Davies and Dodd *COMPLETED*

[Lucy2]

Hi Kik

  .... and welcome.   

So pleased to hear that you've found this thread helpful.

[I'm just going to go back over the postings here, to refresh my memory. ]   

~  Lu

[alisonjar]

Hi there.
I was researching this family for my adopted sister and have saved most of it on my ancestry.co.uk family tree.   

Ali

[Kik]

Hi Ali,

Is there any way I could have a look at your findings on your tree to see if it will fill any gaps for me. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
Christine

[pasclaw]

DODD FAMILY

Catherine Tankersley PASCOE (nee DODD) - bc 1864

Catherine's husband William Stevens PASCOE died in NZ in 1913 - aged 47 years and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Christchurch.
Cemetery link  >>

http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/cemeteries
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Catherine Tankersley PASCOE died in Sydney, Australia on 22 December 1954.   Her ashes were returned to NZ and buried in a family plot at Dunedin in 1955.   

Catherine's  funeral notice appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" 30 December 1954 - (page 14).
Link to Australian newspaper website can be found in Resources section of R/Chat Australia board.

Her two daughters' were mentioned in the notice - bit hard to read, but looks like "Victtorine / Victorine"... surname is LANAGHAN;  and Eva (Bethany Eva ?) (Mrs B E HUNGERFORD).
[Marriages for daughters can be found on the New South Wales (Australia) online BDM.  "Victtorine" as Edith Victtrine ? married 1st in 1926 using the surname PASCOE.  For a later marriage (to LANAGHAN - 1948) she uses the surname TANKERSLEY .  ]
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Just for a bit of extra info and to clear up some justifiable confusion:
Catherine's two daughters were Bethany Eva (Eve to the family) and Edith Victtrine (Victtrine to the family; note that odd double-T spelling is correct).  However, she also had a son, Ralph William Pascoe (my grandfather), born in Adelaide 22/10/1900, d.5/9/1959 in Sydney.  Victtrine and Eve married two brothers - Victtrine to Merlin Herbert Hungerford, and Eve to Kenneth Stuart Hungerford.  (Victtrine's subsequent marriage to John Herbert Lanaghan has her name at marriage as Edith Victtrine Hungerford in the BDM records; she and Merlin had divorced in 1938.)  And to further the confusion, Eve and Ken had a daughter Bethany Elizabeth (18/1/1925-25/12/2013, known as Elizabeth to the family), who was therefore also B.E. Hungerford until her marriage to Kris van Veen in the 1960s.

[Kik]

Hi,

I'm jumping back into the Davies and Dodd tree following the latest posting by Pasclaw with some updates of the Catherine Pascoe (Dodd) side of the family siblings. As I've said before my knowledge of my grandfathers half siblings is scant and therefore my tree on that side runs out early. I have been absolutely fascinated finding out about that scoundrel Herman / George Davies - brilliant stuff. I have been able to piece together lots of loose ends. Not sure how many more 'holes' you have to fill but maybe I have a few answers for you from my research. Pasclaw I would love some more details of the next generations after Bethany Eve, Edith Victtrine and your grandfather Ralph William Pascoe.
Some titbits from my tree notes of the other siblings of Catherine Tankersley Pascoe - Mary Catherine b.1856 at Prahran, d.1856, Annie Elizabeth b.1857 at Maryborough we have heard lots about, Herman Tankersley b.1859 at Gardiner d.1899 of syphilis! (I have a copy of his death certificate)- is this the uncle you talk of who brought up Herman Davies?? may not have been the greatest role model!!, then Catherine Tankersley b.1862 at Dunedin d.1954 in Sydney, Eva Blanche b.1865 at Dunedin d.1888 "died after a painful illness of 30 hours" says her headstone, and Alfred Ernest b.1868 at Dunedin d.1903 at Adelaide- he was a bit of a scoundrel too and deserted his wife and young son also. I have even got notes of the Dodd/Dodt/Dodemann family back into Bremen,Germany where they came from ,dating back to 1686 if that's of any help to anyone.

Kik

[Hayden55]

Hi,
My wife (*) has found this thread very interesting and it has helped to answer several questions. We just found this site today and plan to do some more exploring. (*) is slowly tracing the Tankersley family back in England. Here family tree is http://www.tankersley.tribalpages.com/ the password is "tory". 
No doubt I'll be back to check out my family also.
Cheers, Hayden McGrail

(*) Moderator's note: Names of living person removed to protect personal privacy.

[pasclaw]

Hi,
Pasclaw I would love some more details of the next generations after Bethany Eve, Edith Victtrine and your grandfather Ralph William Pascoe.
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I have even got notes of the Dodd/Dodt/Dodemann family back into Bremen,Germany where they came from ,dating back to 1686 if that's of any help to anyone.

Kik

I'd love to see the notes of the Dodd origins - the difficulty of researching in another language has always deterred me from tracking back that line.

On the Pascoe connection - Ralph William Pascoe m. Dorice Wilhelmina Neruda Beck in NZ and they came to Australia on their honeymoon and stayed.  RWP was a government surveyor.  They had four children (one being my dad), three of whom are still alive.

I included something incorrect in my earlier post - Ken Hungerford was Merlin Hungerford's uncle, not brother.  Merlin and Victtrine had one daughter, who last I knew was living in London, but I haven't stayed in touch with her.  Eve and Ken had, as I said, one daughter, Bethany Elizabeth, who died on Christmas Day last year.  She had one daughter, who was given up for adoption, but no children with her husband Kris, who died a few years before her.

[spades]

Hi Pasclaw and Hayden McGrail, and welcome to RootsChat.

Pasclaw, as we don't post the names of living or possibly living persons on RootsChat, could I ask you to edit your post above, please. RootsChat is rigorous in its policy to protect individuals from the threat of identity theft, spam and other abuses.

And with that in mind, could I strongly recommend to Hayden McGrail that you remove what I assume is your personal image from your profile and perhaps also change your profile name to something more anonymous. Don't make it easy for them.

Once you have both made three posts you can use the Personal Message (PM) facility to exchange personal information as that above, email addresses, ask questions of your Moderator , etc. Even a couple of smiley posts to reach three is fine.
http://www.rootschat.com/help/pms.php

Congratulations on finding a connection and happy hunting.

Don't hesitate to contact me or another Moderator if you have any questions.

Spades
Moderator, New Zealand Board

[pasclaw]

Thanks for the welcome, Spades, and the instruction.

And on that note, I have a question - when I realised I'd made an error in my first post, I went to find some way to amend the post, but couldn't see any way to do it.  OTOH, the post you asked me to amend had a "modify post" option, which I used.  Did you specifically set that post so that it could be modified by me, or am I just going crazy and can't see a similar option on the first post? :-)