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Mysterious David Adams Found

I have been trying to find my grandmother’s paternal Uncle for so many years now I can’t remember how long.  See “Whatever happened to David Adams”   David Adams was the only child of George Adams and Catherine Barry whose death and further life movements we hadn’t yet found. Christine Stafford nee Adams, my 3rd …

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Legal Battle – Adams v Adams

I recenlty published this post on my Blogger platform for a 52 ancestors challenge as “A Tough Woman” but it fitted this Sepia Saturday theme so am reposting it here. In Trove I found many years of newspaper articles telling of legal battle of my great grandparents to force my great grandfather to pay child maintenance …

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What happened to David Adams

I’m updating and reposting this earlier blog post as a part of  Geneabloggers prompt  Mystery Monday. My great grandfather, John Adams, was one of nine children born to George Adams and Catherine nee Barry listed below.  John married Mary Agnes Morgan on the 7th of November 1887 at Essendon, Victoria.  John’s brother, David Adams, was …

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Charles Nightingale Adams

Charles Nightingale Adams was born in 1890 in Balmain NSW Australia and died on the 26 Feb 1944 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the fourth son of Edward Adams and Selina Rose nee Clifton who moved from Sydney Australia to New Zealand about 1905.   Charles married Alice Maud Southwood Pinhey on the 5th of February 1917. Just over a month before his marriage …

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Sarah Harman – From Country to City

Originally posted on Western District Families:
I knew all about the brothers of Sarah Harman before I knew anything of her other than she travelled to Sydney with her parents Joseph and Sarah Harman aboard the “Queen of England” in 1855.  Finally I decided the time had come to find out more about Sarah. I…

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