From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Tue Mar 3 15:23:41 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:23:41 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] The Immigration Bridge Message-ID: <200903031523.41510.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> The article about Thomas Boykett is now visible. Rather than paste the long link (which doesn't seem to take you there, anyway) do this: Go to http://www.immigrationbridge.com.au/ Click on "Migration Stories", then on the Search link. Typing in just "Boykett" will give you two matches; Ab Stephenson whom I mentioned previously and our Thomas. If you type in more, remember to change the drop-down menu to "All words." We can put his name on the handrail for $110. If I ever make a profit from the book, I was thinking of using that. Then it will be from everybody. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Wed Mar 18 14:57:31 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:57:31 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] Upgrade to site. Message-ID: <200903181457.32007.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> A new version of Phpgedview came out at the end of January. To clear up some inconsistencies, I deleted the old site and set it up afresh. It isn't basically any different. All use accounts are retained - I deleted a duplicate account. I still have to reinstall the plugins: Research Assistant: you can keep notes in your User Account of anything you want to follow up. Googlemap: When co-ordinates are given for a place, you can call up a map showing where it is. Gallery: The picture gallery the program uses is called Gallery2, but it needs to be installed. This will replace the primitive gallery I put up years ago. The first attempt looked good. It tries to be hacker-proof. When it is running, there will be a button in the row across the top, and the gallery shows in the lower portion of the page. I am still working on the book, and will be for some time. Joan McEwing could write well, but had a very romantic approach, which was fine until facts became available. It was fascinating to read. If I am not careful, my legal interests will intrude too much. Benjamin Boothby, who got Thomas out here, was the reason for an important British Act in our constitutional history. The Thorogood case on church rates may not justify the detail I have given it. So far, the book doesn't read like somebody's family tree program, printed out and put in a cover, as so many do. I wanted to avoid that. A recent draft is still on the site at http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/boykettbook.pdf, but I am not uploading every change. Most changes are cosmetic. I can't push myself to start the next chapter. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Sat Mar 21 18:40:52 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:40:52 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] William Robinson Boothby Message-ID: <200903211840.53029.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> William Boothby, a son of Benjamin Boothby, was best man at William Boykett's wedding. I knew that he became Sheriff, but he is also important in relation to the development of our electoral system: see http://www.enrollingthepeople.com/boothby/boothby.htm I have written to the author in the hope of getting an authoritative reply on whether both families travelled out together. I doubt it, but the fact that Joan McEwing said it, is not a sufficient ground for disbelieving it. A judge once said: If a man says he didn't go to Rome on the 15th and you prove that he is not to be believed, you do not thereby prove that he did go to Rome on the 15th. At the moment, I have no hard evidence either way. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Sun Mar 22 13:23:22 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:23:22 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] William Robinson Boothby In-Reply-To: <200903211840.53029.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> References: <200903211840.53029.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> Message-ID: <200903221323.22335.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> I have my answer: "According to p97 of 'The Robinsons of Chesterfield', the Boohtbys arrived on 28 August 1853 which is, according to your site, 13 days after the Gipsy." The only reference to "The Robinsons of Chesterfield" that I can find is to "Pill Boxes and Bandages - A documentary biography of the first two generations of the Robinsons of Chesterfield, 1939-1916" about Sir Robert Robinson, "among the last of the great organic chemists in the chemical tradition, achieving brilliant results with extremely simple apparatus," who was a professor at Sydney. There must be a family connection somewhere. Doug. On Saturday 21 March 2009 6:40:52 pm Doug Laidlaw wrote: > William Boothby, a son of Benjamin Boothby, was best man at William > Boykett's wedding. I knew that he became Sheriff, but he is also important > in relation to the development of our electoral system: see > > http://www.enrollingthepeople.com/boothby/boothby.htm > > I have written to the author in the hope of getting an authoritative reply > on whether both families travelled out together. I doubt it, but the fact > that Joan McEwing said it, is not a sufficient ground for disbelieving it. > A judge once said: If a man says he didn't go to Rome on the 15th and you > prove that he is not to be believed, you do not thereby prove that he did > go to Rome on the 15th. At the moment, I have no hard evidence either way. > > Doug. > > _______________________________________________ > boykett-announce mailing list > boykett-announce at douglaidlaw.net > http://douglaidlaw.net/mailman/listinfo/boykett-announce_douglaidlaw.net From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Mon Mar 23 22:28:26 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:28:26 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] 1851 Census - Robert King (Hannah's brother.) Message-ID: <200903232228.26393.