LOFQUIST, Victoria.

[cando]

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Cando

[KiwiRose]

Thank you all so much. I am delighted to receive all the wonderful responses from everyone. Thanks to you all I may finally have tracked down my Samuel's earlier years. You have certainly pointed me in the right direction and given me a lot to follow up.

Ros, I have long suspected that my Samuel must have lived in English speaking countries for some years before arriving in NZ. I will follow up the Ancestry information. If Samuel and Andrew were traveling together from Sweden to England it seems highly likely that they were related in some way.

Sue, The marriage information is most helpful and thank you for the link.

Cando, I will check out the UK archives. I had never thought to search for Samuel there. Also thanks for the Vic. gazette information. I tried that site again about an hour ago to search  Lofquist under a number of variants but still came up with nothing.  From the BMD information you posted it appears that Andrew and Winifred had no children.

Gerry and Cando, Oh dear, Andrew's a criminal!!

Gerry, Would a copy of Andrew's death certificate  include the names of his parents . I realise that it would depend on the knowledge of the informant.

Kind regards
KiwiRose.

[Aussie1947]

KiwiRose,

What you might expect to be on Certificates can be found here http://www.jaunay.com/bdm.html

In the case of Andrew's death registration I suspect that his mother and father would not be registered on the Certificate because the on the NSW BDM site it has age 52 years for the father's details and died Sydney for the mother's details.

It is likely that when Andrew Loquist died in Sydney the informant knew very little about his family apart from his age being 52, which might or might not be correct.

Gerry

[cando]

Would a copy of Andrew's death certificate  include the names of his parents . I realise that it would depend on the knowledge of the informant.

KiwiRose

If Andrew and Samuel were brothers this marriage certificate would give you Andrew's place of birth and his parents' names.

Marriage
LOFQUIST Andrew
HANSON Winefred
1865  Reg#446

Cando

Certificates can be purchased online [AUD$17.50] and immediately downloaded
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=purchaseImage

Information on all certificates in Victoria
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,373754.0.html

Be aware that Andrew's father's surname may not be LOFQUIST due to patronymic naming patterns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic#Nordic_countries

PROV website which has indexes of immigrant arrivals in Victoria is down at the moment but here is the link if you wish to search later.
Unassisted
http://210.8.122.120/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=23

I doubt they would qualify for assisted passage but just in case.
http://210.8.122.120/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=24

Wonder what happened to Winefred/Winifred as according to her hospital record she was in Ballarat [1874]when Andrew was in Mudgee [1873].

Cheers
Cando

[Aussie1947]

There was also a Joseph Lofquist at Swamp in 1861, he gets a mention in an 1861 Victorian Government Gazette as a shareholder in the DURHAM GOLD MINING COMPANY, SWAMP LEAD, BALLAARAT.

Gerry

[KiwiRose]

Once again I must thank you for your responses.

Cando, That is a great list of links for me to follow up. Yes, I also wonder what became of Winifred and if she was still alive at the time of Andrew's death.
Andrew's marriage certificate would be the best bet for parental names once I have further evidence of the relationship or otherwise between Samuel and Andrew.

Gerry, Wow, another Lofquist! What a great find.  A Joseph has been added into the mix. This gets even more interesting. Could he be a relative and what became of him?

Thanks also to you both for the link to the  helpful jaunday site. 

Although he is not the subject of this query, the Lofquist information you have all kindly uncovered has helped me with my theory as to what became of my Samuel's eldest known son. Swen August, b Nov, 1861, disappeared from records in NZ in 1882. (Electoral register) With no death record the presumption was that he possibly went to Australia. Back to the drawing board with Swen.

Kind regards
KiwiRose.

[cando]

There is also an Adolph LOFQUIST in connection with Durham Gold Mining Co....possibly all Andrew.  Need to allow for mistranscriptions of hand written reports etc.

The only Joseph LOFQUIST I can find was a ship's captain - Joseph A.

I can find no evidence of a Swen August LOFQUIST in Aus. 

There was a Henry LOFQUIST listed on the electoral rolls in WA until 1937 and this appears to be his death.
LOFQUIST    Johann P H
District Moora 1938  Reg#17   

There are a couple of snippets Henry in WA on TROVE.

Andrew..... Ballarat 1871...on trial
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ijf/

If you decide to purchase Andrew and Winifred' marriage cert please type up all the information and perhaps we can help you further.

Cheers
Cando

[Essie]

Hi KiwiRose

NZ Papers Past mentions two incidents and one relates to the missing son.

One was a disappearance of Samuel's 17 y.o. son on his way to Otago via Haast Pass from Jackson Bay.
West Coast Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1881.
West Coast Times , Issue 3793, 3 June 1881, Page 2

Another incident is about a long string of assaults at an Auckland refuge where a man named Lofquist subsequently died.
INQUIRY AT THE REFUGE.
Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 03, 16 March 1886

Essie

[Aussie1947]

Re my last,

It was Adolph Lofquist and not Joseph involved with the Durham Gold Mining Co,  Thanks Cando for the correction, I don't know why I typed Joseph.

There was a Nils Otto Lofquist in Sydney in the 1870s (mention in a Police Gazette)

Nils Otto Lofquist, 68, of 11 Bathurst St Sydney, Certificate of Naturalization 24th July 1903.

Nils was born in Stockholm around 1825 and arrived on the "Harkaway" in 1863.

Gerry