segar
Date: 1902-1919 ?
Photographer: Robert Mahan, Timaru & Oamaru
Found: South Island, NZ

Today's photograph came with just these few details written on the back:-

M Segar
1½ Heavy Mat Green
2/6

Not much help there but I was pleasantly surprised to find that SEGAR was an unusual spelling for a fairly common surname. The photograph was taken in either Timaru or Oamaru and there was only one family with that spelling of their surname in the early NZ records.

So presuming it is M Segar and not Mr Segar - there doesn't seem to be an R after the M but one never knows - the only Segar with an M initial is Myrtle Evelyn born 1896 to Arthur Edgar & Isabella (née Harkess) Segar of Timaru. Myrtle married Walter Joseph Whitehead in 1919 so that just fits with the time the photographer was in business.

The bridesmaid looks like she's the bride's sister of which she had six, Arthur & Isabella had fourteen children. Myrtle had a younger sister by two years, Ivy May Vida, perhaps she is the bridesmaid but she had two older married sisters who might have been matron of honour, Eleanor Eliza or Anne Louisa, three other sisters had died by then.

I found this nice little bit of information about Myrtle in Papers Past:-

Myrtle Evelyn Whitehead died in 1969 aged 73.

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Arthur Edgar Segar married Isabella Harkess in NZ in 1877. Arthur was employed with the Timaru Harbour Board from 1882 to 1913 and in 1890 his sister Amelia was looking for him:-

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4801, 28 March 1890, Page 2
Inquiries are made in Lloyd's Weekly of Feb 9th for the following:-
Arthur Edgar Segar was last heard of 20 years ago in Princess St, Timaru. Sister Amelia asks.

It seems Arthur was born in Tendring Essex in 1848, the son of Arthur Edgar Segar and Elizabeth née Phillips. I wasn't able to find him, his parents or his sister Amelia in any census in England or Wales though.

References:
ancestry.com
Cemetery Links to Online Databases
FreeBMD
IGI
NZ BDM Records
Papers Past

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Segar family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Anton & Helen Maria Hansen & Family

2009-06-24T00:31:00.001+12:00

After much searching & getting mixed up with more than one Anton Hansen I think I've finally pinned down the family in today's photograph. Interestingly, I found part of this exact same photo on this webpage here, it says the father is 'Anton Hansen of Granity, Buller'.

From what was written on the back of the photo I determined that Anton married Helen/Ellen Maria Hart.

Marriage - 1898/1683 Helen Maria Hart Antony Hansen

You are able to include the mother's given name when searching the NZ births and these are the children I found with a mother named Helen/Ellen & a father Anton(y):-

Births
1898/11742 Hansen William John Helen Maria Antoney
1900/19132 Hansen Percy Edward Ellen Maria Antony
1903/16156 Hansen Mabel Annie Ellen Maria Antony
1904/20999 Hansen Fredrick Ernest Helen Maria Anton
1907/564 Hansen Allan Alfred Ellen Maria Anton

Helen Maria Hart was born in 1878, daughter of John & Annie Hart, she died in 1954 aged 75.

Birth - 1878/17043 Hart Helen Maria Annie John
Death - 1954/22735 Hansen Helen Maria 75Y

Anton(y) doesn't seem to have been born in NZ, he died in 1960 aged 89.

Death - 1960/22682 Hansen Anton 89Y

Their eldest son, William John, died in 1914, aged 15, so it's hard to say if he is in the photo or not.

Grey River Argus , 14 March 1914, Page 3
WESTPORT. March 13. A lad named W. Hansen died at Birchfield to-day as the result of injuries caused hy a fall from a trolley used in connection with the flaxmill. Deceased was the son of the manager of the mill. (Birchfield is 13 miles from Westport.)

If he is then his brother, Percy, must be the one sitting on the chair, but to me he doesn't look older than Mabel although girls that age usually start growing earlier than boys so perhaps he is. But if that is the case the youngest boy would have been only 3 or 4 at the most (because I didn't find a birth for him he must have been born after the 1909 cutoff date for births) and he certainly looks older than that.

