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19-06-10, 21:39
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Impossible man number 1
I have 2 clergy who I can find almost nothing about! Any sightings would be very useful.
The first is Gustavus Adolphus Killger He was licenced as curate St Paul Bethnal Green 1/6/1874 Licenced as assistant curate Clerkinwell 10/10/1876 Possibly born c1834, place unknown.
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 When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells (Marcel Proust) Christine 
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19-06-10, 22:13
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Ancestry has a Gustav Killger travelling from Amsterdam to New York in 1892, age 60, occupation Missioner. Native country England, last residence St Louis, destination New York.
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19-06-10, 22:15
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Oh, but then there is an entry in the Boston Passenger Lists for what looks like the same man in 1895 and his occupation is Machinist! I thought Missioner was a variant of Missionary, but maybe not.
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19-06-10, 23:51
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On the 1881 there is a Gustavus A Killger (transcribed on Ancestry as Gustavous A Killgn) aged 48 born Germany, clergyman, living as a boarder at 65 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Southwark.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?...=&pid=20602629
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20-06-10, 02:58
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Ooooo! Thanks!
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22-06-10, 19:43
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FMP has the Clergy List for 1896, but nothing comes up for that surname - and surname is a mandatory field. It allows "variants" but doesn't seem to allow for wildcards.
Might be worth a quick look tomorrow, if you don't have a sub - so long as you plan your 90 minutes carefully. Christine
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23-06-10, 01:46
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I suppose you've already seen these two snippets?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...=&oq=&gs_rfai= He was in Australia in 1868, because there's a notice in the SMH saying that if he doesn't come and collect his luggage, it'll be sold: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del...chTerm=killger
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23-06-10, 02:10
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23-06-10, 08:54
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Ooo thanks Mary, that fills him out a bit more.
This is part of a project to get the Cable Clerical Index transcribed and online. The late Ken Cable and his wife Leonie spent many years building up a database of all C of E clergy who served in Australia from earliest times. There is a small group including Leonie Cable who are working to fill out/confirm some family history on them all and get them transcribed from handwritten cards into a form where they can be uploaded to the internet. I am doing the filling out, and some are easier than others! We are attempting to get parents for the clergyman and his wife.
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells (Marcel Proust) Christine
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23-06-10, 09:03
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Ah, I wondered where you'd got the information about him from. There are a couple of cuttings on the Gale newspaper site with brief details of the appointments you mentioned.
If you have any contacts in Sydney who can visit the archives, I should think his naturalisation record will be useful.
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