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Hi there, as per title I'm just wondering if any resources exist that list epidemics of diseases that went around in particular years. I did a bit of a google and wasn't very successful.


I have found (not for the first time sadly) multiple (3) children in one of my family groups that died within a very short period; only 12 days to be more precise, the grief must have been unbearable  .

It clearly must have been a disease of some description, I'm thinking smallpox or typhoid maybe but I'm curious if there's a means of finding out what might have been the likely culprit?


The year was 1795 and it was in Uttoxeter Staffordshire, I was uncertain if this post was better for the Staffordshire forum + someone that might have local history knowledge of this kind of thing, or if it was a more general query for a bigger audience?


TIA,
Belinda.

Hello all,

this little mystery concerns an ancestor of mine who immigrated to Australia in 1838. On the official record it looks like it says:

"native of Balcarris, near Foy, Cornwall"

but when I go onto google maps I can't find Foy (I suspect it may be Fowey?), and the closest thing to the name Balcarris is a Balcarres school in Gloucestershire!

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks,
B.

So my current bug bear is my 3 x great grandfather Hermann Rischmuller, b. abt 1834 in Gottingen, Hannover, Germany, who apparently jumped ship (    ) and arrived here some time prior to marrying Johanne(a) Hobel in Ballarat in 1855.

Recently I was re-examing the info available and had formed a fairly strong idea that a Charles Rischmuller (b. abt 1833 in Hannover, Germany) who also got married (to Emma Sweet in 1873), lived & died in Ballarat, was probably Hermanns brother, since with a name like that what was the likelyhood that they were unrelated?

Anyway, I finally coughed up to Vic Births Deaths and Marriages and got Charles' marriage certificate only to find that the parents names don't match ... or do they?

Mothers maiden name is very close isn't it? Just one letter difference, possibly easily explained as a transcription error?

My theory is that perhaps Charles' father died and one of his brothers has married Frederike? (not uncommon in those days). She's then had Hermann, so Charles and Hermann are half brothers.

But (there's always a but), their births are very close to be allowing for the death of a spouse, re-marriage and pregnancy, not entirely impossible, but close.

My other theory is that they actually have the same father and his name was George Christian or Christian George, since as you will notice, the occupation is the same for both.

What do you think?

For many years now I have been trying to find a record of my first ancestor (of one branch) immigrating to Australia.

He was from Germany and has an unusual name of which there are only two in the records; both women, so I have been examining alternatives hoping I might uncover a mis-translation/ mispell /transcription error. I think I may have found a likely candidate, the time of arrival matches, the age matches, but I'm stuggling with the handwriting/German names.

The passenger I'm looking at on this list is #69, Hermann ?.

I have googled the last name that this record is under and got no results so I think it might not be a 'proper' name, which puts me one step closer to it being the right record for me. However I can't make out the birthplace name, or the occupation which would most certainly either confirm or rule out that this is my man.

Should I hold off on telling you what they say the last name is and what I am looking for in order to get an unbiased opinion? 

Anyway, help would be most appreciated!

Hi All,

this post concerns the child of an ancestor of mine.

Alfred Rogers
b. 1904
near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The child himself is not my direct ancestor but his mother is and she's a very interesting case so I'm trying to find as much info connected to her as possible.

Mum was Ellen Rose (aka Helen, Nellie) Carter/Rischmuller/Richmuller/Richmiller/Gordon and the son I'm trying to track is Alfred Rogers/Rodgers. Born illegitimately to Jack Rogers in 1904, the last of their 4 children after Ellen Rose was divorced by my 2x great grandfather George Rischmuller in 1894 (for adultery ... they were separated for 10 months due to illness/unemployment and one day she wrote him a letter saying she'd had a baby and tried to say it was his!).

Anyway, back to Alfred, he was born in 1904 (not to be confused with older brother Alfred Frederick Rogers who was born and died in 1897), presumably in the vicinty of Melbourne although I'm not entirely sure. Alfred appears on Ellen Rose's death certificate so I knew he was still alive when she died in 1942 but other than that I know nothing about him, zip.

That was until a couple of days ago when I found a death notice for her on Trove and saw it had son Alfred as a member of the AIF. So I trot over to the NAA and search for Alfred under all the names I can think of; Alfred Rogers/Rodgers, Alfred Gordon (Ellen Rose re-married again in 1918 after Jack Rogers died), & Alfred William (from Ellen Rose's death cert) Rogers/Rodgers/Gordon.

Nothing.

There's a lot of close results and maybe I'm just missing him, but I'm wondering if this is just another example of this family stretching the truth, although there's nothing to be gained from lying in a death notice surely, not about this anyway?

Maybe his record isn't on there? I thought they all were?

Anyway I'm puzzled and was wondering if anyone else would like to take a look?

Thanks,
Belinda.