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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Saturday 06 October 12 10:12 BST (UK)  »
Update on William Clark Atchinson. I was looking at the Argus newspaper and came across William Cowan Atchison living at Neild Street Melbourne in 1870 so it seems that I am back to the theory that William Clark Atchinson disappeared in Bendigo after the birth of his daughter Laura in 1863.

Mrs E.Atchinson listed in the 1870 Directory could still be his wife Elizabeth who returned to England shortly afterwards as she is on the 1871 census.

Sandra Whittaker

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 19 August 11 13:21 BST (UK)  »
I'm glad you found the Atchinson research of interest. My grandfather was George Keeble the brother of Lancelot and grandson of William Atchinson. George's son Richard was my father.

I knew about the locket inscribed for Marian from my mother. There is one puzzle as on the 1911 census Elizabeth Atchinson says she had 7 children, 3 of whom died. I can only account for 6. The children who survived - Frank(1855), Charles (56),Gilbert (62) and Laura(63) and the 2 who died as infants Marian (57) and Annie Louisa (59). I wondered if a child was born after Laura's birth and before Elizabeth and William separated in 1870.

I wonder if you have any family lore that might say what happened to William?
Best wishes Sandra

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 08:31 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone who has contributed information about William Clark Atchinson, born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1830

There is another William Atchinson, born in Boston in 1837, who emigated to New Zealand and the went to America and then went back to NZ where he died in 1923. I thought that this might have been our William, but the dates do not match. The NZ William married in England in 1859, when we know that our William was definitely in Melbourne.

Of course our William Atchinson might have gone to New Zealand or anywhere else after 1870.

Thanks from Sandra

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 14:45 BST (UK)  »
Mrs.E.Atchinson could be William's wife Elizabeth. Quite probably in fact.  Elizabeth's father died in England in 1870. Maybe they had already split up because Elizabeth wanted to go back to England.

Sandra.

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - where did you find the marriage ? Do you think the entry of William Atchinson in the 1870 Directory means he was living in the Red Lion Hotel?

Sandra.

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 13:39 BST (UK)  »
I'm really sorry we didn't put up more of the story to begin with. I think we also should have posted it at another time of day as we were asleep and missed the conversation until this morning. We only came across John Atchinson's will, a few days ago. The gold watch was left to his daughter Annie Louise who was only a year old when her father died. John's wife remarried in 1865 to William Norquay originally from Orkney. They had 4 children. I wonder if Annie Louise survived infancy.

William's sister Mary had several children and 3 of them who died in infancy are buried in Brighton cemetery. James Brown died in 1887 (we think) and Mary in 1904. I'm not sure if their sons John William and James Melbourne Brown carried on the business.

Are the directories of Melbourne available on-line? I thought they were on microfiche at Melbourne library. We live in Scotland so my research has all been on-line.Very grateful to LoganH who went to the library to check the Bendigo Advertiser.

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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 10:53 BST (UK)  »


That is great that William is in the directories of Melbourne in 1869 and 1870. The family lore said that he died in the goldfields of Bendigo. His mother died in Melbourne in 1869 and was buried in Brighton cemetery.

William's brother John was the first to set out to Australia in 1852. He set up a successful business in Brighton. His sister Mary and her husband James Brown came out in 1856 possibly and set up in partnership with John.

William and his family arrived in Melbourne in 1859 (Jan) and he set up a drapery store, but he quickly got into debt. There are several notices in the Argus about his insolvency but none after 1863.

I'm fairly sure he wasn't a master mariner and the william Atchinson who died in NZ is from another branch of the family.

Thanks again for the interest. I wish you had the census in Australia!








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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 09:50 BST (UK)  »
Dear Gerry,

We missed this the first time we read it. There was such an unexpectedly large response to our original post.
Can you check the date of this entry. This entry in the directory would be the last sighting of William, and back in Melbourne at a different address, rather than in Bendigo. This seems like a major breakthrough for us! This is definitely him as he was William Clark Atchinson.

Melbourne Directory 1869 (Sands)
CARLTON
NEILD sreet - South-side
Red Lion hotel, Buggey, Patrick Paterson,
Searle, Edward
Atchinson, William C.

Many thanks from Sandra


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Australia / Re: William ATCHINSON missing in Bendigo in 1863 onwards
« on: Friday 01 April 11 08:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone who replied. Thanks for consulting on-line records and records in archives.

There is no information there that we have not found. It took us years to find it! We'll write up the whole story and post it here.

Still hoping that William Atchinson may appear since the last sighting in Bendigo.

Many Thanks

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