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The Common Room / Elusive last name Agnes Menase
« on: Sunday 25 January 09 02:27 GMT (UK)  »
I have one line I'm having trouble with, namely one of my great-great grandmothers': Agnes Menase. I have tried Google by putting in 'Agnes Menase' but nothing of use ever comes up. :( Searching 'Menase' alone, I get, of all things, 'The Phantom Menace'! So, does anyone have any idea how to dig deeper into finding this elusive name? I also am unsure of quite where she was born, but she was apparently born in India. However, is 'Menase' known in any way as an Indian surname (keep in mind this is her maiden name)?

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One Name Studies: H to M / MOREY, England (pref. Worcester)
« on: Thursday 22 January 09 02:26 GMT (UK)  »
My great-great grandparents, Mello Jackobus Schenkel (born in Utrecht, Holland) and Myra Martha Morey immigrated to New Zealand on the Strathallan in around 1859. All I know is that Myra was born in around 1843 in Worcester, England, and died in New Zealand in 1913.

They had eleven children all together (all had last name 'Schenkel'). A lot of them had a curious habit of dying during either WW1 or WW2...with none (except one) even serving in either World War!

1. Elizabeth Helen (b. 1863; d. 1940)
2. Alice Katherine (b. 1864; d. 1915)
3. Roelofe Morey (b. 1866; d. 1940)
4. Edward Mello (b. 1868; d. 1918)
5. Ernest Alfred (b. c.1868; d. 1946)
6. Harry Holst (b. 1870 (stillborn))
7. Arthur King (b. 1871; d. 1936)
8. Selina (Selvia) Holst (b. 1872; d. 1873)
9. Ada (b. 1874; d. 1947)
10. Annie (b. 1875; d. 1876)
11. Ella (b. 1882; d. 1956)

I do not know the siblings of Mello Schenkel, but apparently Myra (or Mira, spelling may differ) had a number of siblings (her mum and dad were Edward William MOREY and Charlotte KING).

Myra's siblings (all with last name MOREY):
1. Elizabeth (b. 1850; d. 1922)
2. Helen Ann (b. 1858; d. 1930)
3. Harry Edward (b. 1860 (stillborn))
4. Alfred Roelofe (b. 1861; d. 1868)
5. Annie Charlotte (b. 1864; d. 1932)

So if anyone recognizes a name from their family tree that appears to fit in this branch, please post or PM me. :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Could someone date the Davies family, please?
« on: Thursday 22 January 09 00:41 GMT (UK)  »
I have attached an image of the rather large family ("rather" being an understatement, as my great-great grandparents Charles Davies and Agnes Menase had 13 children!), and from the clothes, I am assuming something like the 1910s or early WW1, but I just wanted to be extra sure I had my guess right of the approximate time era this photo may have been taken.

Also: is the woman in the 2nd row, 2nd from the left (the lady with the pudding bowl shaped hat) wearing a shawl, or is it some sort of cardigan?

Thank you for any help you can offer! :D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can you date this one of Gran?
« on: Thursday 22 January 09 00:33 GMT (UK)  »
I was sent this photo by email, and I assume it's my grandmother (maternal one). However, I keep trying to put a date onto when approximately this photo may have been taken. I'm thinking probably something like the 1930s or just before WW2. On a side note, she doesn't look all that happy about her photo being taken, seemingly randomly and in the middle of a street. ;)


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World War One / WW1-Soldier gassed 22/7/1917
« on: Thursday 22 January 09 00:15 GMT (UK)  »
I was looking through one of the WW1 soldiers records that I have (I've had about 5 cousins and 3 great-great uncles serve in the war--and that's just on my mum's side.  :o ), and spotted in the papers for Arthur Lyttelton JOHNSON that he'd been gassed severely on 22nd July 1917. Where would he most likely have been serving in France at this time (as it says he marched into France), when he was gassed? It does say on the Casualty Form that he was admitted to the 7th General Hospital in St Ornes (which I assume is in France, because the name sounds very French. I could be wrong, however.)

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