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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Jane Frances Mewes / Mienes / Mew
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 19:55 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Eyesee on Tuesday 11 December 12 01:55 GMT (UK)
The above John and Elizabeth

1851 - HO107/1601/602/34
Gibsons Hill, Croydon
John MEWES, head mar 39, Gardener, born Surrey, Wandsworth
Elizabeth MEWES, wife mar 32, born Middx, Enfield
James John MEWES, son 7, born Surrey, Norwood
Elizabeth Sarah MEWES, dau 3, born ditto
Erodia Emily MEWES, dau 7m, born ditto

Ian C


If this is Jane's family, as seems likely, she wasn't with them at the time of the 1851 census?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Jane Frances Mewes / Mienes / Mew
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
I have copies of Brothers Pride passenger lists - originals and ones transcribed by various people.

Everything I know about Jane specifically is in my first post.

I think the Croydon Jane Frances is very likely to be her.

Thanks everyone. :)

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: John Calcott St Quentin
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 19:25 GMT (UK)  »
That's interesting - thank you.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Jane Frances Mewes / Mienes / Mew
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 06:30 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Janette on Tuesday 11 December 12 01:13 GMT (UK)
It appears she arrived in 1863not 1853, aged 18yrs

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11693-142279-81?cc=1609792&wc=MMBP-HDB:1902227274

name: Jane F Mewes 
event: Immigration 
arrival date: 10 Dec 1863 
event place: New Zealand 
gender: Female 
age: 18
marital status: 
origin: Surrey 
occupation: Domestic Servant 
ship: Brothers Pride 
departure date: 25 Jul 1863 
ship's arrival port: Lyttelton 
arrival port: Lyttelton 


Cheers Janette

Yes - thanks, that was a  typo on my part. Aware of all the immigration data.

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: John Calcott St Quentin
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 06:28 GMT (UK)  »
Yes - had found that story. Love it.

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: John Calcott St Quentin
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 06:27 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Aussie1947 on Tuesday 11 December 12 00:51 GMT (UK)

John Alfred Ernest St Quentin married Mary Ann Emerson in New Zealand in 1870.
1870/7665

They may have come back to Australia.

Gerry


Yes they did - in 1874 on Albion to Melbourne.

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: John Calcott St Quentin
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 06:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - I thought that I'd put the same post on the Oz and Kiwi boards - didn't realise it would cause confusion. :)

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: John Calcott St Quentin
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 00:15 GMT (UK)  »
Indeed - more than old enough to be her father. By all accounts he was a charisimatic and good looking man but even so she was 12 years younger than his oldest son!

Speaking of whom - "Feb 5th 1886 Montague Street South Brisbane the wife of WC Quinton Esq of a son" -  would have been 49 if St Q's son.

Might not be him but spelling same as earlier family records and he may not have reinvented himself as a St Quentin.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Jane Frances Mewes / Mienes / Mew COMPLETED
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 00:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hard one this because name is spelled variously. She was born in Surrey c 1845/46. Arrived Lyttelton on board Brothers Pride Dec 1853.

She refused to pay her fare claiming she was underage when she signed the note and in any event the contract was in England and not enforceable in NZ; may have gone 'on the town'.

Any one heard of her?  the most likely name I have found in the 1851 UK census is Jane Mews but the ships list has her as Mewes and also appears as Mienes. The letter she wrote to the immigration officials is hard to decipher.

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