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World War One / Re: Fromelles missing - NEVILL (NSW and Qld)
« on: Tuesday 19 March 13 11:17 GMT (UK)  »
Another post about the Nevills.  While I have identified Joseph's mother, Ada Smith's parents : Ada was born in Sydney in 1864 and seems to have died in 1898 (is this correct?), her parents were Charles (Sydney) Smith and Elizabeth Sawyer; but I have not been able to find out if Joseph's father Henry J Nevill was born in Australia or not, though I have found a Henry Neville (with an "e") who arrived Sydney on 14 September 1882 on the "Northern Monarch"aged 29 years called "Neville, Henry" stated to be from Lancashire and CofE religion. But I am not sure if this is the same person. perhaps someone knows.  cheers .. Gary

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World War One / Re: Fromelles missing - NEVILL (NSW and Qld)
« on: Tuesday 19 March 13 11:08 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry that I did not get back onto this thread and have been unable to respond to messages sent to me.  I'm not sure what happened, but email addresses etc have changed since then and I lost track of these things. Hopefully, better late than never! I now have a bit more time and have recently taken to doing quite a lot of family research, including a little on the Nevill side of the family.

Having seen the recent information about having to make three posts, I'll attend to this..Gary

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World War One / Re: Fromelles missing - NEVILL (NSW and Qld)
« on: Tuesday 31 August 10 00:02 BST (UK)  »
Hello to anyone interested,
just to correct some misinformation on this thread .. if I read it correctly, it has Joseph's sister Muriel Gladys as having died in 1911 .. in fact she married then .. and lived to the ripe old age of 92 .. dying in Rockhampton .. she had 4 sons, 5 grandchildren (of which I am one - and some of us remember having seen a photo of Joseph in army uniform on the mantelpiece at my grandparent's home in Rockhampton),  as well as 9 great grandchildren and 8 great great grandchildren so far (some of them are still breeding) ... most are in Queensland .. though I live in France and only just became aware of Joseph being identified in time to get to the Fromelles ceremony in July ...  indeed, I was very  pleased to have been able to go there  .....anyway ... thank you all very much for your wonderful work ....  Gary

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