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Australia / Re: Samuel Eaton
« on: Friday 11 August 17 20:11 BST (UK)  »
I am very grateful to Cando for the information. The marriage and death certificates verify that it is our Samuel. As to the discrepancy in the ages, that stems from England. In the 1841 census he is 15, but ages were rounded up or down. I have the baptismal record at Canford Magna as 2nd November 1823. His arrest record puts him as 18 in 1845. He must have been 21 or 22, perhaps he gave a younger age to hope for leniency.  The Pentonville Prison record lists his father as Geo. Eaton, shoe maker of Wimbourne as does the wedding certificate in 1861. This concurs with our family history, so we are certain that it is the same person.

Mary     

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Australia / Re: Samuel Eaton
« on: Thursday 10 August 17 08:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi Cando,
  Thank you very much. How wonderful that you have found all this information!! Is there a way that I can access the details on line?
Mary

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Australia / Re: Samuel Eaton
« on: Wednesday 09 August 17 19:48 BST (UK)  »
 Thank you, all this is soo exciting!!! I have found  Abraham Shearing in 1849 a Pr+Pr steward British Royal Navy on vessel Castor, wife Elizabeth. Cannot find Abraham's death in either England or Australia.

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Australia / Re: Samuel Eaton
« on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:02 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all again.
 Judith I have now got the death certificate and trying to decipher the writing!! I found the idea of a previous marriage interesting, Cando. The 1841 census shows Elizabeth (16) and Abraham  Shearing(58) in Middlesex, but it doesn't give any relationship. I assumed father and daughter. As for the Sanders/Saunders transcription I quite understand as my maiden name was Sanders and when tracing my family the spelling changes regularly!!! Have now got marriage cert. Elizabeth was a widow, father's name John Saunders!!

Mary

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Australia / Re: Samuel Eaton
« on: Tuesday 08 August 17 11:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the information  Ros, Sue and JM. I knew nothing about Samuel after he left England. I had hoped that he had a family in Australia and a better life. It seems it took a long time for him to find a wife. Is there any Australian records of children please?   

Mary

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Samuel & Henry Eaton
« on: Monday 07 August 17 19:36 BST (UK)  »
Henry was a labourer on all baptisms

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Australia / Samuel Eaton
« on: Monday 07 August 17 14:35 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for information about Samuel Eaton. He was convicted of theft at Dorchester assizes on 16/7/1845. Then sent to Millbank prison, London. He was transported as a "convict exile" on the Joseph Somes and landed at Geelong on 24/9/1847. I have no information about him after his arrival in Australia.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Samuel & Henry Eaton
« on: Monday 07 August 17 14:24 BST (UK)  »
Yes Henry married Maria Singleton on 21st May 1844. Their two children Francis Henry (bpt. 6/10/1844) and George (bpt. 4/10/1846). In 1851 census she is a housekeeper for Joshua Cox. She has 2 more children:- Haram bpt. 1/4/1849 and Seth bpt 6/4/1851. Henry is listed as their father in the baptismal record. They both later take on the surname Cox. On 6/1/1855 another child is baptised, Joshua Collins Eaton or Cox, again Henry is listed as the father. Charles William was baptised on 3/9/1859 and Edith Collins bpt. 15/3/1863, but now only Maria on the register. Joshua Cox died in 1865, but another baptism is registered on 20/12/1868, Tom, who later is called Whiffen. Maria marries David Legg Whiffen on 9/11/1872.

 All very complicated but no mention of Henry in any census or death records. Was he really the father of the later children?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Soames 1847
« on: Saturday 05 August 17 17:53 BST (UK)  »
I want to find out what happened to him after he was transported. I have his parents and siblings. After his arrest his brother, Henry, disappears. No census or death record for him, nor prison record. Thought he may have been involved in the theft and decided to make himself scarce.

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