Readers Comments and Queries


I hope you have found this ramble through Bartlett history informative and interesting and would invite any comments or queries you may have.

Please email me if you have your own Bartlett family history to relate, if you have genealogical inquiries that can be pursued here, or if there are any particular Bartlett stories that you would like to pass on. We will post them all here.

Colin Bartlett Shelley

nottshell@btinternet.com


Comments and Queries


1 August 2008.  Bartlett Family from Kent to Australia in 1841  

My name Is Ricky McKenzie and I am descended From a Bartlett family that came to Australia In 1841 on The "Lallah Rookh" that arrived In Sydney, Australia on December 26, 1841. The members of the family were Richard Bartlett, his wife Lydia and their 18 month daughter Sarah Ann.  

Richard Bartlett was born In 1821 in Aldington, Kent and was the son of Richard Bartlett (d.1841) and Anne Payne (m.1799) who were both alive at the time of Richard's journey to Australia. 

Lydia Bartlett nee Quested was born 1822 in Hythe, Kent and was the daughter of Samuel Quested (1767-1827) and Sarah Ransely nee Berry (m.1819, d. 1841) who both were deceased by the time of Lydia's movement to Australia.  

They moved onto Milton Ulladulla, New South Wales, after Sydney and had thirteen children.  Their youngest Joseph Bartlett is whom I am descended from.  I can only go as far as Richard Bartlett's (the one that left for Australia) father before the Bartlett line goes cold   I was wondering that in your geneological research if there Is any mentions of this line of Bartlett's.  

Thanks,
Ricky McKenzie (rickymckenzie@live.com)


27 June 2008.  Charles Hughbert Bartlett 

I have tried without any luck to trace my paternal grandfather and his second family.  My father was Charles Hughbert Bartlett, a unitarian minister, who died in 1966 when I was eight.  He was living in Manchester at the time but came from Liverpool (born around 1907). 

His father had taken young Charles and his mother, Lillian, to Saskatoon in Canada around 1908.  After Lillian’s alleged death in around 1915, Sydney remarried and had another son.  My father was sent back to Liverpool and was cared for by maiden aunts, never hearing from his father again.  We did hear he had moved to Sydney, Australia but we can find no trace. The step-brother may still be living or his descendents. Any light would be gratefully received. 

Regards 
Sarah (sarah.wright@virgin.net)


1 June, 2008.  Alexander Bartlett, late 1700’s in Kent 


This is a great site and I enjoyed reading about all the Bartletts.  I wonder if you could include my query please as I’ve run out of options to find my great great great grandfather, Alexander Bartlett.  Perhaps someone will read the Bartlett site and have a connection with the name Alexander Bartlett and Mary in the late 1700's.  I’m searching for an Alexander Bartlett who had two sons – Jabus or Jabes (born in 1799) and John (born 1789), and possibly daughter Hetty.  The mother of these children is shown in parish registers in Kent as Mary. 

Thank you.
June Farley (junef@iprimus.com.au)


11 May 2008.  A Bartlett Sea Captain from New York?

My name is Michael Bartlett Mahaffie and I wonder of you can help me. I am trying to trace my portion of a Bartlett line back past my great-great-grandfather Robert Bartlett (not the explorer, I think). 

I believe he was born about 1842, probably in New York state. He may have been married to a woman named Agnes. He was believed to have been a sea captain, according to a letter my grandfather left his kids (he had married Robert Bartlett's granddaughter). 

I have two children of Robert Bartlett, Nellie, who married a man named Leary, and Susan, who married Augustus Charles Becker and had at least two children: Robert, who died young and Roberta, my maternal grandmother, who was named for her late brother Robert. Susan apparently died when Roberta was a toddler.  Roberta married Redmond Farrar, a minor jazz-age composer. 

I have very little to go on, since Susan died when my grandmother was quite young.  Do any of these names/relationships ring any bells? 

Mike and Karen Mahaffie (mmahaffie@comcast.net)


25 March 2008.  Bartletts in Australia 

Hello from Australia.  My name is Robert Bartlett and I'm an Australian author, and before that I worked for some multi-nationals.  I noticed on your web site re. Bartletts in Australia, that you mention that a John Vigar Bartlett lived in Marlsford outside Sydney. I can't seem to find that suburb.  Could you advise where it is please? 

I've been keeping a family tree and you might wish to know the following: 
 - William Bartlett - my great grandfather(1847-1939) died in Tenterfield, NSW
 - Charles Arthur Bartlett - my grandfather (1882-1943) born Tenterfield - died Newcastle NSW
 - William Douglas Bartlett - my father (1907-1987) born Tenterfield - died Sydney

My father thought we might have been related to the British Poet Milton?  But have no further information before my great grandfather. 

Regards Robert Bartlett (robertwb@primus.com.au) 


3 March, 2008.  Captain Bartletts Related? 

I noticed on your Bartlett website that you mention as examples of Bartlett mariners the names of the Arctic explorer Captain Robert A. Bartlett and the master of the Britannic Captain Charles Bartlett.  With Captain Bob's Newfoundland family coming from Dorset and Captain Charles family from Devon, do you know if there is any family connection between these men?  

The Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador are planning a program of events and activities in 2009 to celebrate the life and career of Captain Bob Bartlett.  HSA operates Hawthorne Cottage, Bartlett's home, in Brigus Newfoundland.  2009 is the centenary of Bartlett taking Robert Peary to within 133 miles of the North Pole and, of course, Peary's famous claim to have been the first to reach the Pole. 

Though Bartlett is perhaps best known for that 1909 Polar expedition, he also has an incredible life story that HSA plans to make better known in this province and elsewhere.  His science and research expeditions into the Far North during the 20s, 30s and 40s earned him international recognition and support from the Smithsonian, National Geographic, and many of the North America's great institutions. 

The Bartletts of Brigus were famous mariners and explorers long before Bob came along.  There are at least eight geographic names in the Arctic named after Bartletts.  His ancestors were well known to explorers who for 300 years were trying to reach the Pole or find their way through a Northwest Passage. 

Regards, Dean Williams (williamsdean@nl.rogers.com),
Celebrating Bartlett 2009, Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador


8 December, 2007.  Bartletts and the Knights of the Round Table? 

Early researches of Harry Bartlett and Ann Wall of Somerset have linked the name Bartlett to Sir Henry Barralot, one of the Knights of the Round Table.  As this is a distant branch I have not followed it up. 

My own history: The 1861 Census has family living at 19 Whites Hill, Bristol Gloucestershire.  They came to Brisbane Australia in 1863.  The eldest daughter Lydia married Herbert Eli Daniels in Brisbane in 1881. 

Kevin Egan (pkegan4@bigpond.net.au)


23 August 2007.  Bartelot Memorial in Stopham Church


At Stopham church in Sussex, there is a memorial to 29 year old Major Edmund Musgrave Bartelot, killed while on an expedition to the Congo with Henry Morton Stanley who, seventeen years earlier, had found Dr. David Livingstone in the African jungle.  The party had split up.

The inscription reads:

"Major Bartelot left England in 1887 and, while in charge of a large expedition in search of Stanley and for the relief of Emin Pasha, was treacherously shot at Unaria in Central Africa, 19th July 1889, by Senga, a native Manyema carrier provided by Tippoo Tib."

David Arscott