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Australia / Re: Radcliffe Wild - Victoria?
« on: Thursday 01 September 11 06:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gerry - That's a great help!  Radcliffe must have gone to Zeehan for the silver mining rush, which I've just read started in 1882.  He may later have changed jobs and become a railway engine driver.  I think the newspaper death notice is about him, although I'm not sure about the cricket item, as that lists only last names, and Launceston was pretty far away from Zeehan.  Now I'm going to read up on Tasmania!  (And save up for an expensive death certificate!)

Hi again Jenn - On checking out the Wilds you mentioned, they seem to have emigrated to Australia in 1882.  They came from a town in Lancashire not too far from Radcliffe's, so it's possible they could have been related.  I'll have to look into that.

Many thanks to everyone.

arkay


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Australia / Re: Radcliffe Wild - Victoria?
« on: Thursday 01 September 11 00:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jenn,

Thank you for offering to check out his death.  Sorry, I don't know which state he died in, but I think his name is fairly uncommon.  He was the only one by that name in England, anyway!  If he died in 1908 he would only have been 43, so I'm wondering if he was also a miner in Australia and was killed in a mining accident perhaps.

Hi Leanne - Yes, that's where I found out he went to Oz, thanks.

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Australia / Radcliffe Wild - Victoria?
« on: Wednesday 31 August 11 18:28 BST (UK)  »
After many years of searching I have finally found my long-lost great grand uncle on a passenger list to Australia.  As he is the first in my tree to venture to Australia, I'm in need of your help!

Radcliffe WILD was born Mar Q 1865 in Bardsley, Lancashire, to a coal mining family, and on the 1881 British census he was a colliery weighman there.  On 29 Sep 1885, at age 20, he is listed as a passenger aboard the SS John Elder (Victoria Assisted & Unassisted Passenger List), arrival port: Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney (why 3 of them?), departure port: London (why not Liverpool, which was closer?).

There appears to be a death for him in Australia in 1908, but no further details given.  Is there anywhere online that would give me more information as to where he settled, if he married and where/how he died?  Or can anyone do a look-up for me?

I'd be very grateful for any info at all.
 

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The Lighter Side / Re: The Census: "love thy neighbour"?!
« on: Thursday 25 August 11 05:12 BST (UK)  »
My great-grandmother was born out of wedlock, but luckily for me, she named her father on her marriage certificate.  So I checked the census more closely around the time of her birth, and sure enough, there he was at #22 - living right across the road from her mother at #21.   

Take a good look at your ancestors' neighbours!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Family legends that turn out to be nonsense
« on: Thursday 31 March 11 17:57 BST (UK)  »
No, sorry Lizzie - Mine were Benussi and Evans.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Family legends that turn out to be nonsense
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 20:18 BST (UK)  »
My Mum, the only one in her mostly red-headed family to be born with jet black hair, was told she must have inherited her hair colour from her Spanish ggg-grandmother.   (This is one of the reasons I started researching my family history.)   Well, the Spanish grandmother turned out to be an Italian great-grandfather - a rogue who fathered her grandmother out of wedlock!  I would never have found him if she hadn’t helpfully named him on her marriage certificate.
   
He was one of my more interesting ancestors.  After arriving in England as a mariner, he became a boarding house keeper, then a pawnbroker, and finally a ship owner, who had amassed a fortune by the time of his death at age 91, outliving three wives - and at least one mistress.
 
It goes to show that these family stories are worth checking out!

Arkay

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The Common Room / Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« on: Thursday 17 February 11 21:46 GMT (UK)  »
I've just signed it, too.  It's such a shame to see history being erased like this.

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The Common Room / Re: 41 people in one grave??
« on: Wednesday 05 January 11 21:23 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone for your replies. 

It seems that the burials in the 41-person grave were either in 1970 or 1980 (none in between) and many were children and babies. 

You never stop learning new things, do you?  Especially on RootsChat!

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The Common Room / Re: 41 people in one grave??
« on: Wednesday 05 January 11 02:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Gaille,

Yes, I figured they would be paupers' graves, but did they just dig a huge hole or trench and stack the bodies inside all at once, or keep on opening up the grave to add more?   Sounds pretty gruesome, either way!


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