The story starts with James Reid RODDICK, born in 1865 near Adelaide, South Australia. His father, also James, was a Presbyterian minister and there are loads of hits on Trove for him. When James senior died, his pregnant wife and children returned to Scotland.
I followed James junior through the Scottish censuses to 1901. He was in the banking industry. Then I found his death in London aged 40, so that was that.
I was idly updating my tree the other day and had another go at him. The first hit was a probate register entry which revealed that he died in September 1905 and had a wife, Maggie or Margaret Maclagan. His address for probate was 50 Cornhill, London, which must be his employer bank's address. Then I found in the LMA baptisms their child, Margaret Sheila Maclagan Roddick, born June 1905 but baptised a few weeks after her father's death. And finally from the Andrews Newspaper cards, a death notice for the widow in Melbourne in 1948, giving the daughter's name as Sheila Coppell.
On 10 May 1906 "Mrs and Miss Roddick" disembarked at Melbourne from the ship "China" from London to Sydney.
I've had an extensive trawl through "Trove" but can't find any more about them, particularly Sheila's marriage to Mr Coppell. And stepping back a bit, I can't find a marriage for James and Margaret.
Any thoughts please?
I followed James junior through the Scottish censuses to 1901. He was in the banking industry. Then I found his death in London aged 40, so that was that.
I was idly updating my tree the other day and had another go at him. The first hit was a probate register entry which revealed that he died in September 1905 and had a wife, Maggie or Margaret Maclagan. His address for probate was 50 Cornhill, London, which must be his employer bank's address. Then I found in the LMA baptisms their child, Margaret Sheila Maclagan Roddick, born June 1905 but baptised a few weeks after her father's death. And finally from the Andrews Newspaper cards, a death notice for the widow in Melbourne in 1948, giving the daughter's name as Sheila Coppell.
On 10 May 1906 "Mrs and Miss Roddick" disembarked at Melbourne from the ship "China" from London to Sydney.
I've had an extensive trawl through "Trove" but can't find any more about them, particularly Sheila's marriage to Mr Coppell. And stepping back a bit, I can't find a marriage for James and Margaret.
Any thoughts please?
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