If the photo was taken after 1914 then Percy is the elder boy at the back with Frederick sitting down & Allan the next oldest with the other two born after 1909 making the photo taken about 1918 or so - but does Mabel look to be 15???

Mabel Annie married Richard Joseph Collins in 1922; Percy Edward marred Hannah Anderson in 1923; Frederick Ernest married Marion McCombie Meredith in 1923.

1922/4813 Mabel Annie Hansen Richard Joseph Collins
1923/9303 Hannah Anderson Percy Edward Hansen
1923/7766 Marion McCombie Meredith Ernest Frederick Hansen

These are the various deaths of some of the above people, a few not found:-

Deaths
1914/1632 Hansen William John 15Y
1967/42939 Collins Richard Joseph 72Y
1970/48466 Hansen Percy Edward 69Y
1971/30549 Hansen Marion McCombie 67Y
1984/39859 Hansen Allan Alfred 18 December 1906
1996/48841 Hansen Frederick Ernest 19 November 1904

So it seems the Hansen family lived at Granity and their father worked a few miles away at Birchfield for the flaxmill. I found this photo in the NZ Cyclopedia.

I did find a marriage for Helen's sister, it was the only Hart/McCallum marriage:-

1897/3387 Emily Rose Hart Archibald George McCallum

There was only the one birth which could be her because the year fits with the age at death of Emily Rose McCallum:-

Birth - 1873/5095 Hart Rose Emelia
Death - 1959/34994 McCallum Emily Rose 85Y

Finally, one last note - in 1964 there is a death for an Archie Anton Hansen aged 54. He could be one of the younger boys in the photo named after his father and his mother's sister's husband - purely conjecture on my part!

References:
Cyclopedia of NZ
NZ BDM Records
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Papers Past

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This is such a lovely family photo, I would love to find it a good home again, please contact me if you are a descendant or know of this Hansen family.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

The Hadfield Family of Nelson

2009-06-18T22:23:00.001+12:00

Frederick Brown Hadfield arrived in Nelson in 1858 with his family. Two sons, Harry Roodhouse Hadfield and William Welby Hadfield, farmed at Awaroa Bay from 1863.

So says the book The Story of the Hadfield Family by Carol Dawber & Lynette Wilson. The book mainly centres on William and his wife Martha Adele Ann née Snow, and their descendants.

The children of Frederick Brown Hadfield and his wife, Ann Wyan née Welby, are:-

Frederick George c1842; William Welby c1844; Charles c1845, Harry Roodhouse 1847; Frances Anne c1848; Richard 1850; Elizabeth Houlderness 27 Jun 1852; John Thomas 25 Jul 1857.

All of them were born in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk except for John who was born in Essex the year before the family left England bound for NZ. They are probably the Mr & Mrs Hadfield & Family who arrived in Wellington on board the vessel 'Robert Small' on 13 Oct 1858.

The first photograph I have gives this information on the back - Fisher Family ?, sister of Harry Roodhouse Hadfield. Older man is Tom Hadfield, young girl standing is Ruby Hadfield & the other man is Claude Hadfield son of John Thomas Hadfield (seems to have been known as Tom).

I presume the older woman sitting in the middle is Frances Anne who married Thomas Richard Fisher in 1869 in NZ. The other two women aren't mentioned but one would presume that one of them is Tom's wife. The young girl is not mentioned either. Tom & his wife, Janet Helene Black née Wright, seem to have had only the one son so she isn't theirs.

Ruby was the daughter of Harry Roodhouse Hadfield, born 1891 in Awaroa and died 1916 in Auckland. She looks to be about 14 or so which puts the date of the photo at about 1905. Claude at the back would then have been about 23, he married 1912 & died 1924 in Auckland, his wife was Alice Maude Gunn née Francis.

Subject: Fisher & Hadfield Families
Date: c1905
Photographer: Clifford, Christchurch
Found: South Island, NZ

The next photograph is of the wedding of Cora Lillian Hadfield to Charles Bamford Morgan in 1908. Cora was the daughter of Harry Roodhouse and was born 1886. The names of the other two aren't mentioned but the bridesmaid is the spitting image of the bride so is possibly her sister Edith Martha Ann Hadfield born 1883.

