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I’m looking for any information on Benjamin ODGERS and his wife Ann  (Ana) THOMAS in Chile after 1825.

I think Benjamin ODGERS might have been a copper miner or smelter. His brother in law Mauris THOMAS worked in the copper industry in Chile  in the late 1820s-40s and in South Australia from 1848.

Benjamin ODGERS married Ann THOMAS on 12 Feb 1825  in Gwennup, Cornwall. Ann’s brother Mauris THOMAS and his wife Mary Ann THOMAS nee PERKINS were witnesses on the marriage licence.

Benjamin and Ann had 3 children born in Chile, Juan, David and Elizabeth.  On David’s death cert his nationality is recorded as English but probably born in Chile.

Juan ODGERS, born, married and died in Chile.
Information from Juan’s death cert (Oct 1887)
Age at death 53 ie born about 1834, nationality Chilean, residence Tongoy, occ herrero - blacksmith? , wife Faustina ALVAREZ, parents Benjamin ODGERS and Ana THOMAS

David ODGERS, probably born in Chile, married and died in Chile.
Information from David’s Chilean death cert  (1894)
Age at death 56 ie born about 1838, nationality English, residence Coquimbo, occ unclear, wife Carmen VALDEBENITO,  parents Benjamin ODGERS and Ana THOMAS

Elizabeth Jane ODGERS, born in Chile, married and died in Australia.
Information from Elizabeth’s marriage cert (Melbourne, Australia 1866)
Age at marriage 25 ie born about 1841, birthplace Chile South America, residence St Kilda Melbourne, husband Alfred COLEMAN, parents Benjamin ODGERS  and Ann THOMAS

Information from Elizabeth’s memorial stone (died Dec 1919)
Elizabeth COLEMAN, age at death 80 ie born about 1839, death place Glen Innes NSW Aust

Here are two images from Colonell baptism register 1778 and 1780. I can’t work out the place name in the entries. It looks like Laglartry, but I can’t find that on any maps. I’m hoping someone with local knowledge will know where this place is.

The parents Gavin and Sarah were agricultural labourers so it might be the name of a farm.

I'm hoping there is someone who has access the archives in Borken Westphalia.

On the IGI, I have found a transcription for the marriage of Anton SUETFELS & Xtina [sic] (Christina)  NIESING 3 Feb 1811 in Vreden, Westphalia (probably St Georg Roman Catholic church). This transcript does not give any details about age, fathers' names & occupations.

As far as I know, the only access to the original parish record is at Borken Archives.
(A digital copying program is underway in the Münster Diocese, but, as it is being rolled alphabetically, Vreden records will probably only be online at the end of 2018)

Hoping someone can help out
These are my g-g-g-grandparents

barbatalice

I am looking for the marriage of John GARRAWAY and Mary Unknown.
The marriage date is probably in the 1730s and possibly in Old Sodbury or close by.

John and Mary had three known children baptised in Old Sodbury Gloucestershire:
Francis  baptised 8 Sep 1738
Jane baptised 24 Jan 1740
Sarah baptised 19 Nov 1742

John and Mary’s daughter Jane GARRAWAY married Thomas WATTS on or after 28 Nov 1762. I have seen a transcript of the marriage bond dated 28 Nov 1762 .

I am also looking for the burial /will of either John or Mary GARRAWAY.
After the death of her husband Thomas WATTS in 1770, Jane WATTS nee GARRAWAY married Thomas PEACHEY in 1776 in Old Sodbury. The witnesses at Jane WATTS'  2nd marriage were her parents John and Mary GARAWAY [sic]

It is possible that the John GARRAWAY I am researching is the son of John GARRAWAY who died in 1734 in Old Sodbury. In his will, written in 1732, the executors were his wife Jane and son John. 
John GARRAWAY, the son of John and Jane, was baptised in Old Sodbury 1713 or 1714. The parish register reads “John the son of John Garroway and Jane his wife Novemb the 20th”

Note: In A* the baptism year has been mis-transcribed as 1725.

Frederick Charles MANNES married Ann SWAYSLAND in Sydney in 1895

In the newspaper reports about his death in 1912 he is said to be 49 years old, to have lived in NSW for 31 about years, and to be a native of London. Family stories say he was actually from Germany, went to the UK and from there to Australia

The NSW BDM death index for 1912 records that his parents were Frederick and Christina but this may not be correct

I'm looking for help to find:
his date of arrival in Australia and port of arrival (from death reports this could be about 1881)
his birth date and location (from death reports this could be abt 1863)

When he died he was working as a baker. Family stories say that he made european-style cakes.

Thanks
Barb