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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Help needed finding information on UNDERWOOD family
« on: Wednesday 30 November 22 13:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,
To highlight a portion of the underdowns from WA
My name is Kelly, my grandfather is Donald Richard Henry Underdown (Haddow) and his adopted father (uncle) is Henry Charles Emanuel Underdown (b) 1905 in Mahogany Creek. Henry was married to Rose Caroline Rigby (my grandfathers maternal aunt) (b) Prahan Victoria. They married on June the 28th 1930 when Henry was 25 and Rose was 36. Rose could not have children of her own and her sister Mary Haddow tragically passed away from sepsis when her son (my grandfather) was under a year old. Rose and Henry adopted my grandfather and he regarded Henry as his father. His biological father remarried but that is another story in itself.
Henry Charles Emanuel Underdown was the son of Henry Emanuel Underdown and Alice Ada Byfield. Henry Emanuel Underdown was born sometime around 1875 in Victoria (Vic birth index 5819) and is the son of Robert Underdown and Elizabeth McBroom.
My understanding is that there is a large group of Underdowns (several siblings and cousins having migrated out in way or another to Australia) originating from Devon (northleigh, southleigh and mary). There are a lot of naming after predecessors which makes it rather hard to follow at times).
I am only just beginning to compile a little book for my grandfather on the Underdown family and their origins in Devon. Despite being born Donald Richard Haddow, my grandfather has always been known as an Underdown and had very little knowledge of the Haddow side beyond what he has said so far. He is very interested in knowing more about the underdowns and where they come from. He had thought the origins of the family were rooted in Kent (not unsurprising given such a large portion of Underdowns were from Kent as well). It will be fun for me to surprise him with all of the interesting tales and the fact that they were from Devon.
I've attached a photo of Henry (we refer to him as old paddy) and my grandfather Don (mind the bell bottom pants). when I asked him to describe paddy, Don said he was a giant of a man, he was extremely fit (as he would have to have been, he owned and worked a saw mill in mundaring). he was a hard man and worked even harder. My grandfather grew up going to work in the bush when he was a child and spent many years working right beside Henry lopping trees until he began his own apprenticeship as a blacksmith at the midland railway workshops.
Paddy's father Henry Emanuel Underdown passed away in 1936 due to an accident at the saw mill in Mundaring and this happened with paddy on site with several other workers. from an investigation it was assumed that Henry had made an error in moving to shovel sawdust whilst the machinery belt was in motion, and he was struck on the head before collapsing into a sawdust pit. he was conveyed to hospital to undergo surgery, but he never regained consciousness. Alice Ada continued to live in Mundaring following Henry's passing and my grandfather always tells us some humorous stories about her and life in the hills.
(sorry to ramble on but thought you might like a little more information on where the hell Henry went.)
I am on ancestry.com, Geneanet and a host of other little sites gathering information. I have spent alot of time searching WA sites and digging through Trove but have only just touched the surface on other states in regards to family research. it's hard keeping to one line at a time, there is so much to explore!
To highlight a portion of the underdowns from WA
My name is Kelly, my grandfather is Donald Richard Henry Underdown (Haddow) and his adopted father (uncle) is Henry Charles Emanuel Underdown (b) 1905 in Mahogany Creek. Henry was married to Rose Caroline Rigby (my grandfathers maternal aunt) (b) Prahan Victoria. They married on June the 28th 1930 when Henry was 25 and Rose was 36. Rose could not have children of her own and her sister Mary Haddow tragically passed away from sepsis when her son (my grandfather) was under a year old. Rose and Henry adopted my grandfather and he regarded Henry as his father. His biological father remarried but that is another story in itself.
Henry Charles Emanuel Underdown was the son of Henry Emanuel Underdown and Alice Ada Byfield. Henry Emanuel Underdown was born sometime around 1875 in Victoria (Vic birth index 5819) and is the son of Robert Underdown and Elizabeth McBroom.
My understanding is that there is a large group of Underdowns (several siblings and cousins having migrated out in way or another to Australia) originating from Devon (northleigh, southleigh and mary). There are a lot of naming after predecessors which makes it rather hard to follow at times).
I am only just beginning to compile a little book for my grandfather on the Underdown family and their origins in Devon. Despite being born Donald Richard Haddow, my grandfather has always been known as an Underdown and had very little knowledge of the Haddow side beyond what he has said so far. He is very interested in knowing more about the underdowns and where they come from. He had thought the origins of the family were rooted in Kent (not unsurprising given such a large portion of Underdowns were from Kent as well). It will be fun for me to surprise him with all of the interesting tales and the fact that they were from Devon.
I've attached a photo of Henry (we refer to him as old paddy) and my grandfather Don (mind the bell bottom pants). when I asked him to describe paddy, Don said he was a giant of a man, he was extremely fit (as he would have to have been, he owned and worked a saw mill in mundaring). he was a hard man and worked even harder. My grandfather grew up going to work in the bush when he was a child and spent many years working right beside Henry lopping trees until he began his own apprenticeship as a blacksmith at the midland railway workshops.
Paddy's father Henry Emanuel Underdown passed away in 1936 due to an accident at the saw mill in Mundaring and this happened with paddy on site with several other workers. from an investigation it was assumed that Henry had made an error in moving to shovel sawdust whilst the machinery belt was in motion, and he was struck on the head before collapsing into a sawdust pit. he was conveyed to hospital to undergo surgery, but he never regained consciousness. Alice Ada continued to live in Mundaring following Henry's passing and my grandfather always tells us some humorous stories about her and life in the hills.
(sorry to ramble on but thought you might like a little more information on where the hell Henry went.)
I am on ancestry.com, Geneanet and a host of other little sites gathering information. I have spent alot of time searching WA sites and digging through Trove but have only just touched the surface on other states in regards to family research. it's hard keeping to one line at a time, there is so much to explore!