Forwarding from Admin. Please respond to original poster, not me... Claire K CTI Admin seekay@comcast.net From: "AAPT" <chris_danielle@aapt.net.au> Date: February 9, 2009 5:53:37 PM EST To: <cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com> Subject: 1901 or 1911 census - Hamilton's of Strabane Hello to you all - I wonder if someone can help with a census look up or tell me where I might find it? I am looking for Hamilton's of Strabane (Urney Parish). Apparently some of them worked at Elliott's Grocers. Robert Hamilton (born c1870) he married Hannah GROGAN. I think they lived on Bridge Street. I have been searching for my Hamilton ancestors for over a decade now and have have not been able to get past William John Hamilton born c1873 in Urney Strabane. Apparently he had several siblings but only one brother named Robert married (Hannah Grogan). William John's siblings are: ROBERT, Letitia, Barbara, Charles, Jane/Jean, Andrew - all of them including their parents (possibly a John and Annablla McCutcheon??)died of TB quite young. I wonder if anyone who has access to the census can find any of them for me in the hope it will give me more leads. I believe Robert lived in Bridge Street. William John Hamilton married Sarah Jane McLaughlin c1894, but I have not been able to find their marriage record. William died on Christmas Day in 1917 - leaving behind a young wife and 6 young children). Any help so greatly appreciated. Danielle (Sydney Australia) Wiltshire Gazette March 1918 SOLDIERS BODY IN A WELL An inquest held at Amesbury on Thursday, was necessitated by a discovery made near Stonehenge, when the body of a soldier, who had apparently been dead since last Christmas Day, was found at the bottom of a deep well. The deceased, William Hamilton, a pioneer in a Building Section of the Royal Engineers stationed at Stonehenge Camp left the camp on the evening of Christmas Day and entering the brick building covering the well, fell down the opening. Death was presumably instantaneous, as when the body was removed from the well the man’s hands were still in his overcoat pockets. The well is in a round brick building with a thatch roof, the doorway being only partly closed with a hurdle, and anyone might enter it, especially in the dark. A man of the Hants Regiment had curiosity to look in, saw the well, and from the strong smell guessed something was wrong. The well was 40 ft to 50 ft deep, with two or three feet of water and mud. The jury were of opinion that the well was a danger to the public and a military representative asked if they might put a fence round it. The Coroner said there was no power to do it, but he did not anticipate any likelihood of the owner objecting. He should write to the owner urging him to cover the well and fasten the cover.