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Trying to find please what happened ( marriages ? children ? deaths ? ) to Augusta Davis Born c1866 in Somerset England and her brother Ernest G Davis Born c1871 Cape Colony South Africa. Their parents are John Frederick Davis (a Civil Engineer birthdate and place unknown ) and Mary Ann nee Gordon B1839 England who married in 1863 in Weston Super Mare, Somerset England. ( their deaths would be in SA and are unknown ) Verbal family history says that the family stayed in SA and that Augusta married "well" and visited England a couple of times in the 1930's hiring a Rolls Royce to tour around in. . Any information would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance to researchers for any assistance.

1881 census shows them and their mother visiting their maternal grandparents.
James GORDON Head M Male 76 Painswick, Gloucester, England Retired Banker
Louisa GORDON Wife M Female 59 London St Olave, London, Middlesex, England Wife Retired Banker
Emily M. GORDON Daur U Female 29 Weston S Mare, Somerset, England Daur Retired Banker
Flora S. GORDON Daur U Female 25 Weston S Mare, Somerset, England Daur Retired Banker
Mary Ann DAVIS Daur M Female 42 Weston S Mare, Somerset, England Wife Of Civil Engineer
Augusta DAVIS Grand Daur Female 14 Weston S Mare, Somerset, England Daur Civil Engineer
Ernest G. DAVIS Grand Son Male 10 Cape Colony Son Civil Engineer
Stanley WAYLEN Nephew U Male 17 Devizes, Wiltshire, England Scholar
Mary HERBERT Serv U Female 69 Stroud, Gloucester, England Cook Domestic Serv
Anna BROOM Serv Female 16 Lang Port, Somerset, England Housemaid Domestic Serv


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Source Information:
Dwelling 23 Oxford Street
Census Place Weston Super Mare, Somerset, England
Family History Library Film 1341582
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 2421 / 3
Page Number 4

The parents of John Frederick Davis believed to be, William Davis born c 1780 in Ireland and Jane nee Waugh c 1782 but no proof of this.

"Circa" birthdates aren't great, when we have FreeBMD.

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Births Mar 1867
DAVIS Augusta Mary F Axbridge 5c 647

This gives you her middle name/initial, for searching there for a marriage (or death).


There is no other Augusta Mary Davis birth, and there is only one marriage in that name.

Do you know Ernest's middle name?

The marriage ...

Marriages Jun 1894
> Davis Augusta Mary W. Derby 8b 665
Fenton John W. Derby 8b 665
Moran George Thomas W. Derby 8b 665
Wynne Margaret Ellen w.Derby 8b 665

There is an Augusta Fenton in 1901 who is a different person, this one:

Marriages Mar 1892
Buckle Henry Leeds 9b 488
> Cotton Augusta Leeds 9b 488
> FENTON John Leeds 9b 488
FREEMAN Rachel Leeds 9b 488
Wilks Emma Leeds 9b 488

There is an Augusta Moran in Chelsea in 1901, but she is recorded as born c1865 in East Barnet, Hertfordshire and single. However, there is no Augusta Moran birth. She is a housemaid, so it seems unlikely. She died in Watford in 1918.


If you think the 1894 marriage could be your Augusta, only the marriage certificate will say for sure.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Thanks Janey for your help - much appreciated - yes I had found the birth of an Augusta in Axbridge but unsure if it is the correct one and I am awaiting the Birth cert to arrive
Ernest - I am afraid middle name isn't known born in South Africa hence my plea for SA help.
Augusta's marriage would be not be in the UK but also in South Africa again only verbal family history to go on but believed to be to an industrialist of Dutch or German extraction

Possible for Augusta

Name: Augusta Mary F Pauling
Birth Date: abt 1867
Age: 71
Port of Departure: Durban, South Africa
Arrival Date: 2 May 1938
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Durban
[Port Elizabeth]
[Cape Town]
Ship Name: Dunvegan Castle
Search Ship Database: View the 'Dunvegan Castle' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 164702

Looks like her travelling out to SA in 1924, and then back after the 1838 trip to England:

PAULING A M 1868 F 1924 Southampton South Africa Cape
PAULING A M E 1867 F 1938 Southampton South Africa Durban (Port Natal)

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action

No other Pauling travelled with her either time, but I don't pay for access so I can't see whether there was anyone else in her party.

