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Dorset / Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

My great-grandmother Hannah Gray, was buried in a cemetery in Weymouth in December 1923. My mother and I found the grave in 1971.

According to the National Burial Index (transcribed by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society) the cemetery was Melcombe Regis. In 2012 I searched Melcombe Regis cemetery (adjacent to Newstead Road and Longcroft Lane), but was unable to find the grave - indeed, the cemetery looked quite different from the one that I visited with my mother 41 years before!

I see that there is another cemetery adjoining Abbotsbury Road and Quibo Lane. Is that also known as Melcombe Regis cemetery? (Or was it in 1923?) Or might the transcription for the NBI be wrong?

Any help would be most welcome!

David


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South Africa / How to get copies of documents from Cape Town Archives Repository?
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 10:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I have found references to the "Deceased Estate Papers" and "Liquidation and Distribution Accounts" for my great-uncle on NAAIRS (KAB depot).

EGGSA (http://www.eggsa.org/sales/help_archive_docs.htm) say that they cannot accept orders for copies for KAB, since mechanical copying is banned there.

Can anyone suggest some other way in which I could obtain copies, please? Are there researchers who do this kind of thing? A written transcript would be fine.

Yours, David

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Canada / Ada ANDREWS, arrived Montreal 1901
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
Ada ANDREWS (last residence Cambridge, England) was on the SS Vancouver, arriving Portland, Maine, 2 May 1901, en route for Montreal.

It's possible she was my great-aunt Ada Jane ANDREWS (b. Stradishall, Suffolk, 24 Jul 1875), who was a Typist in the 1901 England census.

So far, I've been unable to find any definite trace of her in the Canadian records - can anyone help, please?

David

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Australia / Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria - HALES, Chas, Geo and Solomon
« on: Saturday 31 October 09 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Lookup request:

The online index gives the above names as passengers on the "George Marshall", arriving Apr 1855 (Port B, Fiche 009, Page 005). I have been told that George and Solomon were the brothers of my g.g.grandfather Charles HALES (1822-98), who was a Wheelwright by profession.

I'd be very interested to know whether the "Chas" on this ship was my Charles. He spent most of his life in Hempstead, Essex, England, but there is a gap in his children's births between 1854 and 1858 - so it's possible that he went to Australia in 1855, but quickly returned.

So if anyone could look up the fiche and see if there's further info about Chas, I'd be most grateful!

David Andrews

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