Dear Debra, Ros and Jo (?jorose),
Three cheers!
I had a 'yippee!' moment when I read your emails this morning.
I went to the NSW Archives site just now and found Everis Ausclim listed as you predicted. But then, on Ancestry.com, I also found the actual Admission and Discharge document for both Everis (Everest) Anselmi and his younger brother, Frederick Jules Anselmi. However, looking at the ornate 19th writing, the surname is clearly 'Anseline'.
More exciting is that the document clearly validates my theory that he ended up in the Hunter Valley because he was "...Appt to Miss Elizabeth Pearce of Hinton" on ?? 18th, 1887, aged 12, having been admitted to the Randwick Asylum, aged 9, "From Mother Mrs Mary (?Ann) Anseline of 11 ??Street, off George St, Sydney". There is an interesting note that says "...to pay 5/- for
?" There is a further written comment at the bottom which I can't decipher (Something like 'Pro to Preceding"). Oddly, however, the document has the heading '1884' at the top of the page. So, does that mean he was admitted there in 1884 and it was proposed to discharge him to Miss Pearce in 1887, or was this document written in 1887?
So, Ros, I really appreciate your offer to take a look at that document at the Archives and photograph it if you have the time!
Or, are there two documents, given the fact that the NSW State Archives document is about Jules Ausclim?
Now, I just have to determine where he was between 1877 and 1884....perhaps one of the other orphanages?
Sorry about all the questions!
Once again, many thanks!
(I haven't worked out how to do am emoticon with a huge smile yet!)
Paul.