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Australia / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Monday 10 August 15 03:47 BST (UK)  »
Yep-read those links. Quite the family history tumbling out of the closet!

My only real interest in Lesley Herbert Quigley is that he was an older brother of my grandmother (she told me about him a couple of years before she died-and gave me an envelope with the address of his daughter in the UK)-and that a few weeks ago I was able to meet one of his sons (my mum's cousin) and his (Lesley's)granddaughter. We had made contact via Ancestry.com about 18 months ago.

The meeting opened up even more questions about the family-most will probably never be answered! :)

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Australia / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Monday 10 August 15 02:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi all- the information about his being married in Australia came from his son. I haven't searched anything myself as I have only been home from the UK a week and was straight back to work.... :)

Edited to add that Elsie May had a son with George Quigley, who was named George ( so he is a legitimate Quigley and Lesley's elder brother)- I find it interesting that the NOK on the attestation papers is George "King"; possibly George Quigley signing but using "King" as well?

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Australia / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Sunday 09 August 15 02:54 BST (UK)  »
Apparently Leslie left a wife back in Australia when he enlisted as Frank King-maybe that has something to do with his alias? I don't know if there were children from this first marriage.

He was supposedly still married to his Australian wife when he married his first English wife-therefore committing bigamy (according to this wife, he was also engaged to a girl in South Africa at the time of marrying). There were 2 sons from that marriage (who ended up seeing very little of him)-which didn't last. He then married again and had more children- one of whom travelled to Australia with him when he made that trip.

An interesting side note is that his elder son from his second wife and a daughter from his final marriage were both named after their father.  :)

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Australia / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Saturday 01 August 15 09:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I'm also interested in any info about the above family.

Julie is my auntie I believe ( Hi Auntie Julie!  :) ) and Ethel was my grandmother. I believe that she may have had a brother William too.

I have just got back from a trip to England where I met one of Lesley Quigley's sons and his granddaughter.

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