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London and Middlesex / Irene Gertrude BISS - 2nd marriage? children? burial?
« on: Wednesday 22 February 23 12:17 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening, everyone, from Adelaide, South Australia, where I am up late researching while trying to ignore the 31C heat at 10:30pm.

Hoping someone might help me, please.

Irene Gertrude ISAAC:
b. 9 Apr 1909, Carmarthen, Wales
m. 1941 to Evan Alexander BISS (he died serving in Italy, 1944)
d. 29 Oct 1968 (St Marylebone, London); address at time of death, according to probate records, was 14 Highgate, West Hill, Camden, London

Administration of will was in Llandaff in July (of 1969, I assume, and assume in Cardiff - her parents and grandparents were Welsh).

I have tried A*cestry, Find .. Grave and Bill'n Graves and cannot find a burial site for Irene. I'm also wondering if she had children or remarried, but am doubting this as she was still BISS at the time of her death and there is no mention of a beneficiary in the probate record.

Suggestions would be very welcome, please.

Thank you.

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Dunbartonshire / Hydropathic Establishment, Row, Dunbartonshire
« on: Saturday 18 February 23 14:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hello everyone,

I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me, please.

In the 1881 Scotland Census, my great-grandfather, the Rev. Andrew Fuller MILLS, is listed as a 'boarder' at:

Hydropathic Establishment, Row, Dunbartonshire

My understanding, mainly from a little Googling and memories of film and TV, is that people would go to such places to take 'the water cure'. It seems to have become a rich person's indulgence, with the benefits of hydrotherapy coming second to long lunches and gossip.

Can anyone shed any light on this establishment at all? Would it have been the Shandon Hydropathic Establishment, formerly West Shandon House and afterwards the Shandon Hotel?

I don't have any way of knowing why my Rev. was there. I believe he would have been a Minister (Baptist) in Glasgow at the time.

Thanks in advance for any help.

M.




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Carmarthenshire / Political parties in Wales - help with definitions please
« on: Sunday 12 February 23 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hello from Adelaide, South Australia.

Hoping someone can help me please.

My great-grandfather, Andrew Fuller MILLS, was a Baptist minister and Mayor of Carmarthen 1920/21; 1924 and 1926.

When researching him, there are numerous comments about him being a 'Liberal' and also a 'Radical' in politics. Can someone please help me with these terms?

In Australia, a Liberal is Conservative / right wing and a Radical is, of course, very much left wing.

Is the Liberal party more to the left in Welsh politics?

Thank you very much,

M.

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Australia / MILLS, Dixon Fuller: help with WA birth certificate please
« on: Sunday 05 February 23 00:20 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning, all,

I am trying to find my uncle's birth details. His full name is MILLS, Dixon Fuller.

He served in WWII (service no. 17323) and his service records give a birth date of 2 Nov 1919 in Albany, WA.

A search on Find-a-Grave gives a birth year of 1920 but unfortunately there is no photograph of the site.

Would someone point me in the right direction, please?

Many thanks,
M.


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Caroline WATSON and sons Ernest WATSON and Harry WATSON
« on: Sunday 29 January 23 00:46 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning from Adelaide, South Australia.

I'm hoping that someone will help me, please.

I'm trying to find the maiden name and possibly birth details of Caroline WATSON.

In the 1881 England & Wales Census - Caroline Watson,  she is found in Bradford, (p. 155), living as a widow with sons Ernest, aged 6, and Harry, aged 4. Both boys listed as born in Bradford, Caroline born in Birstall. Her age is given as 26 at the time, so she would be born around 1855.

Caroline, my great-grandmother, married my great-grandfather, Rev. Andrew Fuller MILLS, in Wales in around 1884.

I'd like to find her maiden name possibly the full name of her WATSON husband, along with the birth details of her boys, if possible. I believe that her maiden name may be RHODES, but I don't have any actual citation for that; I tend to be a sporadic in my genealogy research and I feel like every time I come back to it, I have forgotten what I knew before! I have tried searching birth records through A*cestry, but getting hopelessly lost.

Any help, or direction, would be much appreciated.

Thanks so much,
M.

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Australia / Trees - Leg*cy 9.0 and *ncestry
« on: Saturday 10 October 20 02:31 BST (UK)  »
I get very tangled in trees and all of my bits and pieces of research, and tend to be obsessed with family history for a while and then leave it for months or even years at a time.

I'd been trying to work out if I should use the Legacy system I had downloaded or just keep my tree on Ancestry and I wanted to check; if I let go of my Ancestry subscription, am I still able to access the tree I have built there? I am assuming that links to records found within Ancestry would not work, but would the tree remain?

Sorry to have been on here over the years for so long and still be struggling with the basics! I want to use Ancestry but don't know if I'm better to build a tree on Legacy and attempt to transfer records from there to Ancestry if that makes sense? I've never done the GEDCOM thing so not sure how it works.

Thanks to anyone who responds who can make sense of what I'm saying  :-[.

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Australia / Fay MASCHMEDT / LAMBERT / KITTO
« on: Monday 18 November 19 00:46 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning,

I am trying to find birth, death, marriage and children's birth information for:

Fay MASCHMEDT, b. 6 May 1943 (in South Australia we believe)

Fay died in January of 2017 or 2018.

We believe she married twice, firstly to an A LAMBERT and later to R KITTO.

Is anyone able to assist please? I don't have a death certificate, hence the lack of certainty about the year, but can apply for one in need. Fay wasn't buried, she was cremated and remains returned to her family.

Thank you in advance.

M.

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Dublin / KEANE, Mary ... a different one. Marriage, children and death date please.
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 05:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, all.

Thanks to the people here, I was able to provide my sister-in-law with information on Mary Anne KEANE. My sister-in-law has now found that she has another Mary KEANE to research.

The Mary KEANE that I am now searching for is tricky as I don't have dates or her mother's maiden name.

Mary KEANE (possible middle initial B) was born to Dr John and Mrs Bernadette KEANE, most likely in Dublin. John died 9 Feb 2016 and his notice in the Irish Times shows that he was pre-deceased by his daughter, Mary. Estimating from the age of cousins, I'm thinking that Mary is likely to have been born in the 1960s. A note from a relative's address book here in Australia, and a sparsely detailed family tree (no dates) seem to imply that Mary 'died young'.

I have attempted to find her, with no luck, but I am unsure of whether access in Ireland is provided for events that may be relatively recent.

Again, if anyone is able to help I would be very grateful, as I would be for pointers on how to find the information myself.

Thanks in advance.

M.


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Dublin / KEANE, Mary Anne b. 1932 Skerries. Marriage, children and death info.
« on: Friday 25 October 19 00:39 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone.

I am trying to find out if Mary Anne KEANE, b. 1932 (in Skerries to John KEANE and Alice SEAVER) was married, if she had children, and her death details please. I have been advised that she is deceased.

I'm in South Australia, and have access to the big A******y database, but I can't seem to make head or tail of things at the moment, so I'm happy for someone to direct me to help me find the information myself, too.

Many thanks in advance.

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