tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59238150772221028302024-03-07T07:02:41.782+11:00Sandra’s Ancestral Research JournalSandra's Ancestral Research Blog is a place where I share my research findings, related stories and titbits, concerning my (mostly English) ancestors and their journey from their ancestral homes to their new life in Australia. Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-20882414277053684362023-11-09T15:50:00.002+11:002023-11-15T11:20:34.697+11:00John Williamson born in Ireland 1832 <p>John was born about 1832, the son of Thomas Williamson and
Jane in Belfast, Ireland. He left Ireland circa 1845 with his parents to live in England.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">England</h2><h1><o:p></o:p></h1>
The first time we catch a glimpse of John is in the 1851 Census where he was living in
the seaport town of Maryport in Wood Street, Cumberland, England with his
parents and his younger brother James<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[1]</span></sup></sup><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">1. Thomas Williamson, aged 54,
Dock labourer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">2. Jane Williamson, aged 50,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">3. John Williamson, aged 19,
Tailor apprentice<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">4. James Williamson, aged 15,
ship carpenter apprentice<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, Louisa, John’s future wife (aged 22 in 1851) was
also living at home with her parents, and three siblings at 38 Redcross Street, London,
St Giles Cripplegate. To help make ends meet the family had also taken in 6
lodgers. <o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;">Two years after the 1851 Census John <span style="background: white;">travelled to London, and by 1853</span> he was
working as a qualified tailor and living at 55 Napier St., which is probably
where he met Louisa Walker who gave the same address as her place of residence
when they got married. John married Louisa Walker, (the daughter of a tailor,
who was also living at 55 Napier St) at the age of 21, on 10 October 1853, in
the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity in Hoxton, Middlesex, England.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[2]</span></sup></sup> It was Louisa’s church where she had been
baptised as an adult at the age of 21 with her younger sister Hannah aged 15 at
the time.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[3]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[4]</span></sup></sup> It
is interesting to note that Elizabeth was married on the same day in 1853 as her
brother Alfred and sister Hannah who chose to marry in another church nearby in
St Bartholomew, Moor Lane, in London.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[5]</span></sup></sup>
<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[6]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[7]</span></sup></sup></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_heading=h.tyjcwt"></a>Australia<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ten months after the couple wed, they travelled to Australia
with Louisa’s younger brother Alfred Williamson and wife, aboard the <i>"Constance"</i> in August 1854.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[8]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> Louisa was 4½ months pregnant when they
boarded the <i>"Constance" </i>four
weeks after arriving in Melbourne Louisa gave birth to their first child<i>.</i><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[9]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">The <i>“Constance”</i> was a clipper ship built in 1852 for the run between
London and Australia. She was touted as having “<i><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">superior sailing
qualities.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[10]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
</span></i><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Amongst her best
qualities were <i>“enclosed berths to
Melbourne” <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[11]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></i>
and the “<i>‘tween-decks [were] lofty and
thoroughly ventilated. Provisions and Water [were] provided for 20 weeks …”<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[12]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></i>
She was “<i>commanded</i> <i>by men of experience and ability, who
[would] take every precaution to promote the health and comfort of passengers.
They also [carried] experienced Surgeons.”<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[13]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></i>and
<i>“a large supply of medical comforts, such
as arrowroot, sage, &c”<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[14]</span></sup></sup></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">On the
passenger manifest John’s surname is listed as Williams rather than Williamson
(note the ages and professional however are listed correctly)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_heading=h.3dy6vkm"></a><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Alfred Walker, 24 years,
Tailor<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Mrs
Walker, 21<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">John
Williams[on], 24 years, Tailor<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Mrs
Williams[on], 21 years</span></li></ol>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Life in Australia</h2><h1><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">On arrival John & Louisa took up lodgings at 218 Bourke
Street, Melbourne on the right of way opposite Theatre Royal which was under
construction at the time, a month later their first child Thomas was born on 11
January 1855.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[15]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[16]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[17]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Initially, John worked out of 71, 72, and 73, Arcade, in the
“Queen’s Arcade Drapery and Outfitting Establishment”, he then moved on to
Dobson’s at 111 Great Bourke St, Melbourne. Dobson’s advertised extensively in
the local newspapers. John’s name was mentioned for the first time in the
company’s advertising in 1856.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[18]</span></sup><!--[endif]--> </sup><!--[if gte vml 1]><o:wrapblock><v:shape
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of their second. The family moved back and forth between Fleet and Marion
Street, never far from the Christian Israelite Church over the next few years.<sup>
<sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[19]</span></sup> <sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[20]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[21]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[22]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[23]</span></sup></sup></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_heading=h.1t3h5sf"></a>The Christian Israelite
Church played an important role in the growing family’s life, John became a
covenanted member of the church on 6 April, 1857.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[24]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
In doing so he accepted the teaching of the Bible, and certain of the doctrines
of the Jewish religion.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[25]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <o:p></o:p></p>
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3 The suit John would have worn as a member of the Church, the original suit
design is still worn today [in 2023]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a Tailor all male members would have gone to John
Williamson to get their suits made.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As a
covenanted member John would have amongst other things<sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[26]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Signed” to be a
member of the Church<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->followed dietary
laws as outlined in Leviticus and Deuteronomy of the Torah/Old Testament<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->worn a specially
designed suit and top hat Made of “pure materials – materials in which the
warp and weft are of the same thread.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Paid one-tenth of
his earnings to the Church for the work of the ministry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->not have cut his
hair, or trimmed or shaved his beard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->As a member John
would have observed two Sabbaths where members would stop and have Church for
an hour Friday night (in respect of the Jewish/Israelite Sabbath) and Sunday
morning (in respect of the Christian Sabbath). Members who owned their own
business such as John would close early on Fridays so they could attend
church.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Undergone
circumcision <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans Symbols";">●<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Members didn’t have
any pictures of anything regarded as an image (a likeness of anything God has
created or caused to grow) in their homes, or on their clothes. In the early
days members would even paste brown paper over the pictures on the front of
piano music sheets and in books and novels. Clothing wasn’t worn with flowers
or images on it, and invariably photographs are not kept.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The detailing of the church members' outfits was very
specific, from the fabric to the detail of the lapels and the shape of the collar. “The
suit and dress have always been distinctive – they were designed to be
different even at the time.”<sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[27]</span></sup></span></sup> A hat would also be worn when out and
about.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Louisa also followed the
tenants of the Christian Israelite Church as did their children even after they
moved away in 1862/3 to St Kilda where the last three children born.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[28]</span></sup></sup><sup>
<sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[29]</span></sup></sup>
During his lifetime John probably met John Wroe, the founder of the church, and
heard him speak in the Australian summers of 1859/1860 and again in 1862/3 when
he visited the Melbourne congregation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John & Louisa had seven children in total:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Thomas Williamson, born
11 January 1855, Waugh Terrance in Bourke Street, Melbourne.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[30]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
Possibly circumcised on the same day as his father 6th April 1857 but recorded
under the name of James instead of Thomas.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra/Desktop/John%20Williamson1832%20Master%20Profile%20v4.docx#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[31]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></a> [note Thomas’s first three
children went on to attend the church and join the church.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Rachel Williamson born
26 March 1857, Fleet Street, Collingwood.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[32]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Miriam Williamson, born
12 March 1859, Marion Street, Collingwood.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[33]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Pheobe Williamson, born
22 June 1861, Fleet Street, Collingwood, and baptised on 27 October 1861 into
the Christian Israelite Church.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[34]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[35]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Moses Williamson born 17 September 1863,
St Kilda and baptised in October 1863 into the Christian Israelite Church.<sup>
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[36]</span></sup><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[37]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Lydia born 31 December 1866,
East St Kilda and baptised on 9 January 1866 into the Christian Israelite
Church.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[38]</span></sup><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[39]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: 54pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->7.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Aaron born [unable to
read day] March 1869, High Street, St Kilda and baptised on 1st April, 1881,
into the Christian Israelite Church.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[40]</span></sup><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[41]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbf6C3V2UqPTBHwkGbcSvm61EJjddZ7zlu3wHYqTbHEGCOswhfTEaMF-FkavO7vllIR8LbccpsiaazwWORc77r8PTz68RGTnzvF4P5HfyoXKr6s7z2XXjXOY6ZnMOo_QSrL0VNPOLW58BZl2OLJA07NTACg88sTOvTWS_Ps7odru6tF07LKG-F5dqMG7B3/s3888/YfTSNx4D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbf6C3V2UqPTBHwkGbcSvm61EJjddZ7zlu3wHYqTbHEGCOswhfTEaMF-FkavO7vllIR8LbccpsiaazwWORc77r8PTz68RGTnzvF4P5HfyoXKr6s7z2XXjXOY6ZnMOo_QSrL0VNPOLW58BZl2OLJA07NTACg88sTOvTWS_Ps7odru6tF07LKG-F5dqMG7B3/s320/YfTSNx4D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">The family would have taken the 30-minute journey twice a week, from St Kilda to their church in Collingwood, possibly in one of the families 3 Waggonettas or their buggy</span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #44546a; font-size: 9pt;">.<sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 12.84px;">[42]</span></sup></sup></span></i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the end of 1866, John started working at Dunlop &
Edwards in their Tailoring Department at their new location in Commercial Rd,
Prahran.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[43]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[44]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> How
long John worked at DUNLOP & EDWARDS is unclear as he also paid rates for a
4-roomed property in Camden St., owned by William Philpott that year, and
advertised for staff for a business on the corner of Inkermann-road and
High-street in St Kilda possibly for a property that he was renting or
subleasing from Thomas Earles, also a Tailor.<sup> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[45]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[46]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[47]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> Two
years later John purchased the High-street rental<span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span>property
on 14 November 1868 at the cost of 58 pounds and 12 shillings in High St, St.
Kilda, a few months after experiencing problems with the landlord.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[48]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[49]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Life was very busy for John and his family as John’s
business expanded. He borrowed funds possibly to renovate the newly acquired
shop and buy stock. These funds could have also helped to buy the property next
door for £16.4 in 1869. In 1871 he also went on to purchase the property
situated at the rear of his High St properties with a carriageway to Inkerman
Street for access.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[50]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[51]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[52]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[53]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> The business seemed to expand rapidly
evidenced by regular advertisements for competent staff, including machinists
and tailors.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[54]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[55]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> A newspaper advertisement of which two-thirds was white space, appears to suggest business was brisk and
struggling to keep up.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[56]</span></sup></sup> </p><p class="MsoNormal">John also took on at least one apprentice if not more. In particular, he had
employed William Mesday from the Sunbury Industrial School, who became ill so
John sought to cancel his apprentice’s indenture, the outcome of this case has
not yet been discovered.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[57]</span></sup></sup> <sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[58]</span></sup></sup></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">John did not rest on his laurels
and by 1873 he was operating from a second address in the city at 74 Elizabeth
St., taking over the tailoring business of J.Swaine opposite the Age Office.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[59]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> <sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[60]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John died eight months later on 7 June 1874 at the age of 42
in Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[61]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
He was buried in the local St Kilda Cemetery, Victoria.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[62]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[63]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John left behind his wife with their young children.<o:p></o:p></p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Thomas aged 19<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Rachel aged 17<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Miriam aged 15<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pheobe aged 13<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Moses aged 11<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lydia aged 8<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border: none;">Aaron
aged 5<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">Louisa continued on in the family business in St Kilda with
her eldest son Thomas. What happened to his business concerns in Elizabeth St
is not known. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Useful links for background</h3><p class="MsoNormal">WikiTree profile for <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williamson-2032">John Williamson (1832 - 1874)</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Related Posts:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2013/01/tombstone-tuesday-john-williamson_22.html">John's & Louisa's Tombstone</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal">John's parents = <a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2016/11/thomas-jane-williamson-born-ireland.html">Thomas & Jane Williamson born Ireland lived in England</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">John's son = <a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/moses-williamson-born-1863-victoria.html">Moses Williamson Born 1863 Victoria Australia</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">John's son = <a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2020/04/thomas-williamson-born-1855-victoria.html">Thomas Williamson born 1855 Victoria Australia</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Blogpost Meta Data</p><p class="MsoNormal">The URL for this post is: <span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2023/11/john-williamson-born-in-ireland-1832.html</span> originally published 9 November 2023 </p><p class="MsoNormal">Author 2023, Sandra Williamson</p><div><br /></div>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Sources</h2><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[1]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1851 English Census (Series HO107 Piece:
2435; Folio: 561; Page: 11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[2]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> General Register Office, England,
Marriage Certificate John Williamson & Louisa Walker married 10 October
1853, GRO Reference Marriages December quarter, Shoreditch, Vol 1c, page 364<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn3">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[3]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Louisa born 1 July 1828 and baptised 20
April 1849 in Holy Trinity, Hoxton, Hackney, England the daughter of Joseph
Thomas Walker (tailor) & Louisa Waler residing at 35 Redcroft St. entry 58,
page 8, Holy Trinity, Hoxton, Hackney, England parish register in the county of
Middlesex 1848 citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London
Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P91/TRI/001; Year:
1848-1871<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn4">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[4]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Hannah born 30 January 1834 and baptised
20 April 1849 in Holy Trinity, Hoxton, Hackney, England the daughter of Joseph
Thomas Walker (tailor) & Louisa Waler residing at 35 Redcroft St. entry 57,
page 8, Holy Trinity, Hoxton, Hackney, England parish register in the county of
Middlesex 1848 citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London
Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P91/TRI/001; Year:
1848-1871<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn5">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[5]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Index entry for the marriage of John
Nicholas BOWEN and Hannah WALKER married 1853, FREEBDM database entry Marriages
1853 Dec, E.London Vol 1c page 2
(https://www.freebmd.org.uk accessed 25 October 2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn6">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[6]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> John Nicholas Bowen(bachelor, Smith,
residing at 38 Red Croft St, son of Charles Bowen, Smith) & Hannah
Walker(spinster aged 19, residing at 38 Red Croft St, daughter of Joseph
Tailor) were married after banns on 10 October 1853, St Bartholomew, Moor Lane,
City of London, England parish register entry 149, 75, year 1853; citing London
Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish
Registers; Reference Number: P69/BAT2/A/01/MS 6427/1 Year: 1850-1858 [witnesses
George Walker & Joseph Walker]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn7">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[7]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Alfred Walker(bachelor, residing at 38
Red Croft St, son of Joseph Tailor) married Elizabeth Maddox (spinster,
residing at 38 Red Croft St, daughter of James Maddox, dead) were married after
banns on 10 October 1853, St Bartholomew, Moor Lane, City of London, England
parish register entry 148, page 74, year 1853; citing London Metropolitan
Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference
Number: P69/BAT2/A/01/MS 6427/1 Year: 1850-1858 [witnesses George Walker &
Joseph Walker]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn8">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[8]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Passenger Listing for John Williams[on]
and his wife, and Alfred Walker and his wife on the Ship Constance. August
1854. Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2009. Original data: Inward Overseas Passenger
Lists (British Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7666, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record
Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Original data from Register of
Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom. Microfiche VPRS 14. Public Record
Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Year Range Reel:
1854"Constance" passenger List (Schedule A) p.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn9">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[9]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages,
Victoria, Australia, Birth Certificate Thomas Williamson 218/1855<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn10">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[10]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1855 'Advertising for the Constance’s
Return Journey to London', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 1 January,
p. 1. , viewed 13 Mar 2023, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154852217"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154852217</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn11">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[11]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Monmouthshire Merlin, South Wales
Advertiser, 7th July 1854, page 1,
Column 4, (</span><a href="https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
accessed 8 March 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn12">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[12]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Monmouthshire Merlin, South Wales
Advertiser, 7th July 1854, page 1,
Column 5, (</span><a href="https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
accessed 8 March 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn13">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[13]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Monmouthshire Merlin, South Wales
Advertiser, 7th July 1854, page 1,
Column 4, (</span><a href="https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3396065</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
accessed 8 March 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn14">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[14]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1853 'EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.',
Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Vic. : 1851 - 1856), 6 January, p. 1.
(DAILY. : SUPPLEMENT TO THE GEELONG ADVERTISER AND INTELLIGENCER), viewed 13
Mar 2023, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94359113"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94359113</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn15">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[15]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages,
Victoria, Australia, Birth Certificate Thomas Williamson 218/1855<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn16">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[16]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Electoral Roll entry # 3738 for John
Williamson residing right of way opposite theatre royal salaried worker,
qualified to vote [unable to read], Jas Dobson, Tailor Australian, St Paul’s
Division [Melbourne], 1856, page 23; Electoral Commission; Canberra, Australia;
Electoral Rolls Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database
on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn17">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[17]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Accessed
</span><a href="https://poi-australia.com.au/points-of-interest/australia/victoria/melbourne/site-of-the-theatre-royal-c-1855-215-bourke-street-melbourne-vic/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">https://poi-australia.com.au/points-of-interest/australia/victoria/melbourne/site-of-the-theatre-royal-c-1855-215-bourke-street-melbourne-vic/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> : 26 January 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn18">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[18]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1856 'Advertising', The Age (Melbourne,
Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 24 March, p. 4. , viewed 27 Jan 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154861854"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154861854</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn19">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[19]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Rachael
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, Collingwood
Victoria, born 27 March 1857 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Registration
number 4201 / 1857.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn20">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[20]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia (index database without
images); Entry for the Birth of Miriam Williamson child of John Williamson
& Louisa WALKER born Collingwood, Victoria 1859 Registration number 450 /
1859 (https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/
accessed 27 Jan. 22) [original not sighted]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn21">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[21]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia (index database without
images); Entry for the Birth of Phoebe Williamson child of John Williamson
& Louisa WALKER born Collingwood, Victoria 1861 Registration number 5722 /
1861 (https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/
accessed 27 Jan. 22) [original not sighted]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn22">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[22]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Phoebe
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, Collingwood
Victoria, born 22 June 1861 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Registration
number 5722 / 1861.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn23">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[23]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> "Victoria Government Gazette,"
database and images, Online Archive 1836 – 1997 (</span><a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/vic_gazette/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/vic_gazette/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> )
Victorian Government Gazette, No 72, 23 June 1857, Page 1117 “John Williamson,
householder, Little Fleet street” [John signed a petition to asking for Fitz
Roy Ward to be separated from Melbourne proper in 1857]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn24">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[24]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, Lynne Gary (Member
of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line: “John
Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn25">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[25]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Evening Star, Issue 5221, 28 November
1879, Page 4 </span><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18791128.2.36"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254); color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18791128.2.36</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254); color: #0a0a0a; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> accessed 27 March 2022</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn26">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[26]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Rodney, Gray. ‘Being a Christian
Israelite’. Latter Rain : Magazine of the Christian Israelite Church, no. 29,
undated, p. 6, (https://www.cichurch.asn.au/latterrain/lr29.pdf. Accessed 27
March 2022, published by Society of Christian Israelites, Christian Israelite
Church, Singleton, N.S.W<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn27">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[27]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, Lynne Gary (Member
of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line: “John
Williamson family” 20 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn28">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[28]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, Lynne Gary (Member
of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line: “John
Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn29">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[29]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Probate Files for John Williamson, died 7
June 1874 while residing in St Kilda, Victoria, probated granted 2 July 1874 to
Louisa Williamson (Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 28/P0002, 12/185)
& (VPRS 7591/P0002, 12/185 (accessed
online https://prov.vic.gov.au/ 28 March 2022) [in Affidavit of Executrix of
Louisa Williamson she states <i>“that the
taking of an oath is according to my religious belief unlawful” </i>which is
consistent with the beliefs of the Christian Israelites indicating that Louisa
was also a member of the Christian Israelites Church as was John. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn30">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[30]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Thomas
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, residing in St
Kilda, Victoria, born 11 January 1855 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Registration number 218 / 1855.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn31">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[31]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Lynne Gray (Dip. FHS, Adv. Dip Th. (Th. &
Evang.), B. Th., B. Tch., M. Th., PhD.) (Member of
Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line: “John
Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn32">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[32]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Rachael
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, Collingwood
Victoria, born 27 March 1857 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Registration
number 4201 / 1857.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn33">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[33]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Miriam
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, Collingwood
Victoria, born 12 March 1859 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Registration
number 450 / 1859.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn34">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[34]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Phoebe
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, Collingwood
Victoria, born 22 June 1861 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Registration
number 5722 / 1861.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn35">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[35]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dr. Lynne Gray
(Dip. FHS, Adv. Dip Th. (Th. & Evang.), B. Th., B. Tch., M. Th., PhD.)
(Member of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line:
“John Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn36">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[36]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Moses
Williamson child of John Williamson(draper) & Louisa WALKER, residing in St
Kilda, Victoria, born 17 September 1863 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Registration number 23188 / 1863.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn37">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[37]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dr. Lynne Gray
(Dip. FHS, Adv. Dip Th. (Th. & Evang.), B. Th., B. Tch., M. Th., PhD.)
(Member of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra
Williamson, email, Subject line: “John Williamson family” 19 March 2022,
Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn38">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[38]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Lydia
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, residing in St
Kilda, Victoria, born 31 December 1865 in East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Registration number 5087 / 1866.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn39">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[39]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dr. Lynne Gray
(Dip. FHS, Adv. Dip Th. (Th. & Evang.), B. Th., B. Tch., M. Th., PhD.)
(Member of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line:
“John Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn40">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[40]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Aaron
Williamson child of John Williamson(tailor) & Louisa WALKER, residing in St
Kilda, Victoria, born 31 December 1869 in East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Registration number 5401 / 1869.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn41">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[41]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Email correspondence,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Dr. Lynne Gray (Dip. FHS, Adv. Dip Th. (Th. &
Evang.), B. Th., B. Tch., M. Th., PhD.) (Member of Christian Israelite Church) to Sandra Williamson, email, Subject line: “John
Williamson family” 19 March 2022, Original in author’s possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn42">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[42]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Probate Files for John Williamson, died 7
June 1874 while residing in St Kilda, Victoria, probated granted 2 July 1874 to
Louisa Williamson (Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 7591/P0002,
12/185 List of Personal Property-transport items listed were 3 horses, 3
waggonettes & a buggy; also listed were harness saddle etc (accessed online
https://prov.vic.gov.au/ 28 March 2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[43]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; Birth Certificate of Moses
Williamson child of John Williamson(draper) & Louisa WALKER, residing in St
Kilda, Victoria, born 17 September 1863 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Registration number 23188 / 1863.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn44">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[44]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1866 'Advertising', The Telegraph, St
Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (Vic. : 1864 - 1888), 13 October, p. 4.
, viewed 22 Mar 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108125489"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108125489</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn45">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[45]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1866 Rates paid by John Williamson,
Tailor, for 4 Roomed Property in Camden St., owned by William Philpott [no
listed address], Rate entry 1580 City of St Kilda,1866; Ancestry.com. Victoria,
Australia, Rate Books, 1855-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2015.
Citing Public Record Office Victoria; North Melbourne, Australia; Series Title:
2335/P Microfilm copy of Rate Books, City of St Kilda [1858-1900] Year Range:
1863-1869<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn46">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[46]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1867 Rates paid by John Williamson,
Tailor, for 5 Roomed Property in High St, St Kilda owned by Thomas Earles,
Tailor, Rate entry 803 City of St Kilda, 1867; Ancestry.com. Victoria,
Australia, Rate Books, 1855-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2015.
Citing Public Record Office Victoria; North Melbourne, Australia; Series Title:
2335/P Microfilm copy of Rate Books, City of St Kilda [1858-1900]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn47">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[47]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1866 'Advertising', The Argus (Melbourne,
Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 5 December, p. 1. , viewed 30 Jan 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5780300"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5780300</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn48">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[48]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vendors Books, Victoria (Land
Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment)), Book 184 Memorial 831 Purchase
price £58.12 from John Williamson to Robert Byrne. 14 November 1868 for initial property in High
St, Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn49">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[49]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1868 'POLICE INTELLIGENCE.', The
Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (Vic. : 1864 - 1888), 16
May, p. 3. , viewed 02 Feb 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108124723"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108124723</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn50">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[50]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vendors Books, Victoria (Land
Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment)), Memorial 753 Book 185. 16
December 1868, 1<sup>st</sup> increase of his mortgage from The Victorian Permenant Property Investment
& Building Society <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn51">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[51]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vendors Books, Victoria (Land
Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment)), Book 190 Memorial 821. 31 May 1869, 2<sup>nd</sup> increase of his
mortgage from The Victorian Permenant
Property Investment & Building Society <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn52">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[52]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vendors Books, Victoria (Land
Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment)), Book 191 Memorial 420. 12 Jun 1869 for purchase of the next door to
his property in High Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn53">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[53]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vendors Books, Victoria (Land
Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment)), Book 211 memorial 80. 12 May 1871 for the purchase of property
behind his in Inkerman Street, Saint Kilda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn54">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[54]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1871 'Advertising', The Argus (Melbourne,
Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 26 May, p. 1. , viewed 28 Mar 2022,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5848567<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn55">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[55]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1871 'Advertising', The Argus (Melbourne,
Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 29 June, p. 1. , viewed 28 Mar 2022,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5850486<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn56">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[56]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1870 'Advertising', The Telegraph, St
Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (Vic. : 1864 - 1888), 15 January, p.
10. , viewed 28 Mar 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105820009"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105820009</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn57">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[57]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1871 'FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24.', The
Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (Vic. : 1864 - 1888), 25
February, p. 4. , viewed 10 Feb 2022,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105820384<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn58">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[58]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1871 'MEMORANDA.', The Telegraph, St
Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (Vic. : 1864 - 1888), 25 February, p.
