Category: Australia/NZ
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Back on the trail with Bertram Another Scott relation found on military service
A nephew of great granddad Charles Scott made his way to Oz in 1912, returning to Europe with the Australian army a few years later. On the trail As highlighted some time ago in ‘A Major breakthrough in the Scott line‘, some of great grandfather Charles Vickery Scott’s siblings have been rather hard to track…
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The return and disappearance of the missionary Mays
It has been the best part of a year since I wrote about the Kiwi Cousins – the May branch of the Scott family, mum’s maternal line. As of this article, I have now probably gone as far as I can from the online records, and can only hope to discover a living relative to…
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Following four brothers from Somerset – Merriott to Australia, and NZ
Back to filling out the foreign connections ‘down under’. The trip to Tonypandy in April resulted in acquiring a copy of ‘Descendants of Joseph Osborne’, compiled by Sue Osborne in Brisbane, Australia. This is referred to as JOT (Joseph Osborne Tree) in my notes. Sue has traced her husband’s line back to Joseph, born around…
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Australia, New Zealand Settling down under
For other parts of ‘Abroad’ (beyond British shores) see North America and elsewhere. Australia Osborne family Both George and Samuel Osborne, brothers of Robert (b 1824), emigrated to Australia from Somerset in the 19th century. The Merriott Families Genealogy website should be consulted for its Osborne to Queensland page. Also see Following four brothers from…
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Kiwi cousins
I’ve spent nearly all the long weekend in foreign parts – Canada, USA, Australia and just a touch of the New Zealands. Yes, virtually of course, having splashed out on a Worldwide sub on Ancestry (for a month). All sorts of loose ends tidied up and quite a few new third cousins found, although most…