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  Hi, jan,

Thanks for the welcome and for the fascinating details which have been discovered in this scavenger hunt. I look forward to further additions to this thread. I am still trying to find out exactly when Julia and Rosina Whitehead left for Australia, which relatives they stayed with on arrival in Melbourne, and when did they sail to Fremantle?

Beth

  Hi. I am new at this, so apologies for any breach of protocol.
I have been researching my great grandmother's family and found part of your scavenger hunt about 2 years ago. Relating back to Joseph Millward Whitehead: his wife Rosina Sarah Whitehead died after the birth of their youngest son, Edgar Charles Whitehead early 1882. Joseph struggled to look after the family, and eventually had to put Paul and Alfred into a work house (industrial house). He died in the influenza epidemic in about 1882.
Joseph and Rosina's daughter, Julia Cullmer Whitehead (b.1870, Islington) emigrated with younger sister Rosina Mary Whitehead (b.1881, in Holborn) to Australia, on one of the "bride ships". Julia married Sea Captain ODell (b. County Cork, Ireland) before 1891. In 1891/92 Julia ODell was living in Fremantle, WA, presumably with husband Capt ODell. She sponsored younger brothers Paul & Alfred to emigrate to Australia as well. They went to live with an aunt in (Launceston?) Tasmania.
Rosina Mary Whitehead married Daniel Tapper in 1899 in Fremantle, WA. They became pioneer dairy farmers of the Bibra Lakes area, WA.
 Capt ODell died. Julia then married Alfred H. Barrett in Fremantle, in 1901. She died in 1936.