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Australia / Re: william skeehan and sarah heffernan
« on: Thursday 21 April 22 06:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lyn...not sure if still get on here. William and Sarah are also my great grandparents on my mother's side. I have a picture of William in his jockey silks.

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Berwickshire / Re: James Purves m Elizabeth Waldie 1786 Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland
« on: Friday 29 May 15 07:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Silverhawk.

Looks like we are very distantly related then.
Christiana's brother Peter is my 3x g/gfather.
I'd love to discuss this further with  you.

Mike Purves
mikejpurves@gmail.com

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Berwickshire / Re: James Purves m Elizabeth Waldie 1786 Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both for your reply.

Bairn359, when u say you searched for Purves, where did u search?
I am not really familiar with search facilities outside of Australia.

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Berwickshire / James Purves m Elizabeth Waldie 1786 Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland
« on: Sunday 14 August 11 02:47 BST (UK)  »
Looking for any information re the above or their children/parents.
They had 6 children:
Peter b1802
Jean b1787
Liddle b1789
Christiana b1791
Alison (Alice?)b1795
Helen b1798

Peter is my ggg/gfather and came out to Australia in 1841/42.

Mike Purves
Melbourne Australia

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How to find parents?
« on: Monday 20 June 11 05:59 BST (UK)  »
Couldn't have done it without the amazing help of people on here.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How to find parents?
« on: Sunday 19 June 11 10:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi Fifer and gnu, (may I know your given names?)

Just keeping you up to date with my work here in Aus'.
My father (82) and uncle (67) are amazed and extremely grateful for your generous help.


I have discovered an online newspaper obituary for James, nephew of Peter, which adds insight into his arrival and life in Aus'. A copy is attached. I have also discovered, in the Tasmanian online archives, a shipping record (screen cap attached) showing a Peter Purvi(e)s moving from Tasmania to the Port Phillip District in 1842. I am not discounting this entry as being my Peter even though the surname is recorded with an "I" rater than an "E".
Prior to my state of Victoria being proclaimed such in 1852, it was know as the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.

You may remember the 1841 census that you provided showing that James Purves (5) and John Cairns (7) where living in the same house. It is interesting to note that on the last will and testament of James Purves in 1913 one of the witnesses is a "John D Cairns"!.....coincidence? My father has also told me of his aunt Isabella who married a Cairns here in Aus.

Cheers,
Mike Purves

PS....I am curious as to your source of expertise and the time you have put into this area, are you both retired?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How to find parents?
« on: Friday 17 June 11 09:59 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: gnu on Thursday 16 June 11 12:37 BST (UK)
Hi Mike

Sources - the marriage from Scotlands People - I've sent you the page which is from the original parish record.

The children from the SP index and from the pages that I've referred to in my previous posting today.

Their children and marriages from IGI/SP and census information.  All discussed on this thread.

If you go to the top of this 'thread' and click on Print, you should be able to get a print copy of all that has been said. You can then read it through at your leisure.

I hope that this was a typo on your part:

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I do believe James son of Peter arrived in Australia at the age of 17 in or about 1835 to join his father.

He was born in 1835, Newcastle,  and we think arrived 1852, aged 17.  He is in Berwick on Tweed in the 1841 and 1851 censuses.


gnu


Yes gnu that was a typo, I meant to say that we believed James son of Peter arrived here in 1852

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How to find parents?
« on: Thursday 16 June 11 12:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi Fife and gnu,

There is an abundance of "James". Both Peter and his brother/nephew James had sons named James.

I do believe James son of Peter arrived in Australia at the age of 17 in or about 1835 to join his father. This is born out by the "years in colony" shown in his death record.

The death record for James (brother/nephew of Peter) shows his year of death here in Aus' as being 1878 and his age as 65, this puts his birth year as 1813 approx. It also shows his "years in colony" as 44 which would have him arriving here in 1834. I am now starting to lean to the idea of Peter/James being uncle/nephew rather than brothers as family lore would have it.

gnu,
May I ask the source of the following information supplied by your good self.

Summary ~

James Purves m. Elizabeth Waldie, 1786

Known children:
Jean - 1787
Liddle - 1789 - married Mary Scott 1813. Children - James (1814)  (Death record in 1870 gave the wrong age - he was 55 not 65)
Christiana - 1791
Alison - 1795 married David Cairns (not found date). Children - John Liddle, James Liddle (1833), Elizabeth (1836)
Peter - 1803 - married Barbara Scott 1835. Children - James (1835)


Cheers,
Mike


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How to find parents?
« on: Thursday 16 June 11 11:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: gnu on Wednesday 15 June 11 11:55 BST (UK)

SP has a baptism for James Purves, parents Liddle Purves and Mary Scott, Coldingham, Berwickshire on 21 June 1814

gnu

PS - Fifer this would fit with the 37 year old maybe  :-\

Hi gnu, in putting together information for uncle/father I am trying to quote references....can you tell me what "SP" stands for in the above. Probably something obvious I'm missing.

Mike

PS. Peter did not re marry here in Aus'. His son James did marry an Emily CAROLINE Quinan. They had five children, one of whom had LIDDLE as a middle name. I have information on her family. I will check my local library Genealogy section for shipping records, other than that it will be Saturday 24th before I can get to the POV (public records office).

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