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Australia / Re: Old Bible Challenge - CLARKE family
« on: Saturday 10 April 10 14:25 BST (UK) »
I've only just joined this forum, and was very pleased to discover someone had already been doing some work of interest to me.
There's mention of Mary Clarke marrying John George Harland. Their son Sydney James was my grandfather - unfortunately he died in the Spanish Flu epidemic (while nursing his mother and sister, who both survived) before my mother was born. My full name, by the way, is John Harland Pryzibilla.
My current interest is to find out what happened to the second child - Edith Harland. I can't seem to find any marriage or death records, and the family oral history was silent on this.
It's of particular interest right now because if I can track down any female descendants of hers they are needed for DNA matching with WW1 bodies recently found and formally reburied at Fromelles in Northern France, which is where the third son of the marriage (Cecil George Harland) was killed.
There's mention of Mary Clarke marrying John George Harland. Their son Sydney James was my grandfather - unfortunately he died in the Spanish Flu epidemic (while nursing his mother and sister, who both survived) before my mother was born. My full name, by the way, is John Harland Pryzibilla.
My current interest is to find out what happened to the second child - Edith Harland. I can't seem to find any marriage or death records, and the family oral history was silent on this.
It's of particular interest right now because if I can track down any female descendants of hers they are needed for DNA matching with WW1 bodies recently found and formally reburied at Fromelles in Northern France, which is where the third son of the marriage (Cecil George Harland) was killed.