7. , viewed 10 Feb 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105820392<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn59">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[59]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1873 'Advertising', The Herald
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), 10 February, p. 2. , viewed 29 Jan 2022, </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245368216"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245368216</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn60">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[60]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Probate Files for John Williamson, died 7
June 1874 while residing in St Kilda, Victoria, probated granted 2 July 1874 to
Louisa Williamson (Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 7591/P0002,
12/185 In the list of Personal Property- two shops are mentioned one is St
Kilda and another in Melbouren (accessed online https://prov.vic.gov.au/ 28
March 2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn61">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[61]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages,
Victoria, Australia, Death Certificate John Williamson (Reference details 1874,
# 6427<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn62">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[62]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Anon, 'Funeral Notices', The Argus, 9
June 1874, p.8. [Retrieved 3 December 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5871773]; The Springvale Necroplis website
(Deceased database accessed at https://smct.org.au/deceased-search; has
information regarding Springvale and St Kilda Cemeteries), Reference Number
4212; Tombstone at Gravesite, St Kilda General Cemetery, Church of England -
Monumental Grave, Compt C Grave 832 & 830<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn63">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[63]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Find a Grave, database and images
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216260452/john-williamson : accessed 27
January 2022), memorial page for John Williamson (23 Jan 1832–7 Jun 1874), Find
a Grave Memorial ID 216260452, citing St. Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, Port
Phillip City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by kerbent (contributor
48973979) .</span></p>
</div>
</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-85403314525780438492023-11-08T14:10:00.000+11:002023-11-08T14:10:59.584+11:00John Williamson WW1<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Eight months on
the Western Front from 23 November 1916 to 5 August 1917</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1916
<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Palmer Williamson</span> was a single man, two months shy of 26 years of age with
blue eyes, standing at 5 feet 6 inches [167 cm] and weighing in at 132 Ibs [60
kg].<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> He was a qualified marine engineer a civilian
working in the merchant navy and had been involved with the movement of
Australian troops as they were deployed from Australia to England.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJMPWAdeBjolDZNpNowNAuPOQwhoswk-scg_MvuEiBi1MhdzLRVIlTjPKEP4PdFOlbr9AGO77x9a_Bc4jd8SApbpPyfBYpenh8W60FENuZFgAYn7cU-ytMH0vrI2b53uCbl0saI3N7WlHEAkJwd7xHsAB4LXSlgWZwSicO7xpFPbqfuQeachd1-AZlQ/s1621/w080.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1621" data-original-width="1027" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJMPWAdeBjolDZNpNowNAuPOQwhoswk-scg_MvuEiBi1MhdzLRVIlTjPKEP4PdFOlbr9AGO77x9a_Bc4jd8SApbpPyfBYpenh8W60FENuZFgAYn7cU-ytMH0vrI2b53uCbl0saI3N7WlHEAkJwd7xHsAB4LXSlgWZwSicO7xpFPbqfuQeachd1-AZlQ/s320/w080.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer
unknown, JP Williamson[SERN 10030], circa 1916-1919, Helen Condon's Private
Photo Collection. [W080]</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6qHLalLwPkuoQEMjo0HZBTr3S2FFQTREF9wfrpSyZu2OVJoeljjnRVCPSMgAWB85CGL7bqe7DMr7ihimOZcJ7kJnyH7Rsu_iOQRI6tG9iM6BKJuUuDSS4IbnsIVL6iPeIPYHDHbt7lrEYD1-2Fph9AJYWDpAYCeINae_yz5EXEthdQZut8H0HXJPrw/s1588/w082.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="967" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6qHLalLwPkuoQEMjo0HZBTr3S2FFQTREF9wfrpSyZu2OVJoeljjnRVCPSMgAWB85CGL7bqe7DMr7ihimOZcJ7kJnyH7Rsu_iOQRI6tG9iM6BKJuUuDSS4IbnsIVL6iPeIPYHDHbt7lrEYD1-2Fph9AJYWDpAYCeINae_yz5EXEthdQZut8H0HXJPrw/s320/w082.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, JP Williamson wearing a WW1 AIF cap and cap badge with a non-Australian tunic [SERN 10030], circa 1916-1919, Helen Condon's Private Photo Collection.[W082]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">In February
1916, a call was made for men who were engineers or in the allied trades to
join the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i>“A large number of electrical engineers and plumbers are
urgently wanted to enlist immediately for the front. Members of these trades
willing to join the A.I.F. should communicate with the officer in charge of the
engineers’ depot, Moore Park, Sydney.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><i><!--[endif]--></i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My grandfather John
Palmer Williamson answered that call. He enlisted at the Engineers’ depot,
Moore Park, Sydney <span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on 28 February 1916 and became
part of the Engineer Reinforcements.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Unlike
the other training groups in Australia the recruits for the Engineers were
drawn from all over the country not just their home state. Initial training
took three months, this was the first stage of training that taught the soldier
basic discipline and skills and how to handle his personal weapon and equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trainees lived onsite “<i>in row after
row of white tents with the intervening spaces well swept, while a glimpse inside
the tents shows them to be sweet and clean, with every article of clothing,.
etc., carefully folded and put away. … they have two large airy dining rooms,
where meals are served, and there is also a well-equipped reading-room which is
supplied with an abundance of books, magazines, and writing materials, while at
one end of the room is a piano which has been lent to the camp.</i>”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the end of May, he was amongst the men to become part of 9<sup>th</sup> Field Company
Engineers, “<i>picked from the troops at the Engrs. Depot Moore Park and sent to <a name="_Hlk69935471">Roseberry Park </a>Racecourse, …, under the Command of
Major T.A. Williams.</i>”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span>9<sup>th</sup> Field Company
Engineers'<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> training included the digging of trenches,
construction bridges, erection wire entanglements, handling sandbags and
demolition work, not to mention bomb-throwing using 'live bombs'.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oA8c3Fnr1QMM9VVtbIDRij-gi49TPRTZmHpJGMvOrVcspMIpO0LfbFGo4-bwldExOgXbsKD38GoTfJIJX19mUGOwYLIqvfcxqVS_BPVjW4FrHbfg9AQMrwL4CcwF9fFGilcblAk3s5Mqj-HevWj5lAzg3Hgf399uzslIGzv_xpfMfPc2jVPbLi4Psw/s1017/2023-01-02_12-19-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="1017" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oA8c3Fnr1QMM9VVtbIDRij-gi49TPRTZmHpJGMvOrVcspMIpO0LfbFGo4-bwldExOgXbsKD38GoTfJIJX19mUGOwYLIqvfcxqVS_BPVjW4FrHbfg9AQMrwL4CcwF9fFGilcblAk3s5Mqj-HevWj5lAzg3Hgf399uzslIGzv_xpfMfPc2jVPbLi4Psw/s320/2023-01-02_12-19-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1916 'ENGINEERS TRAINING FOR SERVICE ABROAD.', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 1 March, p. 13. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166256025">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166256025</a> </span></div><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbWXcE70N4_SrBo1D74f6dBufNIno6Hn7VH7lbdy3HqU7Tkav-oZOOzzcFUVzL2N4SNr3sNay5k2S4wyYXj11vPuOay_vgNh0yFWaqwRszJ7d9fAW5X-I4MBm7owZQms_YXumNKqcf-NBr-7tnt5z0YNpwt3lPpDlbHcVUxFaSkqZrMlTWIcmKmtMRw/s1416/2023-01-02_12-23-39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1416" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbWXcE70N4_SrBo1D74f6dBufNIno6Hn7VH7lbdy3HqU7Tkav-oZOOzzcFUVzL2N4SNr3sNay5k2S4wyYXj11vPuOay_vgNh0yFWaqwRszJ7d9fAW5X-I4MBm7owZQms_YXumNKqcf-NBr-7tnt5z0YNpwt3lPpDlbHcVUxFaSkqZrMlTWIcmKmtMRw/s320/2023-01-02_12-23-39.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1916 'AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS BOUND FOR THE FRONT.', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 7 June, p. 8. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166257351">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166257351</a></span></div><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535;">But not everything was about bombs and
learning new skills, there were also euchre parties (a popular card game at the
time), dances in the evenings, and friendly football matches between the
various camps.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="color: #353535;"> </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="color: #353535;"> </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After three months of further elementary
training </span>the 9<sup>th</sup>
<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Field Company of Engineers (New South Wales) as part
of Third Division, </span>moved to Wolloomooloo Bay<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> o</span>n
the 5th July 1916, at 4am <span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with other units </span>& <span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was shipped out </span>at 7.30am on No A 31 HMAT
AJANA <span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arriving at Plymouth in England at the end of August
on the 31<sup>st</sup>.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoCaption"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7qsJlsvdXKxDEE7U2d-z7PWS3GGFDAb4mgCfAUYAOAcebpCas7NwKP6a4pKkifV_HJL_zicRWTZ7DXIfxnEVeXRfokFMc5bqXAf2eKPDzkmSTf0ATEq6BVJUJUgDpKExSpkdnFf1-WGAu8esXLMuO0pf84Ss31Tqd9xG-kDPrdjdjoC1Y_1L6llSDQ/s639/HMAT%20Ajana%20%204117478.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="639" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7qsJlsvdXKxDEE7U2d-z7PWS3GGFDAb4mgCfAUYAOAcebpCas7NwKP6a4pKkifV_HJL_zicRWTZ7DXIfxnEVeXRfokFMc5bqXAf2eKPDzkmSTf0ATEq6BVJUJUgDpKExSpkdnFf1-WGAu8esXLMuO0pf84Ss31Tqd9xG-kDPrdjdjoC1Y_1L6llSDQ/w320-h237/HMAT%20Ajana%20%204117478.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer Josiah Barnes, Troops on board HMAT Ajana (A31) prior to
departure, with well-wishers on the wharf. Troops display a 9th Field Company
Engineers banner and a Union Jack., 8 July 1916, Port Melbourne, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia. Public Domain, AWM Accessed 21 April 2021</span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On arrival
in England, the troops traveled by train to No.21 Camp in the garrison town of
Larkhill, Wiltshire not far from Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plains where the
soldiers lived and underwent further training after being vaccinated and
inoculated.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Then the next round of their training began, they
“<i>learned how to work as part of a bigger tactical team. After the two weeks
indoctrination, eight weeks Intermediate Training subsequently introduced the
recruit to graduated lessons in the basic practical disciplines required of a
modern infantry soldier.</i>”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lark Hill Camp [10 miles from
Tidworth] was <i>‘very severe and strenuous. We were up at daylight every morning
and continued drilling until dark’</i>.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> </span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As part of </span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the 9<sup>th</sup> Brigade, John also trained
in the Bustard Area as troops in a trench system on the Salisbury Plains which
used live ordinance through the network to help acclimatize the trainees to
front-line conditions.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwxMxBInHuNaX5h3MKnVXnK77Dth7c0rNN-ENugZ9rPySCfuc6BfpVqvBPl2svAnq7ofSdUGFjWHRdV0OQmZrLVBxEm1lSiq9Ed6QGaV7-Ta0yDoz4wNHCjKZmCYIrpqJZflPu1BHoAG6H0h5XHJhUP_lB2myvMMGdCslIa6iDmRnOItRTStJN33T6Ew/s640/7268314.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="640" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwxMxBInHuNaX5h3MKnVXnK77Dth7c0rNN-ENugZ9rPySCfuc6BfpVqvBPl2svAnq7ofSdUGFjWHRdV0OQmZrLVBxEm1lSiq9Ed6QGaV7-Ta0yDoz4wNHCjKZmCYIrpqJZflPu1BHoAG6H0h5XHJhUP_lB2myvMMGdCslIa6iDmRnOItRTStJN33T6Ew/s320/7268314.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Elevated view of the huts at No 7 Camp at Codford on the Salisbury Plain, February 1917, Wiltshire England [AWM C01288)]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwswnRNMo1JsVR8zzCVSpaMzIxWFYiGjj8sJo84LB48kRn7UMIM7XNGa0urT1yFo72y0vPz9YMeFKRLREOPkP0SkG9lePKXFY7QHU1VfOCLhJvI3V6LkgbxQBRKkFyxt12lxRqbDaS_kR_nQYfYk3TC6Gf2PAmPHoatK58LUJjexxVoMpyvPAxB2K_uA/s640/6777734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="640" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwswnRNMo1JsVR8zzCVSpaMzIxWFYiGjj8sJo84LB48kRn7UMIM7XNGa0urT1yFo72y0vPz9YMeFKRLREOPkP0SkG9lePKXFY7QHU1VfOCLhJvI3V6LkgbxQBRKkFyxt12lxRqbDaS_kR_nQYfYk3TC6Gf2PAmPHoatK58LUJjexxVoMpyvPAxB2K_uA/s320/6777734.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Photographer unknown, A group of soldiers of the 3rd Division AIF taking part in a training exercise on the Salisbury Plain simulating trench warfare. c 1916, Wiltshire England [AWM H00447]</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the
fourth of November John having completed his general training for warfare was
moved to the </span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">army
engineer training base at Brightlingsea (Essex coast)</span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to complete the final part of Engineer training at
the Australian Engineers’ Training Depot which included extreme living, mining,
demolition mining, etc.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The terrain for training was
characterized by<i> “the soft mud and tidal creeks that were perfect terrain for
practice in bridge, pontoon and road building and trench and dugout digging,
Brightlingsea already formed part of the East Coast garrison.</i>”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #353535; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Training
successfully completed </span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he
began the journey with the 3<sup>rd</sup> Australian Division for the Western
Front. He embarked on the “Black Prince” at South Hampton on the 21 November and
arrived the following day on the 22 November at 6.35am in Harve. From there the
troops moved onto the</span> front-line town of <span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bailleul,
</span>France with its hospital for treating the Allied wounded.<span class="EndnoteTextChar"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span></span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span></span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The Royal
Engineers had become part of General Monash’s Australian Infantry Division while
in the United Kingdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He finally arrived at the Messines on 27 November 1916, near
the village of Armentières; to a sector nicknamed the “Nursery” run by the British Army where further
training and updating of skills was undertaken in further preparation for
battle. Two weeks after arriving John had his first bout of illness on the 11
December that year saw him in and out of hospital until 16 December. The weather in France for the December-January
winter was particularly bleak, conditions were wet and cold, making work difficult, uncomfortable, and very dangerous with the constant shelling.<sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></sup></sup><sup><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>
John however rallied and was able to avoid further illness for 6 weeks until
the 1<sup>st</sup> February which saw almost 3 weeks of illness which included
being admitted twice to hospital until finally, he was sent to a divisional
rest station for 6 days which seemed to resolve the problem. His repetitive
bouts of bronchitis probably resulted from the lack of adequate convalescence
between each bout.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>Being in a front line battalion John would have been in the
trenches for periods of rotating time over<i>“</i><i>each platoon is changed around, so that at the worst a single man seldom does more than forty
eight hours continuous front trench duty in every twelve days, and every
forty-eight days the whole brigade gets relieved by the reserve brigade and
goes out for a complete rest, or for work in the back area, for a clear twenty-four
days</i>”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
During these clear days he would have also undergone further training in such
things Musketry, a continuation of training in the use and care of the SMLE
rifle and the Lewis Light Machine-Gun and other skills such as how to use the
Mills grenade.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John worked in the Messines laying
duck wall, widening and deepening the trenches working in preparation for the </span>battle
of Messines<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>7-14 June 1917 which was part of the Flanders
Offensive<span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: yellow;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="color: #353535; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white;">[xxiii</span><span style="background-color: white;">]</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>The battle of Messines started
with the detonation of 19 mines under the German trenches, which tunnellers had
secretly dug over the previous year, creating enormous craters.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
The men of the 9th Field Company Australia Royal Engineers Unit were exposed to
heavy and constant shelling, slowing the engineers down as they reinforced the
tunnels and carried duckboards.<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxv]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the Battle of Messines, the troops were marched to Bourdrelle
for rest staying with billets in the town but John did not return to the
Western Front for the battle of Passchendaele but was transferred back to England. He
officially became a member of The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) on the 28<sup>th</sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>August 1917 with the rank of 2<sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nd</span></sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Air Mechanic (2A/M)<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #353535; font-size: 12pt;">[xxvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Useful links for
background</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">WikiTree profile for <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williamson-1809" target="_blank">John Aaron Palmer Williamson (1892 - 1982)</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Previous Military Posts for John Palmer Williamson & his
wife Margaret <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2018/02/john-palmer-williamson.html">Uniforms,
Buttons, Badges & Medals of John Aaron Palmer Williamson</a> </span>originally
published Wednesday, 21 February 2018</li><li><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2016/08/wagga-wagga-voluntary-aid-detachment.html">WaggaWagga Voluntary Aid Detachment</a> originally published 21 August 2016</span></li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blogpost Meta Data</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p>Sources</b></p><p class="Style2"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk69898109">Australian War Memorial: First World
War 1914-1918, </a>John Palmer Williamson, Sapper, Service Number 10030; 9 FCE
[Field Company Engineers] (July 1916); HMAT Ajana A31, Sydney date of joining 5
July 1916 citing AWM8 14/28/1 - 9 FCE [Field Company Engineers] (July 1916) [Embarkation
Roll/leaving Australia]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Australian War Memorial: First World War Nominal Roll, John
Palmer Williamson, private, Service Number 10030; A.F.C. [Australian Flying
Corps] (July 1916); date of enlistment 2 February 1916, returned to Australia 6
May 1919; citing AWM133 57 [record notes
– list compiled in London 1919 shows date of enlistment, unit of service at the
end of the war, according to AWM contains many errors][returning to Australia]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">National Archives of Australia: Australian Imperial Force,
Base Records Office, B2455 Personnel Dossiers for First Australian Imperial
Force Ex-Service Members, Lexicographical series; B2455, John Palmer Williamson
(short form NAA: B2455, WILLIAMSON JOHN PALMER) [personnel file]<o:p></o:p></p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">National
Archives of Australia: Deputy Commissioner for Repatriation, Brisbane,
Queensland; M61343, John Palmer Williamson, Service Number 10030 [medical file after the war].</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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B2455 Personnel Dossiers for First Australian Imperial Force Ex-Service
Members, Lexicographical series; B2455, John Palmer Williamson (short form NAA:
B2455, WILLIAMSON JOHN PALMER) [personnel file] <o:p></o:p></p>
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'Our Soldiers.', Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent (NSW : 1887 - 1932),
11 February, p. 5. , viewed 21 Apr 2021,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228631387<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Archives of Australia: Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, B2455
Personnel Dossiers for First Australian Imperial Force Ex-Service Members,
Lexicographical series; B2455, John Palmer Williamson (short form NAA: B2455,
WILLIAMSON JOHN PALMER) [personnel file] Attestation Paper of Persons Enlisted
For Service Abroad for J.P.Williamson<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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'SOLDIER ENGINEERS.', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 14 January, p.
4. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115266787">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115266787</a>
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D. A. 9th Australian Infantry Brigade, ML MSS. 3059/1 Item 2, page 5 (accessed <a href="https://transcripts.sl.nsw.gov.au/page/item-02-david-whitehead-papers-regarding-9th-infantry-brigade-1916-page-5">https://transcripts.sl.nsw.gov.au/page/item-02-david-whitehead-papers-regarding-9th-infantry-brigade-1916-page-5</a>
21 April 2021)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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'SOLDIER ENGINEERS.', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 14 January, p.
4. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115266787<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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'IN THE WINTER GARDEN.', Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), 8 June,
p. 28. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115306863<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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p. 15. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104645199<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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'FOOTBALL.', The Mirror of Australia (Sydney, NSW : 1915 - 1917), 24 June, p.
15. , viewed 21 Apr 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104642094<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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War Memorial: First World War 1914-1918, John Palmer Williamson, Sapper,
Service Number 10030; 9 FCE [Field Company Engineers] (July 1916); HMAT Ajana
A31, Sydney date of joining 5 July 1916 citing AWM8 14/28/1 - 9 FCE [Field
Company Engineers] (July 1916) [Embarkation Roll/leaving Australia]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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Archives of Australia: Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, B2455
Personnel Dossiers for First Australian Imperial Force Ex-Service Members,
Lexicographical series; B2455, John Palmer Williamson (short form NAA: B2455,
WILLIAMSON JOHN PALMER) [personnel file] p.2<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Lewis
Frederickson, The Development of Australian nfantry on the Western
Front1916-1918: Ab u\Imperial model of training, tactics and technology, 28
August 2016, <span lang="EN-GB">Thesis for School
of Humanities and Social Sciences UNSW Canberra p.64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Service Record for John Palmer Williamson, p.2 & 9 p.5<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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AWM4 Subclass 14/28 - 9th Field Company, Australian Engineers, July 1917 accessed 1 May 2 [research note- "<i>During World War I, duckboards were put along the ground of trenches on the Western Front. This is because the trenches usually flooded. Mud and water would stay in the trenches for months. The boards helped to keep the soldiers' feet dry. It also helped stop soldiers get a disease called trench foot. Trench foot is caused by standing on wet, muddy ground for a long time. They also helped soldiers move along the trenches faster. Sometimes, falling from duckboards could be deadly. Some unlucky soldiers drowned in mud because of their heavy equipment</i>." source <o:p></o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Duckboards. (2020, May 14). </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wikipedia</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Retrieved 03:02, November 8, 2023 from </span><a class="external free" href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duckboards&oldid=6940683" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: white; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duckboards&oldid=6940683</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.]</span></p>
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Service Record for John Palmer Williamson, p.4 & 10.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div><br />Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-33971511153067561952023-09-14T13:14:00.000+10:002023-09-14T13:14:59.944+10:00Moving to Sailors Gully during the Gold Rush<p>Family legend has it that John Bassett[Jnr] [my
2nd great granduncle] came out to Australia during the gold rush in the 1850s.
After financial success, he went back to England and brought his brothers and
their families to Australia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The Context
of the Early Mining Environment in Victoria<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There was a
lot of regulatory upheaval in the early 1850s caused at first by Victoria's
separation from New South Wales, and soon after by the discovery of gold and
the subsequent gold rush. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“From early 1852, news reached London of much
richer Victorian gold finds at Buninyong, then Ballarat, Mount Alexander and
Bendigo. These discoveries triggered a rash of nearly 40 British-based
Australian gold mining companies in 1852, twelve in January alone, including
the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Many miners
were brought out to Australia by British-based Australian gold mining
companies. The miner’s contractual employment obligations included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">working
for the company for a five-year period.</span></li><li>not
participating in any other business or speculation during their contract.</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Once the
contract term was completed, many were also entitled to a return trip home to
England. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The newly
separated Victorian Colony government was accused of being <i>‘pro-digger /
anti-company’ </i>and<i> </i>favouring smaller mining enterprises<i>.</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i>
</i>Although many suspected that the companies <i>“failed at this time, as
their funds were squandered through poor management or on futile ventures.”</i>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Consequently,
many contracted miners were let go by the companies that had bought them out to
Australia or did not have their contracts renewed when they expired.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><i><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Sorting
the fact from fiction - The Reconstructed Story<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Before
arriving in Victoria, John Bassett, a miner, had been living in Horse Downs,
Crowan, Cornwall, in England, with his wife Catherine(27 years) and three
children Francis(7), John(4) & Catherine(2). In the same village next door was his married
sister, Anne (24), and her husband Stephen Davey (30, Miner) and their three
children Jane(7), Elizabeth (5) and John(2).<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In March
1853 he left England on the<i> SS Marco Polo</i> and arrived at Hobson’s Bay on
29. He was in the employ of The Colonial Mining Company.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John
Bassett and Mr Nicholls, who were both working for The Colonial Mining were
“sacked” along with all the other staff, soon after arriving. They were
experienced miners, so became business partners, and took out a claim on the reef
for themselves. </span>On 20 August 1856, he applied with three others for a
lease of 60 yards on a reef at Surface Hill Sailors Hill.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span lang="EN-GB"> They successfully obtained 30 ounces
of gold to the ton of quartz.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk145413729"><span lang="EN-GB">A travelling reporter, William Kelly published a description of his travels
through Victoria in 1860. He describes his meeting with two <i>“youthful
Cornish, who came out in humble employ, on the staff of the Colonial Gold
Mining company, and were sent to Sailors’ Gully … in a partial disembodying of
the staff and N—c—s and B—ss—tt commenced on their own hook, making out a claim
on the very reef assigned to the company</i>”</span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">In 1861 John who <i>“had been
in possession of the ground for 5 years”</i> in Sailors Gully applied for a new
mining lease on the same land.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWLiSCUi0Ak58RugwdiQc7ALS6A7hBVVswtiFxA_CxcsJJ2hYNbVZsVJtBSWqDnWBaR1X3OZ_TyiO9aZfqQbgKzEQivMBNKwLQleTYSStjC7fbi7cWdysdRoAvBONeddZyUF7QyBaz6CLza6Va8XaEUkrMopJJbHhPF_D4WKUqm-BxoXXH3mWhOcxFT7kr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="571" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWLiSCUi0Ak58RugwdiQc7ALS6A7hBVVswtiFxA_CxcsJJ2hYNbVZsVJtBSWqDnWBaR1X3OZ_TyiO9aZfqQbgKzEQivMBNKwLQleTYSStjC7fbi7cWdysdRoAvBONeddZyUF7QyBaz6CLza6Va8XaEUkrMopJJbHhPF_D4WKUqm-BxoXXH3mWhOcxFT7kr" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="text-align: center;">1855</b><span style="text-align: center;"> 'Advertising', Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), 12
September, p. 3. , viewed 09 Sep 202, </span></span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88047447" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88047447</span></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;">John &
his associates <i>“prospered rapidly and steadily. A fine steam-mill soon
supplanted the simple horse concern; substantial brick and stones houses arose
on the sites of the calico tenements …</i> [John]<i> had come home a richer man
than many in that company under whose auspices he emigrated as an articled
labourer.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SgVPx8FqcvCFaHavxmxHa60dgckNGeT8_8hpFjBE1eiqhaNy2HeaCexGyDJ_teKKO8mHvsq9XAG36dckzbVhjLplhU0is42i8pfUL_klpkdk7mu-QHmRqMgOhc0tLgGVMqKsWGNm85WbNfwacLMA5tASR0gS42mxwTRVw63nsL-ibZUnQpvCUHsRn3u3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="469" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SgVPx8FqcvCFaHavxmxHa60dgckNGeT8_8hpFjBE1eiqhaNy2HeaCexGyDJ_teKKO8mHvsq9XAG36dckzbVhjLplhU0is42i8pfUL_klpkdk7mu-QHmRqMgOhc0tLgGVMqKsWGNm85WbNfwacLMA5tASR0gS42mxwTRVw63nsL-ibZUnQpvCUHsRn3u3" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After his success, John returned home to England on the <i>“Montmorency”</i> departing on 14
October 1856.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Eight months later he was on his way back to Australia aboard the </span><i>“</i><i><span lang="EN-GB">SS </span>Royal Charter”. </i>He Liverpool,
England on the 16<sup>th</sup> May 1857 and arrived in Hobson’s Bay on 18 July 1857.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
On board were John Bassett, 36 yrs, Miner, wife Catherine and children Francis,
John, Catherine and Martha.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Also onboard were William Bassett, 40 yrs,
Miner John’s brother and Stephen Davey, his brother-in-law.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Additional extended family followed later.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After
returning to Australia, John applied for several mining leases both in his own
right and as a member of The Bassett Brothers joint company. The Bassett
brothers included amongst their numbers John Bassett Jnr, Francis Bassett(John’s
brother), William Bassett(John’s brother), James Bassett(John’s brother),
Stephan Davey(John’s brother-in-law). Note that all, except his younger brother
James, were aboard the Marco Polo in 1857. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It was not
until new lease regulations were issued in 1859, that a lease was secured by
the Bassett Brothers.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Records show that the original lease application was received by the Mine’s
Warden on 24 August 1854, although it is not clear why the lease was not
granted or acted upon. Perhaps this was the Colonial Company's original
application, which John Bassett took over when the Colonial Company failed in
their bid to secure the land for mining.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">By 1858,
John and his former business associate Nicholas were operating independent
Steam Mills, on the opposite side of Sailors Gully.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">John became ill in 1861 and passed
away on 17 November 1865 from “miner’s complaint” after going bankrupt in the
same year.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xxiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <b>1851
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1853
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Kelly, William, 1860, <b><i>Life in Victoria, or,
Victoria in 1853 and Victoria in 1858 : showing the march of improvement made
by the colony within those periods, in town and country, cities and diggings</i></b>,
London : Chapman and Hall ; Melbourne : George Robertson, (</span><a href="https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Life_in_Victoria/N84NAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP2&printsec=frontcover"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Life_in_Victoria/N84NAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP2&printsec=frontcover</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> : accessed 6 September 2023) p.199</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Bendigo
Lease Register, Department of Energy and
……. Registery of Applications, photocopy provided by Noelene Wild<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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or, Victoria in 1853 and Victoria in 1858 : showing the march of improvement
made by the colony within those periods, in town and country, cities and
diggings</i></b>, London : Chapman and Hall ; Melbourne : George Robertson, (</span><a href="https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Life_in_Victoria/N84NAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP2&printsec=frontcover"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Life_in_Victoria/N84NAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP2&printsec=frontcover</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> : accessed 6 September 2023) p.201<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="line-height: 107%;">Outward Passengers to Interstate,
U.K. and Foreign Ports, Sep - Oct 1856, <b>Passenger List “Montmorency”</b> ,
bound for Liverpool, London; VPRS 948/P0001, Sep - Oct 1856, ( </span><a href="https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/236E662A-F7F0-11E9-AE98-71788719474E?image=237"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/236E662A-F7F0-11E9-AE98-71788719474E?image=237</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> [Images 237-240 of 271] accessed 13
September 2023) Unnumbered page [image238]; ]; <i>[research note: this is a
passenger departure list-created in Australia] </i>Passenger entry for
John Bassett, aged 36<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Inward Overseas Passenger Lists,
British and Foreign Ports, Jul - Sep 1857, May 1857 , <b>Passenger List
[Schedule B] “Royal Charter”</b>, bound for Melbourne, Australia; VPRS
947/P0000, Jul - Sep 1857, (</span><a href="https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3B05F129-F96C-11E9-AE98-27F6998F8082?image=107"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3B05F129-F96C-11E9-AE98-27F6998F8082?image=107</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">
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[image 113]; <i>[research note: this is a passenger departure list-created in
England]</i> Passenger entry 256 for John
Bassett, aged 36, miner and family, Catherine(33), Francis(11), John
(10), Catherine (8), Martha (6) travelling 2<sup>nd</sup> Class<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Inward
Overseas Passenger Lists, British and Foreign Ports, Jul - Sep 1857, May 1857 ,
<b>Passenger List [Schedule B] “Royal Charter”</b>, bound for Melbourne,
Australia; VPRS 947/P0000, Jul - Sep 1857, (<a href="https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3B05F129-F96C-11E9-AE98-27F6998F8082?image=107">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3B05F129-F96C-11E9-AE98-27F6998F8082?image=107</a>
[images 107-115 of 342]: accessed 13 September 2023) Unnumbered page [image
109]; [research note: this is a passenger departure list-created in England]
Passenger entries 152 for William
Bassett, aged 40 & 1853 Stephen Davey, aged 36, miner, travelling
3rd class<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Birrell,
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Leases
102 & 103 in 1859 in the Registrar of Applications for Gold Mining Leases
Unit 195 Sandhurst Bendigo, 1-200 VPRS 7842/0002<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Tulloch, Thorold (Compiler); 1859, <b>The Bendigo district general directory :
with calendar (1859)</b>, Melbourne, W. Fairfax & Co., (FamilySearch Film # 008138964
[Images 150 - 180 of 621] ); <i>Street Listing</i>, Sailor’s Gully – Right
Side:- Bassett, and Bros., John, crushing; & Davy, Stephen, engineer, steam
crushing mills, & Left Side:- Nicholas and Co., steam crushing mills, Page 37;
(Image 170: <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK3-6TRJ?cat=219278">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK3-6TRJ?cat=219278</a> : Accessed 13 September 2023)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<a name="_Hlk145504365">Tulloch, Thorold (Compiler); 1859, <b>The Bendigo
district general directory : with calendar (1859)</b>, Melbourne, W. Fairfax & Co., (FamilySearch Film # 008138964
[Images 150 - 180 of 621] ); <i>Avocation[Trade] Listing</i>, Bassett, and
Bros., John, crushing, Sailor’s Gully, Page 50; (Image 177: </a><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK3-6TG6?i=176&cat=219278">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK3-6TG6?i=176&cat=219278</a> : Accessed 10 September 2023)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Insolvency Proceedings for John Bassett</b>, PROV VPRS759/P Insolvency's,
Unit 91 Documents relating to John Bassett's Insolvency Proceedings<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> </span>Victoria State Government, Registry of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Australia; <b>Death Certificate of
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</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-63669827454197470382022-10-30T21:35:00.000+11:002022-10-30T21:35:13.543+11:00Walter Todman born Lincoln James Temple Willoughby<p>Walter Todman died in Australia on the 14 Oct 1929 at his home, 3 Cato Street, Prahran, Victoria, Australia of a heart attack. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGxPrQjRmy5oPzLjk5egcUm9ztfgdP5L4u91Fjm7nEwRpzsgWH6X3SmgCDoA01ZPYUx5tH8aj81i4rnASXBAkoRZ_ILpyPBTwfQfQuyx39JJa1_YDx0IeGnqCQFEUybnLGV3mkCiqg9UEXocn8ZYmVmbOa0IwpvkssdW6I6xCq0wIZVBIk9uLB2YhqaQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="940" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGxPrQjRmy5oPzLjk5egcUm9ztfgdP5L4u91Fjm7nEwRpzsgWH6X3SmgCDoA01ZPYUx5tH8aj81i4rnASXBAkoRZ_ILpyPBTwfQfQuyx39JJa1_YDx0IeGnqCQFEUybnLGV3mkCiqg9UEXocn8ZYmVmbOa0IwpvkssdW6I6xCq0wIZVBIk9uLB2YhqaQ=w400-h104" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">He is buried in an
unmarked grave in Springvale Cemetery. </span>His death
certificate gives his parents as Walter Todman (Rope maker) & Mary Ann
formerly Willoughby, and birth place as <span lang="EN-US">England and having lived in the Australian Colonies, for 37 years in
Victoria.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">In order to locate where Walter may have been born we looked
for a marriage certificate between a Willoughby and a Todman. The only marriage
that we have been able to locate occurred in 1854 between <b>Charles Willoughby</b> (rope maker) and <b>Mary Ann Ramsey Todman</b> in Gillingham, Kent.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Their
fifth child was a son, <b>James Lincoln Temple
Willoughby </b>born 1 Nov 1865.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>James Lincoln
Temple Willoughby</u></b> (proposed great-grandfather of Sandra and Andrea)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">James L. T Willoughby appears in the 1871 census as a scholar and again in the 1881 census as a blacksmith<span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="font-size: 10pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>In 1871 James was living with his parents and siblings on Creek Road in Deptford, Kent. He was still living at home in 1881 with his parents and siblings but in Montague Place, Poplar in London. Charles, his father, dies in 1888 (rope maker).<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>By the 1891 census James is no longer living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Willoughby who is now living with her son Charles and his family and also two of his unwed sisters.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span>We have been unable to trace the location of James L. T. Willoughby by the 1891 census or in the marriage records.</p><p class="MsoNormal">It is believed that James L T Willoughby must have left the area as early as 1884 possibly to travel to Australia to begin a new life which is supported by the advertisement below that was placed by his mother in an Australian newspaper. Missing Persons article that appeared in the “Evening Journal” newspaper in South Australia.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
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James may have changed his name and we are trying to determine if James L. T
Willoughby is Walter Todman. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Walter Todman’s marriage certificate in 1892 recognises his occupation as blacksmith. His mother is listed as Mary Ann Willoughby and his father as Walter Todman (rope maker)<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>. We also have a death certificate for our Walter Todman in 1929. This death certificate recognises his occupation as motor engineer. His mother is listed as Mary Ann Todman previously Willoughby and his father as Walter Todman (rope maker).<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>There is some evidence to support that James Lincoln Temple Willoughby became Walter Todman, the following was based on a list compiled by Simon Todman (Andrea’s brother)<br /><b><br /></b><div><b>Initial evidence (as discussed above)</b><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span> Family legend: states that Walter changed his name from Willoughby to Todman. Todman is a rare name. James Lincoln Temple Willoughby's mother was Mary Ann Ramsey Todman.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span> Birth Date: Walter Todman died in October 1929 aged 63 thus birth is estimated as 1866. Documentation on the birth certificates of his children indicates that he was born either late 1865 or early 1866.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt;">James Lincoln Temple Willoughby was born 1/11/1865.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span></span></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>English records indicate that there were only two Walter Todman's born between Mar 1860 and Dec 1870, they were:-</div></blockquote><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><ol><li>Walter Todman - reference Births Mar 1866 Greenwich 1d 711 and died in 1887</li><li>Walter Todman - reference Births Sep 1865 Hambledon 2a 109 and died in 1959 </li></ol></ol></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Occupation: Walter was a blacksmith as was James Lincoln Temple
Willoughby.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Father's
occupation: On Walter’s marriage
certificate his father was a rope maker. James Lincoln Willoughby’s father
Charles was also a rope maker.</span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">The only
marriage found in England between a Willoughby and a Todman occurred in 1854
when Charles Willoughby married Mary Ann Ramsey Todman in Gillingham Kent.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span></span></span></p></div></blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">O</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">n his marriage certificate, Walter's mother was Mary Ann Willoughby.</span></li><li>James Lincoln Temple Willoughby's mother was Mary Ann Willoughby (nee Todman).</li><li>On his marriage certificate, Walter's father was Walter Todman. No proof has been found of any Walte<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">r Todman being old enough to be the father of Walter 1866. The
first Walter found in English records was born in 1852.</span></li></ul></ul><div><b>Further evidence to support theory</b></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Walter Victor
Todman, Lincoln Todman and Alma Dudley Todman, Walter’s sons and his youngest
daughter, all have their father’s name as Walter <i>James</i> Todman on their death certificates. The other children have
their father listed as Walter Todman or unknown Todman on their death
certificates.</span></div><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">7)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Naming
Patterns of issue.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Walter's 2nd
son was christened Lincoln <i>James</i>
Todman. Is this a clue recognizing a previous identity; that of James Lincoln
Temple Willoughby?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">James Lincoln
Temple Willoughby's grandmother’s name was <i>Charlotte</i>. Walter Todman's 4th daughter (who died in
infancy) was called Charlotte Mary - maybe after his grandmother.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">8)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Walter's watch
came to be given to Lincoln James Todman.
