Hello Jenny Percy is ours In 1868 Percy and his wife Hannah Maria were mid way in their childbearing years with child no. 6 of 9 born in January 1868. With a tribe of 6 kids under 8 years of age some HELP would have been appreciated by Hannah. Maybe the 6 kids wore Louisa away to nothing so she dissappeared for a while??? ( :) What can I tell you about the family Louisa went to? Percy was an army brat and came to oz as a 2 yr old - his father was Captain of the 50th regiment of Foot his family spent time in Norfolk Island as well as the south coast where William Sheaffe was supervising road gangs etc. Hannah was the daughter of a well regarded merchant marine Captain who explored unknown waters on the Australian north and west coast in the normal course of his work day in the 1810's and 1820's Regards Glynis > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:10:31 +1000 > From: "Jenny Chester" <jennychester@bordernet.com.au> > Subject: [NSW-SE] Percy Hale Sheaffe of Milton and apprentice Louisa > Winter > To: "AUS-NSW-SE" <AUS-NSW-SE@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <005e01c7827b$be2f55f0$6a82100a@jennyc> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi there > > I have just found Cathy Dunn's document on Percy Hale Sheaffe via > Greville's Post Office Directory 1872 for Milton. I am interested in this > man as an ancestor I am researching - Louisa Winter - was apprenticed to > him around 1868 but then disappears. I have found a possible marriage for > Louisa, birth of a child and then a possible death for Louisa but will > need to get the transcriptions to check. In the meantime if anyone has > come across Louisa or the Sheaffe family please contact me off list. > >>From the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children - Registers of Inmates >>June 1852-1915 (7/3796 SRNSW reel 1865) I have the following information: > 9 Nov 1859 Louisa and Sarah Winter aged 7 and 4 years, Protestants, were > admitted to the Destitute Children's Asylum Randwick. According to the > records they were "deserted by father, mother a worthless character. > Sisters to Geo Winter page 202 who was subsequently received." > 30 Dec 1868 Louisa Winter aged 13 (appears to be incorrect as admission > record indicates she would have been 16) was apprenticed to Mrs Stenhouse, > returned to the Destitute Children's Asylum, Randwick and then > reapprenticed to Mr PH Sheaffe at Milton. > > cheers > > Jenny > Bruny Island TAS > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the AUS-NSW-SE list administrator, send an email to > AUS-NSW-SE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the AUS-NSW-SE mailing list, send an email to > AUS-NSW-SE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of AUS-NSW-SE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 79 > ***************************************** >

Hello Glynis Do you know anything about Percy's father's time in the 50th Regiment of Foot while they were on Norfolk Island? I ask because I also have an ancestor (John Martin) who belonged to this regiment and was also on Norfolk Island. With thanks Chris Randall -----Original Message----- From: Glynis Turner [mailto:bjturner@northnet.com.au] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 10:48 PM To: aus-nsw-se@rootsweb.com; jennychester@bordernet.com.au Cc: Stephen Sheaffe Subject: Re: [NSW-SE] Percy Hale Sheaffe of Milton and apprentice Louisa Winter Hello Jenny Percy is ours In 1868 Percy and his wife Hannah Maria were mid way in their childbearing years with child no. 6 of 9 born in January 1868. With a tribe of 6 kids under 8 years of age some HELP would have been appreciated by Hannah. Maybe the 6 kids wore Louisa away to nothing so she dissappeared for a while??? ( :) What can I tell you about the family Louisa went to? Percy was an army brat and came to oz as a 2 yr old - his father was Captain of the 50th regiment of Foot his family spent time in Norfolk Island as well as the south coast where William Sheaffe was supervising road gangs etc. Hannah was the daughter of a well regarded merchant marine Captain who explored unknown waters on the Australian north and west coast in the normal course of his work day in the 1810's and 1820's Regards Glynis