Talk:Charles Todd (pioneer)

message: I have classified this article as a start. It needs more sourcing but cover's Todd's life in reasonable depth. I have classified the importance as mid. Capitalistroadster 10:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Start classification

message: I think the name of the article should be reverted to "Charles Todd". Although he was an Astronomer he is just as well known (or better known)  as a Meteorologist and Telegrapher. For example it could be misleading to someone researching the history of Telegraphy in Australia. Although there are quite a few article names with Charles Todd as part of the name I cannot see any entry "Charles Todd"Rlduns (talk) 05:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
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message: I have removed the use of "Heavitree" as in "Charles Heavitree Todd" from the biography. There is no evidence produced in the article to verify its use. There are no public records or biographical detail that I can find to justify its use. I can see that there are family trees using that addition, though none have citations for its use. The one second hand mention that I can find is a search lookup shows "Charles Heavitree Todd" in...
* Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 31: September, 2005-August, 2006. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 2006.
Noting that primary records and sources to which I have checked all say Charles Todd
* photograph of gravestone through Find a Grave 
* DNB12
* Mennell's Dict. of Aust. Biography
* Death registration for SA.
* Johns's Notable Australians, 1906
* (baptism record) The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 4674
— billinghurst sDrewth 00:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: who introduced the name to article. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

text: *A belated thank you for your courtesy in proving me wrong. It was Heavitree Gap that had me convinced I was onto something, then read a bit about W. W. Mill and wasn't so sure. But absence of proof not being the same as proof of absence and so on, it was plausible. Middle names can be adopted or relinquished mid-life; they can be used or put aside according to fashion or circumstance. And I was not flying blind: apart from the State Library reference, which has some credibility, there was the Governor's  guest list for the levee of 21 February 1883, where he is down as Charles H. M. Todd. C.M.G., J.P., a list of Anglican burials at North Road Cemetery, and a genealogy site where he is accorded the middle name of Hedley and "Heavitree" as a nickname. There may still be something to learn. Doug butler (talk) 11:13, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heavitree (removed)