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  • The winner of WDWTYA? 26th June 2008 is....

    .............Bo the Bodger!!

    Well done!

  • #2
    Congratulations Bo well done go knock some walls down ;;;
    borobabs passed away March 2018

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    • #3
      Well done Bo, hope you find everything your looking for.




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      • #4
        well done and good luck

        this lot knock down a 100 year old brick wall for me and my family isso grateful
        karen
        wye surrey/london/birmingham
        lawrence/laurence berkshire/london/norfolk
        hall harrison cook/e pratt surrey
        ebbage maltby pratt norfolk
        herbert pratt yorkshire/hampshire
        armstrong/rickinson/harrison/beddington yorkshire

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        • #5
          Oh Brilliant. Scandal hats to the fore: - and Merry you'll be glad to see that it isn't a pesky Pigott!

          These are the facts that I have been given and I will also supply some family history as well which the lady who imparted the 'scandal' was not aware of!

          The person who I'm trying to track down/trace is called:

          Dora Margaret Berdette MOXON. She was born in February 1866 in Great Yarmouth to Thomas Henry Moxon and his wife Margaret Humphrey Moxon. Thomas was a Dr and Margaret was a Surgeon's daughter. They had 18 children (he should've known better!) and poor Margaret died of TB in 1884. The family story is that her 3 eldest daughters who nursed her in a warm fuggy room also all died of TB at a young age. Given that the children were named alphabetically (yes really - even if was only a second name) it follows that Dora, Ethel and Emily (Frances) should all have died youngish. That was fine for poor Ethel and Emily but of Dora no trace......until another lady contacted our family. Sadly for her she had to get to Olive before she found a sister with a descendant! Anyway I digress....

          Dora had a relationship with a vicar who was married. He was called Charles Wellesley FOWELL and they went to Australia together (but I don't have dates or ship name). 40wks after landing in Albany WA Dora had a child - I don't have details but I believe it was a son.

          At some point Charles returned to England with said child and possibly with Dora but I have no details. I also don't know what the child was called but alledgedly Charles and his wife brought up the child.

          Dora at some point must have returned to the UK because she went to USA as a settler in Dec 1893 on the Berlin from Southampton showing RI (Rhodes Island) as her destination. In the 1900 USA census she is in Providence Rhodes Island living in a rented house as a nurse.

          After that nothing.....

          Yes I'd like to fill in the gaps with her travels to and from Oz and her son's name but what I'd really like help with is what happened to her after 1900. She does not appeared to have died using the name Dora Moxon in the UK but I could be blind.....

          Given that she was only 34 in 1900 it is possible she could've married and had another family in the USA or perhaps she went back to Australia.

          Any help received with open arms! (if this is too tough I have an allegedly Irish Gt Grandmother who is the great wall of china of all brickwalls!)
          Bo

          At present: Marshall, Smith, Harding, Whitford, Lane (in and around Winchcomb).

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          • #6
            Charles Wellesley Fowell b.1853c seems to have married a Frances Elizabeth Pemberton.

            In 1881 Frances is living in Barnstaple, Devon with a son Newton Digby Fowell 2. No sign of Charles and Frances is down as Independant.

            RG11; Piece: 2243; Folio: 147; Page: 18


            In 1891 Frances and son are visiting a Fulcher family, still no Charles.

            RG12; Piece: 1502; Folio 115; Page 8

            In 1901 Charles is living on own means with wife Frances and a son Joseph C. Fowell 9, can see no birth for son. Could this be Dora's son??

