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From: "Jean Ashfield" <>
Subject: Fw: Warnes Family
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:55:24 +0100


Please can anyone help Lisa?
If someone could look up the 1891 census for Beccles for Charles Albert
Warnes aged 2 or 3.
Thanks
Jean

----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Hafey <>
To: <>
Sent: 03 August 1999 08:15
Subject: Warnes Family

> I am interested in finding out anything about the family of my great
> grandfather, Charles Albert Warnes, who was born on 11 June 1888 in
> Beccles, Suffolk. He was the eldest of six children, 2 boys and 4
> girls. The only other names I have are his brother Sidney, and 2 of his
> sisters, May and Florence. I don't know anything else. After Beccles,
> the family moved to Norwich, where his sisters married and some of their
> family remains there today. May married a man named Percy (don't know
> last name), and they had a daughter, Vera. Vera had four sons, and
> still lives in Norwich.
>
> Charles himself spent some time prior to WW1 in Canada, married over
> there, but his wife died. He then fought in WW1 in the Middle East,
> returned to England, where he married my great grandmother (true name
> unknown to me, but fondly referred to as "Nellie"). He and Nellie then
> emigrated to Newcastle NSW Australia, sometime prior to 1922, when my
> grandmother Elizabeth Joan Warnes (Stanley) was born. Charles worked in
> the new Australian steel industry. Nellie died in Newcastle in about
> 1925, and Charles married Evangeline Arnold in 1926. They then moved to
> Wollongong NSW. Charles and Evangeline had no children. He died in
> 1959 in Wollongong.
>
> If anyone has any idea about Charles' parents, or any info about his
> siblings etc, I would be most grateful. I am researching my
> grandmother's family for her, because she has no idea how to go about
> it, and at 77 she'd like to know a bit more about them before she
> dies. I'd like to know too, so as to be able to pass it down to my
> daughter.
>
> Regards
>
> Lisa Hafey
> Sydney NSW Australia
>
>

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