Author Topic: Australian Boer War Trooper  (Read 4948 times)

Offline saddles

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 12,826
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 03:37 BST (UK) »
You are both welcome.

Carolyn  :)
Townson - Cartmel                      O'Malley - Askeaton, Ireland
Sadler - Dymock & Salford           Tomlinson - St Peters, Leeds
Wilkinson - Salford                      Chant - Sherbourne, Dorset
Garner - Pendleton

Offline Maggie.

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,152
  • I haven't a clue about my Roots
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 22:35 BST (UK) »
Hi Dee,

Here's another one for you.

Maggie  :)
Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline Maggie.

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,152
  • I haven't a clue about my Roots
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 22:46 BST (UK) »
And another.

Maggie  :)
Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Online Greensleeves

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,505
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 23:28 BST (UK) »
Lovely work, Maggie - well done!
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


Offline Maggie.

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,152
  • I haven't a clue about my Roots
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 23:38 BST (UK) »
Thanks, GS - much appreciated.  Are you having a go?
Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Online Greensleeves

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,505
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 17 April 12 23:40 BST (UK) »
I've left it a bit late I fear - haven't been feeling too good so been languishing in front of the television the past few days.    Lovely picture isn't it -  and what a handsome young man too.
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline deeiluka

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 9,074
  • Mrs Dee & me.......
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 06:55 BST (UK) »
Many thanks Maggie......they are great. I'll send them off to my friend to see as well. hardest thing for us to do is to decide which one to use in our handout sheet for history week. We have three parts to each Reserve project.....a handout flyer, a new section for our Reserves book, and a power point presentation.....so we can use three different pictures.   :D

GS, Trooper Stock was a good looking young man, and a most adventurous one. Sadly he died in his early 40s, leaving his wife with a large seaside guest house to run, and four young children to raise, with the eldest being just 4 years of age.

Just for interest, here's a photo of the guest house. The wife ran it most successfully for over 40 years after her husband died, and it was a centre of social life of the times in Victor Harbor, and attracted all sorts of prominent people to stay. There is another Reserve named after it, so we're doing a project on that too.


Dee    :)

Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline Maggie.

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,152
  • I haven't a clue about my Roots
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 09:16 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the thanks, Dee - I enjoyed sorting out Trooper Stock a lot.  As GS says, such a handsome man.

That looks a very impressive hotel.

Maggie  :)
Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Online Greensleeves

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,505
    • View Profile
Re: Australian Boer War Trooper
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 09:21 BST (UK) »
Thanks for letting us have the background to Trooper Stock, Dee.  It makes for interesting reading when there is a story to go with a photograph.  Certainly as Maggie says, that looks a very impressive hotel.  Must have been hard for his widow initially, particularly with such young children; glad to hear that the venture was a success though.

Regards,
GS
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk