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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Australia Lookups completed => Topic started by: seven on Saturday 28 June 08 00:37 BST (UK)
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Hi All ;D
Just wanting details of marriage of Winifred Hollyhock who lived somewhere out in the Melrose area.
Name of parents particularly of interest.
Also any other reference to Winifred Hollyhock, Ollyock, or Holyoake.
Thanks
Julie
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Hello Julie,
I can't find any marriage for Winnifred/Winifred at the moment....and I've searched using wild cards......but there is this birth.....
John CUMMINGS born 10th Feb 1891 at Farina to Robert CUMMINGS & Winifred HOLLYHOCK
Ref = Fro 476/58
Added.....I've also searched for a Robert Cummings marriage with no success.....
.....dee
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Thanks Dee,
That will get me started at least.
Now I can look to see if their were Cumming children.
Maybe a child may have been named after Grandma Julia Gliddon or a Holyoake or Bunting sister.
Thanks again Dee
Julie
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There is this birth....could Winifred have had other given names?
Christena Stewart CUMMING born 2nd feb 1893 at Farina to Robert CUMMING & Florence Mary HOLLAHOKE
Ref = Fro 515/146
......dee
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Well dee,
You have come up trumps there.
Florence Mary Holyoake was born at Streaky Bay in 1869. Her sister Edith Holyoake is my great grandma.
I thought that Auntie Winnie was another sister of theirs.
You have cleared that little problem up quickly!!!!! :-[
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Then there's more for you, seven......
There is a marriage of Robert Cumming aged 30 to Mary Florence Holyoake aged 20, both single, on 1st Dec 1889 at St Matthew's Church, Quorn.
Ref = Fro 161/1003
Fathers = John Cumming and Thomas Smythe Holyoake
.....dee
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Searching for the marriages of the children John Cumming* and Christina Stewart Cumming*, I haven't had much success yet. But this one struck me as worth noting for possible future reference......
Kenneth William CUMMING single aged 71 married Helen SEABROOK widow and also aged 71 on 5th Apr 1909 at the Registry Office, Adelaide.
Ref = Ade 239/28
Fathers = Robert Stewart CUMMING & Robert Wild LLOYD
.....dee
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I can't find any obvious Cummin* deaths at this stage. :-\
I'll have a look elsewhere......
.....dee
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Hi,
One Holyoake burial of interest.
Thomas Smyth HOLYOAKE, 1872 [likely Father of Mary/Florence or Florence/ Mary]
http://www.saghs.org.au/graves.htm
You can find out more for a small charge. Explore the website. A headstone could tell you a lot, if it exists.
Sue
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Hi Julie,
Here are a couple of web sites you may find intersting. :)
http://www.flindersranges.com/
Click on attractions and then Things to see & do in Quorn, you will get a contact for the Local History Archives.
Also:
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/farina.htm for some background on Farina.
Cheers, Chris
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There is also this site for the local Council. There is an email address and I'm sure they would happily do any lookups for you. i.e. cemetery etc.
http://www.flindersrangescouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm
Hope it helps.
Cheers, Chris
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Thanks Sue and Chris,
There are actually pictures of Thomas's grave online at the Kanyakka Station history site. He got killed there.
Thanks for the Farina site as it was sort of the family"seat" so to speak back in the late 1800's. Great to have a look see at what it was like.
They all had TB so had to live in the outback to survive!!
Julie
PS just as a matter of interest my great grandpa William Kerrisk is listed on his marriage certificate as a camel driver at MT Lyndhurst station.
He was Irish born on Bermuda, came to Australia aged 30 yrs.
For years we thought he must be Aboriginal Afghan as they are generally known to be camel drivers.
Most shocked to find his roots in Bermuda to Irish parents !!!!