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Europe / Re: Germany/Prussia -- STARKE family
« on: Thursday 26 January 23 06:35 GMT (UK) »
Thanks very much for the info and the transcription
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Europe / Re: Germany/Prussia -- STARKE family
« on: Wednesday 25 January 23 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi Dave
That's great, thank you! Yes, I would love a copy if possible. Are you able to send it via PM, please?
Ande
That's great, thank you! Yes, I would love a copy if possible. Are you able to send it via PM, please?
Ande
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Europe / Re: Germany/Prussia -- STARKE family
« on: Wednesday 25 January 23 11:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for the help. I didn't have the marriage of Clemens and his wife, so that's a great addition.
I will have a look at the website.
I will have a look at the website.
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Europe / Re: Germany/Prussia -- STARKE family
« on: Tuesday 24 January 23 10:43 GMT (UK) »
Bumping again
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Benjamin Thorpe - Aussie convict from Halifax area
« on: Monday 11 April 22 00:04 BST (UK) »
That's very interesting about the FindMyPast entry, and very curious that he's listed as having one child at the time, where elsewhere it says two.
Yes, unfortunately Benjamin has a common name. There's yet another Benjamin with a wife Mary on the 1881 census, around Halifax, with children Thomas and Harriet, that I thought was him initially, but it can't be him because he had died in Australia in 1876. He's hard to pinpoint.
Thank you for your lookups.
Yes, unfortunately Benjamin has a common name. There's yet another Benjamin with a wife Mary on the 1881 census, around Halifax, with children Thomas and Harriet, that I thought was him initially, but it can't be him because he had died in Australia in 1876. He's hard to pinpoint.
Thank you for your lookups.
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Benjamin Thorpe - Aussie convict from Halifax area
« on: Sunday 10 April 22 13:51 BST (UK) »
Well, there was a good chance that the Joseph Priestly marriage wasn't correct - though Mary have been lying when she said she was a spinster, so I'm still none the wiser. Thank you for taking the time to do those lookups.
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Benjamin Thorpe - Aussie convict from Halifax area
« on: Sunday 10 April 22 08:13 BST (UK) »
Greetings all
I'm working backwards here. I'm trying to seek out information about a Benjamin Thorpe. I believe he was born circa 1814 around the Halifax area. Then I think he married Maria Petty, though he would have only been around 16 if this is the case. His age tends to change a lot through the years, and not in the logical way!
(From FamilySearch)
Name Benjamin Thorpe
Residence Place Shelf, Halifax
Spouse's Name Maria Petty
Spouse's Residence Place Shelf, Halifax
Marriage Date 10 Jan 1830
Marriage Place Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Marriage Place (Original) Halifax, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Event Type Marriage
Event Type Note Baptisms, marriages & burials
Page 127
Source Publication Year Range 1600-1846
Affiliate Name Borthwick Institute for Archives
Benjamin pleaded guilty to embezzlement/larceny at the Spring Assizes in York and was transported for 7 years to Tasmania. He was aboard the ship Gilmore in Oct 1831 ( https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/thorpe/benjamin/118339 ). It says in his convict record that he left his wife Maria and 2 children behind. Somehow they had two children between their marriage in Jan 1830 and his departure in October 1831. From what I can gather he eventually got his ticket of leave in 1840 and moved to South Australia in 1846. I have all of his Aussie life documented. He died there in 1876.
I'm hoping I might be able to discover what happened to his wife and children in Yorkshire, but what I'm ultimately trying to do is go further back and hopefully even discover who Benjamin's parents were.
A thought I had was that Maria probably remarried after Benjamin was taken to Australia in 1831. Someone helped me find a potential marriage between Maria and a Joseph Priestly, though I have not yet found them on the 1841 census:
(from FamilySearch)
Name Joseph Priestly
Residence Place Skircoat, Halifax
Spouse's Name Mary Thorpe
Spouse's Residence Place Skircoat, Halifax
Marriage Date 18 Nov 1832
Marriage Place Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Marriage Place (Original) Halifax, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Event Type Marriage
Event Type Note Baptisms, marriages & burials
Page 79
Source Publication Year Range 1600-1846
Affiliate Name Borthwick Institute for Archives
Unfortunately that's all I have in regard to his English life, and it is all a bit flimsy. I'd appreciate any help you may be able to offer! Thank you in advance.
I'm working backwards here. I'm trying to seek out information about a Benjamin Thorpe. I believe he was born circa 1814 around the Halifax area. Then I think he married Maria Petty, though he would have only been around 16 if this is the case. His age tends to change a lot through the years, and not in the logical way!
