Karan, have you tried English archives or War Office records for your ggrandfather? some websites below may help. good luck Evelyn http://www.a2a.org.uk/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecatalogue%2Enationalarchives%2Egov%2Euk%2Fleaflets%2Fri2006%2Ehtm&lBack=-1&j=1 http://immigrantships.net/departures/england.html http://shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au/index_passengers.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karan Nicolaisen" <ragnbone@sbcglobal.net> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 4:32 AM Subject: [AUS-MELB] Re:.What I.D. would have been required c. 1912 > Can S.K.S. please tell me what Identification papers, if any, would have > been required to get a marriage licence or to get married in Melbourne > circa 1912. > > My brickwall is my maternal g-father who was an Englishman, claimed he > came to Australia around 1910 - 11......he met and married my g-mother who > was 2nd generation English-Australian, ...marriage date was 26 October, > 1912 in Carlton, Melbourne. He NEVER spoke of his life before coming > to Australia other than to claim that he spent some time in India with the > British Army...... > > No one has been able to find any conclusive trace of him prior to his > arrival in Melbourne...... > > If there is any chance that there may be some information confirming any > paperwork sighted by an official at the time of their marriage I would > like to know where I might apply to get copies of it other than just the > marriage certificate. > > Hoping someone may be able to help me with this request.. > Karan Nicolaisen, > Ardmore, Ok. USA > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/338 - Release Date: 12/05/2006 > >

Dear Listers.... To all of you who have been sending in some very helpful suggestions, re investigations into overseas records both civil and military,........its all been done.....we have paid an expert on the GRUBB family to look into it for us over in London and he has come up with nothing that fits with what little we have to go on....... As he NEVER spoke of his parents or siblings, we are grasping at straws and I was hoping that maybe a birth certificate or something of that nature,that may have given some hard and fast evidence of who he was and where he came from, may have had to have been shown for proof of age before a marriage certificate could have been issued....... All I was initially wanting to know, was if the Law around 1912 required such proof to be presented Evelyn Harding <emh_37@qld.chariot.net.au> wrote: Karan, have you tried English archives or War Office records for your ggrandfather? some websites below may help. good luck Evelyn http://www.a2a.org.uk/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecatalogue%2Enationalarchives%2Egov%2Euk%2Fleaflets%2Fri2006%2Ehtm&lBack=-1&j=1 http://immigrantships.net/departures/england.html http://shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au/index_passengers.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karan Nicolaisen" To: Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 4:32 AM Subject: [AUS-MELB] Re:.What I.D. would have been required c. 1912 > Can S.K.S. please tell me what Identification papers, if any, would have > been required to get a marriage licence or to get married in Melbourne > circa 1912. > > My brickwall is my maternal g-father who was an Englishman, claimed he > came to Australia around 1910 - 11......he met and married my g-mother who > was 2nd generation English-Australian, ...marriage date was 26 October, > 1912 in Carlton, Melbourne. He NEVER spoke of his life before coming > to Australia other than to claim that he spent some time in India with the > British Army...... > > No one has been able to find any conclusive trace of him prior to his > arrival in Melbourne...... > > If there is any chance that there may be some information confirming any > paperwork sighted by an official at the time of their marriage I would > like to know where I might apply to get copies of it other than just the > marriage certificate. > > Hoping someone may be able to help me with this request.. > Karan Nicolaisen, > Ardmore, Ok. USA > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/338 - Release Date: 12/05/2006 > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== ==================================================== Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx