Searching for Maria Poole

[cathleen]

Good Evening,

I am hoping that someone can help me find my family...Maria Poole is my g-g-g-grandmother...I know that she was in Skipton Australia in 1863 on May 14th based on a small prayer book given by her "special friend" Jenny Ralph...I think her parents names were John and Mary Poole, i don't know if she had any siblings....can anyone locate information on her...I can't find any records of emigration...i ma stuck!!!

Thanks.

Cathy Lee

[PrueM]

Hi Cathy,
Have you looked at the Victorian BDMs and immigration indexes?  They are available online.  If you have Maria's marriage certificate does it have her father's name on it?  Also her death certificate may have information about how long she had been in the colony.
Prue

[tropicalj]

hi there cathy

was poole her maiden name?

did she marry in victoria do you know

i have the vic index if you need anything looked up
regards jenn

[Robert Coble]

Skipton Victoria.

[Robert Coble]

Hi.
Maria Seymour Poole Married Jas Alex Norquay. Cranebourne Victoria. 1895.

Maria Poole Married Jno Cunningham Clare. 720/1884

[cathleen]

No Marie Poole married in the states in New Jersey in 1869...to Edward Hilton...Poole was her maiden name... her death certificate states Mary Hawkins was her mother (maiden name of her mother) and  her father was John Poole.


I just can't find out when they got to Skipton...or any record of them.

Thanks for all your help anything you can find on this family is greatly appreciated...i seem to be terribly stuck and i know they/she were/was in
Skipton in 1863!!!!

Thanks for everything and especially for trying to help me in this search!!!

Regards,
Cathy Lee

[cathleen]

Prue,

How do i find the immigration index on line... sorryfor being so dumb!!!!!this is all relatively new to me...everything I have tried turns up empty...it is frustrating yet i feel compelled to continue the search...i know she was there in 1863. her parents Mary and John Poole...(whether she had any siblings I don't know)..and in the states by 1868 and married in NJ in 1869...can't find records for her coming into the states , leaving Australia or even going to Australia...she just seems to have vanished when it comes to entering and leaving countries!

Thanks for any look ups that you could do.

Regards,

Cathy

[PrueM]

Hi Cathy,
You're not dumb!!!    I had assumed you were in Australia and knew about these things....

http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp

Go to this page, and scroll down to the "Immigration" heading.  There are indexes to both assisted and unassisted immigrants.

What is it about the prayer book that makes you think she was in Skipton?  Were her parents in Skipton?  Sorry, I'm getting confused about who was where, when!!   

Prue

[tropicalj]

ho there
just to add but you may very well know this
skipton is also in england
regards jenn