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Hi JRo10,

Hey cuzzie!  Distant cuzzie, but cuzzie nonetheless! Pleased to meet you! Kiltaglassan is correct in finding Charlotte Cassidy's birth and parents. Our common ancestors are Sarah Dunn's grandparents. It's been quite a journey to get there but I've been grateful for the Irish civil records coming online. The photo I have isn't fabulous for detail as it is a line up of people, but at least someone thought to name them!
Glad to have you on board. I have no idea if Sarah Chartres/Charters had any more children in her first or second marriage apart from Charlotte or which line you come from. But all in good time! Let me know if you have any questions or just want to chat. All those posts add up and give you the button to PM me.

Cheers,
Bunny

Hi Steve,

So sorry to have missed you in the mix!  I'm so interested to hear what you know about our mystery family and their amazing name change act, particularly of Charles the musician because he used the surname Prague (son of Charles the Revenue guy), and his siblings (as I am missing heaps of dates for them).

PM me if you want to do that instead of chat online.

Cheers,
Bunny

Hi Ian and JM,

Ian - You just may have cracked it!  I never knew about that Danish family site.  I will definitely go and have a look to see if even his wife is to be found there.

JM - Thank you kindly for your information.  It's much appreciated and I will put it against the other information I have received concerning the burial place.

Much, much gratitude to you both.

Cheers,
Bunny

Hi Michaela,

Don't often find this sort of thing - a photo of Robert Strathern actually as a prisoner of war in Dulman POW camp (he's the one sitting in the centre of the photo).  Taken about September 1917.

Found it here: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P03236.253.  All public domain stuff.  (Hope it is attached!)

Comes with the following annotation (cut down version):
Outdoor portrait of four allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Dulmen, Germany. Soldiers are gathered around a table covered with a tablecloth on which is placed a vase of flowers and four glasses of beer. The three soldiers on the right are holding cigars. Identified from left to right: 2729 Private (Pte) Oscar Keenan, 53rd Battalion, from Bengara, NSW (standing); Pte R. Strathern, 2nd Otago Battalion, New Zealand (sitting); 4512 Pte Percy Arthur Haslam, 54th Battalion, from Newcastle, NSW (standing); and 4151 Pte John Joseph Costello, 54th Battalion, from Sydney, NSW (sitting).  One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 304.

Cheers,
Bunny

Sure thing!  I was a bit concerned when you vanished, but here you are!!!  So glad you are back!

I'll go find that page

Hugs to you,