Subject: Morgan - Hadfield Wedding
Date: 1908
Photographer: A McCusker, Blenheim
Found: South Island, NZ

This one is the marriage of Charles Alfred Hadfield to Annie Roberta Logan in 1910. The rest aren't named but I could hazard a guess that the groomsman with the moustache is a brother of the groom, but as he had six brothers I don't know which one. The bridesmaid sitting on the left looks very much like Ruby (sister of the groom) she would have been 19 by this time, again the other bridesmaid is the image of the bride.

Subject: Hadfield - Logan Marriage
Date: 1910
Photographer: A McCusker, Blenheim
Found: South Island, NZ

The last one is the marriage of John Harry Hadfield to Amy Fryer in 1915. John's brother, Harold Bertam, is there also, both sons of Harry Roodhouse.

Subject: Hadfield - Fryer Wedding
Date: 5 Apr 1915
Photographer: A McCusker, Blenheim
Found: South Island, NZ
Participants: Elsie Draper, Harold Hadfield, William Fryer (sitting, bride's father), John Hadfield, Amy née Fryer, Arthur Fryer, Nita Gould.

Amy, born 1889, was the daughter of William Fryer & Catherine née Lawton. Their other children were William George 1883, James Lincoln 1886, Arthur 1893 and Charley 1894.

References:
NZ BDM Records
Papers Past
A Kiwi Adams Website

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If anyone is connected to the Hadfield family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Jessie Irene Starnes 1897-1964

2009-06-14T23:48:00.001+12:00

Here we have a cute little girl with big blue eyes in a sailor's hat, written on the back is 'Jessie Starnes'. With no photographer's name or any other information I really don't know if it was taken in NZ or not so it remains to be seen if this is her or not.

Jessie Irene Starnes was born on 2 Apr 1897 in Motueka, Nelson, the daughter of Thomas Briggs Stephen Starnes and Sarah Jane née Haines, the eighth of eleven children born in NZ. Jessie died on 11 Jan 1964 in Waimea West, I don't know if she ever married, I can't find her death reg under Starnes so perhaps she did, I found the information on this website.

References:
NZ BDM Records

If anyone knows anything about Jessie please do contact me, I would love to hear from you. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

The Baigent Family of Takaka

2009-06-14T17:48:00.001+12:00

Today's photo is quite unusual, it has been beautifully hand coloured and on the back is some interesting information.

Eva & Ella were the daughters of Thomas John Baigent and Alice née Best of Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand.

1876/8357 Baigent Daisy Annie Alice Thomas John
1878/14825 Baigent Ella Millicent Alice Thomas John
1880/10360 Baigent Eva Alice Alice Thomas John
1883/11666 Baigent Thomas Eustace Alice Thomas John
1886/6742 Baigent Clarice Monica Alice Thomas John

I also have a photo which says it 'could be' a photo of Clarice Monica:-

This photo was taken at the Bunting Studios in Palmerston North (Bunting, F. W., Photographer, The Square, Palmerston North. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia. The business, which was established in 1889, was originally carried on in the name of Billens and Bunting, but in 1894 Mr. Bunting bought his partner out.) I couldn't determine when Mr Bunting's business finished so it's hard to say if he was still going when this photo was taken, 1910-1920 perhaps?

It seems neither Ella or Eva were ever married & Eva lived to the ripe old age of 105 (my aspiration), dying in 1985 & Ellia in 1969 aged 91.

1952/29461 Baigent Thomas Eustace 68Y
1969/33909 Baigent Ella Millicent 91Y
1985/41772 Baigent Eva Alice 5 June 1880

According to the IGI both Daisy & Clarice married, Clarice when she was 48 so I doubt there will be any descendants for her, perhaps there will be some from Daisy or their brother Thomas Eustace.

