back at ya, VIV ...
thanks for being one of the many who contributed to the new-look list
over the last few months ...
without people chattering and risking making fools of themselves we'd
have no list ...
just a lot of people watching and waiting for someone to make it happen ...
By the way, my free trial period with Ancestry is nearly up and I
finally began to make it talk my language last night.
I've opted for the world version for the first outing as I've got these
bods popping off to the States on me.
Yesterday I mentioned the diary-date book entry:
> "Bessie and Henry left Melbourne for America January 21st, 1892" [Ann
Pearce's diary-date book]
Well there was no way they were going to be found UNTIL I looked for
'Bessie' instead of 'Elizabeth'
Up she popped with her two daughters in California on the 1900 Census
without any Henry.
The other interesting thing was that the second daughter who was said to
be born 7 months after they sailed did exist and was born on the stated
date BUT was called 'Mable Ann Scott' and not the 'Elsie Holly Scott'
that I'd been given.
Both Henry and Bessie died in Feb and Dec 1908 as suggested in the info
I'd been given AND my hunch that Henry Scott was one of the original SDA
missionaries was correct.
This is what was copied from an obit at the time and posted on the
'findagrave' site:
"Died near Thermal, Cal., Feb. 27, 1908, my brother, Henry Scott, aged
50 years, 4 months, and 9 days. He was born in Omro, Wis.; came to the
Coast in 1880, and was employed on the Signs of the Times something over
a year; entered the Healdsburg College in its second year, and there
embraced the message of the soon-coming Saviour. When the Pacific Press
Publishing Association opened its branch office in Australia, he
connected with the work in that field. On his return to California, he
continued with the Pacific Press till about six years ago, when, owing
to the failing health of his wife, he was obliged to leave the office.
Two brothers, two sisters, the wife, and two daughters are left to mourn
the loss of a kind and loving brother, and an affectionate husband and
father, but they sorrow not as those without hope." -L. A. Scott (From
the Review and Herald, May 28, 1908)
Not too bad for an Ancestry virgin!
Cheers, ROB!! RNelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 23/12/2016 1:43 PM, Vivienne Garforth wrote:
Thanks for that Rob,
I love your sense of humour and your way with words. You gave me quite a
chuckle, poor John.........
Have a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Vivienne
