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The Common Room / Re: Brick wall - a real long shot
« on: Monday 20 October 14 06:22 BST (UK)  »
You may have already found this:
NZ researcher/librarian Tony Millett (descendant of George Patrick Pierce) gives the following:

Thomas Pearce, b 1678 of Eaststreet, Taunton, Somerset. Children including:

son Damond Pierce, born 1708, of Chepstow (Monmouthshire); children including:

son George b 1738, d 1768 (drowned); of Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales; children including:

son George b 19 Dec 1768 at Reading, Berkshire; m 13 Dec 1790 Betsey Matthews, b 1766 Calne, Wiltshire, d of John Matthews, d 15 May 1838
 
 (http://tonymillett.tripod.com/id45.html )

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Friday 24 January 14 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
Very many thanks to you for your replies - as a result of which I now have a copy of the original registers, showing parentage for my GGM and GGF, as well as completely different ages from those in the transcripts. The Riverina archives are at Charles Sturt University, and the archivist was tremendously helpful. Great advice - thank you again.

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Wednesday 18 December 13 03:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you to you both for replying - I'm so glad that I didn't give up. JM, your earlier post is fascinating.

The marriage certificate is no. 1875/001722. The marriage was on 8th September 1875 at the Church of England Corowa. The officiating minister was J C Sabine and the witnesses are J H Martin and M Dowling; the bride and groom were Margaret Hannah Morse, spinster, dressmaker, living in Corowa, and William Louis Leslie Evans, bachelor, painter, living in Corowa.

Many thanks again
Kate 

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Tuesday 17 December 13 14:59 GMT (UK)  »
Back again (having got sidetracked…) 

I've got a copy of the marriage certificate for William Louis Leslie Evans and Margaret Hannah Morse - and very many thanks to those of you who steered me in the right direction on this. It has a lot of blank spaces though - e.g., birthplace, ages, parents' details. Is this usual? Or have I got some abbreviated version of the certificate?

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Friday 09 August 13 05:09 BST (UK)  »
Very useful, will send off for the transcript.

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 12:12 BST (UK)  »
No, just the initials were given (so still a question mark over whether this is our guy); the informant was ?'constable attending inquiry'. I've attached this on the off chance that someone can read more into this than I can.

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Wednesday 07 August 13 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Jorose, that's given me a whole new line of enquiry.

I got the death certificate - lots of 'unknown's with regards family which suggests that he died away from family, possibly living apart from his wife; but it did tell me that he was born in England, and this time is shown as a painter and wheelwright (a bit like a coach maker perhaps?).
Now waiting for the marriage records to arrive, to see if they show more information.

Many thanks to all -
Kate :) :)

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Australia / Re: William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Tuesday 06 August 13 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Wow - I never expected to wake up to so many (or any) replies! Thank you, everyone, for reading and responding.
I can't tell you how exciting this is - it has been a family mystery for years.

And if I can help at all with research at this end, please do let me know.

So,  in answer to the questions:

Leanne: Yes, Elsie's married name was first Chandler, then Blore.

Merlin, I don't know her mother (Margaret)'s maiden name though I had wondered whether it might have been Eugene.... (A family member suggested that Elsie might have worked under the stage name of Eugene but that might just be guesswork). But I think that you may all have put paid to that theory! And re Melbourne: 1901 Census gives her birth place as Melbourne.

Re the details from the marriage certificates: on the Chandler marriage (Lambeth 29 Nov 1901) both parties are shown as living at 27 Holland Road, North Brixton; Elsie's age is 21 years (spinster) and her father is William Louis Leslie Evans (deceased) profession or rank  Coach Builder (Master). On the Blore marriage (Eastbourne, 4 April 1916) she is shown as a widow, aged 36, and her father's name is shown as William Louis Leslie Evans, and rank or profession is Gentleman Deceased.

Sue, Debra:  Olga was Elsie's daughter, born in St Petersburg when Elsie was quite young, so I think for 'social' reasons she was listed as Margaret's daughter. She was visiting her mother, with her Russian nurse, in 1901, and didn't come to live in England until she came to school in Eastbourne in about 1913 or so.

Debra: just read your last - that looks like a fit - thank you very much; that's got me through the biggest and longest-lasting brick wall.

Rootschat is amazing. Anything I can do to help anyone at all...?


Thank you all again - Kate

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Australia / William Louis Leslie EVANS of Melbourne, c 1880
« on: Monday 05 August 13 19:03 BST (UK)  »
Hello

I'm a Rootsweb member from the UK, trying to track down Australian ancestors.

My great-grandmother was born Elspeth Ethel Eugene Evans, about 1880-82 in Melbourne. She became a music hall artiste, and travelled to Russia and then England. According to her death certificate, her father was  William Louis Leslie Evans, a master coach builder, who was shown deceased in 1901; her mother was Margaret Evans, born in Tasmania in 1853. The only other thing I know about Margaret was that she was in London in 1901 (census) staying with her daughter.

I'm finding nothing through Ancestry, and wondered if anyone had any ideas for further searching?

Very many thanks in advance
Kate Walker

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