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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Thomas Tolhurst b1777 Maidstone Kent maybe.
« on: Sunday 04 April 21 10:43 BST (UK)  »
Thomas was in the 20th Light Dragoons he transferred to the New South Wales Corps in 1796 where he changed his name to Thomas Tollis in 1799, I am guessing that the Kentish pronunciation of his name was the driver for the change in spelling. There are, as I am sure you are aware, numerous Tolhursts in Kent. The local Kentish manner of pronunciation could easily be heard as Tollis. The following details start from the Thomas Tollis a mason by trade who enlisted in the army at Maidstone, Kent on 12 January 1796 as a Private in the 20th Light Dragoons. He arrived at Port Jackson on the Ganges on 2 June 1797.Thomas Tollis was born C 1777 presumably in Kent and died 25 July 1821.TT had a relationship, apparently de facto, with a convict named Elizabeth ‎(Betty)‎ Atkinson who was born c 1760 at Manchester and who arrived together with 96 female convicts on the Brittania on 18 July 1798 and seems to have died in Sydney c1806.. Betty was 38 years old and had been convicted of a minor felony for which she was sentenced to transportation to NSW for seven years. This relationship produced one daughter named Elizabeth born c 1797 died in New Zealand on 25 March 1867. Corporal Thomas Tollis then met and subsequently married Ann Waters on 26 May 1812. Ann Waters was born in Scotland c 1785 and died 13 April 1821.They had several children including Thomas born c 1808 died at Alexandria on 2 August 1880 and Harriot‎(t)‎ born 18 June 1810 died pre 1832 married James Tierney 29 November 1824 - both of these children appear to have been born before Thomas and Ann were permitted to marry. Then followed Ann born 1 March 1814 died ?? she married George Hely in 1831 and also George Grierson ‎(or was this Gray?)‎ c 1840, Samuel born 8 February 1816, Nathaniel born 16 May 1818 died 24 May 1860 ‎(or should this be 1863?)‎ and married Sophia Walford on 14 May 1836. Sophia was born c 1820 and died c 1905 ‎(as Upton?)‎ but stated as 19 March 1890 per Enid Bohlson ?, and Eliza who was born c 1821 and died 23 April 1821 close to the deaths of both her parents, now after all that i am looking for his birth parents, can you help, my online searches for Thomas Tolhurst have been fruitless so far although i did find a baptism in 8th Dec 1776 with parents Thomas Tolhurst and Alice in Kenardington Kent the only one in the entire UK and a marriage for Thomas Tolhurst and Alice Ditton 1st Oct 1770 which seems to work but hard to prove without a stronger link.

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Devon / Re: Sarah Ann Blackmore b 23 May 1830 Exeter
« on: Monday 13 April 15 20:29 BST (UK)  »
I guess i have more work to do then Kev, i think were back to a 90% chance he is my Thomas as everything seems to fit, i do wish i had a DNA match on this one, is there a male line of descendants from Thomas.

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Devon / Re: Sarah Ann Blackmore b 23 May 1830 Exeter
« on: Sunday 12 April 15 21:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Kev,
I now believe that we have 2 different families, although they are quite possibly related as records tie both families to the areas of Broadclyst and Exeter in Devon, the census from 1861 in Hull shows your Thomas age 28 a Fisherman with wife Mary age 27 and daughter Mary age 5 and Brother William age 25 a Fisherman, my William brother of Thomas had immigrated to Adelaide, Australia with his mother Elizabeth nee Page and brother Francis on the ship Sibella in 1852, at this time the father William Blackmore had passed on, he died on 1st May 1841 after a recently built chimney collapsed and broke his back on a building site at Fore-Street Hill, Exeter premises of a Mr Nicholas Tucket.

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Devon / Re: Sarah Ann Blackmore b 23 May 1830 Exeter
« on: Thursday 09 April 15 01:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Kev, i will follow that up, it would be good for both of us if it's the same person

Kind Regards
Leigh

Just another thought Kev has your wife had DNA testing as Elizabeth Page is a direct maternal ancestor of my mother the maternal haplogroup is K1c1b that may or may not help to confirm the link, my DNA testing was done at FTDNA Kit number 262906

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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: Tasmanian Convict resources
« on: Thursday 05 February 15 19:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thankyou Cando, there are a couple i haven't come across before.

