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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 05:18 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Sue ,Thats them !!
I'm embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to find out just the basics  :-[
Your brilliant  !

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 04:27 GMT (UK)  »
HI
It was Samuel Bates who arrived here by himself and married Martha Turner  who he met here not Anastasia

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 03:41 GMT (UK)  »
Blimey !
So much information they did say he worked for the railway at one stage
Is there a site you know of I can research his railway records ?
thank you so much !

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 03:25 GMT (UK)  »
WOW ! Thank you so much !!!!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 03:02 GMT (UK)  »
Good thought its worth a try!  :

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 02:30 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Ruskie

I can't believe how quickly you found all that info  that has taken me months

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 02:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ruskie
I know he worked in the gas tube works as a labourer at age 13  in 1871 and supposedly left the to join the army. He arrived in Australia in 1878 at about 20yrs .
I suppose it's a mixture of both curiosity and to find out what moulded the man who is part of my immediate family that stares down at me from the bookcase 

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Rookwood Cemetery
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 01:32 GMT (UK)  »
 Hi 
Thanks for all the  great information everyone  ! you have all been so helpful
I did give them all the information I had at the time dates etc
you said; :)  Cando ,there was no headstone ,does that mean there was never one ?
Im surprised as he was devoted to his wife and grieved badly for her as a man of means
and left a great deal of money to his daughters

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bates Family
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 00:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I have no idea if he was a drummer boy only family recollections they thought he may have been and he did leave from Australia in 1885 age 27  service number 17 with the colonial forces and left Australia in Feb 1885
his wife and he  are buried together in Rookwood anglican cemetery I have been given two different plot numbers the first one proved wrong and the second one seems to fit the bill but there is no headstone to verify it

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