Tombstone Tuesday - Ronald Brothers (1901-1932)

My Uncle Ron was accidentally killed in a train accident at Bunbury, Western Australia, leaving a young widow and a 3-month old baby boy.

Ronald Brothers - Bunbury Cemetery, Western Australia

In Loving Memory
of
My Beloved Husband
Ronald Brothers
Accidentally Killed
23rd Jan 1932
Aged 30 Years

Cherished Memories

Family Notices. (1932, January 27). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879-1954), p. 1. Retrieved July 12, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32407010

Amanuensis Monday - A Sprig of Elegant Puppyism

I was searching for mention of my 2nd Great Grandmother Margaret Casey (1814-1892) in the Tasmanian Newspapers of 1835 when I came across this florid description of an armed confrontation.

"A young sprig of elegant puppyism - a mere boy, with the down upon his chin, fancied that he was in love; and one evening, lately seeing his charmer walking under the protection of two gentlemen, who were conducting the lady home, with a cowardice scarcely to be equalled, went up to the young lady and presented a pistol at her head, and ordered her to immediately quit their company and join his - what a hero! to present a pistol at the head of a timid female. The insulting - the cowardly little puppy, should have had a broomstick applied to his head, or a rod, perhaps, would have been more proper for the child. We shall allow this sprig of fashion to pass this time without mentioning his name; but we shall be less tender with him the next time we hear of his outrages. In the mean while, we recommend the police to take cognizance of the affair, as the young fool may, perhaps, unintentially, some time or other, seriously injure some of His Majesty's leige subjects - children should not be allowed to play with fire arms; and, as the father of the child has not sense enough to punish the boy, the authorities ought to be compelled to so so!"

Domestic Intelligence. (1835, February 17). Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828-1857), p. 6. Retrieved July 10, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8648066

I still haven't found Margaret Casey!

Sorting Saturday - BDM Certificates from various heaps

I was sorting one of my many stacks and found a stray BDM certificate where it wasn't supposed to be. So, nothing daunted, I went through some more stacks and then found even more of them.

I unhooked the scanner from DH's XP system, hooked it up to my Vista system and started scanning using a great piece of 3rd party scanning
software called VueScan from Hamrick Software. VueScan allows you to keep using your reliable, perfectly adequate scanner that is no longer supported by your operating system. Frankly, this has more and better options than the original software ever had and is easier to use to boot.

I started scanning away and saving the scans in a central place under my "Genealogy Notes" folder as "Certificates" both as JPG's and PDF's until I came from the certificates from Western Australia. These are too long for my scanner which handles up to A4 handily. I would wish that these weren't as long, of course, but the last two columns contain details of the person's marriage and children, both names and places. I've found very good data in these 2 extra columns.

What to do with these? A visit to Kinko's or Office Depot seems to be in order to use their larger scanners.

Among them are a number of strays, people who I thought were part of the family but who turned out to be of no interest. The English ones I added to BMD Certificate Exchange in case someone wants them. I still have my scans for reference.

The next step is to make sure these are added to my database, images attached, sources and citations written up, every last nugget of information saved away, and last,but not least, filing away in the proper folder.

Surname Saturday - Tissott

I'm joining the Saturday Surname brigade and starting with myself and my maiden name.

Tissott (we've always spelled it with the "double t" at the end) is an anglicized version of Tissot, from a diminutive Tissier, the Old French occupational name for a weaver. And no, we are no relation to the Swiss watch firm of the same name, more's the pity.

1. Rosemary Tissott (1940 - )

2. Eric Henry Lindsay TISSOTT(1911-2006), son of Harry TISSOTT and Mary LINDSAY was born on 08 Oct 1911 in Boulder, Western Australia and passed away on 13 Jun 2006 in Hornsby, New South Wales. He was raised on the goldfields at Yunndaga, Western Australia until he was around 7 then moved to Collie, Western Australia, where the mining was for coal instead of gold. Dad always said he was only allowed to stay in school if he kept getting good marks, which he did, eventually leaving school at 15 to join a national bank. At night he studied for his accountancy exams coming 2nd in the state examinations. After being transferred to Narrogin he met and married Eileen Mary Brothers on 06 Mar 1937. He had been transferred to Sydney and they spent the rest of their lives there. It was only after his retirement that they returned to the west for an extended visit.
3. Eileen Mary BROTHERS(1908-1994) was born on 11 Nov 1908 in Dagenham, Essex, England and passed away on 24 Aug 1994 in Gordon, New South Wales.
Eileen Mary BROTHERS and Eric Henry Lindsay TISSOTT had the following children:

