VIC - Marriage(s) -Look up please

[JAP]

POTTED SUMMARY (ctd) OF THE FAMILY OF

William HEASMAN (however spelled) & Jane Elizabeth AYLMORE

Part 2

This Summary has now been re-posted in Posts 275-277 on Page 19 of this thread.

JAP

[Lucy2]

Hi Cazay   

Yes, thanks, ... I have the info on "Thomas RICHENS" (thug) and have been working feverishly over the past week or so for further details.   NOWHERE can I find what this "dude's occupation was !    And that, I think, is the key to sorting him out.

The Otago Police Gazette gives skimpy details of prisoners who were going to trial (NO occupations stated) !   Additionally there are monthly "inmate release" sheets for several prisons and these give more comprehensive info.    BUT, having searched gazettes from Oct 1873 to Dec 1874, I have failed (so far) to find the release of Thomas Richens !
(Will keep on the "case" though).

I can place John /"Thomas" RICHINGS at or near Blenheim in 1870, and in 1874 thru 1876.    (Perhaps "John" did disappear with his horse and cart to the other end of the South Island in 1873, for a "boys' timeout" type weekend) 

Thanks for checking out SANDS ~ mmm ... Chas. Wilkinson, treasury clerk ...  not sure he quite fits this "mob" ?

Cheers
Lu

PS:   ALSO ... have found an interesting "Charles BLIZZARD" living in the same somewhat remote area as John RICHINGS around 1874.   (BLIZZARD was the surname of J.R.'s wife Sarah Ann, found in Gloucester 1861 + ) :   Will see if someone on Gloucester board can help with census info - I have a few details of this Charles) :
.... never a dull moment on this thread ... eh ?

[Lucy2]

Hi Annie   

Fabulous to have the copy of Jane's letter  ... (I felt a little tear trickle when I re-read it).   

Thank you so very much.

Kind regards

Lu        

[Lucy2]

Thanks   JAP

Letter to SANTA being written this minute .... and here's hoping "he comes to the party"     

Do not wish to have my family posting MY bankruptcy records
on a thread like this in 100 years time !

Cheers
Lu     

[tropicalj]

Hello  there
Lucy you  have done remarkably well on  the Aussie side  so  far  no  monies  outlaid in OZ ( is  that  right?)  so  your bankruptcy records  shouldn"t appear  here  unless of course  you decide a  trip over  the Tasman  is warranted!!

regards Jenn

[JAP]

Hi again Lu,

I know what you mean!  But at least if our peccadilloes are posted in 100 years time, we won't know (will we  - or will we be looking down with gritted teeth as we sit on clouds in our white nighties strumming our harps  ).

My children's paternal Gggma, a beautiful needlewoman who had a most elegant hand, wrote letter after letter to the bureaucrats after her husband's sudden death in 1869 in country Vic.  Eleanor finally got the land which had been assigned to her (rather rougher) Scots husband - but it cost her dearly in both money and effort.

And my discovering that the tenant-farmer brother of the Scots husband (also a tenant-farmer in Scotland) had been convicted in 1849 in Scotland of forgery & uttering didn't go over at all well with some of his descendants ...  (He was supposed to be transported to Tas but was pardoned following a petition signed by all the worthies and gentry of West Fife, followed a couple of years later by a sad letter to the Home Secretary from his wife Margaret - not as tear-wrenching or sentimental as Jane's.)

I see I've been taken to task (no, not really) elsewhere for the length of my summaries.  Not my fault, I cry - people (including Lu) have just found out far too much on this thread!

A BLIZZARD eh - who knows ...

JAP

[Lucy2]

Hi Jenn  

True, have done very well here, thanks to lots of very kind
people (and yes, will be purchasing certs in due course ~ still gulping at what I've spent this month on OZ search for another of my families ... oh, and not to mention what I've shelled out for NZ records just recently) !

Cheers
Lu  

[Cazay]

Hi all  

Good Jap, now I don't have to remember to look at page 7 anymore.........

Lu, had another look and found Charles Wilkinson at the same address in 1861.

The trouble is we don't know when he died and there are a few on the NSW bdm's.  Jane died 1919 and there look to be 2 or 3 on the directory, one even has a boarding house in Redfern.........still too hard.

When I get a chance I will have a look at the 1903 NSW electoral roll and see if anything shows for them together.

About that Charles Blizzard........Lu, if you post his details I will check Ancestry, he might come up in one of the census years.

Cazay

[Lucy2]

Hi JAP   

aw ..... you've just used another "P" word ... (she quietly closes the dictionary).     Hopefully I won't get caught dead in a white nightie .... or upset other cloud dwellers while they're playing their harps and I'm blasting away on my kazoo !

Don't think you can ever find out too much about such a "colourful" family ~  besides, I"m starting to quite like them now!

Yes, Blizzard  ... unusual name in this neck of the woods, worth checking out I feel.

Lu