Asking the impossible ?

[tropicalj]

Hello  there

So  it  would  appear  that Clara  came to  Oz  first  and  then  her brother Les came a bit later  to  South Australia after 1932 as well.

Now  I  wonder did  the two  sister come together?

Clara has her photo taken in 1921 in Victoria Did  the photo have anthyning written on  the back of it?
Then she married in 1923 in South Australia.


regard Jenn

[Abiam2]

I had a look myself and discovered the impossibility of it all.  
Another thought - my father was  in the Merchant Navy (British) and I've been told jumped ship in Adelaide.  Naughty man!  Would that have resulted in court proceedings or would it have been a Navy affair?  Strange how things come to mind - I always understood he stayed with Les and  Mabel before returning home to England.  But they didn't marry until 1932 in England and my Dad married in 1933 in England.... so how can that story be true unless Les was out there much earlier?  Came back met Mabel and married!  But I'm sure in those days people wouldn't have the money to afford to travel back to England and then back again.

Sorry, I've been thinking aloud.  Aren't families strange and it's only since everyone's gone that I've become interested!
Oh well, you have helped me fill in a few dates and given me a further insight into some members of the family,

Best wishes,
Abiam

[Abiam2]

Jenn,
I've sent an email attachment of the photograph to a Prahran photographer - a very long shot I know - just in case Gainsborough were well known and they might know of any records or something.  It's called clutching at straws.

If you look at my last post you'll see that suddenly I'm not sure when Les went to Australia!  And no there's nothing on the back. 

[deeiluka]

An Alfred Dobson did arrive in Australia on 27th July 1926 on board the Ballarat. He disembarked in Melbourne. That information is on the National Archives of Australia Passenger List.

However, there isn't any way of knowing if it was Alfred Leslie at this stage.

Shall keep digging around.....you never know......

.......dee

[deeiluka]

Abian, just another thought that could help....Leslie appears to have been Alfred Leslie....I wonder if either of the girls had a second given name. There seems to have been quite a trend among those born around the 1870s onwards for a while to go by their second given name. I know my grandmother did....and so did all her siblings.

Two given names could help with sorting the Rose Dobsons that appear in the marriage records here.

......dee

[Abiam2]

Could well be him he would have been about 19.  Just the right time of life to get up and go!  Was that an assisted passage do you know?  I would think it was as the family were pretty poverty stricken I imagine.  Living in a tiny terraced house with all those siblings - I think I would have gone.
And I imagine he would have found Australia The Big New Country and for some reason came back to England met M and married and then went back to settle.  If that was the case then my Father must have stayed with him in digs somewhere.
It's a good hypothesis for 1 in the morning.  I'm in Spain so we're an hour later than the UK.

[deeiluka]

I have no idea what kind of passage, Abian. I only know the details it  showed on the National Archives of Australia Index of Passengers. I wonder if we could find him on Ancestorsonboard.......I'll have a look. As I said, I shall keep looking through the day just in case something crops up.

Tis 8.30a.m. here ....time for my breakfast! 

.....dee

[Abiam2]

Have a nice breakfast!  I'm just off to bed.
But before I go I've trawled the BMD and found a ROSE ELEANOR DOBSON born July qtr 1893 cookham. The right parish but a year earlier but that doesn't matter as her age only came from the census.  Could well be her?
Abiam

[deeiluka]

Abiam....and I have found the marriage of a Rose Eleanor Dobson in Victoria!

Rose Eleanor DOBSON married Percival Fredk THOMAS 1918
Ref: 435

I wonder....I just wonder......

.....dee