The initials on the inside rear cover are J.L.T.W. Is this another clue
to a previous identity; that of James Lincoln Temple Willoughby. See below.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></p><b>The Watch</b><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Walter Todman owned a fob watch; with a crude engraving on the
front of the watch of the letters “W” and “T”.
This physical link to
the past watch was passed onto his second son Lincoln James Todman and give
clues to Walter Todman’s possible name change.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7CGgiVqvgaBUvVQm745V2XY0AxCwRUhcPwH_aU8Zj29gDmoqwVnpYUZ5pm9IrMVgmkcyRIM9jQUcH1znnYaNrcDYkv3T6ILs0-nZmwohj6qso3ln7T98B4ZfDTivLTaiz20xvjmzD8oEPUsNcl6_6MoZcrPz0aKFvAv3KZKZ1TuEd0jfs4gDE10Kihg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="313" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7CGgiVqvgaBUvVQm745V2XY0AxCwRUhcPwH_aU8Zj29gDmoqwVnpYUZ5pm9IrMVgmkcyRIM9jQUcH1znnYaNrcDYkv3T6ILs0-nZmwohj6qso3ln7T98B4ZfDTivLTaiz20xvjmzD8oEPUsNcl6_6MoZcrPz0aKFvAv3KZKZ1TuEd0jfs4gDE10Kihg" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Craig Todman (photographer), Engraved lettering close-up, 2016, digital image, cropped and enlarged</i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><v:shape alt="LincolnTodmanFobWatchClosed.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1032" style="height: 104.25pt; margin-left: 151.1pt; margin-top: 17.9pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 100.85pt; z-index: -251655168;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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</w:wrap></v:shape></p>The letters on the front of the Fob Watch are thought to represent Walter’s Australian name – “Walter Todman”. The letters that appear on the inside back cover of the watch however are “J.L.T.W.” and are thought to represent Walter’s English birth name “James Lincoln Temple Willoughby”.<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p> Walter arrived in Australia before 1890 and according to the serial number (8145946) on the internal mechanism of the watch, it was manufactured in 1897. It is not known if the watch was a gift from England or purchased in Australia. The initials “J.L.T.W.” may provide a clue. The working theory is that the J.L.T.W. lettering may have been engraved at the place of purchase, possibly England (where they knew him by this name), as the engraving looks professionally done.</div><div><br /></div><div><u><b>DNA corroboration</b></u></div><div>The theory that James L. T. Willoughby changed his name to Walter Todman either on or after his arrival in Australia is supported by DNA evidence. Using existing trees and Ancestry ThruLines DNA links have been established 6 of James L. T. Willoughby [aka Walter Todman] 9 siblings (all children of Charles Willoughby & Mary Ann Ramsay Todman)<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">James/Walter’s
siblings were:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mary Ann Ramsay Willoughby (1855-1915<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Charles James Willoughby (1861 -
) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Charlotte Elizabeth Willoughby (1862-
) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Annie Maria Willoughby (1852 - )
[ no links yet located]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eliza Burdett Jane Willoughby ( 1870 – ) [ no links yet located]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">George Louisa Mayo Willoughby (1872-1929) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alice Jane Willoughby ( 1874-1882) [ died before having children]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">8.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Katherine Beaconsfield Willoughby (1877- ) [ no links yet located]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>DNA Connects<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">James
Lincoln Temple Willoughby who later became known as Walter Todman in Australia
was the son of Charles Willoughby and Mary Ann Ramsay Todman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an
autosomal via an Ancestry.com DNA test match between Sandra Williamson to 4 third cousin DNA matches of over 30cM for the various descendant lines of Charles Willoughby and Mary Ann Ramsay Todman, all of which have been confirmed with a paper trail created during genealogical research. These results are consistent with the predicted relationship from
AncestryDNA of 3rd cousin.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Based on
the following relationships I feel I can be confident that Charles Willoughby
and Mary Ann Ramsay Todman are the parents of Walter Todman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">WikiTree profile for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Willoughby-2918" target="_blank">James Lincoln Temple Willoughby aka Walter Todman </a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blogpost Meta Data</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The URL for this post is:</span></span> https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2022/10/walter-todman-born-lincoln-james-temple.html<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> originally
published on 30 October 2022</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Author 2022, Sandra Williamson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">
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of Births, Deaths and Marriages, death certificate 15938 (1929), Walter Todman
died 14 October 1929. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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certificate for Charles Willoughby and Mary Ann Ramsey Todman, married 2 July
1854, parish church Gillingham, Kent; citing 2a/473/256, 3rd quarter 1854,
Medway registration district; General
Register Office, Southport.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">England, birth
certificate for James Lincoln Temple Willoughby, born 1 November 1865; citing 1d/74/275,
4th quarter 1865, Saint Mary Magdalan Bermondsey Surrey registration district,
Saint James in the county of Surrey sub-district; General Register Office,
Southport.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Registrar General
of England and Wales, "1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census,"
database & images, brightsolid online publishing ltd, <i>Findmypast</i> (www.Findmypast.com
: accessed 11 Jan 2017), entry for Census record for Charles Willoughby, Creek
Road, St Nicholas, Greenwich, London, England; RG10/750/21/37; Registrar
General of England and Wales, "1881 England, Wales & Scotland
Census," database & images, brightsolid online publishing ltd, <i>Findmypast</i> (www.Findmypast.com
: accessed 11 Jan 2017), entry for Census record for Charles Willoughby,
Montague Place, Poplar, London, England; RG11/510/105/10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">England and Wales,
death certificate for Charles
Willoughby, died 15 September 1888; citing 1C/418/243, 3 quarter 1888,
Poplar registration district, Poplar sub-district; General Register Office,
Southport.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn6">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Registrar General
of England and Wales, "1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census,"
database & images, brightsolid online publishing ltd, <i>Findmypast</i> (www.Findmypast.com
: accessed 11 Jan 2017), entry for Charles James Willoughby's household, Hutchings Street,
Poplar, London, England; RG12/337/55/45; Mary Ann Willoughby is listed as
living with Charles Willoughby as his mother a widow aged 55 living on her own
means</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9pt;">1901 'MISSING FRIENDS.',<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Evening
Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912)</i>, 13 April, p. 6. , viewed 19 Jan 2017,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207944213</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn8">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">"Millwall,
Middlesex Genealogy Genealogy - Familysearch Wiki". 2017.
Familysearch.Org. Accessed January 15 2017. </span><a href="https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Millwall,_Middlesex_Genealogy"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Millwall,_Middlesex_Genealogy</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn9"><h4 style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[ix]</span> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">Mariners and ships
in Australian Waters, ‘Crew & Passenger list for the Nurjahan arriving
Sydney 3 February 1885’, citing </span><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">State Records
Authority of New South Wales: Shipping Master's Office; Passengers Arriving
1855 - 1922; NRS13278, [X172] reel 465</span></i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">, </span><a href="http://marinersandships.com.au/1885/02/006nur.htm"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-weight: normal;">http://marinersandships.com.au/1885/02/006nur.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">, Accessed January 19
2017</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
</div>
<div id="edn10">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Registry of Birth,
Death and Marriages, Victoria, "Certificate of Marriage Walter Todman & Martha Ellis 16 January
1892 Reference# 345" (Original in the family papers of Myrtle Sharp.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Registry of Birth,
Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia, <i>Death Certificate Walter Todman,
14 October 1929, Reference# 15938</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn12">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">England, birth
certificate, James Lincoln Temple Willoughby, 1 November 1865, citing
1d/74/275, 4th quarter 1865, Saint Mary Magdalan Bermondsey Surrey registration
district, Saint James in the county of Surrey sub-district.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn13">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">England,
marriage certificate for Charles Willoughby and Mary Ann Ramsey Todman, married
2 July 1854, parish church Gillingham, Kent; citing 2a/473/256, 3rd quarter
1854, Medway registration district;
General Register Office, Southport.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-41760495860166452462022-05-29T16:28:00.000+10:002022-05-29T16:28:46.849+10:00 John Williamson, the Hapless Marine Engineer<p>John became
a Marine Engineer at the age of 33. Initially qualified as a toolmaker, he also
had experience as a factory supervisor, and more recently as a Workshop Supervisor
with the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span></span>
This background positioned John well to be a Marine engineer with lots of hands-on
experience with power generation and maintenance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Why John
chose to go to sea at this time is not clear but some say he was running away
to sea to avoid the problems of his first marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWVlQEmgdKCo2Q1U509PqRxhb819fP4WoeLgkq6Y8jDloMMp_gcmBYwNj1kzl6e-AePUD3rlYB_YMToZmF-9M5Fcapw-KlYoOe8zrFIqpDlSz6VAIE5kWGcfDvLLf7AJtL9vVbEZHGwnvH_mNNzi-pUrUlMpeX5XKEcYj-JLnJ7VP4qyRsLlhazrQNQ/s4719/1956_WilliamsonJohn1923_SeamansDocument_p2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2994" data-original-width="4719" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWVlQEmgdKCo2Q1U509PqRxhb819fP4WoeLgkq6Y8jDloMMp_gcmBYwNj1kzl6e-AePUD3rlYB_YMToZmF-9M5Fcapw-KlYoOe8zrFIqpDlSz6VAIE5kWGcfDvLLf7AJtL9vVbEZHGwnvH_mNNzi-pUrUlMpeX5XKEcYj-JLnJ7VP4qyRsLlhazrQNQ/s320/1956_WilliamsonJohn1923_SeamansDocument_p2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">John’s new work environment was very different from what he had previously known but one free of everyday domestic demands. The Merchant Navy was not the same as when his father had been a seafaring engineer, it had been gutted by the recent world war, which had ended in 1946.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“From 1950 to the late 1970s the British
Merchant Marine was desperately seeking really good marine engineers to replace
the dreadful losses during WW2, and the best of our Australian engineers rushed
overseas to get away from the frightful conditions prevalent on the Australian
coast ships. … What was left on the Australian, and to a certain extent, the
New Zealand ships were those so-called engineers who were virtually
unemployable elsewhere, uninterested in their profession and unwilling, perhaps
even incapable, of training junior engineers.</span></i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It was in
this environment that John was introduced to the new skills he needed to become
a competent Marine Engineer. He rose
quickly up in his first position on the vessel <i>SS Arafura</i> where he began as 8<sup>th</sup>
Engineer in April 1957, becoming 6<sup>th</sup> Engineer by 28th December that
same year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“During this period, he was on watch with a
Senior Engineer for eight hours per day on the Main Engines and Boilers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtZF9Q-7hEXXB8aRMKbP8tPW8F_14dGU0-aJ9rfQ3MpOlFxqCwaRc0KVDHLzo5oT2zqCtLCsbTOfj99MuzTY0JE7lzYyZq5J-FXZKqeQaiD6FZmaTWeuTw6ADcsTys1n4qZw520P6Zx_nsJNxTZJMUNO2BTBNykp-0L-NjFy5A2Hdz530qcQYkXrReA/s2053/W182.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2053" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtZF9Q-7hEXXB8aRMKbP8tPW8F_14dGU0-aJ9rfQ3MpOlFxqCwaRc0KVDHLzo5oT2zqCtLCsbTOfj99MuzTY0JE7lzYyZq5J-FXZKqeQaiD6FZmaTWeuTw6ADcsTys1n4qZw520P6Zx_nsJNxTZJMUNO2BTBNykp-0L-NjFy5A2Hdz530qcQYkXrReA/s320/W182.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Photographer unknown, John Williamson in his
Engineer’s Uniform on the deck of <i>SS Nellore</i>, circa October 1957, at Sea[W182]</div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>Then he
went on to work as the Junior Engineer Officer on the <i>S.S. Nellore</i> from 11
September 1957 to 12 December 1957.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>“During this time he was second in seniority of
a regular watch, of eight hours in twenty four, on Main Engines and boilers.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The
Engine Room of a Ship<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“The
Environment is generally hot and noisy inside the Engine room. The temperature
may even rise as high as 55 Degrees Celsius. However, they don’t generally
spend more time down there apart from Scheduled Maintenance which is generally
done while the ship is in Port. Marine Engineers make regular inspections and carry
out any repair and maintenance according to the schedule.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The job
requires physical endurance and deep technical knowledge with immense
troubleshooting skills. When something goes wrong engineers will work until it
is resolved, no matter how long it takes using the limited resources available
on the ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Then John joined
the crew of the <i>S.S Monowai</i> in early 1858.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“The Monowai was a very old ship, built in 1925
and her service ended in 1960, … she was being allowed to ‘run down’, at least
as far as Lloyds and the Ministry of Transport would permit”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUToB_hz1r7KWJyjWe030V2TG2igF-e2lGtbGOthaRjMuJzyQHV4Q82SYadSNOl02M4wNeR2lHqHbLlyGDKAf0Mh1t3_zTZT4UUF0YTzGR9L-iI1i11kpTYJQQ85z3t8MV_-xZkzmP9MDCEQCDgmiqVqVSH1mxFZ7F8wTjw8CeuWjydtxVOlllceiYtg/s2718/T329%20-%201956%20Sydney%20harbour%20bridge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1861" data-original-width="2718" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUToB_hz1r7KWJyjWe030V2TG2igF-e2lGtbGOthaRjMuJzyQHV4Q82SYadSNOl02M4wNeR2lHqHbLlyGDKAf0Mh1t3_zTZT4UUF0YTzGR9L-iI1i11kpTYJQQ85z3t8MV_-xZkzmP9MDCEQCDgmiqVqVSH1mxFZ7F8wTjw8CeuWjydtxVOlllceiYtg/s320/T329%20-%201956%20Sydney%20harbour%20bridge.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Heading out of Sydney
Harbour on the SS Monowai, 24th June 1958, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW,
Australia [T329]</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">While onboard the <i>SS <span lang="EN-GB">Monowai </span></i>John was involved in two incidents. The first incident was
in February 1958:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>“This is how it happened, During the time of
manoeuvring the ship engine room has to be run in a manner that is not very
efficient but capable of swift changes.
So that as soon as the job is going full ahead as it is soon after
leaving the wharf certain valves have to be opened & others closed in the
interests of this efficiency … short, largely due to insufficient instruction …
I mistakenly closed the wrong valve and shortly afterwards the engine room was
plunged into pitch darkness & filled with steam and smoke and everything
(as has been said before) ground to a halt. …”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The second
incident was in March 1958:<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: italic;">“</span><i>We had a major breakdown coming out of
Wellington which made my [previous] effort look sissy. Sheared the bolts in the main coupling on the
port engine. So it was everybody down
into the nuts & bolts to sweat it out.
The anchor being dropped.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The incident was also reported in the local New Zealand
press on 4 March 1958, as the <i>Monowai </i>returned to Port for repairs.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
John did not cause the incident but during the recovery phase after he did not
perform well:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">“<i>During the struggle I made a
simple but critical mistake so I am now fired.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the shortage of labour John soon found employment with
the Adelaide S.S. Company. John the joined the <i>S.S. Baroota</i> <span lang="EN-GB">on 11 April 1958 in Freemantle, with the rank
of 5<sup>th</sup> Engineer and began working twelve-hour shifts.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: italic;">“</span><i>I can’t help being amazed by the
difference in atmosphere between this job & the ‘Monowai’. Everyone
is friendly, so co-operative & helpful. Nothing is a trouble.
The chief is a real old gentleman with a fine sense of humour & a ready
wit. The second is a very superior type, quiet, unassuming. He certainly
inspires confidence. Considerate is the word. … I’m still working eleven
or twelve hours every day but under such conditions that is no trouble at all.
…”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And then a
disaster struck:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Mr. Williamson was on watch with me at
6.40a.m. on the 23.4.58. When examining the gland of the No.2 Steam Generator
he accidentally tripped and fell and his left hand was caught between the engine
flywheel and engine bed-plate. The rotation of the flywheel being clockwise his
left hand was drawn into a space of 3/8ths of an inch. The machine was almost
stopped by the friction between his left hand and the flywheel, and I was
unable to free his hand before it was badly injured. Eventually the action of
the machine slowing down enable us to free his left hand.”</span></i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John had <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“stumbled on the plates between the two main
generators, and put [his] left hand out to save [himself] which slipped on the
plates and became caught between the flywheel of the operating generator and
the deck.”</span></i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recovery:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i>“Have had a 2 h[ou]r operation
of grafting done to the back of the fingers. Was subsequently told it was
unlikely that index finger could be saved & amputation would be
necessary. However doctor now says it’s a miracle & I’ll probably
keep the fingers. Also complicated skin graft requiring “tunnel to be cut
in stomach thru which hand is inserted” no longer necessary. But further
grafting will require further operations. ”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i>“I’ve had my second skin
graft. My hand begins to look more like
a hand although the news is not so good as it has become infected. If it’s less than 60% take we’ll have to go
thru it again which I’d rather not thanks anyway I’ll be fresh out of hide if
we keep this up.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i>They’ve taken the skin for the
back of my hand from my thigh so I’m going to have a very hairy back of
hand. In fact it strikes me that my hand
will be rather patchwork with a muscular biscep [sic], [probably intends
biceps] (ahem!) on the back of my fingers.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: italic;">“</span><i>My hand is much better, thanks. Still very ugly of course (who cares?) &
a little stiff and uncomfortable. I’m
having daily ray & physiotherapy but manage to get to work at about 10am in
the drawing office where I’m working as a glorified office boy, light duties,
ahem, but I should be back at sea by Monday week, thank goodness.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Back at Sea on the Beltana<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i>“At first I was a bit shaky
about going down into the engine room but I’m gradually gaining confidence
& the Chief & the second engineer seem quite pleased with me which is
encouraging.”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then while waiting for his next assignment John does a five-day
trip for the company with his old ship the <i>S.S.Baroota</i> working in the same
engine room where he had his serious accident. He was replacing two colleagues
on sick leave one off with a hernia, the other suffering from contact
dermatitis.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John next joined the <i>S.S.Beltana</i> where the fourth and final incident
happened in April 1959.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i>“[O]n Thursday we had a major
disaster. The steam pipe to the steering engine burst. Which meant of course,
that the ship was entirely out of commission. So natch [colloquial, for
naturally], your hero was in it up to his ears, …”</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The engine room of a ship can be a very dangerous place, and
although John did not seriously get hurt this time the danger was ever-present.
By the end of 1959 after three years at sea John resigns on 1 November after a
month of leave returning permanently to land.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
He begins a new life with his new partner, Judith, who he met on the S.S.
Monowai in 1958, the only passenger ship he worked on during his short seafaring
career.<o:p></o:p></p>
<b>Inspiration</b><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This post was written in response to the writing prompt May Day - Ancestor injuries and deaths, for more detail, see Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal, "The Genealogy Blog Party: May Day!," Heart of the Family<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">™ (<a href="https://www.thefamilyheart.com/genealogy-blog-party-may-day/">https://www.thefamilyheart.com/genealogy-blog-party-may-day/</a> : accessed May 28, 2022).</span></span></p><b>Useful links for background</b><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">WikiTree Profile for <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williamson-1808" target="_blank"><b>John Palmer Williamson (1923 - 2006)</b></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">T. S. S. Monowai, 1925 - 1960. </span><a href="http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/monowai/monowai.htm.%20Accessed%2028%20May%202022"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/monowai/monowai.htm. Accessed 28 May 2022</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">For
further reading <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christine
Filiamundi, A Story to Tell: Letters from John Williamson to Judy Todman 1958
to 1959, 2021, self-published.</p>
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published 29 May 2022</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Author 2022, Sandra Williamson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Christine
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to 1959, 2021, self-published, page 5.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> E.Quale(Chief
Engineer), <span lang="EN-GB">Letter of Service for
Mr. John Williamson at Selmer Engineering, 12 September 1953</span>, Personal
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Christine
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Letter Bill Riley to Christine
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> A.J.
Norman (Chief Engineer), Letter of Service for Mr. J.P.Williamson on the
S.S.ARAFURA, 3.12.56 to 12.4.57, 12
April 1957, Personal papers of John Williamson.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Alex. J. Sommerville (Chief Engineer
Officer), </span>Letter of Service for Mr. J.P.Williamson on the S.S.NELLORE,
11 September 1957 to 12 December 1957, Personal papers of John Williamson. <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">‘What Is the Life of a Marine
Engineer Like?’ Quora, <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-life-of-a-marine-engineer-like">https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-life-of-a-marine-engineer-like</a>.
Accessed 28 May 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn8">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span lang="EN-GB">Letter Bill Riley to Christine
Filiamundi, March 2015, </span>Personal papers of <span lang="EN-GB">Christine Filiamundi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn9">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <a name="_Hlk104639232">Letter dated February 1958 from John Williamson, SS
Monowai to Judy Todman, New Zealand. (from Judith Williamson’s collection of
personal papers, original copy now held by Sandra Williamson.)</a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn10">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
dated March 1958 from John Williamson, SS Monowai to Judy Todman, New Zealand. (from
Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers, original copy now held by
Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> MONOWAI
RETURNS TO PORT, PRESS, VOLUME XCVII, ISSUE 28526, 4 MARCH 1958, PAGE 7, <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19580304.2.53">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19580304.2.53</a>
accessed 28 May 2022<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn12">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
dated 29 March 1958 from John Williamson, Sydney to Judy Todman, New Zealand. (from
Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers, original copy now held by
Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn13">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span lang="EN-GB">John Williamson injury on the
SS Baroota NAA:D935, 1958/121 citing Account of Wages and Effects of a Seaman
Left behind on the Ground of Unfitness or Inability to proceed on the Voyage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn14">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
dated 21 April 1958 from John Williamson, S.S. Baroota at Sea to Judy Todman. .
