Frank Victor ALDRIDGE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Tailor
• _EYEC: Brown
• _HAIR: Brown
• _HEIG: 5ft 11 1/2ins
• Residence: 1916, Marion St, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
• _MILT: 1917; 7th Australian Machine Gun Co., Australian Army

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Frank Victor Aldridge Birth date: 20/03/1895
Mother's name: Mary Rahusleben Father/parent's name: James Aldridge
Registration details: 1895/C/6533

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_MILT:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/
Item details for: B2455, ALDRIDGE F V
Aldridge Frank Victor : SERN 591 : POB Charters Towers QLD : POE Charters Towers QLD : NOK F Aldridge James
Citation NAA: B2455, ALDRIDGE F V Item barcode 3024581
Location Canberra Access status Open
Date of decision 25 Nov 2006
Physical format PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS (allocated at series level)
Records authority class number 3891
Date registered 28 Jul 1997

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From Commonwealth Graves Commission website:
Name: ALDRIDGE, FRANK VICTOR Initials: F V Nationality: Australian Rank: Private Regiment: Australian Machine Gun Corps Unit Text: 7th Coy.
Date of Death: 20/09/1917 Service No: 591 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 31
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

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Died:
Private ALDRIDGE, FRANK VICTOR
Service Number 591
Died 20/09/1917
7th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1597334/aldridge,-frank-victor/

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Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 184486269
• Emigration: July 1859, To Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on the Glentanner
• Occupation: 1879; Blacksmith in 1879 at daughter Elizabeth's birth
• Residence: 1916, Marion St, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Baptism record suggests he was born in Welwyn, Hertford, but immigration record says Middlesex as does his marriage certificate. Was this a bit of misinformation given in Australia or did his mother travel to London to give birth as that is where her parents lived? Is the best explanation.

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Residence:
As per son Frank's army record

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Died:
Details from Queensland death certificate 1927/627 012126
James Aldridge, mine manager, male, 69 years, 25 Mar 1927, of corner Plant and Paradise streets, Charters Towers, born London, Middlesex, England*, lived 68 years in Queensland.
Parents: William Aldridge, hotel keeper, mother, Elizabeth Lovett.
Marriage: Charters Towers, Queensland, aged 20, to Mary Rahnsleben.
Children: Elizabeth, 47 years, Henry, 43 years, William Charles, 40 years, Joseph Ernest, 34 years, Mabel, 29 years, Ernest Norman, 25 years. Deceased: three males, one female.
Cause: Thrombosis, cerebral artery, pneumonia.
Burial 25 Mar 1927, Charters Towers Cemetery.
Informant: Mary Aldridge, wife, corner Plant and Paradise streets, Charters Towers
*But baptized at Welwyn, Hertfordshire.

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James married Mary RAHNSLEBEN on 25 Dec 1878 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. Mary was born about 1861 in Leehausen, Altmark, Germany; died on 10 Aug 1949 in Queensland, Australia; was buried in Aug 1949 in Belgian Gardens, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 176928009

Notes:

Mrs. Mary Aldridge, aged 88 years, died on Wednesday evening, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. C. Willis, 107 Walker Street West End.
The late Mrs. Aldridge came to Australia when nine years of age.
She landed at Townsville going on to Charters Towers where she married the late James Aldridge, a well-known mine manager.
Mrs. Aldridge spent 70 years in Charters Towers. She leaves four sons, Henry, William, Joseph and Ernest, and one daughter (Mrs. Chas. Willis).
Her husband predeceased her 24 years ago.
APA citation OBITUARY. (1949, August 11). Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885-1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 20,
2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63065888

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Rahnsleben family researcher Barbara Bischoff, in an email May 2006 wrote: The Ransleben Family Tree begins with MATTHIAS I RAHNSLEBE (Rahnschlebe, Ran?leben), his first son MATTHIAS II (Thies) married first Berlin Spandau 1637 Susanna Braun, she died 1641 and he married second Maria Rosenfeld. The second son of Matthias I named JACOB RANSCHLEBEN (Ran?leben). He married 1647 Berlin/Spandau Susanna Nysicke. From these both descended all known Ransleben in Germany, USA, Canada and Brasil. In Germany are living only still 9 families, in USA much more.The origin of the name perhaps we can found in a little village near Berlin named RADENSLEBEN. The name developed from Radens-, Radensch-, Rathensleben to Ransch-, Rahnsch-, Rahns-, Ran?-, Ranss-, Rantzleben in the 17th century to Ransleben today.

