Dee's Scavenger Hunt... September 13th .... Everyone welcome to participate

[deeiluka]

There's a burial in Bath Abbey for a Thomas Selway aged 51 on 3rd Nov 1824. He's about the right age for Thomas snr but I'm not sure whether 'ordinary' people would be buried in Bath Abbey 

I've spent a little time hunting around today, and found this site......

http://www.bathabbey.org/history/abbey-archives/family-history


Do you think it would be worth me emailing them?


Dee   

[majm]

Yes,  Yes,  Yes, I do

Afterall that website shows they have "Burial order books (1813-1995)"

" Here at Bath Abbey, our archives hold many records which can be useful sources for family history research, not to mention the extensive collection of memorials in the Abbey itself. In addition to local residents, we regularly receive visitors from all across the country and even as far away as Australia and Canada eager to find out more about a particular member of their family tree. We are always happy to help, but simply ask that if you are looking for a particular document or are undertaking a bigger piece of research, to please get in touch with us first in order to avoid any disappointment"

Fingers crossed

JM

[glenclare]

Would you like me to go and take a look at them?

[deeiluka]

Oh Glen.....you have such a busy life.......I hesitate to ask.......   


Dee   

[toni*]

So how old was Thomas snr on the burial at Bath Abbey this might give us a clue to where to start looking for his birth or at least the year!

Thomas jnr and Susan could have married pre July 1837 so nothing in the GRO index.
Could he [Thomas] have been a convict ? I was wondering when the shipping index you are looking at begins. If he was born 1804ish and in Australia by 1853.

We seem to have found only 1 other child –John who married Caroline Snook
And maybe also the child Caroline who was buried at the age of 1 so that’s 2 more children!

[deeiluka]

Toni,  the Thomas SELWAY buried in 1824 in Bath Abbey was aged 51......which compares favourable with Hannah's age....she was baptised in January 1781.

If Thomas was a convict, he'd have been one of the very few convicts who ended up in South Australia.....and that would have had to happen after he was freed. South Australia didn't have convicts shipped here.  I'll check the Convict indexes, but I'm very doubtful.

[majm]

There's good access online for Convict records via a commercial website with an Australian UK package, but Britain did not transport convicts to Sth Australia.  So, if he was transported under a sentence, then he would have landed in what was then New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land.

Cheers,  JM      

[deeiluka]

Oh....meant to say.....I found Thomas junior arriving in Adelaide on board the "Margaret Brock" in June 1852 today......he'd embarked in Melbourne, Victoria though. I checked the Victorian passenger lists but he isn't listed as arriving there. However, I know that the early passenger lists are incomplete.


Dee  

[majm]

Some of those early Vic shipping records are at NSW SRO, especially the ones pre separation of Vic from NSW, DIGITISED IMAGES available online!   http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/  but you need the name of the ship  to take up the "Try it now" option.  The alternative option is the Keyword search button, and of course that index is based on transcriber's reading the handwritten lists, and of course, not all passenger lists are extant.

My fingers are crossed 

Cheers,  JM