----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Doreen Jackson <dorich40@yahoo.com> >To: "aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com" <aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 6:04 >Subject: Sophia Hetherington Carruthers > > >Hi, >I wonder if someone could help with a problematical Gt.Aunt.  Sophia Ann LEE, went to Australia in Feb.1866 and for >a while lived in Melbourne where in 1868 she married Richard Hetherington, later Hetherington-Carruthers when his >mother died and he added her maiden name to his. > >Scraps of in formation regarding Sophia have come my way, including a Patent for an electrical nerve contraption she >invented and exhibited at The Chicago Trade Fair in 1894.  However, after the fair, having also separated from husband >Richard Hetherington about 1888, she vanishes and nothing further can be unearthed on her. > >We have one or two shipping records where she has flitted about always returning to Sydney, until, as mentioned above, >1894 when nothing else can be found.  She may have had a daughter who was born prior to 1888.  Of course she may >have divorced and re-married which would, of course, prevent records showing up. > >Any help would be much appreciated. > >Doreen Jackson >in the UK > >