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Australia / Re: Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Wednesday 08 February 12 20:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Essie
I think I have mixed up two Agnes's.  I can confirm that her Father, Walter, emigrated to South Africa where he was the Goverment Inspector of the Cape Railways.  Curiously his marriage gave an earlier link across my paternal and maternal sides.
Thanks Cando
John Farmer may still fit in here.  The other Agnes Westerman b 1863 Married Robert Elliott in 1883. He died in 1892 in W. Derby, Liverpool. 

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Australia / Re: Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Tuesday 07 February 12 19:34 GMT (UK)  »
Another piece of family information just gleaned was that Agnes and John first emigrated to Adelaide and had a daughter called Adele.  (Sounds feasable)  Could she be the one my mother kept contact with?

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Australia / Re: Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Friday 06 January 12 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
Just a thought - If Agnes went to Australia as the captain's wife, would she be on the passenger list or counted in with the crew?

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Australia / Re: Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Friday 06 January 12 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
I've been quizing an aged aunt (95) on the subject who tells me that my mother spent a lot of time as a child with her Grandmother Eliza, as I still feel it is a blood relation I am looking for.  Now Eliza had a sister Agnes Annie Westerman. I have her married to Robert Elliott - who curiously died in W. Derby (Liverpool) in 1892 after marrying Agnes in 1883.  The story of marrying a captain in Liverpool and emigrating to Australia still stands which had led me to the John Farmer connection.  Its all very confusing and I think it can only be resolved by obtaining the relevant birth and marriage certs.
Another point is that my mother was born in 1904 so it is likely that the emigration was much later than 1900.

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Australia / Re: Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Thursday 05 January 12 15:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Cando
I thought at first we were on the right lines as one of the family memories was that Agnes had married a sea captain in Liverpool.  However, if she had been born a Hutchinson she cannot be the Agnes Mary Westerman b. Nottingham that I thought.  I've always assumed she was a blood relative of my mother whose grandfather was a Westerman.  Finding the date of their emigration would be a great help I think, so I'll keep looking
R_Hood

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Australia / Agnes WESTERMAN- John FARMER
« on: Thursday 05 January 12 09:18 GMT (UK)  »
As a child during WW2 I remember we received occasional food parcels from Australia.  From family memories they appear to have come from a cousin of my mother Hilda CORDON.
Researching the family I believe it may have been Agnes WESTERMAN who married John FARMER in Liverpool in Dec 1896.   Again they may have emigrated around 1900.
If I remember correctly the parcels came from Rockhampton.
I would appreciate it if anyone can cast any further light on the subject or recognises a family connection.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: Railway records
« on: Monday 23 August 10 17:59 BST (UK)  »
Hello Matt
I've just seen one of your recent postings with which I have a couple of connections.
My 2nd G. Grandmother is identified as the crossing keeper at Burton Joyce in both the 1861 & 1871 Census records.  Her maiden name was Hannah Severn and she married William Gumbley in 1848.  He was recorded as a railway labourer.
The second possible connection is Ellen Shelton from Stoke Bardolph who married my G.G.Uncle Henry Cordon in 1862.  I believe Ellen was the daughter of John and Catherine.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: Air Raid Wardens Nottingham
« on: Wednesday 04 November 09 20:23 GMT (UK)  »
My father was an air raid warden before he was called up.  I recall that a small brick office was built locally with a telephone that presumably connected to the emergency services.  I went in with him a few times and recall the silhouettes of German aircraft on the walls which I came to recognize.  Wardens were issued with a stirrup pump (a small hand operated pump) which he used once as some incendiaries were dropped around us.  Wardens were responsible to ensure that everyone had effective blackout to their windows and to sound an alarm if there was a gas attack (with a hand bell ?).  They also distributed gas masks at the beginning of the war.  They were always out and about after the air raid siren went to assist at the site of any bombings.  I think they were also given some training in first aid.

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Cumberland / Re: Settle-Carlisle Railway
« on: Wednesday 19 August 09 19:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks AC
I've seen several books but they all seem to concentrate on the building structures or the engines.  I hope the Railway Museum can dig something out for me.  Thanks anyway   

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