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can i get some thoughts on what to do with james palmer please?
james palmer b.1839, glassonby, cumberland. birth registered under penrith district. parents john palmer (1793-1866) and ellen shearman (1796-1885). he is one of 10 siblings all accounted for.
present in the 1841 census, so did not die in 1840 as every ancestry tree has written.
the entire family emmigrated to australia in 1850 aboard the 'culloden' and settled in kyneton, victoria. many of the elder family members in letters from the 1980's said his name was on the passenger lists for the ship, though i cannot get a copy of it to check that.
his father's death cert lists him as alive in 1866, (but the informant was the undertaker, so he may not have known- the grandmother's maiden name was wrong) but his mother's lists him as dead in 1885.
i cannot find a death that fits with a birth of around 1840. the only one that may be right on ancestry is for 1873, victoria no place given in ancestry's version of the index. no parents listed, age 40 b.1833.
is that death worth looking at? can anyone think of anything to help?
james palmer b.1839, glassonby, cumberland. birth registered under penrith district. parents john palmer (1793-1866) and ellen shearman (1796-1885). he is one of 10 siblings all accounted for.
present in the 1841 census, so did not die in 1840 as every ancestry tree has written.
the entire family emmigrated to australia in 1850 aboard the 'culloden' and settled in kyneton, victoria. many of the elder family members in letters from the 1980's said his name was on the passenger lists for the ship, though i cannot get a copy of it to check that.
his father's death cert lists him as alive in 1866, (but the informant was the undertaker, so he may not have known- the grandmother's maiden name was wrong) but his mother's lists him as dead in 1885.
i cannot find a death that fits with a birth of around 1840. the only one that may be right on ancestry is for 1873, victoria no place given in ancestry's version of the index. no parents listed, age 40 b.1833.
is that death worth looking at? can anyone think of anything to help?
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