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[cjamesuk]

Hi Charlotte
I am not great with computers so not sure I will know how to access your email.
I am so pleased to have contact with you.  How did you find the people in Australia?  My uncle is still alive and he remembers the Salvation Army band going to there house and seeing them off... I wonder if any of them remember him talking about my Mother ?...

I am very interested to hear about your part of the family and I dont know how much you know about other Cox's, there are quite a few in South Africa and I have been in touch with them

I hope to be in contact with you soon,
Thanks Christine

[searchers]

Hi Christine,
That's interesting to hear there are people in South Africa as well - look forward to hearing more about them!
We asked for a lookup for Robert's birth in Stowupland, and someone in Australia had a similar request.  The man looking them up remembered, and connected us!

Email addresses can't be posted on these boards, so to get into the personal messages,
- go to the top of the page, it should say
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Click the word messages and it should come up okay.  Leave a message on here again if it doesn't work!

Charlotte

[boydi]

Hi Kylie
George URQUHART, 30 married Annie OWEN, 21 on 10 May 1882, Pt Augusta district.
I'm after any children they may have had & perhaps deaths of George, Annie or children.
Thanks
Ruth

[twinkleberry]

Hi Kylie

I'm in Adelaide and have been doing free research for people all over the world for 10 years.  I was browsing the RootsChat Site and saw a request regarding William Jeffries and family.  I did some searching out, and the following is what I managed to find:-

William Jeffries, born 1845 in Liverpool.  Occupation, Methodist Minister.

Mercy Jeffries born 1860 at Tunbridge Kent, England

William born 1874 at Mold, Flintshire

Elizabeth G. born 1850 at Tunbridge, Kent.

Lewis Wibmer Jeffries born 1884 at Derby, England.

CHILDREN BORN TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Eleanor Wibmer Jeffries

Shirley Williams Jeffries born 28th November 1886

MARRIAGE

Shirley Williams aged 28 years, single, son of William Jeffries married 15th April 1914 to Catherine Emma, aged 26 years, single, daughter of Thomas Padman at Methodist Church, Kent Town, District Norwood reference book 259 page 231

CHILD BORN TO SHIRLEY WILLIAMS JEFFRIES AND CATHERINE EMMA PADMAN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

William born 15th January 1916 at North Adelaide, District Adelaide reference book 972 page 270

DEATH

Shirley Williams Jeffries died 13th September 1963 in Adelaide.

INFORMATION REGARDING LEWIS WIBMER JEFFRIES.

Lewis Wibmer Jeffries, born 9th August 1884 at Derby, England, son of William Jeffries (Wesleyan Minister) and wife Mercy nee Wibmer.

The family came to South Australia and Lewis attended schools in Toowoomba Queensland, Broken Hill and New South Australia and completed his education at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide 1900-1902.
Lewis also achieved  a M.B. AND B.S. at the Adelaide University in 1907

After graduation, Lewis assisted Dr. Arthur Powell at Kadina, and then worked Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, United States of America, working mainly in "surgical pathology". He also worked at Childrens Hospital, Great Ormond St. London and followed by  Breslau, Germany, then spent 1 years in Kashmire at a Church Missionary Society hospital, carrying out any and every form of surgery.

He returned to Great Ormond Street until his return to Adelaide in 1914.

Lewis enlisted in Australian Imperial Force as a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps on 2nd November 19143.

On 20th December 1917 in St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, London, Lewis married Shirley Frances Singleton, born in South Africa.

They had three sons who served in WW11 in different services.  Lewis' son, John Singleton Jeffries being outstanding in Army Field  Medical  Officer

Lewis Jeffries youngest brother, Shirley Williams was a South Australian Atrorney General and Minister of Education and was Knighted.

Survived by his sons, Lewis died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital 6th October 1971, and his ashes are in the Centennial Park Cemetery South Australia.

Sir Shirley Williams Jeffries, occupations Lawyer and Politician.

Lewis Wibmer occupations medical practioner and soldier.

The above information comes from the "Australian Dictionary Biography".

[meadbh]

Hi Twinkleberry,

Thank you for that information which has given me a couple of names and dates I didn't know before. I had found the entries in The Australian Dictionary of Biography concerning Lewis Wibmer Jeffries and his brother Sir Shirley Williams Jeffries who were cousins of my husband's grandfather.  A fellow  researcher is trying to find out what happened to their older half-brother, William Albert Yates Jeffries, who was born in Mold, Wales, in 1874, and presumably went to Australia with his father and stepmother in the 1880s. He is named in a relative's will in 1927 but we have found no other record of him.

Many thanks,

Kath

[JACKEROO]

i know this one is a h ard one i am lookinfg for
Andre Brian Davey, mother lucy Davey nee cook, her parents were robert cook and fanny gill, he would havehad to have been born in South austrlalia in the 1920's, i think he also married someone called barbara, his mother died in  1955 and is buried at St Saviours at Glen osmond apparently he owns the plot but is not there or he has not died.  appreciate your time

[judah]

Hi - I am interested in the enquiry from Kiwi some time ago and would be interested in sharing some information regarding the Bowles family history as referenced.

thanks
Judah

[cyndy]

Can you find any info. on Richard H Penn b.1863 who we think emigrated to Australia with his wife Edith and their daughter Edith Beatrice b.1900 ,sometime after 1901 but I would guess before1910.They lived in Lancashire.

Thanks Cyndy