First record of a Gambrill Playing Cricket?

Well it just maybe.

This article is from the newspaper ‘Windsor and Richmond Gazette’ Saturday 14 January 1899. It mentions Gambrill and Gambrell – so which one is it? Match was between Blacktown and the True Blue team. Unfortunatley it doesnt have the first name initial, which would of helped alot.  This fella was a bowler whom took one wicket and scored 3 not out.

 

My Generation Surnames

 

Going back through the generations below lists the surnames. Unfortunatley i havent gone back very far at all for mums side. Just to point out the obvious and say its the male names are the same. Gambrills go back thus far to mid 1600’s. My maternal line, well, lots to do there isnt it. If you wish to have a browse around my tree go to www.bobbyfamilytree.com and you can search top right hand corner by adding a surname.

 

Generation No.	Paternal (M)	Paternal (F)	Maternal (M)	Maternal (F)
#1	Gambrill	Day	Oleksiuk	Kuper
#2	Gambrill	Liddell	Oleksiuk	Waryszczak
#3	Gambrill	Woolcock
#4	Gambrill	Ransley
#5	Gambrill	Turner
#6	Gambrill	Goldfinch
#7	Gambrill	Finn
#8	Gambrill	Elgar
#9	Gambrill	Jourdan
#10

Anna Kuper 1919-2005

My gran Anna Kuper ended up in Nurnberg 90427 (Nuremburg, Nürnberg), Bavaria, Germany (Deutschland) in August of 1940 working at a house in Wetzendorfer Straße (street) 201. She was aged 21 at the time and had been forcibly removed from her house in Kulaszne, Poland by the Nazi’s. So where is this house? Does it still exist today? Who employed her? Many questions i have had like many others decendants from those whom wouldnt talk about the war years.

I have her documents from ww2 which gave me some info to work with. A name – Hofler  (Höfler).  She was with this family the whole time during world war 2 according to the documents i have, thats around 4 and a half years or so. She would of known this family like her own, their friends, their habits, what they like to eat, what the children like to play, and so on – just like her own family that she never saw again in Poland. Outside communication, did that happen for Anna? Did she recieve or write any letters? Did she have any communication with her family back in Poland whilst she was with the Höflers? Where there any photos taken with Anna in them during these years 1940-1945 of ww2? One photo perhaps, just one. One letter, thats all i ask – was anything left behind when she left this family?

If i go back about a year and a half i did try to find out if someone is living at the Wetzendorfer Straße (street) 201 where Nan was and of course i was hoping Höfler decendants were there. I was initally helped by a kind Local (thankyou Walter) in Nurnberg whom did quite a lot for me, including door knocking and showing a photo of my gran around – Walter had told me the house is no longer there, its a car yard. Darn i thought, bugger. So what next? I made a few enquires to the Nuremberg archives regarding this address and the family that lived their. They gave me the following:

The Hoefler family residing Wetzendorfer Strasse 201 had five members:

Johann (father), born Feb. 3, 1900 in Wetzendorf, died Oct. 3, 1980, farmer by profession.

Anna, nee Boecklein (his wife), born April 10, 1893 in Wetzendorf, died March 1, 1966.

Johanna (daughter), born 1920

Konrad Friedrich (son), born 1925

Lydia Elisabeth (daughter), born 1929

The family lived at Wetzendorfer Strasse 201 since 1924. As far as it can be seen in the entries on the registration card (holding C 21/IX no. 1149), none of its members died during World War 2. Obviously the Hoeflers made their living by farming.

So i now had a bit more info and was also told that the housenumber hasnt existed since 1980 which backup up what Walter had told me.

So what next? – Skype, thats what - Höflers in Nuremberg. Most folks where understanding when i called them, i tried briefly to explain before they would hang up because they thought i was some weird english speaking person trying to sell something or preach or because they simply couldnt understand but i started to make progress. The elderly mostly didnt understand me but the younger generation, ‘no worries’ as we say in Australia – their english was good. Before long i made contact with a few of the Höflers relatives and most notibly Christina.

