Category: FRYER
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Emigration – Why would you?
John and Julia Kidd emigrated to Australia sometime between 1907, when Clarissa was born in Durham, England1 and 1913, when Selwyn was born in South Australia2. After extensive research, no record of either departure or arrival can be found3. One thing that records cannot reveal, is what motivated this nineteenth-century couple to emigrate to the…
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The Saga of Clarissa Kidd
My children’s paternal great-grandmother, Clarissa Emma KIDD has been extremely difficult to trace. I found a website created for the descendants of Mr Thomas Henderson1 but it is sparsely referenced and not accurate. I also found two family trees with a Clarissa in Ancestry Library2 and again the information was sparsely referenced and less than…