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Aberdeenshire / Re: Chapel of Garioch
« on: Tuesday 09 December 14 09:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hello
Georgina Abel Blake was my great grandfather's sister.
The family migrated from Scotland in 1881 to Melbourne.
Her father John Smith was a builder or mason. He died in 1895 at Trawool , near Seymour after falling from a horse. He was supervising a construction job at the time.
Her mother Isabella Blake (Smith) seems to have been from Lauchentilly, near Kenmay, but the moved around quite frequently, presumably to different construction jobs.
Other siblings:
James
Charles
John Alexander (my G grandfather)
Barbara.

Pat

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Its that Offord Ernest BAKER again
« on: Monday 08 December 14 10:25 GMT (UK)  »
Georgina Abel Baker (nee Blake) was my Great Grandfather's sister. She was born in 1871 near Aberdeen Scotland. She arrived in Victoria with her family in 1881. They has supposedly spent some time in west Australia before this, but I think this is a furphy because the ship they came on first stopped at Adelaide on its way from England.
I have her marrying Offord Ernest Baker in 1890 in Victoria. They must have moved soon after to Fremantle in West Australia and from there to Broome. I imagine it would have been a pretty tough life for a white woman in Broome at that time.
Like others I have found no record about a divorce or death of Offord; I found she married Thomas Harrington in Broome in 1918 and she died in 1920 in Broome.
I have assumed Offord shot through and abandoned Georgina.
would love to hear more stories and find out where that house is in Broome.

Pat

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