Lyn, have you tried the Ryerson Index or the newspapers that are being digitised and are online through the National Library of Australia digitising project.. Jenelle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyn Yates" <lyates@bigpond.net.au> To: <AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:26 PM Subject: [AUS-NSW] Roy Morton LOMAS b1909 Bundaberg Qld > Hi Listers, > > I wonder if anyone can help me find what became of a longlost cousin, > details as follows: > > Roy Morton LOMAS > b1909 Bundaberg, Qld > Parents: Bernice Amy BULLPITT (b1890 Bundaberg, d1972 Melbourne) and John > Maunder Morton Gladstone LOMAS (b1885 Bundaberg, d1973 Sydney). > > Bernice and John's marriage broke up some time during the 1920s. In 1919 > they are still living together in South Brisbane. The following > information I have pieced together from the electoral rolls on ancestry. > > Bernice appears in 1924 in Melbourne (alone), the next sighting being > still in Melbourne in 1931 with her cousin Theodore George Lovell who she > married in 1942. > > John appears in 1930 with new wife Florence Gertrude (unknown), living in > Randwick NSW. I've not found any marriage for them in either NSW or QLD. > > In 1933, Roy and his wife Ethel May ALEXANDER (m1932 Marrickville NSW) > moves in with his father, and Roy and Ethel and John and Florence live > together intermittently in Randwick until at least 1943. > > In 1949, Roy is living with Cecile and Patricia Norma LOMAS in Paddington > NSW but is nowhere to be found in 1954. I can find no LOMAS family > connection between Roy and Cecile and Patricia. I suspect Patricia was > Cecile's daughter (she married Mervyn PAYNTER in 1949 but can find no > record of Cecile marrying despite going back to 1920. > > In 1949-1954, Roy's wife Ethel is still living in Randwick next to John > and Florence. She died in 1961, Sydney. > Florence died Randwick 1969, John in Sydney 1973. > > I can't find any trace of Roy in QLD, NSW or VIC electoral rolls or BMDs, > or on the NAA site. I would imagine he would have died more than 10 years > ago, so have also searched online at Rookwood and Eastern Suburbs > Cemeteries. I would love to know what became of him, and whether Cecile > was related to him or whether the shared (but uncommon) surname was purely > coincidental. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions or illumination? > > Thanks, > Lyn Y > Melbourne > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.431 / Virus Database: 270.14.122/2591 - Release Date: 12/28/09 19:32:00