1. i. Rosemary TISSOTT
ii. Female Tissott (living)
iii. Male Tissott (living)

4. Harry TISSOTT(1867-1935), son of Henry TISSOTT and Emma SUTHERLAND was born on 01 Jun 1867 in Mount Taurus, Victoria and died on 26 Oct 1935 in Collie, Western Australia. He married Mary LINDSAY on 25 Sep 1895 in Winslow, Victoria. Harry was a miner, gold in Victoria and Western Australia and then coal in Western Australia.
5. Mary LINDSAY, daughter of John LINDSAY and Charlotte WELLS was born on 12 Sep 1868 in Winslow, Victoria and died on 11 Oct 1958 in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Mary LINDSAY and Harry TISSOTT had the following children:

i. Arthur Vivian Tissott, born on 20 Oct 1896 in Yarpturk, Victoria, and died on 27 Apr 1968 in South Fremantle, Western Australia. He married Dulcie Ewart Lethlean on 25 Dec 1919 in Leonora, Western Australia.

ii. Harold Leslie Tissott was born on 13 Aug 1898 in Four Mile, South Menzies, and died in Dec 1981 in Western Australia. He married Evangeline Isobel Booth Carr in 1917 in Coolgardie, Western Australia.

iii. Evelyn Myra Tissott, born on 13 May 1901 in Woolgar, Western Australia and died on 26 Jan 1995 in Mandurah, Western Australia. She married Henry Walter Moyle in 1922 in Collie, Western Australia.

iv. Ida Muriel Tissott, born on 11 Aug 1904 in Yunndaga, Western Australia and died on 27 Dec 2000 in Collie, Western Australia. She married David Hughes on 02 Aug 1925 in Collie, Western Australia.

2. v. Eric Henry Lindsay TISSOTT was born on 08 Oct 1911 in Boulder, Western Australia and died on 13 Jun 2006 in Hornsby, New South Wales. He married Eileen Mary BROTHERS on 06 Mar 1937 in Narrogin, Western Australia.

8. Henry TISSOTT (1819-1853), son of Joseph TISSOTT and Rosanna PARKER was born on 27 Mar 1819 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. He died on 12 Oct 1882 in Yarpturk, Victoria. He married Emma SUTHERLAND on 25 Jul 1853 in Portland, Victoria. Henry was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1833 for stealing a cow. He was 13 at the time and was led astray by an older woman of 17. After serving his time he made his way to Victoria and joined the gold rush, working in various mining towns until ending his days as a farmer.
9. Emma Sutherland (~1832-1920), born in Holborn, Middlesex and died in Cannington, Western Australa.

Henry and Emma had 8 children:

i. Joseph Henry Tissott, born 27 Aug 1854 in Campbells Creek, Victoria, died on 17 Feb 1945 in Winslow, Victoria. He married Elizabeth Hannah Hughes on 6 Apr 1885.

ii. Alfred Tissott, born on 27 Oct 1856 at Fryer's Creek, Victoria and died on 06 Aug 1935 at Cooma, New South Wales. He never married and was a miner.

iii. Francis Tissott was born 13 May 1859 in Warrnambool, Victoria and died 30 Nov 1940 in Victoria. He married Ellen Hughes on 20 Jul 1886 in Winslow, Victoria. Ellen and Joseph Henry's wife ELizabeth were sisters.

iv. Emma Tissott was born 08 Jun 1862 in Moliagul, Victoria and died 10 Mar 1917 in Cannington, Western Australia. She married Alfred Free on 04 Dec 1890 at Yarpturk, Victoria.

v. Arthur Tissott was born on 29 Oct 1864 in Moliagul, Victoria and died on 02 May 1867 in Winslow, Victoria.

5. vi. Harry Tissott, born 01 Jun 1867 in Mount Taurus, Victoria and died 26 Oct 1935 in Collie, Western Australia. He married Mary Lindsay on 25 Sep 1895 in Winslow, Victoria.

vii. Lewis Tisott was born on 22 Dec 1869 in Moutn Taurus, Victoria and died on 11 Oct 1899 in Perth, Western Australia. Lewis never married.

viii. Maria Antoinette Tissott was 11 Jun 1873 in Yarpturk, Victoria and died on 16 Dec 1897 in Mepunga, Victoria. She married John Thomas Merrett on 4 Oct 1894 in Winslow, Victoria.

16. Joseph TISSOTT (~1761-1849) was born about 1761 in New Holland, Lincolnshire. He died on 23 Sep 1849 in Brewood, Staffordshire from the Penkridge Union Workhouse. He married Rosanna PARKER on 04 May 1818 in Brewood, Staffordshire. Not much is known of Joseph's life. After Henry was transported to Van Diemen's Land he shows up in the criminal registers a couple of times for petty crimes such as receiving stolen goods but was never sentenced. He died in the Poorhouse.
17. Rosanna Parker was probably born around 1797. I have no further information on her.
Joseph and Rosanna had at least 5 children:

8. i. Henry Tissott (1819-1882)

ii. Rosanna or Rosina Tissot, born around 23 Sep 1821 in Bishops Wood, Staffordshire, and died about 3 Dec 1835 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

iii. Emma Tissot, born around 31 Oct 1823 in Bishops Wood, Staffs, and died around 20 Jun 1829 in Brewood, Staffs.

iv. Julia Tissot, born before 07 Dec 1825 in Bishops Wood, Staffs, and died as an infant on 02 Jan 1826, Brewood, Staffs.

v. Antoinette Tissot was born about 4 Jun 1827 in Brewood, Staffs and died 15 Jun 1829 in Brewood, Staffs.

Joseph possibly had 2 more children, not necessarily by his wife Rosanna. He stated at his son Henry's trial that he had 7 children, Henry, a daughter who was "from home (Rosanna) and all the others had passed away.

If anyone has anymore information on my Tissott Family i would love to hear from you. If you have a subscription to Ancestry you can find the Tissott's in my tree "Tissott and Lindsay.

Follow Friday - CCEd: Clergy of the Church of England database

I came across this database after reading a blog on FamilySearch which asked the question "What is a Chapelry?" For the past couple of weeks I have been  looking for my 3x and 4x Gt Grandparents living in Norfolk, England and have been searching through the Norfolk parish register images. I hadn't even thought about chapelries until the blog mentioned them.

Googling "chapelries" on the UK Google site pointed me to a website with an alphabetical index of all chapelries. This is just one section of a database featuring searches and lists of Clergy of the Church of England from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The description of this database, copied from CCEd: Clergy of the Church of England database is:

The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd), launched in 1999 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The Database fills major gaps in our knowledge of one of the most important professions in early modern England and Wales. It provides an invaluable research tool for both national and local, academic and amateur historians, and genealogists who often need to discover biographical information about individual clergymen or more about the succession of clergy in a particular place. CCEd is a collaboration between historians at King’s College London, the University of Kent and the University of Reading, and it is supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London.

The CCEd’s major features include:

• Records relating to the major events of clerical careers – ordination, appointments as curates, rectors and lecturers
• Information about parishes, chapelries and the many secular institutions and persons with chaplains
• Information about patrons, many of them women
• Information about schools and schoolteachers
• Two search engines, one ‘Basic’ and the other ‘Advanced’, for investigating the records, as well as a Browse facility
• A website, containing a host of useful aids, such as descriptions and maps for dioceses, lists of bishops and parishes, a glossary of terms, and an Online Journal containing essays and ‘notes and queries’

Using this database you can follow the career of a member of the clergy starting with his university education, which degrees he obtained, where he was ordained, the positions and parishes in which he served. For any parish you can find who served and when, their patrons,and livings.

I've found this fascinating. Here is the summary of Fairfax Francklin, Rector at Attleborough, Norfolk while my family were living.

Person: Francklin, John Fairfax (1791 - 1829)

• CCEd Person ID: 113010

Education Events

• BA : Cambridge / Clare Hall

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	10/06/1827	BA	Cambridge	View
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	10/06/1827	BA	Cambridge	View
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	08/06/1828	BA	Cambridge	View
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	08/06/1828	BA	Cambridge	View
  Appt	Francklin, John Fairfax	23/10/1829	BA		View

• MA

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Appt	Franckline, John Fairfax	05/07/1791	MA		View

Ordination Events

• deacon : 10/06/1827

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	10/06/1827	deacon	ordination	View
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	10/06/1827	deacon	ordination	View

