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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 09:21 BST (UK) »
Bradford is about 5km from Bath and may have come under the same area back in the 1840's.

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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 09:47 BST (UK) »
Bradford is about 5km from Bath and may have come under the same area back in the 1840's.
Thanks for that.....my knowledge of English Counties isn't the best.  I need to upskill :)
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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 11:09 BST (UK) »
Wow......thank you for that.  That explains why on her headstone only James Bohee and the children are mentioned and why she isn't buried with William......mind you I can't find him anyway.....not that I've done a lot of looking for him......I have been concentrating on Amelia.

I might be wrong, but I can only see one William MacKersey in NZ at this time. He died in 1914 as a result of an accident:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH19140917.2.53?query=william%20mackersey

However, it appears there was a case of bigamy involving William and possibly your Amelia:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19050316.2.29?query=william%20mackersey
(there are numerous other reports of this divorce on PapersPast too, although I can't see any that mention the first wife, presumably Amelia). It seems likely as it is about this time that Amelia asks for maintenance for the previous years of desertion.

There are 2 marriages for William on NZ bdm: Amelia Bohee 1882 and Elizabeth Bothwell 1895.

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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 12:23 BST (UK) »
Al I can say is wow....and thank you so much.  I would never have found all this without this forum.  I'll write it al up tomorrow.....bedtime for me.  Once I find Amelia's parents I will be over the moon and it will all fit together.  😜
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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 23:01 BST (UK) »
Do let us know what the death certificate says.  :)

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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 11 April 17 23:10 BST (UK) »
Do let us know what the death certificate says.  :)

Sure will😄👍
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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 07:57 BST (UK) »
See other post about Amelia's birth and mother
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=769297.
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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #34 on: Thursday 20 April 17 04:03 BST (UK) »
Today I received the marriage cert of Amelia Bohee maiden name Bush, to William Mackersey ( her 2nd husband). She states that she was 34 in 1882 and her parents were Joseph Bush and Sarah Rebecca Crees.   This led me to the GRO births and her birth is listed in 1840 with mothers maiden name Crees. She was registered as Milly!!.   I have also found a marriage in 1839 for Joseph and Sarah.   
Now that leads me to finding them on the 1851 and 1861 census.   Is she the Amelia Bush in the Union Workhouse in Bath in 1851???  Is she the Amelia with Sarah and Stephen Redburn in 1861.  If so did Joseph die before 1851 and Sarah couldn't take care of her at that time and then did Sarah remarry before 1861 and then get Amelia back??? 
The answers to my original quest of her parents has led to even more questions 🙄
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Re: Amelia Bush in Bath!!
« Reply #35 on: Thursday 20 April 17 07:10 BST (UK) »
I can't see a marriage for Stephen RA(E)DBURN, however there are a couple (!) of entries for Sarah BUSH and Rebecca BUSH which do not have partners names on BDM at Bath in the right time frame.

However, Stephen RADBURN is in the 1881 census with his wife now called Rebecca (not Sarah) b Wellow, Bath at Hartley-Wintney.
RG11/1252/33

So a possibility for Sarah's 2nd marriage and makes sense to have Amelia there?