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Shead and Barry

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Shead and Barry

Posted: 10 May 2014 12:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi I have been doing some research on the Baker family,my mothers maiden name.
I found out Annie or Anna Barry married my great,great grandfather Benjamin Baker after his first wife Ellen died in Philadelphia .He had two sons from Ellen ,John Baker and Richard Joy Baker and a daughter Catherine from Annie.I dont know what happened to Benjamin but by 1870 Joseph Shead had married Annie they had 2 sons Joseph William and Thomas.Somehow they all ended up back in England ,I think Joseph snr was born in Sussex or Middlesex .In 1879 they got on the steamship Stad Haarlem with about 700 others and headed to New Zealand.In 1882 Thomas died at only 11 years old.Not long after they all came to Australia ,except John Baker who went back to the states,you probably know they lived in Elwood and Joseph worked for the Tramways Dept.
If there is anything else we can help each other with just let me know.
All the best
Curtis Beitans (Frankston)

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