nothing unusual about wife being in same grave as first husband. happened all the time. will see if Phillipa is buried at WhiteHills. Lyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evelyn Harding" <emh_37@qld.chariot.net.au> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] William MITCHELL > Lyn, I do have a copy of the cert. No.1 wife died 1878 leaving 10 > children. Do you have access to these please? William was an engineer, > remarried in Bendigo. Any ref. nos please? > Thanks thus far. > Evelyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lyn Baker" <lyn.baker@bigpond.com> > To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:41 PM > Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] William MITCHELL > > >>I am guessing his first wife was Philippi Hosking Carmen. he married her >>in 1856. >> >> she died in 1878 and was born in Cornwall. her parents were Richard >> Carman and Phillipa Hosking. >> >> they had 10 children born in Epsom and Whitehills between 1857 and 1877. >> >> >> Lyn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Evelyn Harding" <emh_37@qld.chariot.net.au> >> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:11 PM >> Subject: [AUS-MELB] William MITCHELL >> >> >>> Am hoping for more info re the above man. He was a widower with 10 >>> children when he married my ggrandmother (also widowed) in 1883 in >>> St.Andrew's Manse Bendigo. >>> Other info on the cert states that he was widowed in 1878 and that his >>> birthplace was Cornwall England. He was an engineer aged 52 and parents >>> were James Mitchell and Mary Hallet. >>> wish to know who his first wife was and if married in vic and who were >>> the ten children. I haven't been able to find his death as yet, but >>> curiously, when his new wife died in 1902 she was buried in the same >>> grave as her first husband. >>> Hoping for some enlightenment. >>> regards >>> Evelyn >>> >>> >>> ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== >>> Searchable archives at >>> http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-MELBOURNE-L >>> >>> ============================== >>> Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >>> ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >>> http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >>> >> >> >> ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== >> ==================================================== >> Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 27/04/2006 >> >> > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > ==================================================== > Searchable archives at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-MELBOURNE-L > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >