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Cherilyn

Thanks for the info on Catherine that helps heaps I know where to start looking now.

Pittsy

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Cherilyn

Can you help - not sure how to find this but I am trying to find the marriage match for James Rigg B1826 on my tree whose parents are Thomas Rigg (1789-1853)and Mary Webster (1785 - 1853)married 1816 Kirkcudbrightshire. I found the family in 1841 Census at Midkelton Farm House, Kelton, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire and then James does not appear in 1851 9 Johnstone Close English Street Dumfries Scotland and I assume he married. I found a suitable Thomas Rigg married to a Eliza Stephenson born Shropshire England 1824-7 in censuses up and including 1871 and then Eiza on her own in 1881. James is listed as born at Kelton and Castle Douglas which makes it correct and they marry and live in Ross and Comarty. Any advice would be helpful.
Pittsy

Cherilyn

Also in more recent times I cannot find a birth in Victoria 9/5/1848 for John Kerr Rigg son of my direct ancestors John Rigg and Isabella MacTaggart. Tried everyway possible at the Vic bdms and it does not come up. He was supposed to be born at Donnybrook or Bankvale.

Thanks

Pittsy

Hey Pittsy, sorry no help to you with the old UK stuff, but have you seen this tree?
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=1845990&id=I24

No birth or chr for John in Vic/NSW sorry :-(

Cherilyn

The link is to my tree. Thanks for looking - I cannot find anyl of the children's births . But although being born in Victoria first child James is on NSW BDM with V18412344 25A/1841. The other children all appear in the Digger-Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888. I cannot understand why I cannot locate them at Vic Bdms ?

Pittsy

James is also on the Digger Vic CD as well as the NSW bdms. Possible the others were not christened or records were lost/destroyed/untranscribed.

Cherilyn
Thanks for explaining this.

Regards

Pat

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Hi Cherilyn,

I am trying to find out whether a relative who emigrated to Australia married and had children. His birth was registered in Jan-March 1909 and his parents were William Nelson Hunt and Rosa Ann Walker. He was born William John Hunt but known as John William Hunt. His mother died in Newport South Wales, Uk in 1912 and his father remarried Margaret May Besselo in 1917. I have him, his brother (from first marriage) Herbert James Hunt and Margaret Hunt, their half sister from the second marriage, emigrating to Sydney in August 1921. I ahve found them on various Electoral rolls in the Shortland and Mayfield areas near Newcastle, NSW. I have found a marriage for Hebert but nothing for John.

Any help would be wonderful - I am getting desperate now!

Hi Jayne

There are some marriages for a John William HUNT in NSW (and Wm John!). But I guess he is not with a spouse in the electoral rolls?

Can't see a death that fits with a birth year of 1909 at Ryersons either.

I notice Herbert died in 1957. The only thing I can think of now is to find the exact death date (from burial or death cert) and then check for death notices to see if John placed one! Bit tricky, and possibly costly too - and no guarantees.

Maybe check with St Andrews Cemetery at Maitland. Doesn;t seem to be a listing for him at Newcastle via council web site cemetery search.

Sorry :-(

Hi Cherilyn,

I am hoping you can help me. I am looking for anything on George Walker b 1839 London, England parents John and Mary Walker. He died in NSW in 1880 he was a watch and clockmaker. John and Mary Walker are my ggg grandparents there were another 2 sons William b 1829 and Amos b 1831 London who may well have been in Australia as well.
The 1851 is the last census I have seen Amos. There was another brother John Thomas b 1826 Dover Kent, who was with Amos in the 1851 census he was in Australia for a while but returned to England in the early 1860's. So anything that you can find on any of these brothers would be most apperciated
They are all watch and clockmakers.

Liz

Hi Cherilyn,

Thanks for trying to help. How would I find death notifications? I am in the UK so all my research is online at the mo. Are there sources online? If not, who would I need to contact?

Thanks,

Jayne

Jayne

To get the death details you can use a transcription agent, since you really only need the date (of course you can also get additional info such as place, age, cause of death, children's names & ages etc). Try Joy Murrin or Marilyn Rowan. Make sure you compare what you are getting for your $!

The try http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/family_history/index.html?HomeLink=Services to Ask a Librarian how to find the newspaper death notice.

Good luck!

Hi Liz

Do you have George's death notice?

The Sydney Morning Herald, 28th April 1880
WALKER.-April 27, at his residence, 521 George St South, George Walker, aged 41 years, son of the late John Walker, watchmaker and jeweller, Cornill, London. Home and Queensland papers please copy.

What is the Qld connection?

Do you know Mary's maiden name?

Thanks Cherilyn!

Hi Cherilyn,

Thank you so much for looking.
Yes I had seen the notice. I don't know what the Queensland connection is I was hoping you might be able to help there:-) I was thinking that it could have been one of his brothers. Mary's last name is Lake. The father John had 3 stores in London 77 Cornhill, 230 Regent Street and 67 The Strand. I have seen an advert that does say that their watches, clocks etc are popular in India, Australia and sold to the King of Italy and had won several exhibition awards. I assume that both John Thomas and George were in Australia as agents for the company.

Appreciate your help

Liz

Nudge for Colin.

Sorry Liz, can't figure out what the deal is with Qld. :(

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