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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: pipz on Thursday 25 August 11 18:35 BST (UK)
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I'm looking for info. about Lucas Lumby b.1864, Donington, Lincolnshire.
He may have travelled to Western Australia as I have seen a death for a Lucas Lumby in 1897. Has anyone any information about him being in Aus. please. :)
Pipz.
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Do you have any further identifying information such as parents names etc?
Lucas LUMBY, deceased 1897 was aged 33 and had parents Edwin and Elizabeth Ann HUNT
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx
Leanne
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His death registration also states he was born in England.
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Hi,
There is 1871 Census details for Lucas and his family at Spalding Rd Donington, Lincolnshire if you need it.
Regards
Gerry
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Hi pipz,
Have you found him on the 1881 and/or 1891 UK census .... what was his then occupation please.
Cheers, JM
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Hi, thank you all for replying. His parents were Edwin and Elizabeth, his sister Rose was my gt.grandmother and I think he was her favourite brother. I had no trace of his death in England and had no idea he had left the country until yesterday. I have done a very big Lumby tree and I'm curious to know what became of him.I haven't checked all the census records. His father was an auctioneer from Donington,Lincs. Rose was a headmistress, his brother Fred was a chemist in Nottingham and my Mother remembers Fred's wife Polly. Any information about him in Australia would be great.
Pipz :)
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Hi again,
I've just checked the 1881 census, Lucas was not included. Edwin died the same year so does not appear. I can't find any of them on FreeCen and I don't have access to 1871. I am assuming he perhaps had gone to Aus. by this time. It's strange that it has never been mentioned that Rose had a brother who died there. I have an old locket of hers with a very faint photo of a young man and I think it may be him as it doesn't look like the photo I have of Fred. We have quite expensive old sheet music which Lucas gave to Rose on which he had written fondly.
Pipz.
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Hi,
1871 Census
Spalding Rd Donington,
Edwin Lumby, 40, Auctioneer & farmer.
Elizabeth Lumby, 39.
Frederic, 14
Rose, 12.
Frank, 10.
Herbert, 8.
Lucas, 6.
Ann, 4.
Edith, 2.
Plus 2 x servants and a visitor.
Regards
Gerry
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Thank you for this Gerry, you're very kind. I haven't found an entry for him on the suggested website.
Pipz.
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PipZ,
One record shows an L Lumby travelled steerage on the "Adelaide" arriving Albany Western Australia from Melbourne on 16th February 1897 and bound for Fremantle.
Note: The handwriting for the surname LUMBY is distinct and I think the initial is an "L".
Regards
Gerry
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Think i have found a notice about his death but surname is Seemily.It is the last article.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3110694?searchTerm=%22lucas%22&searchLimits=l-title=The+West+Australian+%28Perth%2C...|titleid%3A30|||l-decade=189|||l-year=1897
Cheers Sue
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Sue,
Nice find, it points to Lucas Lumby especially with the "recently arrived" and his age plus being at Coolgardie which was mining country.
The passenger record that I saw for February 1897 that had L Lumby were listed as English miners & artisans.
Gerry
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Oh, good find sue!
That would seem to be him, I agree.
No-one named LUCAS SEEMILY died in 1897 and I can see how SEEMILY can be derived from LUMBY in the old handwriting as I know it.
Sue
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Thank you again All, so kind.I did see an L. Lumby sailing to Albany but that was all so that all adds a bit more info. I'm sure Lucas Seemily is Lucas Lumby,it seems to fit. He seems to have chosen a hard life when he came from a family of auctioneers and farmers unless he had a clerical job.
Thanks again,
Pipz. :)