From what i can work out Christina is the greatgrand-daughter and so we exchanged an email or 2.  Christina had said that she thinks there is some photo’s/letters and she will look for them as well as making contact with others in her family regarding my gran – unfortunatley i’ve heard nothing from her. I did a followup email to her but no reply.

And so here i am today still trying, hoping to find something about my gran from the Höfler years. Google maps gives me photo’s and thanks to Walter whom has pointed it out as being where the car yard is ‘GTZ’ (obviously the land/house was sold for commercial)

I’m still hopefull that Christina will contact me or that another relative will see this blog.

bobbyfamilytree year in review 2010

As of now my tree has around 1700 people and 900 images (which consist of photos, documents, newspaper articles and other bits and bobs) a good increase from this time last year.

I still have over 100 more images (census, birth, death, marriage docs and others goodies) to upload to bobbyfamilytree. I’m trying (easier said than done) to grow my tree more with photos/docs etc as i beleive a tree should contain less people and more proof of what happen/photos etc.

My 2 twitter accounts (bobbyfamilytree and gambrillhistory) are doing what they are supposed to do – the occasional tweet.

I havent progressed any more on my DNA testing so thus far i only have had the one test. Not sure when i’ll take this further.

The Gambrill BMD list (Link at the very top of page) which is a concise list of photo’s, birth, marriage and death and is just something i have done to show what i have for convict William Gambrills children/grandchildren (incl. Smith, Holden and Ross) and those in his paternal line that came before him. Currently i have 139 images with a further 260ish to get. Do you have any that i dont?

During 2011 i plan to find where (make contact with current owners, and/or/Dilnot decendants from this house) convict William Gambrill stole those watches in Woodnesborough, Kent, UK.

My maternal grandmother and grandfather come from Poland and Ukraine of which i’m wanting to obtain their birth documents this year.

Thankyou to all that have contributed over the last year from little snippets of info to documents, photos etc – without you my tree would be a shadow of itself. Hoping that the folks throughout this past year that said they would get back to me with goodies will do so – you all have crucial pieces to the tree.

Ciao for 2010.

George Adams 1803-1877

Larry Adams has published a Book about the life Of George Adams from where he was born in Suffolk, UK up to his death in Bago, NSW, Australia. It is a narrative about details of his life and the times that he lived in.

George’s parents were John Adams and Sarah Lidimore.  John Married 3 times – Mary Ryan, Margaret Walmsley and Sarah Share. He had no children from the first two marriages, and 7 with Sarah, they are:  George, Henry, John, Jemima, William, Joseph and Sarah. Sarah Share had a previous marriage to George Witts. Children from this marriage were: Caroline & Anne (both died on voyage to Australia) & Thomas & Mary Ann Witts.

If you wish to purchase this book or for further info, email Larry Adams

Below is the cover (Click to see larger view)

The Morisset Saw Mill Gang of 1908.

Gay kindly sent me an article titled  ’The Morisset Saw Mill Gang of 1908′ which appeared in the Westlake Courier Wednesday 11th October 1989.  With 25 or so people in the photo i only have a few names. It turns out that this same photo is also in Beryl Mullards book Iron Horse and Iron Bark in which i have rather used this photo below as it is clearer than the one from the Westlake Courier.

So my questions is, whom are the other folks? (click on the photo for a larger view)

What i have below is what was written beneath the photo in the Westlake Courier.

William Gambrill conviction in newspaper

Looking for a mention of  William Gambrill (Gambrell) which would of appeared in the newspaper (possibly the Dover telegraph) around the time of his conviction. (Kent, UK) Details for William….

He was charged on the 5^th September 1838.

He was convicted in Kent quarter sessions on 19^th October 1838.

William sailed from Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, on 15^th May 1839.

Is anyone able to find and make of copy of where he is mentioned?

Lionel Frederick Day

Service Number for Lionel was 61874, Date of Enlistment was the 13th January 1942 at Narara, NSW. Date of Discharge 24 December 1945. Rank – Leading Aircraftman, Posting at Discharge – 5 Aircraft Depot.

Below is items of Lionels from his time during ww2.