Dear All,
Please bare with me as I am a total newbie to this. When going through some boxes yesterday I came across an old book, I've had it for years but can't remember how I came to own it. I think it was possibly in a box of books picked up at a car boot. I never thought much about it other than, oooh it's really old. The book is called Nursery Carols
Yesterday I was looking at the handwritten dedication in the front- it reads:
"Ethel Catherine Young,
On her fifth birthday
from her affectionate papa
22nd January 1863"
I posted this information on another forum, I know the book isn't worth a lot, but wanted to find out more about Ethel and her Papa.
Thanks to a lovely forumite over there who found this information incredibly quickly - It turns out "Papa" was of notable rank - Sir Edward Henry Fox Young - 5th Governor of South Australia. He was married to Lady Augusta Fox Young. They had several children, however Ethel died without marrying and having no children.
I now have a bee in my bonnet about trying to trace the other siblings and to see if there is any living descendant who would like the book back!
If anyone could help me with this I would be ever so grateful, I've not done anything like this before and genealogy and census' are all alien words to me!
Many thanks