• priest : 08/06/1828

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	08/06/1828	priest	ordination	View
  Ord	Francklin, John Fairfax	08/06/1828	priest	ordination	View

Appointment Events

• Rector : Earsham (05/07/1791 - 14/04/1809 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Franckline, John Fairfax	05/07/1791	Rector	Institution	Earsham/	View
  Appt	Sandby, George	14/04/1809	Rector	Institution	Earsham/	View

• Stipendiary Curate : Attleborough (10/06/1827) 

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Francklin, John Fairfax	10/06/1827	Stipendiary Curate	Licensing	Attleburgh/	View

• Perpetual Curate : New Buckenham (23/10/1829 )

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Who is Your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor?

It's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun time and this week I'm accepting Randy Seaver's challenge to:

1)  Determine who my most recent unknown ancestor is - the one where I don't even know his or her name.

2)  Summarize what I know about his or her family, including resources that you have searched and the resources you should search but haven't searched yet.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post - which I am doing.

Genea-Musings: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Who is Your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor?

My most recent unknown ancestor is #12, my Grandpa's father. Grandpa, Walter Albert Brothers (1876-1964), was born on 19th January 1876 in Attleborough, Norfolk to Elizabeth Brothers (1842-????). He was the last of Elizabeth's 4 children and the only one to survive past the age of 7. Elizabeth never married (formally, that is) and had disappeared from the English census in 1881. England and Wales started registering Births, Marriages and Deaths in July 1837 and the birth certificates of Grandpa and his sibs have no name for their father(s). It is by no means certain that it was the same gentleman each time. I feel that she probably set up house with a gentleman and became "Mrs" something-or-other and her death would have been registered under that name.

My cousins and I have searched extensively for Elizabeth in Parish Registers, Schools, Directories, Shipping Records out of England and into the United States, Canada, and Australia. Nothing! If we ever manage to find Elizabeth we may find some trace as to who her gentleman friends were.

All suggestions are welcome; we are at our wits' end.

Traipsing Through the NSW Lands Department

I've been in Sydney for the past week visiting family and while I was here I thought I'ld go to the NSW Department of Lands to obtain the titles for the 2 houses my parents owned during their life in Sydney. The first of these is in Mosman and we lived there around 1952-1958 and the other in Gordon where my parents lived from 1962 until they passed away. I used Carole Riley's blog to give me some pointers on what to do and where to go.

 

The NSW Land and Property Management Authority, in Queens Square, Sydney turns out to be a conglomeration of at least 3 buildings; the original building, a newer extension, and still another new section. I went to the general enquiry office (new building) and asked the gentleman at the desk for help in finding the Volume and Folio for Torrens Title references for the Mosman and Gordon properties. We found these and the next step was to find a vacant terminal to use to view the images. There were 2 terminals I could use to view the titles but these were occupied. There were, however, more terminals down in the Old Records department.

 

To get to the Old Records you go out  the door, turn left, down the stairs, follow the signs to Old Records past the fire doors, across a little courtyard wedged in between 3 buildings, through more fire doors and then into Old Records. The walls were lined with book shelves containing large folios and you could perch on a high stool at a very high desk if you wished to view these. I was more interested in using the computer terminals.

 

The gentleman in charge down here showed me how to use the system and I finally got the hang of it. I didn't find it terribly intuitive but I'm sure that if I used it for any length of time it would be very easy to use.

 

Starting with the Mosman property (Vol 7812, Folio 44), I found the image was too recent for my use, so back I went to get help on where I could find a reference to the previous property (Vol 3063, Folio 155). Yup!! There are my parents and their mortgage. The Gordon property (Vol 3004, Folio 217) was the one I wanted so I was all set.

 

Now it was back to the Cashier to pay for the printouts; through fire doors, back through courtyard, wind around the bowels of the building and upstairs to the information office to find out where the Cashier was. No problem!  Just go out the door, up some steps and into another building, see the concierge, take a number, wait till your number is called and then pay (they take credit cards).

 

And now, back to where I came from at the front desk. Fill in the requests with the appropriate Folio-Vol numbers, wait a few minutes and I now have very nice printed copies of the Torrens Titles for my parents' homes.

 

I know if I still lived in Sydney I would have all of this down pat and my search would have been accomplished a whole lot quicker. Still, it was interesting to see how the Lands Department buildings have been patched together with duct tape, string, and bailing wire.