Hi, Missing Lincs,     This month's theme is proposed by Liz Davies, an active member of our list:     Liz wants to know, "What happened to those left behind?"  She, like many of us, has families where most of one family would up and leave for places like Australia, Canada, the US, but someone was left behind.  Sometimes it was more than one person, who may have had an apprenticeship to finish, or who stayed home to nurse a sick relative, or in some cases a wife who feared leaving the only life she had known and who dreaded the idea of living someplace with "wild natives" and strange beasts.  I know that my own grandmother refused to leave England for India when her husband tried to arrange for her to join him at his military post.     So share your findings with us.  Liz, you wanna start?         Lou

My grt grt grandfather William BEET was born in 1822 in Grt Gonerby, married ca 1843 to Susannah Gibson (d 1849) and then in 1850 to Elizabeth Watson (b. Marston ca 1832). William, Elizabeth and a child, also Elizabeth, born 1849?, came to NZ, via Australia, in 1863. William's parents, Robert Beet (1799-1855) and Mary, nee Green (1792-1865) had at least 6 other children, all born in Grt Gonerby, some of whom died young, as follows. As far as I know they ALL got left behind. But what happened to them? Does anyone have any connections to any of these - Thomas Beet, bap Grt Gonerby Jan 1817 (m. Elizabeth BAILEY, widow, ?) Anne Beet, bap Mar 1818, m. John BULLINOR? Elizabeth Beet, bap Mar 1820 Robert Beet, bap Oct 1825, m. Sarah BROWN 1850 ? Jane Beet, bap Jan 1828, d. June 1850 Those who died young are - Louisa (Lucy) Beet, bap Jan 1824, d, Sept 1824 John Beet, bap Jan 1830, d. Mar 1832 Regards Judith Harper Nelson, NZ On 2/02/2014 8:52 a.m., Louis Mills wrote: > Hi, Missing Lincs, > > This month's theme is proposed by Liz Davies, an active member of our list: > > Liz wants to know, "What happened to those left behind?" She, like many of us, has families where most of one family would up and leave for places like Australia, Canada, the US, but someone was left behind. Sometimes it was more than one person, who may have had an apprenticeship to finish, or who stayed home to nurse a sick relative, or in some cases a wife who feared leaving the only life she had known and who dreaded the idea of living someplace with "wild natives" and strange beasts. I know that my own grandmother refused to leave England for India when her husband tried to arrange for her to join him at his military post. > > So share your findings with us. Liz, you wanna start? > > Lou > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >