Thanks Jenelle, yes I have tried the Ryerson Index (unsuccessfully). Lyn > Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:26:32 +1100 > From: "Lyn Yates" <lyates@bigpond.net.au> > 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). > > 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. >