Lawrence Henry (Bill) ALDRIDGE

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• _FGRAVE: 200867177
• Residence: 1984, Middle Rd, Gracemere, Queensland, Australia

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Residence:
As per Kabra visitors' book entry 18 Aug 1984.

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Died:
ALDRIDGE, Lawrence Henry (Bill)Of Sunset Ridge, Zilzie, formerly of Middle Road, Gracemere, passed away Peacefully at Sunset Ridge, Zilzie on Thursday, 1st January, 2015. Aged 87 years. Much Loved Father of Margaret, Jennifer, Kerry, Debra and John and their respective Partners. A Cremation Service for Bill will be held at the Rockhampton Crematorium East Chapel, on Richardson Road, this WEDNESDAY, the 7th of January, 2015 commencing at 12.00 noon.

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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--??-- + Elsie Elizabeth ALDRIDGE. Elsie (daughter of Edward Henry ALDRIDGE and Mary Ann RICHARDSON) was born on 1 Jan 1908 in Queensland, Australia; died on 7 Oct 1990 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGRAVE: 183314519
• Residence: 1977, 24 Lando St, Coombabah, via Southport, Queensland, Australia

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Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Elsie Elizabeth Aldridge Birth date: 01/01/1908
Mother's name: Mary Ann Richardson Father/parent's name: Edward Henry Aldridge
Registration details: 1908/B/16332

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Died:
GUYMER Elizabeth Elsie Funeral notice 07 OCT 1990 Death Gold Coast Bulletin 09 OCT 1990

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• _FGRAVE: 167300993
• _MILT: 1900-03; 6th Qld (Imperial Bushmen) Regiment

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Birth:
1880 births in the district of Kennedy North in the Colony of Queensland. No 3344/1555, 28 Jun 1880 at Broughton, Edward Henry, male, Father Henry Aldridge, butcher, aged 32, born Welwin*, Hereford, England. Married 16 Jun 1870 at Maryborough, Queensland. Living children Elizabeth 8, Emily Helen Sophia 4, one male deceased. Mother Harriett formerly Phillips, aged 29, born London, Middlesex, England. Certfied in writing by Henry Aldridge, father, Broughton.
*Correct spelling and location is Welwyn which is in Hertfordshire, not Herefordshire.

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Birth registration: Edward Henry Aldridge
Birth date: 28/06/1880 Mother's name: Harriet Phillips Father/parent's name: Henry Aldridge Registration details: 1880/C/3344 https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/

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_MILT:
From Boer War Nominal Roll Database
Aldridge, Edward Henry
Number: 129
Rank: Private
Unit: 6 (QLD IMPERIAL BUSHMEN) CNTGNT
State: QLD
Murray Page Number: 512
1900-1903.

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Died:
Death reference 1953/003146 Qld State Library

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Edward married Mary Ann RICHARDSON on 26 Mar 1903 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Mary was born on 5 Nov 1883 in Unknown; died on 15 Feb 1917 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FNRL: 17 Feb 1917, South Brisbane Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Died giving birth to Doris

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_FNRL:
ALDRIDGE.- The Friends of Mr. E. H. ALDRIDGE are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his deceased Wife (Mary Ann), to move from the residence of her Mother (Mrs. A.M. Richardson), Prince-street, Thompson Estate, THIS (Saturday) AFTERNOON, at 2 o'clock, to the South Brisbane Cemetery.K. M. SMITH, Undertaker.
Family Notices. (1917, February 17). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20156863

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Married:
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950: Name: Edward Henry Aldridge Spouse Name: Mary Ann Richardson
Marriage Date: 26 Mar 1903 Marriage Place: Queensland Registration Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1903 Registration number: B002467
Page Number: 269

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Married:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Marriage registration: Minnie Ella Rabjohns Marriage date: 03/07/1923 Spouse's name: Edward Henry Aldridge Registration details: 1923/B/32569

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Gold miner, butcher, publican, rouseabout
• _FGRAVE: 140403898
• Census: 1841, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Emigration: Jul 1859, To Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on the Glentanner
• Residence: 1914, Royal Hotel, Moonmerra, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

First arrived in Australia, July 1859 on the Glentanner. He went back to England in 1883 on the Liguria. With money he inherited from his uncle Harry Aldridge's estate, Henry went back to Welwyn, Hertfordshire At Welwyn, he bought back the Black Horse Inn, a pub his father had owned 30-odd years earlier. Thereafter Henry ran a carrying business from Hertford and conducted gold panning displays at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition at Crystal Palace in London in 1886. Returned to Australia on Chimborazo in 1886 (arrived Sydney 9 September).

