Author: Ian Elsom

Rio Overheated

Rain in Port Elizabeth hast stopped play in the Third Test a few times in the last couple of days. Summer in South Africa isn’t all that hot. Cape Town warmed a quarter of a degree centigrade last week but the running average for the first 49 days of the meteorological year is only 0.28°C above Pre-Industrial.

In Australia, there has been welcome rain. News reports say it has put out some bushfires. Sydney cooled 0.26°C in seven days, falling to 1.05 degrees above Pre-Industrial, almost bang on the IPCC’s projection for the year.

In South America –

Those who were at Santa Cruz station, in Rio de Janeiro, around 12:45 PM on Saturday, felt as if the temperature was 54.8ºC, slightly over 130ºF. This was the Heat Index registered, on Saturday, January 11th, in the Marvelous City.

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 I get my mean temperature data from Santos Dumont Airport, an hour’s drive from Santa Cruz, (about 60 km). The high there on January 11th was 91°Fahrenheit. I suppose it may have “felt” a lot warmer. January in Rio has been much cooler so far this year than last.

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Since Week 4 this southern summer, Rio has been bumping along the Pre-Industrial Baseline. Quite a change from 2019 when it ended the summer on the dreaded 2°C above P-I.

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A Passage to America

Mistaken Mary Ann Hemington (Thursday’s post) had a younger brother, John Thomas. He was two years younger but made an honest woman of Caroline JACKSON two years before Mary Ann married.

John worked as a Printer and he impressed 12 copies of his genetic code upon Caroline between 1861 and 1883. The first child, Caroline Amelia, didn’t complete her first year. The second, Caroline Alice, married in 1880 but an initial search failed to find a record of her death, or that of her husband, James Glascott EVERETT.

The next three children also reached adulthood and married – John Thomas jnr., Alice Elizabeth and Rosina – and all died in their south London heartland. (It is the descendants of Rosina and Sidney Gauntlett STEPHENS who  make the connection to the Filey/Skipsea COLLEY families.)

John Thomas senior, the printer, died on Christmas Day 1891, aged 50. (The death registration gives “49”.)

In 1921 the death of a Caroline Ann Hemington is registered in Hackney. She was eighty-years-old.  Caroline Jackson was Hackney-born – but in the second half of 1843. I wasn’t sure if this old lady was John the Printer’s widow.

I opened the blue hints for Caroline Jackson on the Shared Tree, and two of the three were death/burial records for her second-born daughter, “Caroline EVERET” in Chicago, Illinois – “Ethnicity American”. (The very specific birthdate is four years wide of the mark.)

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I turned to Find My Past and after entering a few of John and Caroline’s children was rewarded with a hint to examine another contributor’s Tree. This indicated that James Everet and Caroline Alice Hemington emigrated to the United States about 1888. On 19 June 1893, Caroline’s younger brothers, Edward (then 16) and Sidney James (11) crossed the Atlantic. Edward became an American citizen on 23 October 1900, and at that year’s census, Sidney and the Everets (with seven children) were listed at different addresses in Ada Street, Englewood.

If the octogenarian Caroline Ann is “our” Caroline, she probably received the sad news of her grandson Ernest Edward Everet’s death in May 1920, aged 27. He is buried in Chicago Mount Hope Cemetery, his mother nearby perhaps.

Caroline Alice (Ellis) has three FamilySearch PIDs. One gives her a husband and one child – Alice Hannah, born in Canada. You will find her with her birth family here. I must arrange some marriages.

A Passage to India?

Alan, great-grandson of George Toyn COLLEY and generous supplier of family information and photographs to LaFREDUX, has a second great-grandaunt on his mother’s side called Mary Ann HEMINGTON. She is a mixed-up lady, through no fault of her own. She married Frederick George O’BRIEN in Lambeth on 23 March 1863, almost three years after she supposedly gave birth to a daughter in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. That child, Mary Ann Conway McCarthy, married John Henry SUBRITZKY, bore him eleven children and died in New Zealand in 1932.

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Mary on the Shared Tree doesn’t have a family name, though you would reasonably expect her to be a Hemington. Perhaps she was born a CONWAY? She has seven duplicate IDs. One HENNESSEY, one WELTON, three RYANs, one RAGAN and one QUESTIONMARK.

In the first quarter of 1859, Mary Ryan married a Daniel McCarthy in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Just Mary has three sources attached to her record on FamilySearch. One is the 1861 England & Wales Census, placing her in London, aged 22 and single, with her parents and six siblings. It doesn’t make sense to have shipped her out to India.

Sources neatly fit marriage to Frederick George in Lambeth, the birth of a daughter, Sophia Mary Ann in 1865, and death aged 45 towards the end of 1883.

A very different life to the one currently portrayed on the Shared Tree.