I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.
The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.
How is everyone else going?
The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.
How is everyone else going?
Havent watched the videos, just put the link up so people could see what it looks like. Will go back and watch them.
Have been searching for an ancestor that went into an asylum, but the paper says he was in Ballarat not Ararat. Cant find his name in the registers for any of them yet though.
Found this website http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/nsw/
I have never been able to find the deaths of my third great grandparents and I'm now wondering whether the wife ended up in a benevelont home. Wish they had more online databases, I'm pretty sure she would have been in Sydney. Thats a bit too far for me to go to research, might have to pay someone.
I might take a trip into PROV one day, they hold much more detailed records than whats available online.
He's buried in Pakenham, which is just down the road from me, but his grave is not marked. He was buried by the salvation army. He is actually a great great uncle and I dont normally put so much research into anyone thats not a direct descendant, but this entire family fascinates me.
My great grandfather was named after this uncle, but then shortly after his birth his parents became "displeased" with the uncle and changed their sons name. This was about the time he entered the asylum.
This is what I found in Trove
The Ballarat Echo of Friday's date writes:-The gates of the local benevolent asylum have opened to admit the venerable figure of Private George Kirkham, late of the 1st Battalion XX Regiment, the "double X's," as they are often called in the service. Seventy years of age the old man will be next Boxing Day, and in 1854 he was with that great allied army which landed in the Crimea to confront the legions of the Czar Nicholas.
Kirkham was with his regiment at the storming of the heights of the Alma and afterwards at the two great actions of Balaclava and Inkerman, which will live in history long after many a later battle is forgotten. Medals and decorations were not plentiful in those days, and thus it is a feather in Kirkham's cap that he, a private, was one of five selected to receive a distinguished service medal awarded by the French military authorities to the rank and file of their allies. In addition to the Crimea Kirkham tasted the bitter, stern fighting of the Indian Mutiny, being one of the besieged in Lucknow. Getting his discharge, he went to Victoria in 1866, and after years of mining, has put down his kit for the last time in the Benevolent Asylum.
Richo, I dont think I could live that close, would be a bit scary I reckon.
