Mary W Dick - Genealogists' Forum

Anstey Nomad · #1 10-07-12, 14:34

Mary W Dick is on the 1901 census with her family in Oxhey near Watford.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=7706637

The census says she and her younger brother Alan were born in Ealing. His birth comes up on Free BMD in Brentford, which makes sense. We can’t find hers on Free BMD (Ancestry) or in the Indexes.

Their older sister Dorothy was born in Australia and we have her birth/baptism and death.

We have just spent a jolly two weeks or so finding living descendants of the wrong Mary W Dick.

Can anyone help to identify the right Mary’s birth so we can send for the certificate and get the middle name (which will be a surname) which will define her?

At least this is not the Bodycotes.

AN

Merry · #2 10-07-12, 14:46

Are you sure the W will be for a surname?

Births Sep 1896
Dick Mary Winifred Brentford 3a 107

Sue from Southend · #3 10-07-12, 15:52

Mary Winifred's baptism is on Ancestry. 14 Sept 1896 Northfields St John, Ealing (b 30 Aug) Parents John and Elizabeth, his occ Mechanical Draughtsman. Address 36 Hartington Road.

Can't see one for Alan though to compare.

Anstey Nomad · #4 10-07-12, 15:55

Er no, not any more.

Two of us have looked at that quarter this afternoon and missed it. We were expecting a Scottish naming pattern, but obviously not on this occasion.

Thank you so much Merry.

If only the Bodycotes were as easy.

AN

Anstey Nomad · #5 10-07-12, 15:56

Oh and thank you Sue. That's them.

AN

Anstey Nomad · #6 10-07-12, 17:50

Now the next question:

John and Elizabeth Dick were married in 1890 and seem to have gone to South Australia more or less immediately. Dorothy Allen Dick, their older daughter, was born there in 1891.

They then came back to England and in 1901 they were in Oxhey, Watford, but there is no sign of the family (that we can see) on the 1911.

Best guess is that they went back to Australia, but we aren't having a lot of luck finding out when and where.

There is a Mary W Dick who died in Tasmania in 1964 aged 80, but the one we are looking for was only 68 at the time. I can understand lying about your age as a principle, but 12 years in the wrong direction?

There was another Mary W Dick in NSW (m Styman), but she is Mary Wilson Dick.

Any ideas anyone?

AN

Merry · #7 10-07-12, 18:36

I looked at this before you asked!!

I couldn't see any followup for any of the three children in the UK.

John and Elizabeth were too difficult to check, but if the children were not here my guess is they were not either.

I couldn't find them in 1911 either.

I saw the incoming shipping record in 1895, but coudn't find an outgoing one after 1901. There might be somethig with initials only .....might need to have another look.

Anstey Nomad · #8 10-07-12, 18:39

Where did you see the incoming shipping record?

AN

kiterunner · #9 10-07-12, 18:47

Dorothy Allen Dick died in Victoria, Australia, in 1964, as I'm sure you already know, AN, but do you have info on when she went back to Australia (after 1901)? Just wondering if her family could have gone with her?

Anstey Nomad · #10 10-07-12, 18:50

Ah, got it now.

Looks promising. However, if I read this right there are two daughters, which I think implies that Dorothy had a younger sister who subsequently died.

Back to the BMD.

AN