            RG13; Piece: 2048; Folio: 92; Page: 30
            Fiona. xx

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            • #7
              Originally posted by fiona c View Post
              Charles Wellesley Fowell b.1853c seems to have married a Frances Elizabeth Pemberton.
              More info here
              Fowell, Joseph Charles (1891 - 1970) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
              Elaine







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              • #8
                An old posting - not sure if it is from you or someone you are in contact with ....
                Dora Margaret Burdett MOXON
                Elaine







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                • #9
                  There is a Dora Moxon or Moxan in Providence, Rhode Island on the 1920 census. Her age is way out on the index but it seems too much of a coincidence. Just waiting for it to load to see if it could be her...
                  KiteRunner

                  Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                  (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                  • #10
                    Well, she says she's a 48 year old widow (should be 54, shouldn't she? So it's not as far out as I thought). Entered the US in 1899, alien (i.e. not naturalised), born England, working as a domestic (cook in a cafeteria). Could be her, couldn't it?
                    KiteRunner

                    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                    (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                    • #11
                      Ellis Island website shows a Miss Das. M.B. Moxon arriving in USA 28 Dec 1893, age on arrival 27, ship of travel Berlin, port of departure Southampton.
                      Unfortunately when you click on Ship's Manifest it doesn't seem to bring up the right page! :(
                      Elaine







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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Elaine ..Spain View Post
                        Unfortunately when you click on Ship's Manifest it doesn't seem to bring up the right page! :(
                        You need to scroll back a couple of pages to page 1114 - image looks like Dora - occupation nurse.
                        Elaine







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                        • #13
                          Concentrate Elaine ..... I see you already have this! :o

                          :D:D
                          Elaine







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                          • #14
                            Forgot to say that in 1920 she was in Burrillville (if it is her). I was wondering why she would say she entered the country in 1899 instead of 1893, but I have a theory - if she had knocked six years off her age, and when she came to fill in the form, she was asked when she arrived in the USA and she said, "When I was 27, so that would be.... er, um... 1899!"
                            Head of household is a George B Prentice (I think) age 46 born Massachussets.
                            KiteRunner

                            Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                            (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                            • #15
                              I can't find her in 1910, but George B Prentice is still with his wife then. Not found her in 1930 either...
                              KiteRunner

                              Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                              (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                              • #16
                                congratulations brenda xxx

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                                • #17
                                  Originally posted by Elaine ..Spain View Post
                                  An old posting - not sure if it is from you or someone you are in contact with ....
                                  Dora Margaret Burdett MOXON
                                  Not me and I'm not in contact with this lady so despite the age of the post I'm going to reply. Thank you.
                                  Bo

                                  At present: Marshall, Smith, Harding, Whitford, Lane (in and around Winchcomb).

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                                  • #18
                                    Originally posted by fiona c View Post
                                    Charles Wellesley Fowell b.1853c seems to have married a Frances Elizabeth Pemberton.

                                    In 1881 Frances is living in Barnstaple, Devon with a son Newton Digby Fowell 2. No sign of Charles and Frances is down as Independant.

                                    RG11; Piece: 2243; Folio: 147; Page: 18


                                    In 1891 Frances and son are visiting a Fulcher family, still no Charles.

                                    RG12; Piece: 1502; Folio 115; Page 8

                                    In 1901 Charles is living on own means with wife Frances and a son Joseph C. Fowell 9, can see no birth for son. Could this be Dora's son??

                                    RG13; Piece: 2048; Folio: 92; Page: 30
                                    From the biography that Elaine found: FOWELL, JOSEPH CHARLES (1891-1970), architect, is said to have been born on 2 August 1891 at Albany, Western Australia, son of Charles Wellesley Fowell, sometime clergyman of the Church of England, and his wife Frances Elizabeth, née Pemberton.

                                    Methinks that perhaps Dora was his mother not Frances.

                                    Are there Australia Birth records on line for Albany WA which would show his birth?
                                    Bo

                                    At present: Marshall, Smith, Harding, Whitford, Lane (in and around Winchcomb).

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                                    • #19
                                      Originally posted by Bo the Bodger View Post

                                      Methinks that perhaps Dora was his mother not Frances.
                                      Methinks you are right! :D

                                      Searching WA Online Indexes
                                      Search for birth of Charles Fowell 1891
                                      Elaine







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                                      • #20
                                        Clearly shows Dora Moxon as mother on the birth index, and him being a clergyman as well!! *tuts*
                                        Fiona. xx

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