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« on: Friday 26 February 10 07:12 GMT (UK) »
Hello all,
I am a committed amateur, who has been dabbling in research for a few years without formal training.
I have found out a great deal of information about my family, using archival newspaper reports, ancestry.com, family notes, and talking to living relatives.
I have come to a dead end with my paternal great grandmother, Lucy Kelly. I am beginning to wonder whether she may in fact have had a different surname, perhaps even a German surname.
In any case, I will give the details I have, in the hope that one of you might be in a position to give me some information about her. I know that my father, now aged 80, would dearly love to have a fuller picture about Lucy, since she is the one of his four grandparents who remains shrouded in mystery.
MY CLUES
Name: Lucy KELLY
DOB: 19 December 1857
Place of birth: Gumeracha, South Australia, Australia
Marriage Date: 28 March 1879
Spouse: August Hermann KLOSE (German)
Date of Death: 4 September 1928
Burial Place: Birdwood (formerly Blumberg), South Australia, Australia
Children: Annie Louisa KLOSE 1882;
Albert Hermann KLOSE 1887 (he was Alby Klose, a professional footballer);
and my paternal grandmother Ada Jane KLOSE 1889.
I have this beautiful photograph of Lucy with her husband August (known by his middle name Hermann)
I have seen hints that her father's name was John KELLY, but that seems wholly unsubstantiated.
Very grateful for your skills and ideas.
Thankyou very much,
Lynne Coleman