(from Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers, original copy now held
by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn15">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">John Williamson injury on the SS
Baroota NAA:D935, 1958/121 citing Inquiry report section concerning the
Witness Statement of Alan Charles KEATING
(2<sup>nd</sup> Engineer of the “Baroota”), 8 May 1958<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn16">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">John Williamson injury on the SS
Baroota NAA:D935, 1958/121 citing Witness statement 2<sup>nd</sup> page [first
page missing] of John Williamson in his own handwriting recording the events of
the accident, witnessed on 1 May 1958.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn17">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Letter dated 21 April 1958 from John Williamson, S.S. Baroota at Sea to Judy
Todman. (from Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers, original copy
now held by Sandra Williamson.) [letter begun 21 April 1958 but finished
several days later his accident. This letter has the first news of the injury
to John’s hand.]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn18">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Undated letter circa 3 May 1958, Williga Nursing Home, Adelaide from John
Williamson to Judy Todman (from Judith Williamson’s collection of personal
papers, original copy now held by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn19">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
29 July 1958 from John Williamson, c/o Adelaide Steamship Co., Drawing Office,
East Balmain to Judy Todman, New Zealand. (from Judith Williamson’s collection
of personal papers, original copy now held by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn20">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
2 September 1958 from John Williamson, S.S. Beltana to Judith Todman, New
Zealand. (from Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers, original copy
now held by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn21">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Letter
28 January 1959 from John Williamson, S.S. Beltana to Judith Todman, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia. (from Judith Williamson’s collection of personal papers,
original copy now held by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn22">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Letter 3 April 1959 from John Williamson, S.S. Beltana to Judith Todman,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (from Judith Williamson’s collection of
personal papers, original copy now held by Sandra Williamson.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn23">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Register of engineer, Employment Record Card for J.P.Williamson, joined
Adelaide Steamship Company 11 April
1958, resigned 1 November 1959, citing Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Register of
engineer Jan 1946 - Dec 1949 (Creation), Reference code AU NBAC N46-914</p></div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-73428415838388514782022-05-07T20:52:00.000+10:002022-05-07T20:52:24.740+10:00Matching Faces & Names<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Unidentified
photos in the family archive</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Before telephones
and the internet, keeping in touch was done by sending letters and photographs
to relatives in far-flung places. They were precious reminders of extended family.
As the years passed these artefacts became keepsakes, kept in albums, boxes or old
biscuit tins. Some were labelled with names and dates but often the identifying
details of the photos were contained in the accompanying letters they arrived
with. As the photographs travelled through
time and were passed to the next generation they were often carefully divided amongst
descendants and their accompanying correspondence discarded and/or separated
from one or more of the photographs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Around the
year 2005, six Australian fourth Generation Descendants of Alfred Ellis and Martha
Bartlett started to work loosely together to search out and contact other descendants
and relatives. This work resulted in the discovery of eleven new relatives.
Information, memories and images were all shared via the now-defunct <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups">Yahoo message boards</a> in
group called EllisCousins.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Like the image
of <a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/alfred-ellis-bootmaker.html">Alfred’s
shop in England</a> sent to his daughter in Western Australia. Other photographs
were located, often multiple copies of the same photograph some with notations
written on the back, some glued into Albums and others nameless sitting in old
biscuit tins. Images and their information were gathered, compared and shared;
people once unidentified became known. The remaining images still unidentified continue to be discussed and researched, timelines drawn up, foreheads, noses and chins
compared against each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alfred Ellis with his
wife Martha Bartlett were the parents of seven children of which five migrated
to Australia:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22748" title="Ellis-22748"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Alfred Ellis</span></a> born 1865, migrated to Australia constantly
moving between New South Wales and Western Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22713" title="Ellis-22713"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Edward Ellis</span></a> born 1867, migrated to Australia
initially to New South Wales and finally settled in Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-2968" title="Ellis-2968"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Martha Sarah (Ellis) Simpson</span></a> born 1870, migrated to
Australia initially to Western Australia but finally settled in Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22749" title="Ellis-22749"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Kate Ellen (Ellis) Wardle</span></a> born 1872, migrated to
Australia and settled in Western Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22750" title="Ellis-22750"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Charles Ellis</span></a> born 1874, migrated to Scotland and
then moved between Scotland and Australia before he finally settled in Western
Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22752" title="Ellis-22752"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Walter Ellis</span></a> born 1875, stayed in England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-22751" title="Ellis-22751"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Frederick Ellis</span></a> born 1876, migrated to Ireland but
returned to England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Martha died
prematurely in 1880, leaving Alfred with children aged between fifteen and four,
the youngest 5 still living at home in the 1881 Census.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span>
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Alfred married Mary Elizabeth Southgate in 1883. Alfred with Mary then went on to have three children, one of who migrated to Australia:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-25776" title="Ellis-25776"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Horace Richard Ellis</span></a> born 1884, died as a child
in England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-25777" title="Ellis-25777"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Millie Elizabeth (Ellis) Kennedy</span></a> born 1885, migrated
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-25778" title="Ellis-25778"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006600; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hugh Alfred Ellis</span></a> born 1887, stayed in England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>Eventually, six
of Alfred's ten children immigrated to Australia, settling on both the west and
east coasts, a few moving frequently between states. This headcount does not
include those that moved within the United Kingdom to Ireland and Scotland. Not
everyone in the family would have the time, the money or the inclination to send letters
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<!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]></o:wrapblock><![endif]--><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Nameless gent, no details known, photo from Jim Bennett's Private Photo Collection currently held by Dorothy Bennett [T023]</span></div><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PV94yDzLtnwQLP8Wn0_zXkIMR6bYHXSVM-RnNKRGCJSRVTe7YD4hwRGbkHiRFKQTOpSdaFovi7T7-GS_Zds0ibas9FiOVKG4v607s3fOeoQT_6HuieMiTnYpeFZbmU0XPI2BEi8eAOEzZgZ8etLyDXaWpcEYcwuPrWcuR2SEYcbPAzAhdtbNkwG7aA/s973/t031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PV94yDzLtnwQLP8Wn0_zXkIMR6bYHXSVM-RnNKRGCJSRVTe7YD4hwRGbkHiRFKQTOpSdaFovi7T7-GS_Zds0ibas9FiOVKG4v607s3fOeoQT_6HuieMiTnYpeFZbmU0XPI2BEi8eAOEzZgZ8etLyDXaWpcEYcwuPrWcuR2SEYcbPAzAhdtbNkwG7aA/s320/t031.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Nameless gent, no details known, photo from Jim Bennett's Private Photo Collection currently held by Dorothy Bennett [T023]</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">His face is
similar to others in the collection perhaps a brother or cousin to someone, where
and when the photos were taken is not known. But one day we might get lucky and
be able to identify this gentleman and how he may or may not be related to our
family or perhaps the wider family.</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Other
images relating to Alfred’s family can be seen in the following places<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Inspiration</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sepia Saturday -
Using old Images as Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2022/05/sepia-saturday-620-7-may-2022.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Prompt 620 : 7 May 2022</b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Useful Links</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For more about Alfred Ellis's descendants see the <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Ellis-2981/300" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Family Group Sheet for Alfred Ellis</b></a> on WikiTree</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Related Posts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-to-z-challenge-n-is-for-names.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comparing two identical photos located on different sides of Australia</a> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2021/01/an-all-male-ensemble.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">A
photograph of </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Alfred Edward Leigh Ellis
with his Zither</span></a> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-to-z-challenge-w-is-for-walter-todman.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Article containing images of Walter Todman who married Martha Sarah Ellis</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-to-z-challenge-t-is-for-ted-otherwise.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Article containing an image of Ted otherwise known as Edward Ellis </b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blogpost Meta Data</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Personal memory of the Sandra
Williamson, moderator of the EllisCousins on Yahoo Groups, recalled 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> General
Register Office, England, Death certificate of Martha Lee, died 2 September
1888 while residing at 245 St George Road, Camberwell registration district,
sub-district St George in the County of Surrey; GRO Reference: 1880 S Quarter
in CAMBERWELL Volume 01D Page 534 [Aged 40]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">1881 English Census, Household of
Alfred Lee, widower, residing with children Martha, Kate, Charles, Walter &
Frederick Lee at 245 St Georges Rd, Camberwell registration district,
sub-district St George, County of London, Enumeration District 21; RG11; Piece:
698; Folio: 21; Page: 35<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-5035809154431375732022-04-29T20:00:00.000+10:002022-04-29T20:00:08.412+10:00Judith’s expanding horizons in the 1950s<p>Judith
received her “Leaving Certificate” at the end of 5<sup>th</sup> Form (year 11)
in 1951 from Camperdown High School in country Victoria, Australia.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After
graduating, Judith got a job at </span><span style="background: white;">one of the five banks in town</span><span lang="EN-GB">. She swapped her school uniform for a bank uniform and began to ride
her bicycle to work rather than school.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjylFvobzwzvIewOq3wRMQBvyw0HdRhJREQcoGDz_pAaAtCdtU-AdzMeU4RFe-Ga2PwogbZxtuetMygkMgafsxc7BEUfDBpUJr7dcXqKT3mHnUD40xZ2A-yjQgLDgf-v2qUvNy-bEFB2iohKWreOAMMc7gQxHx8hfhPeaN7HXlM2tfD8p9MXagfjTBzvA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="1969" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjylFvobzwzvIewOq3wRMQBvyw0HdRhJREQcoGDz_pAaAtCdtU-AdzMeU4RFe-Ga2PwogbZxtuetMygkMgafsxc7BEUfDBpUJr7dcXqKT3mHnUD40xZ2A-yjQgLDgf-v2qUvNy-bEFB2iohKWreOAMMc7gQxHx8hfhPeaN7HXlM2tfD8p9MXagfjTBzvA" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Photographer unknown, National Bank Employees Standing in front of the National
Bank Camperdown, circa 1852, Victoria, Australia [T375]</div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Her
evenings and weekends were a whirlwind of social activity. She attended local
dances, including two debutant balls with her high school sweetheart, Patrick
Mitchell. The first debutantes’ ball was the “High School Ex-Students Ball”, in
August 1951, where Judith was one of sixteen debutantes.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Propriety dictated that the girls were to be modest and have their shoulders covered,
</span>Judith, wondering where she would ever wear such a dress again, chose a
shoestring strap gown that was more versatile <span lang="EN-GB">T</span><span style="background: white;">he gown was described in the papers as
having a “Fitted bodice of broderie anglaise, with appliqued skirt, and
appliqued shoulder cape of matching tulle”. The translucent cape enabled her to
meet the requirement of covering her shoulders, even if it was a bit daring.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="3830" data-original-width="5737" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9rm7UsOrhgXhoXuZAtjJBfiYJUVlH_tbRZeifbm1zeO09QQwIF2r1eGX89p6gC97j_NrZV5NpB2Gvn0flViT_u3VfTGVzY7zo0pN81cziUxQOfKoD0hp5bgSrIF-y71sQwf2FLvqGTF9Xzf1ZBGZfW85bOvVCAsOkhKbcQd7cSDzuB1vFT5PfuDKJgg=w400-h268" width="400" /></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer Frank Rhodes, Group photo of attendees at the Camperdown High
School Ex-Students’ Association Debutante Ball Dress, Monday 9 August 1951,
Theatre Royal, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia. (Judith is first on the
right in the second row, her half-sister is the young girl in the front [T377]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Then came
the Cobden Ball in September 1951, where she became the second runner up in the “Western
district Belle of Debutantes”, from a field of 36 Debutants.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
She also played tennis at the St Andrew’s Church local Tennis club and rode
horses as often as time would allow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In a small
country town, everyone knew your business. Not only were the dances reported in
the newspapers but also her holidays:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Miss Judith Todman, of the National Bank
staff, Camperdown, is at present on annual leave.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Then
Judith’s stepfather, Stuart (Pop), passed away suddenly with no warning on 13
July 1952, just like her father had done when she was three. Pop was really the
only father that she could remember and now he was gone. Once again everything
changed as her brother was recalled from University, to which he would never
return, to help his mother manage the farm. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After two years working at the bank, Judith wanted to see
the wider world and so decided, almost a year after Pop’s passing, that nursing
was the escape she was looking for. Judith
moved to Melbourne in the middle of 1953 and began her nurse training, while living
at the “Melbourne School of Nursing Student’s Hostel”, with other country and
interstate nurse trainees.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhuikhSyuzM0XLweIfTn6X-3XxR2JKPlbvoGfYiR9v7E8FYq9wOCVfeV7rV5DN0u4mkncmevo84hSV4QFFQ0FX4rmuNaMSkjwA_sdrYHpzNgg2oGwPLynMeIs46bLM3tx7WMO0YWdlSz7N_NlINaaGq1oBbv78YkMc8xQxKfQrxNDGZqtxqHZgj1p5jw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2137" data-original-width="3233" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhuikhSyuzM0XLweIfTn6X-3XxR2JKPlbvoGfYiR9v7E8FYq9wOCVfeV7rV5DN0u4mkncmevo84hSV4QFFQ0FX4rmuNaMSkjwA_sdrYHpzNgg2oGwPLynMeIs46bLM3tx7WMO0YWdlSz7N_NlINaaGq1oBbv78YkMc8xQxKfQrxNDGZqtxqHZgj1p5jw" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Graduating from Nurses School, 1956, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia [T348] From left: Wendy Dolling, June Mark, Barbara Lancomb, Phyllis
Walker, Judith Todman, Louise Hamilton.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Halfway through 1956, Judith graduated from Nursing and immediately
moved on to the midwifery course, which she completed during the following year.
Her friend bought a Vesper Scooter. Judith was fascinated and went out and
bought her own. They realised the freedom that the Vespers gave them to travel
and the idea of an adventure was formed. Having received her double certificate,
she returned home to work at Camperdown District Hospital in 1958. It was
during this return to her childhood home that she decided to go through with her
plans to travel to New Zealand, even though her original fellow travellers had dropped
out. With replacement travelling companions found, Judith saved earnestly and <span lang="EN-GB">after four months back in
Camperdown was ready to launch off on her new adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Judith and her
two new girlfriends rode their Vesper motorbikes from Melbourne to Sydney and
caught a ship to New Zealand, taking their bikes with them. In between earning money as a lab technician,
Judith and her friends toured around New Zealand for eight months. They arrived
in New Zealand on January 28<sup>th</sup> 1959 with 390 other passengers on the
<i>SS Monawarri</i>. Much had happened in
the 4-day journey across the Tasman. Judith had met John, eleven years her
senior, an engineer and crew member. He had been so charming and attentive, so
unlike the boys back home, debonair in his uniform. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaaWMdB6_xYCx52Qli8Cus74qcybcvJZ2xyiAYravRTQ3a6X7YmEbk2_BAD0UD-a2BFWoRPOvDtn8on_rmRY0LG1V5psw4BRcUMVsb9C4ibeDbQ9AYTYKnE1J-GLKxUhykcvjxJo1pUD419_6yACJBJ_i34Tpc0pKRktcbeQu2UmWiNDV2eK8QxRnA6A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2097" data-original-width="3049" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaaWMdB6_xYCx52Qli8Cus74qcybcvJZ2xyiAYravRTQ3a6X7YmEbk2_BAD0UD-a2BFWoRPOvDtn8on_rmRY0LG1V5psw4BRcUMVsb9C4ibeDbQ9AYTYKnE1J-GLKxUhykcvjxJo1pUD419_6yACJBJ_i34Tpc0pKRktcbeQu2UmWiNDV2eK8QxRnA6A" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer
Unknown, Judith and friend travel via Vespers from to Sydney via New South Wales,
1857, Australia Sandra Williamson’s private photograph collection [T337]
[Judith of the right]</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">After returning from New Zealand Judith got a position
at the Freemason’s Hospital, where she worked for six months, living in a flat
near the hospital. But by June 1959 she was feeling restless again. There
hadn’t been the camaraderie that she experienced during her training and being
back in a uniform on the bottom rung again wasn’t much fun. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span lang="EN-GB">Unhappy at work Judith dreamt of alternative
futures: of working on the snowfields, getting a job as an air hostess or maybe
even running away with John and starting a new life. </span>She returned briefly to Camperdown to attend her
brother’s wedding. He was marrying one of her nursing girlfriends she had
introduced him to. This was her third stint as a bridesmaid in Camperdown as more
of her friends were settling down and getting married, staying and living in
the place where they had grown up, <span lang="EN-GB">but Judith </span>realized she was not part of this world anymore. <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span lang="EN-GB">On 23 July 1959 Judith finished up at the
Freemason’s and used all her savings to buy a caravan and together she and John
took off on their new adventure to look for work and a place to live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They drove
to the Grampians and lived in a caravan park. John managed to get some casual
jobs close by in Stawell as a mechanic and some contract work in Mount Gambier. Finally, he managed to secure a permanent position
working for Frost Engineering in Hamilton, with a house as part of the employment
contract. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Judith also
managed to secure a position at the local Hamilton Hospital, however the job wasn’t
the right fit for her and it didn’t work out. She then began working for a
local photographer performing administrative support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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Victoria, Australia[T373]</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John
continued to look for better-paying work with a good house attached. Then, all
of a sudden in the middle of 1960, he got an offer to work in Benalla and so
they were on the move again.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Inspiration</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This post was written in response to the writing prompt at </span><b>Back to the 1950s</b> for more detail - see Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal, "The Genealogy Blog Party: Back to the 1950s," Heart of the Family™ (<a href="https://www.thefamilyheart.com/genealogy-blog-party-1950s/">https://www.thefamilyheart.com/genealogy-blog-party-1950s/</a> : accessed April 28, 2022).</p><p class="MsoNormal">The story told here is but a partial telling of a much larger story as remembered by Judith herself and understood by her daughter Sandra and is based on continuing conversations that began a long time ago.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Blogpost Meta Data</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The URL for this post is: https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/judiths-expanding-horizons-in-1950s.html originally published 29 April 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal">Author 2022, Sandra Williamson</p><p class="MsoNormal">Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email via the Contact Form on the Blog.</p><div><b>Sources</b></div><div>
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'HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AND EXAMINATION RESULTS', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. :
1877 - 1954), 10 March, p. 4. , viewed 28 Apr 2022,
<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23573857">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23573857</a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1951
'SIXTEEN DEBUTANTES AT H.S. EX-STUDENTS' BALL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. :
1877 - 1954), 17 August, p. 1. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28331337">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28331337</a>
<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn3">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1951
'VICTORIAN DIARY Women lawyers have meeting', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848
- 1957), 26 September, p. 9. , viewed 28 Apr 2022,
<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23082188">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23082188</a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1952
'PERSONAL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 5 February, p. 2. ,
viewed 28 Apr 2022, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24001922">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24001922</a>
<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1953
'PERSONAL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 5 June, p. 4. , viewed
28 Apr 2022, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25114579">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25114579</a></p></div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-53328759984448505252022-04-25T22:32:00.001+10:002022-04-26T17:34:53.845+10:00William Bassett’s War Service in WW2<p> William was single and living with his parents in Balaclava when
he enlisted in the Australian Army on 27 May 1940. He trained at <a name="_Hlk101815060">Puckapunyal </a>in Victoria. On 27 July 1940, during his training and not
long after enlisting, William married Nance Scott. The wedding took place at his local
church the Holy Trinity Church, not far from his parent’s home in Balaclava.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span>
A few months later he travelled by train to Adelaide with the newly formed and recently renamed 2nd/12th Field Regiment. They embarked on the
transport ship “<i>Stratheden” on </i>17 November 1940, headed for the Middle East.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtOub5NuY52LFgD57zf1I3DwOiA1kQ1Mcu8_vaOr4kZdpvqnQrM967Z2bvUPxmgyr77uEL_sbMd_wyk6N-J5XFMl_MxJprTBvoK2QcTcNdhyI7sQUzdPYVtJPjRvMGX8guGaZWyB3k86IOR1IqAV3aZI0spb1WCIjPk-Z8qojUlrDIm8uUkd9jN26Rw/s1045/b265.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1045" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtOub5NuY52LFgD57zf1I3DwOiA1kQ1Mcu8_vaOr4kZdpvqnQrM967Z2bvUPxmgyr77uEL_sbMd_wyk6N-J5XFMl_MxJprTBvoK2QcTcNdhyI7sQUzdPYVtJPjRvMGX8guGaZWyB3k86IOR1IqAV3aZI0spb1WCIjPk-Z8qojUlrDIm8uUkd9jN26Rw/w400-h253/b265.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, William Bassett fourth
from the right-back row with <a name="_Hlk101699803">Ern Flux </a>standing
behind, were both members of the 2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion Australia,
1940, Puckapunyal, Victoria, Australia. (Ern was a witness at William Bassett’s
wedding on 27 Jul 1940 in Balaclava, Victoria, Australia) [B265]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Service Overseas<o:p></o:p></h1>
<h2>The Middle East December 1940-January 1943<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 2nd/12th Field Regiment disembarked on 17 Dec 1940 and moved
to Julis Camp area in Qastina, where their theoretical and physical training continued from 9 January
1941 until at least 12 April 1941. Soon after the
completion of training, on 1 July 1941, William was promoted to Sergeant.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3>Wounded in Tobruk<o:p></o:p></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thirty days after his promotion, on 31 July 1941, William was wounded during the siege of Tobruk. He had injured his right forearm, and became one of the many
Australian casualties from the 9th Division between 8th April to 25th October. 749 were killed, 1,996 wounded and 604 were taken, prisoner<i>.</i> During recovery William was moved to several hospitals:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>31 July 1941 – evacuated to No. 4 Australian General
Hospital (AGH) in Tobruk</li><li>2 August 1941 – moved to No. 11 Australian General Hospital (AGH)
in Tobruk</li><li>9 August 1941 – moved to No. 2 Australian General Hospital
(AGH) in El Kantara on Suez, Egypt</li></ul><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">William was then moved to the <a name="_Hlk101728510">1st
Australian Convalescent Depot </a>on 22 September 1941 in Kafr Vitkin,
Palestine and his name was moved to the X List. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">“The X Lists recorded personnel who were absent from their
regular units for one reason or another” It could be from any “All ranks
evacuated on medical grounds beyond Regimental First Aid Post. Personnel so
evacuated cease to be on the effective strength of their units.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, by 29 September 1941, William was moved to the
artillery training Regiment in preparation to re-join the action on 4 October
1941 in Palestine. It had taken a little over two months for William to be ready for duty. He was able to join his old regiment that had arrived in Palestine on 1 October as part of the garrison
force in Syria.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 24 January 1942, William was evacuated again in the
2/3 Australian Field Ambulance suffering an upper respiratory tract infection but returned only one week later. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Training
was continual and on 18 May 1942, Willliam began attending the 9<sup>th</sup>
Australian Division P.R.T. school courses. He returned to his unit on
2 June 1942 at Jdaide, El Alamein.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
The following month, on 6 July 1942 the unit moved from Amiriya to battle position
in Tel El Shammama, 22 miles from the war front of El Alamein, The following day,
they engaged in a ferocious battle to take and defended the high ground at Tile l Elisa.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
A few days later on 9 July 1942 they
were in El Alamein.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i>“The regiment subsequently
undertook … the First and Second Battles of El Alamein. These were punctuated
by a period of garrison duty in Lebanon between January and June 1942, where
the regiment formed part of the occupation force established there after the
defeat of Vichy French forces during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But by 29 January 1943, William had left the Middle East with
his Regiment aboard the transport <i>Ile de France</i> . They were part of the final transference of Australian ground troops from the Middle East to the
Pacific and he arrived in Sydney Australia on 28 February. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Australia April 1943-July 1943<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">After arrival in Australia, the regiment was allowed a brief
period of leave. The 2/12<sup>th</sup> Regiment was re-formed at
Kairi, on the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland for training in
jungle warfare. By 28 July 1943 the 2/12<sup>th</sup> it was on the move again
and embarked at Cairns on “Van Heutz” bound for New Guinea.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>New Guinea August 1943 – February 1944<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 2/12th arrived and disembarked in Milne Bay, New Guinea on 4
August 1943 where they trained once again but this time near Port Moresby. The regiment was part of a successful counter-attack against
Japanese invasion forces between 31 August and 4 September. They subsequently
took part in landings around Lae and then Finschhafen in September, and saw
action during the Huon Peninsula campaign.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">William sustained a knee injury on 21 September 1943 and was
evacuated for medical treatment. He caught malaria on 27 September 1943 and was sent to the 2/9 Australian General Hospital. Like before
he moved from one medical facility to another until he recovered. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was finally discharged on the 8 October 1943 to the 113<sup>th</sup>
Australia Convalescent Depot in Port Moresby, and was sent from there on 24 November
1943 to the 2/2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station [CCS] Depot in Tobruk, New
Guinea. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Back to Australia in February 1944<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">William returned to Australia with his Regiment on 28 February 1944 on the "Cape Perpetus" from Finschhafen in New Guinea and disembarked in Brisbane on
7 March 1944. After a well-earned short period of leave, he proceeded to Ravenshoe military camp where the 2nd/12th
Field Regiment remained for over a year before seeing action once more.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
William did not go back overseas and was discharged on 22 March 1945 at the age of
36 years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Research Notes<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">William’s army regiment, the 2nd/12th Field Regiment, was
part of the 9th Australian Infantry Division which had been Raised from May to
October 1940.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are several gaps in William’s World War 2 Army
Personnel record possibly when his regiment was engaged in heavy battle. Details
have been gleaned from secondary sources listed below:<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Order of Battle details for his regiment as
outlined on the Australia Government Department of Veteran’s Affairs website.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></li><li>Australian War Memorial page for “2/12th
Australian Infantry Battalion” which summarised description & links for
further information.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></li><li>2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion’s War diaries
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></li><li>Wikipedia
page for "<a name="_Hlk101793748">2/12th Field Regiment </a>(Australia)"<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></li><li><span class="personname">The
development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is also a book entitled “Of Storms and Rainbows: The Story
of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion – Volume 1 and Volume 2” by A.L. Graeme-Evans,
1989 (Vol I published 1989 & Vol II
published 1991) which is currently out of print but occasionally available
online from second-hand dealers and eBay which I have not read but may give a
more complete picture of what William experienced.</p><div>2nd/12th Field Regiment is an Australian Army artillery regiment and part of the 9th Australia Infantry Division of the Australian Army. </div><div>2/12 Regiment served in action longer than any other Australian Field Regiment in World War II</div><div>Formed in 1940 – dissolved in 1946 Served in Second World War, 1939-1945 </div><div>Originally known as the 2nd/2nd Medium Regiment, however, became the 2nd/12th Field Regiment </div><div>The regiment participated in the following campaigns as part of the 9th Division AIF: </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>North African campaign in Libya: the Siege of Tobruk, 1941 </li><li>Syrian-Lebanon campaign: the battles of El Alamein, 1942 </li><li>New Guinea Campaign: in Lae & Finschhafen, 1943-44 </li><li>Borneo campaign: Labuan, British North Borneo, 1945 – William did not participate in this campaign</li></ul></div><div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>William received the following medals: </b>1939/45 Star, Africa
Star with 8<sup>th</sup> Clasp, Pacific Star, Defence Medal & A.S.M<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Useful links for background</span></b></p>
<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">WikiTree Link <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bassett-5211" target="_blank">William Bassett (1908 - 1980) </a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blogpost Meta Data</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The URL for this post is: </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/william-bassetts-war-service-in-ww2.html</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.html originally
published 25 April 2022 and revised on 26 April 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Author 2022, Sandra Williamson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><b>Sources</b><br clear="all" />
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Victoria
State Government, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria; Marriage
certificate of William Bassett & Nance Charlotte Scott married on 27
July 1940 in the Holy Trinity Church
[Church of England], Balaclava , Registration number 11407/1940.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-72718852848252681072022-04-19T22:13:00.002+10:002022-04-21T11:16:55.853+10:00 Alfred Ellis Bootmaker<p>Alfred lived in and around
Peckham in London England. He was a bootmaker by trade and ran a specialist
shop with the help of employed staff. He sold gents, ladies and children’s boots.
