Cecil Henry ALDRIDGE

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• _FGRAVE: 176928000

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Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Cecil Henry Aldridge Birth date: 04/01/1907 Mother's name: Mary Ellen Hennessy Father/parent's name: Henry Aldridge
Registration details: 1907/C/6600

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Cecil Henry Aldridge Death date: 19/01/1966 Mother's name: Mary Ellen Hennessy Father/parent's name: Henry Aldridge
Registration details: 1966/C/1384

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Cecil married Atherley Marcella HYNES on 3 Dec 1938 in Queensland, Australia. Atherley was born on 4 Jan 1912 in Mildura, Victoria, Australia; died on 5 May 1961 in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Marriage registration: Cecil Henry Aldridge Marriage date: 03/12/1938 Spouse's name: Atherley Marcella Hynes
Registration details: 1938/C/5163

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Accountant
• Residence: 1913, 1914, Plant St, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

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Henry Aldridge, who died at Townsville on November 24, was a well-known northern identity, the second son of James and Mary Aldridge, both noted North Queensland pioneers, resident for many years at Charters Towers.
Prior to his retirement some years ago, owing to failing sight, he was mainly associated in various accountancy, secretarial and managerial capacities, with Charters Towers Stock Exchange (in its hey-day) and latterly in wholesale timber interests.
He is survived by his widow, son, three daughters, four grand sons and one grand daughter, three brothers, William, Joseph and Ernest Aldridge, and one sister, Mrs Charles Willis.
APA citation OBITUARY. (1954, November 26). Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885-1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 20, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62535933

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Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Henry Aldridge Birth date: 03/09/1883
Mother's name: Mary Rahnsleben Father/parent's name: James Aldridge
Registration details: 1883/C/3987

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Residence:
Found on electoral roll at Plant St, Charters Towers in 1913 and 1914 presumably with brother James

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Henry Aldridge Death date: 24/11/1954 Mother's name: Mary Rahnsleben Father/parent's name: James
Registration details:1954/C/5730

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Henry married Mary Ellen HENNESSY on 23 Nov 1904 in Queensland, Australia. Mary was born on 9 Feb 1885 in Queensland, Australia; died on 17 Jul 1962 in Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au: 1885 B33834 Mary Ellen Hennessy dau of John Hennessy and Mary Ellen Fitzgibbons

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Died:
https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au: 1962 C4606 Mary Ellen Aldridge dau of John Hennessy and Mary Ellen Fitz-Gibbon

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Notes:

Married:
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950: Name: Henry Aldridge. Spouse Name: Mary Ellen Hennessy. Marriage Date: 23 Nov 1904
Marriage Place: Queensland. Registration Place: Queensland. Registration Year: 1904. Registration number: 001366
Page Number: 270

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• _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

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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]

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• _FGRAVE: 176928009

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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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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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