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Australia / SA Adelaide Possible Meet-Up! (Sticky please?)
« on: Thursday 14 July 11 08:57 BST (UK)  »
(Could this be stickied please?)

Calling all South Aussies!

Gramps63, myself and a few others were just chatting in the Rootschatterbox and we thought up the idea that maybe we could hold a meet-up/get together in Adelaide sometime in the upcoming months.

It's just a raw idea at this stage, and we're just generating interest. Would you be interested in attending? What places would you recommend me meet at/visit? Would anybody like to sign up to help organise this potential event?

Please let us know what you think! :D Thanks!

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Australia / Elizabeth THORPE (nee Smith) confusion
« on: Monday 04 July 11 11:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find out some things about Elizabeth Thorpe (nee Smith). She married Benjamin Thorpe at St George Church, Gawler, South Australia in 1853. Their first daughter Mary was born in Gawler, 1854.

Today, after endless searching I have found an obituary for her on Trove. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57864700 The article dates from 1909 and states that she was 75 when she died. That makes her birth circa 1834.

The obituary also states that she immigrated (assisted) on the Charlotte Jane, 1848. I could only find one trip for this ship in that year, and that was to NSW. I found the original passenger list on Ancestry. The only Smiths on board are as follows:

Family 1:
John, 32, farm servant and miner, from Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Janet, wife, 20 (oviously not the mother of the children, too young, second wife?), can't read where she's from
Jane, 14, domestic servant
Anne, 11, daughter
Eliza, 6, daughter
James, 3, son

Family 2:
Samuel, 27, Labourer, Chesham, Buckhinghamshire
Eliza, 26, wife, Maidstone, Kent
Edward, 3, Chesham, Buckhinghamshire

That is all the Smiths listed on the ship. So does that mean Elizabeth was either 6 years old or 26 years old and she lied about her age? If she was 6 in 1848 when she arrived in Australia, that means she was just 11 when she married in 1853! Or if she was 26 in 1848 and remarried in 1853, that would make her 31, which means she was 87 when she died, not 75 like her obituary states.

I'm confused.  ???  Do any of these Elizas seem likely? Can you suggest a way to prove or disprove one or the other? I'd appreciate any help! Thank you. :D


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Australia / Two WRIGHT families, South Australia
« on: Tuesday 04 January 11 12:27 GMT (UK)  »
I have two direct lines of WRIGHTs on my mother's side of the family. I don't believe I've posted about this here before (sorry if I have. The Search isn't working for me just now).

Firstly, I have George William Wright (born cir 1836 in South Australia somewhere), who married Catherine (Cath) Moran (born cir 1838, South Australia). They married 1857 at Gould's Creek, SA. George's father was also called George William Wright. Cath's father is Nicolas Moran.

George and Cath's children are: Eliza Ann, Mary, Catherine, George William (yes, that makes three), Thomas and Robert, all born between 1857 and 1870 around the Norwood part of Adelaide.

Second Wright family is based around Eyre Peninsula. Richard Wright (I believe his middle name is Henry), born cir 1822-1830 in Lincolnshire, England. He married Mary Ann Hart (born cir 1827, Bedfordshire, England) in 1851 in Northampton, England. They emigrated to Australia on the "Oregon" in 1851. Richard's father is John Wright. Mary Ann's father is, I think, John Hart.

Together, Richard and Mary Ann had these children: Alice Jane, Emily Catherine, Henry Edward, Albert Edward, Selina, Walter Thomas, Charles Edward, Bertram, Florence Rose, Martha Jane, Herbert Henry, Edward, and Emily, all between 1853 and 1879 near Warrow and Lake Wangary, SA (near Port Lincoln).

I'd love to hear from anyone who knows anything about either family. Thanks.

Link to previous thread re George

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,407698.msg2756194.html#msg2756194

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Restoration please - WATERS family *COMPLETED*
« on: Tuesday 04 January 11 05:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

I was wondering if someone could please apply their magic touch to this photo. It is from my Waters family who lived in Surrey, England. John Edwin Henry Waters is the (tall!) groom, and Catherine Maud Cooper is his wife. I haven't placed who the others are.

I'm sorry for the poor quality - it's the only version of this photo I have. No idea what happened to the original.

(Click the link for the picture then click the 'download' button that appears to the top-right)
http://www.box.net/shared/2uxhuvetjv

Ande

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Australia Lookups completed / Maurice Benjamin THORPE, SA, murdered? -Completed-
« on: Friday 10 December 10 11:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

There is a story in our family that my nanna's cousin, Maurice Benjamin Thorpe, was murdered in the 1960s and I'm wondering if there's any way to find a news article or anything to find out more about his death. I can't afford to order any certificates right now. From the BMD index I could only deduce that he died in a hospital at Woodville, SA, 7 July 1965.

The tale goes that Maurice was interested in an aborigine woman and the woman's family didn't approve, so they killed him. It's something I'd like to disprove rather than prove!

Any suggestions for where I could find some info? Thanks in advance.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Restore please - COMPLETED
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

I'd love it if someone was able to polish this photo up a bit. It's just a digital photo taken of an old photo...and none of my family seems to know what happened to the original.

I have two versions. Feel free to work on either! I'm afraid they're not 300dpi (or at least I assume they're not) because as I said, they're just photos of photos.

http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz103/andemaiar/1342.jpg
http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz103/andemaiar/1352.jpg

Good luck, and thank you! :D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Lawrence JONES - Quality Improvement - Completed
« on: Friday 02 July 10 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone would like to try touching up this photo. The man in the doorway shadow was my grandfather and the only person in the photo I'm really interested in. I know this is a low-quality image but it's the best I have. If someone would like to try to colour it, that would be great but not necessary.

Lawrence Jones was from Port Lincoln, South Australia, and served in WW2, for those interested. This photo was taken when he was on leave in Queensland, and finding this photo is what triggered my addiction to genealogy.

Thanks!
Lauren

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Winifred Annie COOPER - Completed
« on: Friday 02 July 10 05:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

I'm searching for Winifred Annie Cooper. I have her baptism record, and she was baptised 3 Nov 1901 in St Luke, Bermondsey, Southwark, Middlesex.

Her father was James Henry Cooper (born cir 1867, Bermondsey) and her mother was Maud Mary Fowler, born cir 1866, Greenwich, Kent, England.

Is there anything else I might be able to find out about Winifred? I found her on the 1911 census, but she was only a student then. I know she had a sister, Katherine Maud Cooper, and a brother, James Thomas Cooper.

Is she too 'recent' to find out more about her - such as who she married? I don't know too much about England research (I'm Australian).

I'd appreciate any help,

Thanks kindly,
Lauren

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Northamptonshire / Richard Henry WRIGHT
« on: Monday 21 September 09 11:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

I'm looking for any information (particularly a birth) for a Richard Henry WRIGHT, and possibly his wife. I got his middle name from someone's tree, so I don't know for sure that it is correct. Richard married Mary Ann Hart, 9 Jun 1851, in Newborough, Northampton, England. They must have moved to Australia shortly after because they were situated in Adelaide, South Australia, when their first child Alice Jane Wright was born (cir 1855). I believe, but am not certain, that they came across to Australia on the "Oregon" in 1851. (The barque OREGON 1851, 521 tons, from Plymouth 12 - 07 1851 with Captain Williams, arrived Port Adelaide on October 31st, 1851 with 363 Government emigrants)

Richard may or may not have been born in Lincolnshire, circa 1822-1830. Mary Ann was born cir 1827-1830, also in England somewhere.

I've found both of these two hard to track because of the commonness of their names.

I know neither Richard or Mary Ann's parents' names.

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Lauren


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