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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 02 October 11 03:47 BST (UK) »
This is just a stab in the dark, but judging by the areas where there are Rootsey's on familysearch, it might pay to check ancestry's London records. I say this because I know from bitter experience how the IGI is linited in its London coverage, especially around that era.

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Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 02 October 11 11:21 BST (UK) »
Hello,

have you seen these references to him - gives a bit of an insight into his journey:

National Archives

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #11 on: Monday 03 October 11 00:10 BST (UK) »

Hello Heywood,

Thanks for that bit. I'm sure the trip to Australia would have been terrible.

Sharon

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #12 on: Monday 03 October 11 00:16 BST (UK) »

Hi Darren,

I'm a novice at family research. I got onto "ancestry uk" but wasn't sure quite where to go. I did a couple of searches but came up with nought. Any suggestions?? or just keep poking around??

Thanks

Sharon


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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #13 on: Monday 03 October 11 01:55 BST (UK) »
If you have access, you need to look at the London records which I think go from about 1538 to 1812.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #14 on: Monday 03 October 11 12:59 BST (UK) »
If you have the correct subscription you can go straight to them here

http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/lma/default.aspx

If not check out your local library for Ancestry Library Edition, the London parish collection can be accessed from there.

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Chandler-Chelsea

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #15 on: Monday 24 October 11 10:18 BST (UK) »
Hi to mickeyers,  and all others relatives of Charles Rootsey.

I've just registered and read your posting, Charles Rootsey was my GG Grandfather, I have a reasonable amount of information on his descendants but was most intrigued with the story you related to in your post.  I would like to swap information with you if your interested, perhaps we can help each other.

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Ken
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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #16 on: Monday 24 October 11 13:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Ken

Welcome to Rootschat  ;D

Looks like the Rootsey family is growing nicely.

Hopefully someone will come back soon.

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Longhurst-Ealing & Capel, Abinger, Ewhurst & Ockley,
Chandler-Chelsea

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Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« Reply #17 on: Monday 04 August 14 19:46 BST (UK) »
Hello, just saw this site as I was trying to work out where my granddad fought in the first world war, His name was Charles Edgar Rootsey who left by ship at age 14 to find work in Australia, and from what my family told me, he was working with fruit as well as sheep, and joined the AIF in 1914, met his dad, my great grandfather in Cairo after he had returned from Gallipoli on his way to the Somme. Very interesting...

Charles Rootsey according to what I have found spent 6 months in the prison ship Albion on his way to Australia....after that its pretty vague, but if anybody needs info on the Uk side I will do my best. Alan Rootsey