Alec Emile KOEUNE

[cuffie81]

Alec and the Anderson's daughter Dorothy Prudence were very close in age.
I wondered if that was a link?

Are you thinking a relationship between the two? If so, it seems a bit odd. Alec lived with the family for so long that you would've thought Dorothy's parents would expect Alec to do the decent thing and to marry her?! May be it was just a friendship, still seems a bit unusual though.

On the other thread aussie-girl refers to the Andersons 'adopting' Alec. It may just be aussie-girl's terminology but that seems odd as well, as Alec was a grown man by the time his mother died in 1925.

[carol8353]

No, I was thinking they might just have been friends.

Alec was 45 when they emigrated.So should/would have married her before then!

Adoption wasn't legalised till 1927,so he would have been too old to have needed any legalities to have taken place at that stage. I wonder if his job as a chemist brought him into contact with dentist Henry Anderson? 

[cuffie81]

Just a few more electoral registers, which tie together some of the previous records (and Carol's reference to Alec and the Andersons in Brookshill):


1934; 49 Fairway, Wembley; Dorothy Anderson, Prudence Elizabeth Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Koeune
1935; 49 Fairway, Wembley; Dorothy Anderson, Elizabeth Prudence Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Koeune
1936; 49 Fairway, Wembley; Dorothy Prudence Anderson, Prudence Elizabeth Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Emie Koeune
1937; 49 Fairway, Wembley; Dorothy Prudence Anderson, Elizabeth Prudence Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Emile Koeune
1938; The Nest, Brookshill, Harrow; Dorothy Prudence Anderson, Elizabeth Prudence Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Emile Koeune
1939; The Nest, Brookshill, Harrow; Dorothy Prudence Anderson, Elizabeth Prudence Anderson, Henry Arthur Anderson, Alec Emile Koeune

[Johnf04]

When my family emigrated to New Zealand in 1954, we left from Glasgow, even though we were living in the north of England - the ship was a vessel chartered by the New Zealand government.

[jorose]

Details of his father here:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jxz/

He was b. 4 May 1835 in Chenogne, Belgium. He married twice - Marie-Cath Koernchen is listed as his second wife, 'de Wiesbaden', and they married "before 1893".

In the original records, which can be found at familysearch under the commune of Sibret, the family name is spelt "Kune" and his father appears to have signed "Kanne" but a marginal note officially corrects the spelling to Koeune:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jy0/

Interestingly, his naturalisation papers seem to have him as from "Netherlands"...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4148406

[aussie-girl]

Thank you everyone for your input. I appears the Anderson daughter,(Dorothy Prudence ) made the burial arrangements & listed him as Anderson ,formally known as Koeune. Why, we will never know.They were living in the same house when he died In Albany WA. Maybe to stop gossip ,he changed his name, she was a very simple person. His details can be found on the web site for Allambie Park Cemetery, Albany, Western Australia. It makes it hard for overseas family to find what happened to their relatives when this sort of thing happens