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Hello,

I am looking for basic biographical information on some early male Australian lawn tennis players, who were all active before World War One. I'm just looking for a first name or first names, date and place of birth (and date and place of death, where known).

Here are the players I'm interested in:

S.P. England
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R.J. Goodman
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A.L. North
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J.A. Raws
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R.H. Reid
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A.F.R. Scott
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H.M. Turner
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R.C. Whitelaw
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Any help would be appreciated.

J.

Hello,

I am looking for some basic biographical information on the following men, who were resident in British India in the period circa 1890-1910. Some of them might have been employees in the British Indian Civil Service.

I have looked through the Indian Army & Civil Service Lists and searched ancestry.com quite thoroughly for information on them, but with little success.

A.E. Barton
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H.A. Lane
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G.F. McMahon
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H. O'Connor

J.W. O'Connor (brother of the above?)
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A.K. Oliver
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T.C. Sangster

Possibly related to Alfred Bruce Sangster (1864-1913)
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E.E. Steel
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Any help would be appreciated.

J.

Hello,

Could anyone help with the identification of two people whom I'm sure were sisters and were living in Tacoma in Washington state circa 1895? Their first names were Daisy and Louise. Although I've been able to find some Daisy Eatons and some Louise Eatons in the American censii, I haven't been able to find the two women in the same census return. They were probably both in their early twenties in 1895.

Any help in identifying them would be appreciated.

J.

Could anyone help with some biographical information on three sisters who took part in some Australian lawn tennis tournaments, mainly the New South Wales Championships, circa 1890-1900. They are very difficult to track down because contemporary sources only ever referred to them as Miss M. Dransfield, Miss P. Dransfield and Miss S. Dransfield. They might have been immigrants from the British Isles.

I note that this website lists a Mary Dransfield of the winner of the women's singles title at the Sydney tournament in 1894: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_International However, I don't know the source for that first name.

Any help in identifying these three women would be much appreciated.

J.

Hello,

I have recently been searching for some info on an early Irish family, some of whose members appear to have been living in County Limerick circa 1880. The family name is Lysaght and, unfortunately, there were a lot of them living in south-west Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

So far I have only managed to find the first name of two members of the branch of the family I'm interested in – Edward Lysaght and his brother William, sometimes listed as "W.C. Lysaght". The brothers had at least one sister, a "Miss M. Lysaght".

I would be grateful for any help in tracking down any information on the above three members of this particular Lysaght family.

Thanks,

J.