William Fisher Hobbs b 1845

[fisherj]

I would appreciate some advice on how I can proceed with my search for information about William Fisher Hobbs who was born in Woodmancote Gloucestershire England (1845) to Sarah Hobbs - 3 months before her marriage to William Fisher.

I don't know whether he retained his actual surname of Hobbs, or whether he was known as William Fisher.

The family story is that he went to Africa to work in a diamond mine and died there as a wealthy man.  The story continues that there was an ad in the British press for anyone with an interest in his estate to come forward but for some reason the family decided not to.  Perhaps he was "disowned" - that is the suggestion anyway.

Of course, even if this story is true, then it might not have been South Africa...

[Tisy]

Hi,

Found this on NAAIRS -

DEPOT     KAB         
SOURCE    MOOC   
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 7/1/372                                                               
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 54                                                                   
PART      1                                                                   
DESCRIPTION          FISHER, WILLIAM. WILL.                                               
STARTING  18770000                                                             
ENDING    18770000                                                             
REMARKS   FILED 1877.   

DEPOT     KAB                                                                   
SOURCE    AG                                                                   
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 1450                                                                 
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 5607                                                                 
PART      1                                                                     
DESCRIPTION          FISHER, W, SERGEANT: VOUCHER FORWARDING. KING WILLIAM'S TOWN.         
STARTING  1904                                                                 
ENDING    1904     


DEPOT     KAB                                                                   
SOURCE    MOIB                                                                 
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 2/1499                                                               
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 145                                                                   
PART      1                                                                     
DESCRIPTION          FISHER, WILLIAM. INSOLVENT LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT.     
STARTING  18660000                                                             
ENDING    18790000   

These are just a small sample of the documents in the S.A. Archives which may relate to your man.  I also searched on the other name, and came up with heaps.  You will need to go on and see if anything strikes a chord.  I you need the name of a Cape Town researcher,  let me know.

Cheers,

Tisy                                                           

[fisherj]

I am posting again my 2009 query about William Fisher (see below) in the hope that a new forum member might now also be tracing the same family line.  (We can live in hope!)

As you can see, I had a reply from Tisy but especially given how vague my information was, there was nothing for sure to link this to my man. 

Many thanks

[Gillian Mauchan]

As the death notices indexed on NAAIRS are now mostly accessible on the familysearch.org site see http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=742221.0 you could look at the individual death notices for William Fisher and William Hobbs between say 1860 and 1945 to see if there are any possible connections. Depending on who lodged the DN and their knowledge of the person it may have registered who the parents of the deceased were
Regards
Gillian

[crazyfem]

I am also trying to trace my family .... hobbs from uk settled in south africa ( i am originally from south africa)....my grans family came to King williams town in the 1800's and she was born in 1919. She has a brother Willam Hobbs too. I know she came from a big family and thats about it....

[Nookie]

I suggest you put up a new posting about your Hobbs family, giving your grandmother's full names, date of birth and another else that you know. 

This will make it a lot easier for people to assist you.