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South Africa / Re: James Phillip MCKEOWN in South Africa from c.1890
« on: Monday 23 November 15 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that post, Nookie
You are saying all these people are McKeowns? Don't know who the last 3 are.
Co-incidentally, I just received today the death certificate for James Philip McKeown and it confirms that he died in 1925, and his wife was Margaret Josephine Chappell.
I will try and attach it here

Graham

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South Africa / Re: James Phillip MCKEOWN in South Africa from c.1890
« on: Thursday 05 November 15 12:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I now also believe he was married to Margaret Josephine Chappell, and there is a document dated 1925 that I have just ordered, possibly his death certificate?

Graham

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South Africa / Re: James Phillip MCKEOWN in South Africa from c.1890
« on: Thursday 05 November 15 12:20 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Further to this post yesterday, I have just found that James Philip McKeown of the Geldenhuis Main Reef Gold Mining Co. near Johannesburg, was the inventor of, and patented, a gold mining tappet setter in 1899. Here is the link

http://www.google.com/patents/US638642

Presumably this is the same person? I had believed he was involved in the mining industry, as the address in Rhodesia in the previous post is a mining village.

Graham

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South Africa / James Phillip MCKEOWN in South Africa from c.1890
« on: Wednesday 04 November 15 16:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everybody

I have a new McKeown who, I have just discovered, went to South Africa.

James Phillip McKeown was born, like most of my other McKeowns, in Jersey, Channel Islands of Britain, in his case, in 1860. He is on the 1871 and 1881 censuses there, but after that, nothing was known of him.

Now there has appeared on Ancestry, in the war records, Eugene Gavey McKeown, who was b.1894 in Johannesburg, and is buried in Mawnan, Cornwall, England (d.1917). Since Gavey was James' mother's maiden name, I quickly assumed for the moment that he was James' son.

Furthermore the father is given on the death record for Eugene, as James P McKeown of Penhalonga, via Umtali (today Mutare) Rhodesia. It appears that Eugene was an engine room fitter on HMS Foyle, which hit a German mine outside Plymouth. He came to London from Cape Town in 1915 on the Llandovery Castle and lasted barely 2 years.

There is another record for Mr J P McKeown, manager age 58, Mrs M J (possibly) McKeown, age 52 and daughter Miss P McKeown, age 17, who travelled from South Africa to London in 1920 on the Grantully Castle; this may well be him and his family.

However, I couldn't quickly find any other records of McKeowns in Mawnan Cornwall, or anything decisive for any of them in the UK. Can anyone in South Africa find any more information on this family?

I was really impressed last time I posted here, about John Thomas McKeown,  by the knowledge and helpfulness of other posters, and I hope that someone will be able to help this time

Thanks, Graham

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Australia / Re: (*) Brown
« on: Saturday 14 February 15 06:54 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for taking the trouble to look. Yes it's possible that she married again, but there are too many Browns to look at them all at £9.25 a time. We have looked at all the obvious marriages from the Surrey SE / Croydon area, and none of them is her. My friend was adopted at birth, so there are no later details in the adoption papers.

Graham

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Australia / Re: (*) Brown
« on: Friday 13 February 15 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
I'm certainly hoping that all of the persons are still alive, but wasn't aware of the rules of Rootschat.

So presumably you will remove this post.

Any ideas about how I might search for these people in Australia, while being myself in the UK?

Thanks, Graham

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Australia / (*) Brown
« on: Friday 13 February 15 12:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I'm helping my friend who is trying to find her birth mother in the UK, (*)Brown, b.1938, or either of her half-sisters, (*)Brown, b.1959, and (*)Brown, b.1962, all in the area of Croydon, S. London. They can be followed till 1967, but are gone from the area by 1969. They are proving impossible to find in the UK, but having noticed some records of those names in the Australian electoral rolls for 1977 and 1980, esp the area of Corangamite, Victoria, where two of those names might be living close together, I just wondered if they might have emigrated. I have no particular reason for thinking that, just checking all the options.

Anyone in Australia able to follow any of this up for me, hopefully more recent details that I can't access easily from the UK? Thanks in anticipation, Graham

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South Africa / Re: John Thomas MCKEOWN in Cape Colony 1882 - 1920
« on: Wednesday 26 June 13 19:37 BST (UK)  »
No need to apologise at all, Sandy. You've done an excellent job. I put the original notice up, not really expecting any replies, but I've already learned in a week, so much extra about this guy.

Thanks again for all your help

Graham

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South Africa / Re: John Thomas MCKEOWN in Cape Colony 1882 - 1920
« on: Monday 24 June 13 14:44 BST (UK)  »
This was quick, I have his estate notice already, and attach it here.

Died 18 Feb 1904 in Port Elizabeth. And, guess what, there is a child mentioned

Jane McIntosh McKeown, b.c. 1893

So there might be press reports of her birth as well as his death, and any information on her later life?

Thanks, Graham

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