It helps so much if you say the things you know -- the surname of a woman after marriage being a really big important bit of information if you are looking for her!!! Even if it's only a suspected surname, as long as that's clear.

Other voyages that look like her:

PAULING 1867 F 1920 Southampton South Africa Cape
PAULING 1867 F 1922 Southampton South Africa Cape

There are numerous other Pauling voyages to SA, and others with no initials but the same birthdate +/- a year that could also be her, before those.

For instance, travelling together in 1896:

PAULING 1867 M 1896 London South Africa Cape
PAULING 1867 F 1896 London South Africa Cape

It could be worth buying some kind of credit at FMP to view those passenger records and see whether you can determine who might be travelling with someone likely to be Augusta at some point.

http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl

Database: All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records

Your query, (augusta) AND (pauling) was located in 14 documents

Results summary:

CSC 2/6/1/249 599 MOTION. PETITION OF AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES PAULING IN RE APPOINTMENT 1904 1904

CSC 2/6/1/249 599 MOTION. PETITION OF AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES PAULING IN RE APPOINTMENT 1904 1904

CSC 2/2/1/303 338 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1908 1908

CSC 2/2/1/309 160 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. BARBARA JACOBA MURISON, 1909 1909

CSC 2/2/1/380 421 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1922 1922

CSC 2/2/1/450 7 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1938 1938

CSC 2/2/1/459 133 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1940 1940

CSC 2/2/1/460 31 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1941 1941

CSC 2/2/1/464 51 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1942 1942

CSC 2/2/1/475 99 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF PROVISIONAL CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1949 1949

MOOC 6/9/18737 5482/51 PAULING, AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES. NEE DAVIS. ESTATE PAPERS. 1951 1951

CSC 2/1/1/536 106 ILLIQUID CASE. E HAYWOOD AND COMPANY VERSUS AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES 1907 1907

CSC 2/1/1/822 7 ILLIQUID CASE. AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES PAULING VERSUS JOHAN ROBERT 1918 1918

MHG 0 6068 PAULING, HAROLD WILLIAM BROUNGER. 1904 1904

Result Pages: 1


When you do that search, you can click on each record to see some details. There is a list linked at the site home page with contact info for each archives depository with the acronym for it (e.g. MHG).

I couldn't believe I got results first time out just now. I've been getting nothing but error messages there for weeks, and fought with it for half an hour last night to get what I awas after. Maybe it's been fixed overnight, maybe I was just lucky and should wish you such luck. ;)

Probably of most interest:


DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/18737
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 5482/51
PART 1
DESCRIPTION PAULING, AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES. NEE DAVIS. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19510000
ENDING 19510000


DEPOT TAB
SOURCE MHG
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 6068
PART 1
DESCRIPTION PAULING, HAROLD WILLIAM BROUNGER.
STARTING 19040000
ENDING 19040000
REMARKS SURVIVING SPOUSE AUGUSTA MARY FRANCES (BORN DAVIS).

Making the husband the person travelling here:

PAULING Harold Unknown M 1898 Southampton South Africa Cape
PAULING Harold Unknown M 1898 Southampton South Africa Cape

accompanied on one trip or the other by

PAULING Unknown F 1898 Southampton South Africa Cape
PAULING G Unknown M 1898 Southampton South Africa Cape


He apparently died in 1904.

