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« on: Monday 11 June 12 09:09 BST (UK) »
Hello Ro,
Thank you for your reply.
This is a valid message - re John Scott. I have only recently received the information on the marriage of a John Scott - NSW BDM V185216985/1852 to my gt gt aunt Alice Anne MORRIS at Wesleyean Church, West Maitland, NSW. They then moved to Victoria and 3 children were born. Jessy 1853 b. Florz, Annie Elizabeth 1855, Castelmaine, and Walter Thomas 1856 Victoria. Jessy and Walter died in infancy. Then Alice left and went to America and is said to have married a man named Andrews. I have not been able to check the records at Ellis Island as yet so I can't confirm this.
The above information is from records dated 1891 in the Clarence River Historical Society, Grafton where Alice's father and brother settled as farmers and the marriage and births from BDMs.
While searching around for more on John I found a John Scott on the ship's indent for the EMPEROR, June 1851, the same ship as Alice and her brother Jesse emigrated on to NSW. You have also seen that it says Bottom End, Suffolk as the birthplace, which I think is Burton End. I have also looked at the census records and found the family in the 1841.
I do believe that this is the same John and am really interested in what I have found from your researches. Also I have not found a death for Annie Elizabeth Scott as yet so I wonder what happened to her.
It is a sad story but not unusual for those times.
Kind regards.
Reece
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