He repaired soles and heals, and sold “nugget” polishes to help keep shoes in
good order.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HLiN_gxAbNL3YdaS8Zw285Lb4e-WEgiXBPX6QQKvohCt8u_mhlftTAdFpzifqah2kv1ReHy4bfVZkWVw1CkhGz09kDg-HxbNB_yerJYUAcx-9eigiOYz2nARvZU1qwKjPJU3cww87XdlCqMlJ3pzlwH3spJwXcqiueVywnodwDEa1HNzQ9yWKGrMKg/s1187/t233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1187" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HLiN_gxAbNL3YdaS8Zw285Lb4e-WEgiXBPX6QQKvohCt8u_mhlftTAdFpzifqah2kv1ReHy4bfVZkWVw1CkhGz09kDg-HxbNB_yerJYUAcx-9eigiOYz2nARvZU1qwKjPJU3cww87XdlCqMlJ3pzlwH3spJwXcqiueVywnodwDEa1HNzQ9yWKGrMKg/w400-h275/t233.jpg" title="Alfred in apron outside his shop in Peckham London with two unknown people" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alfred in apron outside his shop in Peckham London with two unknown people [T233]</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;">In 1894 Alfred moved his
business from 245 St George’s road to new premises at 118 Commercial Road,
Peckham (pictured above) not wanting to lose business he seems to have run both
shops simultaneously for at least a year as can be seen by his listing in the
local London directory.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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roads in Peckham until his death in 1912.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the<b> 1901 Census, </b>Alfred and his wife were living either
on top of or behind the shop at 118 Commercial Road with their two youngest
children.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Alfred Ellis, aged 61, working as a Boot &
Leather boot seller (employer)</li><li><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Mary Ellis, his wife aged 49</li><li><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Millie Ellis, his daughter aged 15, working as a
Clerk (mission? or mason? work)</li><li><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Hugh Ellis, his Son, aged 13</li></ol><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk101291724">By the<b> 1911 Census, </b>Alfred was
aged 71, his wife and only one of his children, Millie, were still at the same
address in Peckham.</a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alfred died in 1912, what happened to shop
after this date is not known.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Useful Links</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">WikiTree Link <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-2981" target="_blank">Alfred Ellis (1839 - 1912)</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This post is part of <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2022/04/sepia-saturday-617-16-april-2022.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday 617 : 16 April 2022</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Useful Background</b></p><p style="margin: 0cm;">Shop, T. S. R. \. K. (2021, February 19). <i>MILITARY
AMMO BOOTS! - Parade Boots get Hob Nails & Horseshoes | RAF Shoe Repair</i>
[Video]. YouTube.( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2x2X9WMpM&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2x2X9WMpM&feature=youtu.be</a> : accessed 21 April 2022)<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Riello,
Giorgio; (2002) The boot and shoe trades in London and Paris in the long
eighteenth century. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), University of London [<a href="https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317575">https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317575</a>
: accessed 21 April 2022]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road; entry #334 on
page 10; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #369 on
page 11; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #391 on
page 11; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing
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</div>
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1900 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial
road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #392
on page 12; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #1113, page 43; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry # 1092, page 40
Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London
Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #1130 page 44; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
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Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #1171, page 43; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
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1907 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial
road, Peckham, nature of qualification Dwelling house at 118 Commercial road,
entry #1555 page 56; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers,
1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,
2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1908
Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #1546 page 58; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England;
Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn15">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1910
Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #2473 page 97; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England;
Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn16">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1911
Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road,
Peckham, entry #2690 page 106; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England;
Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn17">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
1912 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial
road, Peckham, entry #2835, page 116; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral
Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England;
Electoral Registers<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn18">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data:Census Returns of England and Wales,
1901. Household of Alfred Ellis 118 Commerical rd, Peckham citing The National
Archives, RG13; Piece: 504; Folio: 159; Page: 32, Enumeration District: 06</p>
</div>
<div id="edn19">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011; Household of Alfred Ellis 118 Commerical
rd, Peckham citing The National Archives, RG14, Piece 2555, Enumeration District
Number 27<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn20">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> General
Register Office, England, Death Certificate Alfred Ellis Reference Deaths
Jun 1912, District Chelsea<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-45237409514315771622022-03-23T20:56:00.000+11:002022-03-23T20:56:38.488+11:00Sourcing a trace of African DNA<p>Modern developments in genetics have made it possible for anyone, at moderate cost, to have their DNA sequenced, and this has had exciting consequences. DNA can identify family members, and also give a broad idea about where on the planet our ancestors may have come from. Rob was the first in our extended family to discover an unexpected trace of African heritage in his DNA, identified through Ancestry.com. Browsing through DNA readings of individuals listed on Ancestry shows that such a trace is rare amongst Europeans and Australians of European descent. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Where does the African trace come from?</h2><p>To find out which of his relatives also had an African trace, Rob encouraged his various family members – close and distant – to also have their DNA tested. He discovered many of them shared the African trace. </p><p>To find out where this small but real African fraction came from, Rob developed a table where he listed the ethnicity findings for the various branches of his family. Some had used Ancestry for their DNA testing, some had used My Heritage. </p><p>Family history research had already identified a couple called Andrew and Isabelle Munro (nee Jennings) who were the great grandparents of me and my sister Chris. Andrew and Isabelle are also the great grandparents of Rob and are the most recent ancestors shared by the three of us. Thanks to family history research undertaken by a number of her descendants (including Rob, Sandra and Christine), considerable information about this couple has come to light, including approximate years of birth of their children, their children’s names, and Andrew’s work history with the British East India Company.</p><p>Over time, as more family members had their DNA tested and were included in Rob’s table, the inheritance pattern crystallised. The African trace was only found in those who were descended from Andrew Munro and Isabelle Jennings. The trace of DNA for this branch of the family was typically 1% to 3% in our generation, though there were a couple who had no African trace, including Sandra (for a discussion on causes of variability in these percentages see further on). Family members who were a generation closer to Andrew and Isabelle had about 5% to 6%. Ancestry.com further identified the African DNA as Bantu. Some cousins in Rob’s generation (which included Sandra and Christine) who were descended from Andrew and Isabelle also showed around 1% Southern and Eastern Indian, and this fraction was usually less than the African fraction. </p><p>To put it another way, the table showed that either Andrew or Isabelle (or, unlikely, both) must have had some African ancestry and a smaller proportion of Indian ancestry.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Andrew or Isabelle?</h2><div><div>The next question to be considered is whether Andrew or Isabelle was part African. </div><div><br /></div><div>Because the amount of African DNA increases each generation closer to Andrew and Isabelle, we can work back from our own African fraction and calculate that Andrew or Isabelle must have had at least 25% African DNA. This means that if we could meet them, we would easily be able to tell which of them was part African. Fortunately, we have evidence that tells us something about what they looked like.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-rp3nNaeRHEr_-sdMdVLyYbs7Gf7IOvuPn_xxl9ZV8fqthvhjiW4Nq23S2Xl7qsykLW-XrNcrvdydux79ClmoPgXjZ_QCSHevxQXvCHQFOxVMT4gJBY2MTtXVo-PZrXRE5M95NCCwCB35pvHqlxroXFCxtRd2p-n_e8GXWm6hhAysdZcUI0fX6OU5w/s500/Andrew%20Munro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-rp3nNaeRHEr_-sdMdVLyYbs7Gf7IOvuPn_xxl9ZV8fqthvhjiW4Nq23S2Xl7qsykLW-XrNcrvdydux79ClmoPgXjZ_QCSHevxQXvCHQFOxVMT4gJBY2MTtXVo-PZrXRE5M95NCCwCB35pvHqlxroXFCxtRd2p-n_e8GXWm6hhAysdZcUI0fX6OU5w/w273-h400/Andrew%20Munro.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><br /><div>The above portrait of Andrew Munro has come down to us via his daughter Blanche Munro. Rob has scanned and shared it. According to Andrew Munro’s enlistment record, he had grey eyes and brown hair and was born in Scotland.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdAXvOGNnpXVJE6QTFvBVG9_JOX0wxNddUKBmKWFyYdibzHX7z8edj8_GBp5Es9R41SC4rpBjmZPVJIjrOuWzqAUpUdx5l5WGjaEPWg01LHmKYm2zcFvYucMJZfHxR4galfSp4T-JmKLxEUZABgnEhrS26bwYlZFgvEwTlUeRlvtKDyw9HrU47pzez4Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="241" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdAXvOGNnpXVJE6QTFvBVG9_JOX0wxNddUKBmKWFyYdibzHX7z8edj8_GBp5Es9R41SC4rpBjmZPVJIjrOuWzqAUpUdx5l5WGjaEPWg01LHmKYm2zcFvYucMJZfHxR4galfSp4T-JmKLxEUZABgnEhrS26bwYlZFgvEwTlUeRlvtKDyw9HrU47pzez4Q=w332-h400" width="332" /></a></div><br /><div>This is a photo of Isabelle, taken in her middle age when she was living in Australia. Her skin is darker than most Australians, her hair is frizzy, and her eyes are brown. She was born in India at a time when there was a sizable African community there, including the Siddi, an ethnic group whose members are descended from the Bantu peoples of Africa.</div><div>Isabelle herself claimed her family were Armenian Parsis, but these DNA results contradict her claim, showing instead a largely African heritage</div></div><div><br /></div><div>It is safe to assume from these portraits that it is Isabelle, not Andrew, who has African ancestry. This is fortunate because at the time of writing very little is known about Andrew Munro’s family of origin other than the probable name of his mother, making it difficult to use DNA evidence to find out more about them. </div><h2 style="text-align: left;">George or Catherine?</h2><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After Rob
had established Isabelle’s African inheritance (with some Indian as well), the
next step was to find out whether that inheritance
came from her father or mother. To do that, traditional family history
research would be essential for matching DNA findings to specific ancestors. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Research
has shown that Isabelle’s father was George Jennings, born in about 1803 in
England.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
According to George’s marriage certificate his wife’s name was Catherine Jacob,
but at the time of writing we know little about Catherine beyond the fact that
her name also appears on Isabelle’s baptismal record.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Either
George Jennings or Catherine Jacob (or, unlikely, both) had African ancestry,
and the amount of their African ancestry would have been somewhere in the range
of 40% to 100%<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span>. Fortunately, both are close enough to our own
time that it is possible to use DNA links to establish which one was
part-African”<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Investigation of DNA connections<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because more is known about George Jennings than his wife
Catherine, Rob started his investigations with his ancestor (and Sandra and
Christine’s ancestor) George. He needed to find cousins who were descended from
George’s family but not from Catherine. In other words, he was looking for
descendants of his ancestor George Jennings’ siblings, aunts, or uncles to find
out something about George Jennings: whether there was an African trace in his
family. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rob searched the Ancestry website for living individuals who
had genealogical connections with us going back 6-8 generations, eliminating anyone
whose closer genetic connection with us meant that they could have been
descended from his wife Catherine. Only a fraction of these distantly related
individuals would be the ones Rob was looking for: descendants of a member of
George Jennings’ family. For Rob to identify them, it was necessary that they
had made their family tree available, and that they
had done enough family history research to establish their connection
with a George Jennings. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rob
was able to find 30 individuals who met these requirements. Each of these
individuals had a George Jennings who belonged to the family of a George
Jennings (born 1803) and Ann Packer, from Sittingbourne.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>The linkages of descendants in the Jennings family<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thirty living individuals are connected with us at the level
of 4<sup>th</sup>, 5<sup>th</sup>, or 6<sup>th</sup> cousins and a<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">re descended Ann Packer and
George Jennings, or from Ann Packer’s parents, Stephen Packer and Sarah
Horton.</span> By looking at the family trees they had provided, Rob was able
to draw up a combined tree that showed how each one was connected to our George
Jennings. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the figure below, our 5<sup>th</sup> great grandparents,
Sarah Horton and Stephen Packer, are shown on the left. Their children are
Thomas, Stephen, Francis, and Ann Packer. Ann Packer married George Jennings,
and their children are Sarah, John, Mary, George, and Ann Packer. Ann Packer
married George Jennings, and they became the parents of our George Jennings,
born 1804.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><p class="MsoNormal"><u>The descendants of Sarah Horton and Stephen Packer</u>
(as located at July 2020)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPIMENFutl_yews9de_GNxIUhpPKJUqT2WqfMKlXyKH9yXGMOGhmVPfaGgty-4YmWGIYffo_7nuWtTdZYfl5O59sGoSOZILAagw9ahPgS-0FznO2zZCqLa0bOMK3wnPXpnbN6rm395efm8ZpjxV4Ztiz7Fd-AN8wrVWL7CM9EQ3pxtxYSEQ9ptEX3qfg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1090" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPIMENFutl_yews9de_GNxIUhpPKJUqT2WqfMKlXyKH9yXGMOGhmVPfaGgty-4YmWGIYffo_7nuWtTdZYfl5O59sGoSOZILAagw9ahPgS-0FznO2zZCqLa0bOMK3wnPXpnbN6rm395efm8ZpjxV4Ztiz7Fd-AN8wrVWL7CM9EQ3pxtxYSEQ9ptEX3qfg=w640-h454" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It can be seen from this figure that 8 of our distant
relatives located by Rob are descended from Ann Packer’s parents, Stephen
Packer and Sarah Horton, but not directly from Ann Packer. These are
descendants of Ann Packer’s siblings. Four are descended from her brother Thomas
Packer, 2 from her brother Stephen Packer, and 2 from her sister Frances
Packer. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Twenty-two of these 30 distant relatives were direct
descendants of Ann Packer and George Jennings. They were all descended from
their daughter, Sarah Ann Jennings. Thirteen were descended from Sarah’s son
Alfred Swinyard, 6 were descended from Sarah’s son Samuel Swinyard, and 3 were
descended from Sarah’s daughter Louisa Swinyard.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">None of these 30 distant relatives have an African or Indian
fraction in their DNA.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>Catherine Jacob <o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Of all our distant cousins descended from Stephen Packer and
Sarah Horton, only those descended from our George Jennings show an African or
Indian fraction in their DNA. This confirms that although George Jennings’
children had African heritage, George himself did not. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Some might argue that perhaps George did not really have the
same parents as his siblings (that is, he was the son of the milkman, or some
other scenario). If this were the case, the sibling link between George and
Sarah would not be as firm as it is. The fact that George was a middle child,
not the first or last, further refutes such a claim, as does George’s military
records, which place him in units of soldiers with European ancestry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Catherine Jacob and some or all of her ancestors was the
source of our trace of African DNA.<o:p></o:p></p><h2><span class="FootnoteCharacters">A note on African fraction estimates by
Ancestry and My Heritage</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">As a rough estimate, Catherine would have had between 40%
and 100% African ancestry. She probably also had some South Indian and West
Asian ancestry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The set of DNA markers that Ancestry uses to define African
ancestry will be roughly halved each generation down. Let’s say Catherine had
100% African ancestry (remembering that it could have been her parent). Her
children would have inherited about 50% of her African DNA markers, but not
exactly 50%, because the process of inheritance is random. Her grandchildren
would have inherited on average about 25%, but some would have more and some
less than that. Because we are 5 generations down from Catherine the fraction
of her DNA in our cells is small, and variable. That is why we find that some
individuals in our generation have a higher African fraction (like Rob, who has
3%) while others have hardly any at all (like Sandra, 0%). Those (like Sandra)
who have no measurable African heritage still carry a smattering of Catherine’s
genes, but not the ones that define African-ness for the testing company.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span class="FootnoteCharacters">Another cause of
variation in the amount of African DNA found in our generation of Isabelle’s descendants
is the testing company. Ancestry has tended to give a higher African
percentages than has My Heritage. Both those who have used My Heritage for
their DNA test were found to have 0% African markers (Sandra and Helen
Normoyle). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">WikiTree Link <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jennings-7311" target="_blank">Isabella (Jennings) Munro (1837 - 1938)</a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Family search Tree : <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K2TC-4NJ">Isabella Jennings (26 December 1836 – 11 November 1938)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blogpost Meta Data</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The URL for this post is: h</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2022/03/sourcing-trace-of-african-dna.html</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> originally
published 23 March 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Written 2020 Authors Sandra Williamson & Chris Filiamundi in collaboration with Rob Snow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span class="FootnoteCharacters">
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</div></div><div><br /></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-5068417488405004752021-09-11T11:08:00.003+10:002021-09-11T14:34:31.956+10:00Finding the Ancestors of John Bassett 1790<p> A small group of researchers including myself and Warrick Anderson have, for a number of years, been actively researching our Bassett ancestors from Cornwall. We have been trying to determine the parents of John Bassett(1790) and to test alternative theories for his ancestry. This Blog is the result of that work and examines two possible theories.</p><p>Both Warrrick and I would be very interested to receive any feedback regarding our research as discussed in this Blog.</p><p>Although it is known that John(b.1790)’s father’s forename
was William, which William has not been so clear, nor who his mother was. At present we know with some certainty the
following about John, he was baptised on 5 September 1790 as John son of William Bassett, pauper at Madron, he married
Martha Carbis 15 Mar 1812 in Paul, Cornwall and died in Australia.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829436"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Identifying John Bassett(b.1790)’s parents</span></a></h1><h1><o:p></o:p></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829437"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">Theories
concerning the identity of John Bassett(b.1790)’s mother</span></span></a></h2><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Eleanor
Sampson was the mother of John Bassett(b. 1790)</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Jane
Matthews was the mother of John Bassett(b. 1790)</span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After
considerable research we know that Jane Matthews is the mother of John Bassett,
as Eleanor died in 1780 aged 63 years. However, it is not clear which William
Bassett is his father.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><a name="_Toc81829438"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">Theories
concerning the identity of John Bassett(b.1790)’s father</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The next
question then becomes which William Bassett was Jane Matthews’ husband &
the father of John Bassett(b. 1790)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There are
two likely scenarios<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Scenario 1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #538135; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">William Bassett(b.1762) </span><span lang="EN-GB">the son of <i><span style="color: red;">William
Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span>& Eleanor Sampson
where Jane Matthews was his only wife. This couple go on to have two children
which have been identified William born circa 1760 & Eleanor born circa 1765.
<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">[research notes No baptismal records have yet
been located for either of <span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">William Bassett(b.1762)’s </span>children.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Scenario 2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">the son of William Bassett[Cordwainer] and his
wife Margery Grenfield where Jane Matthews was his second wife. <o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">In this scenario, <i><span style="color: red;">William
Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span>& <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #538135; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">William Bassett(b.1762) </span>identified Scenario 1 are
the same person. We refer to the William Bassett in Scenario 2 as <i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> [</span><span style="color: red;">pauper] </span>to help distinguish him in the context of
having two wives.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">William married his first wife Eleanor Sampson
on </span>23 June 1761 in Madron, Cornwall, England.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<a name="_Hlk79069759"><span lang="EN-GB">He was
26, she was 45</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, no
children have been verified for this couple, they were married for 19 years.
Eleanor dies at the age of </span>63 and buried as the wife of <i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William Bassett, Pauper </span></i>on
29 August 1780 in Madron, Cornwall, England<a name="_Hlk79944875">.</a><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Bassett/1600%20William%20Basset%20father%20of%20William%20Pauper/Comparing%20Evidence%202%20TheoriesV4%20blog.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;">Given Eleanor’s age when she
married William it is unlikely that the couple had any children.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">After <a name="_Hlk81141957"><i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></a></span><span style="color: red;">pauper]</span><span style="color: red;">’s </span><span lang="EN-GB">first
wife, Eleanor died, he then married Jane
Matthews (his second wife) at the age of 48 </span>on 13 September 1783 in
Madron, Cornwall, England.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">It is after this second marriage
that he begins to be identified as <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett, pauper</span></i>
in the parish records when his second child is baptised. The couple go on to
have nine children between 1784 and 1800, three of which die in childhood, two
we know get married but what happened to the others remains a mystery. <a name="_Hlk81138503">Jane, his wife, dies in 1810 she is buried on 12 August as
Jane Bassett, <span style="color: red;">Pauper</span>, at Madron.</a></span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><a name="_Hlk81138453"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William </span></a><span lang="EN-GB">dies at the age of 84 while residing at Marazion and is buried on 8
December 1819 in Madron.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829439"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">The
generation in dispute</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Is there
one or two generations between William Bassett (married 1735) </span>[<span lang="EN-GB">cordwainer] & John Bassett (born
1790)?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbGdswkM0Mnly5bQ99x670CLZ9vMzkVMPhWyb25naoYMcv1_7857w3lT024c47qTIfYjXQ8oEwa7XkenVpUpXNF3hjVoYEktlEkPWz1mcrsalUSLOrNqh-X8G1OA0QHkfd16FeVo5Eo1g/s643/Scenarios.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="580" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbGdswkM0Mnly5bQ99x670CLZ9vMzkVMPhWyb25naoYMcv1_7857w3lT024c47qTIfYjXQ8oEwa7XkenVpUpXNF3hjVoYEktlEkPWz1mcrsalUSLOrNqh-X8G1OA0QHkfd16FeVo5Eo1g/w361-h400/Scenarios.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829440"><span lang="EN-GB">Examining
the Evidence</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829441"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">Baptismal
Records</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal">William Bassett pauper from Madron, had nine children in
total. The children, except for the
eldest, were all identified as being the children of <span style="color: red;">William
Bassett Pauper</span>. The lack of the pauper designation could indicate that the
first child she was not his daughter, but daughter to another William Bassett.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">William Bassett the Pauper is the father of the 9 children
based on the following: -<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: left;"><b><i>Reason 1</i></b> - there are no
other children born to a William Bassett in Madron between 1770 and 1820 other
than these 9 children.<br /><b><i>Reason 2</i></b> - In all cases except
for the first child the father is identified as a pauper<br /><b><i>Reason 3</i></b> - other
than for the first two children there is a regular 2 years gap between the
births of his children.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the time of the birth of his first child it seems he was
not considered a pauper. <o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829442"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">Burial
Records as Evidence of Life</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829443"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Burial
of Eleanor Basset in Madron, 1780</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eleanor
dies at the age of </span>63 and was buried as the wife of a <i><span lang="EN-GB">William Bassett </span></i>on 29
August 1780 in Madron, Cornwall, England.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span lang="EN-GB">Eleanor was listed as the wife
not the widow of William Bassett which suggests that her husband William was
still alive. If he had been dead, she would have been listed as the “widow of” rather than the “wife of”. In the
Bishops transcripts she is described as being “at Madron, wife of <span style="color: red;">William, pauper</span>”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Bassett/1600%20William%20Basset%20father%20of%20William%20Pauper/Comparing%20Evidence%202%20TheoriesV4%20blog.docx#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
[which indicates that her husband is still alive and a pauper]<span style="color: #385623; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">[Research Note - It is interesting to note that Eleanor’s
death is recorded slightly differently in the parish records and the Exeter
bishop’s Transcripts. In the parish register
she is described as being “wife of William, at Madron” and in the Bishop’s Transcripts
she is described as “at Madron, wife of William, pauper”. This can be explained
by the following: [the] “Bishops’ transcripts (BTs) are copies of the parish
register, sent to the Diocese once a year. In Cornwall they were sent to the
Dioceses of either Bodmin or Exeter (Devon), and very occasionally to both. …
Bishops’ transcripts are often of value even when parish registers exist, as
priests often recorded either additional or different information in their
transcripts than they did in the original registers.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Which helps to explained why there might be more information in the Exeter
transcriptions. [The use of the phrase “at Madron, wife of William, pauper”
would tend to support the notion that Eleanor is the wife of the still-living <i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> [</span><span style="color: red;">pauper].</span>] <o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829444"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Burial
of William Basset of Penzance in Gulval, 1799</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There was
burial on 27 October 1799 for a William Basset of Penzance in the Gulval parish
register.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">No age was
given in this record nor was the person listed as a Pauper or a widower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So who was this
William Basset, and how he fits into the wider family is not clear. He is not
the husband of Eleanor Bassett for the reasons stated above, nor the husband of
Jane Matthews as <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></span><span style="color: red;">pauper] </span><span lang="EN-GB">is recorded in his daughter Jane’s
baptism six months later, on 23 March 1800, as the father and not recorded as
deceased. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is
possible that this is the burial of William Bassett son of <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></span><span style="color: red;">pauper] </span><span lang="EN-GB">& Jane Matthews who was baptised 20 January 1788 in Madron Cornwall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829445"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Burial
of Jane Bassett, pauper, in Madron, 1810</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jane dies
in 1810 she is buried on 12 August as Jane Bassett, <span style="color: red;">Pauper</span>,
at Madron.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
The use of suffix of pauper is consistent with the description used for William
Bassett, her husband, during their married life as evidenced by the children’s
baptismal records. <o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829446"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Burial
of William Bassett in Madron, 1819</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">William </span><span lang="EN-GB">dies at the age of 84 while residing at
Marazion and is buried on 8 December 1819 in Madron.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829447"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
term “Pauper”</span></span></a></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There as
been some debate around the use of the suffix of pauper that appears in the
parish records and the significance of the term.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After 1783
a new “Stamp Duty Act” was introduced which levied duty of 3d on each parish
register entry. Inclusion of the term
pauper after a person name allowed the parish minister to exempt the
parishioner from having to pay.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Some vicars objected to the tax and were particularly lenient in their
definition of 'pauper'. The act was finally repealed in 1794.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">William
Bassett was listed as a pauper in the baptismal records from 1785 to 1800, for
all of his children with the exception his eldest daughter who was baptised in
1784.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We have
instances of the term pauper being used before & after the act as evidenced
by Eleanor’s burial record in 1780 and the baptisms of William’s children after
1794, this supports the idea that William Bassett was genuinely poor and needed
parish support.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Research note:
- "Poor law records, 1646-1859" for Madron (Cornwall). Have been
filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah they have not been digitised. And
are not available freely online.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829448"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
child bearing age of women in 1700s</span></span></a></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eleanor
Sampson was 45 years age at the time of her marriage [which is confirmed by the
age given at the time of her burial] so it is unlikely that she bore any
children. As <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></span><span style="color: red;">pauper] </span>was
only 48 at the time of Eleanor’s death it is quite reasonable that he went on
and remarried a much younger woman, such as Jane Matthews.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Two other alternative scenarios are<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 38.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Eleanor
had her first child at 45 and her last child, her name-sake, Eleanor Bassett
when she was 48. <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 38.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->The
Eleanor Bassett (1765) could be related in some other sort of way, such as a niece.
It is this <span lang="EN-GB">Eleanor that married
John Dash on 4 November 1793 in Madron after Banns were published.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
The couple appear to have two children Mary baptised on 10 June 1799 and Joseph
baptised 13 June 1802 in Madron.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
John Dash died and is buried on 15 October 1802 in Madron, Cornwall.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Eleanor (now a widow, of Penzance) then married John Levi on 7 April 1804 in
Madron after banns<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829449"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Will</span></span></a></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">William
Bassett[Cordwainer] left a Will which helps to establish his family
configuration.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The
property may be significant and still needs to be looked at closely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The
property was leased and originally held on three lives of which two remained -
“one old and one infirm”. The identities of these two people are difficult to
establish without sight of the original lease. The property may have been in
Bassett or Grenfield occupation and was leased to one of these families. There
has been some conjecture that the lease was about to expire, however we are
unaware for the basis of these claims. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">[Research note:- The property was leased and originally held on three
lives of which two remained - “one old and one infirm”. The identities of these two people are difficult to establish
without further information. Sighting the original lease might reveal more
information. (possibly mentioned in this set of documents - </span><a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/255506d6-090a-4433-966d-689a17ef8f73"><span lang="EN-GB">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/255506d6-090a-4433-966d-689a17ef8f73</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> ). The property may have been in
Bassett or Grenfield occupation and was leased to one of these families but the
lease was about to expire. This does not mean that the lives would necessarily
be, as you say, an old Margery and perhaps an infirmed offspring such as Francis
who was not mentioned in his father’s will of indeed <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></span><span style="color: red;">pauper]</span><span lang="EN-GB">.
It is equally possible that the lives were written into the lease before either
of them were born]<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829450"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
use of signatures</span></span></a></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">William
Bassett[Cordwainer] personally signed his Will which allows us to compare his
signature with the William Bassett that signed James’ Bassett marriage record
in 1761. As the signatures match this allows us further confirm that William
Bassett[Cordwainer] is the father of James Bassett and therefore by implication
the father of his brother, <i>William Bassett</i></span>.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><a name="_Toc81829451"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Conclusion</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper
is the resulting effort to compare, contrast and discuss two different
scenarios for the parentage of John Bassett b.1790. We believe that the weight
of evidence currently supports the idea that <i><span style="color: red;">William
Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> [</span></span><span style="color: red;">pauper] </span>is the father <span lang="EN-GB">of John Bassett b.1790 </span>and that this is <span lang="EN-GB">borne out by the evidence as outlined
above. It might be that as further evidence comes to light this conclusion will
be modified to reflect these new facts. The authors of this paper would welcome
feedback on any section of this paper particularly if further evidence can be
provided to support either scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829452"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">Further
research suggestions:</span></span></a></h1><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Examine
"Poor law records, 1646-1859" for Madron (Cornwall) for mentions of
William Bassett[pauper]. [Note these
records have been filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah but they have not
been digitised. And are not available freely online. So it would mean that the
would have to examined by someone at the CRO, which is not possible in time of
COVID]</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> Examine
the property records - The property was leased and originally held on three
lives of which two remained - “one old and one infirm”. The identities of these
two people are difficult to establish without sight of the original lease or
when the lease was about to expire. (Possibly mentioned in this set of
documents - </span><a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/255506d6-090a-4433-966d-689a17ef8f73" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/255506d6-090a-4433-966d-689a17ef8f73</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> ). The property may have been in
Bassett or Grenfield occupation and was leased to one of these families but the
lease was about to expire. This does not mean that the lives would necessarily
be, as you say, an old Margery and perhaps an infirmed Francis who was not
mentioned in his father’s will. It is equally possible that the lives were
written into the lease before either of them was born.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Continue
DNA research to assist in establishing family connections – The possibility of
using DNA to either prove or disprove a genetic connection between Eleanor
Sampson the descendants of </span><span style="color: red; text-indent: -18pt;">William
Bassett(b.1736) [pauper] </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">is an interesting one. To establish this
connection </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">we would need to
find DNA matches between the descendants of </span><span style="color: red; text-indent: -18pt;">William
Bassett(b.1736) [pauper]</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">and the
descendants of</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Eleanor Sampson siblings. </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">If a connection can be found this </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">would demonstrate that </span><span style="color: red; text-indent: -18pt;">William Bassett(b.1736) [pauper]</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">had married </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Eleanor Sampson and that <span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">William
Bassett(b.1762) </span>is the son of <i><span style="color: red;">William
Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span>& Eleanor
Sampson, thus supporting Scenario 1.</span></li></ol><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p><h1><a name="_Toc81829453"><span lang="EN-GB">Past
Research</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Toc81829454"><span lang="EN-GB">Australian
Research</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal">It has long been contended by a local researcher and
descendant of John Bassett (b.1790) that Jane Matthews was not his mother. This
researcher is no longer actively communicating about her research, this paper
arose out of a desire try and investigate and test alternative theories for the
ancestry/parentage of John Bassett (b.1790) to try and establish who his
parents were.<o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name="_Toc81829455">Ken Ripper’s Research</a><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Ken Ripper graciously shared his extensive research with us,
which supported the idea that William Bassett(b. abt 1762) & Eleanor
Sampson were the parents of William Bassett(b. 1735) who married Jane Matthews.
