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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: BIGG family. Sheppey <1840s
« on: Thursday 24 April 08 18:01 BST (UK)  »
Lidia Wincles Claringbould born 1796 - dau of William Claringbould.  Married William Bigg of Eastchurch in 1816
Children
William 1817
Ann Elizabeth 1818
Edward 1819
Henry 1821
Sarah Anne 1822

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: BIGG family. Sheppey <1840s
« on: Thursday 24 April 08 15:46 BST (UK)  »
I think we had a Lidia\Lydia Wincles from that area who married a bigg??

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: BIGG family. Sheppey <1840s
« on: Wednesday 29 June 05 12:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Sue - seems a bit quiet at the moment - will have to try and liven things up!!

Thanks Again
Tess

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: BIGG family. Sheppey <1840s
« on: Sunday 12 June 05 08:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Prue
have replied to the msg you left on ancestry re same family - they are mine as well!!
Have got Bigg family back to 1710 on Sheppey - do get in touch
Teresa

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Please look at this Horse photo-is it a whaler?
« on: Thursday 17 February 05 06:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
thanks for your look up but i dont think shes mine - i think she would have married as Sarah Williams (widow)  She had no middle name to my knowledge - her father was George Newman and her mother Maria Newman (maiden name Stonard)  Sarah was born in Farnham Surrey 1862. 
Tess

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Please look at this Horse photo-is it a whaler?
« on: Wednesday 16 February 05 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - thank you! people are so kind on this board.  Sarh left the UK after the 1891 census but before the 1901.  I am fairly confident that she didnt marry until arriving in ??  She was married in UK in 1881 to a Fitzherbert Williams.  They had a daughter in October 1889.  He died in February 1890.  She is living with her mother 1891 census.  The family legend is that she went to New Zealand but they werent known for their accuracy so am starting from scratch.  Several people have looked at photo and suggested that the horse looked like a whaler (Australian stocksmans horse) and that the saddle looks like a stock saddle because of the bit in front of the knee??  Im guessing that the horses and style of riding would have been similar in NZ and Australia?? but could be wrong of course.  On the back of the photo/postcard it has `postcard` in hungarian and portuguese as well as english, german, french and spanish so i though that might be a clue - an area with a large immigrant hungarian population perhaps??
Thanks for any help/input
Tess

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Depressed - brickwall in NZ - any help pls!!
« on: Monday 14 February 05 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there
I am waiting for the cert. as we speak - i have seen it once in the past when my 2nd cousin was on the case but she has since died and they have gotten rid of all the genealogy records she kept :o  Hopefully they will arrive in next couple of days.   As far as I remember, the witnesses were people called `Browne`   They were married in Oakley Square London.
I intend to follow up the witnesses as it might give an extra clue?  At the moment i`m trying to imagine what it was like for Sarah having had a taste of a `better` life with Fitzherbert then having to go back to her Mothers to a tiny agricultural village just outside Farnham Surrey - if i`d had the chance i would have gone too!!
Thanks in the meantime for all your help -
Tess

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Depressed - brickwall in NZ - any help pls!!
« on: Monday 14 February 05 07:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Genni
I have in the last few days managed to find them in the 1871 Census Fitzherbert very helpfully was listed as John Fitzherbert Williams so it took me a while - I am not sure about that line of research, according to legend his family were not best pleased that he had a child with Sarah - I guess it was a bit of a scandal for a very working class girl to be having a child with a Proffessor/Schoolmaster/Literary Gentleman as he has variously been referred to!!  Williams is also a very common name - I have had a look for some of the children mentioned in the 1871 census to see if they married but have only found the eldest son and they appear to have been living apart?  The rest of the siblings were boarders together at one address after their Mother died.  I would have imagined that there would have been little or no contact between Sarah and Fitzherberts family after he had died in 1890 if there was any at all.
Tess

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Depressed - brickwall in NZ - any help pls!!
« on: Monday 14 February 05 06:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Thanks for your input - it really feels like I am making some progress at last thanks to help i am getting.  I have posted the photo on an english site that has an interest in horses - they have fed back that the horse looks like a `whaler` and that the saddle might be of the australian stockmans type so have posted on the general board as well.  Millicent (Sarah`s daughter by Fitzherbert) was left in England to be brought up by Sarah`s Mother. She believed her parents were never married for some reason - who knows what she was told? She was very young when Sarah left and didnt really remember her according to verbal history.  To be truthful she was not the brightest button in the box - so i am having to assume she may have been incorrect in some of the stories she passed down - ie New Zealand was where she said Sarah went, but this could have well been New South Wales, or anywhere really.   I am unaware of any other clues Sarah left apart from the postcard so its all i have to go on.
Tess

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