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From: "Trish Jensen" <>
Subject: Re: [ANS] Some answers
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:57:13 +1000
References: <DHELLEABHEKFOBIKDAHPCEJFCFAA.mcheek@bigpond.net.au>


David.
I have been on a similar search my self and it is very frustrating.
My Lilly Fawkner arrived in Australia to meet her father , who had arrived
with new wife some years before.
I could find nothing at all on Lilly until I ask D.O.Cs
They told me she had given birth to Elsie Madaline Fawkner in the Benevolent
Soc hospital. 1892
They gave me permission to search their records at the Mitchell Lib.
There I found that Elsie had been put into a home in Bathurst at 9 months.
While searching I also found that the father was a Thomas Baxter from Sydney
[Tobaconest].
The records show that Lilly was fostered out a number of times to different
people but always put back in the home[I imagain that they used her for
cheap labour.] She left when she turned 18 in 1910
Have never found anything again on either woman her in Australia
If this sounds like any of your family listers, I would love to hear from
you
Trish in Sydney

> Dear MargM & List readers
>
> Many thanks for your responses which as usual have thrown up more
questions
> while attempting to answer, nevertheless, perhaps I can now be more
specific
> since the location(s) have been addressed....
>
> What happened to Lillian & baby????
> Lillian went home to her mother apparently and not a word was breathed,
she
> was a spinster until the age of 42 when she got married (without children)
> and died in 1974 in Newcastle....(her 2 nieces remember her without any
> scandal, with the comments Aunty Lil wouldn't have done that???? such is
> life)
>
> What happened to the baby Eileen Miriam Bourke CHEEK????
> Does the answer lie in what was "Holmleigh", was it a home for unwed girls
> who had their babies adopted out immediately or what??? that is my
> conundrum??? Holmleigh on Google does not bring up anything that I can
see
> to be pertinent???
>
> Has any lister been involved in trying to track down an adoptee??? or is
> this subject still taboo or too hot to answer???
>
> Was the above one of the reasons for the late registration, because the
baby
> by then had assumed another name???
>
> Any and all help greatly appreciated (I have been able to track my CHEEK
> roots back to 1563 but can't find out much for 90 years ago)
>
> Happy researching
> David Cheek - Adelaide - Australia
> Virus checked with Norton AntiVirus 2004
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MargM [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:02 PM
> To: David Cheek;
> Subject: Re: [ANS] New Lister - CHEEK- Some answers
>
>
> <snip>
>
> > Mother's age 16 years, who was born at
> Waverley, Sydney
>
> What happened to Lillian and her baby Eileen
> ?
>
>
> > Informant
> > the mother whose address is "Holmleigh",
> Carey Street, Marrickville, Sydney
> > another informant at the same address....
>
> > Where is Carey Street, Marrickville???
>
> The spelling now is Cary and its in South
> Marrickville and is a left hand turn off
> Illawarra Road , a few street south from
> M'Ville Railway Station, not far north from
> Sydney Airport
>
> >
> > What is/was "Holmleigh"???
>
> Dont know
> >
> > Why the delay in registering (is it
> pertinent)
>
> Hard to say
>
>
> bye
> MargM
> Sydney List Admin
>
>
>
>
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