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Family History Beginners Board / Outboard ships from Australia.

« on: Tuesday 14 May 19 15:51 BST (UK) »

Hi, I am trying to find my family travelling back from Australia around 1850 - 60
There's plenty of information about people going to Australia but not the other way!!

Arthur Blake went to Adelaide Australia in 1849 and his future wife Sarah Agnes Gower went in 1850... I guess assisted, as a group of seamstresses.
They married in Adelaide and had a child Agnes Eliza Bradley in 1851. ( I have all the details.)
Sadly there are no family details on the marriage certificate & I am trying to find James father ( for over 25 years ) $:-\$
All three were back in the UK by 1863 as the child was christened in London.

The one little glimpse of light for me is when Agnes was christened, the following Children's father in the church book was Joseph Bradley and both families were living at the same address!!
This was Joseph's second marriage & I'm wondering if James was from the first marriage although I cannot find any earlier marriage!!

Sadly it's all tentative searches from now on.

Hope some kind soul can help in some way... to find them travelling back home.
Kind regards Ken Bradley.

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Colour restoration request for John Scott Ellis senior Chagford, Devon

« on: Friday 16 November 18 13:34 GMT (UK) »

I wold like any idea of a date for this photograph please.
I was hoping it was around 1880 but being realistic... probably 1900.
If it is 1900 it would be John Scott Ellis senior from Chagford, Devon with his son.
the photographer was Gales Studio and is on a plain postcard.
White narrow border with one end wider.
Again Many Thanks Ken.

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Story behing a studio photograph! Stanley Waite & lived in West Ham.London

« on: Friday 16 November 18 12:55 GMT (UK) »

Hi, We all have the odd photograph which is a bit of a mystery.
Having no idea I asked the last of the our older generation if he knew who the sitter was.
He laughed, "Where did you get that from...It's me "
He said his Aunt & Uncle had managed to get him an Orange and took him to the studio
to record the day.
His name was Stanley Waite & lived in West Ham.London. E16. the date around 1924!!
Hilda Photographic Studio, Barking Road, E 13

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Unknown family members. taken by Charles Marris or Morris.77 London Road, Dover

« on: Friday 16 November 18 12:23 GMT (UK) »

Hi, I have several photographs that need dating, but this one also appears to be full of symbolism's. The photograph itself is postcard size and was taken by Charles Marris or Morris...77 London Road, Dover. ( the image is borderless. )
I have my own ideas in what I can read into it but I would be great to hear what others think.
Date?
Cheers Ken

Family Names: Bradley/ Blake/ Bull/ Scott Ellis/ Brown/ ect...

Australia / BRADLEY on ships list 1852-61

« on: Tuesday 18 November 14 19:02 GMT (UK) »

Hi, I'm trying to find my G.Grandfathers family on a ships list coming back from...I assume Adelaide to England between 1852-61.
James BRADLEY (Mariner) + Sarah BRADLEY (Seamstress) & daughter Agnes Eliza BRADLEY
(born Adelaide on 9th Nov 1852.)
They are back in London by 1861 and had only been in Australia for a few years.
N.B. This Bradley family is elsewhere under Blake1.
Cheers Ken.

I can find people going out to Oz but not coming back.

The Common Room / ogle/Blake bigamist & swindler.

« on: Tuesday 02 September 14 00:42 BST (UK) »

Hi, I've found an Isaac Walker ( alias Challenor) Ogle. connecting to my other site- re; Arthur Blake.Kent. Isaac Born 1849 Hollyrood, County Down Ireland.
Married my G Aunt, Sarah Ann Blake born 1849 Kent & they married 5 Jun 1869 London.
Isaac was a top gold medal student for Law in Dublin but took up a life of crime.
He set out on a life of larceny in Ireland, England and Australia and boy was he a charmer.
Isaac & Sarah had three children Francis died age 1, Eveline, George who died age 4. I assume he abandoned them.
Isaac married for a 2nd time to a Margaret Brady a Catholic same year as George was born in 1877.
His wrong doings are well documented on Ancestry under his name, but I will give a brief outline.
He committed various crime culminating in a crime in a Law firm he worked at in Australia to a Mr Duffett.
After this crime Isaac placed his clothes on the beach at St Kilda, where the authorities searched for his body until the crime unravalled and the search was on, Isaac took a ship to Adelaide and then another planning to disembark at the Panama Canal and make a run for Mexico, but while on board changed his mind and carried on to England. He was sailing with a woman he said was his wife's sister, Brady.
His undoing was the Submarine telegragh, which had the police waiting for him.
Eventually he found himself back in a court in Australia. While in prision he was employed to do the books where again he got up to his counterfeiting ways plus altering other prisioners release dates!!
* I'm looking to what happened to Isaac & Sarah's child - Eveline Ethel Maude born 5.7.1873 Dublin.
* Was Isaac a bigamist? ( as his 2nd wife was Catholic ) they had a child Leonard James born Dublin.
* What happened to Isaac after 1882 & where did he die?
Finally Sarah Ann ended up at her mother's home in Kent and died there in 1904 age 55 without her daughter.
Many thanks Ken

How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Multi site question

« on: Monday 01 September 14 19:28 BST (UK) »

Hi,

I have had a shocking find regarding a marriage and an infamous member of our family which spans Kent England, Ireland & Australia. And am wondering if I should post them on all three sites?
Cheers Ken

Family History Beginners Board / 1841 Census.

« on: Sunday 24 August 14 17:57 BST (UK) »

Hi, On the England 1841 Censes...the printed copy tells the location of a person's birth, but on the original copy it only says Y or N ( in or out of the area ) So where does the birth area on the printed version come from?...as I have come across some that are wrong, but are correct on later
Census.
Cheers Ken.

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / dating...Please.

« on: Tuesday 04 June 13 11:50 BST (UK) »

Hi, I am hoping someone can date these pic's for me, I understand some photographers reprinted earlier images onto postcards! The rear has just a dividing line and a box for a stamp.
On this one, I am wondering if its a bereavement, as the lady is holding a letter, she's wearing a locket that may be a sailor and the boy could be wearing his fathers watch chain and then there's the flower.

on the bottom right is embossed "Charles Harris. 77 London Rd. Dover" with again a postcard back. Your thoughts would be appreciated, Many thanks Ken. sorry about the scanner background I've tried always to edit it out.