laidlaws<[email protected]> wrote: > Graeme Wall<[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29/01/2015 13:34, laidlaws wrote: > > > > > > > > > B. Edmonds via<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Not my family. [STRAY] > > >> Agnes BAXTER [nee BOWNESS] d. 19. Oct 1918, 86 yrs, she is recorded as > > >> born Orton, Westmoreland, ENG., her MI is at Goombungee, Queensland, > > >> Australia > > >> Agnes [above] was married to William Charles BAXTER and their daughter > > >> Alice c 1869 was also buried at Goombungee. > > >> She [Alice c 1869] died 25 May 1961 aged 92 was the widow of Thomas > > >> HANDFORD c 1875 of South Molten, Devon, England > > >> Mary Ellen BAXTER died 16 Nov 1922 and was buried at Goombungee 17 Nov > > >> 1922 aged 63. She is the d/o William BAXTER and Agnes BOWNESS. > > >> Her tombstone reads > > >> Mary Ellen BAXTER died November 5th 1922 aged 63 [her death date > > >> differs from Council burial records] Native of Darlington, Durham, > > >> England > > >> http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/cemeteries > > >> I do not know where William Charles BAXTER got to or where he is buried. > > >> Regards > > >> Bev > > > > > > A family tree on Ancestry.com says his full name was William Charles > > > Brodley Baxter > > > and he died 31 Aug 1906 back in England, aged 74. His wife's surname is > > > given as BOWNAS. > > > There are several William Baxters who died in that year. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > Though FreeBMD has no William Charles Baxters died that year > > -- > > Graeme Wall > > This account not read, substitute trains for rail. > > Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail> > I thought it was pretty improbable. The date isn't a quarterly one. Other trees say that > Agnes first married William WINDER on 15 Nov 1852 at St Mary, Dalton in Furness Lancs. > There was a son THOMAS Baxter born 1862 in Durham, who died in Melbourne on 19 Jul 1949, > No. 7711 of 1949, son of William Baxter and "Agnes Bonus." Sounds like cases of "The name's > the same," but I will keep looking. Mary was born in Durham. The FreeBMD has a Thomas > born in Jul 1862 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire West Riding. My computer has self-destructed, > and I am working from a tablet, temporarily. I don't have the Digger discs. > -- > Usenet Reader for Android > http://android.newsgroupstats.hk Family tree at www.theycametheystayed.com/p46.htm#c15906.3 quoting Ancestry's date from Mundia (which seems to have died?) -- Usenet Reader for Android http://android.newsgroupstats.hk