Clarice Monica Baigent
Birth: 23 APR 1886, Nelson, New Zealand
Death: 10 NOV 1968, Nelson, New Zealand
Marriages:
Spouse: John Lewis Dickson
Marriage: 21 NOV 1934, Nelson, New Zealand

Daisy Annie Baigent
Birth: 08 AUG 1876, Nelson, New Zealand
Death: 14 MAY 1947, New Zealand
Marriages:
Spouse: Herbert Willis Baird Packard
Marriage: 25 NOV 1903, New Zealand

Thomas Eustace Baigent
Birth: 21 MAY 1883, Nelson, New Zealand
Death: 09 MAR 1952, Nelson, New Zealand
Marriages:
Spouse: Vida Marion Turnbull
Marriage: 14 FEB 1924 Hukanui, New Zealand

The photo of Ella driving the gig looks to have been taken when she was quite young, in her late 20's early 30's perhaps, probably around the turn of the twentieth century. I have no idea who Mrs Savory was.

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The BAIGENT family all seem to be descended from two brothers, Edward & Isaac, who came to NZ on board the vessel 'Clifford' in 1842. Thomas John was the son of Edward, he was born in Nelson in 1849. Edward & Isaac were born in Windlesham, Surrey and were living just a few houses away from each other in the 1841 census.

Their lives, businesses & families are well documented on the Internet, these are just a few that I found in Papers Past and the photo of Thomas John is from the Cyclopedia of NZ.

The residence at Takaka of Thomas Baigent mentioned above is most probably the 'Fairholme' mentioned on the back of the photograph. I did find 'Fairholme' mentioned in Takaka on the Internet so it still seems to be standing although I couldn't find a photo of it. You can see a lovely old photograph of Baigent's Timber Mill from the Nelson Museum here.

Lastly a little bit about the town of Takaka in Golden Bay, 1897-1908 from the Cyclopedia of NZ:-

Takaka is one of the most flourishing districts in Nelson; it has five sawmills, two butter factories, and a flour mill, and keeps seven or eight small vessels trading constantly to the port of Waitapu, three miles distant. It has also a weekly newspaper, and several hotels, and is connected by coach with Collingwood and Riwaka, and by a steam tram service with East Takaka, which is eight miles and a half further up the valley. Takaka is fifty-three miles north from Nelson, with which it is connected by a good main road. The township is finely situated, and commands a good view of Golden Bay and two or three lakes. It has post, telegraph, money order, and other Government offices, and a savings bank. There are beautiful limestone caves in the neighbourhood, and the the Waikaremumu and Bubu springs are within easy distance. The Episcopalians and Presbyterians have well-built churches, with resident ministers, at Takaka, which has several fraternal lodges, and cricket, football, racing, and tennis clubs.

© Aerial photo of Takaka. All rights reserved by Black Pete of Virtual Nature Photography

References:
ancestry.com
Cyclopedia of NZ
IGI
Papers Past

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Baigent family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

George Wells of Eckington 1821-1871

2009-06-13T16:49:00.001+12:00

Today's photograph is what looks like his headstone or a plaque on a wall perhaps.

There seem to be 2 or 3 people with the name of George Wells who were born in Eckington about 1821 in various census but only one on the IGI.

GEORGE WELLS
Christening: 02 JUL 1821 Eckington, Derby, England
Parents:
Father: GEORGE WELLS
Mother: JANE

Unfortunately this entry doesn't give a birthdate so without knowing that it's hard to say if he's the right one because this George may not have been born in Eckington at all, just lived & died there.

Luckily I found a website where the Eckington parish records had been transcribed by David &/or Josephine Bowler, this is what I found:-

Eckington Baptisms
George WELLS George & Jane Eckington Collier 2/7/1821 born 23/2/1821

Eckington Marriages
George WELLS to Jane HASLEHURST. Wit: Mary Shipley, Robert Stevenson 27/2/1812

Bingo! George's parents were George & Jane née Haslehurt, his wife's name was also Jane. He married Jane Barber in 1849 and by 1871 they'd had 12 children so there must be a few descendants out there somewhere. George was the owner of a colliery in two of the census, tragically he died at the end of 1871 and left Jane to bring up all those children by herself. According to this website the Wells family owned most of the collieries in the area by the end of the nineteenth century. There was a large Methodist Chapel built in memory of George Wells in 1876 which was demolished in 1977.

