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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: St Pancras Workhouse Records - Strange Abbreviation!
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 16:56 GMT (UK)  »
I know this is a really old thread, but I have an "H Call" by someone I'm researching who left St Pancras in 1826. Looking over the other pages, it looks like it means "house call", and is variously written H C, H Call etc. I still don't know what that means though!

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Agnes Mary BURNS and Agnes Montgomery MCEWAN - are they the same person?
« on: Thursday 22 March 18 13:48 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, funnily enough Bazett was registered in England as Arthur rather than as Bazett! However, when he was christened two years later, his father renamed him after his (rich and successful) cousin, Bazett Doveton.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Agnes Mary BURNS and Agnes Montgomery MCEWAN - are they the same person?
« on: Thursday 22 March 18 08:50 GMT (UK)  »
How interesting! So:

24 June 1869 Bazett Watkins and Agnes McEwan marry at her mother's house in Auckland, NZ
By 26 October 1869, they had separated (according to the newspaper notice)
30 Mar 1870 their son, Percy Hervey, was born.

[I think the name Hervey probably comes from a relation of Bazett's. Bazett's older cousin, Mary Ann Delamotte, had married Charles Robert West Hervey. CRW Hervey was a colonel in the army by then. Bazett's family tended to use surnames of relatives. Perhaps they had had a brief reconciliation when the child was born, or Bazett had registered the child.]

16 October 1870 Agnes (who was still married to Bazett) married Edward Shattock, using the false name of Burns, to avoid being exposed as a bigamist.

They emigrated to Australia, changing the name of Percy Hervey to Edward Foster. They also altered their marriage date, so that Edward appeared to be their child.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Agnes Mary BURNS and Agnes Montgomery MCEWAN - are they the same person?
« on: Wednesday 11 January 12 13:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I just came across this thread. Hope the following helps...

Bazett Watkins was my g grandfather's brother. He jumped ship and ended up in NZ. He married Agnes McEwan, but they must have split up very soon after, as this notice appeared in the Daily Southern Cross:

NOTICE, I, BAZETT WATKINS, will NOT be RESPONSIBLE for and DEBTS my wife AGNES WATKINS, may CONTRACT from this date. – October 25, 1869
Source: Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3802, 26 October 1869, Page 1


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Oxfordshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1891 census look up
« on: Thursday 13 August 09 22:17 BST (UK)  »
I was Googling, when I came across your post.

Harvey Frank Potter was my mum's step grandad. He married her grandmother in 1908, when he was 37. Frank was a carpenter, and they were living in Pearl St, Roath.

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