The lack of records could be considered a weakness for this scenario however
there are several plausible reasons why no records have been found:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; mso-text-indent-alt: -18.0pt; text-indent: -54pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>I.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></b><!--[endif]-->The children were never baptised, for
reasons unknown.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; mso-text-indent-alt: -18.0pt; text-indent: -54pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>II.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></b><!--[endif]-->The baptismal records for this period have
been lost.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; mso-text-indent-alt: -18.0pt; text-indent: -54pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>III.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></b><!--[endif]-->The children were baptised at home, there
being few chapels, as Methodists then they will not feature in Church of
England records and early non-conformist records are scant, not having
survived.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b>Legend</b>: </p><p class="MsoNormal">Colour coding has been
employed in this document to try and clarify the identity of which William is being
discussed as follows: </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #538135; line-height: 107%;">William Bassett(b.1762) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">the son of <i><span style="color: red;">William Bassett(b.1736)</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span>&
Eleanor Sampson - Scenario 1<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: red; line-height: 107%;">William Bassett(b.1736) [pauper] </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">is the son of William
Bassett Cordwainer </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">- Scenario 2<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
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</p><div><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><p class="MsoNormal">WikiTree Link <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bassett-1031" target="_blank">John Bassett (bef. 1790 - 1868)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Blogpost Meta Data<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The URL for this post is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2021/09/finding-ancestors-of-john-bassett-1790.html originally published 11 September 2021<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Author 2021, Sandra Williamson<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email via the Contact Form on the Blog.</p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Bassett/1600%20William%20Basset%20father%20of%20William%20Pauper/Comparing%20Evidence%202%20TheoriesV4%20blog.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""></a><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231); color: #333331;">Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Baptism of John Bassett baptized 5 September 1890, Madron Parish Church, Penzance, Cornwall,
"England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with
images, Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1784-1810, Penzance Madron, Cornwall,
Cornwall Records Office, Truro, <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231); color: #333331;">(</span><a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12896-157190-89?cc=1769414"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12896-157190-89?cc=1769414</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> : </span></span>14 April 2015, image 19 of 100)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> FamilySearch,
Marriage of John Basset & Martha Carbis, married 15 Mar 1812 Paul Church
Register, Cornwall p. 273"England, Cornwall Parish Registers,
1538-2010," database with images, Marriage banns, marriages, Paul,
Carnwall 1754-1813, Cornwall Records Office, Truro. <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D8M7-YCZ?cc=1769414&wc=3CBW-GPX%3A138123201%2C140206301%2C1582887602">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D8M7-YCZ?cc=1769414&wc=3CBW-GPX%3A138123201%2C140206301%2C1582887602</a>.
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143) [annotated by minister as Copy 1]; FamilySearch, Marriage of John Basset
& Martha Carbis, married 15 Mar 1812 Paul Church Register, Cornwall p.
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Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, Marriage banns,
marriages, Paul, Carnwall 1799-1813, Cornwall Records Office, Truro. <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R77-9ZNQ?cc=1769414&wc=3CB7-BZ7%3A138123201%2C140206301%2C1582899508">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R77-9ZNQ?cc=1769414&wc=3CB7-BZ7%3A138123201%2C140206301%2C1582899508</a>.
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Burial of Eleanor wife of [unable to read
heavily crossed out with the name William written above] Basset buried at
Madron on 29 August 1780 aged 63, Madon & Penzance parish register for
Christenings and burials, 1756-1783 register unnumbered entry last entry for
August, page 64, year 1780, “at Madron”
(<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-D9NZ-W?i=61&cat=45937">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-D9NZ-W?i=61&cat=45937</a> ; FHS film # 004091988, image 62 of 317 :
accessed 23 March 2021)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div id="edn4">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> FamilySearch,
Banns of Marriage for William Bassett
& Eleanor Sampson married by banns on 23 March 1761, Marriage Register Book
for the parish of Madron in County of Cornwall, Marriage banns, marriages,
1754-1800, entry 578, page 45 "England, Cornwall Parish Registers,
1538-2010," database with images, Marriage banns, marriages, 1754-1800,
Penzance Madron Cornwall, Cornwall Records Office, Truro (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12877-90083-27?cc=1769414">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12877-90083-27?cc=1769414</a>
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<div id="edn5">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Cornwall
OPC Database, Burial of Eleanor Bassett, buried on 29 August 1780 in Madron and
described as being at Madron, wife of William, pauper, transcribed by L Cox
(http://www.opc-cornwall.org/ Accessed 20 August 2021) citing Exeter Bishops
Transcripts FHL film # 5749782, image 181<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn6">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> FamilySearch,
Banns of Marriage for William Bassett
& Jane Matthews "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database
with images, Marriage banns, marriages, 1754-1800, Penzance Madron Cornwall,
Cornwall Records Office, Truro (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12877-92229-15?cc=1769414">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12877-92229-15?cc=1769414</a>
: 14 April 2015, image 112 of 198.)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div id="edn7">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231);">FamilySearch, Burial of Jane Bassett, buried 12 August 1810, Madron
Parish Church Register Penzance Madron, Cornwall, "England, Cornwall
Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images. Baptisms, marriages,
burials, 1784-1810, Penzance Madron, Cornwall, Cornwall Records Office, Truro. </span><a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XCT7-PD2?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-824%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C1582884504"><span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231); mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XCT7-PD2?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-824%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C1582884504</span></a><span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231);"> Accessed 14 April 2015 (image
99 of 100) . </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn8">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
FamilySearch, Burial of William Bassett aged 84 residing in Marazion buried 8
December 1819 Madron Parish register for burial 1813-1833 entry 249, page 32
year 1819; "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database
with images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67Y3-ZVM?cc=1769414&wc=3CBZ-L24%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C140359101">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67Y3-ZVM?cc=1769414&wc=3CBZ-L24%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C140359101</a>
: 14 April 2015), Cornwall > Penzance
Madron > Burials, 1813-1832 > image 21 of 56; Cornwall Records Office,
Truro.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div id="edn9">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Burial
of Eleanor wife of [unable to read heavily crossed out with the name William
written above] Basset buried 29 August 1780 aged 63, Madon & Penzance
parish register for Christenings and burials, 1756-1783 register unnumbered
entry last entry for August, page 64, year 1780, “at Madron” (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-D9NZ-W?i=61&cat=45937">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-D9NZ-W?i=61&cat=45937</a>
; FHS film # 004091988, image 62 of 317
: accessed 23 March 2021)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Cornwall
OPC Database, Burial of Eleanor Bassett, buried on 29 August 1780 in Madron and
described as being at Madron, wife of William, pauper, transcribed by L Cox (<a href="http://www.opc-cornwall.org/">http://www.opc-cornwall.org/</a> Accessed 20 August 2021) citing Exeter Bishops
Transcripts FHL film # 5749782, image 181<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Author unknown, “Bishops’
Transcriptions (BTs) – an explanation” accessed </span><a href="https://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/Bishops'%20Transcripts%20-%20an%20explanation.pdf"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/Bishops'%20Transcripts%20-%20an%20explanation.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> : 29 August 2021)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Burial of William Basset of Penzance buried 27 October 1799, Gulval, parish
register for Baptisms, burials, 1781-1812, 4<sup>th</sup> unnumbered entry from
bottom of page 185 entitled Burial 1799;
"England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with
images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6XSW-8R9?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-MNR%3A138123201%2C138830001%2C1582885907">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6XSW-8R9?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-MNR%3A138123201%2C138830001%2C1582885907</a>
: 30 November 2016), Cornwall >
Gulval > Baptisms, burials, 1781-1812 > image 48 of 75; Cornwall Records
Office, Truro.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn13">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231);">FamilySearch, Burial of Jane Bassett, buried 12
August 1810, Madron Parish Church Register Penzance Madron, Cornwall,
"England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images.
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1784-1810, Penzance Madron, Cornwall, Cornwall
Records Office, Truro. </span><a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XCT7-PD2?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-824%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C1582884504"><span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231); mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XCT7-PD2?cc=1769414&wc=3CB8-824%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C1582884504</span></a><span style="background: rgb(237, 236, 231);"> Accessed 14 April 2015 (image
99 of 100) . </span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> FamilySearch,
Burial of William Bassett aged 84 residing in Marazion buried 8 December 1819
Madron Parish register for burial 1813-1833 entry 249, page 32 year 1819; "England,
Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch
(<a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67Y3-ZVM?cc=1769414&wc=3CBZ-L24%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C140359101">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67Y3-ZVM?cc=1769414&wc=3CBZ-L24%3A138123201%2C140336001%2C140359101</a>
: 14 April 2015), Cornwall > Penzance
Madron > Burials, 1813-1832 > image 21 of 56; Cornwall Records Office,
Truro.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn15">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Wikipedia
contributors, "Stamp Duties Act 1783," Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stamp_Duties_Act_1783&oldid=1002315027">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stamp_Duties_Act_1783&oldid=1002315027</a>
(accessed August 28, 2021).<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn16">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Cornwall
OPC Database, Marriage of John DASH (residing in town of Penzance) &
Eleanor BASSETT (residing in town of Penzance)
were married after banns on 4 November 1793 in Madron, Cornwall,
transcribed by L Cox (<a href="http://www.opc-cornwall.org/">http://www.opc-cornwall.org/</a>
Accessed 15 August 2021) citing Exeter
Bishops Transcripts<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn17">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<a name="_Hlk79938158">Cornwall OPC Database, Baptism of Mary DASH baptised 10
June 1799, Chapel of St Mary, Burryton in Madron, Cornwall, daughter of John
transcribed by L Cox (</a><a href="http://www.opc-cornwall.org/">http://www.opc-cornwall.org/</a> Accessed 15 August 2021) citing Exeter Bishops
Transcripts Film # 5749783 image 254<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn18">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
Cornwall OPC Database, Baptism of John DASH baptised 13 June 1802, at Penzance
on the Madron paish circuit, Cornwall, daughter of John transcribed by L Cox (<a href="http://www.opc-cornwall.org/">http://www.opc-cornwall.org/</a> Accessed 15 August 2021) citing Exeter Bishops
Transcripts<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn19">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Burial
of John Dash, buried 15 October 1802 at Penzance, Madron Bishop's Transcripts
5th entry from bottom of unnumbered page entitled ‘Burials at Penzance in the
year 1802’ (citing Film # 005750104, Image 75 of 411: <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93K-KW1V?i=74&cat=1833619">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93K-KW1V?i=74&cat=1833619</a>
accessed 6 September 2021)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn20">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Cornwall
OPC Database, Marriage of John LEVI (residing in Penzance) & Eleanor DASH
(widow, residing in Penzance) were married by banns on 7 April 1804 in Madron,
Cornwall, transcribed by Ian J Trewhella (<a href="http://www.opc-cornwall.org/">http://www.opc-cornwall.org/</a>
Accessed 15 August 2021) [witnesses John
Bassett & John Ancell]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn21">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> FamilySearch,
“Original wills, administrations and inventories for the Consistorial Court of
the Archdeaconry of Cornwall”, William and Inventory of William Bassett of
Maddren, cordwinder, written 1762: Proved 1768. LDS Film # 2776053, Image
number 2182-2185 citing CRO Ref.No.AP/B/4261 (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XSM9-ZZ4?i=2181&cat=329778">https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XSM9-ZZ4?i=2181&cat=329778</a>
: accessed 5 August 2021)<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-44551484912103327332021-05-08T22:00:00.001+10:002021-08-28T21:54:27.708+10:00Lincoln Todman & Compulsory Cadet Training<p> <a name="_Hlk71268364"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #2f5496; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Universal
Service Scheme, 1911–1929</span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk71268364;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;">“Between 1911 and 1929
Australian males aged between 18 and 60 were required to perform militia
service within Australia and its territories”.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“From 1 July 1911 cadet training was made compulsory as part of the
system of peacetime conscription in Australia.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference">
<span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
</span>All male inhabitants of Australia including those that had resided
Australia for six months and British subjects were expected to train under
what was known as the Universal Service Scheme, 1911–1929 as follows:<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="break-after: avoid; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->from 12 to 14 years of age, in the junior
cadets; </li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->from 14 to I8 years of age, in the senior
cadets; </li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->from I8 to 26 years of age, in the citizen
forces. </li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="break-after: avoid; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="break-after: avoid; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Junior Cadets<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Boys aged
12–14 were registered as Junior cadets, although as a non-uniformed
classroom-based activity their classification as ‘cadets’ is dubious.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Junior cadet training was entirely in the
hands of school teachers, who had first been trained by military officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This early training was less military in
nature than focused on physical drill and sport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also acted to inculcate boys with the
notions of loyalty to country and empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At this age, uniforms were not worn, although there were schools with
pre-existing uniformed cadet units, who continued to do so.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;">Lincoln was born in 1906 in
Victoria, Australia.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a name="_Hlk71397972">He became part of the
compulsory Junior cadets while attending Hawksburn State School at the age of 12
in 1918. </a>As a junior cadet, he would have been involved in such activities
as “squad drill, physical exercises, organised games, first aid and swimming.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;">“Every school day at least
fifteen minutes are spent in the training of junior cadets, the total hours of
training for the year amounting to ninety. … All parts of the body are exercised
in due proportions, and the lesson includes exercises calculated to develop
mental control over muscular action.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Senior Cadets in Quota 1906<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">“After a boy has completed his training in the Junior
Cadets, he passes into the Senior Cadets, where he is trained during the period
between the 14<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> years of age.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Senior Cadet training began each July for
all eligible boys turning 14 at any time during the year”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Senior Cadet training operated on a ‘quota’ system with a
quota defined as the set of boys who became eligible for registration when they
turned 14 in any given year.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;">Training took 64 hours a year
and included “the following: Physical training, squad drill without arms, and
semaphore squad drill with arms, care of arms, section of drill, musketry instruction
and exercises, company drill, range practise. There is allotted to each senior
cadet for range practise, field practice and matches, 150 rounds of ammunition
per year.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The program had been
modernised and was being supplemented with sport by 1920,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Youths and boys who were bored mentally and
wearied physically by squad drill extending over several hours are finding
pleasure in the recreational exercises and improved means of physical culture
now offered to them. … The young soldier, therefore, will be instructed,
developed and entertained in many ways useful in training, not only for the
military purposes but also for citizenship.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">At fourteen
Lincoln he moved onto the Senior Cadets of Area 14AB (Prahran) on 27 January
1920 and trained in area 14 AB(Prahran)</span>.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
The following year in 1921 there was a major re-organisation of Australia’s
military forces, as part of this process the 14th Battalion, an infantry
battalion of the Australian Army was raised again in 1921 as a part-time unit
of the Citizen Forces based in Victoria.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
The new battalion was based in the southeast Melbourne area in Victoria and drew
its manpower from three previously existing Citizen Forces units which included
Lincoln’s group the 14<sup>th</sup> infantry Regiment.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><a name="_Hlk71398084">Lincoln
was promoted to Corporal on 21 May 1821 and successfully completed 4 years of
training between 1921 and 30 June 1824</a>.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
At <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the time Lincoln joined the
scheme it was at its height and held some 99,000 members parading at school
locations or drill halls across the country.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1>Citizen Air Force - 1925 to 1927<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk71398136">Lincoln transferred to the Citizen
Air Forces, Number 1 Squadron at Point Cook, on 7 September 1925. </a>As part
of Lincoln’s training, he would have participated in an annual training camp.</p>
<p class="MsoCaption"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQC966aNeDwcmyVMfMhsotPfhtkW1gPnmxhUP6Zc3h9fm5kCE5cbm4AazBhe-b74GI05Ze_yPhTaITBDsbw0SJ2UCgAcq_50XYEe5abmEdN7gcDlCR8A6j0oVOU9oul9iBOaznhJ_4NoZs/s869/t072.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="869" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQC966aNeDwcmyVMfMhsotPfhtkW1gPnmxhUP6Zc3h9fm5kCE5cbm4AazBhe-b74GI05Ze_yPhTaITBDsbw0SJ2UCgAcq_50XYEe5abmEdN7gcDlCR8A6j0oVOU9oul9iBOaznhJ_4NoZs/s320/t072.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer
unknown, Lincoln Todman with friends, Citizen Forces Annual Training Camp,
between 1925 - 1927, Point Cook, Victoria, Australia. [T072] (Lincoln on the righthand side of the tent pole) </span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk71398537">On 1 July 1927 with the rank of
fitter Armourer, he was moved to the Non-effective list of the Citizen Air Force
at his own request for two years. Why this request was made is unclear, he was
due to return to the Citizen Air Force in 1929, although if he did or not is
also unclear as there are no entries in his personnel file to indicate what
happened.<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk71398537;"></span>
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Reflections –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/05/sepia-saturday-569-8th-may-2021.html" target="_blank">Prompt 269</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">WikiTree Link <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Todman-10" target="_blank">Lincoln James Todman</a>
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Archives of Australia: Fact Sheet 160 Universal military training in Australia,
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Johnston, E.N. The Australian System
of Universal Training for Purposes of Military Defense citing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proceedings of the Academy of Political
Science in the City of New York, Vol. 6, No. 4, Military Training: Compulsory
or Volunteer? (Jul., 1916), pp. 113-133 Published by: The Academy of Political
Science </span><span lang="EN-GB"> URL: </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1193283"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.jstor.org/stable/1193283</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> Accessed: 05-05-2021 05:17 UTC page
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Stockings,
C. (2008). Australian Army Cadets. In The Oxford Companion to Australian
Military History. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 May. 2021, from <a href="https://www-oxfordreference-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780195517842.001.0001/acref-9780195517842-e-95">https://www-oxfordreference-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780195517842.001.0001/acref-9780195517842-e-95</a>.</p>
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<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">State Library of South Australia, Children
and World War 1: Cadets – Cadet Training, </span><a href="https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410371&p=2794665"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410371&p=2794665</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> accessed 6 May 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Birth
Certificate of Lincoln James Todman, born 20 July 1906, Registrar of Birth,
Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia, 298/1906<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> 1916
'NEWS OF THE DAY.', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 5 January, p. 6. ,
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
1907, 'The Training of Junior Cadets.', The Lone hand W. McLeod], [Sydney
viewed 7 May 2021 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-419318852<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Johnston, E.N. The Australian System
of Universal Training for Purposes of Military Defense citing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proceedings of the Academy of Political
Science in the City of New York, Vol. 6, No. 4, Military Training: Compulsory
or Volunteer? (Jul., 1916), pp. 113-133 Published by: The Academy of Political
Science </span><span lang="EN-GB">URL: </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1193283"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.jstor.org/stable/1193283</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> Accessed: 05-05-2021 05:17 UTC page
</span>127</p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Craig
A.J.Stockings, “The Torch and the Sword, A History of the Army Cadet Movement
in Australia 1866-2004 Thesis 2006, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Craig
A.J.Stockings, “The Torch and the Sword, A History of the Army Cadet Movement
in Australia 1866-2004 Thesis 2006, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
Johnston, E.N. The Australian System of Universal Training for Purposes of
Military Defense citing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proceedings of
the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, Vol. 6, No. 4,
Military Training: Compulsory or Volunteer? (Jul., 1916), pp. 113-133 Published
by: The Academy of Political Science URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1193283 Accessed:
05-05-2021 05:17 UTC page 130</p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
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</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> 1920
'Arms and the Nation', The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), 11 August,
p. 6. , viewed 06 May 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242309459<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn15" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <a name="_Hlk71398029"></a><a name="_Hlk71280383"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk71398029;">National
Archives of Australia: Air Services Branch CA 778; Department of Defence [III],
Central Office - Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff - Personnel
(ACPERS-AF), CA 46; RAAF Personnel files of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)
and other ranks, 1921-1948, Lincoln James Todman Service Number: 205018 (NAA:
A9301, 205018) </span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk71280383;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk71398029;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <a href="https://amp.blog.shops-net.com/21802897/1/14th-battalion-australia.html">https://amp.blog.shops-net.com/21802897/1/14th-battalion-australia.html</a>
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Front until the end of the war, when it was disbanded.]<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
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accessed 8 May 2021<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Ellis was born 27
January 1842. He was the son of <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellis-2982" target="Ellis-2982"><span class="ListLabel4"><span style="text-decoration: none;">James Ellis</span></span></a> (shoemaker) and <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jardine-80" target="Jardine-80"><span class="ListLabel4"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sarah Jardine</span></span></a> (from
Pounds Passage John Row).<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="background: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="background: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 110%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span> James and Sarah already had 5
children and <s>later</s> would have 7 more. Richard was baptised seven years
later on 4 March 1849 in St Mark Myddleton Square, Clerkenwell, Middlesex,
with two of his younger siblings, Charles and Emily.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to Richard’s record of baptism, at the time the family were residing at number 2 of an
indecipherable street in Myddelton Square, Islington.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to the 1851 census, at
the age of 9 Richard was living with his parents at 5
Garden Row, Finsbury, in Middlesex, England. His older siblings were
also at this address, and all but one
were working as servants. His father was a Boot & Shoe Maker.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Ellis/1806_ELLIS_James/Richard%20Ellis%20professional%20photographer%201842%201924%20v2.docx#_edn3" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKi41yeNu4gDDu5dGC9WY7H62tz85I5G6A1EDjLbmuMtQBCH9waq1efVnh4XS-blQgxPvMi9K6dZRpEu1DtUaH7x9ScpZ80-SnhsAnogn3wM54OuvLrOWHWrDzXIR7fjb3NYd27MFh4jO4/s499/Richard_Ellis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKi41yeNu4gDDu5dGC9WY7H62tz85I5G6A1EDjLbmuMtQBCH9waq1efVnh4XS-blQgxPvMi9K6dZRpEu1DtUaH7x9ScpZ80-SnhsAnogn3wM54OuvLrOWHWrDzXIR7fjb3NYd27MFh4jO4/s320/Richard_Ellis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 110%;">Photographer Richard Ellis, studio
self-portrait, 1900, Malta</span><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 110%;"> </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Ellis.jpg"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Ellis.jpg</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 110%;">
accessed 22 February 2021</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Richard started work <a name="__DdeLink__475_686847081">with</a> James and Sara Conroy as a circus performer, possibly as an apprentice tightrope walker. He travelled with the Conroys throughout Europe.
