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Hampshire & IOW Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1861-71 George Adams
« on: Friday 30 December 11 04:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi Cathy
Not sure if you are still looking for this information by now, but the George W Adams (son of George and Elizabeth Adams) that you mentioned in your post is my Great Great grandfather. I have a book called Land of the Mountain and the Flood by Peter Chandler which provides some information about the son George W Adams. It records that George W Adams (the son)'s early employment in England was at the Eling Mill across the water from Southampton and that he left England for Melbourne when he was 21 years old and spent about two years on the Victorian Gold Fields so your comment about gold mining would be correct.
Apparently he worked briefly on the West Coast of the South Island of NZ in search of gold too before becoming a cellarman at a Brewery in Dunedin where he married Mary Wilson on 18 November 1868 at St Paul's Church in Dunedin (Archdeacon GH Edwards married them). So he must have left England about 1864 by what i can tell.
Not sure if you are still looking for this information by now, but the George W Adams (son of George and Elizabeth Adams) that you mentioned in your post is my Great Great grandfather. I have a book called Land of the Mountain and the Flood by Peter Chandler which provides some information about the son George W Adams. It records that George W Adams (the son)'s early employment in England was at the Eling Mill across the water from Southampton and that he left England for Melbourne when he was 21 years old and spent about two years on the Victorian Gold Fields so your comment about gold mining would be correct.
Apparently he worked briefly on the West Coast of the South Island of NZ in search of gold too before becoming a cellarman at a Brewery in Dunedin where he married Mary Wilson on 18 November 1868 at St Paul's Church in Dunedin (Archdeacon GH Edwards married them). So he must have left England about 1864 by what i can tell.