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Australia / Re: FREEGARD family in Australia
« on: Saturday 06 July 13 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Hello again, Marlene

Just noticed mistake - it was Arthur and Elizabeth May (nee Puzey) who turned down the offer of a new life in Australia (not Mary Jane!) - sorry

Regards and contrition

J Perkins

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Australia / Re: FREEGARD family in Australia
« on: Saturday 06 July 13 10:33 BST (UK)  »
Hello, Marlene.

The details of the death registration for Mary Jane Freegard nee Dash: Vol 5a Page 7; Reg District Swindon; Inferred County Wiltshire; Oct - Dec qtr 1937.

Albert Henry Freegard married Mabel Lily Bampton on 26 May 1911 and left for Australia from London the next day on the Armadale.

My mother tells the tale of how she opened the front door one day and saw a man whom she thought was her father.  She wondered how he could be in the kitchen and at the front door at the same time, until he spoke and asked to see Arthur (Edgar Freegard my grandfather).  It was her uncle Albert on a visit from Australia.  Apparently, her parents took him into the front room (in the days when the front parlour was kept for Sundays and visitors only), and she never saw him again.  Apparently he invited any member(s) of the family who wanted to go and live with him in Australia, but Arthur and Mary Jane turned the offer down without consulting anyone else.  Mum often wonders what her life would have been like if she had gone!

There is a record on the UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960 of the arrival at Tilbury on 2 June 1938 of an A Freegard 56 farmer, travelling alone.  This tallies with Mum's story.

Regards

Jacqueline Perkins

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Australia / Re: FREEGARD family in Australia
« on: Friday 05 July 13 18:27 BST (UK)  »
I am new to RootsChat.  I have registered because I have been following the various posts regarding the Freegard family in Australia, but with particular interest to the Bremhill origins.  I am related to the Bremhill Freegards through my mother.  Regarding Mary Jane Dash - I have obtained a copy of her death certificate.  This wasn't easy, but I took a plunge with a Fanny Freegard registration around the right time of her death.  At the time of death she was living at the family farm in Blunsdon.  Her son in law Henry Roberts (who married Frances Louise, my mother's Aunt Louie d. 1970 no offspring) registered the death.  Our theory (my mother's, my uncle's and mine) is that Mary Jane was called Fanny by her husband Henry, and it is possible that her children didn't know her real name (people not having been so open about personal matters of any sort in those days).  As Henry Freegard had died in 1909, and Louie didn't marry until 1919, it makes sense that Henry Roberts would not know any different at that stage.  Obviously it was sorted out before the headstone was produced, as grave of both Henry and Mary Jane Freegard can be seen in the cemetery at Blunsdon.

I hope this is of interest.

Regards

J Perkins

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