Hi Carolyn, You may already have these burials for Bathurst SHEPHARD ELLEN 1960 80 6758 SHEPHARD ISAAC 1969 74 6759 SHEPHARD MARY ELLA 1968 63 6760 SHEPHARD THOMAS 1943 66 6761 SHEPHERD EDGAR A 1932 48 6762 SHEPHERD GEORGE 1912 83 6763 SHEPHERD JAMES 1877 84 6764 SHEPHERD JAMES 1895 39 6765 SHEPHERD MARION 1894 11 6766 SHEPHERD MARY ANN 1872 15MTHS 6767 SHEPHERD MARY ANN 1890 53 6768 SHEPHERD SYDNEY HERBERT 1876 14DAYS 6769 SHEPHERD THOMAS EDWARD 1913 45 6770 SHEPHERD THOMAS HILL 1937 84 6771 SHEPPARD MURIEL JOYCE 1959 38 6772 Landholders Bathurst Summer Hill Rockley Shephard Charlotte, Mrs Bathurst Box Ridge Common Box Ridge Shepherd F. Bathurst O'Brien's Creek Rockley Shepherd James > > Am about to apply for some of those Birth Certificates. > > Hannah Elizabeth's Headstone in Rockley Cemetery says that she died on 2 > Apr, 1936, aged 84. (She married Carl ASIMUS who was the 'acting > undertaker' > at George SHEPHARD's burial on 9 Mar, 1879 at Jumper's Flat: wherever that > is?) > > That would put her birthdate as 1852. > > Found a marriage on the IGI this morning - an Extracted Entry - of a > George > SHEPHERD to a Charlotte WILLIS, 29 May, 1852, Claines, Worcester. Free BMD has Marriages Jun 1852 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barnard John Droitwich 6c 463 Shepherd George Droitwich 6c 463 Walker Eliza Droitwich 6c 463 Willis Charlotte Droitwich 6c 463 Droitwich also spans the counties of Hereford, Worcester and Worcestershire > Ledbury is Hereford and Worcester. > > Then checked the 1851 Census and found, at St Martin, Worcestershire a > Charlotte WILLIS, dressmaker aged 29 with her widowed mother, Charlotte, > 62 > and 3 Lodgers, one an unmarried George SHEPPARD aged 26. BirthsDEC 1853 SHEPHERD George Willis Droitwich 6c 315 > (Too much to hope for?) That would make George b. abt 1825, which is 4 > years > out from his DC. > > The plot thickens................<g> Little by Little your brick wall will fall! Kind regards, Lynne. Sydney, AUSTRALIA.
Hi, Lynne, What a kind thought! Thank you very much. Now I need to work out who belongs to whom ! Yesterday I sent for 5 certificates: Charlotte's DC and 4 of the childrens' BCs. Alas, 2 weeks to wait in mystification! Have also found some of our SHEPHERD (also spelt as SHEPHARD), JONES, PUSILL and ASIMUS ancestors on the 1870-71 Electoral Roll, 1867-8 N.S.W. National Directory, Sands Directory 1903 and Greville's P.O. Directory 1875-6. Determined to 'get there', with help from lots of kind people like yourself. Best wishes, Carolyn. Bathurst. P.S. Was it you who sent me those other births? So sorry, I missed seeing them until I was about to <snip> my email! Oh, gosh, if they had all those other children then I don't think they can be "my" George and Charlotte. Shall put on my thinking cap.