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Europe / Holzinger and Donal Union in Austria
« on: Monday 10 October 22 05:27 BST (UK)  »
Hello
I am doing research on behalf of a grandson. Does anyone have any info on Erwin Holzinger who married Anna Donal in Austria cir 1939.  Anna was born in 1920 in Enns, Upper Austria.  The spelling of the surnames could be incorrect and may be Olsinger and Dinwald.  Erwin was a senior NCO in the 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Langemarck during WW2. His fate is unknown, although he could be the person who died in Vienna on 25 Oct 1978. Erwin & Anna had a daughter born in Vienna in 1939.
Kevin

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Devon / Mary PARKER, nee PUGSLEY
« on: Monday 06 June 22 02:09 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help me with Mary's origins?  I am helping HARVEY in-laws with their family history.  This is what I what I have found so far:

Most likely, Mary Parker, née Pugsley was born in Combe Martin, North Devon to Harriet Pugsley, in 2nd qtr 1855 or 3rd qtr 1856.  Her birth may have been out-of-wedlock and her father was not named. 
In 1861, Harriet married John Perrin in West Buckland, the latter becoming Mary’s stepfather. Mary resided with them at least until 1871 and possibly until her marriage to George Thorne Parker in Feb 1876.  Both Mary (5 yrs) and George (9 yrs) resided in Tudeley Village, W. Buckland in 1861, so they may have known each other as children.
In 1871, Mary Pugsley was residing with John and Harriet Perrin in the South Molton sub-reg’n dist., at age 14, with relationship “daughter” (of Harriet).  George T. Parker at 20 yrs was in the same district.
Mary & George had two children in Devon, Frederick in 1876 and William in 1878, then George went to South Australia in or after 1878 (on a transport ship, tending a stallion for Moorara Station, Riverina Dist., NSW; vessel unknown), with Mary and the two boys following, in Apr-May 1880 on ss “Cotopaxi”, arriving The Semaphore, South Australia.
Harriet Pugsley may have been born in West Buckland 1824-1825, with baptism 27 Jan 1825, reg'n Barnstaple Wesleyan Circuit; parents were Humphrey (cir 1794 or 1801-1880) and Grace Pugsley, née Gould, who married 26 Jan 1820 in West Buckland.  Humphrey was born in Combe Martin parish, lived there in 1841 and was buried there.




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Can anyone help with information on a part African-American, Robert Thomas Davis who is my wife's GG grandfather, on her father's side? 

Robert Davis is believed to be a son of Thomas Davis, a farmer & Rosetta Johnson, an African-American slave.   After participating in the California Goldrush (which began in 1848), R.T. Davis sailed from San Francisco on June 14, 1852 on the “Ceres”, which was ship-wrecked in the Fijian Islands July 22, 1852.  Those on board were rescued by a whaler, “Daniel Watson” & taken to Auckland, NZ.   He arrived in Australia on the “William Hyde” in October 1852, embarking in Port Phillip, Melbourne, in the then Colony of Victoria.   He moved to the gold fields, first Ballarat and then to Sandhurst (later known as Bendigo), where he settled, worked as a digger & carter and raised a large family.   

The following is an extract of his obituary published in a newspaper on October 4, 1913:
Mr. Robert Davis, of Strickland Road, Bendigo, died yesterday morning at the age of 100 years.   The deceased gentleman celebrated his centenary last month, having been born in September, 1813.   He was a colored man, a native of Bellfield, Virginia, U.S.A.   He arrived in Sydney in 1852, and proceeded to Ballarat, where he remained till the night before the Eureka Stockade fight.    Making his way to the Bendigo goldfields, he arrived here in 1853, and had resided here ever since, following the occupation of a digger and fossicker.

The spelling of Robert's place of origin in Virginia (VA), USA has been reported above as both “Belfield” & “Bellfield”.   The latter is used on his death certificate.   In VA, there two different places of origin dependent on the spelling viz Belfield, a former town & now part of the city of Emporia in Greensville Co & Bellfield (Plantation) in York Co.


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Fermanagh / Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Friday 08 March 19 03:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Does anyone have any info on Bernard and Sarah Magee (McGee) nee McGrory from Co. Fermanagh who arrived in NSW on ship "Alfred", with five daughters, the youngest of whom, Sidney was born during the voyage.  My connection is through the eldest child, Annie (1849-1930) who married a migrant from Co. Galway, John Flatley (1835-1916) in Sydney, NSW in 1969.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Captain Thomas Farrell
« on: Monday 12 March 18 01:58 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching Thomas ("Tom") Farrell (1837-1888) who was the presumed defacto spouse of Emma Forsayth, "Queen of the South Seas".

One or more authors believe Tom had been married before he moved to Samoa about 1876, after gold-mining in NZ, and I would like to hear from anyone who might know anything of Tom in the decade or so before that time, especially if he had married in NZ.

Tom was born &/or baptized in Chatham, Kent, England when his father, Bryan was in the British Army, and the family had migrated to NZ with the Fencibles in 1847.  The family moved to Victoria in 1859 and lived on the land.  By then, at the age of 16, Tom had become an apprentice seaman; he spent a decade at sea until 1864, after which there is a gap of some 12 years in Tom's history before we pick him up again in Samoa & the Marshall Islands, with his own vessel.  It is possible that after his time as a seaman, he had sufficient success at gold mining in NZ in order to obtain a ship of his own, which he sailed to Samoa, where he went into the hotel business and met Emma.
In late 1878, they moved to New Guinea where they prospered but Tom developed TB and had to move to Australia for treatment;he died in Sydney.

