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Australia / Re: Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Friday 10 January 14 09:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Gerry/Gmar,

Can I just say how grateful I am for all your help.

As I have said to Gerry, I feel relieved/happy that my great uncle Rutherford - whose start in life was so unpromising - grew up to make a home and family for himself and lived to such a ripe old age.

I only hope the cemetery at Sarina is not so huge that it will take a long time to find any graves!

Grateful thanks,

David

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Australia / Re: Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Thursday 09 January 14 11:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

That would be absolutely fantastic... no rush and I'm very grateful. I'll send a PM with my email addresses...

Thanks,

David.

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Australia / Re: Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Thursday 09 January 14 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again Gerry.

Once again, I am very grateful for your prompt and very informative responses and help. This really is very good of you, and helps me a lot. I really hope that this work is not taking up a lot of your time or causing you expense.

I'll send a PM with my email as soon as possible.

David.

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Australia / Re: Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Wednesday 08 January 14 23:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Gerry,

... and thank you so much for your response and information. The information is very welcome. I'm starting to get a picture of Rutherford Palmer starting out in Australia and settling in Sarina... where he would spend the rest of his life.

I'm very impressed by and grateful for the prompt and informative responses so far.

David.

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Australia / Re: Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Wednesday 08 January 14 16:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much for the prompt response, and especially for the link to the Queensland documents.

I have been looking for information on Rutherford Palmer and his family after the 1911 census for a long time... not helped by the fact I completely missed his emigration record!

I'm very grateful.

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Australia / Rutherford Palmer, Sarina, Queensland
« on: Wednesday 08 January 14 13:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm interested in any information on Rutherford Palmer (b. Nov 8 1899 - 1 Teviot Row, Hawick, Scotland... d. about Dec 12 1989 - Sarina, Queensland, Australia).

He was the son of my great grandfather Thomas Palmer (b. Aug 23 1841 - Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland... d. Oct 27 1903 - 2 Catherine Place, Edinburgh) by his second marriage to Mary Jane Rutherford.

Rutherford Palmer's mother died on Nov 24 1899 - 16 days after Rutherford's birth. His father (my great grandfather) died in 1903, so young Rutherford was an orphan before he was 4 years old.

He was brought up by his Aunt (Jemima Young, nee Rutherford) and her husband Robert Augustus Young at 1 Teviot Row in Hawick, Scotland.

Rutherford Palmer served in the Royal Navy between 1917 and 1919.

In 1922 he emigrated to Australia, sailing from the Port of London to Melbourne on the SS Ormonde.

He was a pastry cook and settled in Sarina, Queensland. He married Ethel Mary Wright (b. Dec 2 1893 - Townsville, Queensland... d. Jun 22 1979 - Sarina, Queensland) in 1927

I have electoral roll transcripts from Queensland for 1934, 1939, and 1949 showing that Rutherford continued to work as a pastry cook and lived at Plane Creek Mill in Sarina.

He died around Dec 12 1989 and I believe that he is buried in Sarina Cemetery with his wife Ethel.

I'd love any information which can be provided about his life in Australia - did he and Ethel have any children? Does anyone know or remember him or Ethel?

I have a lot of information about Rutherford's Scottish ancestry which I would be only too willing to share.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: alex kirkpatrick
« on: Friday 26 November 10 08:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Susano, and thank you so much for your reply. I am very new to Rootschat and have only used it a couple of times. You have opened up a huge new avenue for me. I never thought of using the LDS family search site for "modern" records.

I would be very grateful and delighted to receive a transcription of the death certificate, and there is no rush at all. Thank you. Elizabeth was not the only Fingland to emigrate - one of her aunts went to New South Wales, Australia in 1853.

I knew Elizabeth Fingland's sister (my grandmother) Kate Fingland well - she died when I was 14. I also know the area where Kate was born and grew up. I have a lot of documentation, photographs, and family anecdotes which I would be more than happy to pass on, if I knew how and to whom.

I have already discovered distant cousins in Montreal and Florida, USA. This, for me, is one of the most exciting aspects of family history research - to meet like minded people, and even living relatives. Thank you again for your reply.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: alex kirkpatrick
« on: Thursday 25 November 10 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Guys, I don't know if this thread is still going but Elizabeth Gray (born Elizabeth Catherine Hardie Fingland at Milngate, Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire on Feb 12th 1880) was my great aunt. Her younger sister Catherine Graham Fingland (1892 - 1974) was my paternal grandmother.

Elizabeth had a chld in 1904 - John Fingland Kirkpatrick. She married John's father Alexander Kirkpatrick on May 26th 1905. Alexander Kirkpatrick died in 1908 and on Dec 24th 1912 Elizabeth married Andrew Gray at The Manse, Maryhill, Glasgow.

I believe that John Fingland Kirkpatrick was brought up by his grandparents in Perthshire. He went on to marry Christina Isabella Sutherland MacGregor in 1930 and died in Kingussie, Scotland in 1983.

I have various birth, marriage and death certificates if anyone is interested. Elizabeth and Andrew Gray's marriage certificate attached, also Elizabeth Fingland's birth certificate.

Thanks for the information about the emigration - explains why I can't find any records of their deaths in Scotland!

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Down / Re: John, Jane, and William Savage
« on: Wednesday 04 August 10 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi and thank you very much for taking the time to reply.

I followed the links you suggested and they have confirmed that there was indeed a separate family called Service from near Ayr, some members of whom moved to Wigtownshire. I have come across these before and have been led up a few false trails.

I must thank you for the mention of the PRONI Wills site, which I will certainly make use of for researching the Northern Irish connections of this and other family members.

I have a kind of a clue as to the name change. The 1861 census lists the family as "Sarvice".  I only recently (last few days) found the entry on Scotlandspeople.Since all the members at that time were illiterate, I am beginning to think that this was simply caused by the fact that the census enumerator misheard the name and nobody in the family could confirm the spelling. After that, it may have been easier simply to go with Service.

Once again, many thanks for our reply.

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