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Birth:
As per marriage certificate.

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Died:
Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Mary Aldridge Death Date: 10 Aug 1949 Death Place: Queensland Father's Name: Charles Rahnsleban Mother's Name: Elizabeth Wudt Registration Year: 1949 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Number: 004016 Page Number: 19

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Notes:

Married:
1878 marriages in the district of Kennedy in the colony of Quensland. No 516/279, 25 Dec 1878 at Charters Towers, James Aldridge, bachelor, born London, Middlesex, England, blacksmith, aged 20, of Chaters Towers. Parents: William Aldridge, publican and Elizbeth Lovett and Mary Rahnsleben, spinster, born Leehausen, Altmark, Germany, domestic servant, aged 17, of Charters Towers. Parents: Charles Rahnsleben, miner and Elizabeth Wendt. Witnesses: Peter Ellis, Mary Elles.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carrier, publican, labourer
• Census: 1841, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Emigration: Jul 1859, To Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on the Glentanner

Notes:

It seems that William and Elizabeth had another son, Thomas, born around 1861 but no record for him despite being mentioned in Henry Aldridge's memoirs. He obviously was born when they lived in Drayton, Toowoomba. After William died in Australia, Elizabeth married a John Hall with whom she had at least two children: Elizabeth (1865/C001745 Hall Elizabeth daughter of John and Elizabeth Lovett) and William Joseph (1873/C000807 Hall William Joseph son of John Hall and Elizabeth Lovel)

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Census:
In the 1841 census James and Sarah are at the Brickwall Hotel, Digswell, Welwyn, with the following children:
George 20, William ?, Sarah 16, Henry 15, Mary ?, Edward 5

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Census:
1851 census for Fore St, Brick Wall, Welwyn:
William Aldridge, head, aged 32, beershopkeeper, born Stevenage
Mary A Aldridge, wife, aged 38, born Welwyn
Henry Aldridge, son, aged 6, scholar, born Welwyn
William Smith stepson, unm, aged 16, app shoemaker, born Marleybone, Middlesex
William Smith, father-in-law, aged 66, pauper (formerly thatcher), born Offley, Herts

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: William Aldridge
Death date: 04/01/1861
Mother's name: Sarah Aldridge Father/parent's name: James Aldridge
Registration details: 1861/C/50

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Death cert shows William died aged 41 years of liver disease

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William married Elizabeth LOVETT on 17 Sep 1855 in Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, England, UK. Elizabeth was born on 5 Jul 1827 in Middlesex, England, UK; died on 12 Jun 1915 in District Hospital, Charters Towers, Qld, Aust. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Jul 1859, To Moreton Bay, Qld, Australia on the Glentanner

Notes:

After William died, Elizabeth married a John Hall with whom she had at least two children: Elizabeth (1865/C001745 Hall Elizabeth daughter of John and Elizabeth Lovett) and William Joseph (1873/C000807 Hall William Joseph son of John Hall and Elizabeth Lovett)
On the 1851 census there is an Elizabeth Lovett aged 23, dressmaker, born Clerkenwell, Middlesex, living with her parents John and Elizabeth at Islington, Middlesex

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Birth:
According to wedding cert, her father James was a gardener but, according to death cert, she was the daughter of James Lovett hotel keeper and Elizabeth Fox (Buck in other ancestry trees). Another confusing piece of information is that when she married, she was unable to write but, four years later when the family arrived in Australia, the entry says she could both read and write.

