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US Lookup Requests / Re: Missing from Australia - Stephen Feening
« on: Monday 03 December 18 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
That list and information sound really interesting all the same, even if he isn't on there. You find some great stuff!! Thanks for checking through it all in search of him. He's a tough cookie this one. The 100+ years in between isn't helping, haha.

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Missing from Australia - Stephen Feening
« on: Monday 03 December 18 10:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JM,

Unfortunately the short answer is no. I keep reaching dead ends. Ros was ever so kind as to send me probates / wills from his family members. I was hoping there might be a mention of him somewhere in their final words...but no. I can't locate any death certificates under his real name and someone else searched the USA census around that time but couldn't locate him. Of course I think he changed his name, but to what? Someone else found a Stephen Feening on an Australian, NSW census around 1913 so I think he may have been in NSW for a few years after leaving Selina on their wedding night then his parents obituaries mention a Stephen, son in the USA from 1919 so I'm guessing he made his way there but not under his own name as he was a wanted man in the state for desertion. Oh, the mystery...

Selina

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 08:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sue,

Would you mind sending me a pic/link of the electoral roll for Stephen and William? I looked online but can't for the life of me find them (I am new at all this however so it could be right in front of me)...

I agree, I feel his family knew where he was all along or at least shortly after he disappeared.

I wonder if Selina herself ever found out? It appears she knew nothing when she filed for divorce years later but maybe in the years following that??

Sel

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 07:35 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for all the help everyone and the interest in this missing Stephen. I never would have gotten this far without everyone's thoughts and detective work!!! :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 07:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: majm on Sunday 03 June 18 07:27 BST (UK)
Very short walk from Roseville to Willoughby ...  especially as there's mention of several siblings at Willoughby.

JM

JM - very very good point!!!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 07:22 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: sparrett on Sunday 03 June 18 02:54 BST (UK)
The Electoral Roll for NSW in 1913 shows
FEENING, Stephen.
Dudley Street Roseville. Carter.

Sue


Wow!! Great work Sue!! :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 07:21 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: majm on Sunday 03 June 18 01:56 BST (UK)

A Question : when did the suggestion he was in America first get raised ...  


JM

Hi JM,

The American hint we have is his mother's obituary. I'll post a pic. Not rock solid, I know, but it was something when we had nothing...

Sel

Adding: This was in July 1919

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Saturday 02 June 18 05:35 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: rosball on Saturday 02 June 18 05:32 BST (UK)

Selina, I did check for a probate for May Martha RIORDAN in case she kept in contact with Stephen
(and was responsible for divying up the probate from the father).   But none there.

Ros

Good thinking Ros! Bugger there wasn't one there but thank you for checking!! :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'The missing' Stephen Feening
« on: Saturday 02 June 18 05:25 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: sparrett on Saturday 02 June 18 05:15 BST (UK)
Mmmm..
Well, forgive me for being pedantic about irrelevant aspects of this  converstation, but if you're getting married on a day, don't you usually have arrangements for shared lodgings that night?
He obviously had an income ,as a greengrocer so it's not that and if he planned marriage with a "lead-in time" which there must have been, he should have been thinking ahead about the marital abode ::) :P

Her going home to gran seems very odd to me and I am beginning to wonder about Selina's side of the story.

Sue

I too thought it rather odd to be heading separate ways on their wedding night...? In their divorce court papers it was noted that Stephen placed Selina in a coach and sent her home to her grandparents as he had an early start to Sydney the next morning. I'll see if I can get the exact wording copied here. Not sure if it's relevant but it also came out a day or two after the wedding that Stephen hadn't paid the coach driver.

Sel

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