Sorry I don't have a photograph of George himself but someone might like to have this one, if you do please leave me a comment or contact me via email.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
Eckington Parish Records

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Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

John (Jack) William Allman 1895-?

2009-06-13T01:40:00.001+12:00

I picked this photograph up in Cambridge last Sunday, a very nice lady in Gordon's Antiques & Collectables let me browse even though they weren't strictly open at the time, just there for a delivery.

Subject: Mr Jack Allman
Date: 13 Oct 1923
Photographer: Yvonne, Leeds
Found: Cambridge, New Zealand

Jack was born in Leeds in 1895, parents William Allman & Catherine (Kate) nee Connor. In the 1911 census his family were already living at 14 Musgrave Fold, Leeds:-

HOLMAN JOHN WILLIAM (RG14PN26935 RG78PN1546 RD500 SD1 ED20 SN238)
Address 14 MUSGRAVE FOLD LEEDS County Yorkshire West Riding
District Leeds Subdistrict South East Leeds
Enumeration District 20 Parish Leeds

HOLMAN, KATHARINE WIFE MARRIED 30(yrs married) F 48 WEAVER LEEDS YORKSHIRE
HOLMAN, LILY DAUGHTER SINGLE F 24 WEAVER LEEDS YORKSHIRE
HOLMAN, MAUD DAUGHTER SINGLE F 17 WEAVER LEEDS YORKSHIRE
HOLMAN, JOHN WILLIAM SON SINGLE M 16 JOINER LEEDS YORKSHIRE

It took me awhile to find them because as you can see they are listed under HOLMAN, the name they are also under in the 1901 census. In 1901 it is actually written as Holman which I suspect is a mistake by the enumerator who thought he was hearing a dropped 'H'. However, the same mistake in 1911 is strange because the pages (we are seeing) are actually the original ones filled in by the home owners. I suppose there are many reasons for this, too many to go into here! (I only looked at the transcription so I don't know if their name was written as Holman or Allman, the original pages are far too expensive!).

Jack's father, William, wasn't at home in 1911 but he was there in 1901 and I also found him in previous census listed/written as Allman.

William Allman was born in Leeds about 1861 the son of John Allman & Jane nee Farrar. John was born c1841 also in Leeds & his parents were William & Catherine, both William & Catherine were born in Ireland a few years before the turn of the nineteenth century.

I found a photo of the Leeds Parish Church Market District Boys Club at the corner of Brussels Street and Brick Street here plus a few other websites with some memories & photographs.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Allman family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & it may be to your advantage. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here (when it's next updated).

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

Duggleby Photograph Album - or is it?

2009-06-11T18:17:00.001+12:00

I found this small photograph album in an antique shop in Cambridge last Sunday, rather the worse for wear but what I found inside was quite intriguing. It held seven small photographs, none of them named except for a couple with a small message written on the back.

Also inside was this 'In Memoriam' card, sitting loosely between two pages so I wasn't sure if it had been with the album originally or not, next step to find out.

Duggleby is a name I've never heard of so I thought it might be easy to research, wrong again Dawn! I started off with a hiss & a roar but it soon fizzled out and the album's owner is still a mystery to me!

Here is the story:-

Births Dec 1897
Duggleby Stanley Zealand Malton 9d 408
Deaths Mar 1898
Duggleby Stanley Zealand 0 Malton 9d 293

Michael & Allys were living in Malton in the 1901 census:

10 Castlegate, Malton, North Riding, Yorkshire
Michael Duggleby head mar 31 butcher born Cottam, York
Ally M wife mar 26 born Queensland Aust
Alfred F son 7 born Qld Aust
Irene L M dau 5 born New Zealand
Archie W son 2 born Malton, York
Bernard W son 4mths born Malton, York

Michael & Allys weren't in the 1911 census so I looked at passenger lists and found them on board the vessel 'Friesland' which left Liverpool on 29 Apr 1903 bound for Philadelphia USA. From then on I found them living in Davenport, Scott Co, Iowa in each census upto 1930. They had 3 more children before Allys died sometime between 1912 and 1920. During the time they were living in America Michael took frequent trips home to the UK and to Canada. He had quite a few siblings and some had also migrated to the US & Canada so I expect he was visiting them and the others back home. On his last voyage in 1936 he was accompanied by a Margaret Duggleby aged 55 housewife so I'm presuming Michael married again sometime between 1930 & 1936, most probably in the USA.