Google

pauling "harold william" cape

to read all about him.


http://www.nzsghamilton.co.nz/obitn-r.htm

Civil Engineer Obituaries

PAULING, Harold William Rway eng-RSA/ZWR 13Aug1864-03May1904 Ed-Capetown,RSA;d-Sth Africa 158 432 1904


http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/imotp.1904.16704;
jsessionid=gf4rso2pg2w9.z-telford-01

# Source: Minutes of the Proceedings, Volume 158, Issue 1904, page 432 , , E-ISSN: 1753-7843

[Obituary. HAROLD WILLIAM PAULING, born the 13th August,1864, on was educated a t t h e Diocesan College a t Cape Town, and after under father, his Mr. H. J. Pauling, he serving a pupilage obtained omployment in the drawing-office of the Cape Government Railways and later, on railway contract work under .his cousin, Mr. Georgc Pauling. I n 1886 he re-entered the Government service as Assistant Engineer on survey and construction work, and in 1889 he was promoted to the grade of District Engineer and placed in charge of the extension to the north of Kimberley...

I'm not sure how you go about seeing the rest, but it may involve paying.

Could he have been William Ernest Gordon Davis? A search at NAAIRS for Ernest Davis produces a lot about that name.


DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/21220
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 3630/53
PART 1
DESCRIPTION DAVIS, WILLIAM ERNEST GORDON. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19530000
ENDING 19530000


Coincidentally, my one person who ended up in SA was born Henry Rossiter John Monro Coke, but had dropped the Henry and John by the time he settled there, settling on Rossiter M.

Again many thanks for the help, I am sorry but I have no idea at all what Augusta's married name was - however I have an Uncle who is in his late 80's who met her as a boy in the 20's/30's and he is trying to remember for me what her married name could have been ( I am not however holding my breath ). Augusta was his father's ( my Grandfather's cousin ) and she visited Newton Abbot in Devon to see him on her trips to England but all my uncle can remember for now is a "rich cousin Gussie" visit and the Rolls made more of an impression than her..
He does not remember ever meeting or hearing anything of her brother Ernest who because of this I suspect as maybe dying as a young man .in SA.
Sorry to not be able to confirm the passenger lists details but I will telephone my uncle and try him with the Pauling surname. Thanks again for the interest and help. Jacquie

Nice find Janey,

Lou

lulabelle -- the find was all yours! I'd thought it was Jacquie who had said Pauling and that was how you found it, but of course not, you did it by first names. And it all connected up.


Jacquie, the idea is that we're looking for the information you don't have, and it looks pretty b'dy obvious we've found it, for Augusta!


Come on!

Augusta Mary F Davis born in the right time and place.

Augusta Mary Frances Davis married to Harold Pauling.

Augusta Mary Frances Davis, daughter of a civil engineer, married to a civil engineer.

Augusta Mary Frances Pauling travelling back and forth to/from England and South Africa, around the dates someone remembers seeing Augusta Davis in England.

I do think.

Sorry Janey should have mentioned it was just a guess. Still if you hadn't found all the other info it wouldn't have connected up.

There is also this probate record for Harold

Name: Harold William Brounger Pauling
Probate Date: 28 Oct 1904
Death Date: 31 May 1904
Death Place: Hope, Durham, England



Harold Pauling of Rondebosch Cape of Good Hope died 31st May 1904 Probate London 28 October to Augusta Mary Frances Pauling widow Effects £38264 12s. 1d.

According to the National archives site converting it from 1905 to today's money would make it worth

£2,194,475.05 .

I would just wonder whether Ancestry has "inferred" the place of death for Harold Pauling from the place of probate, since there isn't a death in the GRO index that I see. I imagine the will was probated in England because there was property there.

No, I see what it is. "Hope" ... Cape of Good. Not Hope, Durham. Twits.

Found a death for the mother, Mary Ann Gordon.

Mary Ann Davies - Maiden name - Gordon. Died - 1910.

Also just found this:

Augusta Mary frances Pauling. Maiden Name - Davis. Died - 1951
Harold Willam Brounger pauling. Died - 1904. Spouse - Augusta Mary Frances Davis.

Found this on - http://www.ancestor.co.za

you can order digital images of there death notices from this page!


Good Luck,

Alison.