Leigh

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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: Tasmanian Convict resources
« on: Thursday 29 January 15 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
Your Welcome Olwen,  :) and don't forget to use Trove, you may find a story or two if you are lucky.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

And another site many are not aware of that only records Death Notices placed in newspapers.

http://www.ryersonindex.org/

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Devon / Re: Sarah Ann Blackmore b 23 May 1830 Exeter
« on: Thursday 29 January 15 19:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi keyboard86, there is only one source for the middle name, but here is all i have found on Francis -



UK Census 1851-

First name(s) Francis

Last name Blackmore

Relationship Son

Marital status -

Gender Male

Age 9

Birth year 1842

Occupation Scholar

Birth place England

Birth town Exeter

Birth town as transcribed Exeter

Birth county Devon

Birth county as transcribed Devonshire

Street 54 Coombe Street

Town -

Parish St Mary Major

City Exeter

County Devon

Hamlet -

Parliamentary borough Exeter

Municipal ward St Mary Major

Registration district Exeter

Archive reference HO107

Piece number 1868

Folio 391

Page 11

Record set 1851 England, Wales & Scotland Census

Category Census, Land & Surveys

Record collection Census

Collections from United Kingdom

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UK Bdms-

First name(s) Francis

Last name Blackmore

Birth year 1841

Birth date ? Nov 1841

Baptism year 1848

Baptism date 23 Apr 1848

Baptism place Exeter, St Mary Major

Father's first name William

Mother's first name Elizabeth

County Devon

Archive reference 2945A/PR/1/9

Record set Devon Baptisms

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Record collection Births & baptisms

Collections from United Kingdom

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QLD Bdms - Death

Name: Francis Kenwood Blackmore

Death Date: 28 May 1885

Death Place: Queensland

Father's Name: William Blackmore

Mother's Name: Elizabeth Page

Registration Year: 1885

Registration Place: Queensland

Registration number: 000827

Page Number: 1193

SA Passenger Lists,1847-1886

Ship Sibella, 721 tons, Captain E.R. Coleman, from London 4th December / Plymouth 12th December 1851, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 16th March 1852

South Australian Register Wednesday 17 March 1852

Tuesday March 16:-The ship Sibella, 721 tons, Coleman Master, from London and Plymouth 4th December 1851, with 257 Government emigrants.—6th ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1852 ; two births and three deaths on the passage, Edward Kearney, surgeon-superintendent.

Single Women

Blackmore Elizabeth Age 49

Single Men & boys

Blackmore William Age 16

Blackmore Francis Age 10

QLD Bdms - Marriage.

1881 C1276 Francis Kenwood Blackmore Elizabeth Whitford

   

1885 C312 Francis Kenwood Blackmore Marion Hammond

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Australia Resources & Offers / Link: Tasmanian Convict resources
« on: Thursday 29 January 15 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
I have come across quite a few people today that have no idea this FREE access site exists, so if your looking for information on Convicts, Immigrants, old Orphanage records in Tassie etc etc this is the place to go.

http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/

This next link will get you straight into search so you don't have to mess around looking for it -

http://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names


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Devon / Re: Sarah Ann Blackmore b 23 May 1830 Exeter
« on: Thursday 29 January 15 03:11 GMT (UK)  »
Francis Kenwood Blackmore, yes an interesting name not sure but believe Kenwood to have a significant meaning, Elizabeth was pregnant at the time of her husbands death, what happened to her then being a charwoman is hard to say but she does have an association with the St Thomas the Apostle Church in Exeter to which i have noted the surname of Kenwood to be associated including a Sister Elizabeth Kenwood who perhaps was a friend, there are Kenwoods all around Exeter and in Broadclyst where i believe William and Possibly Elizabeth originated from, so who knows but whatever the reason for the middle name i think it would have been significant.

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