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Australia / Re: "Exiles" transported to Port Phillip 1845-1849
« on: Monday 01 August 11 09:08 BST (UK)  »
Message for Tony Cocks,

I am also researching Parkhurst exiles for a PhD project - in particular Thomas Chapman who arrive on the 'Maitland' in November 1846 - and some related matters.

Could you get in touch by email please - I have sent you a personal message with the email address.

Thanks

Doug Wilkie

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Oxfordshire / Re: II Baston Family ~ Oxford & Berks
« on: Monday 24 August 09 09:40 BST (UK)  »
I am descended from a brother of Henry Cosstick who married Sophia Edwell in 1844, however I have published, and am now revising for a new edition, a history of the Cosstick family.  Henry and Sophia are part of that broader picture.  Details of Sophia's early life and reasons for being in London during the 1840s are of interest.

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Oxfordshire / Re: II Baston Family ~ Oxford & Berks
« on: Monday 24 August 09 04:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: toni* on Wednesday 11 February 09 10:19 GMT (UK)
Sophia poss. married James Stockbridge
however i do not know if this is the case
again no marriages
and unlike Charlotte no Edwell's
on the census with Stockbridges

1861
 RG10;  1302; 49;  26;


Sophia Edwell married Henry Cosstick  at All Souls Church, St Marylebone, in London on 9 April 1844.  They had two children Henry 1846 and Ellen 1848.  The children apparently died and Sophia and Henry emigrated to Australia in 1853.  The story of the emigration is told here:- http://cosstick.blogspot.com/2007/05/3-emigrants.html

Henry became manager of a number of goldmines in Victoria.  The full story of Henry and Sophia's life in Australia can be found here:- http://cosstick.blogspot.com/2007/05/5-goldminers.html

Hopefully this helps with the Sophia Edwell mystery.  I am trying to find out more about what she was doing in London before 1853 so any details would be appreciated.

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