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Meols Hall, Southport, Lancashire 1905/6
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 13:14 |
Does anyone have any advice on finding an ancestor with no-name? I know he was a landworker / gamekeeper at Meols Hall in Southport and in 1905 or 1906 he took up the governments offer of starting a farm in Australia. I have no other information - just don't know where to start :-( |
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Flip | Report | 25 May 2013 13:21 |
Meols Hall, Botanic Road - maybe someone with FMP could do an address search for you - it's there but I don't have a sub. (There is also the gamekeepers cottage) |
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ErikaH | Report | 25 May 2013 13:34 |
How did you hear about this? |
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ErikaH | Report | 25 May 2013 13:36 |
1901 census |
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ErikaH | Report | 25 May 2013 13:37 |
1901 census |
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ErikaH | Report | 25 May 2013 13:41 |
???????????? |
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ErikaH | Report | 25 May 2013 13:43 |
No entry in 1911 for gamekeeper's cottage |
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 14:26 |
Wow - that was quick! Thank you for this. Well it is only a story handed down through a couple of generations that this man, possibly a gamekeeper or landworker has a connection with the family. Does this last report mean William Murray actually emigrated in 1903? it's just that the man I am looking for would definitely have been working on the estate in 1905/6 :-) |
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ArgyllGran | Report | 25 May 2013 14:30 |
Just out of interest, though not relevant to Maxine's OP: |
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Flip | Report | 25 May 2013 14:37 |
Wm Murray |
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 14:59 |
correct - the story goes that he went to Australia not knowing he was to become a father - your help is much appreciated :-) |
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Dea | Report | 25 May 2013 15:13 |
Can you give the child's details please, and the mother? |
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Flip | Report | 25 May 2013 15:15 |
So, no point in trying to follow that William in Australia then! I think the only thing you could try would be to check the Electoral registers, which would need to be done locally at the library or records office. |
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 15:40 |
seems that I am looking for a land worker who was not living in at Meols Hall - I will try to find out if any staff records are still in existence. |
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Flip | Report | 25 May 2013 15:48 |
Have you checked lan-opc site for a christening? Or checked Lancashire archives to see if there was any maintenance order? |
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 16:09 |
there was no christening - definitely no maintenance order as we know the mother did not tell the baby's father. Very frustrating - there can't have been many landworkers from Meols Hall going to Australia in late 1905 or early 1906 I seem to have come up against a brick wall... |
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Flip | Report | 25 May 2013 16:13 |
Well yes, if he didn't actually live at Meols Hall (or estate) but lived out, you have absolutely no chance of finding him I'm afraid. We need a name to find immigration records. |
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Maxine | Report | 25 May 2013 21:28 |
thanks for your help anyway - I will try to find out if there are any Meols Hall estate records |
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Maxine | Report | 17 Jun 2013 17:57 |
just in case there is anyone out there still interested in my desperate attempt to find the man with no-name...... |
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Flip | Report | 17 Jun 2013 19:33 |
Hey, there's no "experts out there",just a bunch of gifted amateurs :-D |
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