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Offline MaggieLou915

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I am looking for any information about Sarah Agnes Beasley and her husband, William Freeman Campion who left Northamptonshire, England and lived in Adelaide, Australia, and died 1897 in Port Wakefield, South Australia, Mary Ann Beasley who left Northamptonshire, England and married Henry Charles Woolcott in New South Wales, Australia and died 1900 in Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, and William Hewitt Beasley, born in Northamptonshire, England, married Florence Ada Smith in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, had a daughter Mabel Elizabeth Beasley and came to Australia 1885 and lived in Queensland.  William Hewitt Beasley died 1901 in Queensland. 
Sarah Agnes, Mary Ann and William Hewitt Beasley were children of Joseph Beasley and his wife Catherine Hewitt.
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Margaret Dowd
Carver....Bedfordshire and Leeds Yorkshire
Schofield....Hunslet and Leeds Yorkshire
Oliver...Hardingstone and Roade Northampton
Dutch and Hornsby....Bethnal Green and Spitalfields, London

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Re: Beasley from Northampton, England and Leicestershire, England to Australia
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 04 May 24 21:58 BST (UK) »

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Re: Beasley from Northampton, England and Leicestershire, England to Australia
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 04 May 24 22:13 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much giblet for the obituaries
Carver....Bedfordshire and Leeds Yorkshire
Schofield....Hunslet and Leeds Yorkshire
Oliver...Hardingstone and Roade Northampton
Dutch and Hornsby....Bethnal Green and Spitalfields, London


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Re: Beasley from Northampton, England and Leicestershire, England to Australia
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 04 May 24 22:46 BST (UK) »
Your welcome.

Some links below that might be useful if you haven't already got them.

Trove newspapers... Australian newspapers online, free.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers

Queensland BDM

https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/

New South Wales  BDM

https://www.nsw.gov.au/family-and-relationships/family-history-search

South Australia BDM

https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search




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Re: Beasley from Northampton, England and Leicestershire, England to Australia
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 05 May 24 06:02 BST (UK) »
Not quite clear whether you're looking for earlier information or after they came to Australia.

Anyhow, here's some UK information, which you may already have.  There is a tree on Ancestry but, it seems to me, there's quite a few mistakes.

Baptism: 25 September, 1823, All Saints church, Northampton
William Freeman Campion, s/o  Thomas (victualler) and Jane Campion of Bridge St, Northampton

1841 census, Great Russell St, (St Giles parish), Northampton
Joseph Beasley   40 shoemaker, born Northamptonshire
Catherine Beasley   40 laundry, not born Northamptonshire
Sarah Beasley   11 born Northamptonshire (as were all children)
Joseph Beasley   8
Mary Beasley   6
John Beasley   3
Moran Beasley   8 Mo

Marriage:
Nov 8th, 1849 by licence, at St Giles, Northampton  ( my son was baptised there!)
William Freeman Campion, full age, bachelor, living in parish of St Sepulchre's, occupation: gentleman,  Father: Thomas Campion, cabinet maker
Sarah Agnes Beasley, spinster, 19, residence: Great Russell St, father: Joseph Beasley, shoemaker
William signed but I think Sarah made a cross. There is no mention of who gave permission for her to marry under-age, however Joseph Beasley signed as a witness.

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