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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Thursday 07 March 13 09:11 GMT (UK) »
Yes, I will pm you, thanks Gerry!
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Thursday 28 February 13 08:41 GMT (UK) »
And a big thanks from me too, Gerry
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Wednesday 27 February 13 10:47 GMT (UK) »
Searching for any of the Gaunt family at Invermay (suburb of Launceston) Tas, that would have received baby Alec Graeme Beart from a Melbourne steamer, sometime before his death (early Dec 1896) and cared for him. Checking passenger lists, his mother would have come by steamer to Melb? Then he was transferred to a steamer to a sister in Tas. By that year, I'd assumed all the immediate family had gone to Ulverstone, Nietta, Casta areas....
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Wednesday 27 February 13 09:08 GMT (UK) »
I just found an inconsistency. Baby Alec Graeme Beart died in Dec 1896 in Launceston Tas. but the newspaper article reporting on the divorce case says that Ethel was in WA when notified that her baby died and returned to Melb for an operation in Oct 1897, paying for all funeral expenses etc of her baby, then returned to Qld in Nov 1897. So, did the paper get the years wrong and the months or did the bdm records?
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Wednesday 27 February 13 08:33 GMT (UK) »
That is truly amazing. Thank you for the answers. I can't believe Dorothy was 101. Wonder if she knew about her mother and other brothers. Hoping she had a happy life!
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Tuesday 26 February 13 09:50 GMT (UK) »
One more question. Can anyone find out if Dorothy Heaton Cooper (married name North?) ever had children? Would love to find some living cousins!
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Tuesday 26 February 13 09:42 GMT (UK) »
Beart did go to WA to join his brother, so that makes sense. thanks for finding baby Alec's middle name - Graeme, am now thinking that he may may have been named for his uncle Gray (Marcus Graeme Gaunt).
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Australia / Re: BEART Arthur Henry in Queensland and South Australia
« on: Tuesday 26 February 13 09:32 GMT (UK) »
Wow, you guys have been busy. All I had written next to Ethel's photo (assuming it is her) is
Alec Beart b. 1896
Arthur Maxwell Beart b 1899
Dorothy Heaton Cooper b. 1906. Father not listed but when you read trove newspaper on the divorce, the neighbour was the Heaton Cooper bloke. I remember finding another article approx 21yrs later that mentions Dorothy and her father, still in Qld. I assumed she died from complications after childbirth. it looks like Beart took his son with him and the daughter stayed with her father.
The poor baby, I'll have to read over that again, I always wondered where he was buried and which sister he was sent to. Sounds like Ethel was a skeleton in the Gaunt closet, wonder why her father Charles didn't step in to help at that time. My Grandma knows nothing of her story....
Alec Beart b. 1896
Arthur Maxwell Beart b 1899
Dorothy Heaton Cooper b. 1906. Father not listed but when you read trove newspaper on the divorce, the neighbour was the Heaton Cooper bloke. I remember finding another article approx 21yrs later that mentions Dorothy and her father, still in Qld. I assumed she died from complications after childbirth. it looks like Beart took his son with him and the daughter stayed with her father.
The poor baby, I'll have to read over that again, I always wondered where he was buried and which sister he was sent to. Sounds like Ethel was a skeleton in the Gaunt closet, wonder why her father Charles didn't step in to help at that time. My Grandma knows nothing of her story....
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Dating please - Again!! - And anything else about these two gents
« on: Wednesday 20 June 12 12:34 BST (UK) »
Hi Suzanne,
I don't think it is the same Milligan, the photo is of Alexander Murray Milligan - but he did have brothers, one was quite well known as a botanist and for (if my memory serves me correctly) managing convicts on an island and collecting aboriginal artefacts - some of which are still in a Tasmanian museum. I'll have a bit of a look and see if your Milligan is a son of one of my Milligan's brothers.
Regards
Julie
I don't think it is the same Milligan, the photo is of Alexander Murray Milligan - but he did have brothers, one was quite well known as a botanist and for (if my memory serves me correctly) managing convicts on an island and collecting aboriginal artefacts - some of which are still in a Tasmanian museum. I'll have a bit of a look and see if your Milligan is a son of one of my Milligan's brothers.
Regards
Julie