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Thanks - our last messages crossed in the "post"

Could you look on the 1911 census to see where she was then. Hope she had some siblings for me to track. thanks.

1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Coburg Road, Teddington, Kingston, Surrey, England


First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Henry Strong Head Married Male 36 1855 Bricklayer Wandsworth, Surrey, England Transcription
Harriet Strong Wife Married Female 34 1857 - Wandsworth, Surrey, England Transcription
Florence Strong Daughter - Female 11 1880 - Walthamstow, Essex, England Transcription
Henry Strong Son - Male 9 1882 - Wandsworth, Surrey, England Transcription
Charlotte E Strong Daughter - Female 7 1884 - Wallington, Surrey, England Transcription
Maud L Strong - - Female 3 1888 - Wallington, Surrey, England Transcription

1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Sylvan Cottages, South Ascot, Sunninghill, Windsor, Berkshire, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Annie Jaggard Head Widow Female 44 1857 Laundress Ascot, Berkshire, England Transcription
Jennie Jaggard Daughter Single Female 14 1887 Laundress Battersea, Middlesex, England Transcription
Herbert J Jaggard Son Single Male 12 1889 Attends School Battersea, Middlesex, England Transcription
Harry Jaggard Son Single Male 5 1896 Attends School Battersea, Middlesex, England Transcription
Henry C Strong Boarder Widower Male 47 1854 Bricklayer Wandsworth, Surrey, England Transcription
Maud L Strong Boarder Divorced Female 13 1888 Attends School Wallington, Surrey, England Transcription
May M Strong Boarder Divorced Female 1 1900 - Wallington, Surrey, England

STRONG MAUD LILIAN 1887 — 1887 England & Wales births 1837-2006 Croydon, Surrey, England

No replies yet from all the Huckins families in Oz. Maybe I'll get something soon. In tfhe meantime could anyone tell me the names of her siblings. Her father was Henry William Strong a bricklayer. She was Maude LIlian Strong born 1888. She married my grandfather 1st April 1916 in Bracknell Berkshire. Maybe I can trace descendants of hr siblings? I am reluctant to give up yet! Any help appreciated - as always!
jennifer

I do hope you make contact with someone connected Jennifer.

Please come back to this thread and let us know if you do.

Good luck,

Dea x

Just thought I would tell you that I have today posted letters to all the Huckins families in Australia. Maybe someone will answer me? I live in hope! Thanks to you all. :-)

Thanks Dea. I am busy looking at the newsaper archives. It seems granddaddy was a brave lad.
regards
jen

Going off now but glad you found it of help !

Dea Xxx

Jen

There is the option of paying on line if you want.

Another thought - there are 9 Huckins listed in the White Pages phone directory in Australia. One of them may be a relation so you could write or phone to try and find a connection to you.

Karin

Hi Karin, Thanks for that. The informant on Thomas's death certificate was a neighbour so poor Maud must have been in hospital. I had a friend in Sydney go and look at the house in Parramata but it had been demolished by then. I agree it is worth a shot - in the absence of anything else. She may have let her money to the cats' home of course. Goodness knows how I can do this but maybe I will elicit help from a more knowledgeable person on transferring money.
regards
jen

There is only one marriage on Findmypast for Thomas J. Huckins and that is to Maude in 1916.

Kath. x

Hi again

If you go to Trove digitised newspapers in Australia

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

type in Constable Huckins and restrict search to New South Wales you'll find some articles about his police work.

Karin

Hi Jen

Maud Lilian died about 7 months after Thomas. If you go to this site

http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Search.aspx

and enter Huckins
you will see the probate packets that are available for both of them. It might be worth purchasing Maud's and it will cost you $49 (which is about 25 pounds.
I assume that Thomas left everything to Maud and you could find out who she made her will out to as they may have gotten personal items that may include photos. It's worth a try even though it is almost 50 years ago!
Thomas' army records at enlistment show that he is not married in 1914 and his mother was his next of kin. When he married Maud in 1916 he had his records updated to show Maud as next of kin. I don't believe he was married before.

Good luck!

Karin

Also, from his physical description it makes me think that my mum and me and one of my sons look like him - the tall gene and the fair skin blue eyes etc. Though his genes must be fairly watered down by now! thanks again. Jen.x

Yes Dea - quite a bit thanks. No photo though. He was in Galipoli briefly before coming down with dysentry. The man left Oxfordshire to go to London & join the Metropolitan Police at Hampstead police station a few years prior to the 1911 census being taken. At that time my grandmother (Emma Georgina Remmers) became a widow when her police sergeant husband died in his early 50's. To make ends meet she took a couple of lodgers from the police station, one of whom was Thomas Huckins. He had a relationship with his landlady and she got pregnant with my mother Gertude May Huckins Remmers born May 1912. She had no idea about this and only found out that she was illegitimate when she applied for her birth cert to marry my father in 1936. Now we do not know if he knew about his daughter. Possibly did know but my gran was nearly 40 then and he was 23 so maybe it was not a long term possibility. In the army records I have ust looked at today I see that he actually came back to Hampstead and was a patient in New End Hospital when he got dysentry. My mum would have been a toddler by then and the hospital was very near where his former home had been. I think he ran off to Oz to escape his responsibilities then WW1 broke out and he joined up in Oz. In 1916 he married Maud Strong (I( have the cert) yet it describes him as married in 1914 in the army papers. So did he marry someone else before her? On his death cert it describes him as having no issue! My Mum, me, my two sons and six grandkids are his issue! So yes thanks Dea, plenty to think about.

Did you find anythng of interest Jennifer ???

Dea Xxcx

Thanks Dea. I am onto it now!

This is the link (if it works) then you click on 'view records'

http://honouringanzacs.net.au/view-anzac-searched.php?aid=340523&anzactype=4&search_text=Huckins,%20Thomas%20James

Dea x

P.S. - No photo though but there is a physical description

Dea x

Hello Dea and Kath. I will do another tree search as somebody new may have come on in the past five years. I did manage to trace a nephew of his who had no contact since the 1940's - and no photo. I would have thought that the couple would have sent pictures of themselves back to England from their new tropical home!
No Dea - I have not got his Oz military record. I will go on that site you mentioned now.
Thanks both.