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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Sunday 29 June 14 05:12 BST (UK)  »
OK folks, while doing a little more researching, I have to share a bit of a spooky story. Way back in 1995 my wife and I were in England for my sons wedding and we were staying in Eastbourne. As a part of the holiday we decided to visit Bath for a couple of days. We set off in our hire car and as the morning drew on we were on the lookout for somewhere to eat, deciding the next 'Little Chef' would be it, but none appeared. In the end hunger got the better of us and we decided to pull off the main drag at the next village and find a pub, which we duly did. On ordering the meal the barman inquired where we were from and when we said Australia, he said "you have come to see the boys down the churchyard then", not knowing what he meant we asked and he said that there was a small military cemetery there. On finishing our meal we spent some time with the boys in the cemetery before resuming our journey, many had died of flu in 1918 after surviving the trenches.  Only this morning I found that place was Sutton Verny!  and they must have been stationed with John Ingleby Lee there in 1918. The real spooky bit was when we rejoined the main road within a couple of miles was a 'Little Chef' rest stop! which at the time we thought was weird. Talk about life just being like a giant game of joining the dots ! :)

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Friday 27 June 14 04:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone, just an observation or two on the Grey wedding, first off the address given of 24 Byron Avenue, is one I know as where the family lived, not sure when they moved there, but my mother told me about the effects of the Silvertown explosion which I believe was January 1917. Secondly the witness is Nellie's mum using her Harrill alias, my grandfather probably would not have been there as he was at sea ["W J HARRILL, aged 50, born London, crew, 2nd Cook on the CALULU, from the U.K. via Melbourne to Sydney 10 Sept 1918"] the other signature might have been from a Grey family member. Because Nellie used her maiden name on the second  Warminster marriage could the first marriage have been annulled ? maybe Grey returned from the war 'damaged'  these are only thoughts as the Grey marriage is a complete bolt out of the blue to me :) 

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Tuesday 24 June 14 03:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi all, well true to the thread so far it appears that a few more twists and turns have cropped up and there are still more questions than answers :) I am sure it won't be long before we can share them with you and push on.

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Monday 23 June 14 05:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Judith  'Doris' is a wild card I have a photo, with writing on back "Dad & Doris 1948", but in same hand writing as the other photos. in another photo there are 3 boy and it looks like a 'girl' in the picture on the door step, but the writing on the back of that photo is the directions to Northcote St.  Not sure how to go about showing the photos as I feel RAh32 should be a part of the decision to do so, or perhaps see them first before deciding :)

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Monday 23 June 14 02:02 BST (UK)  »
Right guys hopefully things have settled down here at home and I can get on with the fun stuff :)  I think too that it might confuse the Harrill/Harris/Lee thread if we start a new elsewhere so, lets push on. I have spent some time this morning looking for some photos, not an easy job since we downsized :) and come up with 5 photos that are identified on the back! One give instructions on how to get to 144 Northcote St. ! and a picture of 4 children sitting on a door step. Nellie was visited by Grandad, my father and my brother at different times as they were all merchant seamen. There is another with I presume Nellie and Keith on his return form Borneo at wars end. one of his wife Esme and 2 of Clyde. So I guess that confirms we have the right Nellie and right family :) OK I have one more mystery is there a 'Doris' in the equation.   

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Sunday 22 June 14 04:27 BST (UK)  »
Whoa ! exciting developments RAh32!  I think we are getting to the stage where things are a little confused, Judith has suggested that we might need a new thread which is linked, but that has me completely flummoxed :) as to 'how to' and in what form, I have only just mastered 'reply' :)

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Sunday 22 June 14 01:01 BST (UK)  »
The parent detail for Katerine are, Walter and Sarah Simpson, mother maiden name listed as unknown, his profession is given a carpenter.  As Katerine [or is it Kathleen?] disappears perhaps she too returned to the UK, to be in Australia unaccompanied at 22 does seem very 'adventurous' for that time [unlike today]   

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Thursday 19 June 14 23:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: judb on Thursday 19 June 14 07:34 BST (UK)
I see quite a lot of earlier information about some of your family.  I'm happy to post it (in dribs and drabs as I fear I have to do something to the oven shortly) unless you want to have a go at unravelling it yourself. 

Hmm - you need to be warned - family history is addictive and the addiction is so strong that some of us get involved with looking for other families.   ::)

Judith
Hi Judith, I would be most grateful for anything that you find and in your own time is great, what I haven't got will be use full and what I do have  will hopefully be verified. Bristol seems to be where G grandfather hails from and amongst other businesses coal merchant seems to be a common thread at least in Hackney, that and ship provisions. hence follows :

"NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore
JL\ subsisting between Thomas Moxley Harrill and Henry
Bell, at 17, King-street, Tower Hill, in the city of London,
BB Ships' Butchers, under the style or firm of Harrill
and Bell, has been dissolved by mutual consent.—Dated this
14th day of April, 1881. Thomas M. Harrill.  [London Gazette]

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Australia / Re: NSW Address but no name
« on: Thursday 19 June 14 03:40 BST (UK)  »
Thank JM, Grandad had an amazing life if one believes 'all' the stories :) and a lot of it spent at sea, he and my father were on the same ship and when they docked in London he brought him home and that is how he met my mother, she was 24 or so I expect GF was worried she might be left on the shelf  ;D  Grandfather died in 1953 when I was 7 and I can remember him well, he looked like Albert Einstein with a shock of white hair, a part of his DNA I did not inherit  :)

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