Individual Notes

Note for: Harry Benjafield, 8 MAR 1845 - 17 JUN 1917 Index

Graduation:
     Date:   1871
     Place:   B of Med, Edinburgh University

Emigration:
     Date:   22 FEB 1873
     Place:   Tasmania

Event:
     Type:   Census 1851
     Date:   30 MAR 1851
     Place:   Thorngrove Farm, Gillingham, Dorset

Event:
     Type:   Census 1861
     Date:   7 APR 1861
     Place:   Church St, Berwick St John, Wilts

Event:
     Type:   Census 1871
     Date:   2 APR 1871
     Place:   Curtis Mill Farm, Navestock, Essex

Individual Note:
     [JO_Ockenden.ged]

Source is IGI
[Benjafield.GED]

The following was written to the Times by Harry Benjafield.

From the London Times:

23 April 1903

THE STEAM SERVICE TO AUSTRALASIA

       Dr. H. Benjafield writes to us from Hobart, Tasmania: "We are delighted
to see that the Cunard Company are turning out 25-knot ships, and hope that
English companies or Mr. Pierpont Morgan will soon send some of these to this
great Commonwealth. Then we will give you lamb, new potatoes, and green peas
for your Christmas dinner, with apricots and peaches for dessert. Last season
I sent you 2,000 cases of pears, which were landed by White Star boats in
first-class condition.
       This season I am sending many more/ but give me 25-knot steamers, and we
will soon fill them with softer fruits such as apricots, peaches, grapes, new
potatoes, tomatoes and a lot more of such like things, which we could land in
England through your winter and spring. Any size boat can just steam
alongside our wharves.
       The Suevic, last week, drawing 30 feet of water, ran in and backed out as
easily as a fishing boat, and 40 or 50 feet of water is easily obtainable.
Within the last few weeks some two million pounds of the finest Moorpark
apricots have been sold in Hobart for a penny a pound, tomatoes now a
halfpenny a pound, green peas 1s. 6d. per bushel, new potatoes Ł3 per ton.
Fast weekly steamers call here (Hobart) from every Australian and New Zealand
port; these could be utilized as feeders to mammoth steamers running out from
England.

Of our own, we last week put into the Suevic, which takes 45 to 50 days, some
thousands of tons of fruit, jams, wool, bark, copper; and if she did the
voyage in 20 days she could be filled in a week, and so do the voyage out and
back in about six weeks. What a grand trip that would be for some of your
London invalids, taking them out of the fogs and smoke into sunshine and pure
air during the worst part of your winter, and, if done in 20 or 30 thousand
ton ships, with the smallest amount of discomfort and the maximum of
pleasure."

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Ann Cross, 1816 - BET. OCT - DEC 1845 Index

Event:
     Type:   Census 1841
     Date:   7 JUN 1841
     Place:   Silton Farm, Silton, Dorset

Individual Notes

Note for: Amelia Pywell, 1849 - 26 NOV 1933 Index

Individual Note:
[JO_Ockenden.ged]

D Cropps states was living at 105 Albert Park Rd Moonah, Ho bart, Tasmania at time of death.

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Note for: Bertram Benjafield, 22 SEP 1877 - 28 MAY 1878 Index

Individual Note:
[Benjafield.GED]

died in infancy

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Note for: Dora Benjafield, 3 JUN 1880 - UNKNOWN Index

Individual Note:
[Benjafield.GED]

unmarried

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Note for: Etta Pywell Benjafield, 3 APR 1884 - UNKNOWN Index

Individual Note:
[Benjafield.GED]

How did "Etta" come to be born in Chelsea?

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Note for: Cleon Benjafield, 9 NOV 1889 - UNKNOWN Index

Event:
     Type:   Funeral
     Place:   Hobart Tasmania

Individual Note:
     [JO_Ockenden.ged]

Dave Cripps says that his grandfather paid for the funeral
[Benjafield.GED]

unmarried

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Note for: Silas Benjafield, 1791 - BET. APR - JUN 1875 Index

Christening:
     Date:   11 FEB 1791
     Place:   Wincanton, Somerset

Event:
     Type:   Census 1841
     Date:   7 JUN 1841
     Place:   Standlynch, Wilts

Event:
     Type:   Census 1851
     Date:   30 MAR 1851
     Place:   West Stour, Dorset

Event:
     Type:   Census 1861
     Date:   7 APR 1861
     Place:   Linch Hill, West Stour, Dorset

Event:
     Type:   Census 1871
     Date:   2 APR 1871
     Place:   20 West Stour, Dorset

Event:
     Type:   Will proved
     Date:   28 SEP 1875
     Place:   Blandford, Dorset

Burial:
     Date:   13 APR 1875
     Place:   Silton St Nicholas, Dorset

Individual Note:
     [JO_Ockenden.ged]

Source is Dave B Unchecked