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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Australia Lookups completed => Topic started by: annabananae on Thursday 21 May 09 05:09 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me find the birth of my ancestor Emily Haines Beckwith, daughter to Joseph Beckwith and Elizabeth Morris. She died in 1910, Brisbane, Queensland, but she was not born there. Her parents died in Western Australia, but she wasn't born there either. I have a feeling she might have been born in SA, but because there is no online index I am unable to research any further. Could someone possibly help me in my search?
Thankyou, Anna Edwards Brisbane
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BECKWITH Emily Haines
Date: 2 Apr 1864
Fathe: Joseph BECKWITH Mother Elizabeth Maria MORRIS
At Adelaide Ade 31/226
Cheers
Cando
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Thankyou very much for your help!
Sorry I wasn't sure whether I could reply to my own post!
Thankyou!!!! :)
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That's OK....we all had to learn our way around the boards ;)
Cheers
Cando
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Hi Anna,
Joseph and Elizabeth had 8 children in SA from 1860. Here are Emily's siblings
James Henry 8 Apr 1860 Adelaide Dist Ade 15 328
Harriet Mary 2 Mar 1862 Adelaide Dist Ade 20 305
Sydney Herbert Frederick 19 Oct 1865 Adelaide Dist Ade 33 426
Arthur William 11 Feb 1868 Adelaide Dist Ade 55 146
Edwin Charles 13 May 1869 Portland Estate Dist Ade 73 277
Jane 9 Jul 1871 Adelaide Dist Ade 98 36
Alice Springs 23 Aug 1873 Adelaide Dist Ade 126 46 ;D (Don't you just love it)
Joseph BECKWITH = Elizabeth Maria MORRIS Dec 1/4 1853 Clerkenwell.
Cheers Kris :)
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Thought I would give you the family background before posting this ;)
I like the marriage in Clerkenwell and the comment here re native of London. There is no BISA entry for Joseph.
Had been typing it up but wanted to make sure there were no other Joseph Beckwiths about.
I do not see another Joseph Beckwith in SA ;)
South Australian Police Gazette 20 Mar 1889
Re Alexander's Robbery - Joseph Beckwith arrested and committed for this offence see Police gazette this date apprehensions C1998/88
Joseph Beckwith and George Green by F C McKinnon at Pt Adelaide for burglary on Ralph Rapheal at North Adelaide - Committed and Joseph Beckwith for Burglary on Frederick Alexander, Adelaide - Committed
South Australian Police Gazette 3 Apr 1889
Reward
At the request of Sub-Inspector Doyle I have great pleasure in noticing the promptitude and zeal exhibited by F C McCinnon in the arrest of Edwards for Larceny and Beckwith and Green for Burglary. The constable is awarded the sum of £2 out of the police reward fund
South Australian Police Gazette 10 Apr 1889
Joseph Beckwith and George Green burglary 2 years each
South Australian Police Gazette 8 Oct 1890
Prisoners discharged from Yatala Labour Prison
BECKWITH Joseph, tried at supreme court on 2 Apr 1889 for entering a dwelling house at night with intent to steal, sentenced to two years hard labour, a native of London. a sailmaker, born 1829, height 5'3", complexion dark and bronzed, hair light brown, eyes grey, nose medium and rather broad, mouth medium, chin small, vaccine left arm. Freedom due 6 Oct 1890
Cheers Kris :)
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Possibly one of the sons
South Australian Police Gazette 1 Jun 1881
Edward Charles Beckwith, Nathaniel Blackeby and Daniel William Osbourne by foot constable Dunlevie for pigeon stealing from John Nile at Adelaide. Ordered to be Whipped.
South Australian Police Gazette 23 May 1883 (same entry also appears 8 June)
Edward Charles Beckworth, Peter McCardell, Charles Square and Frederick Zeuner by foot constables Lawton and Edwards for Pidgeon stealing from Arthur Green at Adelaide. Beckworth and McCardell sent to reformatory, Square and Zeuner ordered to be whipped.
Cheers Kris :)
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Deaths in WA - mentioned by annabananae
BECKWITH Elizabeth M
District Murchison Reg#25 1908
BECKWITH Joseph 62 years
Father Robert William Mother Ann HARRIS
Born Clerkenwell, England Reg#1339 1902
Joseph is buried at Apex Park Cemetery, Geraldton
http://members.westnet.com.au/gfhs/Cemeteries/B.htm
BECKWITH Joseph 62 years Died 22 May 1902
I can't find a burial record for Elizabeth Maria in the Murchison district.
Cheers
Cando
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His son stole a pigeon??????? ???
They must have been desperate. Thankyou so much for that information, it has helped heaps.
Cheers, annabananae
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Wow ! Having only fallible & incomplete trees of the two sons of Robert Wm Beckwith who emigrated to Australia late 1850's, this corres is of fantastic help ! Couple of points though ....
- There were three Robert William Beckwiths (Father, son & grandson) born in 19th cent London so on the website www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/beckwith they have been suffixed I, II and III for clarity. RW (I) b 1788 d 1876 is the relevant one here - ref 7.48 in /beckwith/tree-1 notes.html - and c1818 he married Ann (Anne) HAINES (sometimes HAINS) .... NOT Harris .... hence the use of Haines as a middle name for Emily and poss also an Emma.
- RW(I) and Anne had 5 children who survived infancy before her death in childbirth in central London in 1833:
-- RW(II) who stayed in UK (and married a French girl. no comment).
-- Thomas bc 1822. Disappears after 1841 so he too emigrated ??
-- Ann - as only girl she acted as housekeeper to father and sundry other rels & never married
-- James 1828-1872 married Ann(e) Carew Rodman & emigrated c1850 (my Tree No 9). All their children were born in Australia, the 4th of whom I have as Emma Haines Beckwith b 1860 & married one Henry Edwards.
-- Joseph (1830-1902) = Elizabeth Maria Morris (c1830-1908) - thanks 'cando' for their death dates & locations ! I'll have to compare my list of offspring (Tree 8) with the one posted here of the births in Australia. The couple also had a son before leaving England - Joseph Thomas Beckwith (1854-1930) and he went with them. I have him down as marrying a Frances Emma Bennet (1874 - 1953) in Australia but if as suspected they had just one daughter, Bertha, that male Beckwith line died out.
Any more info very gratefully received !!
Best wishes
LuxMalc, Cornwall, UK
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Thomas Lightfoot Beckwith, b 1826, son of Robert William Beckwith b 1788, died in London in 1846.
Emma Haines Beckwith b 1860 in Adelaide d/o James Beckwith m Thomas George Blackwell in 1881 and d 1929
Emily Haines Beckwith b 1864 in Adelaide d/o Joseph Thomas Beckwith m. Henry Edwards in 1881 and d 1910 in Brisbane and had 8 children: Arthur Henry, Alfred Ernest, Edith Emily, Henry Lionel, Olive Harriet, Elsie Gladys, Eloise Myrtle and Muriel Ivy
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Emily Haines Beckwith was b 1864 in Adelaide. d/o Joseph Thomas and Elizabeth Maria Beckwith. She m Henry Davey Edwards in 1881 - had 8 children and d 1910 in Brisbane. Joseph Thomas d in Geraldton, Western Australia and Elizabeth Maria d in Day Dawn, Western Australia and is buried in Geraldton.
Emma Haines Beckwith b 1860 in Adelaide d/o James Beckwith m 1881 Thomas George Blackwell and d 1929