Reade/Lawrence/Evans Family

[spades]

Hi Minnie and Snook,

I've just checked and the file hasn't been digitized. I'll try again.

Spades

[minniehaha]

Apart from the possible WW1 file there appears to be no trace of the READE name relating to Ernest.

However Snook, have you looked in Australia for Ernest Alfred READE?

One item comes up in the Australian newspapers (trove.nla.gov.au) for Ernest A. Reade. Appears in the 'Bendigo Advertiser' dated 10.7.1900 when he was a patient in Bendigo Hospital.

A search of the historical index www.bdm.vic.gov.au/ shows there is a death record for an Ernest Alfred READE. Without payment however, it is not possible to obtain further information.

Minniehaha.

[snook]

Thanks minniehaha,

Bendigo hospital could be??

Death record is not my Reade,& is not related to the hospital record.

Cheers Snook

[minniehaha]

Oh well, a negative can be a positive in this game. It looks as if we are left with the WW1 file..........


Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

But maybe not.......... Have you looked for Esther Evans death?

I see two possible candidates from the NZ BDM website index:

1908, aged 78 years &
1917, aged 84 years.

Both within the range of Esther's birth date, abt. 1831. A death printout may well have details of her parentage.

Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

A little more...........

Probate (1908) for an Esther EVANS of Addington, married woman, held in Christchurch Archives.


Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

Can ignore the 1908 death, as I have now found that this Esther was the wife of George Evans. (From Papers Past.)


Minniehaha.

[Lucy2]

READER, Ernest Alfred - WW1 80379 - Army -1914 - 1918
http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20804537

Hi Snook

The above-named Ernest Alfred READER would seem to be an entirely different person to Ernest Alfred READE.

Ernest Alfred READER - farm hand of Blenheim - Regimental No. 80379, lists his wife > Mrs. E. READER , of Meehan Street, Islington, Blenheim > as his next of kin.   
[Electoral Rolls (for Marlborough district) covering a good number of years, show this man living at the Meehan Street address with his wife who is named as Elizabeth.]

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

"Marlborough Express" - 3 March 1904 - page 3

... has a report on the wedding of Ernest Alfred READER - the son of Mr William READER, of Fairhall, Blenheim ... to, Elizabeth TEE.

   ~  Lu

[Lucy2]

NZ Birth
1878 - READER - Earnest [sic] Alfred
s/o Maryann Elizabeth and William READER

The burial (mentioned here earlier) at Omaka Cemetery, Blenheim - 1941 - would appear to be the same E.A. READER.

  ~  Lu