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Devon / Re: Ellicott drapers of Torquay
« on: Wednesday 20 January 16 19:28 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Terry, I'm sorry it's taken 6 months to reply - don't seem to have had a notification of your post.
Ric
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Devon / Re: Ellicott drapers of Torquay
« on: Saturday 18 July 15 14:10 BST (UK) »
It's been a while since I posted this and I've found out a little more. Anything I find goes on my blog at https://toomanyphilips.wordpress.com/. Specific info about this topic: https://toomanyphilips.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/a-natural-death/.
Thanks for reading, and if you can add anything more please get in touch.
Ric
Thanks for reading, and if you can add anything more please get in touch.
Ric
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Thursday 11 June 15 08:59 BST (UK) »
Thank you Sue,
Nice to have the marriage and funeral notice, thanks.
Yes, Mary did visit Australia again, a couple of times I think. After her husband died she travelled quite a bit visiting relatives in Aus, SA and Canada. She got stuck in London when war broke out and died in 1943 from breast cancer.
Nice to have the marriage and funeral notice, thanks.
Yes, Mary did visit Australia again, a couple of times I think. After her husband died she travelled quite a bit visiting relatives in Aus, SA and Canada. She got stuck in London when war broke out and died in 1943 from breast cancer.
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Wednesday 10 June 15 15:47 BST (UK) »
So, looking on the Victorian archive site for passengers leaving Vic I found a record of a Miss M Foster leaving Melbourne bound for Fremantle in 1899 - right age, right sort of time, believable destination as her sister was married and living in Perth. However, when I looked on the WA archive site and managed to find the same ship arriving in WA, her name wasn't on it. Could the manifest have not been fully digitised?
Very odd.
Also not been able to find a digitised record of her leaving again (if indeed it is her) en route to South Africa.
Anyway, some progress has been made thanks to this forum, I just wish Perth/Melbourne wasn't half a world away!
Thanks,
Ric
Very odd.
Also not been able to find a digitised record of her leaving again (if indeed it is her) en route to South Africa.
Anyway, some progress has been made thanks to this forum, I just wish Perth/Melbourne wasn't half a world away!
Thanks,
Ric
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 10:52 BST (UK) »
An online tree has a document from Assistant State Statist, Richard N D TREACEY, 20 Aug 1902, being a statement of birth details for Mary Ann FOSTER.
TREACEY was State Statist, Victoria.
So Mary Ann was........somewhere ....in Aug 1902 and needing proof of....age?...nationality?....for some purpose.
This same tree has her marriage certificate, so presumably same family, so Mary Ann FOSTER in South Africa Aug 1902?
That sounds like what I have as her birth record, but you're right it's an official proof of birth isn't it. So I guess it was needed when she got engaged.
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 09:57 BST (UK) »Hi
......and had met her husband, a soldier, John Leith......
If occupations are not shown on the marriage certificates in South Africa, how do you know he was a soldier?
Sue
I have his medals, attestation papers, all sorts. No question there!
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 09:36 BST (UK) »
....accounting for a single woman travelling to a war zone.....
Thank you
The war ended in May 1902
She married 1903
You have said you do not know when she went to South Africa.
Sue
True, but her husband was an Irish soldier. He would have returned to the UK but for meeting Mary Ann.
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 09:13 BST (UK) »But it's good to have a location for her in 1898
The location her sister gave in the probate files would have been her belief that Mary was still living there & not necessarily accurate at the time.
Did you bother to download & read the probate files? There were possible further clues in it if you did.
I did download the files but only briefly read them (the Cheltenham reference), will study in more detail today. Thanks.
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Australia / Re: Mary Ann Foster - Nurse(?)
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 09:11 BST (UK) »Location in Cheltenham could mean training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, so that's a new lead - thank you!Ric3188
Or any other hospital in Melbourne. Why do you think she trained at the Royal Melbourne? You have no proof she was a nurse.QuoteAnyway, I noticed the other day when re-reading accounts of her father's death in the local papers the Mary Ann was not mentioned whereas her sister Margaret wasRic3188
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I've just heard back from the RMH and she's not on their list so that was a short-lived lead! What other hospitals were there in Melbourne at that time? And no, no proof she was a nurse, just family history.
I have several newspaper reports of John Foster's death and also quite a lot of information about the rest of the family. I really am just looking for the trigger to move from Victoria to South Africa - it's a fascinating aspect of our family that several couples started life on entirely different continents!
Thank you