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Suffolk / Re: Darsham Suffolk (Darsham House)
« on: Saturday 13 December 14 10:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hello - does anyone have any info on Arthur Edward Hadley (1870-1954) or his son Ronald Arthur Hadley (1917-1968) who I believe lived in Darsham House?  In particular, when were they in residence there? And do you know of any paintings or drawings by AEH?

David


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Dorset / Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

My great-grandmother Hannah Gray, was buried in a cemetery in Weymouth in December 1923. My mother and I found the grave in 1971.

According to the National Burial Index (transcribed by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society) the cemetery was Melcombe Regis. In 2012 I searched Melcombe Regis cemetery (adjacent to Newstead Road and Longcroft Lane), but was unable to find the grave - indeed, the cemetery looked quite different from the one that I visited with my mother 41 years before!

I see that there is another cemetery adjoining Abbotsbury Road and Quibo Lane. Is that also known as Melcombe Regis cemetery? (Or was it in 1923?) Or might the transcription for the NBI be wrong?

Any help would be most welcome!

David


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Kent / Re: Shorncliffe Military Cemetery Kent
« on: Wednesday 27 April 11 18:10 BST (UK)  »
I called the Cemetery Manager on the number given in Casalguidi's Reply #16, and spoke to a very helpful person...

David

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Canada / Re: Ada ANDREWS, arrived Montreal 1901
« on: Monday 18 April 11 21:16 BST (UK)  »
Just for the record, I have at last discovered (in the BC Marriage Registrations on FamilySearch) that Ada married Harold THACKERAY on 10 May 1913 in Vancouver. Her middle name was given as Mary, and her age was underestimated by 7 years, but her parents' names were given correctly .

She and Harold had one son, Paul Andrews THACKERAY (b. 1914, d. 1982). Ada died in 1943.

I still have not found Ada in the 1911 Canadian or England censuses.

David

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South Africa / Re: How to get copies of documents from Cape Town Archives Repository?
« on: Sunday 06 June 10 06:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Gillian! I'll try that.

David

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South Africa / How to get copies of documents from Cape Town Archives Repository?
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 10:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I have found references to the "Deceased Estate Papers" and "Liquidation and Distribution Accounts" for my great-uncle on NAAIRS (KAB depot).

EGGSA (http://www.eggsa.org/sales/help_archive_docs.htm) say that they cannot accept orders for copies for KAB, since mechanical copying is banned there.

Can anyone suggest some other way in which I could obtain copies, please? Are there researchers who do this kind of thing? A written transcript would be fine.

Yours, David

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Australia / Re: Unassisted Inward ... and Charles HALES's return to England
« on: Monday 02 November 09 20:30 GMT (UK)  »
Assuming it was my g.g.grandfather Charles HALES who arrived in Melbourne on the "George Marshall" in Apr 1855, he must have returned to England between 1855 and 1857.

I've searched PROV's "Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1896", but there's no likely person there, unless it's the Charles HALE (19) on the "Swiftsure", Apr 1857 - though the age is badly wrong (it should be 34/35).

(The surname HALES was often mis-spelled: I've tried HAY*/HAI* etc, as well.)

I've also tried the other websites on RootsChat's "VICTORIA RESOURCES/Passenger Lists and Shipping" without success.  Does anyone have any other suggestions for passenger lists from Melbourne to England between 1855-7, please?

David



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Australia / Re: Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria - HALES, Chas, Geo and Solomon
« on: Monday 02 November 09 06:21 GMT (UK)  »
Sarra - that's great - thanks very much indeed!

David :)

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Canada / Re: Ada ANDREWS, arrived Montreal 1901
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 16:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Debbie - I've checked both censuses pretty carefully (including the Ancestry index for the Canadian one as well as Automated Genealogy).

Of course Ada may have married between 1901 and 1911. I've checked all the Ada ANDREWS marriages in that range on FreeBMD against the 1911 censuses. I've also searched both censuses for Ada Jane (or just Ada) of about the right age and birth county (England census) or country (Canadian census), without specifying a surname. But I've found no likely people so far...

At least two other women in my tree changed their given names around this time, for no obvious reason. If Ada did that too, I've very little chance of finding her!

David

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