These Truslers are driving me mad! - Genealogists' Forum

Phoenix · #1 03-07-14, 22:42

1851 Gigant Street Salisbury

William Trusler 52
Maria do 50
Job do son 19
John Harris grandson 7

All born Salisbury.

Job = Josiah = Joseph. He is probably the Joseph who dies in the New Forest RD in 1862. But if so, where is he in 1861??

John Harris. Could he possibly be John Horne? (already in the 1851 living in The Close, Salisbury with his parents, aged 6)

If John Harris is anyone else, I'm at a loss. His mother would have to be Elizabeth, who marries William Dufossee, William Parsons, John Searle or William Warren in 1842.

Mary from Italy · #2 03-07-14, 23:14

Looks like Job/Josiah/Joseph was in jail in Kent.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...dh=yc2&msbdp=5

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...uidh=yc2&cp=11

Phoenix · #3 04-07-14, 09:06

Oh the shame!

Yes, that's par for the course. He'd had a couple of minor offences in Salisbury. So had his brother, and his sister, my ancestor, ended in Millbank after a whole string of petty offences. Took me ages (and Ancestry!) before I found her as her husband represented himself as a widower in 1871.

Phoenix · #4 27-04-17, 17:16

Hmm

Elizabeth Trusler, born 1821 in Salisbury marries William Parsons in 1842 and they both then vanish. I've looked on the Wiltshire BMD site. A William Parsons died in Wilton RD in 1855 aged 35, but I can't see suitable candidates for the pair in 1851.

Can anyone see what happened to them? My version of Ancestry has changed and it is a damned nuisance, but I can't find them.

kiterunner · #5 27-04-17, 17:45

How do you know which Elizabeth it is who married William Parsons, Phoenix? Wiltshire BMD has her down as Fruster and says they married at the register office / registrar attended, so have you found anything to prove it's the right Elizabeth? And if so, what info do you have about William?

Merry · #6 27-04-17, 21:22

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A William Parsons died in Wilton RD in 1855 aged 35, but I can't see suitable candidates for the pair in 1851.

I think the William Parsons who died in 1855 was the husband of Dorcas Whatley. They married in 1840. They are together in 1851 in Wilton, at which time he was aged 31. Dorcas married William Binstead in 1856 and they are together in South Newton in 1861.

kiterunner · #7 27-04-17, 22:27

There is a "private member photo" on ancestry labelled Photo: Death Notice-Elizabeth Parsons nee Trusler, Category: Document, Attached To: Elizabeth Trusler (born 1821).

Of course it won't let me view it as it's private!

If you search the private member trees there are two which have Elizabeth Trusler born 1821, spouse William Parsons. I messed about with her death year on the private tree search and narrowed it down to 1868. I can't see a death of the right age in 1868 in England and Wales, but there is an Elizabeth Parsons death 11 Aug 1868 in Adelaide, South Australia, age 47, and feeding that back in to the private tree search as the place of death still comes back with the 2 matches.

So, since we know there is a death notice somewhere, I searched on Trove and found this in the Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA) 12 Aug 1868:
PARSONS - On the 11th August, at her residence, East-terrace, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr Wm Parsons, aged 47 years. Her end was peace.

That didn't help confirm whether it is the right Elizabeth, but if you search the Australia Birth Index on ancestry for parents William Parsons and Elizabeth Trusler, there are 8 born between 1846 and 1864 in Adelaide. So it looks right.

Merry · #8 28-04-17, 05:38

Oooh, well done Kate!

Phoenix · #9 28-04-17, 09:22

That is amazing! Thank you so much, Kate. Clearly, Australia was a route to a far better life. They must have emigrated soon after marriage as I could not find any obvious births in this country.