James R Yeowell's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[James R. Yeowell]

Although it is especially difficult to read, Thomas Edward Lodington is mentioned in Thomas Lodington's Will (it was written in 1845, obviously before his son's death the same year).

No mention of the children though.

It does mention all the following, though:

Ann Ramsay (née Lodington), daughter.
Thomas Edward Lodington, son.
Meliora Down (née Lodington), daughter.
Henry Parker Lodington, son
William (Stewart) Lodington, son.
George Jackson, son-in-law.
Camilla Mary Basset Soares (née Lodington), daughter.
Sarah Ellen Bishop (née Lodington), daughter.
Francis William Lodington, nephew (although it actually seems he's a cousin)
Henry John Lodington, nephew (but not by name, only as "my dear nephew, his brother", which refers to Francis William Lodington)

It also mentions portraits of the father of Francis William and Henry John Lodington.
It also mentions a portrait given to Ann Ramsay of her brother Thomas.

If only there was a chance these portraits remained in the family... I can but hope somewhere they do.

By the way, I did not know Ann Lodington had married, so now I have a new lead on the Ramsay family to follow-up.

[Ruskie]

Grasping at straws here, but I don't suppose  :
Deaths AMJ 1865
Millis Eleanor
St Olave
Southwark
1d  27

[James R. Yeowell]

HI,

John Day Lodington's family  may have settled in Victoria.

a Kenneth William son of John Day Lodington and  Bridget McKenzie died in Brunswick Melbourne in 1927 aged 67. rego13393 est dob 1860

Isabella Bridget McKenzie was born in Canada in 1835 and they married in Albany, Western Australia on 18 March 1854

It gets quite interesting here
KENNETH William  Lodington born KING GEORGES SOUND married Ellen Annie Jones in 1883 #3363 They had   children
John Day 1885, Ellen Avona 1887, Cuthbert Joseph 1889, Alice Louvena 1891, Sarah 1893. Ellen Anie died aged 30 in 1894 and Kenneth then married Ann Robertson Short in 1897,
Kenneth William b 1897, Stewart Hugh b1900, George Edward 1902, Eugenie Jane 1904 and then Ann Short died in 1904.

marriages of their children then start to show up and can be traced.

KING GEORGES SOUND was an early penal settlement in Australia many of the british military served there in the early 1800's.

A Thomas Lodington and Catherine Porter had a son in Victoria JOHN in 1858 #3747 a John Lodington died in 1882 aged57 #2571 Thomas aged 75 in 1896 #8824 in Brunswick (surname idexed as Loddington.)

these can be searched for at a small fee and ordered for around $18 each on line from: https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/home through the historical indexes.


They all seem to be connected and are the only Lodingtons in teh Victorian records.
I will explore other Australian records later and see what I can turn up.
I have some military sites and BDM's & newspapers to look at  and it may take some time.

good hunting

Robyn

I did not know about these latter Lodingtons.  I shall try and determine who the above Thomas Lodington is, as well as his wife.  It certainly is not my ancestor though.

Thanks again for finding these.

[James R. Yeowell]

Grasping at straws here, but I don't suppose  :
Deaths AMJ 1865
Millis Eleanor
St Olave
Southwark
1d  27

I'll try and check that.  It looks interesting.  No age though?

[James R. Yeowell]

I have now also checked the other two wills I purchased and one seems to be for my ancestor but he gives everything to his wife and it doesn't seem as if his wife made a will.

The other one is much more interesting and even names his father and two previously unknown brothers.  He also seems to fit for being my ancestor.  However, I have had to slightly rethink things, as it seems there are two Isaac Lodington, likely father and son (both who also seem to have wives called Ann).  This I have suspected for a while, after finding an Isaac Lodington mentioned in The London Gazette which did not fit as Rev. Isaac Lodington.

Also, one of the sons of the younger Isaac, was called Bedford Lodington and if correct, his grandmother would have been Ann Bedford (the wife of Rev. Isaac Lodington).

[Ruskie]

Grasping at straws here, but I don't suppose  :
Deaths AMJ 1865
Millis Eleanor
St Olave
Southwark
1d  27

I'll try and check that.  It looks interesting.  No age though?

No, no age, but I did check for births (thinking this may be the death of an infant) but I couldn't see an Eleanor Millis birth .... 

[James R. Yeowell]

It does look promising.

I shall put that on my order list too.  I have not ordered certificates in ages though.

If this is her, she should be on the 1861 census.

n.b. there is a Marian Eleanor Millis though, who is the daughter of William Fortye Millis and Amelia Rebecca Kindell.  She was born 10 October 1858 and christened 31 October 1858 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster.

[James R. Yeowell]

I MAY have found her on the 1861 census.

A few things tie-in.

RG9/356/153/26

We're referring to Eleanor S F Graham, aged 28, a widow, born Clerkenwell.

Although the age seems a bit out, her place of birth matches, as do the initials of S F.  She could easily have said she was a widow, when she was not.

She is living with an 11 year old female cousin Emily, who I have no clue about.  I am not even sure what her surname is.  Any ideas?

[Ruskie]

Surname 'E' something 'u' or 'n' ger?
Have you looked for Eleanor SF in earlier or later censuses yet? Might be difficult as she would probably be unmarried in 1851 and perhaps remarried by 1871.