We've been waiting to hear from anyone interested in the Elijah Bythell enquiry. There are a number of Family Trees on Ancestry.com which relate to members of his Family, both in the UK and in Victoria and NZ. On one particular Tree there are a couple of newspaper items from NZ relating to his time there...... To add to his own history, after the premature death of his first wife Caroline Alice Gaskill in December 1859 in Yackandandah, Victoria, one child Jane Bythell surviving, he then married a lady called MARTHA EDWARDS, a Spinster.....19 November 1860 in Yackandandah. MARTHA was from Warminster, Wiltshire and had arrived as a domestic servant with her older sister into Melbourne. One child was born to this couple, LYDIA MARY BYTHELL in 1862 in Yackandandah. From this time, it seems Martha was left by ELIJAH BYTHELL who pursued greener pastures in NZ. A Newspaper account of a matter (dated 6th June 1871-Colonist) in the Supreme Court of NZ is found in which he is named as Co-respondent in the case Thomas v Thomas and Bythell. Another female child called Mary Ann Bythell, was born in NZ after Elijah's arrival, to a married woman called Thomas during an illegal marriage to Elijah. Thereafter he married again, a young lady Jessie Alexandria Melbourne in Blenheim, who had been born the same year Elijah had married Martha Edwards......1860. His second wife MARTHA BYTHELL died in Orange, N.S.W. December 1892. Her daughter Lydia Mary Bythell married also in Orange, N.S.W. Martha's eldest sister also arrived in Australia in 1860 one month before Martha's marriage to Elijah Bythell and settled in Orange N.S.W. with her husband and 8 children...... No doubt that is how Martha ended up in Orange N.S.W. with her daughter Lydia. Her step-daughter Jane Bythell, it seems remained in Yackandandah, where she married. As I said before, we are not related to this family......we came upon Martha's broken headstone and grave in Orange Cemetery N.S.W. one day, whilst looking for my own ancestors. Her surname was unusual and similar to my husband's ancestors called BETHELL. We then decided to trace this lady's life to see if indeed she had been related to the Bethell clan that we know. She was not. But our continuing search for ELIJAH BYTHELL showed up many turns and twists in his life.......and in the end, in another twist he became the Mayor of Blenheim....... Cheers, Robyn -----Original Message----- From: Gwyneth Watson User [mailto:cannycot@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 June 2014 8:56 PM To: Robyn Clarke; manning.jade@xtra.co.nz; NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [nz] POSTING INTERESTS Hi all, Frank Elijah BYTHELL, 1880-1963 married Elsie HALE 1913, my grandmother's niece. Both buried Omaka, Blenheim. I don't have any connection to DOVE or FREEMAN that I am aware of. Cheers Gwyneth Sydney On 9/06/14 6:46 PM, "Robyn Clarke" <rsclarke@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hello John, > > Are you related to the Bythell's of NZ? We are not related, but have done > some research on ELIJAH BYTHELL born in England abt. 1830, who died in New > Zealand 1894. > Don't have any connections to the DOVE or FREEMAN families..... > But would be interested in sharing mutual BYTHELL lines........ > > Cheers, > > Robyn > Australia > > -----Original Message----- > From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > manning.jade@xtra.co.nz > Sent: Monday, 9 June 2014 1:59 PM > To: NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com > Subject: [nz] POSTING INTERESTS > > Researching the following families: > > BYTHELL from cir 1880 to the present day, probably with a connection to > Cheshire, England ; DOVE cir 1880 to present day possibly with a connection > to Berkshire, England. > FREEMAN from cir 1850 to present day, mainly Wairarapa. > > Many thanks in advance, John Manning. > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message