Hi Sylvia, I have checked my copy of the Australian Vital Records Index for John Albert Mitchell without success. I can find a record for his marriage to Sarah Shaw, but the only reference for a birth is a John Mitchell born in 1834 which is to early for your John, he did have other children, you may get more info from their certificates. Emanuel Andrew W. Mitchell Reg Year: 1876 Ref No: 6023 Reg State: NSW CB: 1437802 Jane Stella C. Mitchell Reg Year 1880 Reg No: 7807 Reg State: NSW CB: 1438984 Milton Andrew P. Mitchell Reg Year: 1876 Reg No: 6022 Reg State: NSW CB: 1440126 Hope this helps, Anne in Sydney. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm and Sylvia" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [ANS] John Albert MITCHELL, b. abt 1841 > Hello everyone, > > Could someone please give me some advice, because I'm stuck. > > I have been searching for John Albert MITCHELL. He married Sarah Elizabeth SHAW in 1862. I could find nothing further on him on the NSWbdm site, so I presumed that he was an immigrant. I ordered the marriage cert but he had given no details about himself. So then I ordered the birth certificate of one of his children, Thomas Oswald, and was surprised to find that John Albert MITCHELL was born in Sydney. He states his age at the time of his son Thomas's birth, on 11th Feb, 1874, as 33years. So I presume he was born in 1840 or 1841. > > I checked again on NSWbdm, but he is not there. > > So could someone please tell me: > > 1. Is NSWbmd complete, or is there more to be added to it? > 2. At the time of John Albert Mitchell's birth, abt 1840 or 1841 was it not required of the parents to register a birth? > 3. Is there any hope of finding him on the vital records index? And if so, how do I go about that? > and 4. Is there anything else that I can do to find him? > > Any advice will be very gratefully accepted. > Sylvia Wilcox, Stanwell Tops. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >