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Australia / Re: Liverpool Asylum for the infirm and destitute, NSW
« on: Tuesday 08 December 20 12:51 GMT (UK)  »
Yes! Various branches of the family have always been told we are from Huguenots but I can't find that elusive link!! Our name is supposedly from Hennechart, but there are Hanchards back to the late 1600s, some recorded as Hansher or Hensher from Picardy in France. I am doing a one name study really, tho I haven't given it the name. I have researched the children of Samuel and William and their lines. There is also a Henry, another brother who was examined in Bethnal Green in 1867, aged 88 but he is proving particularly elusive!!

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Australia / Re: Liverpool Asylum for the infirm and destitute, NSW
« on: Monday 07 December 20 16:50 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for all your help everyone. Because Hensher is such an uncommon name and most with that spelling descend from 2 brothers in the 1700s in London and the south east of England, I tend to look for any instances of the name. Henry is one of the common forenames and I have a few gaps for various Henrys. Several in the family were adventurers and ended up in South Africa, US, Canada and Australia. My great grandfather William Edmond Hensher was a gold miner and died in Africa. I believe he had a mining company in Australia in the early 1880s. However most Victorian Henshers were clay tobacco makers And I think that Henry in the Liverpool Asylum may well have been a Hencher!

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Australia / Liverpool Asylum for the infirm and destitute, NSW
« on: Sunday 06 December 20 12:15 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know anything about this place? Henry Hensher, most probably one of my ancestors, was there in 1877. Looks like he arrived 1870 on the Flying Cloud (from England I would think) and was a gardener. Why would he be there, apart from the obvious as in the name, he was admitted by the manager. Might there be more records or info anywhere perhaps? Many thanks!

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South Africa / Re: Death notice 1884
« on: Saturday 07 December 19 13:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your information Gillian. Sadly I am in England so not able to visit and check info. Helen Beckett was married so probably would not have an estate of her own. Her husband James John Beckett died 1909 in Cape Town and apparently left a will. Would I be able to find his estate online do you think? Thanks Bev

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South Africa / Death notice 1884
« on: Saturday 07 December 19 10:15 GMT (UK)  »
My great-great grandmother Helen(Ellen) Edgcombe Beckett died in July 1884 and was buried at St Peters Observatory in Cape Town. Would there be a death notice for her? Family search records seem to start at a later date than this. Many thanks!

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Australia / Re: History of mining companies
« on: Thursday 05 December 19 20:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much for that information. My great grandfather Hensher certainly got about a bit!

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Assisted passage from England 1870s?
« on: Wednesday 04 December 19 14:48 GMT (UK)  »
Extra to above. He must have gone to New Zealand between 1871, when he was 18 and appeared in the UK census living with his mother and stepfather, and 1880 when he married in South Africa.

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Australia / History of mining companies
« on: Tuesday 03 December 19 15:41 GMT (UK)  »
Is there any chance of being able to find information on a mining company in the 1880s? In the Bendigo Advertiser in 1881 under an article about the Aurora Company is a mention of Hensher and co  re sinking a shaft deeper. The company may have been short-lived but I think it may well have been my great-grandfather William Edmond Hensher.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Assisted passage from England 1870s?
« on: Tuesday 03 December 19 15:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your very useful information. I think I have all the info from English sources about William Edmond Hensher but am now trying to trace his perambulations around the world! What he says about New Zealand to his son, my grandfather in his final letter in April 1903 (he died a month later) is …..'but my boy, your first experience on your first voyage was not a patch on mine when I went to New Zealand as an imigrant (sic) - half starved and like pigs'.
Re the Hensher and Co mining company mentioned in Victoria 1881 - it could well have been William Edmond as he was trading later as Hensher and Chadwick, the company being wound up in London in 1902. Even though he had married in South Africa in 1880. His in-laws, the Beckett family had been in Campbells creek inform 1864.

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