During a trip to Paris, James Conroy and Richard Ellis became interested in
photography and attended the Daguerre Institute. They later travelled
throughout Italy and Sicily, but events related to the Italian unification led
them to move to the nearest British colony, the Crown Colony of Malta. James,
Sarah Conroy, their 1 year old baby Adelaide Anceschi,
and Richard Ellis arrived in Malta on 9 April 1861 on a ship called Capitole<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Ellis/1806_ELLIS_James/Richard%20Ellis%20professional%20photographer%201842%201924%20v2.docx#_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title="">[v]</a></span></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Ellis/1806_ELLIS_James/Richard%20Ellis%20professional%20photographer%201842%201924%20v2.docx#_edn5" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN3r8cjeFgAYnz_KL-sxjqcRgZJvQCG1AD6HRCjVKqNtwrwsgyEo3PVo-U5Pyt7AYactZaQ4p52PFhk2g0H598RR-bjGp2mvG4XJcR3lTzE5UzWfoduzbeRJ-qEx54O3AkvM0oUGv22mt/s960/Richard_Ellis%252C_The_Ellis_Studio_on_Kingsway%252C_Valletta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN3r8cjeFgAYnz_KL-sxjqcRgZJvQCG1AD6HRCjVKqNtwrwsgyEo3PVo-U5Pyt7AYactZaQ4p52PFhk2g0H598RR-bjGp2mvG4XJcR3lTzE5UzWfoduzbeRJ-qEx54O3AkvM0oUGv22mt/s320/Richard_Ellis%252C_The_Ellis_Studio_on_Kingsway%252C_Valletta.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer Richard
Ellis, The Ellis Studio on Kingsway (Republic Street) in the late 19th century,
1 January 1900, malta<span lang="EN-GB">, Public
domain, via Wikimedia Commons </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Ellis,_The_Ellis_Studio_on_Kingsway,_Valletta.jpg"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Ellis,_The_Ellis_Studio_on_Kingsway,_Valletta.jpg</span></span></a></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After
arriving in Malta<span style="color: #ce181e;">,</span> James Conroy set up a
photographic studio in Senglea, with Richard acting as his
assistant/apprentice. Richard married Alphone Curmi, aged 17, on 9 February
1864 in Malta, he was 18 years of age.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> <span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
Richard set up his own photographic studio
in 1871 in Valletta, Malta.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxacyaoZg8uP5tCHMGOVXa-CDyZdpNh-TE7uv0mrx63Cml1rpzxamQ6NmJmq2y_vLpvR8ulVH_nNEWH7ZtWM6Z830ttlnn3t_9mvM1v92Gs5jYuxzHYiNYYK3mlnVBymziIV-fPhCUrDc/s923/Negative+covers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="923" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxacyaoZg8uP5tCHMGOVXa-CDyZdpNh-TE7uv0mrx63Cml1rpzxamQ6NmJmq2y_vLpvR8ulVH_nNEWH7ZtWM6Z830ttlnn3t_9mvM1v92Gs5jYuxzHYiNYYK3mlnVBymziIV-fPhCUrDc/s320/Negative+covers.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Two examples of Negative sleeves from the
Richard Ellis Photographic Studio</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Richard
died on 23 December 1924 in Valetta, Malta.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZbijS9uZ-0_FBBeojWX0HytCBgxfSEwxTp50FNListkhDwZpK1Vkzj92s3Mgt5KCv7NcWToCS_lKNaqvGBEm6sbMXroSGykxGLaYCNpOdJVzlszBXT0Le_r_-NbweuCuL-GRKkVXqpEr/s800/T299+-+2012%252B09%252B26%252B%252B2%252BIan%252BDolores%252BPlate%252BCamera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZbijS9uZ-0_FBBeojWX0HytCBgxfSEwxTp50FNListkhDwZpK1Vkzj92s3Mgt5KCv7NcWToCS_lKNaqvGBEm6sbMXroSGykxGLaYCNpOdJVzlszBXT0Le_r_-NbweuCuL-GRKkVXqpEr/s320/T299+-+2012%252B09%252B26%252B%252B2%252BIan%252BDolores%252BPlate%252BCamera.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer Jan Beamish, Examining Richard
Ellis’s original photographic equipment camera, The Richard Ellis Archive
Malta, 26 September 2012 [T299]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Sepia
Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/02/sepia-saturday-558-20-february-2021.html" target="_blank">Prompt 558</a> </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">'Malta:
The Richard Ellis Archive 1862-1924' </span><a href="https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2680769%3ABlogPost%3A15926"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2680769%3ABlogPost%3A15926</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> accessed 22 Feb. 21</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Business
today, The last of the Ellises,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 </span><a href="http://archive.businesstoday.com.mt/2008/05/21/interview.html"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">http://archive.businesstoday.com.mt/2008/05/21/interview.html</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> accessed 22 February 2021</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Richard
Ellis: The Man And His Legacy”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malta
Independent, Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:0</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sandra%20Williamson/Dropbox/Family%20History/Surname%20Folders/Ellis/1806_ELLIS_James/%20%20http:/www.independent.com.mt/articles/2012-05-13/news/richard-ellis-the-man-and-his-legacy-310033"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2012-05-13/news/richard-ellis-the-man-and-his-legacy-310033</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> accessed 20 February 2021</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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Englishman Richard Ellis deserves a monument in Malta by Melanie Drury 30
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Richard
Ellis – the man, his times and his pictures by Marika Azzopardi 2012, ARTICLES,
ISSUE 6 - 2012, LIBRARY, THESYNAPSE MAGAZINES, THESYNAPSE ONLINE </span><a href="https://cme30.eu/richard-ellis-the-man-his-times-and-his-pictures/"><span class="InternetLink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">https://cme30.eu/richard-ellis-the-man-his-times-and-his-pictures/</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>published on line January 16, 2020 accessed 20 February 2021</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>General Register Office, England, Birth Certificate for Richard Ellis born 27
January 1842, the son of James Ellis (shoe maker) and Sarah Ellis formerly
Jardin born at 2 Pounds Passage John Row GRO Reference: 1842 M Quarter in SAINT
LUKE MIDDLESEX Volume 02 Page 273<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii] </span></span></span></span>Baptism of Richard Ellis baptised 4 March 1849, born 26 May 1842 the son of
James (shoemaker) and Sarah Harriet Ellis residing at 2 [unable to read
address] Place, Myddelton Square St Mark, Islington parish register for
baptisms 1849-1917 entry 36, page 5, year 1849; Ancestry.com. London, England,
Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives;
London, England; Reference Number: p76/mrk/003 Year: 1849-1871<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>851 English Census HO107/1521/33/42<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>Wikipedia contributors, "Adelaide Conroy," Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adelaide_Conroy&oldid=977331355"><span class="InternetLink">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adelaide_Conroy&oldid=977331355</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(accessed February 22, 2021). Citing Casha,
Kevin (2016). Photography in Malta – The History & The Protagonists. Malta:
BDL books.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>Wikipedia contributors, "Richard Ellis (Maltese photographer),"
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Ellis_(Maltese_photographer)&oldid=987486323"><span class="InternetLink">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Ellis_(Maltese_photographer)&oldid=987486323</span></a>
(accessed February 22, 2021).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi] </span></span></span></span>Public Registry Office of Valletta, Malta, Marriage Certificate Richard Ellis
& Alfonsa Curmi (13 February 1864)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii] </span></span></span></span> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ellis_(Maltese_photographer) accessed 20
February 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii] </span></span></span></span>Death Certificate Richard Ellis, Malta<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-24231346732409627102021-01-31T21:12:00.001+11:002021-02-17T22:28:48.180+11:00Eurobin Falls in Mount Buffalo National Park<p style="text-align: center;"> The forecast predicted a 90% chance of rain, on Thursday 29 January 2021.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmQpYG7oT1Sp_ogQgkw4o0BGqvAdoMIUipxvw_1FSJnx_cvDErhpTaTPnfqiWEQB44HzXWIgW5RnI78tFPpqcrKyHFtP1Ok7xDuQU9bNPmXEiX3mDwVXHV8G_Pzo3VSlzJnx4bPvc5s7u/s4032/20210129_142146.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmQpYG7oT1Sp_ogQgkw4o0BGqvAdoMIUipxvw_1FSJnx_cvDErhpTaTPnfqiWEQB44HzXWIgW5RnI78tFPpqcrKyHFtP1Ok7xDuQU9bNPmXEiX3mDwVXHV8G_Pzo3VSlzJnx4bPvc5s7u/s320/20210129_142146.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">It rained all day as a consequence we were the only ones hiking to the top </span><span style="text-align: left;">of the waterfall. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Xy9bEWxETQYVaFHpUPoqb69VSEYkvOK0SEmwW-5XgKw4dCGS1dO2Rp6EOL_4XOEYEON9QH0F2Gn88lcWZvEzh6S0Y5L6SZCGf0-WXYErBNBVUBRZgVB4Rk4WRbglQHpTEtjcFeNdGYbv/s4032/20210129_142621.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Xy9bEWxETQYVaFHpUPoqb69VSEYkvOK0SEmwW-5XgKw4dCGS1dO2Rp6EOL_4XOEYEON9QH0F2Gn88lcWZvEzh6S0Y5L6SZCGf0-WXYErBNBVUBRZgVB4Rk4WRbglQHpTEtjcFeNdGYbv/s320/20210129_142621.jpg" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The view was spectacular
normally the water flow is but a trickle but today we were well rewarded for
our efforts.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjafRLaMSD0RwHYehRC-9C9UZsskJQ0M6jSaHOXyYWC64hcCgMhZAVILGoocj7yzRhpEDu8I5IJE1GpIZo0P0fBMH3fhkhvrnxtmRF9mgNqwnvnjziyV0T_ChNEgt6KbgibHYp6W83Q14of/s4032/20210129_142348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjafRLaMSD0RwHYehRC-9C9UZsskJQ0M6jSaHOXyYWC64hcCgMhZAVILGoocj7yzRhpEDu8I5IJE1GpIZo0P0fBMH3fhkhvrnxtmRF9mgNqwnvnjziyV0T_ChNEgt6KbgibHYp6W83Q14of/w400-h300/20210129_142348.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Halfway up the waterfall</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfrNxB5UsUR2hZ01azDFYUEAI3-pEuuPU2NTwEA2lO3NlMX0ApmsbaJ5cCubAmKu83L7AM60KJuf6EeCWduQ5ehg6lQkH1aDXte5Z5uoCMKl2dAx4ucTMILx2tyZQTHg3Q4I3LpNKCTfi/s4608/20210129_143735.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfrNxB5UsUR2hZ01azDFYUEAI3-pEuuPU2NTwEA2lO3NlMX0ApmsbaJ5cCubAmKu83L7AM60KJuf6EeCWduQ5ehg6lQkH1aDXte5Z5uoCMKl2dAx4ucTMILx2tyZQTHg3Q4I3LpNKCTfi/w400-h300/20210129_143735.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the top of the waterfall</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHJNKPfuconMRoro2vr9A5KzJzJtn8jKrvnQpviPB8W2GIVtke6f1f0j58HfN64bsNSp-biH0_jPPfIckH4q1vrdhZq2vA4l0HbCKgVhoggjTvu6am3iFtyNvSJLFBK3KFX82AxGdHlfU/s4608/20210129_144046.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHJNKPfuconMRoro2vr9A5KzJzJtn8jKrvnQpviPB8W2GIVtke6f1f0j58HfN64bsNSp-biH0_jPPfIckH4q1vrdhZq2vA4l0HbCKgVhoggjTvu6am3iFtyNvSJLFBK3KFX82AxGdHlfU/w300-h400/20210129_144046.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The very wet climb down to the bottom again. And managing the camera was not an easy task.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the time we got back to our holiday camp we were wet through to the skin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a girls weekend that we will remember for a long time into the future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Sepia Saturday: Using [not so] Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/01/sepia-saturday-555-30-january-2021.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Prompt 555</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The URL for this post is: <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2021/01/eurobin-falls-in-mount-buffalo-national.html">https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2021/01/eurobin-falls-in-mount-buffalo-national.html</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Copyright <span style="background: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">© </span>2021, Sandra Williamson<div><br />Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email via the Contact form on the Blog.</div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-28350521483288117042021-01-24T21:04:00.002+11:002021-01-24T21:04:20.481+11:00An All Male Ensemble <p>The only person identified in the below photo is Alfred
Edward Leigh Ellis, the Zither player (born 15 October 1865 in England), he and
his zither is identified by a small cross at the bottom of the photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtnvVv7KYD9dt3rd5b2551TDHcA35xeC2uB5Qs3PrZvWc7vWf8Ewz2RuaKioAmMeGQJwiGV8MNJ8KZDTuRC6V2sxj2qRzPfnu0XKMvxa3lgJc5ZUrXRGkhk4dvrspItX3Yc700gd8uSO5/s1579/t168.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1579" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtnvVv7KYD9dt3rd5b2551TDHcA35xeC2uB5Qs3PrZvWc7vWf8Ewz2RuaKioAmMeGQJwiGV8MNJ8KZDTuRC6V2sxj2qRzPfnu0XKMvxa3lgJc5ZUrXRGkhk4dvrspItX3Yc700gd8uSO5/w400-h285/t168.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographic Studio, Oxide Street, Alfred Edward
Leigh Ellis zither player, circa 1910, Broken Hill, Victoria, Australia [T168</span>]<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, the address for the photographer has been cut
off during the scanning process, but it is presumed to be “Oxide Street” in Broken
Hill, New South Wales. Alfred married his first wife in 1898 in Minindee not
far from Broken Hill. The couple lived in Perth, only returning to New South Wales before his wife died.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">"BUTCHERS.-The fortnightly MEETING of the COASTAL JOURNEYMAN BUTCHERS' UNION will take place at the Hotel Australia, East. Fremantle, TO-NIGHT (Monday), 22nd inst., at 8 o'clock.</p><p class="MsoNormal">A.E.L. ELLIS, Secretary." </p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div>Alfred worked as a butcher, baker & pastry cook,
he may even have worked for his first wife's father, William Ah Chung, who later in life ran a market garden but also had a bakery. Later Alfred moved to Port Pirie in South Australia after he
married his second wife in 1908. He also
became a smelter Employee around 1918 possibly at the Broken Hill Associated
Smelters Proprietary Limited in Port Pirie, South Australia.</div><p class="MsoNormal">So what was Alfred doing accompanying a violinist and other
musicians? I wish I knew, I've done extensive searches on <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">TROVE</a> and discovered
that were all sorts of musical events and concerts going on in Broken Hill between 1910-1920. Events were held outdoors in Rotundas, some in the local <span style="font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L", serif;">Skating Rink</span> (that seem to have been in process of becoming an early picture theatre) plus fundraiser events in Halls, Churches and schools.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There was also the “<span lang="EN-GB">Annual Smoke Concerts of the Broken Hill branch of the Australian
Natives’ Association, in celebration of the landing of Captain Cook”, in Australia [natives not referring to indigenous Australians but to European
settlers born in Australia].<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But the one that made me smile the most was
the Salvation Army Self Denial Concert.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If only
photographs could talk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/01/sepia-saturday-554-saturday-23-january.html" target="_blank">Prompt 554</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sources for Images:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Digital image from Authors personal collection scanned by Yvonne
Marshall from <o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Winsome
Kirwan's Private photo collection</span></li></ul><b>Sources for Text:</b><span style="font-family: Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><li>Advertisement for Union meeting 1902 'Advertising', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 22 December, p. 10. , viewed 24 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24850847">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24850847</a></li></span><span style="font-family: Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"></span><li>William Ah Chung of Meninidie, lease granted for Vegetable garden in Livingstone, Wambah; Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899 [database on-line]. from 1 January 1897 to 31 December 1921, granted 1897, page 2653; Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.</li><span style="font-family: Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"></span><li>William Ah Chung, baker residing in Meninidie. Ancestry.com. Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1933 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. year 1907, listed in page beginning with Allen under Country Alphabetical Listing.</li><li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;">1910 'A DARLING RIVER GARDEN.', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;">Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;">, 21 December, p. 7. (Christmas Supplement To THE BARRIER MINER), viewed 24 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45131853">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45131853</a></span></li><span style="font-family: Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><li>Sunday Concerts in the Skating Rink which held up to 2000 people which showed films accompanied by music. - 1910 'SUNDAY CONCERTS.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 21 February, p. 5. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101142">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101142</a> & 1910 'SUNDAY CONCERTS.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 28 February, p. 1. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101886">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101886</a></li><li>“The Broken Hill Band played at the Central Part Rotunda, The Broken Hill Mouth Organ Band played at the North Reserve Rotunda” - 1910 'BAND CONCERTS.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 28 February, p. 1. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101888">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101888 </a></li><li>‘West Suburban Band’ played in the Hillside Rotunda - 1910 'BAND CONCERTS.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 7 March, p. 5. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45102829">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45102829</a> </li><li>Philharmonic Society which played at Correl’s Hall - 1910 'PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 3 June, p. 5. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45113369">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45113369</a></li><li>Annual Smoke Concert of The Broken Hill branch of the Australian Natives’ Association the celebrated the arrival of Caption Cook to Australia [natives not referring to indigenous folk but to white settlers born in Australia]. - 1910 'AUSTRALIAN NATIVES' ASSOCIATION.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 30 April, p. 6. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45109098">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45109098</a></li><li>Salvation Army Self-Denial Concert.- 1910 'SALVATION ARMY SELF-DENIAL CONCERT.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 13 October, p. 1. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45143062">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45143062</a></li><li>1910 'BAND OF HOPE CONCERT.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 24 February, p. 3. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101630">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101630</a> - 1910 'BAND OF HOPE CONCERT.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 24 February, p. 3. , viewed 23 Jan 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45101630</li></span></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-8309841053608660272021-01-16T16:50:00.000+11:002021-01-16T16:50:33.006+11:00Sun UmbrellasAn umbrella is a circular canopy of cloth on a folding wooden or metal frame usually supported by a central rod. They are used for protection and come in all sizes. Some can be large pieces of furniture that cover entire cafe or picnic tables. Others are set up at the beach to help protect bathers from the hot sun. Lastly, there are portable umbrellas for personal use for those out and about in the weather. <div><br /><b>What is the difference between handheld umbrellas and parasols? </b><br />Broadly speaking an umbrella usually has a curved handle to allow for easy grip and most commonly associated with rain. A parasol is typically constructed from more delicate fabrics such as lace, cotton, silk, linen, and often used to give shade from the sun. </div><div><br />Parasols also are often are used as photo props, below are two such examples: -</div><div><br /><b>A touch of the exotic</b></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">A
p<o:p></o:p></span>hotograph handed down through the generations, shows an oriental umbrella, made of bamboo and paper being used as a prop, said to have been taken in Margate beach in Kent, England.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04ACCTZvWpy_ab4xhriIk91nQfxwHklh5VvEGGlQ1xthyu5qWws9thFP1t3Kfv6J7qJO-lt1EWNB2cRDLeglx4nBKkbt37yKluE3gOpDVfF2i1wfuJZY1AOg-xxIK3UKBTaV_9JBMP7gC/s747/walk003.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04ACCTZvWpy_ab4xhriIk91nQfxwHklh5VvEGGlQ1xthyu5qWws9thFP1t3Kfv6J7qJO-lt1EWNB2cRDLeglx4nBKkbt37yKluE3gOpDVfF2i1wfuJZY1AOg-xxIK3UKBTaV_9JBMP7gC/w284-h400/walk003.bmp" width="284" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer
unknown, Group photo, circa 1920, Margate, Kent, England. [walk003]</span><o:p></o:p></p>The only person identified in the photograph is Emma Amelia Lovell nee James, (born in 1861 in Middlesex, England) who sits on the front left. Emma would have around 60 years of age at the time. <br /><br />The other people in the photograph have not yet been identified, although there are enough similarities in facial features to suggest that they all related, particularly when comparing the eyes, suggesting that it may well be a generational photo.<br /><br />The photograph appears to be taken inside a studio with a painted background that includes a depiction of the Margate lighthouse. Why would you go to the beach in Margate and have a simulated photo of the beach taken? Perhaps they were attending the seaside funfair located at Margate, Dreamland, and this was one of the theme parks attractions.<br /><div><br /></div><div><b>Dress-Ups</b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thelma was the
youngest of seven children and the granddaughter of Emma Amelia Lovell nee
James.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzg-5ruGDV_PXiZ50PUaDmJwGunXkqFEclhCpe_jV1jMUyyvOdlWEETegCooLDnqt-Pfnxl7NP5djlfDDjeuz6jTp0BiTZcSrXKeEMikZhFMxq5XdMgHNkZxULMEopVU12Kh6ZtLJjqoz4/s1888/walk010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="1344" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzg-5ruGDV_PXiZ50PUaDmJwGunXkqFEclhCpe_jV1jMUyyvOdlWEETegCooLDnqt-Pfnxl7NP5djlfDDjeuz6jTp0BiTZcSrXKeEMikZhFMxq5XdMgHNkZxULMEopVU12Kh6ZtLJjqoz4/w285-h400/walk010.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer
unknown, Thelma Walker holding an umbrella, aged 3, circa 1930, 15 Albion St, Essendon,
Victoria, Australia. [walk010]</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thelma
never met her grandmother as they lived oceans apart, so the exchange of photographs
would have been very precious – something worth getting dressed up for.</span></p><b>Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/01/sepia-saturday-553-16-january-2021.html" target="_blank">prompt 553</a></b> <b></b></div><div><br /></div><b>Sources for Images:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Authors personal collection</li></ul><div><b>Sources for Text:</b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Personal conversation and interview(s) by Sandra Williamson with Thelma Ward circa 2010.</li><li>Wikipedia contributors, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreamland_Margate&oldid=1000388921" target="_blank">Dreamland Margate</a>," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed January 16, 2021).</li><li>Website, <a href="https://www.seasphotography.org.uk/" target="_blank">The South East Archive of Seaside Photography (SEAS)</a> (accessed January 16, 2021)</li><li>Facebook Group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Genealogy- Dating old photographs</span> </span></a> initiated on 14 January 2021</li></ul>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-12790069092772191632021-01-10T16:31:00.000+11:002021-01-10T16:31:44.172+11:00The Bumpy Beginings of Public Transport in Eaglehawk Victoria AustraliaLiving in 2021 it's easy to forget how hard it must have been to get around when my grandmother was in her late teens and early 20s. Myrtle grew up in the mining town of Eaglehawk, in-country Victoria, where she lived until 1922 when the whole family moved to nearby Bendigo.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1o9hq1f" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="W. T. P, 1908. A Tram on Main Street, Eaglehawk, Victoria [picture]. (http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1o9hq1f accessed 10 January 2121)" border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1600" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1Choc5ES8R7ASkZtIR8mkEPu2VysakEryWPjQ7dqsQQRDaJgg3WuW_yH-COxCm8I_lqzRcHN2Zdl1ki2I8M3dGgQDxvEgRBohFhgRJIcQczpowtmgmw_619mh3h96Jj-D60x4D0n2b-w/w400-h254/FL16187628+Eaglehawk+tram.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Before the introduction of trams in 1888, the only public transport between the two towns was horse and cab. Initially, there was an attempt to operate Battery powered Electric trams. Unfortunately, the batteries ran out in 14 km rather than the anticipated 48kms; the service collapsed after 3 months of operation. In 1892 steam trams replaced the ill-fated battery-powered trams, making the trip between Eaglehawk and Bendigo around 40 minutes. A further upgrade in April 1903 saw the introduction of electric trams (without batteries) begin to operate.<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1644175" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Rose Stereograph Co, 1920. MITCHELL STREET, BENDIGO, VIC. [picture]. http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1644175 accessed 10 January 2021)" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinL5wibwpGkUl-E8JzBzxLUFQzxX_UBBKNJb6Zsaa5Gy60OYY1u6EVuFeTbIrvkCVJXOcnRzJCxMa8B7A4072CBMPveS28sLYDUNgmFaPq8zSplvqr29Ht93Fa52LieJeAY1WJ46UCgh3A/w400-h260/FL15785887+SLV+mitchell+st+Bendigo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>As Myrtle grew older she caught the tram, on Route 26, to go to work in Bendigo until her parents moved there.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgclSwMmkwvNyc3j457Xgleus68ua12CdQlZWOsIXZegzMmv84lOnaQKrw5_n-8SgYB7ffbZ3HIhH5D0m90Mf7EoisfkUclqvNK-Ci-nsiEDOWAwy_TN9QBMvOmRP4WpLiOl_g_dV2OAGIf/s992/b031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gainsborough Photo Studio, Portrait of Myrtle Bassett around the age of 12, Prahran, Victoria, Australia circa 1921, Sandra Williamson’s private Collection. [B031]" border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="592" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgclSwMmkwvNyc3j457Xgleus68ua12CdQlZWOsIXZegzMmv84lOnaQKrw5_n-8SgYB7ffbZ3HIhH5D0m90Mf7EoisfkUclqvNK-Ci-nsiEDOWAwy_TN9QBMvOmRP4WpLiOl_g_dV2OAGIf/w239-h400/b031.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br />The above portrait was taken as Myrtle was recovering from influenza which she caught in the later-half of 1920. Much to her horror, her head was shaved twice as part of her treatment but when it eventually grew back she was delighted that her hair begun to curl. <br /><br />A year after this portrait was taken the family moved from Eaglehawk to Bendigo.<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for
New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2021/01/sepia-saturday-552-saturday-9th-january.html " target="_blank">prompt 552</a> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b>Sources for Images:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">W. T. P, 1908. A Tram on Main Street, Eaglehawk, Victoria
[picture]. (<a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1o9hq1f">http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1o9hq1f</a>
accessed 10 January 2021)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rose Stereograph Co, 1920. MITCHELL STREET, BENDIGO, VIC.
