Dan ALDRIDGE

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Dan Aldridge Birth date: 20/02/1911
Mother's name: Elizabeth Jones Father/parent's name: James William Aldridge
Registration details: 1911/C/6562

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Died:
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985: Name: Dan Aldridge. Death Date: 20 Feb 1911
Death Place: Queensland. Father's Name: James William Aldridge. Mother's Name: Elizabeth Jones. Registration Year: 1911. Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Number: 002210. Page Number: 269.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 184486268
• Occupation: 1905; Mine manager
• Residence: 1905, Plant St, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
• _FNRL: 27 May 1919, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: James William Aldridge Birth date: 11/06/1881 Mother's name: Mary Rahnsleben Father/parent's name: James Aldridge
Registration details:1881/C/3211

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Residence:
Found in Post Office directory at Plant St, Charters Towers for several years from 1905 to 1914.

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_FNRL:
DEATH. ALDRIDGE-On the 24th May, at the age of 37 years, at his mother's residence, Plant-street, James William, beloved husband of Elizabeth Aldridge, and father of James Douglas and Arthur Edward.
Deeply mourned.
DEATH.
ALDRIDGE,-On the 24th May, at the age of 37 years, at his mother's residence, Plant-street, James William, our beloved son and brother.
Deeply mourned,
(Inserted by his father and mother, brothers and sisters).Family Notices. (1919, May 27). The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1874 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved October 8, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80429011

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Died:
Qld State Library death ref: 19/002255.
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985. Name: James William Aldridge. Death Date: 24 May 1919. Death Place: Queensland
Father's Name: James Aldridge. Mother's Name: Mary Elizabeth Rahnsleben. Registration Place: Queensland. Registration Number: 002255
Page Number: 22

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James married Elizabeth JONES on 15 Mar 1905 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. Elizabeth was born on 29 Jun 1886 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia; died on 19 Feb 1956 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985: Name: Elizabeth Aldridge. Death Date: 19 Feb 1956. Death Place: Queensland. Father's Name: William Jones
Mother's name: Jane Edwards. Registration Year: 1956. Registration Place: Queensland. Registration number: B012176. Page Number: 22

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Notes:

Married:
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950: Name: Elizabeth Jones. Spouse Name: James William Aldridge. Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1905
Marriage Place: Queensland. Registration Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1905 Registration number: 001322
Page Number: 13292

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Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 184486269
• Emigration: July 1859, To Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on the Glentanner
• Occupation: 1879; Blacksmith in 1879 at daughter Elizabeth's birth
• Residence: 1916, Marion St, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Baptism record suggests he was born in Welwyn, Hertford, but immigration record says Middlesex as does his marriage certificate. Was this a bit of misinformation given in Australia or did his mother travel to London to give birth as that is where her parents lived? Is the best explanation.

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Residence:
As per son Frank's army record

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Died:
Details from Queensland death certificate 1927/627 012126
James Aldridge, mine manager, male, 69 years, 25 Mar 1927, of corner Plant and Paradise streets, Charters Towers, born London, Middlesex, England*, lived 68 years in Queensland.
Parents: William Aldridge, hotel keeper, mother, Elizabeth Lovett.
Marriage: Charters Towers, Queensland, aged 20, to Mary Rahnsleben.
Children: Elizabeth, 47 years, Henry, 43 years, William Charles, 40 years, Joseph Ernest, 34 years, Mabel, 29 years, Ernest Norman, 25 years. Deceased: three males, one female.
Cause: Thrombosis, cerebral artery, pneumonia.
Burial 25 Mar 1927, Charters Towers Cemetery.
Informant: Mary Aldridge, wife, corner Plant and Paradise streets, Charters Towers
*But baptized at Welwyn, Hertfordshire.

