A challenging one - looking for the arrival of Thomas Amos and family

[judb]

Freebmd has this birth registration, which fits with the ages given on his marriage and death certs.

March Qr 1839, registered Elham, Vol 5 p162
George AMOS   

Elham is in Kent, near to Folkestone
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Neil it was not uncommon for children to be baptised at a later date, rather than as babies.

Judith

[Neil Todd]

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Neil it was not uncommon for children to be baptised at a later date, rather than as babies.

Judith

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Doh, should have put my brain in gear before moving off Of course it wasn't.

1839 fits nicely with the marriage. But how old when he arrived here as a child. 
Neil

[Neil Todd]

Just maybe this could be followed up.
Unnassisted immigrants
AMOSS J/T   London P 23 Apr 1854 Melbourne 399 Miner

Neil

[Westy11]

Neil
Thanks for your persistence - it is great!  Now as I am a bit of a novice on some things can you please interpret  the following please?  Did you find it on Ancestry please?

AMOSS J/T   London P 23 Apr 1854 Melbourne 399 Miner

Judith - the possible birth is definitely food for thought and will have a look at that one - as you say it fits with the dates provided!

Mmar0

[Neil Todd]

He is on the list of unnassisted immigrants into Melbourne in 1854. That is if the right one

Neil

[Westy11]

Hi Neil
Thanks a million - we checked it out but dont think that is the right one!!!   

Back to the drawing board I fear

Nite
mmar0

[judb]

Neil, I can't see the immigration record you quote.  Was it on Ancestry or the PROV site?

Mmar0, why have you discounted this record?

Did Thomas and Anne emigrate as well?  I wonder if George came as part of a child migration scheme?

Sopry - no answers, only questions 

Judith

[Flattybasher9]

Strangely enough, Ancestry has the folowing in 2 trees :-
Thomas Amos, death, 5 Oct 1875 in  Denbighshire, Wales.
Anne Tilby, death 22 Dec 1888 in  Denbighshire, Wales.
Them being the parents of George Amos, birth 1839 in Kent, England, death 1908 in Woonona, New South Wales.

A George Amos sponsored several miners and their wives to N.S.W. in 1862. Surnames, Amos and Arnold.
Isaac Amos (Miner)
Ellen Amos (Wife)
James Arnold (Miner)
Hannah Arnold (Wife)


Regards

Malky

[Dundee]

A George Amos sponsored several miners and their wives to N.S.W. in 1862. Surnames, Amos and Arnold.
Isaac Amos (Miner)
Ellen Amos (Wife)
James Arnold (Miner)
Hannah Arnold (Wife)


Regards

Malky

I have had a look at this family and there doesn't seem to be any obvious connection to our George.  The immigration record states that Isaac was George's brother, and Hannah ARNOLD was his sister.  Their parents were Stephen and Sarah.  They appear to stay in Newcastle, whereas our George was in Wollongong.

I think the choice of the Thomas and Ann in Denbighshire as George's parents is because they are the only Thomas and Ann AMOS who appear together as a family on the 1851 census.  Their son Edward was born c1845.  In 1861 Thomas is a milkman, and in 1871 he is a farmer.

I doubt that this is the correct couple.  I think that Ann is Ann ELLIS and they married in 1843, but that is just a guess, and she could have been a widow?

Debra