[picture]. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1644175">http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1644175</a> accessed 10 January 2021)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gainsborough Photo Studio, Portrait of Myrtle Bassett around
the age of 12, Prahran, Victoria, Australia circa 1921, Sandra Williamson’s
private Collection. [B031]<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sources for Text:</b></p>Kirkwood, Aylene. & Hanson, Bev. & Eaglehawk Heritage Society (Vic.). 2006, Eaglehawk : welcome back / Aylene Kirkwood & Bev Hanson Eaglehawk Heritage Society [Eaglehawk, Vic.] page 90<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bendigotramways.com/about/history" target="_blank">Bendigo Tramways Website</a>, The Bendigo Tramsways Story, <a href="https://www.bendigotramways.com/images/stories/pdf/thebendigotramwaystory.pdf">https://www.bendigotramways.com/images/stories/pdf/thebendigotramwaystory.pdf</a> accessed 10 January 2021<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div>Myrtle Sharp conversations with Sandra Williamson (author) prior to 2008</div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-3210742185383895312020-06-28T16:53:00.001+10:002020-06-28T16:53:35.447+10:00Road trips and cups of tea<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">In the days before fast food
outlets, refreshments were packed to take on your journey. I can remember
taking my grandmother, Myrtle, on a road trip with my two young children in
tow. We were taking her to visit her sister in New South Wales, the year was
1997.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">She bought with her a red
picnic case that held two thermoses, a china tea set, tins full of sandwiches
and fruit. My children were aged eight and ten, we would stop often. I would
take the children for a walk while she stayed with the car, at 90 years of age
she wasn’t too keen on going for long walks, no matter how short they were. By
the time we returned she would have peeled and cut up fruit and arranged the
afternoon tea, it was quite magical. It was something that she had been doing
since she had been a young mother.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBapf4eQiube73qXu1UpJ1aM8yBzLVYI8VM8JxB35CSjW9QSgdj9UX9LEUUYFXxOoHGDy70r9K0_oiYMOAoyPBNnfyGLXnWKe5GEwf9iL3XsFbmGUDPIs3RlCA5U_SSm4wsEyDl8H7H7fT/s1261/w009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBapf4eQiube73qXu1UpJ1aM8yBzLVYI8VM8JxB35CSjW9QSgdj9UX9LEUUYFXxOoHGDy70r9K0_oiYMOAoyPBNnfyGLXnWKe5GEwf9iL3XsFbmGUDPIs3RlCA5U_SSm4wsEyDl8H7H7fT/s320/w009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer unknown, Traveller’s stopping at a Road side
picnic; circa 1927, New South Wales, Australia [W009]</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">Her daughter Judy remembers
travelling as a young girl going on holidays with her parent’s Lincoln &
Myrtle and her brother Warrick. Judy remembered the last trip that they all
took together.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">They had started early in the
morning before the sun had risen leaving their warm beds. Lincoln, their father
ushered Judy, and her brother Warrick to the back door, the sound echoing as
their feet scuffed across the linoleum floor. The air was brisk as they slid
into the back of the car onto the cold seat. She pulled her teddy bear with its
articulating arms closer to her body. Judy could see her mother, Myrtle's
figure through the open kitchen door as she bustled around in her apron under
the bright electric light packing the last of the contents of their red picnic
case. It held tin boxes laden with fresh sandwiches, flasks of hot tea and a
bottle of cold water for the kids.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">Every few hours they stopped
during their journey on the side of the road to take refreshments. Myrtle
spreading a small cloth on whatever flat surface was available, often on top of
a blanket on the ground. Myrtle carefully arranged the chosen refreshments in
careful proportions for each person not wasting, spilling or dropping a morsel
from the picnic set. Judy released from her cramped confinement in the rear
seat ran off amongst roadside trees to stretch her legs. Sometimes Warrick
followed her but mostly he liked to stay near the car. The paddocks were lush
and green this time of the year in the middle of winter. There weren’t many
trees other than those on the road verge or the occasional single file of pines
that created windbreaks along the barbwire fence lines. Judy crouched down and
fossicked in the rubble but was cautious not to disturb any bull ant nests.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">“Judy. Judy. Judith. Where
have you got too? Come back to the car this instance,” shouted Myrtle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">Judy sprang to attention,
dropping her stick and began to make her way back.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">“Why can’t you be more like
your brother? Come along now, have something to eat. Your father wants to leave
in a few minutes," Myrtle continued as Judy got closer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">“Now Myrtle she’s just full
of energy,” Lincoln said as he winked at Judy “After all you don’t want them
both to be carsick, do you?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">After a quick bite, it was
back in the car and off again. The long drive was punctuated with storytelling
and singing. Judy’s favourite song was “There's a hole in my bucket” but she
also liked “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”. There seemed to be a never-ending list
of ditties and songs. Lincoln told stories as he drove, and they’d play ‘Eye
Spy’, it broke the monotony of the journey.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after: avoid;">Many years later Judy would
repeat the whole process herself with her young children. <o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFs3Ev9H1SBhAJfTZU_90eFz6Yl9B11zjkUDnffFTWBwdKZ0aOet1rbh8UVfaiUzVH4AclH0l7coTqMtHVLL6BNz4X0Wjku6fZwZk-R-wEuihwwrOmm5XxnG8L3qbBNNAtqq52nmLzsE-/s320/w038.jpg" width="320" /></div>
<p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer Christine Filiamundi, Judy setting up family
picnic during a road trip, c.1962, on the road between Bateman’s Bay, New &
Benalla, Victoria, Australia. [W038] From Left Judith Todman, Sandra
Williamson, Mark Williamson, John Palmer Williamson</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sandra also carried on the tradition during her own car
trips.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz69oGSDEI7LJ_nAT1eOffXwnx-0_9T6QcwQIingxkwVRBDE_jB4WxwvXqp2xjUUcFWMVqtOR0NVeKT4gFK_TQloMsH1EgcO5T2bwbhdqPxpDLJLnPlESnA862OsnqLteO7ELbB8uceh9c/s320/19970912+Car+Trip+ot+outback.jpg" width="320" /></div>
<p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer Jessica, picnic on the way to Opera in the Outback, 1997, South
Australia</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The red picnic case in the foreground is the one that
Sandra’s grandmother used when she travelled. Sandra’s friend Yumiko is holding
one of the matching thermoses that were part of the original contents of the
case. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing like a bit of refinement for an afternoon tea break
while travelling.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/06/sepia-saturday-526-27-june-2020.html" target="_blank">Prompt 526</a></b></p></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-42568768994235747552020-06-26T09:15:00.001+10:002020-06-26T09:15:42.095+10:00Friendships forged by Training Together<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">They all met for the first time at the Melbourne School of
Nursing in 1953.<o:p></o:p><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="2089" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZPyZykWUFxVs2hFD48XLC226pZ_s9Y96cdCcNzU6dwEz5uedOKdoJLAh5z_4aVcqHAiS8eNoAMgFO6ULYeiiRIjbzrTHGDAqy9_w1ZjmQH_qE1TaHUp8SauYmAjFxg27QIlIlXjWXrf-/s320/T346.jpg" width="320" /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer unknown, Student Nurses, circa
1954, Melbourne School of Nursing, Mayfield Ave, Toorak, Victoria, Australia.[T346]
From Left: Back Row Barbara Lancombe,
Louise Hamilton; Front Row: Judy Todman, Wendy Dolling, June Mar, Phyllis
Walker.</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1956 after three years of study, they successfully graduated
together from The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Associated Hospitals School of
Nursing after successfully sitting their final exam on the 29 & 30 June. <o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2137" data-original-width="3233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3e0ntYbSOZ2wFMXU4xpQHoJtswe0yVBIOSZlJ9aN35KPMlKZyLSvnGOLllx8RB-fcBny3swXxTGtKv4JmwE407CynY-v0YqM427akE7_wv8I_c_9ecG3C09DQbH0Bw4RjrdsIrnZU6O8b/s320/T348.jpg" width="320" /></div>
<p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer unknown, Graduating Nursing Students
from Melbourne School of Nursing, August 1956, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
[T348] From the Left: Wendy Dolling, June Mark, Barbara Lancombe, Phyllis
Walker, Judy Todman, Louise Hamilton</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After three years of training together, they had forged
friendships that would last a lifetime. Their first get together was soon
after training before Judy travelled to New Zealand for an eight-month working
holiday.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj0uLbCyi1wQzQXuA3v92WL2wVV91i4FynXp6DUBC_OWruNG_SsDiA0MutH9CQwnb6Ab0TyUd2uVfJDTqtYPFBGAuSH37_egisd4-8kOv_eJleJlhW40-okzrK9Po9nKlu0efrY3LcgVb/s3897/T316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2825" data-original-width="3897" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj0uLbCyi1wQzQXuA3v92WL2wVV91i4FynXp6DUBC_OWruNG_SsDiA0MutH9CQwnb6Ab0TyUd2uVfJDTqtYPFBGAuSH37_egisd4-8kOv_eJleJlhW40-okzrK9Po9nKlu0efrY3LcgVb/s320/T316.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer unknown, Catching up with Nursing friends, 1957, Hotel Elizabeth, 321 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria Australia (From left to right: July Todman, June Mark, Barbara Lancomb, Louise Hamilton, Wendy Dolling and Phyllis Walker.) [T316]</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Over time they have shared their life journeys with each
other. Indelible bonds were formed during those early years of intensive nurse
training, that has lasted a lifetime.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5w5VdcSo0y3m40jWUrMBK7C7xUTw-9_SpgfyOJgu3Z9xGIAPfzpLI7wWKaj5x-UPkknOlgb879ZWzDesfKfWtd20hOyjOansqBzeUeVZXJr8xptpr6_gCYz8mrVAhmURZZBH7HwfduSR/s3649/T344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2377" data-original-width="3649" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5w5VdcSo0y3m40jWUrMBK7C7xUTw-9_SpgfyOJgu3Z9xGIAPfzpLI7wWKaj5x-UPkknOlgb879ZWzDesfKfWtd20hOyjOansqBzeUeVZXJr8xptpr6_gCYz8mrVAhmURZZBH7HwfduSR/s320/T344.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Photographer unknown, 50th-year Anniversary lunch at Barb's place, 2003 (From
left to right: Barb, Louise, Phyl, Wendy, & Judy) [T344]</font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are not many people who can claim to have maintained
50 years of friendship and shared memories based on their early work
experiences.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This Blogpost is an expansion of an early one I wrote entitled <a href="http://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-dinner-party-reunion.html">A Dinner Party Reunion</a></span></p>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-83600372974297464162020-06-21T16:14:00.000+10:002020-06-21T16:17:23.280+10:00The Importance of Pets<h3>
Streak<o:p></o:p></h3>
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Judy loved all types of animals in
contrast to her mother. On a farm, animals had chores just like everyone else, chooks
provided eggs, horses provided transport and dogs helped to herd the cows and
keep the foxes away from the chickens. But Streak was special, rather than
herding cows, he herded the children and followed them everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk42799947;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographer unknown, Judy & Diana with Streak standing on top
of Leura Hill in Camperdown, Victoria, Australia [T351]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bluey<o:p></o:p></h3>
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Bluey was a good steadfast type of horse, reliable and
gentle and when he not working around the farm Judy loved to ride him. Judy
loved Bluey much more than her boyfriend’s motorbike. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photographer unknown, Judy can’t
remember the name of her old boyfriend but the horse’s name was Bluey, 1952,
Victoria, Australia[ T333]</span><br />
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Digger<o:p></o:p></h3>
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When Judy first went nursing
and travelling, she couldn’t responsibly keep a pet. However, as soon as she
started a family, she acquired a pet dog named Digger.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photographer
unknown, Digger the dog in the front yard, 1962, 8 Hope Street Benalla,
Victoria, Australia [T352]</span></div>
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Digger joined the family sometime in 1962. He was a
wonderful companion even though he was a bit naughty. During the day he would
escape through the fence in search of toys for his young companions. After each
escapade Digger would return with a different toy. The neighbours were very
understanding and tolerant, they would visit and retrieve their children's toys
at the end of each day. Some claimed that Judy had trained Digger to collect
the toys, but when I spoke to Judy, she assured me this was not true. Digger
eventually moved to live with Judy’s cousin Graham in Queensland, a much better
match for such a lively canine. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Mrs Sabatini’s Cat<o:p></o:p></b></h3>
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It’s often said that you never really own a cat, it just
chooses who it will spend time with. Mrs Sabatini’s cat lived next door to Judy
in Benalla.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photographer Unknown, Sandra playing with the cat, 1962, Benalla, Victoria,
Australia [T359]</span></div>
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cat would visit daily to play with the children. Judy was delighted.</span></div>
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<b>Butty Judy’s riding companion<o:p></o:p></b></h3>
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Then there was Butty, a Stafford Bull Terrier who Judy trained
to go riding with her. Butty would run alongside Judy as she rode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wasn’t afraid of the horse’s hooves and
neither were the horses afraid of him. Butty would come back exhausted by the
end of the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photographer
unknown, Judy riding with her Dog, 1982, Victoria, Australia [T360]</span><br />
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Sharing her passion for animals with her mother <o:p></o:p></h3>
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Judy was mother was never keep on animals but when she came
to live with Judy, her distain of pets began to soften. Myrtle who had
disapproved of dogs inside in her younger years was happy to have her favourite
friend in at night to watch TV. Perhaps it was because she didn’t have to tidy
up after anyone anymore, she felt more comfortable to have a canine companion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photographer Judith Williamson, Myrtle playing with Judy’s 3 dogs and a duck [T354]</span></div>
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<b>Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New
Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/06/sepia-saturday-525-20-june-2020.html" target="_blank">Prompt 525</a></b></div>
Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-87238135786578755402020-06-18T20:53:00.000+10:002020-06-18T20:53:03.917+10:00An Unexpected Find<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">By the 1980s
Myrtle Sharp was living in Mulgrave, an outer suburb of Melbourne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was her granddaughter, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and would visit her often. She seemed very old,
so when she earnestly told me she would be dying soon, I believed her. I felt a
sense of panic because after all she was 70, and that was “old” to me.</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguH-obaYqT_9konRSGRv4iQCxPRHdzIF2jux51qothFJ1tnabnc2f8RvxWhkivYOcs8a9W29hopx85ouyEMjNDAaEpKchB3SDvhKgnXFJuRH61_gUPzNCjEd1YyZDpiqk75m62bV0Cv_ws/s1287/b146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="959" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguH-obaYqT_9konRSGRv4iQCxPRHdzIF2jux51qothFJ1tnabnc2f8RvxWhkivYOcs8a9W29hopx85ouyEMjNDAaEpKchB3SDvhKgnXFJuRH61_gUPzNCjEd1YyZDpiqk75m62bV0Cv_ws/s320/b146.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photographer unknown, Myrtle, circa 1981, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia [b146]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With a sense of urgency, I began
to help sort and label her pictures. Each time I visited we would work a little
more on our pictures project. </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span>We began by laying the photos out
on the lounge room floor in <s>a</s> large around her in what I guessed were
chronological rows. She would sit in her large recliner chair and oversee my
efforts. Repeatedly I asked: who is this? where’s that? Did this happen before
or after that? The photos were then moved around like tetra pieces, according
to her responses. Labels were added and stories refined. Each visit built on
the information of the last.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span>One day when we were working
together, she brought out a new tin that I had not seen before. It contained more photos and some papers. We
began the same process of sorting, examining one photo at a time, adding to the
growing rows of those already sorted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">During another visit she suddenly
she leapt out of her chair clutching a folded and very yellowed piece of paper
to her chest and disappeared into the next room. I was flummoxed and had no
idea what was going on. I followed her into the next room. Without explanation, she tucked the piece of paper into her pocket and came back out to begin
working once again on her photos. I was intrigued by her actions but decided to
respect her wish for privacy and focused on other things.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVf5Ka5kdcjJ3KCs59pKlbWVx7slUlqTFzzqxxh43welzqLFvaU_oChWi4jGk6KwsZkGEdmr_t-1CnjD50dqMs4HzQGAG5ske01Y55X22yvH1-K2nJ5iWL1VYjEABBUGVJwOj4g87LAkL/s2369/Photo+tin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="2217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVf5Ka5kdcjJ3KCs59pKlbWVx7slUlqTFzzqxxh43welzqLFvaU_oChWi4jGk6KwsZkGEdmr_t-1CnjD50dqMs4HzQGAG5ske01Y55X22yvH1-K2nJ5iWL1VYjEABBUGVJwOj4g87LAkL/s320/Photo+tin.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Photographer Sandra </span><span style="text-align: left;">Williamson, Myrtle's Photo Tin, 2016, digital image.</span></p><p class="MsoCaption"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span>After several weeks I summoned up
enough courage to ask her what was on the paper. She tilted her head sideways
and peered at me and finally said that blood was thicker than water. The story
about my family had begun, I had inadvertently uncovered my first family
skeleton.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Myrtle had grown up using the surname Bassett but it turned
out that she could have quite justifiably used a number of possible surnames.
William Bassett, whom she identified as her father, was listed as such when she
was enrolled in Eaglehawk Primary School in 1913 at the age of six.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When she married her first husband, she gave her name as
“Myrtle May Crump Bassett”.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
Crump was her mother’s maiden name. When Myrtle became a widow and remarried,
she listed her father as William Bassett as she did for her third marriage to
Ivan Rupert Lance Sharp.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Myrtle’s birth certificate her mother’s name was listed
as “Lilian Manderson formerly Crump”.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> A
search of the Victorian Birth Deaths & Marriages (BDM) reveals that Lilian
Crump had a baby named Myrtle May, who is registered twice under the surnames
of first Crump, and then Manderson (the year and registration number are
identical for both names indicating that this is the same person).<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It wasn’t until 1967 that things came to a head for Myrtle
when she applied for a passport to travel overseas. Myrtle found herself
explaining to her youngest daughter, Diana, why her birth certificate did not
bear the surname of her childhood.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Later Myrtle would say that she had no
doubt that William Bassett was her father as the family resemblance was strong.<a name="_ednref9"></a><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Myrtle’s parents,
William Bassett & Lillian Crump, became a couple<s>,</s> around 1905 but never
married. When Myrtle, their second eldest, was two years of age (in 1907)
the family left Eaglehawk and relocated to Tasmania. William found employment
in the mines and their only son, William, was born.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
They returned to Eaglehawk by 1912 for the birth of their fourth child Gladys
Irene.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> It
was assumed the couple had married in Tasmania, but that was not the case.<span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><a name="_ednref12"></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="EndnoteAnchor"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmf9U5OWLM4W1rnlRu72DNQJ4SkVK1mByakAGAx6Pqdb1lPwxUzV1M8CsOu3POUzQ90LiBWdqwxg1DWRmIercCHamMrL_S07bApOMBzt94WnWgj0-pTe3sjuk-62MsGbmeImPccSDvBzmf/s787/b437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="580" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmf9U5OWLM4W1rnlRu72DNQJ4SkVK1mByakAGAx6Pqdb1lPwxUzV1M8CsOu3POUzQ90LiBWdqwxg1DWRmIercCHamMrL_S07bApOMBzt94WnWgj0-pTe3sjuk-62MsGbmeImPccSDvBzmf/s320/b437.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk43301304">Photographer
unknown, Myrtle, William, & Doris Bassett , circa 1909, Tasmania, Australia
[B437]</a></p><p class="MsoCaption"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">My Grandmother celebrated her
100th birthday on 2nd June 2007, with almost all of her descendants celebrating
with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaoValiz0sUJkkwKoCRRIMgs2v7ZLieoWDinqGGFOkYAuYli9qnQcb524nqsMB3UpmdecJ-qJsrmxD9AW6at7LjOOqoKLp6Xm9GIxjVdi3H10_ndfnZZgi8J2g7PosEUmJcq9DruM8kyB/s1678/P1070629v2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1678" data-original-width="1251" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaoValiz0sUJkkwKoCRRIMgs2v7ZLieoWDinqGGFOkYAuYli9qnQcb524nqsMB3UpmdecJ-qJsrmxD9AW6at7LjOOqoKLp6Xm9GIxjVdi3H10_ndfnZZgi8J2g7PosEUmJcq9DruM8kyB/s320/P1070629v2.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photographer Glen Watson, Myrtle at her 100th Birthday Party, 2007, digital image</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">She passed away on 19 June 2008.
Her photos leave a wonderful legacy for future generations.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And that piece of paper that she
was so earnest to protect was record of her mother’s only marriage. It was to a
man who had left before Myrtle and her siblings were born.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For further information see the
following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">You can find more about <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bassett-1028" target="_blank">Myrtle here on WikiTree</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Writing Prompt by Amy Johnson
Crow: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">Week 25 - "</a><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">Unexpected." </a></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><br clear="all" />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<!--[endif]-->
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Eaglehawk No.
210<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>150 Years of education 1854-2004</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> (Eaglehawk Primary
School 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compiled by :Ruth
Claridge.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marriage
Certificate of Lincoln Todman & Myrtle May Crump Bassett, married 21
September 1929, Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia.
9531/1929<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Original
Certificate of Marriage for Stuart Rochford Taylor & Myrtle May Todman
married 26 June 1943, Terang, Victoria, Australia; Original Certificate of
Marriage for Ivan Rupert Lance Sharp & Myrtle May Taylor married 2 April
1960, Balaclava, Victoria, Australia<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birth
certificate of Myrtle May Crump born 2 June 1907 Registry of Birth, Death and
Marriages, Victoria, Australia. 10223/1907.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Results
of girth search using the criteria child’s first name “Myrtle May” & mother
“Lilian Crump” or children born Myrtle with the Marriages, Family history
search - Births, Deaths & Marriages Victoria. [online]
Online.justice.vic.gov.au. Available at: https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj [Accessed 4 Feb. 2018]</p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diana
Culley, in personal discussion with author, November 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myrtle
Sharp, in personal discussion with author, c.2000<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NAA:
B883, VX21203 Service Records for William BASSETT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>
"Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration of Births, 1899-1912,"
database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C95P-WW47-3?cc=2400177&wc=3L7N-LGH%3A1584076518%2C1584076203%2C1584076802
: accessed 26 May 2020); Birth record for William Manderson born 17 September
1908 in Dundas, Tasmania, Australia, Entry 1290, registration number 3758,
Register for Birth in the district of Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia; Zeehan >
Births > 1908 > image 26 of 31; citing The Tasmania Department of
Justice, Hobart. [no father included in the record, mother listed as Lilliam
Manderson formerly Crump, age 24 years, born Victoria residing in Dundas]<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birth
Certificate of Gladys Irene Basset<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>born
15 September 1912, Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia.
19781/1912.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="EndnoteCharacters"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span class="EndnoteCharacters"> </span>Myrtle Sharp, in personal discussion with
author, c.2000</p></div></div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-32300446444676635902020-06-14T20:55:00.000+10:002020-06-14T20:55:06.168+10:00St Andrew’s Tennis Club<p class="MsoNormal">The 2½ mile bicycle ride into town was exhausting.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>“You’d be tuckered out before the tennis match even began.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So initially, Judy tagged along and just with her brother
and cousin Graeme.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkT8S_fm2KHQzfxqTMv0KJ56aE28NJ-hjYUzaSJJF6C3mgGe4Arq2vMMDNuvH5qN9hSLZNXj7JAVsWfr3c-Y53J6YZ5Hde9J4eBaC6T1I2xLPx65iJOd-D0jRuGi1Jz9D4M_wzcMX3k4J/s1589/T357_Todman_Judy_tennis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1589" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkT8S_fm2KHQzfxqTMv0KJ56aE28NJ-hjYUzaSJJF6C3mgGe4Arq2vMMDNuvH5qN9hSLZNXj7JAVsWfr3c-Y53J6YZ5Hde9J4eBaC6T1I2xLPx65iJOd-D0jRuGi1Jz9D4M_wzcMX3k4J/w400-h271/T357_Todman_Judy_tennis.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Tennis can be played in all seasons, 1949, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia [T357]</font></p><p class="MsoNormal">But Judy was competitive by nature and as she got older playing her brother didn’t really interest her so she joined the local tennis team in Camperdown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHWLxTwwiH9L9ECRkM88CgLPJdT_0CCqUORjbUDvm9O_oZa2nVhxH884-8OIgee8xcWt8OKN5SaoGx1MG0UOXtc4UJfeMPPu96qC1YEXA7CRQdf18Watb5f5NV2mccbNPYCUkwyVxAuZ3/s1583/T358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1583" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHWLxTwwiH9L9ECRkM88CgLPJdT_0CCqUORjbUDvm9O_oZa2nVhxH884-8OIgee8xcWt8OKN5SaoGx1MG0UOXtc4UJfeMPPu96qC1YEXA7CRQdf18Watb5f5NV2mccbNPYCUkwyVxAuZ3/w400-h253/T358.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">St Andrews Tennis Club, circa 1951-1953, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia T358</font></p><p class="MsoNormal">Although not the best in the team Judy enjoyed playing competitive tennis and the social life that went along with it. Mixed doubles could be so much fun.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdEliziiHaR8MBiOLN2AWmq5snzf3m9QAaCqWadE9VKK0s6UgcAu-DnMan5aG1sXXYXnsa5Ao5k2XSKCp_gaWg_B1jPqV0Oq1OmFwnIosXQM4EyONgp7WDyq519mj84J-5NskJpY2WU2r/s641/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdEliziiHaR8MBiOLN2AWmq5snzf3m9QAaCqWadE9VKK0s6UgcAu-DnMan5aG1sXXYXnsa5Ao5k2XSKCp_gaWg_B1jPqV0Oq1OmFwnIosXQM4EyONgp7WDyq519mj84J-5NskJpY2WU2r/s320/Capture.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1" style="text-align: left;">1951 'ST. ANDREW'S SUCCESSFUL JUBILEE TENNIS TOURNAMENT', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 9 October, p. 4. , viewed 14 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28331883</font><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Judy and her partner were defeated in the first round of mixed doubles, but in the third round when she competed in the women’s doubles Judy and partner defeated their adversaries. Was Judy not paying attention as she should have been in the mixed doubles? Was she distracted by the opposite sex? Whatever the answer she remembers how much she enjoyed playing tennis before leaving the country to do her nurse training. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections –</b> <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/06/sepia-saturday-524-13-june-2020.html" target="_blank">Prompt 524</a></p>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-65097692930602124182020-06-13T15:06:00.001+10:002020-06-13T15:07:23.853+10:00Going back One More Generation<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">With a
little help from friends at the “IRISH - SPECIALITY RESEARCH” Facebook group,
in particular Kelly Ocallaghan, I’ve been able to go back another generation
this time in Ireland for the Williamson side of the family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thomas was baptised
on 12 December 1800 the son of George and Frances Williamson residing in
Clones, Monaghan, Ireland.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thomas born in Monaghan has travelled to Dublin
for work, likely becoming a dock worker, an occupation he continued after
moving to England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In Dublin
he gets married to <b>Maria Murphy</b> on 20 March 1821 in St. Nicholas'
Catholic Church, Dublin, Ireland.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
[While living in Dublin it appears that Thomas has used the name Williams and
dropped the ‘son’ and used the shorter surname Williams]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Children with Maria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Jane Williams baptised after the 26<sup>th</sup> May 1823, St. Mary's (Pro-Cathedral), Dublin
City, the daughter of Thos & M Ann Williams, residing in Britton St
sponsored by Hariot Dyars<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Maria dies
in May 1828 and is buried on 13 May 1828 in St Mary parish, Dublin, Ireland
(unfortunately no age is given at the time of her burial).<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> It appears he's gone back to his home town
more than likely for family support with his Jane. Four years later he is marrying
Jane Robinson his second wife Jane Robinson in 1832 in Armagh, Ireland.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The newly
married couple have the following children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">John Williamson born 23<sup>rd</sup>
January 1832, Ireland.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">James Williamson born circa 1836 in
Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB">By 1851
the family have moved to England and can be found in the 1851-1871 Census. His eldest daughter Jane re-joins the family in 1861 with her illegitimate son, James.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>1851 Census<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[vii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></b>
<br />
Wood Street, Maryport, Cumberland, England, UK<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><!--[endif]-->Thomas Williamson, aged 54, Dock labourer</li>
<li><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><!--[endif]-->Jane Williamson, aged 50,</li>
<li><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span>John Williamson, aged 19, Tailor apprentice</li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->James
Williamson, aged 15, ship carpenter apprentice</li>
</ol>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>1861</b> <b>Census<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[viii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></b>
<br />
Nelson Street, Maryport, Cumberland, England, UK</div>
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<li>Thomas Williamson, aged 60 Labourer</li>
<li>Jane Williamson, wife aged 58</li>
<li>Jane Williamson, daughter aged 40 unmarried</li>
<li>James Williamson, son, aged 23, Ship carpenter</li>
<li>James
Williamson, grandson, aged 8, scholar</li>
</ol>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>1871</b> <b>Census<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[ix]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></b><br />
8 L Court, Nelson Street, Maryport, Cumberland, England, UK<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><!--[endif]-->Thomas Williamson, aged 70, labourer</li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Jane
Williamson, aged 69</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The <b>“Irish –
Speciality Research”</b> Facebook group is an “Australian based Irish Ancestral
Speciality Research Group that offers Global Irish Only Research.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">More work to be done but we're off to a flying start.</span></div>
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<div id="edn1">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Findmypast,
Clones, Baptisms & marriages, 1682-1845 (images of typed transcriptions);
Baptism of Thomas Williamson baptised in 12 December 1800 in the parish of
Clones, Monaghan, Ireland, the son of George & Frances residing in Clones. Citing
ffolliott Parish Registers transcriptions of the Clones Registers, 8th entry,
page 82<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn2">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> National
Library collection of Catholic parish register microfilms website, St.
Nicholas', Dublin city; County of Dublin; Archdiocese of Dublin. Marriages,
Mar. 1821 to Nov. 1821 (image database https://registers.nli.ie/ : Accessed 12
June 2020); Marriage of Thomas William & Maria Murphpy, married 20 March
1821 in Parish register St. Nicholas' (Without), Dublin City last entry for
March in 1821 on page 73; citing Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages [
https://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000633619_073 ]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn3">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> National
Library collection of Catholic parish register microfilms website, St. Mary's,
Dublin city; County of Dublin; Archdiocese of Dublin. (image database https://registers.nli.ie/ :
Accessed 12 June 2020); Baptism of Jane Williams baptised after the 26th May 1823, the daughter of Thos & M Ann
Williams, residing in Britton St sponsored by Hariot Dyars 10<sup>th</sup>
entry on page 95; citing Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages citing
Microfilm 09150 / 02 [ https://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000633771_095]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Irish Genealogy.ie, Church Records
search (database with images, </span><a href="https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/">https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/</a><span lang="EN-GB">), Burial for Maria Williams died
while residing in Coles and buried 13 May 1828, St Mary Dublin parish register
entry 247, page 31, year 1828; [</span><a href="https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-277-4-3-031">https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-277-4-3-031</a>
accessed 12 June 2020]<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> Findmypast,
Ireland Diocesan And Prerogative Marriage Licence Bonds Indexes 1623-1866 (data
with Index images); Marriage index entry for Thomas Williamson and Jane
Robinson, married 1832 in the Diocese of Armagh, Ireland, 5th entry on
unnumbered page beginning with the first entry on the page being Williamson
Susan.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Headstone of Grave in St Kilda
Cemtery, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> 1851
English Census HO107 Piece: 2435; Folio: 561; Page: 11<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-294232267869457712020-06-11T19:43:00.003+10:002020-06-11T19:47:19.490+10:00Matters of Inheritance<br />
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I inherited a Fob Seal from
my grandfather, Lincoln Todman, my cousin inherited the Fob watch. Both items
were part of a set originally belonging to our great grandfather, Walter
Todman. However, without the original anchoring chain, nothing tangibly keeps
them together anymore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A close up of watch & seal.</div>
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The watch and seal held by his widow were originally intended to be passed on to their eldest son, Walter Victor Todman, not the second son. The following family story explains why they didn’t. </div>
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The eldest took his brother’s watch and sold it for monetary benefit, in response their mother gave the watch and seal to Lincoln as a replacement for the watch taken.</div>
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Warwick being only a child was unaware of the watches
significance and took it apart to see how it worked. It was reassembled but has
not worked since.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before Judith received the Fob Seal her younger half-sister,
Diana, found it in her mother’s drawer. Diana thought it was a stamp. She
wanted to make an impression of the Roman Lion on the seal’s carnelian agate
face and so applied ink this resulted in it getting a permanent blue tinge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now we the next line of descendants hold these precious
family items. This story is an attempt to track their travel through time to the
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Where did Fob Seal come from?</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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No one knows anything about the history of the fob seal. It
has no hallmarks or manufacture’s markings of any kind. One relative thought it
was a Masonic symbol however, after much investigation this theory has been
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 107%;"><font color="#0b8043">You can read more about the Watch & the fob<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-grandfathers-american-waltham-watch.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">here </span></a></span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 107%;"><font color="#0b8043">You can find more out about <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Todman-10" target="_blank">Lincoln Todman</a> and his father <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Todman-11" target="_blank">Walter Todman</a> on WikiTree</font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 107%;"><font color="#0b8043">Writing Prompt for Week 24 by Amy Johnson Crow <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">#52ancestors and #wikitree</span></div>
Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923815077222102830.post-13906735838788218022020-06-07T21:02:00.000+10:002020-06-07T21:02:25.616+10:00Leaning out windows<p class="MsoNormal">Queensland was a long drive but it was here that the family
settled in 1965. John took on a new position at Comet Windmills after being
dismissed from Reynold Chains in Victoria. It was time for a new start.<br /><!--[endif]--> <o:p></o:p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN1L-frALVZv7DCgYW-OyvBDo7rpANKOkCeo9JHQLuhiKlc-Wq9AIzlTCLU3mkJBEc4U149LdkkWEQqSVonpnKTD9meC2r-PEKhDjxTbqxHnQV7Gso0nstjASSDLwfiSjutntBQpRUsxe/s1182/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1182" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN1L-frALVZv7DCgYW-OyvBDo7rpANKOkCeo9JHQLuhiKlc-Wq9AIzlTCLU3mkJBEc4U149LdkkWEQqSVonpnKTD9meC2r-PEKhDjxTbqxHnQV7Gso0nstjASSDLwfiSjutntBQpRUsxe/w400-h186/Capture.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Everything was different, even the weather. Morning play outside for the children required beanies to guard against the crisp cool air. By lunch, Judy was swapping beanies for sun hats as the air began to warm and the humidity rose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It was in the days before air-conditioning. The houses stood on stilts designed to catch a cool breeze during the hot and humid days. Windows were often left open to facilitate a "through breeze", to ventilate and cool the rooms within.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Judy made friends with the other wives, learning to play squash, meeting them at the gym and sharing the occasional lunch together. The kids were always with her except perhaps on the weekend when a few stolen hours could be spent alone at the shops. Life revolved mostly around meal and nap times for the children, creating a daily rhythm for life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSxicQmaUA6DmWHhrs8zxxo-5Ify9xsa6LlW9KTCvxIhN33XuqEenXI2Lp8hVU3Tpzl5GmDBU-3xA0ehEluM9BC4y2CbR7gCT8XID7YlTcxz9iOMgFozx_qCQmYo3qvcWy2RO099PGJXT/s3057/1963_Rockhampton_30ThackerySt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2105" data-original-width="3057" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSxicQmaUA6DmWHhrs8zxxo-5Ify9xsa6LlW9KTCvxIhN33XuqEenXI2Lp8hVU3Tpzl5GmDBU-3xA0ehEluM9BC4y2CbR7gCT8XID7YlTcxz9iOMgFozx_qCQmYo3qvcWy2RO099PGJXT/s320/1963_Rockhampton_30ThackerySt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">One day after putting Paul down for his midday nap Judy went
out to the shops leaving John in charge. Returning home, she parked the car in
front of the open carport. As she got out of the car she looked up to see her
baby boy leaning precariously out of the bedroom window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He held his bottle in one hand and waved with
the other. Milk dripped onto the car roof below. Oblivious to the danger he
smiled delightedly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judy recalls keeping Paul in conversation as she moved
carefully and slowly up the front stairs trying not to show too much alarm as
her heart raced. Containing her panic, she made her way to his room. She
chatted constantly with him, in an even voice willing him not to lean any
further out the window. As soon as she was close enough, she put her arms
around his chest and pulled him off the window sill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The relief that followed was almost
overwhelming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New
Reflections – <a href="https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/06/sepia-saturday-523-6-june-2020.html" target="_blank">Prompt 523</a><o:p></o:p></p><br /></div></div>Sandra Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306175508043372583noreply@blogger.com14