Comments on: Ask the Expert - Australian roots http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/ official blog for findmypast.co.uk Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:51:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mrriage Guide and Info http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-45128 Mrriage Guide and Info Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:32:12 +0000 http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/?p=1148#comment-45128 Just what I was looking for! I was searching articles for our website when I came across your post (on Ask the Expert - Australian roots | findmypast blog) which I noticed on Yahoo. We would love you to write for us, if curious. I've bookmarked this post for future reference. Nice comments here as well - Cheers from Mrriage Guide and Info Just what I was looking for! I was searching articles for our website when I came across your post (on Ask the Expert - Australian roots | findmypast blog) which I noticed on Yahoo. We would love you to write for us, if curious. I’ve bookmarked this post for future reference. Nice comments here as well - Cheers from Mrriage Guide and Info

]]> By: Anne Mellors http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-43276 Anne Mellors Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:50:14 +0000 http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/?p=1148#comment-43276 Since I live just north of Brisbane, I picked up the the current White Pages, and found 11 listings for Patman in the Greater Brisbane area, none S Patman, though! It might be of significance in explaining reason for emigrating, to note that the town of Gympie, 182km north of Brisbane, was founded in the 1867 Gympie Gold Rush. Since I live just north of Brisbane, I picked up the the current White Pages, and found 11 listings for Patman in the Greater Brisbane area, none S Patman, though!
It might be of significance in explaining reason for emigrating, to note that the town of Gympie, 182km north of Brisbane, was founded in the 1867 Gympie Gold Rush.

]]> By: Katherine http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-43256 Katherine Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:19:51 +0000 http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/?p=1148#comment-43256 Just to confuse things more, on 28 Aug 1862 a Mary Anne Foote of 16 Bloomfield St, married William James Worthington, widower, an architect at St Saviour, Paddington. The family is in the the 1871 & 1881 census and William's occupation is architect and surveyor. Couldn't find any trace of Gertrude though. Just to confuse things more, on 28 Aug 1862 a Mary Anne Foote of 16 Bloomfield St, married William James Worthington, widower, an architect at St Saviour, Paddington.
The family is in the the 1871 & 1881 census and William’s occupation is architect and surveyor. Couldn’t find any trace of Gertrude though.

]]> By: Brenda M Cook http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-43224 Brenda M Cook Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:16:46 +0000 http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/?p=1148#comment-43224 I agree this sounds like an illicit union. (Sometime bastard children were baptised with the father's name as the MIDDLE name to give a clue to the parentage, but in this case it looks as if Samuel & Mary Anne were at some point masquerading as a married couple. Have you tried searching the census indexes for a Mary Anne FOOTE & a Gertrude Patman FOOTE ? This might show who she was living with (either supported as a "kept woman" with servants or back home with her parents in semi-disgrace!) The other possibility is that Sam took his whole family abroad to the colonies or went to live in Scotland, Wales or Ireland. I agree this sounds like an illicit union. (Sometime bastard children were baptised with the father’s name as the MIDDLE name to give a clue to the parentage, but in this case it looks as if Samuel & Mary Anne were at some point masquerading as a married couple. Have you tried searching the census indexes for a Mary Anne FOOTE & a Gertrude Patman FOOTE ? This might show who she was living with (either supported as a “kept woman” with servants or back home with her parents in semi-disgrace!)

The other possibility is that Sam took his whole family abroad to the colonies or went to live in Scotland, Wales or Ireland.

]]> By: Pam http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/02/ask-the-expert-australian-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-43210 Pam Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:03:52 +0000 http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/?p=1148#comment-43210 If all else fails, as you have no trace of Samuel Patman prior to 1868, I wondered about his name. As it has a "man" on the end, could it be an anglicised form of a German name or similar which he might have been registered in earlier. This name change happened frequently when foreigners came into the country. Pam If all else fails, as you have no trace of Samuel Patman prior to 1868, I wondered about his name. As it has a “man” on the end, could it be an anglicised form of a German name or similar which he might have been registered in earlier. This name change happened frequently when foreigners came into the country.

Pam

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