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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: acookey on Tuesday 09 February 10 05:37 GMT (UK)
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Hi all
I am trying to determine if the Jane Goodwin who migrated to Vic on board the Lincolnshire in 1863 is the Jane Goodwin who disappears from the UK censuses after 1861.
Jane Goodwin was born about 1836 in Cheadle Staffordshire, and in the 1861 census is living with her mother, siblings and her two illegimate children, Joseph 5 and Mary Ann 1. Joseph, who was my ggrandfather, married in 1874 to Priscilla Bartley.
The PROV reference is Fiche 212, page 005. I am now fairly much housebound and unable to get to a large library, so any help would be appreciated.
With thanks
Acookey
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Annette another resource gives the following information -
Jane GOODWIN Estimated year of birth c1837. Age 26 years Arrived 20th February 1863 at Melbourne Australia. Departed from Plymouth on the LINCOLNSHIRE
As she was an Unassisted Immigrant there may not be much more on the fiche.
Hopefully a kind chatter will have a look for you.
Cheers :)
Cando
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Browsing through the indexes noticed this birth...
GOODWIN Elizabeth
No father named Mother Jane GOODWIN
At Ballarat 1869 Reg#13469
The cert would have Jane's age and place of birth.
Cheers
Cando
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Thanks Cando
Elizabeth was Jane's mother's name. Everything fits, so will get onto that certificate, which I can do on line. I wonder what happened to Mary Ann, will keep looking for her.
Annette
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Hi Annette,
Jane Goodwin was a cabin passenger which suggests she was perhaps a bit more well off than those in steerage. There is no personal info apart from her age, but perhaps another reason for travelling as a cabin passenger is that she is listed following Alexander Joske, a German merchant, and his family. As well as Jane, there are two other women listed after the family, Theresa Mason or Marcos, (18 on one list, 25 on the other), and Mary Johnson aged 20.
There are two lists of cabin passengers, one that Jane appears on, and another which gives occupations. On the second list, Theresa is described as a Governess, and Mary as a servant, but Jane is not there. I can't find any mention of her dying on the voyage.
Debra
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Thanks Debra
That makes it even more intruiging.
BTW all, the Vic site is having troubles and you can't get into it on line at the moment.
Regards
Annette
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Hi all and Debra
Who was Alexander Joske travelling with? His wife and family? Do you think that Jane was involved with this family in some way, seeing the next two cabin passengers may have been working for him.
Have to wait until Vic BMD gets their act together so I can check that birth.
Thanks for everyone's interest
Annette
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Mrs Alexander JOSKE gave birth to a child at St Kilda in 1858
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/7148852?searchTerm=alexander+joske
According to the indexes Alexander JOSKE married Bella VAN DAMM in 1855 in Victoria and children were born in 1856, 1858 and 1859 and then there is the death of a child aged 1 in 1863 born Hamburg. It would appear they were returning to Australia in 1860 on the LINCOLNSHIRE
Cheers
Cando
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I checked Vic BDM this morning, and the mother of Elizabeth born in Ballarat is not my Jane Goodwin. This one was 21 and born on the high seas.
Thanks for the suggestion Cando.
Regards
Annette
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I can't check the PROV for you but have you looked at the marriage for a Jane Goodwin Sep qtr 1861 at Cheadle? The grooms names listed were Thomas Haston and Noah Warrington so maybe she might have married one of them? There is a death registered for a Jane Warrington Dec qtr 1879 Cheadle. Another marriage Sep qtr 1870 Cheadle to John Evans.
Good luck!
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Thanks Sandra
I checked out those two marriages and looked for them in further censuses and well of course one wasn't her, but the one that married a Jane Goodwin, Jane's details POB etc did not fit my Jane. I will have a look at the John Evans marriage, don't think I had picked it up.
Thanks again,
Annette