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Can anyone help? I'm looking for descendants of George & Mary Ann Sedgwick (born abt 1845 & 1851) who lived at 3 Binks Street, Wortley in 1901 with their son Albert (born 1879 in India). Their daughter Hannah Susan (born 1872 in India) and her husband Frank Frederick Schofield were living at 5 Binks Street in the same year, and had a daughter, Louisa, born 1896. George & Mary Ann's other son, William George, migrated to Australia with his wife and children in 1912. I would greatly appreciate contact from anyone connected to any of these folks. William George Sedgwick was my Great Grandfather.

Sandie Blacklidge
Email: sb.moto@optusnet.com.au



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I really hope that someone may be able to help me. I am trying to trace my father, or to have some information about him. His name was Kenneth Golding and he married my mother, Ruth Cowen, from Newcastle, in Wortley in April, May or June of 1943. Because of the place of marriage, I am assuming that he may have come from the Wortley area. On my birth certificate in 1944, he is described as a private in the Pioneer Corps and a monumental mason. They had another daughter in 1946 and were divorced some time after that although I have not found a date for that yet. I wonder whether there are any "Goldings" in the Wortley area who may have knowledge of him.

Jeanne Golding
Email: JeanneG@southwark.ac.uk

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I'm an Aussie who is presently trying to do some family research via Ancestry.com (like so many others!). Most of my family on my paternal grandmother's branch of the family tree were either born in the Leeds area or moved there from Newark, Notts. at some stage, residing mainly in Armley, Wortley or Bramley, and some were still there when Nan visited there from Australia in 1987.

Nan was born in Leeds, but her family migrated to Sydney in 1911 - she died in 1993 (before any of us got a real interest in finding out about the family history, unfortunately) so that last living link between the two countries has gone, and sadly the only address I have is for a wife of one of her cousins, and she too is now deceased.
I'd really appreciate any advice you could give me!

Sandie Blacklidge
Email: sb.moto@optusnet.com.au


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