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Australia / Re: Murder in Western Australia
« on: Sunday 11 March 18 05:08 GMT (UK)  »
So this is my best actual evidence that Alexander comes from this family.

http://slwa.wa.gov.au/data/wabi/F/F2709.jpg
http://slwa.wa.gov.au/data/wabi/F/F2710.jpg

These WA Biographical Index Cards have Alexander attached to the Fox family with the same birthday. I was only able to find his birthday from an old bible written on in the 30's. Still would have been nice to find the birth certificate but no one in WA can find the official one yet.

Does anyone already have a copy of James and Mary Fox's marriage certificate?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The Schauer family's Migration to New Zealand
« on: Saturday 03 March 18 03:07 GMT (UK)  »
I believe you may be be right John. Though his wife and child kept by their old name, and they died down in Victoria. Strange! But I did read a newspaper article in NZ accusing the Schauer family of being German sympathizers and had to explain that they were all born in Australia. Schauer to Shaw makes sense.

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Australia / Re: Murder in Western Australia
« on: Wednesday 28 February 18 05:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Everyone. I just found Alexander Edward Fox's old bible. Kept by his daughter. I have a little bit more info from the back page.

It says. Alexander was born 21 April in Hay Street, Perth, WA.
He died at the age of 60 on 24-6-1936.

There's no birth certs for Alexander on the WA BDM. How on earth am I going to locate that! At least I now have a birthday and a street.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The Schauer family's Migration to New Zealand
« on: Wednesday 28 February 18 05:45 GMT (UK)  »
So I stumbled upon the old bible of Marie Schauer. There was a name in here I didn't recognise. Frederick William Shaw. Death 8 May 1936 aged 59 Ranwick Hospital, NSW. I looked up the BDM to see who the parents were.

Herman Julius and Annie.

The age has his born 1877, which is the same year Frederick William Schauer was born in Victoria. So it would have been her brother. So I finally know what happened to him. But I don't understand the name change? He had a wife Kathleen Mary Kirchhubel who died in Prahran, Victoria. And also a daughter named Marie Kathleen Schauer who died under her maiden name in 1974. So I think that line has died out. Maybe there was a divorce, or he ran away?

I still don't know what happened to Gustave Rudalph Schauer. He married Bertha Laura Watson 1922 in New Zealand. She apparently dies in Bass Hill, NSW in 1960. I still don't know what happened to Gustave.

More things to Ponder

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Australia / Re: Kempster, Glebeland Township, Sydney.
« on: Monday 12 February 18 08:46 GMT (UK)  »
I've been doing a little on the Kempsters as well. I started with Thomas William Kempster, as me married my Great Grandmother's cousin Eliza Jane Cleaves, and whose father Thomas Kempster was also an interesting character with a similar story to my own relatives. He had his children in Lithgow/Hartley the same years my relatives had their children.

He lived in Hill End the same years that my same relatives lived there too. Mine then moved to to Merewether, to work as the Post Master. They were also both Freemasons and seems as if they all went to the same Methodist Church, as trove articles has the Kempster families mixing with the Cleaves families there.

Not much more too add. Hope I'd get a hold of Lagg, as her husband would be a relative of mine :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The Illegitimate child of James Stephenson
« on: Sunday 11 February 18 23:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lucy,

I've been away a few days. Thanks for highlighting those extra details. It makes a lot more sense to me now.

I may have to wait a little longer. I've put in my request for the divorce papers in NZ. Say it may take a few weeks.

Janette. Which search and method did you use to find those results?? I couldn't get a hold of those.
Gloria Ellen May Fullbrook married a Carter. I didn't realize she died so young. I wonder if this is partly the reason her husband went to NSW with their daughter? I'll have to wait a couple more years to see the birth certificate to prove anything.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The Schauer family's Migration to New Zealand
« on: Tuesday 06 February 18 08:27 GMT (UK)  »
How would one go about finding the death notice? I've also seen that Eleanor died in 1994. So findmypast would say.

I just emailed the man responsible for the accuracy of the Auckland museum records. Sourced as a researcher who added notes on John Fagan's father.

Hopeful it's John's son. Which would make him the 3rd John in a row. Or coincidence. I'm an optimistic kind of guy though.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The Schauer family's Migration to New Zealand
« on: Tuesday 06 February 18 07:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Minihaha for those extra dates arounnd Carl, Ellen and Ellinor.

Wow, and thank you John for finding word of those Children. I didn't know I'd find any if they existed. It'll be harder to find anything about them unless they're looking into their own family heritage. And it's likely they're all passed away now. Those Fagan parent names are a great help.

Also! I noticed that Rudolph's war papers had his sister Marie Fox as the Next of Kin! I've been working on Her mostly as she's my direct relative. I've added it to a forum I started to work on.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=787303


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: The theories of Alexander Edward Fox in New Zealand
« on: Tuesday 06 February 18 07:12 GMT (UK)  »
A possible, but confusing bit in the research is that there a couple another A E Fox living in New Zealand as well.
I find a few instances of a musical A E Fox, which is made confusing more that Alexander Edward Fox was himself a very musical man.

1901(papers please) 28th Feb, Sergeant-Trumpeter A. E Fox returning from Boar War
This is difficult to prove, since I can't find much on Foxes from the Boar War.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19010301.2.9.1?query=%22A%20E%20fox%22

1904 in June, “Oamaru Mail” A E Fox playing music at a church.
1914 “Oamaru Mail” has A E Fox ‘dealer’ selling a pony harness regarding the North Otago Farmers Co-Op Association.

1918, A E Fox is representing a competition from (Tauranga), under the title Sgt.

1918 “Foxes Boot business” Te Puke – west of Tauranga, A E Fox business owner.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TPT19181025.2.33.2?query=%22A%20E%20fox%22
 
1922. A E Fox mentioned as part of E Flat Bass Solo. was of (Westport Garrison)
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19220217.2.105?query=%22A%20E%20fox%22

I'm thinking there might have been another A E Fox in the south that later moved to the north of the south Island. 

Another hard one to swallow is that Alexander Edward Fox was a Publican in Ashburton 1916 the same year a A E Fox had a pub licence on the other side of the Island, and also in the same year appear to be advertising for a lost item in Ashburton only 2 months after renewing his licence. Being in Ashburton and associated with farmers matches his brother in law's description in his WW1 file. I'm trying to make sense if it's one person, or two.

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