Thread: John Hornbuckle

I am trying to trace a John Hornbuckle who migrated to Australia, just prior to or just after WWI. I understand, from his son, that he was born in 1900, the eldest son of John Hornbuckle. Born in or near Birmingham.

This seems the most likely birth registration:



John

1900 Jan-Feb-Mar Stourbridge Volume:6c Page:178



1901 census has this family in Stourbridge reg district

RG13; Piece: 2756; Folio: 80; Page: 14

John is aged 1 and has several siblings, BUT his father's name is Thomas!

Unfortunately that particular John Hornbuckle was married in 1924 to Lily Chance in Stourbridge, so he could not have lived in Australia at that time.



JohnB

Hi John



There appear to be no John son of John born around 1901.



There are many cases when a child took voluntarily the name of a dead sibling.



If your guy wasn't the Stourbridge one, which is the only West Midlands birth around that time .... Could John possibly be a second name which he used?

Having said that there are no second name Johns born in the West Midlands anyway!! One in 03 in Leicester.



Could he be from Leicester or Nottingham, rather than the Birmingham area? That is where there appears to be the largest number of Hornbuckles congregated!!



The Thomas that Jeuel mentioned came from outside Nottingham... it was his wife who had the Stourbridge connection.



Marriages Jun 1889

Hornbuckle Thomas Stourbridge 6c 273

WHITEHOUSE Annie Elizabeth Stourbridge 6c 273



Are there any other names that you know of, which are constant through the generations?



There's no way of knowing until the 1911 census comes out, maybe.

Do you have any documents or info concerning entry to Australia?

I think his daughter may have mistaken the name of the district he lived in and his year of birth. She said he was around 19 when he came to Australia and his father and grandfather were both name John. I have found a John Hornbuckle (c1894) born in Bingham whose father and grandfather were both name John. She thought he came to Australia just after WWI when he was 19, but he could have arrived prior to it and still been 19.



I have sent her a letter with the details I found, so I am now writing for a reply from her.

I used to live in the next village to Bingham.

I have been sent a photograph of John's grave in Narrandera and according to the inscription he would have been born in 1874/75. The person who sent me the photograph said he originally migrated to New Zealand and from there to Australia in 1900. So 1900 was the year he came to Australia and not the year of his birth.

But researching him on Ancestry the only John Hornbuckle born then did not have a father name John. The nearest was born in 1877.