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Birth:
Baptism entry and from Henry Aldridge memoirs and IGI

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NR45-CMD

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Census:
In the 1841 census James and Sarah are at the Brickwall Hotel, Digswell, Welwyn, with the following children:
George 20, William ?, Sarah 16, Henry 15, Mary ?, Edward 5

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Census:
1851 census for Fore St, Brick Wall, Welwyn:
William Aldridge, head, aged 32, beershopkeeper, born Stevenage
Mary A Aldridge, wife, aged 38, born Welwyn
Henry Aldridge, son, aged 6, scholar, born Welwyn
William Smith stepson, unm, aged 16, app shoemaker, born Marleybone, Middlesex
William Smith, father-in-law, aged 66, pauper (formerly thatcher), born Offley, Herts

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Residence:
Found in Post Office directory in 1914 at Royal Hotel, Moonmera

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Died:
1926 deaths in the district of Rockhampton, no 423.
21 Nov 1926 at General Hospital Rockhampton, Henry Aldridge, hotel keeper, aged 82 years. Causes: Senility, myacardial degeneration, cardiac failure. Parents: William Aldridge, hotel proprietor and Mary Ann Smith. Born Hertfordshire, England. Lived 63 years in Queensland. Married (1) Maryborough, Queensland, aged 25 to Harriett Phillips and (2) Rockhampton, Queensland, aged 49 years to Sarah Ann Adams.
Children: Elizabeth, 53, Emily Ellen, 50, Edward Henry, 46 and Walter Burdekin, 44. Deceased, 1 male.
Certified by Walter B. Aldridge, son, Bouldercome and by M.MacKinnon, dispenser, General Hospital, Rockhampton. Buried 22 Nov 1926, Rockhampton Cemetery.

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Henry married Harriet PHILLIPS on 16 Jun 1870 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Harriet (daughter of George Daniel PHILLIPS and Sophia BYGRAVES) was born in Jan 1848 in Pancras, London, Middlesex, England, UK; died on 15 Dec 1892 in Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia; was buried on 16 Dec 1892 in Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1851, No 20 Knottisford St, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
• Census: 1861, No 17 Park St, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK
• Emigration: 15 Apr 1870, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Have yet to satisfactorily trace Harriet's family. She may have been born about 1848 and not 1850. There is a Harriet Phillips on the 1851 census at Knottisford St, Tower Hamlets, Bethnal Green, the daughter of George Phillips (weaver) and Sophia. By 1861, they are at Park St, Bethnall Green and the household is George Phillips, head, aged 39, weaver, born Spitalfields; Sophia Phillips, wife, aged 33, seamstress, born Surrey, Harriett, dau, aged 13, born Shoreditch; Thomas, son, aged 5, born Bethnal Green; Henry, son, aged 3, born St Saviours, Surrey. Harriet's mother was known to be alive in 1883 as she met the boat which brought Harriet and her family back from Australia. But yet to track Sophia on 1871 census. On 1881 census, she seems to be at Corbon Rd, Tower Hamlets, aged 60, a widow, needle woman, born Surrey with daughter Jane, aged 19, needle woman, born Surrey. There is also an Elizabeth Phillips, widow, living next door.

Birth:
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Harriett Phillips Registration Date: 1848 Quarter of the Year: Jan-Feb-Mar Registration Place: Pancras, London, England Volume: 1 Page: 293

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Census:
1851 census for No 20 Knottisford St, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London:
http://tinyurl.com/m3u95h
Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1540; Folio: 117; Page: 12; GSU roll: 174770.
George PHILLIPS, head, married, aged 26, weaver, born Bethnal Green
Sophia PHILLIPS, wife, aged 24, born Hackney
Harriet PHILLIPS, dau, unm, aged 3, born Hackney

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Census:
1861 census for No 17 Park St, Bethnal Green:
Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 256; Folio: 3; Page: 15; GSU roll: 542601.
George PHILLIPS, head, aged 39, weaver, born Spitalfields
Sophia PHILLIPS, wife, aged 33, seamstress, born Surrey
Harriett PHILLIPS, dau, aged 13, born Shoreditch
Thomas PHILLIPS, son, aged 5, born Bethnal Green
Henry PHILLIPS, son, aged 3, born St Saviours, Surrey.

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Emigration:
Information from Kevin J. Morton (tekmar@opera.iinet.net.au)
Harriet Phillips (20) was a passenger on board the "Maryborough" which sailed from Gravesend England on the 9th December 1869 and arrived in Brisbane Australia on the 15th April 1870, with 114 passengers on board.
The "Maryborough" was originally the "Robert Parker" and was renamed on the 10th April 1862 when she was purchased by Baines & Co. of the Blackwall Line.

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Died:
Qld State Library death ref: 92/004270.
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985. Name: Harriet Aldridge. Death Date: 15 Dec 1892. Death Place: Queensland. Father's Name: Thomas Phillips
Mother's Name: Sophia Bygraves. Registration Year: 1892. Registration Place: Queensland. Registration Number: 004270
Page Number: 270

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Notes:

Married:
Reference 1870/C316: No 569, 16 June 1870, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
Henry ALDRIDGE, bachelor, born Hertfordshire, England, miner, aged 23, address Maryborough, son of William ALDRIDGE (publican) and Mary Ann Smith.
AND Harriett PHILLIPS, spinster, born London, Middlesex, England, domestic, aged 21, address Maryborough, dau of George PHILLIPS (lint manufacturer) and Sophia Bygraves at Office of the District Registrar and Maryborough. Witnesses: William Archer and Emily Archer. (NOTE: Henry gives their surname as Akers in his memoirs)

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Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (Qld. : 1860 - 1947), Saturday 18 June 1870, page 2
MARRIED. On the 16th of June instant, by Mr. J. H. Stevens, Registrar of Marriages, Maryborough, Mr. Henry Aldridge to Miss Harriet Phillips, both of Maryborough. The Chronicle. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1870.

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