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« on: Friday 09 November 12 23:22 GMT (UK) »
Lol. Poor Elizabeth, two arrests in Goolwa for both foul language in public (would love to know exactly what she said), and fir stealing some butter . She was actually staying with George Rickinson Swan (GRS from hereon in), and it wasn't a personality trait. She returned to England shortly after - to London, for some reason, and in early 1900s died at Tooting Bec Mental Asylum of "Senile Decay" (dementia), so would appear to have been happening for a while. Three of her and Rickinson's brood moved out here - GRS (my great great uncle), Frederick William (my great grandfather, also moved to Bourke and was also a Master on a steamer also doing the Darling and the Murray rivers runs), and Clara, who moved to Tasmania for some reason, married into a well-to-do family, had one daughter who married with no children. I am the last of the line, and due to many nasty events over the years got fed up with my family, changed my name and headed iff without them. Henry Moorson Pickhills is the other interesting one. Joined the Admiralty at 14 and died in Bengal in his early 20s. Have all his induction papers which includes a description of him, and statutory declarations from Elizabeth and Rickinson allowing him to join. Fascinating stuff. Rickinson is the other family member who declared himself bankrupt. He was an articled clerk. Family seems to have moved around a lot (Clara died at Old Dolphin). I do have the church inscription. I had traced Clara's side back to Robin Hood's Bay/Fylingdales in late 1580s. Had it all entered up in family tree software on my iPad, upgraded to a new iPad and very stupidly deleted the family tree app from the old iPad before transferring all my info to the new one, so lost the whole file...weeks and weeks of work. I'm sure it is still there...just need to find out how to retrieve it. Have started doing trees on both Ancestry, and Genes Reunited but because it us so long and complex, and redoing data you have already done on computer I haven't really had the enthusiasm to do it all online. I also recently had more eye surgery, and with having to adjust to that, and white cane training and all that I have dropped the ball for quite some time. Just getting back into it now. I trying to trace sll lines of the family...a big job...so all info is embraced lol. Like you, I love the hunt, and find the remoter branches of the family fascinating. Blimey, we are all connected to so many families