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Hi Jean, 

I'm sorry I've only just got your message.  I live in England.   I have now found the record.  E. C. Miller Senior travelled from London on the Vessel "Panmure" with his son, E. C. Miller, arriving in Sydney 10 Aug. 1887.

Thanks for your interest. Ros.

Father of Elizabeth Jane Grant, b. unknown, m. Powlet Welbore Colebrooke 27 Oct 1786, Westminster.  They named their son William McBean George Colebrooke.  Has anybody got access to Royal Artillery records that reveal his first name, etc.  Many thanks.

Hi Everyone,

Went to Kew again yesterday and had more success, although the info. probably doesn't help very much in our search for William Lionel Pyne and George Pyne senior.

Firstly the DDR of Marianne Caldwell.  This didn't tell me anything new.  It just confirmed that Charles Isham Caldwell was her grandson, which I suspected already.  There were no addresses for him and George Pyne wasn't mentioned - no reason to be I suppose.

Next was a claim received at the Admiralty on 19 Aug 1857.
Amount reported due £10. 15s 0d. Half Pay
Name of deceased:  Lieutenant George Pyne on Half Pay List, R.N.
Name and address of claimant:  Mary Eliza Pyne, Widow of 3 Collingwood Villas, Stoke Damerel, Devon. (Another address - Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire - had been crossed out)
Claim admitted 28 Nov 1857

Then I looked at the Officers Service Records and found the following for Lieutenant George Pyne:
7 Feb 1846: See report of Preparation for Battle from the "Warssiter?", where Lieut. Pyne is stated to be manifestly deficient in his knowledge of Gunnery exercise.
Apr 1846: Letter from Captain Wallis of the "Warssiter?" on the same subject
23 April: Paid off
29 May 1846: Appn. to "Spartan"
5 Aug 1846: Superseded
19 Nov 1851: "Express"
3 Apr 1854: To report on the state of his health in six months
13 May 1857 Died

Lastly I looked at the post 1858 wills index.  I didn't find anything for John Burnett Applebee or Horatio Pyne, but found the following for Horatio Clagett:

Clagett, Horatio, Esq. Will Proved 20 May 1880.  Personal Estate: Under £70,000.
Administration (with the will) of the personal estate of Horatio Clagett late of 1 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, a Widower, who died 31 January 1880 at 1 Abbey Road, was granted at the Principal Registry to Thomas William Clagett of Stapleford Park in the Parish of Stapleford near Melton Mowbray in the County of Leicester, Esqure, the nephew and one of the next of Kin.

Not planning to go to Kew for a while now, but hope next week to go to the London Metropolitan Archives in Clerkenwell to try and find original baptism records.  I read on their website that they will be putting all this info. online shortly - Yippee!

Regards. Ros

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry - that was all I could find at Kew this time.  The ref. I had found for Marianne's DDR turned out to be just the index, and when I eventually found the microfilm that the record was supposed to be on, it wasn't in alphabetical order and in miniscule print, so I gave up in desperation! 

Ros.