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Joneses of Canberra |
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"The" Tree |
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So, when did
all this Family Tree bizzo begin?
Good question. I can remember
asking Mum (Nancy) about her parents not long after Dad (Ivan, aka Snowy)
passed away, as we already |
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had a bit of info about the Jones side (more about that later) and their
convict history, what she could recall about her own mother and father. |
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Not surprisingly, she became quite emotional when she spoke of her father
(Harold), remembering the times she had with him with nothing really standing
out except when she said, |
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"He had some Repat medicine with the name Edison on it." |
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Say what?... To say the spider senses started to tingle is somewhat an
understatement. So, here's me grabbing
pen and paper and asking, "Edison?" |
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"Yes, Edison with an E", she says… "OK, that makes sense,
Edison does start with an E," says me. |
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You know that look you get when your Mum just knows you are a blithering
idiot? That's the exact same look I
got. "Not 'ison', it's 'eson',
with an E," she fired back. |
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Now it was my turn to give Mum a WTF look. That very first scrawled note is what
started what followed over the next 14 or so years. And here it is: |
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The Beginning |
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This was put on the backburner until Mum passed away in 2006 and I
happened to look for Harold via the NAA.gov.au website's WW1 records and
found this: |
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Edeson WW1 Record |
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Who the heck is this "Comfort" character? Hang on, Mum's Mum was Alice, so what
gives? Well the answer to that burning
question is what drove me into the |
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frustrations of family research, which my second attempt of gathering
info from the Victorian Library knows only too well: |
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Part One |
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Part Two |
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If Harold was a mystery with all the name changes and movements around
country South Australia and Victoria and all, what was Comfort….? |
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With the Project Harold webpages (ver 1.1 and 2.0), I received a number
of contacts from newly discovered Edeson relatives; John, Glenda and Bill,
who provided a |
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great deal of further info on the 'lost' branches of the Edeson family,
with John eventually stitching together all the clues that we'd gathered
about Comfort, finding |
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her final resting place and even producing a comprehensive documentary on
his Edesons (Comfort being a direct ancestor) and I even had a short scene in
it. |
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The Peppercorn Tree
"a lost family" |
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Honestly, the stuff these characters got up to would be enough material
to supply a multi series T.V. drama. |
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Trust me on that last T.V. drama stuff.
Perry Mason would have had a field day with Francis Edeson's Old
Bailey trail, as you can see here. |
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Trial
re-examination |
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And then you have the 2x Great-Grandparents who begin their lives
together destitute, do a "Harold" and own a couple of pubs in
Hobart Town. Talk about T.V. |
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Joseph &
Matilda |
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Not forgetting those Joneses. Such
a surpise to find a Chelsea Pensioner here, but no surprise to also discover
another internet mystery. |
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Those Joneses |
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Well, here's v3.0 finally. A v4.0
one day? Not likely. This one mainly gives details on Comfort's
resting place and the Edeson tree dating back to the early 16th Century. |
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Harold v3.0 |
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Let us not forget, the other parts to this story. Alice's father was Danish, with his own
story to tell and whose descendants from New Zealand I have contacted, along |
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Olesen DNA 1 |
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with confirmed Ancestory DNA matches and family stories etc with other
Olesen family members, with a special thanks to Erin and Judy. |
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Olesen DNA 2 |
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We shouldn't forget the "Thomas Jones and Ann Agnew - 'We weren't
lagged here.'" story researched and written by Margaret, which
eventually dragged |
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Thomas & Anne |
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me kicking and screaming into the world of Ancestory.com in 2014 for a
few years and once again for 30 days in 2021 and one of their DNA tests which
led me, some say |
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mistakenly, down a path to nowhere and a possible wrong turn, however
I'll stick with the DNA results which pointed me there and can be followed
via the Margaret |
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McDonald line through the Helen McHattie page/link on the Paternal side
of the coin. *note, that line is in a different colour, as while the DNA
gives a connection, |
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not much else does. More info on
the relevant page. |
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McDonald
DNA Link |
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As this document was created using Microsoft Exel (Office 365) and saved
as an .xlsx workbook and converted into a
.htm document webpage, some of the functions |
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will not be like many other webpages I have created. I recommend viewing on a desktop PC rather
than a laptop and certainly not a handheld device. |
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Within the following pages, those with corresponding documents will have
a link below their name. When you visit a link, you will need to use your Browser's
"Back" |
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button to return… or you could 'right click' your mouse and 'Open in a New Tab'
to view the document or photo.
Documents will be in .pdf form with any relevant |
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text highlighted so you don't go cross-eyed looking for the person in
question. Some files are large,
however there size will be shown. Some
photos will be .jpg files. |
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Web Link Page - this is pretty much all of the places I gathered info
from for this Family Tree as well as the the gumf included in 'The Family'
webpage. |
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This "should" be my final attempt at creating a
Jones/Wade/Edeson/Olesen Family Tree.
If anyone would like to continue, or start their own, an Excel
template is here: |
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Excel Tree
Template |
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Any spelling/grammar/factual boo-boos are mine and mine alone. |
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Cheers, |
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Wayne |
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25 November 2021 |
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