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Shropshire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Thomas Owen
« on: Friday 28 August 09 13:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi, Yes I am Don's second daughter (of three)(Heather, Julie and Tracey). I don't have any contact with Ted's three girls (Susan, Linda and Donna). Dad  would like to get in touch. Rheumatoid arthritis and some heart and lung problems have seen him close to house bound lately. This has given him plenty of time to do research. He would like to get  Alfred's and William Snr's death certificates. For so long Pop (Wal) would not talk about family history. Too many painful memories. My daughter's upcoming trip visiting WWI sites has re-ignited the seach for our past. I only wish I could be with her at Helles, Gallipoli to remember Percy Owen. I hope the group gets plenty of photos.  Julie

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Shropshire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Thomas Owen
« on: Tuesday 25 August 09 14:28 BST (UK)  »
Still working out how to use this!!!! Renae; I don't know much about Alfred. Dad knows he was married twice, but never knew his second wife or even her name. They lost touch with him before the second marriage.
Alfred would have had a tough upbringing; sometime before 1914 Florence, his Mother, packed up and moved to Sydney leaving William to raise his younger children as a single father. She accused William of being an alcoholic but he managed to care for his family without her.
His brothers Thomas and Percy were both killed during WWI. My daughter is going on a school trip to study WWI history and this has sparked some further family research. It's a long way from Ballarat to France and Turkey so we want to make the most of her time away.
The family lived for quite some time from the 1920's at 102 Barkley Street Brunswick. Florence Jnr. lived in this house until the eighties when she moved to Mount Royal Lodge. As she and Gerald Sommers had no children, my father, her nephew took care of her. The Barkley Street home was only sold during the nineties. The front portion still stands.
I see mention of the "Hampshire". I can not remember the full story and will have to verify it with Dad, but I believe a child was born at sea and has the names of the ship's and the ship surgeon in his name.

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Shropshire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Thomas Owen
« on: Thursday 13 August 09 12:20 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Renae on Sunday 07 June 09 23:20 BST (UK)
Hi all,
Thanks once again for all the info. I'm getting confused now though!

There is a Thomas Owen in the 1881 census listed as 61. That would mean he was born in 1820. I don't have any Thomas' born at that time. Do you know where he fits in?
The only other Thomas' I have are
thomas Owen b.1833, Worcester
Thomas Hudson Owen b.1889 Victoria, australia

Here is some more info I have. I got alot of it from this site from my other tread titled "Florence louisa Reynolds"
My direct line came from William Owen b.1839 Bridgnorth son of Thomas Owen and Elizabeth Beard
He married Sarah Hudson b. Cardington, Salop.
They came to Australia on The "Hampshire" in 1872
One of there sons was William ernest Owen b.1868 Quatford
He married Florence Louisa Reynolds in 1888
One of there sons was Alfred John Owen b. 1910 in Victoria Australia. This is my grandfather.

I hope I ave got the right line as all we knew at the start was my great grandfather was William Ernest Owen b.1868, quatford and we had his mother or grandmas name as Sarah Hudson

Thanks agian
renae


I have just stumbled across this site and found it bizzar to see others talking about my family history. My Grandfather is Walter Sydney Owen, brother of Alfred John Owen. There were ten children born to William and Florence. Jim, born 1888 out of wedlock, raised as Flo's brother not son;  Minnie 16/6/1889-25/1/1956; William Earnest 28/8/1891; Percy Thomas 11/11/1893-8/5/1915 at Helles Gallipoli; Thomas Hudson 29/1/1896-3/5/1917 Bullecourt; Lucy Elizabeth 25/5/1900-9/10/1900; Walter Sydney 28/9/1901-18/10/1990;Leslie George 1904-1975; Florence Dorothy 2/2/1907-20/2/1991; Alfred John 1910-1979.

My main interest at the moment is the possible marriage of Tommy to "Nellie" of 71 Cumberland St. Victoria SW London. Her name apears in Tommy's service records but my Grandfather knew nothing of it. Tommy may have married while on leave between Gallipoli and France.

Here's hoping to find out what happened.
Julie

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