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The Common Room / Re: Help please - bereavement in my family research buddy
« on: Saturday 14 October 23 11:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your support and guidance.
I hadnt thought about checking through her messages - and she had made lots of contacts through her DNA also. I will pay for an additional month or two and work my way through transferring and saving all the important files.
Thanks for your ideas and help - I really appreciate it.
Kind regards

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The Common Room / Help please - bereavement in my family research buddy
« on: Thursday 12 October 23 11:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi Roots Chat Family

I'm wondering if anyone can give me advice please....
My Auntie was my Family Research Buddy and she passed away suddenly 3 days ago. To say I'm devastated is an understatement. We had been working together for many many years tracing our family history and all of sudden she is gone too.

We had been collating all our family findings and discoveries under her personal ancestry login.
I have followed the guidelines and exported all our family trees into GEDCOM files and then uploaded them to my own ancestry login account. Is there anything else I should do? could do? before her account membership fails to renew in 7 days time?

Brokenhearted,
Purple11

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Confusion about the Breadalbane ship ?? Help the beginner please :-)
« on: Sunday 07 November 21 08:40 GMT (UK)  »
Oh thanks for the papers past reference - I've found my ancestors!
(So glad they werent on the Breadalbane that sunk  :o)

And thanks for the reference to Waipu Museum - they are on my list ... if we ever get out of lockdown!

Thanks everyone  :) :) :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Confusion about the Breadalbane ship ?? Help the beginner please :-)
« on: Sunday 07 November 21 08:24 GMT (UK)  »
Awesome!
Thanks so much for your help Tony :-)
Thats the one they wouldve been on.
Cheers for clearing that up for me   :D ;) :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Confusion about the Breadalbane ship ?? Help the beginner please :-)
« on: Sunday 07 November 21 07:47 GMT (UK)  »
Help please!

Am I missing something or is this a really dumb question??

My ancestors travelled from Nova Scotia to NZ on the Breadalbane Ship in 1858.

But everytime I google the Breadalbane Ship - it says that it was crushed by ice and sank in 1853.

Hmmmmmmmmm ..... so it sunk 5 years before it brought families to NZ?
Hehe
Something is not right!
Any help appreciated :-)

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: What happened to Hannah Sophia Paviour? Born 1841 Middlesex.
« on: Friday 15 October 21 11:02 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for finding this connection!
 :)  :)  :)

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: What happened to Hannah Sophia Paviour? Born 1841 Middlesex.
« on: Wednesday 13 October 21 10:56 BST (UK)  »
Wow really!
Thanks for letting me know that  :)

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: What happened to Hannah Sophia Paviour? Born 1841 Middlesex.
« on: Wednesday 13 October 21 10:14 BST (UK)  »
@ Jorose THANK YOU!!

Thank you thank you for all your searching & findings!
I really really appreciate the time you have spent helping me.

Sadly - what an incredibly sad ending for Sophia Holmes :(
Makes me kinda hope that its not my ancestor but the fact that she named her baby the same middle name as Maria, her mothers name, might not be a coincidence.

Thanks for pointing out that it was a ‘coal merchant’ not ‘gal merchant’ which I was a tad concerned about, but coal merchant makes sense. Thanks also for clarifying that ‘to a situation’ means to a job.

I feel like I have a million questions for you …
How could it be possible that she went to Australia? She had been in and out of poor houses since the age of 9 and labelled destitute. Would you happen to have any idea about how/why she would/could have got passage to Australia? Do you reckon there would be shipping records maybe? Where would I look next?

I tried to use the Western Australian BDM site to look up Harriet but it keeps saying ‘no records found’ … am I doing something wrong? Any chance you know what happened to the baby? There was no mention of her in the article where Sophia faced her grisly ending  :( . Maybe I could look up census documents for Perth for further information?

Thank you so much (again!)
I have learnt so much  :)

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: What happened to Hannah Sophia Paviour? Born 1841 Middlesex.
« on: Wednesday 13 October 21 03:28 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much for your help everyone  :) :) :)
I can’t work out how to reply to each comment individually so here's all my answers in one place.

Last known record of Hannah:
Admitted to Parish St Martins in the Field 14th Jan 1858.

Descendant through:
In 1851, when Hannah would’ve been 10, her father (and his third wife) had a baby boy Alfred Charles Paviour. I am a descendant of this line. My records show that Hannah was in and out of workhouses by the age of 9, so she may never have met or known of her little brother?

Search for “Paviour”:
Thank you :-) I have tried searching rootschat but can’t seem to find any of the Paviours which I’m looking for like Henry Paviour, Frederick Paviour, Alfred C Paviour, Charles H Paviour, Alfred W Paviour, Clara Paviour, Louisa Paviour …. I couldn’t seem to get any of the other family names listed, to match, (yet!) I’m ever hopeful and will keep searching - thank you!

Admissions and Discharges (Records I have)
30 May 1850      Discharged Castle St Workhouse, Westminster to Norwood
30 May 1850      Admitted to Norwood
23 April 1856      Discharged from Castle St Workhouse, Westminster to
“Situation - Mr Doo’s/Soo’s Gal Merchant, Sydneyham” -Most concerning this particular discharge  :(
17 Oct 1856      Admitted to Castle St Workhouse, Westminster (aged 15)
17 Oct 1856      Discharged from Castle Street Workhouse to Norwood.
2 Mar 1857      Admitted to Castle Street Workhouse, from Norwood.
4 April 1857      Discharged from Castle Street Workhouse to “service”
14 Jan 1858      Admitted to Parish St Martins in the Fields Workhouse (age 17)

Thankyou Hillshurst for finding that 1851 census - thats a new find for me.  :)
(Thats also the year that her baby brother was born to her Dad and new wife)

Thank you everyone who has posted and helped so far  :)

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