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No worries Fwiw - the connection to Vickery is associated with a Sarah Jane (aka Ginny or Jenny) Duffell (b 1862, d 1953), who was recorded as being a Captain in the Salvation army, and who "had some other relatives in Sydney called Vickery". Sarah's mother was Isabella Smith (bc1840)

I think you might be looking in South Australia for her descendants 

Birth in QLD:
Caroline BAMFORD b. 02/11/1876 #C471
Parents: Thomas BAMFORD & Mary Ann BIRCH

I am looking for info on a John Bamford whose parents are given as Thomas and Mary Ann Birch in a marriage in 1883 (Ida Palmer, Qld). He married a Mary Elizabeth Boyd and I am trying to link her to a Elizabeth Mary Boyd who remarried in 1898 (as Bamford) in Melbourne, Victoria.

John was one of the people murdered in the Wonnangatta murders in 1918. The fate of his wife Mary is unknown, suspected murdered well before, but I think she ran off and married someone else in Melbourne.

If the relative of Caroline might have some inforamation that would help me make or break my link, I'd love to see it

Damien

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/6076867?searchTerm=Bartlett+HEctor

Elsie  now  that a lot of newspaper have been digitalized you  can see a report of  his suicide.

You will also find other reference to hector Bartlett one as an insolvent in 1862  and another in 1861  where he has slipped and hurt himself.

Jenn

I've corrected the text so its a bit easier to read:
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.)
Tuesday 28 April 1885

INQUEST.
SUICIDE.

Mr. Candler, the district coroner, held an inquest at Collingwood on Saturday on the body of Hector Bartlett, a plasterer, aged 63 years, who had been drinking heavily lately. When his wife retired at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday night, he was asleep on a sofa, but on the following morning about 7 o'clock when she went to an outhouse, she found him hanging by the neck from a rafter. She called a neighbour, who cut him down, but life was then extinct. The jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary in- sanity.

Hi everyone

My 3 x gt grandfather - Richard Landy - was a merchant seaman in London.

After finding his seaman's records - I mananged to find his date and place of birth as 8-3-1810 - Liverpool.

Lucky you - I hear you shout - however, not the case.  As I live in Essex, I paid for the records office to try and trace him (thinking uncommon name and got his birth date so should be pretty easy!) - very wrong of me!!

The only Richard Landy who was baptised is the one on the IGI in 1819 making him 9 when he was baptised.  This could well be him, but as the surname is of Irish descent - I am wondering if he was catholic or could be nonconformist.

If anyone has these records or would do a look up for me - I really would appreciate it.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas

Sarah

Hi Sarah,
I am helping a friend of mine hunt up her relatives, and I suspect your Richard might be at the end of the chain for me too I am tracing from Janette Landy (m Arthur Nelson 1897) whose father is Robert Landy according to the 1881 census and about 34yo.

However, the only Robert Landy that I have been able to find in the years around 1847 is Robert Henry Deuch Landy in 1844. In the census his birthplace is given as Blackwall, and the freebmd record says Stepney, so I am leaning strongly toward this being the right fellow. And in an LDS record, Robert's parents are listed as Richard and Sophia Ester.

Does this sound like a possibility? Common family names and crowded areas of London are making the process a labourious one, so any links I can find to existing research is astoundingly helpful

Damien

Hello Damien
I hope this gets to you.
It is ages since I have done any family line and it's taken me a while to get back on 'rootschat'.
Where are you and the 'friend' based?
I am more than happy to talk about the WHITE line - but - not over the internet - I feel I have been taken advantage of to many times - giving out my researches and getting nothing back - to me it is a shared experience

I'm afraid I don't have too much to give back - its a relatively new atempt to trace stuff out but I'll check with my friend to see if she is ok with sharing (I would guess so).

We're in Melbourne - I would be happy to email you privately, but I'm afraid I've only used rootschat a little so I don't have access to the PM function...

Damien