Dear Peter Received your marvellous reply a short time ago, and now after I have wiped the tears away, I am now writing to thank you so very much for this information. Only someone else who has searched so hard and long will understand the elation I feel. Thirty two years is such a long time thinking I was on the right track, but not getting anywhere. William Brown's death just gave his death as born Tasmania so wasn't conclusive, but finding George Brown born Deloraine gave hope. What a list of descendants now for John Brown and Mary Ann Smith, as I can now the combine two seperate databases. I guess we take the TPI entries as being the correct birthdates, seeing they have come before the baptisms.... Odd isn't it how things such as wedding dates (and close to in another date) keep one going and the fact that each morning hearing my husband in full voice I felt that he had to come from this Welshman and the short stature of his ancestors, and some of today's descendants, are because of Mary Ann. Call me mad if you wish, but was that enough to keep me at what seemed a hopeless quest. Thank you so very much Peter, forever in your debt. Wendy Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Oakley To: Don and Wendy Brown Cc: AUS-Tasmania@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Can anyone help with Deloraine baptism information please Hi Wendy, Here's Santa with a belated Christmas gift for you. Must have been a good girl !! From the Deloraine C of E baptism register (NS1587/1/1) - Bapt - 2 March 1856 Born - 6 Feb 1856 Child's name - George Parents - John and Mary Ann - Brown Rank - Hawker Abode - Deloraine Officiating minister - John McIntyre Also... Bapt - 11 Oct 1857 Born - 14 Sept 1857 Child's name - William Parents - John and Mary Ann Brown Rank - Hawker Abode - Deloraine Officiating minister - John McIntyre ... and again examples where the dates of birth are totally at odds with the information on the civil birth registrations ?? Cheers, Peter On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Don and Wendy Brown via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi everyone and a Happy New Year to all... Many of you here will know of our 32 year search for the death of my husband's great grandfather GEORGE BROWN. Very happy to report that, with thanks to the wonderful TROVE, we finally found his death 17 Jan 1925 at West Burnie, living with a new lady and new family. All is good there though and we are corresponding with the second family. As suspected GEORGE BROWN's death certificate gives his birthplace as DELORAINE. One answer leads to another question! There is no obvious birth for GEORGE BROWN on TPI. So we are hopeful that there will be baptism records that may hold the key to his parentage. >From information we lean towards JOHN BROWN and MARY ANN SMITH as parents, but given the number of Browns at Deloraine in the given time frame we desperately need proof. John Brown and Mary Ann Smith had an UNNAMED MALE at Deloraine on 26 Dec 1855 (registered at Westbury) and a WILLIAM BROWN born and reg. at Deloraine 20 Aug 1857. There were other children born in Launceston and Deloraine. Great grandfather GEORGE BROWN married SUSANNAH KNIGHTS 25 Dec 1876, his age given as 21 and Susannah's as 18 but she was still only 17. George's death certificate gives his age as 69, so points to birth 1855-1856. Susannah's sister HARRIET KNIGHTS married a WILLIAM BROWN 20 Jan 1881 and we feel we may have two brothers marrying two sisters. Harriet died very young and when William Brown died in Launceston 27 Jun 1924, he was then married to MARGARET MARSHALL. We have a possible birth range 1857-1858 for him. I have much research on JOHN BROWN and MARY ANN SMITH who married 25 Dec 1846 at York Street Chapel, Launceston - Baptist Congregational rites. It would be wonderful if this reearch could be put to use.... If any one can help or even has some thoughts about these people we would be most grateful. Wendy Brown (ex Tas now Central Qld) ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message