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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Looking for Barker Joseph BENSON, born Whitby 1815?
« on: Tuesday 03 July 12 23:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi Kim,
Thanks for your information.  My mother is Thea - eldest daughter of Theodore.  She remembers your grandfather & grandmother, and remembers also that they had two sons, but had little to do with the boys, as they did not live nearby.
The reason I thought that there were twins is because, on Theodore's birth certificate William AND John P. are named as being 16 years.
I have Johanna Strike with the maiden name Cowbrethan, but when you view the original marriage certificate it is easy to see how the writing could be misinterpreted, and Carrwithen seems more probable.  I cannot find and info on her family even after being in contact with the county clerks in the areas around Northill.  Have you been able to verify John's parents?  There were a few John Strikes born in Northill around the same time.
Once again, thanks for your input.
Lou

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Australia / Re: Doctor BENSON or Quack?
« on: Sunday 22 April 12 08:46 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that reference - I have seen it before.  I understand how women were treated as merely extensions of their husbands in those times, but am fascinated by Hannah - she came out as a 17-year old alone with the man she was to marry - or did they meet on the voyage? 
My mother tells me, just as a humorous sidelight, that her Aunt Bertha (daughter of Barker's son William Robson) used artefacts gathered by either Barker or William as garden stakes in her backyard at Bexley.  She also recalls a story about William riding a horse up the steps of Sydney Town Hall

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Australia / Re: Doctor BENSON or Quack?
« on: Saturday 21 April 12 05:42 BST (UK)  »
At the risk of sounding pompous (I don't mean to), each of us who is a direct descendant of Barker and Emily is as much a Vandervord as a Benson.  I think it's important that we look also at her family and background when trying to understand our heritage.  She must have been an amazing woman, or an extremely subservient one, to accompany Barker into unknown areas at such a young age.

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Australia / Re: Doctor BENSON or Quack?
« on: Saturday 21 April 12 00:37 BST (UK)  »
Just an aside - with this focus on Barker, has anyone considered that, with her family background, Hannah may actually have played a major role in these travels & adventuring?  She must have seen exotic and unusual imports, etc, being from a well-known family of hoymen in th Thames estuary whose background, including travelling from the Netherlands, sets them up also as the pioneering type.  An early suffragette? 

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Looking for Barker Joseph BENSON, born Whitby 1815?
« on: Thursday 19 April 12 05:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi Simone,
Can you tell me how you found out about Hannah being sponsored?  I'd like to find out if other relatives came out the same way.  I have Hannah's father as William Heard Vandervord, with 6 siblings - Mary Warrington (1790), Mary (1788), George John (1792), James Wilson (1795), Alfred (1797) and Haratio (1801).  This is from Family Search IGI: P018041.  Probably one of these Marys is the sponsor.
I cannot find a record of William's marriage, but have his wife as Ann Kemp.
Just realised that the first Mary died shortly after birth, so Mary Warrington must have been aunt referred to - does anyone know where the Warrington came from?
As for Charlotte Carrwithin - her mother, wife of John Strike, was Johanna Carrwithin - hence the middle name.  Records show her surname as Cowbrethen, but if you view the original, you can see how a misinterpretation of the spelling could occur

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Australia / Re: Doctor BENSON or Quack?
« on: Monday 16 April 12 10:13 BST (UK)  »
Many surgeons were admitted to Licentiate of Apothecaries Company of London, and their records appear to be poor (or non-existent?)  Another relative - John Yates Rutter was admitted on 12.05.1836, but there is no record of his father, Thomas, who was also a surgeon.  Rutter was the father of Ida Florence, who married William Robson Benson, parents of my grandfather, Theodore

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Looking for Barker Joseph BENSON, born Whitby 1815?
« on: Monday 16 April 12 03:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I'm new to this, but am also a direct descendent of Barker Joseph Benson through his son William Robson - my grandfather was Theodore, born 1896.  Have been searching info for a few years now and have a few questions that others may have answers to:
Is there an explanation for Barker Joseph Benson to be travelling steerage on Catherine Stewart Forbes with Hannah, while a Joseph Benson Barker travelled Cabin? A bit of a coincidfence?
Also, on my grandfather's birth certificate twins (I think) are shown as 16 years - William & John P. - yet I can find no other mention of them anywhere.
I will sift through my info once I have read all the prededing to see if I can add to it - my mother tells me that William Robson enjoyed the drink and also that Barker had an orange orchard - this is, however, word-of-mouth.
Barker is also shown as a surgeon on William Robson's birth certificate & his own death cert - he died suffering rheumatic gout, disease of the valaves of the heart and anasarca, which is an accumulation of fluids in the body.
Thanks for all this new info,
Lou

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