Tag: Clarissa Emma Kidd (1907-1992)
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Lenore Julia Henderson (1925-2016)
This biography is also available on WikiTree. Lenore was born on 1 February 19251 in Daly, South Australia to William Henderson and Clarissa Kidd, the first of three children. On 8 February 1943, she enlisted in the Australian Army, Citizen Military Forces2 and was allocated the service number SF1130033. She operated searchlights and made a number of life-long friends. She…
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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…