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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Ruddock / Burley / Holmes / Lambert
« on: Saturday 08 January 22 13:22 GMT (UK)  »
No this is the first time I have had any contact from Thomas and Emma’s family in UK and I must say I am very excited to meet you. I can’t wait to tell my Aunt tomorrow she will be thrilled to know that there are more of her dad’s family out there. Especially that they have made contact.  She is 88.

I had a lot of help from a woman in the Morley historical society who I have become friends with and then I helped some people with Australian research. I also met a man who was descended from a bit further up the line, and he helped a lot too.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Ruddock / Burley / Holmes / Lambert
« on: Saturday 08 January 22 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
Linda that is so sad I wondered all along if it was suicide. I will look out my records tomorrow using my iPad at present and all records on my laptop. Emma’s death certificate etc., I think she died very shortly after childbirth of the youngest son with complications. I think he died in early infancy too.

My grandad was Thomas Burley, Thomas and Emma’s oldest son immigrated around 1911-14 not sure of dates and then John Gilbert immigrated I think around 1921? I assume John Gilbert would be Jack.

My grandfather Thomas died in a car accident before I was born and my father died when I was 8, so that side of the tree was very scant. I picked up a bit from my aunt but she was only 14 when her dad died so she didn’t know a lot. She had kept in touch with John Gilbert’s daughters’ so I wrote to one of them and she mentioned he had been back home and met his sisters. My aunt and I didn’t know he even had sisters before I started my research.

Do you have any idea from your granny why your grt grandfather Thomas left home and changed his name? I have some theories but wondered if anyone knows his real reason. And then why he came home and changed it again.


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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Ruddock / Burley / Holmes / Lambert
« on: Saturday 08 January 22 05:01 GMT (UK)  »
Very sad, parents died within 2 months leaving orphaned children to be farmed out amongst the wider family. It’s greater that census records could tell us so much. I have done so much research as my grandfather was the eldest son and came to Australia as a farm lad on a ship of 200 young men and boys.
Are you related Lynn or just interested?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Ruddock / Burley / Holmes / Lambert
« on: Friday 07 January 22 23:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Linda,
I have sent you a personal message which you can reply to.
I have done a lot of work on the tree since I posted on here and had some great help from now friends in the UK.

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Australia / Re: Charles GARBUTT Townsville
« on: Saturday 11 April 20 03:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi Louise,
I am related to Annie Ethel Hides side of the family if you want any information on that line. Her mother was my great grandfather’s half brother a very sad and interesting story of their lives. If you want to message me I’d love to give you the information.
Cheers.

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Australia / Re: looking for LAWARDORN family history
« on: Monday 15 April 19 01:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jford and welcome,

You have certainly stumbled on a lot of relatives both near and distant here.
I am of the distant type related to your great grandmother Mary Ellen (May) McConnell, she was my grandfather's sister. However I also keep in touch with some other Lawardorn family members, who you may like to get in touch with.

I will PM you.
Cheers


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Australia / Re: Where to start?
« on: Friday 13 July 18 14:57 BST (UK)  »
The National Archives of Australia http://naa.gov.au name search might be a good chance the passenger arrival index goes up to 1966.
You could also try the Australian Electoral Roll records on ancestry as they go up to 1980, if they have an unusual name that may help otherwise you could be inundated with hundreds of John Smiths or similar. But I have used both to help track down an English migrant.

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Staffordshire / Re: James Thomas Lee Wolverhampton
« on: Friday 01 June 18 00:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi Trish and Rosie,
I have looked at both of these in the past but I am a little greedy ;D
I was really hoping another family member doing research in the UK or Australia would have a few answers :'(  With no shipping records at all, my latest is that he may have come across as crew and jumped ship.
I have spent years looking through ancestry, census, parish records and shipping records. The Lee's here have so many variations of how he got here it is like unravelling a tangled web. He didn't marry his wife, a very long winded story, so no records with details there.
Thanks for your help

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Staffordshire / James Thomas Lee Wolverhampton
« on: Thursday 31 May 18 16:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I am looking for anyone who can help me with a James Thomas LEE born abt 1830 Wolverhampton. The story goes that he emigrated to Australia, around 1852-4 with either his brother and a friend or with his family.

We can certainly see him in Victoria, Australia, where he starts a family with our ggg grandmother and creates a whole lot of Lee descendants in Australia. He becomes an engine driver, and so do several of his sons. But we can't find his shipping records or those of a brother or any other family members.

I can see a baptism of a James Lee on 25 May 1831 at Saint Peter Collegiate, Wolverhampton, Stafford, England with parents Edward Lee and Ann. His death certificate in Victoria Australia has his Parents listed as Edward Lee and Ann Bagley. I can also find an 1851 Census with a James Lee living as a lodger with a Greatrex family still in Wolverhampton while working as a pudler. This if it him,is possibly just the year or two before his travel.

I am just wondering if anyone else is related to this family and can help me.
Thanks in advance.

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