<<--- Cottam Church, now derelict

Michael was born on 9 Aug 1869 at Cottam Grange, Langtoft in Yorkshire, son of Alfred Waldby Duggleby and Mary Hannah nee Simpson. The Dugglebys seem to be well documented in various places on the Internet. I started to wonder why he was in Australia where he met & married his wife as his occupation of butcher didn't seem like the job to be taking him out of the country. Obviously they had been to New Zealand on their way back to England so I thought perhaps he was visiting a relative here. Bingo - or so I thought!

NZ Marriages
1882/642 Hannah Duggleby & Jabez William Rowntree

NZ Births
1896/2488 Duggleby Irene Louisa Mary Allys Mary & Micheal
1890/15750 Rowntree Jabez William Hannah & Jabez William
1883/8164 Rowntree Alice Mary Hannah & Jabez William
1886/7306 Rowntree Ethel Hannah & Jabez William

NZ Deaths
1897/1472 Duggleby Edwin 35Y
1928/10254 Rowntree Hannah 75Y
1927/3401 Rowntree Jabez William 75Y

Great, it looks like Michael was visiting another relative, Hannah born about 1853 and died in Eltham in 1928. Hannah & husband Jabez William Rowntree are both buried in the Eltham Methodist Cemetery. Jabez was born in Pocklington Yorkshire so Hannah & Jabez may have already known each other before they emigrated to NZ.

Hannah & Jabez had three children, one of whom, Alice Mary, was a Staff Nurse during WWI and went overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in 1818. She must have come home again as she seems to have married a Mr Culling, she died in 1955 aged 72. That's all I know about Hannah & Jabez's children.

That was the easy part - now we come to the frustrating part!

Try as I might I just cannot find any connection between Hannah & Michael - and I still can't! However, I did stumble over a Duggleby family tree on the Internet that gave Hannah's parents as William Duggleby and Ann nee Carr. According to that tree she was born on the 5 Mar 1849 at Bishop Wilton, Yorkshire & baptised there on the 30 Mar 1851. I've emailed the person as they have a copy of Hannah's marriage certificate but no reply as yet.

Bishop Wilton is not too far from Cottam but it may as well be the moon - as far as I can see there is no relationship between William and Michael - if there is it must be back a few generations and Michael & Hannah probably wouldn't have known each other.

Fortunately the NZ marriage certificates give the parents' names (including the mother's maiden name) of both the bride & groom so I really need to look at her marriage certificate to find out for sure who her parents were.

As I said there were very few hints in the album itself but two of them were addressed to Hannah so it seems like the album should have been hers but none of the given names mentioned are in Hannah's family although they are in Michael's, stranger and stranger.

This message was written on the back of the first photo, both photos look like the same woman to me.

Nothing written on these, perhaps taken on the same day and maybe husband & wife? Does this woman look like Emily, same person or just related?

Baby Winifred obviously has an older sister named Marjorie. Michael has a sister named Lois born 1876. Both Lois & Emily are names in Michael's family tree.

Nothing on these either. First one might be an older Emily, she looks to have the same eyes & nose. The young girl looks like none of them! There is no photo on the front page of the album but there are names written there as if there had been once, none of these names have turned up in the course of my research:-

Maybe there is no connection between the photos and the memoriam card and I'm barking up the wrong tree? It just seemed like too much of a coincidence that the photos were addressed to a Hannah and that there was a Hannah Duggleby getting married in NZ around the same time frame, more or less, as the photos & the card. I had thought some of the people mentioned might have been from Allys' side of the family but the photos all came from Scarborough and her siblings were in Australia (as far as I know).

