Beautiful Shores

Evelyn Ernest Raven and his new bride, Mabel Kemp Trippett left Sheffield in Yorkshire just after their wedding on 1st July 1913.  They embarked on the steam ship "Orsova" and arrived at Fremantle in Western Australia on 5th August 1913. Included below is a postcard that Evelyn's father Richard Atkins Raven sent to his son on 21st October 1924. Richard  died in Sheffield on 27th January 1925.  Stomach cancer was the cause of death, and he had been unwell for 12 months. The note may have been one of the last messages sent, and begins, "Just a line to let you know that I am still here."   Transcript - To: Mr E E Raven  68 Napier Street , Cottesloe   Western Australia 21 Oct 24 Dear E. Just a line to let you know that I am still here.   I wrote you a fortnight ago, & I hope you will have received it ere this reaches you. How are you all   is Dick better?   Have had a week at Abergele MN   but had to come home owing to Mr Howe’s illness, from which he neve

  Offence: "Committed the 9th of October, 1815, ...apprehended at Dorking by John Sanders, and convicted of being rogues and vagabonds, wandering abroad, and lodging in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves." The charge was heard on 17 October 1815 at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions held at Kingston in Surrey. My  4th great-grandparents Joseph Sherlock and Caroline Warton were fortunate to have been "released due to proclamation." The Sherlocks were part of a large group charged together with Vagrancy. Jointly charged were - Elizabeth Sherlock and her four children, her son Joseph Sherlock and his wife Caroline and two children, Caroline's mother Mary Wharton.  Joseph Sherlock and his wife, Caroline Sherlock , and their two children.        Stated - he believed he was born in Betchworth, and that his late father William Sherlock had been settled in Upman [Upmarden] SSX. Married his wife, Caroline in Betchworth some two years previously and h