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> At a later date, thomas Boykett Jnr stayed with Robert after his discharge from the Army and before finding board elsewhere. The 1851 record is a good example of mortality at that time, and alsoi a good example of the quality of Ancestry's transcription (or rather, absence of quality.) Robert, aged 37, has a 1 year old boy, but no wife. A married woman from Hammersmith was present. Ancestry read her relationship as "Hebman" (whatever that is) and Servant has been crossed out in the Occupation field. She is a Wet Nurse. Robert's wife must have died. Also present was Robert's sister Mary Ann Downer, a widow aged 46, with her two children. The girl is Letitia; her name is transcribed as "Clitia." The handwriting is a bit difficult to read, but it is still good copperplate. There was one servant girl of 14. Also present was Robert and Hannah's mother Hannah, aged 68 and widowed. We know that Hannah had died in 1833. Robert and Mary Ann were both widowed (unless Robert was separated.) That makes 3 widowed siblings. Robert was born at St Alphege, where Hannah was buried. Perhaps other family members were buried there. I have only Hannah's record. William Boykett's youngest child, Hannah Elizabeth, born in 1861 at Geelong, died in 1883, the year in which her only child Lucy was born. Lucy was brought up by Joan McEwing's parents, and there is a photo of her with Gus. That makes 3 women from among the few I have mentioned, who probably died as a result of childbirth: both Hannahs and Robert's wife. I have the Googlemap plugin up and running, but in the interim, by sending the same GEDCOM to several sites, all the latitudes and longitudes have been stripped from it. I get them from an astrology site, which doesn't mention Holloway. According to Wikipedia, Holloway is part of Islington. The Image Gallery is my next task. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Sat Mar 28 23:14:08 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:14:08 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] Picture Gallery Message-ID: <200903282314.08254.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> I am having a few teething problems with the Gallery. So far, I have uploaded 5 photos: 1. "Clocktower" I have called it. It should be "Clock House". It is the Selby mansion at Enfield in 1908, with THB's daughter Caroline at about 75, the oldest person there, with children and grandchildren. I have all their names. 2. Gus and Sarah Madden, Joan McEwing's parents with Lucy. I mentioned her in my e-mail on Monday. 3. The 3 shots from Wales of Rev. Bunn's church at Abergavenny. In the row of buttons along the top of the family tree site at http://www.douglaidlaw.net/phpgedview/ there is a new one near the right hand end, called Gallery. Clicking on that should take you to the main Gallery with one thumbnail. Click on that to see them all. Eventually we can have several sub-galleries like that one. If you see an error message instead, please try to copy it exactly and send it to me. You should be able to drag your mouse over it to highlight it, then press Ctrl + C together, then paste it into Notepad, or directly into an email. The keystroke for Paste is Ctrl + V, or it will be in the Edit menu. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Sun Mar 29 16:09:00 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:09:00 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] United Reformed Church; Dr Williams's Library. Message-ID: <200903291709.00537.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> I had noticed that Rev. Bunn's Church at Abergavenny now calls itself a United Reformed Church. I thought that it must have been taken over by a small denomination, but the e-mails I received from their Archivist were very much to the contrary effect. The United Reformed Church was formed in 1972, by a merger between the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales. So in England, all Congregational Churches are now United Reformed. When I found the Congregational Library, it was on a Web site relating to Dr. Williams's Library. I had assumed that they were the same. Again I was wrong. The Library (http://www.dwlib.co.uk/index.html) was set up under a Trust under the Will of Dr Daniel Williams, a Presbyterian Minister. The best history I have found was on a German site: http://www.b2i.de/fabian?Dr._Williams%27s_Library Dr Williams died in 1716. His will of 1711 directed a Trust to be set up with 23 Trustees and a life of 2000 years, to service the Nonconformist denominations. From the Trust's own pages: "The main areas supported by the Trustees today are the education of ministers of ?the Three Denominations? and the Library, with the Library now the most important public work of the Trust. " The Three Denominations are Baptist, Congregationalist and Presbyterian. Minutes of the Anti-Church Rate movement were published in a Baptist Magazine. The Library first opened in 1729, in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate. After several moves, it is now at 14 Gordon Square, London. It houses Dr Williams' own personal library and the manuscript archives of the denominations. It contains very few records of interest to family historians. In 1743 the Dissenters set up their own Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages at "the Dissenters' Library" (no doubt Dr Williams' Library.) Originally for Dissenters within a 12 mile radius of London, it later came to accept anybody who was willing to pay the fee. On 1 July 1837 the civil registers opened for business, and the Dissenters' registry closed down in December of that year. That register is now part of the Nonconformist Records at the National Archives. Go to http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ and click on the RG5 link on the right-hand side for the story. It occurred to me that since Thomas was a committed Congregationalist from before his marriage, he might have registered his children's births on that Register. Unfortunately, the only Boykett record a search turned up was Caroline's birth, and that is really a parish baptismal record, not an entry in the Register. Doug. From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au Sun Mar 29 16:18:32 2009 From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:18:32 +1100 Subject: [Boykett-announce] Dr Williams's Library. Message-ID: <200903291718.32507.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> I forgot to mention that the Congregational Library, originally at Finsbury Circus, is now part of Dr Williams's Library, but seems to have a room of its own. Doug.