Old Bible Challenge - CLARKE family

[judb]

This has been a great thread - excellent work! 

And what a good result.

Judith

[deeiluka]

Exciting news......a photo of Ashley Clarke has come to light.......        


Dee   

[Ruskie]

Exciting news......a photo of Ashley Clarke has come to light.......        


Dee   

Oooo .... he looks very suave and good looking. 

[mackinharland]

I've only just joined this forum, and was very pleased to discover someone had already been doing some work of interest to me.

There's mention of Mary Clarke marrying John George Harland. Their son Sydney James was my grandfather - unfortunately he died in the Spanish Flu epidemic (while nursing his mother and sister, who both survived) before my mother was born. My full name, by the way, is John Harland Pryzibilla.

My current interest is to find out what happened to the second child - Edith Harland. I can't seem to find any marriage or death records, and the family oral history was silent on this.

It's of particular interest right now because if I can track down any female descendants of hers they are needed for DNA matching with WW1 bodies recently found and formally reburied at Fromelles in Northern France, which is where the third son of the marriage (Cecil George Harland) was killed.

[deeiluka]

Hello John,

Welcome to Rootschat.   

I'm afraid I have no other information about Edith Harland at this stage., but if the information on this thread has been of help to you in other ways, I'm glad you came across it. We have really enjoyed the search and the challenge.

Did you know that there have been threads on Rootschat to try to find descendants of those thought to be among the Fromelles bodies? We have had success with several.

I hope you have some success with your hunt for information about Edith, and if any of us find anything, we'll surely post it on here.


Dee   

[majm]

Hi John,

Supporting Dee's welcome 

And here's the RChat link to some of the searches on RChat for the Fromelles missing

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,380152.0.html

I too hope you have some success with your hunt for information about Edith, and if I find anything, I'll post it here.

Cheers,

JM

[physio]

I think I have the missing threads for the family of Edna Laura Clarke for deeiluka..sorry i'm new to this and got to here buy chance when Googling my wifes grandmother.  Would love to fill in the gaps for an addition to the Bible story. Edna married Mort "Leslie" Barns as reported but had 4 children, Kieth, Valerie, Dorothy and a still born boy at Colton on west coast eyre penninsula.
Dorothy had three girls who all remember Aunty Myrtle. I'm not sure how all this works but I'd love to help complete the picture for dee. Cheers

Threads Merged

[deeiluka]

Welcome to Rootschat, Physio.   

It’s really good to hear from you, and we’d love to hear more from you. I’m quite excited, and I’m sure the others involved in this will be too.

If you post a couple more times on this thread, you’ll be able to use the Personal Message system, and that’s the only place we can exchange information that needs to be kept private, such as email addresses, information about people who may still be living etc etc.


Dee       

[physio]

Hi Dee

As by chance my husband came across the information about the  Old Bible Challenge and I am quite excited about being in contact.  My great grandfather was Ashley Clarke and information on this side of the family has been a little sketchy. When my grandfather (Leslie) died, my grandmother Edna moved to Victor Harbor to be closer to her sister Caroline (or Aunty Myrtle as I knew her). When Myrtle and Edna died, a lot of their possessions were given away without our knowledge so I am interested to hear about the destination of the Old bible.  I will keep in contact so will hopefully be able to use the PM contacts to exchange details.