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Australia / Re: 1839 Arrival in Australia of Richard Brown
« on: Wednesday 16 March 22 18:52 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for answering my question. I think that this is what I needed.
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Canada / Re: BC Death Record Look-up please
« on: Wednesday 16 March 22 14:22 GMT (UK) »
Quite a few death records are indexed on the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives site but do not have an attached image of the death record. I have found that one can ask the archives to look up the original record and that they are quite willing to do so and provide a digitized copy by e-mail or by post. They have a form, someplace, for making such a request.
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Australia / 1839 Arrival in Australia of Richard Brown
« on: Wednesday 16 March 22 14:15 GMT (UK) »
From information in a message thread concerning his wife, Melona Tate, I understand that Richard Brown and his wife arrived from England at Port Jackson/Sydney on the ship Andromache in 1839. I see that the arrival record mentioned by other researchers shows the names of Melona's parents. I do not know where this record of the passengers on that ship was found. I wonder if it also mentions the names of Richard's parents? Richard is reported to have been born in Jamaica but he and his wife married in London (Stepney) in 1835, four years before going to Australia. Can anyone point me to a link to the record or look to see if Richard's parents are mentioned? They have a number of descendants in Australia.
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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Yorkshire N.Riding - Liddle
« on: Friday 14 May 21 19:05 BST (UK) »
There seem to have been several people with the surname Liddle born in or near Pickering, North Riding of Yorkshire in the late 1700's and early 1800's. I am descended from a Thomas Liddle born at Normanby near Pickering in about 1756-1760 and his wife Mary Huddlestone born in 1764 in the same place. They, and most of their living children, immigrated to the USA in 1824. I have DNA matches to several of their descendants. However, I am also a DNA match to a descendant of a William or William Watson Liddle born at Pickering in about 1808 who is NOT a child of Thomas and Mary. I am currently trying to sort out the Pickering Liddle family from before the 1841 census.
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Canada / Re: 1960's wills in BC Canada
« on: Friday 04 October 19 05:30 BST (UK) »
In theory, it might be possible to get a copy of a 1960's will from British Columbia but not always. I recently got a copy of a 1973 will probated in 1974. If the estate was large enough that probate was required then there will be a court record which will include the will. Court records from that far back will be in the keeping of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives in Victoria. If there was no probate procedure then there may be no copy of the will on file. It will help to have the exact name, exact death date and the place where the deceased lived.
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Canada / Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« on: Friday 04 October 19 05:16 BST (UK) »
I don't think it mentions the cause of death. I can't read it all but the word which puzzles you looks like a reference to the administration of the “Sacrement”, that is the last rites.
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Canada / Re: 1960's wills in BC Canada
« on: Saturday 31 August 19 07:02 BST (UK) »
I am in the process of obtaining a copy of a 1974 will in BC. My understanding is that when there was a will AND when there was enough of an estate that the will had to go to probate, that only then will there be a record of the will and what happened to the estate. After some years the court records get sent to the Royal British Columbia Museum & Archives. I do not know how long the courts hold them before doing that but apparently it is a number of years and may vary from court to court. In the case that I am working on, the name does not appear in that index list in Family Search but when I asked at the Archives someone looked up the name somewhere and said that there was a record of an estate for that person in the time period I described. The archivist then had the file retrieved from storage and a couple of days later called me. Having the file in hand, she was able to confirm the death date, which I already knew, so that we were sure it was the right person. I then had the choice of having a copy mailed to me or sent to me electronically. There was a charge. It varies according to the size of the file but mine was about $33. I expect a copy of the will to arrive in the mail on September 4th!
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Scotland / Re: Seeking Henderson Family
« on: Monday 05 August 19 12:38 BST (UK) »I have the names of both their parents and 1944 & 1945 letters from a Dick Henderson, apparently a nephew, mentioning a number of family members.
Could well be his brother, or a nephew.
There is a possible death for his brother in Glasgow in 1968. A 77 yr old Richard Henderson died then. He married a Mary Buchanan Smart in 1917 in Bridgeton, Glasgow.
Monica
It would have been nice for these people to have been given more distinctive names! I have one 19th century distant relative by marriage who was named Xerxes. That made finding information about him wonderfully easy.
Anyway, there were two correspondents who signed themselves “Dick”. I have a letter from one dating from March 1941. He seems, from my interpretation of the letter, to have been a brother of William John Henderson. That idea would fit nicely with the census data showing a Richard Henderson born about 1892 as a younger brother to William John Henderson.
The other letters signed “Dick” are the five air letters I have dating from 1944 and 1945. He was in the Navy and apparently fairly young. The return addresses on all of them is Coder, R. Henderson JX508886. The hand writing is quite different and they address Agnes Winning Henderson as Aunt Nan. She was apparently sending “care packages” to her nephew by marriage and he wrote to thank her.
The death you have noted in 1968 would fit nicely with the brother born about 1892.
I think it likely that the author of the 1944-1945 air letters, R. Henderson who signed himself “Dick”, was the son of the brother Richard bearing the same given name. This would fit nicely with my understanding from the air letters that their author was a young man, very likely born after 1917, the year of the brother Richard's marriage. Like his father, he too is very likely now dead.
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Scotland / Re: Seeking Henderson Family
« on: Monday 05 August 19 11:46 BST (UK) »
...The father of Agnes Winning Henderson born Ross was John Ross born about 1869 in Scotland and who died in January 1914. Agnes' mother was Jessie Ross born McGregor born about 1869 who died in 1917...
I can't see a death for Agnes' mother in 1917. There is a possible 1907 death in the index on SP for a Jessie Ross/McGregor, aged 39 in Possilpark, Glasgow (nothing under Janet).
A few possibilities for John Ross in 1914 to consider. You would have to view images to confirm if any are the correct entry.
Monica
You are correct about Jessie's death being in 1907. It was my typing error to give it as 1917. The photo I have of her says on the back that she died in 1907.