I think i may have been here before i just don't know when. However i'd really like to check one last time before i close my trees at end January.
This man married my maternal great greatgrandmother ELIZABETH LOUISE VAREY [nee Hobson] in 1858 in Victoria, Australia. I have Elizabeth's details in large measure.
His Australian marriage and death registrations name his parents as GEORGE LASCELLES, Physician. His mother's first name only is known: ESTHER.
He states in various records he was born in Dublin, in 1830. I have not found an Ireland or UK record re this.
However i did find an internet Irish record [Tipperary Clans Archive] which gives a Frederick Lascelles as born "20.10.1823" "No 5956" "Harewood House" "20 YA Brother to William, Edwin, Arthur, Charles Lascelles" 6th son of Earl & Countess of Harewood". This was the only Frederick i found in any search in this time zone.
'My' man dropped the use of his first name and was, when alive, called William. All formal records i have use his full name. However his teaching record does only use 'William'.
He probably emigrated in the early to mid 1850's; i don't know if he had an early professional qualification. He worked the goldfields, was in trouble with the law [ abandoned his wife, Eliz.], but later worked as a teacher in the goldfields region and later qualified as such. He had a number of teaching assessments which remarked he was going severely deaf but until the very end he generally received positive evaluations of his work. Upon retiring he received a government pension until his death.
His first wife, Eliz., died in 1866 after giving him 4 children. He remarried in 1868 to Rosaline Down Headlam Pascoe, nee Hutch. She later divorced Frederick William, but died a 'Lascelles' . Rosaline had 2 sons with William.
[Frederick] William Lascelles' dates: 1830-14 Aug 1896.
Died 66 Park Street East, South Melbourne, Victoria.
Much family 'talk' has it that Frederick William Lascelles [FWL] was connected to the English aristocratic Lascelles, Harewood line. Several children of FWL's children have incorporated 'Harewood' in their names.
When in the Australian colony FWL was in legal/police 'trouble' in his early life [say late 20's] he seems to have used an alias - "Quin". He had even been a policeman for a short time in the colony [before Victoria became a state i think.] In the police warrant it said he was working the goldfields at Steiglitz. It also gives a physical description of him.
I'd very much like to have some clarity on the veracity or not of this purported link to the Harewood family. Is there any chance of finding more on Frederick William Lascelles' origins please?
Julie
