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Australia / Re: BOYD family from Argyll, Scotland-did they immigrate to AU
« on: Saturday 18 September 21 00:42 BST (UK)  »
Anyone know a little more about Alexander McKeller Boyd and wife Sarah Jane Burrows two children, Allen Boyd (b. 1875 Footscray) and Sarah Alice Boyd (b. 1883 Hotham), did they marry like siblings Hugh Boyd (m. 1901 Alice Beatrice Gray) or sister Elsie Boyd (m. 1902 George Alexander Robinson) ?

At the time of mother, Sarah Jane Boyd’s death in 1896, son Allen would have been about 21 years while daughter, Sarah Alice would have been about 13 years of age.

Son Hugh Boyd lived at 521 Victoria Street from about 1892 till around 1904, later moved further away to Kensington in 1905.

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Hi Susankay, I am a relation of George Hogg and Robina Fotheringham.

In my search today I discovered Ann Hogg & Peter Skirving had about 9 children in Scotland between the years 1868 to 1885. (Catherine, Mary Ann, Margaret, John, George, Anthony, Peter, Isabella and Thomasina)

I noticed your original post referred to "In the 1951 census there is an Ann Hogg who is 6 and grand daughter of George Hogg and Jacobina Hogg", I wondered if there is a chance you meant to type "In the 1851 census there is an Ann...."

So if you'd like to PM direct and share the certificates you have relating to Peter & Ann Skirving nee Hogg, when I have more time I can dig further into her family link to see if and where she fits, if that suits you.

I find being able to see all the data on the old certificates really helps me greatly when trying to build family links from the past.

Regards,
Stephen

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Fife / Re: Thomas Campbell & Marion Brown family of Dunfermline
« on: Monday 02 July 18 02:43 BST (UK)  »
G'day tattie-scone Janis, please forgive the long delay with my reply, thank you for the tip about Rumblingwell.

Finally I've now uncovered my ancestors Thomas Campbell and his wife Marion Brown and their son Robert on the 1861 Scottish census living at Rumblingwell Toll. It seems my Thomas was the Gatekeeper of the toll in 1861. His age on that record is given as 69 years which is about the right age.

In the previous Scottish census for 1851, my Thomas Campbell, Marion and 3 kids were living at Balmule, Thomas's age on that record was 59 years and his occupation listed was a coal miner.

In the Scottish census for 1841, Thomas Campbell, Marion and 5 kids were living at Milesmark, Thomas's age on that record was 45 years and his occupation listed was a coal miner. This record shows their first born son was named John Campbell.

I've also just discovered today, a new piece of my family tree jig-saw puzzle. There was a birth in 1819 of a daughter named Betty Campbell at Queen Anne St. Burgher Associate, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her parents listed were Thomas Campbell and Mary Ann Brown, not Marion.

I know Mary Ann and Marion sound kind of similar. Would it be safe to presume whom ever the scribe back in 1819, could have misspelled the mother's name?

The other thing I find interesting is how their daughter Elisabeth Campbell named her first daughter Marion after her mother. It seems like a fairly reliable naming tradition they consistently used back in the old days.

With this new information indicating that Elisabeth and her twin sister Agnes Campbell are now from the second birth, would I be right to presume second daughters were named after their paternal grandmothers? Would that be the natural naming pattern?

That would mean that Thomas Campbell's mother's name might also be either Elisabeth or Agnes and his father's name might have been John Campbell of Dunfermline?

Kind regards,
Stephen

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Phoebe GRACE b. abt 1794
« on: Sunday 29 November 15 23:50 GMT (UK)  »
G’day posters, just wanted to make contact with Michael about Phoebe GRACE and see if you've made any more progress in tracking down her birth and parents yet?

I’ve been doing a little more digging on my own ancestors and I managed to find a Phebe Grace born 1790 in Over Wallop to a Joseph and Sarah Grace. Its only about 28 miles north of Fawley.
I also found a Phoebe Grace who gave birth at Over Wallop in 1810 to a child named Thomas Grace. If the two Phoebe's are one in the same person, she would have been 20 years of age at the time of that birth, but who was the father of this child and was she married or not?

Over Wallop is 28 miles west of Basingstoke to the other Grace family listed from there and I’m not sure if they are connected or not.

If Phebe Grace wasn’t married in 1810, might someone in her situation perhaps have left her child Thomas with her parents to be raised and she then moved elsewhere like Fawley to begin a "new life" I wonder?

A man named William Hatcher is shown to have married a woman named Phebe Grace 12th February 1814 and the event is recorded as taking place at Pennington Hampshire according to a Family Search record. But I'm told by an expert from the local historical society there was no church at Pennington until 1838.

Google maps tell me Pennington is only 14 miles south west from Fawley where Phebe Grace stated she was born, as recorded on the 1861 UK census.

Can I ask, how are you related to Phoebe Grace?

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G'day Dianne, thanks for contacting me, very happy to hear from my Kiwi cousins. Your nanna Dorris Phillips (nee Hatcher) and my grand father Henry Hatcher were siblings, born and raised in Bourke NSW in the early 1900's If my pop was still alive today he'd be 98, sadly he passed away some years ago and his ashes are interred within brick pillar of the main gates of Dad's farm in Tasmania. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-42.7269918,147.4494771,3a,75y,280.23h,89.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soIBDuuMnL0t1k4MGETM7Yg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I'm in Melbourne, so if you have a stop over on your travel back to NZ anytime via Melbourne, please email me and I'll pop out to see you at the airport if you like.

I have many questions to ask you about your Nanna Dorris and why it seems communication between our two families drifted so far apart over the years.

Will phone you soon.
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Australia / Re: HATCHER - Vic/NSW Australia/Hampshire England
« on: Friday 02 January 15 04:09 GMT (UK)  »
G'day Bikegirl, PM me direct and I can help you further if your still around online. :)

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Hi Phipps, I have an Irish ancestor named Mary Landers who was on that ship Tornado that arrived at Port Phillip in 1855.

I am keen to find out more about this ship too.

Regards,
Stephen

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Andrew Rood & Sarah Hatcher family
« on: Sunday 24 March 13 00:16 GMT (UK)  »
G'day Sue, thanks for making contact.

I wish I had some news for you but I don't.

I have been researching some of the easier names on my "big" list, but I do intend to come back to this branch of my family tree in the future.

Please keep in touch.

Kind regards,
Stephen

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Fife / Re: Thomas Campbell & Marion Brown family of Dunfermline
« on: Sunday 06 January 13 02:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Dod, although I've never been to Dunfermline or Scotland for that matter, your information does help me to build a better understanding and picture in my mind of the town and for that I am grateful.
Kind regards,
Stephen

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