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Australia Lookups completed / Re: **COMPLETED**** THANKS!!!!!Burial Lookup Melbourne Matilda GALE 1853
« on: Tuesday 24 August 10 12:50 BST (UK) »
Claire, Many thanks for your reply,
I'm overwhelmed by the information you have given me. I am really interested in getting a better picture of my ancestors lives and times and am currently looking at what happened to William Crook Gale when he arrived in Australia. I am fortunate that my grandmother left a family tree as she understood it and recollections of her parents lives as well as diaries of her life.
I do know that William Crook Gale spent time on the Goldfields and that when he and his second wife Ann Duckworth Croom married on the 12 November 1857 in Tarrengower, Maldon she had had four children to her first husband William Alison Duckworth, who died 28 April 1856. 1 daughter died in Castlemaine 7 October 1853 at about 2yrs and 1 son died from drowning in 1861 at about 7yrs. The youngest was born in 1856 in the Loddon, near to Tarrangower Maldon.
I am not sure that William found his fortune on the goldfields but my Grandmother said that Ann was always VERY grateful to him for marrying her and taking on her family. I also know there was a great deal of pride in that they had the only tent on the goldfields which could boast a carpet on the floor!!! They went on to have 9 children and only one died early at 15 months.
I understand that William went on to work as a prison warder at the Castlemaine Gaol, and died on 14 October 1900 at Prahran a suburb of Melbourne. The Castlemaine Gaol is now a tourist venue with restaurant and overnight cell accommodation etc. I am trying to get hold of documentation regarding the gaol and Williams employment there.
Interestingly future generations of the Gale family went on to be teachers and although it missed me both my daughters are looking at teaching for their careers.
I would love to know more about Williams family in Wiltshire and the kind of lives they led. There is no doubt there was great hardship for them when they came to Australia, however the life here now is good, if somewhat tortured by our recent NON election, but I know you have been through similar times in England recently.
I thank you again for all the information you have shared with me and look forward to future correspondence
Yours very sincerely, Hilary, Melbourne, Australia.
I'm overwhelmed by the information you have given me. I am really interested in getting a better picture of my ancestors lives and times and am currently looking at what happened to William Crook Gale when he arrived in Australia. I am fortunate that my grandmother left a family tree as she understood it and recollections of her parents lives as well as diaries of her life.
I do know that William Crook Gale spent time on the Goldfields and that when he and his second wife Ann Duckworth Croom married on the 12 November 1857 in Tarrengower, Maldon she had had four children to her first husband William Alison Duckworth, who died 28 April 1856. 1 daughter died in Castlemaine 7 October 1853 at about 2yrs and 1 son died from drowning in 1861 at about 7yrs. The youngest was born in 1856 in the Loddon, near to Tarrangower Maldon.
I am not sure that William found his fortune on the goldfields but my Grandmother said that Ann was always VERY grateful to him for marrying her and taking on her family. I also know there was a great deal of pride in that they had the only tent on the goldfields which could boast a carpet on the floor!!! They went on to have 9 children and only one died early at 15 months.
I understand that William went on to work as a prison warder at the Castlemaine Gaol, and died on 14 October 1900 at Prahran a suburb of Melbourne. The Castlemaine Gaol is now a tourist venue with restaurant and overnight cell accommodation etc. I am trying to get hold of documentation regarding the gaol and Williams employment there.
Interestingly future generations of the Gale family went on to be teachers and although it missed me both my daughters are looking at teaching for their careers.
I would love to know more about Williams family in Wiltshire and the kind of lives they led. There is no doubt there was great hardship for them when they came to Australia, however the life here now is good, if somewhat tortured by our recent NON election, but I know you have been through similar times in England recently.
I thank you again for all the information you have shared with me and look forward to future correspondence
Yours very sincerely, Hilary, Melbourne, Australia.