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James married Mary RAHNSLEBEN on 25 Dec 1878 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. Mary was born about 1861 in Leehausen, Altmark, Germany; died on 10 Aug 1949 in Queensland, Australia; was buried in Aug 1949 in Belgian Gardens, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 176928009

Notes:

Mrs. Mary Aldridge, aged 88 years, died on Wednesday evening, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. C. Willis, 107 Walker Street West End.
The late Mrs. Aldridge came to Australia when nine years of age.
She landed at Townsville going on to Charters Towers where she married the late James Aldridge, a well-known mine manager.
Mrs. Aldridge spent 70 years in Charters Towers. She leaves four sons, Henry, William, Joseph and Ernest, and one daughter (Mrs. Chas. Willis).
Her husband predeceased her 24 years ago.
APA citation OBITUARY. (1949, August 11). Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885-1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 20,
2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63065888

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Rahnsleben family researcher Barbara Bischoff, in an email May 2006 wrote: The Ransleben Family Tree begins with MATTHIAS I RAHNSLEBE (Rahnschlebe, Ran?leben), his first son MATTHIAS II (Thies) married first Berlin Spandau 1637 Susanna Braun, she died 1641 and he married second Maria Rosenfeld. The second son of Matthias I named JACOB RANSCHLEBEN (Ran?leben). He married 1647 Berlin/Spandau Susanna Nysicke. From these both descended all known Ransleben in Germany, USA, Canada and Brasil. In Germany are living only still 9 families, in USA much more.The origin of the name perhaps we can found in a little village near Berlin named RADENSLEBEN. The name developed from Radens-, Radensch-, Rathensleben to Ransch-, Rahnsch-, Rahns-, Ran?-, Ranss-, Rantzleben in the 17th century to Ransleben today.

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Birth:
As per marriage certificate.

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Died:
Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Mary Aldridge Death Date: 10 Aug 1949 Death Place: Queensland Father's Name: Charles Rahnsleban Mother's Name: Elizabeth Wudt Registration Year: 1949 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Number: 004016 Page Number: 19

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Notes:

Married:
1878 marriages in the district of Kennedy in the colony of Quensland. No 516/279, 25 Dec 1878 at Charters Towers, James Aldridge, bachelor, born London, Middlesex, England, blacksmith, aged 20, of Chaters Towers. Parents: William Aldridge, publican and Elizbeth Lovett and Mary Rahnsleben, spinster, born Leehausen, Altmark, Germany, domestic servant, aged 17, of Charters Towers. Parents: Charles Rahnsleben, miner and Elizabeth Wendt. Witnesses: Peter Ellis, Mary Elles.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carrier, publican, labourer
• Census: 1841, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Emigration: Jul 1859, To Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on the Glentanner

Notes:

It seems that William and Elizabeth had another son, Thomas, born around 1861 but no record for him despite being mentioned in Henry Aldridge's memoirs. He obviously was born when they lived in Drayton, Toowoomba. After William died in Australia, Elizabeth married a John Hall with whom she had at least two children: Elizabeth (1865/C001745 Hall Elizabeth daughter of John and Elizabeth Lovett) and William Joseph (1873/C000807 Hall William Joseph son of John Hall and Elizabeth Lovel)

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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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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: William Aldridge
Death date: 04/01/1861
Mother's name: Sarah Aldridge Father/parent's name: James Aldridge
Registration details: 1861/C/50

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Death cert shows William died aged 41 years of liver disease

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William married Elizabeth LOVETT on 17 Sep 1855 in Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, England, UK. Elizabeth was born on 5 Jul 1827 in Middlesex, England, UK; died on 12 Jun 1915 in District Hospital, Charters Towers, Qld, Aust. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Jul 1859, To Moreton Bay, Qld, Australia on the Glentanner

Notes:

After William died, Elizabeth married a John Hall with whom she had at least two children: Elizabeth (1865/C001745 Hall Elizabeth daughter of John and Elizabeth Lovett) and William Joseph (1873/C000807 Hall William Joseph son of John Hall and Elizabeth Lovett)
On the 1851 census there is an Elizabeth Lovett aged 23, dressmaker, born Clerkenwell, Middlesex, living with her parents John and Elizabeth at Islington, Middlesex

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Birth:
According to wedding cert, her father James was a gardener but, according to death cert, she was the daughter of James Lovett hotel keeper and Elizabeth Fox (Buck in other ancestry trees). Another confusing piece of information is that when she married, she was unable to write but, four years later when the family arrived in Australia, the entry says she could both read and write.

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Died:
Death certificate No A8188

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Notes:

Married:
1855 marriages in the Trinity Church, Marylebone, Middlesex: No 338, 17 Sep 1855, William Aldridge, full aged, widower, licensed victualler, of Norton Green, son of James Aldridge, licensed victualler and Elizabeth Lovett, full aged, spinster, of Trinity District, dau of James Lovett, gardener. Signed William Aldridge and mark of Elizabeth Lovett.

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