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New Zealand Completed Requests / Anyone know about School Cadet shooting trophies?
« on: Saturday 30 April 16 04:13 BST (UK)  »
Yesterday my wife was given a picture of her grandfather, standing with a large trophy shield. This appears to be the "Marksman's Challenge Shield", awarded to school cadet units for rifle shooting. It is also called "The Weekly Press Shield" - they donated it. The picture was taken in Invercargill, between 1919 and 1925. Her grandfather died in 1925. I would like to know what year the picture could have been taken.

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Australia / Whatever happened to Silvio BARBUTO?
« on: Wednesday 28 October 15 21:04 GMT (UK)  »
Silvio was born in Victoria, in 1914 to Eduardo BARBUTO and Alfonsa LAZZERI. In 1938 he married Margaret Theresa MATHESON, in Victoria.

In the 1939 electoral roll for St Kilda, Victoria, Silvio and Margaret are living at 121 Carlisle st; he is a greengrocer.

In the 1954 death notice of Margaret's mother Mary, in The Age, Margaret is noted as Peggy (Mrs Barton).

In electoral rolls from 1943 to 1972, for Armadale, Margaret Teresa BARTON is with James BARTON, Presser, at 28 Larnook St.

I have not found a death or military record for Silvio, or a marriage for James BARTON to Margaret.

Did Silvio change his name?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Is there a record of a pension, at Wellington Archives, for John ANTHONY?
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 23:32 BST (UK)  »
John was born in Tipperary, Ireland about 1823. In 1840 he joined the 88th Regiment of Foot, and in 1857 transferred to the 69th Regiment. He was discharged from the army in 1863.

In 1874, John and his family emigrated to Invercargill. Sometime in the 1880s, John moved to Melbourne, Victoria. He died there in 1889. His occupation on his death record was "warder".

From his military record, John should have been receiving a pension. Can some kind person check at the Archives, to see if there is a record?

John.

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Armed Forces / What route would the 69th Foot have taken overland to India 1857
« on: Tuesday 12 August 14 21:04 BST (UK)  »
According to "Records of the Sixty-Ninth" the regiment arrived in Alexandria, Egypt on 1st December 1857, Cairo on 3rd December, they then "proceeded to the station in the Desert, twenty-seven miles from Suez, and embarked for Madras, reaching that place on 27th December".

I have been unable to find details of rail connections along this route. Does anyone have information?

My wife's great great grandfather, John ANTHONY, was in this regiment at the time.

John

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Australia / John ANTHONY in Melbourne
« on: Monday 07 July 14 03:06 BST (UK)  »
John was born in Nenagh,Tipperary, in around 1823. He joined the British army in 1840, and served until 1863. In 1874 he and his family emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand.
John died in Melbourne in 1889, and on his death printout his occupation is "warder".

I have not been able to find him online at the Victorian Archives site, and wondered if anyone had any sources for prison staff records for Victoria, or any suggestion for where he would have worked as a warder?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / The parents of Dick Hampden MCLENNAN
« on: Monday 23 June 14 05:41 BST (UK)  »
Who was born at Green Island, Dunedin on the 27th August 1896 (see the attached copy of part of his birth printout).

I have been unable to find the marriage for Dick's parents, or any trace of them in electoral rolls in New Zealand. Neither could I find them in census information from Britain, or in Australian indexes on ancestry. Can anyone help with this?


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help deciphering an Irish placename
« on: Sunday 15 June 14 02:56 BST (UK)  »
My ancestor Jeremiah FARRELL was born in Ireland, but married, in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1829, Ann MUIR. Their 6th son, Hugh, was born in Scotland on 7/1/1855. This birth is the only record I have found of Jeremiah's place of origin, but I can't read it.


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