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South Africa / Re: james henry CLYDE
« on: Sunday 12 November 23 16:47 GMT (UK)  »
thanks for the marriage certificate. I have this, and am at a brick wall now, with birth for John Clyde and Elizabeth Sills.  The daughter of Sarah and John Sills, was baptised in the catholic Faith when she was 5 years old, with her mother, after her mother got married to John Clyde in the Catholic Church.

Perhaps I can get hold of the Catholic Church in Port Elizabeth for any further records.

thanks for info regarding login for ancestors.co.za.  I shall try that now.

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South Africa / Re: james henry CLYDE
« on: Friday 20 October 23 17:58 BST (UK)  »
thank for getting back to me.  It is really a brick wall for me.
The sills you linked with baptisms with the clyde is the right family, but not direct line I am looking for.  I also can't access those ancestry links, as I am not a subscriber.

Ellen Elizabeth shows in a baptism for her and her mother on 11 April 1883, and indicates that Ellen was 5 years, making her born 1878/9.
yes her death notice as per your link shows she was 50 when she died, making her birth year 1874.
So I need her actual birth to see which is her correct birth year.

so to summarise, I need John Clyde birth and Ellen Elizabeth sills birth.

I thank you for your help.:)

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South Africa / Re: james henry CLYDE
« on: Friday 20 October 23 08:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the below. 
I know that Ellen Elizabeth Sills, daughter of John James Sills, died 11-8-1924, in grey hospital, King Williams Town. She was unmarried. Her half sister Cecilia Margaret Clyde (daughter of John Clyde) used to help Ellen (aka Nellie) in the miller shop she had in East London, so the death certificate is the correct one, as it shows her occupation as dressmaker.
I cannot find Ellens' birth.

I also know that she was baptised into the catholic faith on 11 April 1883 at St Augustines church at the same time as her mother, and was 5 years at the time. The same church that Sarah Jane Sills and John Clyde got married in on 17 May 1879.
I cannot find a death notice for John James Sills either.

John Clyde could very well have remarried, as Sarah died in 1896.
his marriage you sent me, shows him a widower in 1898.
he probably remarried as his children were young.

are you able to help me with birth for Ellen Elizabeth sills or a death for John James sills?
I know you have been a big help, and appreciate it greatly.


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South Africa / Re: james henry CLYDE
« on: Thursday 19 October 23 16:24 BST (UK)  »
I am back to searching again.  seems once the bug is bitten, you can't stop.
I am still looking for John Clyde.  I did find a death notice for him, but it doesn't specify his parents or his place of birth.
any information for this man I would be very grateful. he lived in Cooper street in Port Elizabeth, was born about 1845 (not sure where - deducted age at death from date of death) and was married to a Sarah Sills.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: William Austin/Sarah Lock
« on: Saturday 25 September 10 09:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

Your Sarah Lock that you are referring to in your post, what year was she born and who were her parents?  I have a couple Sarah's and am trying to find the link.

Kind regards
Jackie

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: MINDRY 1891 (and 1871) Lookup
« on: Tuesday 08 June 10 19:25 BST (UK)  »
thank you.  got it now.  I will google Borough Island.

Regards
Jackie

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: robert nathaniel mindry
« on: Tuesday 08 June 10 17:54 BST (UK)  »
I can sympathise with you in a slow computer.  I have had that and i think i lost it eventually:)
Interesting to see that Alfred Mindry is enumerated twice.  His father was also enumerated twice in 1871.  Not sure what the guys were doing in those days.

Thanks for letting me know.

Kind regards
Jackie

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: robert nathaniel mindry
« on: Tuesday 08 June 10 14:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jebber,

Where did you find the passenger list for 1893?  Are you positive it is 1893 ?  The eldest son of 8 years old, would bring him to being born 1885 and not 1881.  Do you know how they rounded up ages for the passenger lists?

I now know that Robert Nathaniel's parents were Alfred George William Mindry and Selina Alberta Smith, who were married in 1880 in Portsea.
Alfred is in the 1861 census with his mother, Mary, and siblings, Mary and Henry.
In 1871 i cannot find him, but then he comes up in a marriage of 1880 to Selina Alberta and again in 1881 on board HMS Glatton as Ships Steward.

Kind regards
Jackie

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: MINDRY 1891 (and 1871) Lookup
« on: Tuesday 08 June 10 12:23 BST (UK)  »
Not sure if my side, but there is no Robert Mindry on that baptism record.  Unless i am not seeing it?

So, regarding Robert Mindry the Master Gunner who was born about 1825, you mentioned he was on board a vessel in 1871 as well.  Could you tell me the name of the ship?

Kind regards
Jackie

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