(From FamilySearch)
Name Benjamin Thorpe
Residence Place Shelf, Halifax
Spouse's Name Maria Petty
Spouse's Residence Place Shelf, Halifax
Marriage Date 10 Jan 1830
Marriage Place Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Marriage Place (Original) Halifax, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Event Type Marriage
Event Type Note Baptisms, marriages & burials
Page 127
Source Publication Year Range 1600-1846
Affiliate Name Borthwick Institute for Archives
Benjamin pleaded guilty to embezzlement/larceny at the Spring Assizes in York and was transported for 7 years to Tasmania. He was aboard the ship Gilmore in Oct 1831 ( https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/thorpe/benjamin/118339 ). It says in his convict record that he left his wife Maria and 2 children behind. Somehow they had two children between their marriage in Jan 1830 and his departure in October 1831. From what I can gather he eventually got his ticket of leave in 1840 and moved to South Australia in 1846. I have all of his Aussie life documented. He died there in 1876.
I'm hoping I might be able to discover what happened to his wife and children in Yorkshire, but what I'm ultimately trying to do is go further back and hopefully even discover who Benjamin's parents were.
A thought I had was that Maria probably remarried after Benjamin was taken to Australia in 1831. Someone helped me find a potential marriage between Maria and a Joseph Priestly, though I have not yet found them on the 1841 census:
(from FamilySearch)
Name Joseph Priestly
Residence Place Skircoat, Halifax
Spouse's Name Mary Thorpe
Spouse's Residence Place Skircoat, Halifax
Marriage Date 18 Nov 1832
Marriage Place Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Marriage Place (Original) Halifax, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Event Type Marriage
Event Type Note Baptisms, marriages & burials
Page 79
Source Publication Year Range 1600-1846
Affiliate Name Borthwick Institute for Archives
Unfortunately that's all I have in regard to his English life, and it is all a bit flimsy. I'd appreciate any help you may be able to offer! Thank you in advance.
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Australia Lookups completed / Re: George William WRIGHT, SA
« on: Friday 13 November 20 11:31 GMT (UK) »
That is a lot to take in!
I don't even have an Emma Wright or Alexander Wright in my tree so I'm finding it very difficult to get things straight in my mind.
Are you suggesting that George's parents (of which you are descended from his brother Frank) might be George Wright and Agnes Clayton? Where did you get the name Emma from?
Actually, I've just been looking at my DNA matches through Ancestry. Emma and Alexander appear as half-3rd-great aunt and uncle to me, which would indicate that one of their parents married twice...?
I think I might need to look at this again with fresh eyes tomorrow.
I know it's frustrating when people don't respond to DNA matches or when they don't have even a partial tree uploaded to Ancestry!
I don't even have an Emma Wright or Alexander Wright in my tree so I'm finding it very difficult to get things straight in my mind.
Are you suggesting that George's parents (of which you are descended from his brother Frank) might be George Wright and Agnes Clayton? Where did you get the name Emma from?
Actually, I've just been looking at my DNA matches through Ancestry. Emma and Alexander appear as half-3rd-great aunt and uncle to me, which would indicate that one of their parents married twice...?
I think I might need to look at this again with fresh eyes tomorrow.
I know it's frustrating when people don't respond to DNA matches or when they don't have even a partial tree uploaded to Ancestry!
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Australia Lookups completed / Re: George William WRIGHT, SA
« on: Thursday 12 November 20 10:42 GMT (UK) »
I just remembered that the afore mentioned relative also said that Mary Jane Wright, who married Robert Ambrose Dowdy, was in an asylum for the last 30 years of her life.
From genealogysa.org.au (I don't have full access)
Hospital, Asylum and Lying-in Home Admissions
Surname Given Names Age Admission Year Action
DOWDY MARY JANE 30 1892 View Details
DOWDY MARY JANE 27 1889 View Details
Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) (about)
Saturday 1 June 1889
Page 20 of 48
POLICE COURTS.
ADELAIDE : THURSDAY, MAY 30.
[Before Meters. S Beddome, P.M., and T. Brown, J. P.)
Mary Jane Dowdy and Elizabeth Dowdy; charged with being destitute children,. were sent to the Industrial School until eighteen years of age. The mother - on the previous day was referred to - Dr. Mayo For medical examination, and the father was at Kingston.
I also found this, which may be her death record
DOWDY Mary Jane F Norwood 285/406 1902
So she may have died before 1905, in which case there would be 3 daughters and 3 sons remaining, as you said, Gil.
From genealogysa.org.au (I don't have full access)
Hospital, Asylum and Lying-in Home Admissions
Surname Given Names Age Admission Year Action
DOWDY MARY JANE 30 1892 View Details
DOWDY MARY JANE 27 1889 View Details
Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) (about)
Saturday 1 June 1889
Page 20 of 48
POLICE COURTS.
ADELAIDE : THURSDAY, MAY 30.
[Before Meters. S Beddome, P.M., and T. Brown, J. P.)
Mary Jane Dowdy and Elizabeth Dowdy; charged with being destitute children,. were sent to the Industrial School until eighteen years of age. The mother - on the previous day was referred to - Dr. Mayo For medical examination, and the father was at Kingston.
I also found this, which may be her death record
DOWDY Mary Jane F Norwood 285/406 1902
So she may have died before 1905, in which case there would be 3 daughters and 3 sons remaining, as you said, Gil.