More on Hiding in Tasmania

[david.povey5]

In 2020, I paid for William (Ian) Christian I'Anson's divorce paperwork from 1939 (about 100 pages) from Josephine Ethel Wilcox.

[sparrett]

Well, from the work of  Ranolki, the team here at Rootschat and yourself there is a fairly good picture of the family and their events I think.

It has certainly been a twisting and intricate quest. And a long one.

Much of it fits with the document you have attached, but not all details.

More resources are constantly becoming available for our family research and some will inevitably discredit verbal family stories, while others support them.



Sue

 

[PatLac]

I think this could be Rosina 'Zeamond'. Can anyone check the article to see if it fits the bill?


Tuesday. —Before Messrs. A. M. Fleet and C, u.n(uL TR lATTRTTE UGS -y

... Colechin, of Northfleet Cottages, Northfleet, was charged with failing to appear 10 answer a summons for using threats towards Rosina Simmonds, of Greenhithe, ~ Complainant said she was waiting for a young man, when prisoner asked her what she was going to ...


Published: Saturday 20 August 1910
Newspaper: Kent Messenger
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 4

[Lucy2]

I think this could be Rosina 'Zeamond'. Can anyone check the article to see if it fits the bill?

Tuesday. —Before Messrs. A. M. Fleet and C, u.n(uL TR lATTRTTE UGS -y

... Colechin, of Northfleet Cottages, Northfleet,

Article checked    ... but why exactly is it that you think "this could be Rosina 'ZEAMOND' "

There is nothing in the article that adds much to this Rosina SIMMONDS' identity. 
"Waiting for a young man"  ... she may have been very young herself ?? 
[R. ZEAMOND,  apparently born 1882,  would be aged c. 28 years in 1910 ]

Incidentally, the male charged (his christian name being omitted in your post], was recorded in the article as "William COLECHIN" :

   ~   Lu

[PatLac]

Apologies, I thought it was 1901, dyslexia... Thank you.

I was wondering... in your previous post you have mentioned this article

"Staffordshire Sentinel" - 26 July 1924
Headlines read >

"Woman's Theft From Hanley Shops"
     " Described as a Professional Shoplifter"
           " Three Months' Imprisonment"

I can see that the police have searched 'the defendant's home' at 104 Church-road Bradmore Wolverhampton. If she was I'Anson's housekeeper, wouldn't they have mentioned this? If he had already died or moved elsewhere, why would she still be living there?

[Lucy2]

Apologies, I thought it was 1901, dyslexia... Thank you.

I was wondering... in your previous post you have mentioned this article

"Staffordshire Sentinel" - 26 July 1924
Headlines read >

"Woman's Theft From Hanley Shops"
     " Described as a Professional Shoplifter"
           " Three Months' Imprisonment"

  (1)   I can see that the police have searched 'the defendant's home' at 104 Church-road Bradmore Wolverhampton. If she was I'Anson's housekeeper, wouldn't they have mentioned this?

(2)     If he had already died or moved elsewhere, why would she still be living there?

Replies to ^ above questions  > >

(1) If you re-read the article you'll see that Rosina had (of her own volition), stated .... [when pleading for leniency] ..."that for many years she'd been housekeeper to a gentleman" :

Remember you're reading a newspaper article ... not a transcript of an actual court record.

Rosina is the guilty party (she's the thief) ... why should there be a need to publish the name of her employer if that person is an innocent party ?   
[Newspapers would also want to avoid being sued for implicating innocent parties. ]

(2)   I'ANSON ... so when did he die ? 
[ I'm not interested in scouring through this lengthy thread to source that info  ]

   ~   Lu