Tracing Family Branches

Today's memorial notice was place in memory of my 1st cousin twice removed John Henry Greene by his Mother in Law and children in the Daily Mercury Newspaper on the 25th of August 1944. Source: Trove. Family Notices (1944, August 25). Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170343087 Transcription: IN MEMORIAM GREEN. Sacred to the memory of QX31358 Pte. J.H. Green (Bill) who was killed in action on August 16, 1943. You'll never know the tragedy of growing old, Of suffering, or loneliness, or pain, Because your life, so brief, was colourful and gay, A life that knew no loss, but only gain. You made the greatest sacrifice a man could make son, You died to make it safe for us to live. And we salute you with a silent prayer to-day, The best and only gift your friends can give. (Inserted by your loving mother-in-law, Mrs. M.E. Lenton, also Billy, Donald, and Beulah Green.) John Henry Greene born in 1910 w...

After spending weeks with an ankle to groin brace on my left leg due to my tibial plateau fracture and doing not very much at all I decided to do something productive for a change.  This resulted in my deciding that as I have lots of free time on my hands I will restart my family tree again instead of having bits of information and random trees all over the place.  I started inputting information and rediscovered a bit of a puzzle, that twenty two years after starting my tree I still have not got answers for!  What happened to my Great Grand Aunt Bridget Green/e nee Stevens? Various trees have her death occurring in 1910 without any further details or evidence but that clashes with the newspaper articles that have her acting as Bridesmaid for her sister Clara's marriage to Robert Colbert in February 1911 at Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. Source:  WEDDING BELLS. (1911, March 10).  Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW : 1896 - 1938) , p. 45. Retr...

Going through Trove tonight and came across another piece of my family tree jigsaw puzzle!  As mentioned previously my Worldon Bell lines cross over in interesting ways at times.  My half 3rd Great Grand Aunt Sarah Williams nee Glithero husband Charles Williams had a long term defacto relationship with my 3rd Great Grand Aunt Mary Ann Green nee Bell.  No marriage record has been found for Charles and Mary Ann, although they had at least nine children together, which seemed reasonable as they were both already legally married to other people - Charles to Sarah and Mary Ann to Michael Green.  The information below from Trove makes me wonder if they did in fact go through some form of marriage ceremony (as they clearly intended to) or if circumstances conspired against them and their plans were thwarted.  I am so happy to have some progress with the research but why do finds always lead to more questions than answers? Source: Advertising. (1871, Ma...

Today's posting concerns the marriage of my 3rd Great Grand Aunt Mary Anne Bell and Michael Green at Trinity Church, Berrima in 1861. Source: Family Notices. (1861, June 21). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved September 25, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13064942 Transcript: GREEN-BELL-June 4th, at Trinity Church, Berrima, by the Rev. S.S. Hassall, Michael, third son of Mr. John Green, of Mittagong, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. William Bell, innkeeper, of Eling Forest, near Berrima. NSW BDM Marriage Registration 1375/1861 GREEN MICHAEL BELL MARY ANN BERRIMA Source: NSW BDM Marriage Registrations. Retrieved from  http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/ Source: Family Notices. (1861, June 20). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved September 25, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13063182 Transcript: MARRIAGES. On the 4th instant, at Trinity Church,...

This weeks obituary is for my 3rd Great Grand Uncle John Bell.  He was born on the  27th August 1847  to William Bell and his wife Eleanor (nee Sneed).  His wife Mary Ann was the daughter of Charles Williams and Elizabeth (nee Hall).  Mary Ann's brother Charles Williams was in a relationship with John Bell's oldest sister Mary Ann Green nee Bell and to further complicate things one of John's younger sisters Margaretta Jane Bell's husband James Baker Worldon was the half brother of Sarah Jane Williams (nee Gltherow), Mary Ann's brother Charles's legal wife (the marriage broke down and both moved on to other relationships without a divorce). So my 3rd Great Grandfather James Baker Worldon's brother in law Charles Williams was legally married to James half sister Sarah but living with James wife Margaretta's oldest sister Mary Ann.  While another brother in law John Bell was living with his brother in law Charles Williams married sister Mary Ann Ball and t...