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Topic: RIDGWAY - Lookup request marriage, death, anything! (Read 2728 times)
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Hi Tristi
Dont know if this helps. Might be worth looking at.
Found this entry on the Unassisted inward Passenger lists to Victoria 1852 to 1923
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23
Chemnitz 1892, Foreign Port, Fiche 274, page 001
RIDGEWAY Oliver 6
RIDGEWAY Sarah 27
RIDGEWAY Silly 1 (probably mistranscribed)
Cheers Leonie
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Hi Tristi
Sorry I went off line after I posted this. Past my bed time 
I don't know what port the ship sailed from but you can view the original passenger list on micro fiche at the Public Records Office in North Melbourne.
If you post on the Australian Board some one might be going there and might look it up for you.
Also have you checked the electoral rolls? Again ask some on the Australian Board to look them up on ancestry.com for you. From the index I can tell that there was an Oliver RIDGWAY in Victoria in the Henty district in 1919 and in the Balaclava district in 1931.
Cheers Leonie 
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well done Leonie 
i haven't been getting replies to this thread  
So Sarah Ridgeway nee Rossiter took the kids back to UK ...where was William ...does it say whether she was a widow. ??
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penfold, orchard, james , richards (travellers/romanies)
middleton, waterfield, skinner,adams, bray (devon, tiverton,silverton areas)
palmer,slack, smith, carnarton (cornwall)
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The passenger list I found is into Victoria. It could be the family moving from Tasmania to Victoria. 
There are 2 children born in Victoria to Wm RIDGWAY and Sarah ROSSITER
1889 Elsie born Richmond (rego number 6869)
1889 Elsie died Richmond 11 months (18631)
1893 William Frank born Collingwood.
Death for William RIDGWAY 1895 aged 32 Carl (4771) Father Sam mother Jane THORNE
So when William died in 1895 perhaps Sarah returned to England.
Cheers Leonie
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Leonie ...this is great stuff as I had found this ...
hi again
The only marriage of a Samuel Ridgway to a Jane is this :
Bridgewater, Somerset
June q 1861
Jane Thorne
Vol 5c p 666
these would be Oliver's Grandparents ...
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penfold, orchard, james , richards (travellers/romanies)
middleton, waterfield, skinner,adams, bray (devon, tiverton,silverton areas)
palmer,slack, smith, carnarton (cornwall)
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Leonie
I think you have found a death for Tristi to follow up on .... great stuff!!!
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penfold, orchard, james , richards (travellers/romanies)
middleton, waterfield, skinner,adams, bray (devon, tiverton,silverton areas)
palmer,slack, smith, carnarton (cornwall)
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That's them. I'm guessing Silly is Sally. I wasn't aware of any siblings. It will be interesting if she survived.
I found a birth in Tasmania for a Lily RIDGWAY birth 24/12/1886 reg Hobart 57/1887 rgd33
father William RIDGWAY and mother Sarah ROSSITER
Age doesn't match with the Silly on the passenger list.
Best to get the death certificate for William RIDGWAY in 1895 and hopefully it will list all his children.
Cheers Leonie
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Deb & Leonie, you guys are legends!!!
Thanks for following this through with me too. Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I haven't been getting the updates for some reason. I just happened to check it to clear something up in my mind.
I'm so glad Oliver has siblings!!! That means Evelyn possibly had Aunts and Uncles that I can use to trace living relatives.
Since Oliver ended up with his Granddad in Bathpool by the 1901 census (thanks Icsnor), I'm assuming his siblings are either still with Sarah Ridgway nee Rossiter and her family somewhere in England. I think she was born in Bathpool too, so sniffing around the Rossiters for the 1901 census might just dig something up.
It's a shame there's no passenger lists available into England between 1895 and 1901 so we can see who Sarah took back to England with her, assuming she went back after Wm snr died.
Speaking of William Ridgway's death, I definitely will order his death certificate:
1. It should list all his children, which will give me avenues to finding living relatives of Evelyn
2. He died at 32. Too young for Alzheimer's  But I am interested in what he died of so young. Poor little Elsie, only 11 months old.
3. Maybe it will give me clues as to where and what Oliver would do in Victoria, by the time he gets back there in 1919 (thanks Leonie)
Now I'm off to look up the Victorian indexes again with this new siblings info and hopefully I'll get time to update my blog tonight. Thanks again guys.
Tristi
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Hi Tristi
I am so excited for you and have been waiting for you to se this info ... so glad you checked back I had found this Sarah Rossitter she is living very close to William.
Hi Just found a Sarah ROSSITER, b 1865 West Monkton, living with her family at No. 1 Harmony Row, Bathpool, W Monkton, in 1881There are '9 houses' between her and William Ridgway b 1863... her parents are George and Mary, she has quite a few sibs. deb |
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Hi Tristi and Deb,
Interesting about your problems getting updates - I've been having the same problem for several days now. I only know if I check on the thread.
Glad the hunt is going well!
Paulene 
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OK...so I just checked the Victorian BDM indexes, and basically all I did was confirm what Leonie had already found - she must have the same disks as me.
Here's also what I didn't find:
* No marriages for any related Ridgways or Ridgeways for 1889 - 1920
* No 1889 - 1985 deaths for Oliver Ridg(e)way, Evelyn Ridg(e)way, Ellen Ridg(e)way/Parsons, Lily Ridg(e)way, William Frank Ridg(e)way, Sarah Ridg(e)way/Rossiter, Sally Ridg(e)way, Samuel Ridg(e)way. I'm assuming these people died in England (if they're dead), with the exception of Oliver, who I think likely to have died in another Australian state (like NSW)
* No other births to Oliver Ridg(e)way, Ellen Ridg(e)way/Parsons, William Ridg(e)way, Sarah Ridg(e)way/Rossiter other than those previously listed (thanks Louise) for 1889 - 1920.
So...I'm definitely starting the search for living relatives in England.
Now it's time to go to bed before the screen gets too much more blurry.
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