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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 22:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks David for the tree - I managed to find it OK and will have a closer look when I have more time.  Off to the optician this morning.   Thanks to all who have contributed in this investigation.  Pity my Mum isn't still around for me to be able to tell her.
 
Linda

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 07:27 GMT (UK)  »
Wow, I have dropped the ball with my Family History but must get back into it now I have some more info.  I am actually doing a class at U3A (University of the Third Age) here on the Gold Coast but am going to miss this month's class as we will be away.

We moved to Queensland 10 years ago after having lived all our lives in Adelaide  (My 90 yo Dad still lives there as does my sister).

My cousin in Sydney did most of the work on this tree but she stopped at Thomas Henry Graves believing him to be an orphan.  I may contact her once I have added the new info to my tree and make it public on Ancestry.com.

Thank you for your info - I'm sure it will help me once I get back to my tree.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 05:31 GMT (UK)  »
With regard to the fortune - I think it went down the Graves side as my mother's parents were quite wealthy as were her Aunts back in England and my Mum and her brother (George) did inherit some when her Mother (Gertrude Margaret) died.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 05:27 GMT (UK)  »
Meg, are you related to the Messengers/Hands in any way?

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Wednesday 16 October 13 21:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi there...I am getting better slowly day by day but we are now six hours north of our home at Hubby's favourite fishing spot.  So I don't have access to any of my hard copy stuff until we return next Monday.

Very interesting about the brother's two estates, perhaps James didn't make much of a go at his side of the business in Melbourne and Thomas wiped him?

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Saturday 12 October 13 22:09 BST (UK)  »
wow, amazing stuff.  I am still not well but wanted to "throw a spanner in the works".  I have a transcribed marriage certificate between Thomas Henry Graves and Elizabeth Grose where the declaration at the bottom for the groom was entered as Francis Henry Graves.  However it was Thomas Henry Graves in the top section.  Maybe he was a little tipsy on his wedding day and didn't know his own name???

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Thursday 10 October 13 21:36 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for your "investigations".  I'm sorry I haven't popped in here but I am not well at the moment - although I am reading with interest all the theories and hope we can get to the bottom of it eventually.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 23:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi again - I will attempt to attach the Obituary - the original (pdf) is very hard to read and also too large apparently.  It has been transcripted (docx) and I then corrected some of the spelling and obvious errors comparing the two documents.   I can't upload the docx document, however I will attempt to convert it to txt and then upload it. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this for me....Linda 

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Cambridgeshire / Re: GRAVES Thomas Henry
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 21:27 BST (UK)  »
Wow, thanks for your info, but as you say proving it would be another story.  They may have taken their Grandparents name and were brought up by them perhaps? Straw clutching
Thomas did have a brother, James, mentioned in Thomas's rather lengthy Obituary in a local South Australian paper at the time.  James worked in Henry's business on the Yarra River in Melbourne but I am yet to find any other details for him. Henry's birth date is also mentioned in that obituary but I still don't have anything to back it up.  In 1871 the family visited Croydon, UK, however they returned to Adelaide, Australia where he died on 10 Aug 1900.

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