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Hi Dandolus,
I hope you pick this post up. I'd really appreciate knowing what you know about your great grandfathers time in the UK in 1902. Do you know when he returned to Australia? I suspect that he is not the father of my grandfather and his brothers so knowing where he was in 1907, 1910 and 1911 would help clarify this.
Kind regards,
Mandy

My Frank's dad was also Frank.
I've look up the address for 43 Garden Road, the address on the marriage certificate, in 1901 but there isn't a listing for it.
I can't find a death for Frank either but did find a marriage to joanna H C Botha in Medway in 1913.

Thanks for quick replies.
Hilda was my great grandmother and was born in Hackney Union Infirmary in 1886. She was working in a hotel in Sandcliffe so the FES at Shorncliffe my be ours.
His father was given as Frank Simmonds who was also a mariner. He was 28 at the time of his marriage.
I can only find Edwin John on the1911 census, but I know that Hilda left him with relatives (her aunt) for some reason.
She married Herbert George Kelly in 1913.
Mandy

Hello All,

I have not got any further with Henry Hobden. I am beginning to think he was the child of Jonathan and Sarah Hobden, Sarah would have been 38- 42 when he was born. However, I can't find his birth record.

It seems that Christiana had at least two children with the surname Rawson - Kate in 1833 and Christian in 1835.

I can't find a Christopher Rawson but I have Kate's wedding certificate of her marriage to Thomas Whiting in 1855. Her address was 105 Upper North Street. Her father was Christopher Rawson who is listed as a chemist.

The only Christopher Rawson I can find is a Christopher Rawson Penfold, a doctor who practised in Brighton between 1838 and 1844 when he emigrated with his wife, Mary, to Australia. It seems really unlikely that he previously married (or was in a relationship with Christiana).

Any ideas of where to go next welcome.

Mandy