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And here is her mother
Name:Ellen R Barrett
Birth Date:abt 1859
Date of Registration:Mar 1944
Age at Death:85
Registration district:Sunderland
Inferred County:Northumberland
Volume:10a
Page:653
Name:Ellen Barrett widow
Probate Date:30 May 1944
Death Date:8 Mar 1944 The Municipal Hospital
Death Place:Sunderland
Registry:Durham, England
Probate to: Elizabeth Ethel Walker, widow £242 3s 3d
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Here is Carol*
Name:Caroline Barrett
Birth Date:abt 1882
Date of Registration:Sep 1943
Age at Death:61
Registration district:Durham Northern
Inferred County:Durham
Volume:10a
Page:450
Name:Carolyne Yeoman Barrett <<Spinster of: 10 The Elms West
Probate Date:7 Dec 1943
Death Date:10 Aug 1943 Relton House war emergency hospital
Death Place:Sunderland
Registry:Durham, England
To: Ellen Barrett, widow £328 18s 3d
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My great-great grandfather Harcourt BARRETT (b. late 1838, Walworth Surrey) was married to Louisa Emma STEDMAN in 1862. They had 5 children together between 1864 and 1868.
Harcourt appeared to have had an affair with Ellen Rosina YEOMAN (b. 1859, St Pancras Middlesex) and deserted his family in January 1881. They came to South Australia and had a daughter, Caroline Yeoman BARRETT, born 29 Nov 1881 at Kent Town. They had Lina BARRETT (b. 1885 - d. 1886, age 15 mths) and Eugene (Edward) Harcourt BARRETT, b. 1887.
They moved to Western Australia around March 1904, and settled in Perth.
Harcourt died 22 Oct 1904, Subiaco WA (age 65). His death certificate states that he married Ellen when he was age 37 (making the year of marriage 1876) and that it took place in London. I can't find this marriage anywhere in English records. Now I'm thinking that the marriage may be illegitimate.
I also can't find the passenger list or name of the ship that they came on to Australia.
On 18 July 1908, his second-youngest child from his first marriage, Julia, puts out a search for her father in the Perth 'The Daily News' newspaper. It says her father left home in January 1881.
In the 1881 England census, Louisa has her status as "Married", but in 1891 is stated as "Widowed". She may have assumed he had died mysteriously, until hearing whispers of otherwise.
Just wondering if anyone out there can shed some light or information on the questionable marriage with Ellen, or why I cant find their names on any passenger list. Was it common for people to use fake names??
The whereabouts of Ellen Rosina after 1914 is unknown to me. In that year, she was listed as Edward Harcourt BARRETT's next of kin in his AIF enlistment. Ellen was living on St Georges Terrace, Perth WA. Edward was sent over to England during WW1, and married Ethel Mary BATEMAN.
I also would like to know what happened to Caroline Yeoman BARRETT. She moved from Australia to England some time before 1911. In the 1911 England census, she was working at a nursing home in West Kensington. She is recorded as single and age 29. I have no idea what became of her after this, or if she even married.
Since both surviving children were in England, Ellen may have had no reason to stay in Australia and may have headed back to her homeland.
So many holes to fill in! Any help would be kindly appreciated :)
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