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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Wednesday 01 February 17 05:20 GMT (UK)  »
I will private message you if I can work out how to do it. I am not sure what my mother meant. I just assumed she meant a Protestant Irishman.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Tuesday 31 January 17 20:15 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry. I meant to put Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland, near Omagh. I have John's death certificate and it also gives the same information. John Pollock and Ellen Burchill were my great grandparents. My mother also said her grandfather was known as a north of Ireland Scotsman but I can't find very much about him either.  Kipperharris.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Tuesday 24 January 17 05:48 GMT (UK)  »
I seem to have found some evidence that my great grandmother, Ellen Burchill, may have been a bigamist.  I will do further research but think she may have been born Ellen Probert, married a Burchill in England, then left for Australia under the name Burchill and married my great grandfather in Queensland. kipperharris.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Sunday 22 January 17 05:13 GMT (UK)  »
John Pollock and Ellen Burchill had 2 children, Herbert George and Margaret Elizabeth (my grandmother).  My grandmother was named after both her grandmothers, Margaret Lamb and Elizabeth Adams, so I am guessing they were traditional families.  There is another birth listed with the name of Herbert George but I am not sure if he is the same family. kipperharris.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Saturday 21 January 17 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
I will check further with the Christian name Helen.  Ellen married my great grandfather John Pollock in Queensland in 1884 and gives her parents names as John Pollock, Sailor and Elizabeth Adams.  I have found her husband's death in Queensland but so far have not found a death for her or a remarriage.  Her husband left her with two young children when he died 9 years after their marriage.  He was buried at the station near Gladstone where he had been working.  I am fairly sure Ellen would have remarried as she had no access to a widow's pension in those days.  Kipperharris.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Saturday 21 January 17 21:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much for all the replies.  I have so many new ideas thanks to the generosity of those who gave their time to assist.  I had no idea of the other avenues to search.  I will be at work today.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Ellen Burchell b 1855 Bristol Gloucestershire
« on: Friday 20 January 17 05:36 GMT (UK)  »
I am also trying to find details of Ellen Burchill, who married my great grandfather, John Pollock.  While I can find where she arrived in Australia, I think John must have swum.  His parents were William Pollock and Margaret Lamb and he was born in Omagh, Antrim Northern Ireland round 1840.  I can find no birth details or marriage details of his parents.  Ellen and John are proving very frustrating.

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