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Died:
Death certificate No A8188

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Notes:

Married:
1855 marriages in the Trinity Church, Marylebone, Middlesex: No 338, 17 Sep 1855, William Aldridge, full aged, widower, licensed victualler, of Norton Green, son of James Aldridge, licensed victualler and Elizabeth Lovett, full aged, spinster, of Trinity District, dau of James Lovett, gardener. Signed William Aldridge and mark of Elizabeth Lovett.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Publican
• Census: 1841, Brick Wall Beer House, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Brick Wall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England, UK
• Census: 1861, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Notes:

In January 1869, a few months before he died, James was given a three-month jail term for receiving stolen goods (two bags of beans).

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Birth:
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: William Aldridge Gender: Male Baptism Date: 19 Dec 1819
Baptism Place: Stevenage, Hertford, England
Father: James Aldridge Mother: Sarah
FHL Film Number: 569760

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Census:
1841 census for Brickwall beer house, Welwyn
http://tinyurl.com/nnyj7h
Class: HO107; Piece 437; Book: 9; Civil Parish: Welwyn; County: Hertfordshire; Enumeration District: 2; Folio: 37; Page: 15; Line: 6; GSU roll: 288826.
James Aldridge, aged 45, publican
Sarah Aldridge, aged 40
James Aldridge, aged 20, ag lab
William Aldridge, aged 20
Sarah Aldridge, aged 15
Henry Aldridge, aged 15
Mary Ann Aldridge, aged 7
Edward Aldridge, aged 5

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Census:
1851 census for Brick Wall, Welwyn:
James Aldridge, head, married, aged 57, beerhousekeeper, born Gravely, Herts
Sarah Aldridge, wife, aged 53, grocer, born Stevenage
Mary Aldridge, dau, unm, aged 17, born Hatfield , deaf, dumb & blind
Edward Aldridge, son, aged 15, ag lab, born Welwyn

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Census:
1861 census for Brickwall, Welwyn:
James Aldridge, head, married, aged 64, grocer and beer seller, born Gravely, Herts
Sarah Aldridge, wife, aged 63, born Stevenage, Herts

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Buried:
Burials in the parish of Welwyn in the county of Hertford in the year 1869. No 788 James Aldridge of Brick Wall, July 7, aged 73*.
*Question on age as he was about 76. No other record found for a James Aldridge born between 1790-1800 in Hertfordshire

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James married Sarah COCK on 28 Oct 1816 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK. Sarah was born about 1798 in Stevenage, Hertford, England, UK; died in Mar 1871 in Hatfield, Hertford, England, UK; was buried on 26 Mar 1871 in Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK
• Census: 1861, Welwyn, Hertford, England, UK

Notes:

Sarah the daughter of Richard Cock and Sarah

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Birth:
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Sarah Cock Sex: Female Christening Date: 9 Sep 1798 Christening Place:
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England Christening Place (Original): Stevenage, Hertford, England
Father's Name: Richard Cock Mother's Name: Sarah

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Died:
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 Name: Sarah Aldridge
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1798 Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1871 Age at Death: 73
Registration district: Hatfield Inferred County: Hertfordshire Volume: 3a
Page: 244
Source Information:
FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

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Buried:
Burials in the parish of Welwyn in the county of Herts in the year 1871: No 845 Sarah Aldridge, of Welwyn, March 26th aged 73

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Notes:

Married:
Marriages solemnized in the parish of Stevenage in the County of Hertford in the year 1816. No 6, James Aldridge of this parish and Sarah Cock of this parish, by banns, this 28th Oct, 1816 by H.Baker, record. Witnesses Thomas Cooper and Mary Ann Cooper.
Banns 1816, No 449, The banns of marriage between James Aldridge and Sarah Cock, both of this parish, were duly published, Oct 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th, 1816, H.Baker, rector.

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