Charles james Valentine BLUETT - QLD

[plunquet]

Over the years I have been wondering what happened to the abovenamed who was born in Somerset in the Jun 1840 quarter. A family history simply mentioned that he had gone to Ceylon but recently when I had the opportunity to check on Ancestry.com I saw he was on the Queensland Electoral Rolls roundabout 1915.

I have tried to check the Queensland deaths but no success there and I wondered if anybody could help me find out a little more about him. Given that he would have been about 75, I would have thought he might have died in Queensland but any information about him would be greatly received.

Hilary

[cando]

I think deaths are on fiche to 1968 in Qld.  There was a link on the resources board for Qld but I can't locate it now.  You would need someone to search it for you at Qld Archives or perhaps some family history centres.

I note that he was living at Homebush which is near Mackay in Qld.  Perhaps you could contact either to see if he is in their cemetery records.

http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/cemeteries/mackay_cemetery.html

Cheers
Cando

[plunquet]

Thanks for your suggestion, Cando. I will drop them a line.

[regross]

Hi,

There was a death on the north coast of NSW of a Jim Bluett in in 1919 #4295. Checking the ancestry electoral rolls for Bluett by itself, and there are very few and none seem to be in NSW.

There are no details and age is given as 70 which could be an estimation by who ever gave the inforamtion. But it is perhaps worth getting a transcription of this record to rule it out if nothing else.

regards

Robyn

[Ruskie]

Deaths: 1915 - 1964 on microfiche at the Qld State Archives. 

Hilary I might be going to the Archives next week and I'll check for Charles when I'm there.

Do you happen to know the names of his parents in case there is more than one person by that name?

[plunquet]

Thanks all.

Charles James Valentine Bluett's parents were Rev Francis Robert Peter Clarke Bluett and Sybilla Margaretta Maria Bluett nee Anstruther.

He had an older brother Francis William Anstruther Bluett born in Jersey Channel Islands.  FWA Bluett ended up in Australia. He was the father of Albert Robert Bluett and Edward Campbell Bluett who both have entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. I have tried tracking down their descendants with a notable lack of success.

Until finding the electoral roll reference I had no idea where CJV Bluett had gone other than the reference to Ceylon.

[Ruskie]

Willl see what I can find Hilary ....

[regross]

Hello,

Albert Robert Bluett death in Chatswood 1944 #8340.(father Francis William, mother Jessie)

Edward Campbell Bluett death 1958 at Nowra same aprents #13811

These certificates should give you names of any wife and children.( Upto 1908 there are:1 child listed for Albert and 2 for Edward.)

There are several other deaths for Bluett's with the same parents.   Earliest was1870, latest 1968.

In fact 8 births from 1862-1879 for the same parents, Francis W. A. and Jessie Tresilian who married in Tumut in 1861

All born around Wagga Wagga/ Tumut.

There is also a death for Francis W. A. in 1889 at Wagga Wagga #11826 mother Maria father Frank
and for Jessie 1909 in Woohlara #3883 mother Christina father Thomas

Can order online http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=births or by transcription agent.

regards
Robyn

[plunquet]

Thank you so much Robyn for the information. This is just a little branchlet of my family but I was interested in following it. Frank and Maria sound a bit plain for his parents names but it is them. I did write to somebody on GenesReunited who had a Sybilla Bluett on her tree but she didn't seem at all interested, whereas I'm sure we would in some way be related just because of the names.

I'll check out ordering the certificates next week.

And thank you Ruskie for your offer.

Hilary