Thompson / Corporaal Family History

Thomas George Key (1830-1895)

Anne Blanchard (1830-1872)

Frederick Blanchard Keys (1870-1918)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Ellen Thompson Dr. Raymond Alison Keys+ Frederick Blanchard Keys 2 Born: 1870, White Hills, Victoria, Australia 3 Marriage (1): Ellen Thompson in 1896 in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia 1 Died: Sep 1, 1918, Petersham, New South Wales, Australia at age 48 4 5 Buried: Sep 1918, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia 6   General Notes: None of Frederick's sibling used Blanchard as a middle name, it may have been someting Frederick chose to do himself.   Birth Notes: Birth date is an educated guess. From the newspaper notice of his death in the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday Sept 2, 1918 Page 6 it is hard to read his age at death.   Burial Notes: Name: Frederick Blanchard Keys Age: 47 Birth Date: abt 1871 Death Date: 1 Sep 1918 Burial Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Cemetery: Rookwood Section: 5 Row: 39 Inscription: erected by wife & son Denomination: Anglican   Some of his life's milestones were: He was working as Miner in Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia in 1906 8 Frederick was living at 70 New Canterbury Rd Petersham, New South Wales, Australia in Sep 1918 5 Frederick married Ellen Thompson, daughter of William Thomas Denis Thompson and Mary Josephine Deery, in 1896 in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.1 (Ellen Thompson was born in 1874 in Eureka, Thames District, New Zealand,9 died on Jul 20, 1929 in Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia 10 11 and was buried in Jul 1929 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

1 Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Provo, UT, USA, "Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950," database, Reg # 631/1896.

2 newspaper - online archive; The West Australian (Perth, WA: 1879 - 1954), p. 1. Family Notices. (1939, July 29). Retrieved December 15, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46411990>

3 "Australian Birth Index 1788-1922," database(http://search.ancestry.com.au/ : accessed Dec 29, 2018), Frederick Key; Registration Number: 20149;
[This is believed to be the correct registration as the mother is listed as Anne Blanchard even though the last name is KEY]

4 Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, New South Wales., "Australian Death Index 1787 - 1985," database, <i>Ancestry.com</i> , Reg # 9928/1918.

5 Trove - National Library of Australia, "Australian Newspapers," database, <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i> (https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10450/australian-newspapers : accessed Sep 15, 2017), Death Notice: Frederick Blanchard Keys; Sep 2 1918 - Sydney, NSW, Australia. P6. Col 1.

6 Ancestry.com Operations Inc., "Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003," database, <i>Ancestry.com.au</i> ( accessed Jul 8, 2017), Frederick Blanchard Keys, Rookwood, Sec 5, Row 39.

7 newspaper - online archive.

8 Australian Electoral Commission, "Australian Electoral Roll 1903-1980," database - (http://search.ancestry.com.au), 1906 Div Coolgardie - Subdiv Cue Reg # 477.

9 Western Australia Government, death certificate 74 (1919), William Thomas D... Thompson; Registry of Births, Deaths, & Marriages. Western Australia, Perth; [Name partially obscured by ink blot]

10 Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, New South Wales., "Australian Death Index 1787 - 1985," database, <i>Ancestry.com</i> , Reg # 15383/1929.

11 Trove - National Library of Australia, "Australian Newspapers," database, <i>MyHeritage.com</i> (https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10450/australian-newspapers : accessed Aug 27, 2019), Ellen Keys; Sydney Morning Herald, July 22, 1929, Page 10, Col 1.