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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: bikermickau on Thursday 10 July 25 00:52 BST (UK)
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I haven't been able to locate after 1952 any information on Sibyl Gordon Nichol nee Thompson when she arrived in Liverpool 18th July 1952 on the "Empress of Canada".
She had travelled several times, at least twice to Australia.
She was born 12 Mar 1893 Queensland, Australia to
Alexander McGregor Stuart Thompson and Ellen Jane Gordon
She married Julian Searcy Nichol on the 23 Jan 1919 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1930, 1940, 1950 US Census she is at Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
Julian "Searcy" Nichol died September 14, 1963 in Nashville.
In his Obituary it states they are divorced.
All of her siblings died in Australia.
Mick
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Just a long shot, thinking that "Sibyl Gordon" would be relatively unusual - there is a death notice for a Sibyl Gordon THOMAS, wife of Gordon THOMAS at Brighton on 11 Dec 1972
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1972
Publication: The Times
This death registration: Brighton (5h/392) According to FreeeBMD her date of birth was 20 Nov 1890.
Modified to strike through - not her, this Sybil Gordon THOMAS appears in the 1939 register at Brighton.
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Is she named in any of the death notices for her siblings?
Their wills?
Did they live long lives?
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4 of her siblings died after 1952, latest may have been 1974.
I don't have and am not aware of any death notices or wills.
I will see what I can find.
Sibyl Gordon Thompson on FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/L6HH-6H1
Is she named in any of the death notices for her siblings?
Their wills?
Did they live long lives?
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Sibyl & Julian are together in a 1951 Nashville city directory and traveled to the UK together in 1951, so I guess if they divorced, it was some time after that.
This mentions her visiting her cousin during her travels in 1951. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean/176338519/
Here's another article about her travels in 1951. https://tennessean.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean/176338220/
I didn't see her in the Tennessee death index up to 1965. There is a death index that covers the next few years after that - https://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/death/death.html
Julian was in the 1953 Nashville city directory, but no mention of Sibyl, so perhaps she went elsewhere then.
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Sibyl & Julian are together in a 1951 Nashville city directory and traveled to the UK together in 1951, so I guess if they divorced, it was some time after that.
Julian was in the 1953 Nashville city directory, but no mention of Sibyl, so perhaps she went elsewhere then.
It appears they divorced in May 1952 in Reno, Nevada.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Tuesday, April 1, 1952
Reno, Nevada
Page 16
DECREES GRANTED ACTIONS FILED
Sibyl Gordon Nichol vs. Julian Searcy Nichol; Raphael A. Rizzo vs. Lucia Rizzo; Natalie Judd Merrill vs. Robert H........
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Reno Gazette-Journal
Monday, May 5, 1952
Reno, Nevada
Page 15
ACTIONS FILED
...Jones from John N. Jones; Louella Bennett Kley from Maurice Warner Kley; Shirley Murray from William Harry Murray; Sibyl Gordon Nichol from Julian Searcy Nichol; ....
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Thanks shellyesq and RJ137,
The article about visiting Capt. James Voss has helped me find what happen to 2 relatives.
He would be Walter James Valentine (Ballantyne ) Voss who died 10 Jun 1980 Yeovil, Somerset, England.
If a US citizen died overseas, would any US authorities be informed?
Mick
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If a US citizen died overseas, would any US authorities be informed?
I have seen entries in the Social Security death index where people last received their benefits overseas. I didn't see a likely match for her there though. Those entries mostly cover people who died in the early 1960s or later, and they would have to have been eligible for benefits, so I'm not sure if Sibyl would fit into all those categories.
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This blog post also mentions information from citizens who died overseas - https://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2010/07/23/family-tree-friday-death-reports-of-u-s-citizens/ I looked at the database and didn't see any likely matches for Sibyl. I'm not sure how comprehensive that is though.
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https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/FRAZER_SADIE_WARNER_PAPERS_1894-1974.pdf
This list of correspondants is interesting.
Sybil Nichol was sending letters up to 1952, and then from late 1952 a Sybil Seim was writing to the family - mentions an "Oliver" (possible husband?), a return to England and then later, in the 1960s, living in Sydney.
Sybil Gordon Seim has the right birthday but manages to lose a few years
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6858-YRPH?lang=en
Remarriage in Denmark!
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6858-YRPH?lang=en
Death in 1970 in NSW can be found here:
https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search
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Sybil Nichol was sending letters up to 1952, and then from late 1952 a Sybil Seim was writing to the family - mentions an "Oliver" (possible husband?), a return to England and then later, in the 1960s, living in Sydney.
Truth
Sunday, November 1, 1953
Page 44
Roundabout WITH SUZANNE
Truth's News Magazine For Women
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Death in 1970 in NSW can be found here:
https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Tuesday, 6 October 1970
Page 27
SEIM---The Relatives, and Friends, of the late SYBIL SEIM. of Glendon Road, Double Bay, are invited to attend her Cremation service: to be held in the Chapel of the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Friday, 7 July 1971
Page 27
UNION FIDELITY TRUSTEE COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED of 2 O'Connel Street. Sydney the Executor and Trustee of the Will of the said Sibyl Gordon Seim who died on the 2nd October, 1970 hereby gives notice that creditors and others having any claim against or to the Estate the said deceased are required to send particulars of their claims to the said Executor at the undermentioned address on or before the 10th September, 1972 at the expiration of which time the said Executor will distribute the assets of the said deceased to the persons entitled, having regard only to the claims of which It then has notice.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Thursday, 15 July 1971
Page 29
$158,122 ESTATE
Miss Sybil Gordon Seim, of Double Bay, who died on October last, left $158,122 to her family and friends. Duty is estimated at $62,000
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Good finds, jorose & RJ!
Sibyl Gordon Seim is on a passenger list from Dover to New Orleans by way of Kingston, Jamaica in Dec. 1959. She is listed as born 12 Mar. 1900 in Australia and an American citizen with passport #191848.
Sibyl Gordon Seim is on another passenger list arriving in New Orleans on 18 Dec. 1960, listed as a US citizen with the same passport number.
Outward UK passenger lists have her going to New Orleans in 1952 and for the above trips, from England to Sydney Australia in 1953 & 1958, and England to Cape Town, South Africa in 1957.
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Thank you everyone,
That is her.
Mick