I forgot to mention that Hannah (dau of Wm & Ann) had quite a few siblings but none of her sisters were named Emily, Lois, Kitty, Ada, Maud, Ella or Lucy and none of her brothers' wives were either.

References:
ancestry.com
David M. Friscia's Genealogy Notes
Find My Past
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Duggleby family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz

The Browett Children

2009-06-07T23:49:00.001+12:00

Today's photo is of three young very cute children.

Subject: Florence Jane, Henry Waring & Reginald Browett
Date: c1891
Photographer: Ernest Spencer, 7 Station Tce, New Southgate
Found: UK

Births Sep 1885
Browett Florence Jane     Edmonton 3a 258
Births Dec 1887
Browett Henry Waring     Barnet 3a 243
Births Jun 1889
Browett Reginald     Barnet 3a 241

In the 1891 census I found them at home with their parents and a new baby brother Archibald.

2 Cambridge Villas, Edmonton, Middlesex
Henry L Browett head 32 civil serv in HM Prisons born Foleshill, Warwickshire
Ann wife 32 born Hornsey Mdx
Florence J dau 5 born Hornsey
Henry W dau 3 born Finchley
Reginald dau 2 born Finchley
Archibald 1mth born New Southgate, Mdx

Father, Henry Leonard & wife Ann Waring:-

Births Jun 1858
Browett Henry Leonard Coventry 6d 377

HENRY LEONARD BROWETT
Christening: 03 JUN 1858 Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwick, England
Parents:
Father: HENRY WILLIAM BROWETT
Mother: ELIZABETH JANE

Marriages Mar 1884
BROWETT Henry Leonard Islington 1b 269
WARING Ann Islington 1b 269

Henry Leonard's parents were Henry William Browett and Elizabeth Crowson:-

HENRY WILLIAM BROWETT
Christening: 22 MAY 1838 Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwick, England
Parents:
Father: HENRY BROWETT
Mother: CATHERINE

Marriages Jun 1857
Browett Henry William Oakham 7a 435
Crowson Elizabeth Oakham 7a 435

Deaths Sep 1867
Browett Henry William 32 Islington 1b 175

Henry William's parents were Henry Browett and Catherine Sawbridge:-

Henry Browett
Birth: 15 MAR 1813 Coventry, Warwick, England
Parents:
Father: Willm Browett
Mother: Sarah Browett

HENRY BROWETT
Marriages:
Spouse: CATHERINE SAWBRIDGE
Marriage: 18 MAR 1834 Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwick, England

Henry's parents were William Browett & Sarah Bright:-

Husband
William Browett
Marriage: 13 OCT 1808 Coventry, Warwick, England
Father:   William Browett
Mother:   Mary Browett
Wife
Sarah Bright
Marriage: 13 OCT 1808 Coventry, Warwick, England
Father:   William Bright
Mother:   Sarah Bright

William's parents were William Browett & Mary Thackall:-

William BROWETT
Birth: 27 JUL 1785 St Michael, Coventry, Warwick, England
Death: 1867 Foleshill, Warwick, England
Parents:
Father: William BROWETT
Mother: Mary THACKALL

A fairly comprehensive coverage in the IGI covering the Browett line. Florence Jane went on to marry Thomas Ashworth and they had at least two children, Thomas H & Reginald, both registered in Cardiff.

Marriages Dec 1916
Ashworth Thomas Browett Lambeth 1d 705
Browett Florence J Ashworth Lambeth 1d 705

Births Mar 1917
Ashworth Thomas H Browett Cardiff 11a 661
Births Mar 1919
Ashworth Reginald Browett Cardiff 11a 591

I found nothing further on brothers Reginald or Archibald and brother Henry Waring may have married in 1927, hard to say when there is only an initial for the second name.

Marriages Dec 1927
Browett Henry W Wright Bromley 2a 1356
Wright Lilian R Browett Bromley 2a 1356

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the Browett family please do contact me, I would love to hear from you & reunite this photograph with a descendant or two. All the information on this family may also be seen on WorldConnect here.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz