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Australia / Re: Emily BLUNDEN - look up please
« on: Sunday 04 March 12 13:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Sorry I never got notification there were any replies. Emily's parents were Charles Blunden and Elizabeth (Graddage). She was born in 1860 in Kingston and in the last census she was working as a maid in Kingston to the Wilkinson family. Her father Charles died in 1863.  There was no close family living in Australia until 1902 when her nephew arrived in Sydney in 1901 and stayed there. I just can't find her after 1881 in the English census or find a marriage or burial for her.

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Australia / Emily BLUNDEN - look up please
« on: Sunday 16 January 11 18:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Apologies if I have put this in the wrong forum.

I have been looking for my great great aunt for quite a few years now. I last found her in the 1881 census in Kingston Surrey. However, as some of the family is was in Australia in the early 1900s I was wondering if they came to live with her and not the other way round. I have tried to look up on he internet but many sites now ask for a library card, which I can't get as I don't live in Australia.  I have found an Emily Blunden marry Thomas Stewart in 1889 in the district of Tamworth. I was wondering if that was her, also is there an Australian census for 1891 that could identify her as being born in 1860 in Kingston, Surrey, England. Having exhausted England I am now trying further afield. I would be grateful for any look up or advice.
Many thanks
Jan

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World War One / Re: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
« on: Friday 15 October 10 19:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that. There is an awful lot I don't know, that's why I'm on this site.

 So am I correct in assuming that T (T1,T2,T3 & T4) - (horse)"Transport", Army Service Corps means he was in the ASC of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment not as well as?

I just need to get the details correct on his plaque .

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World War One / Re: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
« on: Friday 15 October 10 18:39 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I got his medal card from Ancestry and that's all it had, apart from another service number of      T/3/027564. My dad was 15 when his father was knocked down and killed in 1938. He remembers him saying he worked with horses in the Great War and he had his medals. That's it.

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World War One / Re: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
« on: Friday 15 October 10 16:59 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Phil

There is so little I know of him, all I have is his medals, it would have been good to find out more.

Jan

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World War One / Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
« on: Thursday 14 October 10 18:02 BST (UK)  »

Hello

I am trying to find out about my Grandfather in the Great War

 T4/027564 Dvr. T Blunden
Army Service Corps and  Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

He died in 1938 and I never knew him and I do not have a single photo of him which is rather sad.

I am interested in his service record as I haven't a clue as to why someone who lived and enlisted in the Army Service Corps in Kingston, Surrey would end up in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks



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Australia / Re: SS Militiades
« on: Friday 20 March 09 18:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kris

Thanks for giving me this information. At least I know that they did go to Australia even if I can't find their passage.

They certainly seemed to move around a lot, although they seemed to stay in the same surrounding areas. Mabel was the daughter of Charles (died 1899) and Julia. The Charles who left the navy in Sydney was Mabel's brother and son of Charles (died 1899) & Julia. There are so many Charles in my family that even I get confused.

I was given the name E A Parker by another relative and didn't think to question it as I am so used to the family using their second names. Polly was Mary Ann and Mabel was Alice, (lesson here for me to check facts).  However, I do believe they had a son called Albert , I wonder if one of them is he and maybe the Albert Parker living with Mabel was in fact her nephew, (better than the alternative).

Appreciate all you have done

Best wishes

Jan

Thank you also Judith, would this normally be the case that the undertakers sign as witnesses for the burial. I don't think we have this over here on the death certificates.

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Australia / Re: SS Militiades
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 20:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kris

Thank you so much for this information. The trouble is, and as so often happens; it throws up more questions than answers. I have a copy of Julia's death certificate and it states that she died at 19 Grovesnor Street Croydon and the informant is indeed the EA Parker of 69 Webb Street Croydon that you found.  Looking at Google map, Webb Street is just around the corner from Grovesnor Street.  There is even two names who witnessed the burial, a J Williams and K or R Turner. But where was Charles & Alice Blunden, we know they are living in Epping 3 years later, but it is strange that they were not the witnesses at her burial. I also found Epping on the Google map and it is about 9 miles from Croydon and Croydon looks like a suburb of Sydney. Didn't know they were all so close.
Julia was buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Rookwood, which is a mystery to me as she was married in St Andrews Church of England, Ham, Kingston Surrey.
Albert Parker was born about 1881, which would have made him about 49 in 1930 and Mary (Polly) was born in 1887 and would have been about 43. I don't know, one day I'll come across them.
Anyway, I do appreciate all your help.
Kind regards
Jan


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Australia / Re: SS Militiades
« on: Wednesday 18 March 09 16:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kris

Julia was my Great Grandmother, who was widowed in 1899. She must have been a strong woman to leave our shores at her age and go half way around the world , never to see the rest of her sons and their families in Kingston again. Her eldest son, Charles Blunden had left the Navy early in the 1900s in Sydney and we believe she moved out to be with him and his new family.

I don't have much information on the Parkers but we were told that they migrated to Australia. We don't know if it was before or after Julia & the girls.  Mary (known as Polly) Blunden married Albert Parker and had a son Albert. Now Albert was E.A. Parker and strangely enough on Julia's death certificate, the death was notified by E.A. Parker, (but it stated no relation - would a son-in law be classed as no relation or is this just a coincidence?). Julia died in Croydon NSW 1933 and E A Parker also lived in that town.  I can't seem to find Albert & family in the 1911 England census, which either indicates that they had already left the UK or I've missed them. Do you know of a census for the Croydon areas that I could view for around that time ?

Thanks

Jan

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