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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Another PARKINSON, Gladstone SA, query
« on: Thursday 27 May 10 11:01 BST (UK) »
Hi Kris & Whitey
Well, Kris, your post just about bowled me over!
I knew Caroline Parkinson married Thomas William Payne, and then married a "W M Evans". Because I haven't looked for years, and had obtained the marriage reference from the "old" SA Marriage Index (when it was next to useless and you were lucky if it provided anything more than initials!), I did not know that WM stood for William Mildren!
I note from the Marriage Index that William Mildren EVANS' father is William Henry Mildren. William Henry was a brother of Jacob Lory (md Jane Parkinson) & Humphry (md Matilda Parkinson).
In 1991 I published a book on the MILDREN family and we knew that William Henry Mildren married Eliza Evans, a widow, who had a son William Evans born 29 July 1851. At that stage, we did not know Eliza Evans' maiden name. I have just checked the SA Birth Index and note WM Evans' birth is not registered under Evans or Mildren! Obviously from the marriage entry (and I will look at the marriage certificate when visiting the SAGHS library) he gives his father's name as WH Mildren. On the other hand, he may simply have given William Henry Mildren as his father because WH would have been the only "father" he had ever known.
Coincidentally, the first "known" child of William Henry Mildren & Eliza was Jacob Henry who married his first cousin, Elizabeth Parkinson Mildren (dau of Jacob Lory Mildren & Jane Parkinson).
Regards
Sandra
Well, Kris, your post just about bowled me over!
I knew Caroline Parkinson married Thomas William Payne, and then married a "W M Evans". Because I haven't looked for years, and had obtained the marriage reference from the "old" SA Marriage Index (when it was next to useless and you were lucky if it provided anything more than initials!), I did not know that WM stood for William Mildren!
I note from the Marriage Index that William Mildren EVANS' father is William Henry Mildren. William Henry was a brother of Jacob Lory (md Jane Parkinson) & Humphry (md Matilda Parkinson).
In 1991 I published a book on the MILDREN family and we knew that William Henry Mildren married Eliza Evans, a widow, who had a son William Evans born 29 July 1851. At that stage, we did not know Eliza Evans' maiden name. I have just checked the SA Birth Index and note WM Evans' birth is not registered under Evans or Mildren! Obviously from the marriage entry (and I will look at the marriage certificate when visiting the SAGHS library) he gives his father's name as WH Mildren. On the other hand, he may simply have given William Henry Mildren as his father because WH would have been the only "father" he had ever known.
Coincidentally, the first "known" child of William Henry Mildren & Eliza was Jacob Henry who married his first cousin, Elizabeth Parkinson Mildren (dau of Jacob Lory Mildren & Jane Parkinson).
Regards
Sandra