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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #45 on: Friday 25 July 14 01:31 BST (UK) »
Just checking in so that I don't miss any of this story - beginning with the strange memo.......

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #46 on: Friday 25 July 14 10:07 BST (UK) »
Couldn't help getting interested in this thread!

Mike have you seen there are a number of articles in the NSW newspapers in the late 1800s about Thomas Foss the police senior constable on Trove eg:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22thomas+foss%22&l-decade=189

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #47 on: Friday 25 July 14 11:34 BST (UK) »
Maddy,

Thanks. I think there are a few there that I'd missed.

After so much intensive searching on my part it is amazing that RootsChat members can still come up with new findings  8)

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #48 on: Friday 25 July 14 11:53 BST (UK) »
Quote from: LizzieW on Thursday 24 July 14 11:10 BST (UK)
I've only just come across this saga, what a lot of info Rootschatters have found out, although nothing yet what 1st June has to do with it.

My best guess at the moment is that the family in England saw something in the papers in June 1908 relating to the desertion of his family in NSW, but I have yet to find a likely reference in the British Newspaper Archive, etc. Of course, if I'm right, he had already been in Los Angeles for over six years by that time.

I still await the Marriage Certificate from NSW to see if he names his father; I may yet find he is not my relative after all . . .  :'(

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #49 on: Sunday 27 July 14 11:12 BST (UK) »
Well, the Marriage Certificate finally arrived but, as I feared, the space for the names of Thomas' parents is blank  :(

The only things I have learned are that they were bachelor and spinster and his bride was Alice Janet (not Alice Jane) Davis. She was under 21 so needed her father's consent; he was Abner Davis but her mother was not named.

Unless Thomas' father's will sheds any further light I'll have to get back to searching the English records for any more clues to his earlier life.

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #50 on: Sunday 27 July 14 12:04 BST (UK) »
 :-\ :-\

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #51 on: Sunday 27 July 14 19:43 BST (UK) »
What a fascinating read ... Daren't miss  any further updates  on this .... Well done for persevering  with  your search Mike ...and Rootschatters  too ;) :)
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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday 29 July 14 11:00 BST (UK) »
Agree, Polldoll!

What an interesting rogue - the kind who adds colour to any family tree - the kind we'd all like to have!
Good luck in documenting him, Mike.  I chuckle when I think that some of our ancestors thought they'd covered their tracks - but we are tracking them down! ;D

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Re: Strange Memo . . .
« Reply #53 on: Tuesday 29 July 14 11:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: MarieC on Tuesday 29 July 14 11:00 BST (UK)
Agree, Polldoll!

What an interesting rogue - the kind who adds colour to any family tree - the kind we'd all like to have!
Good luck in documenting him, Mike.  I chuckle when I think that some of our ancestors thought they'd covered their tracks - but we are tracking them down! ;D

MarieC

If only they  had known eh Marie?
Reynolds Johnson Chapman Goodyear Wright   Demmon Maddison Jackson Bush Lingard<br />Lincolnshire Northants,Essex.   Soutar  McKenzie Stuart Watt Banff, Coupar Angus, Glen Livet, Broughty Ferry, Coatbridge, Airdrie Lanarkshire and Saskatchewan, Hamilton Wentworth, Canada. Phillips. Coyne- March Cambs, Islington,Hackney 1st Lincolnshire Regt 1914

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