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Hi Ray,

I have read your post with great interest and all the details you have unearthed on the family history.

Agadowey on an earlier post (which somehow got high jacked by another member’s posting) on the subject 14 April 2019 suggested that George Augustus Bestall c1822-1902 died in Chicago? 

Do you have any evidence that your Australian George Augustus Bestall remarried and had three further sons was the same as my George Augustus Bestall?  I have never seen him placed in Australia.  Is there more than one George maybe?  If he arrived in Australia did he travel alone or with his motherless children?
Do you have a death certificate and does it match the date and place of birth with mine?

You think he died in a Melbourne suburb in 1892 but Agadowey thinks he died in Chicago in 1902.  I am confused?!

What do you think?

Jill

I have been trying to find Audley William John Bestall’s father George Augustus Bestall for many years but with no success.
However there was a posting before my post was split up regarding him.  Could you please send me that information and advise me how I might further look into his whereabouts and that of his ancestors?
Thank you.

Hello yes I am still here and am delighted to hear from you.

I think your grandmother Charlotte Elizabeth is the elder sister of Audley William John Bestall b. 1850 and she was born in 1847.  My grandmother Charlotte Elizabeth is the youngest daughter of Audley Wm Bestall (and obviously named after her aunt) and born in 1880.   I am the daughter of the youngest of Charlotte Elizabeth and Joseph Charles Macfarlane's son Ernest Victor Macfarlane.

Which one of Charlotte and Hugh's children are you descended from?   I have located them on the census so know all about them on paper but nothing more.

I would love to hear from you further.  How exciting.  I would love to know more about your family and more Bestall anecdoes.

Best wishes, Jill.

I have just seen this thread and I am related to Audley Caldwell b.1802 who is my great great great grandfather.  His eldest daughter Margaret married my relative George Bestall.  Audley died in 1859 and is buried in the Castlederg graveyard.  The inscription on the grave reads as follows:-

Caldwell. To the memory of Audley Caldwell late of Forthtown who entered into life eternal on the 14th of October 1859 aged 60 years.  Also of Frederick Law youngest son of Margaret Bestall who departed this life on the 21st June 1860 aged 5 years. Also of his mother Margaret Bestall eldest daughter of Audley Caldwell who exchanged mortality for life on the 19th of September 1861 aged 34 years aslo James Audley second son of the late Audley Caldwell Esq of Forthtown who died 28th September 1877 aged 47 years.

Audley had a younger brother Henry who might be your relative and also his father Sir Audley had a younger brother Henry who is also related to me through my McFarland line.   He was born in 1814.  Perhaps he could be your relative.

So it looks as though you and I might be related too!!  I have done a lot of this research on this site, by visiting the Castlederg area and contacting local historians.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Hello good to hear from you again and perhaps your friend would like to take a look at this topic I posted when I was trying to find out more about the Bestall family. Once again I learnt a lot from the experts on this wonderful site.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,274044.0.html

Thanks and hear from you again.