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South Africa / Parents/Sister of Mary Elizabeth Campbell

« on: Thursday 15 November 18 15:36 GMT (UK) »

Hi all, I have the DN of an ancestor, Mary Elizabeth (Campbell) Goulding, died
May 07, 1929 in Kroonstad, and an approximate birth date from that of 1869 (perhaps Whittlesea). Would anyone be able to find out anything about her parents (tentatively Joseph Thomas Campbell and Bridget (Holton)Campbell) and sister (possibly Bridget Isabella (Campbell) Blane. I'd merged the tree I'd compiled with another based on some possible duplicates, but in hindsight we've decided it was not necessarily accurate, so we've "detached", and are each trying to find evidence....Any help would be appreciated.

South Africa / Help with Locating a record in Rhodesian Death Registers

« on: Tuesday 06 November 18 10:02 GMT (UK) »

I've located a record for my grandfather Victor Aylen Callcott Stevens in the Rhodesian Death indexes. However I'm unable to locate the source from the reference it gives ("Misc 1971"). Can anyone help me with this?

South Africa / Mary Campbell nee Blackall (1798 London-?)

« on: Thursday 25 October 18 09:43 BST (UK) »

Perhaps someone can assist: the chronology I have for Mary Campbell is thin and seems suspect. I am "working upwards" from Joseph Thomas Campbell and in merging ended up with this.

Daughter of Thomas Blackall and Mary Blackall
Wife of Joseph Campbell
Sister of Samuel Blackall

1798 Birth of Mary
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

November 5, 1820
Age 22 Marriage of Mary to Joseph Campbell
Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

June 1, 1822 Age 24
Birth of May not belong under Joseph Campbell???
Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

1825 Age 27
Birth of Mary Elizabeth MacKay

1833
1833
Age 35 Birth of Joseph Thomas Campbell
Scotland, United Kingdom

1838
1838
Age 40
Birth of Isabella Margery Campbell
No location

Death No date/Location

England / Dr John Bolus/Dr Conquest

« on: Friday 19 October 18 16:38 BST (UK) »

Hi all, perhaps someone can help. I have a Dr John Bolus b 1775 Shropshire, married to Suzannah Crisp, at the top of my tree. Apparently he was the cousin of a well-known London doctor, a Dr Conquest. From my searchings it looks as if that was either Dr George Conquest of his son Dr John Tricker Conquest 1789 1866. Would anyone be able to confirm the family connection between Bolus and Conquest?

South Africa / Anson in the Cape pre 1820

« on: Saturday 13 October 18 08:13 BST (UK) »

Hi, hopefully someone can shed some light on this! A family history has Sgt Thomaas Davis of the 24th Regt of Fòot marrying Anne Anson in Cape Town in 1807. He was presumably part of the force that took the Cape the previous year. His birth in Owestry checks out, but although someone captured Anne as having been born in 1786 in Newark upon Trent, I haven't seen a document tying the two together. Even if that is the same Anne Ansom, there is nothing in her family records to explain why she would be in the Cape at that time. As far as references to Ansons are concerned, Commodore Anson stopped in at the Cape in 1774 on the final leg of his circumnavigation, and John Anson and his family arrived in 1820. Any help would be appreciated.

South Africa / Passengers to Cape Town

« on: Monday 08 October 18 20:49 BST (UK) »

Hi, please could someone with the correct know how (and subscriptions ) help. I'm trying to ascertain when George Stevens b 1817 and his wife Sophia Ann Stevens from Rochester Kent travelled to Cape Town. They probably had at least 1 child, George Henry Stevens, with them. The family talk is that it was 1848, but I haven't been able to verify that. Much appreciated.

Lanarkshire / Marriage Data for Lanarkshire?

« on: Thursday 04 October 18 16:03 BST (UK) »

Hi there I'm a genealogical newbie, but I've done ok with the help of familysearch. Scotland has me stumped though. Why when I search for people (eg Annie McIntyre b c1870) looking for her marriage to Mitchell, do I only get birth and census data back? Are marriages recorded elsewhere? Btw I know they had a child, Annie McIntyre Mitchell in around 1891 in Lanarkshire, but I don't know their religion.

South Africa / How would you interpret "Occupation: Companion" on a Death Notice?

« on: Thursday 04 October 18 12:41 BST (UK) »

I've found the Salisbury Death Notice of the woman my grandfather married and divorced hurriedly in the 1920's. She was subsequently married and divorsed again, which must have a bit unusual for those days. I've always been interested in the pall of silence that hung over her. There was some speculation that she may have been an alchoholic. Anyway, her death notice in the 1940's lists her occupation as "Companion". Is that as vague as covering anything from friend to girlfriend to professional girlfriend? Would that level of vagueness be deliberately used at the time?

World War One / Service in Ireland

« on: Wednesday 03 October 18 17:29 BST (UK) »

Firstly, I'm not from the UK and have only a limited knowledge of the entire Irish question, so apologies if I sound as ignorant as I am!
My grandfather Walter Bolus was born in England in 1898 and returned there and applied to join the RFC but was turned down due to color blindness. He subsequently joined King Edward's Horse (Im not sure which Regiment or Squadron) as a 2nd Lt and was trained at The Curragh near Dublin. He eventually saw service in France but before that was posted to Ireland where he commanded a firing squad. The sequence of joining the regiment or qualifying as a 2nd Lt first is something I'm not certain of. Neither Regiment lists deployment to Ireland amongst its deployments. I'm aware of some strife with Ireland at the time (around 1916) but does anyone have any ideas about how I could find out more?