The NZ marriage index records a couple of marriages of a Thomas Farrell during that period, so it would be helpful to know if "my" Tom can be excluded from the following marriages in NZ 1850-end 1879:
   1870/8316   Sarah        Hodges   Thomas   Farrell   (Dunedin)
   1863/7256   Elizabeth   Kelly       Thomas   Farrell
 ???

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Other Countries / Ancestry of Richard Stanton of Barbados
« on: Thursday 08 February 18 02:08 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to ascertain the ancestry of Richard Stanton (cir 1681-1750) who was born & died in Barbados, as he is probably an ancestor of my wife through the 1792 union of Sarah Stanton (1767-1794) & Richard Austin.  Sarah is descended from Richard Stanton through Dr Daniel Stanton & Wiltshire Stanton (her father).   Richard Stanton of the parish of St George left a will dated 25 June 1750.
Some researchers believe Richard's father was Daniel, a son of Thomas Stanton (1613-1677), the co-founder of firstly Hartford then Stonington, both towns in Connecticut, but the evidence is not strong, particularly as Richard is not mentioned in what is presumed to be Daniel's will of 1 June 1681, and I say presumed as the document has been transcribed as that of Darrel Stanton.
If this Richard is not a grand-son of Thomas Stanton, who was his father?
Were there more than one Daniel Stanton in Barbados in the second half of the 17th century?
Anchor425  ???

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Warwickshire / The English Origin of Thomas Stanton, a Migrant to Connecticutt in 1635
« on: Thursday 25 January 18 05:34 GMT (UK)  »
I put this  on the Bedfordshire sub-board today but didn't quite finish it before accidentally posting it, so hopefully I get it right this time.  I used that sub-board as his ancestral line could be Stantons in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.   Another possible place of origin is Warwickshire so I am now posting on that sub-board as well; I trust that is in order.   

I am trying to determine the English origin of one Thomas Stanton who migrated from England to North America in 1635 sailing in "Bonaventure" at the recorded age of 20 yrs.   He settled in Connecticut where, at Hartford in 1637, he married Anna Lord who had 10 or so children.  Thomas died in 1677.   There are at least two schools of thought in regard to the ancestry of Thomas.

One is that Thomas was born in Wolverton, Warwickshire, a son of Thomas Stanton and Katherine Washington, with years of birth varying from one family historian to another, but mostly between 1914 and 1917.  An online search using findmypast.com.au reveals only one such event:

Last name  First name  Born Died Event   Record set                                           Location     
Stanton      Thomas       —       —  1617   England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975   Wolverton, Warwickshire, England

Another school of thought (promoted inter alia by Robert J. Stanton) is that Thomas was born in 1613 in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire, being a son of William Stanton.   A search of Cambridgeshire Baptisms using findmypast.com.au reveals the following:

First name(s) Last name Birth year Baptism year Father's first name   Mother's first name   Baptism place     
Thomas           Stanton       1613          1613               William                    —              Longstowe

It is possible that the grandfather of Thomas was Willam Stanton, born 1540 Eversholt, Bedfordshire and died 1582 in Clophill, Bedfordshire.

Thomas, a Puritan, became a prominant member of society in Connecticutt.   Does anyone have any evidence to support one English county of ancestry over another as to the origin of Thomas?

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Bedfordshire / The Ancestry of Thomas Stanton who migrated to North America in 1635
« on: Thursday 25 January 18 04:13 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to determine the English origin of one Thomas Stanton who migrated from England to North America in 1635 sailing in "Bonaventure" at the recorded age of 20 yrs.   He settled in Connecticut where, at Hartford in 1637, he married Anna Lord who had 10 or so children.  Thomas died in 1677.   There are at least two schools of thought in regard to the ancestry of Thomas.

One is that Thomas was born in Wolverton, Warwickshire, a son of Thomas Stanton and Katherine Washington, with years of birth varying from one family historian to another, but mostly between 1914 and 1917.  An online search using findmypast.com.au reveals only one such event:

Last name   First name   Born   Died   Event   Record set                                           Location    
Stanton   Thomas   —   —   1617       England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975   Wolverton, Warwickshire, England

Another school of thought (promoted inter alia by Robert J. Stanton) is that Thomas was born in 1613 in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire, being a son of William Stanton.   A search of Cambridgeshire Baptisms using findmypast.com.au reveals the following:

First name(s)   Last name   Birth year   Baptism year   Father's first name   Mother's first name   Baptism place    
Thomas           Stanton   1613           1613                    William   —   Longstowe

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Limerick / James & Mary Fitzgerald, Migrants from Co. Limerick to NSW in 1854
« on: Thursday 18 January 18 07:41 GMT (UK)  »
James Fitzgerald (ca 1813-1897), his wife Mary Malone (ca 1828-1903) and their two young children Thomas & Ellen arrived in Sydney in Oct 1854 on "Caroline".  The ship's passenger list is hard to read but James, a farm labourer, may have come from Kilcornan, where daughter Ellen was born ca 1853.   His father may have also been named James.   After a time in the Kiama District of NSW, they moved to & settled in the Lismore District, in northern NSW.
Any other information on their background in Co. Limerick would be appreciated.
Anchor425

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