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Cornwall / Re: SINCOCK/SIMCOCK & CHENOWETH Cornwall to South Australia
« on: Saturday 27 July 13 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Jack
I've looked up John & Jane Simcock/Sincock in South Australian Genealogy and so far I can't find anything about them. They didn't leave Adelaide for the countryside to farm and there's no blacksmith business listed for John, nor does William John marry in South Australia. I couldn't find them in the mining town of Broken Hill where lots of Simcock/Sincocks had stacks of children either (although John & Jane must have finished their family with William John as they were in their late 30s on arrival). I think they might have travelled to Victoria in search of work- there was still a goldrush there, whereas South Australia was settled into copper and tin mining (like Cornwall). Unfortunately even Australians can't access the Victorian BMDs without paying to look, so you'd need to use contacts or a facility like Ancestry to delve into Victorian records.
Sorry about the lack of success, but I did look hard!
Scratch the Victorians next!
Cheers
Kay
[South Australia]
In search of Simcock/Sincock who ended up in Auckland New Zealand, producing my cousin, Alan Simcock about 1952. I don't know how we are related!

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Hi,
Have you used the New Zealand BDM online? Lots of Simcocks and Simcox entries: https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
I'm related to some of these people by marriage through my father, but I can't figure out how! I have entered a lot of Simcock/Simcox family details onto Red1st.com where you can view all Trees for free.
Cheers.
Kay
[South Australian, ex-Kiwi]

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Australia / Re: Is there a 'First Fleeter' in your family?
« on: Wednesday 22 May 13 00:30 BST (UK)  »
http://www.fellowshipfirstfleeters.org.au/henry_kable.htm

I'm with Merlin. The kids probably know about Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes, but here's the official gumf!

Cheers
Kay [middle name = Kable]

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Australia / Re: GERMANY: My Prussian/German surname interests NSW 1800s & beyond
« on: Thursday 04 April 13 13:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Peeps
I just found some German emigrant connections to my Scots Stevenson relatives around Tamworth/Armidale/Bingara: the Weidermans [I guess that used to be Weidemann]. I found them all in the NSW BMD- several generations starting in the early 1800s & going through to my uncle John Norman STEVENSON (b 1903) whose mother was Hellen/Ellen Weiderman born 1859. It was weird to discover the Weidermans in the family tree as when I was at uni in Armidale in the early 1970s the girl next door was engaged to a David Weiderman! I guess I can look them up under Marriages! The Weiderman family probably came to Australia on the same ship as the Voss' and others mentioned in this thread because they all seemed to end up in the same area of NSW. Happy hunting!

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Warwickshire / Re: Aston 1891 - Williams/Webber/Parker
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 04:17 GMT (UK)  »
Re: the "Annulment" of a marriage that had produced children. The Roman Catholic Church has been known to grant annulments because they do not recognise divorce formally. I have known cases where it was reasoned that a marriage "outside the church" was regarded as not existing in the eyes of god and the children were regarded as "god's gifts", not the product of their ungodly father! So there may have been an official annulment recorded in some sort of document held by the RC church.
Cheers
Kay Walker [endlessly searching for the correct William Walkers who were my grandfather and g-grandfather from Walsall or thereabouts, Staffs, late 19th century] ???

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Australia / Re: Did this McGREGOR family emigrate to Australia?
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 04:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I've looked up McGregor (Ann) deaths in Queensland, NSW, South Australia and Victoria. There are none with parents Farquar & Christine as far as I could see from 1845 to 1945. The Victorian records showed there were "3 relevant records" but would not let me see them without registering a credit card for $5. The New Zealand BMD shows several relevant deaths but only shows the reporter's names, none of which are useful in current context. If it's worth it to you, look up the Victorian and NZ BMDs and pay to look, otherwise it all remains a mystery. They are not my McGregors, who arrived into Queensland accompanying a huge piece of machinery for a sugar refinery on the Chyebassa in 1883.
http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
Many Scots went to New Zealand because the climate and hilly landscape reminded them of the Highlands. Australia is generally dry and dusty, except on the very edges and the heat put a lot of people off so they changed their minds and went to New Zealand from here.
I hope you make some progress.
Cheers
Kay Walker [South Australia] :)

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