Hi Carol, Have you contacted the Victorian registrar? Given that you have the name, date and place, surely they should be able to check for you? Ray On 3/09/2014 10:47 AM, Carol Brill via wrote: > Dear All, > > For years I've been trying to discover how and why 'my' Benjamin Cockerell > died, but try as I might, with any number of permutations of his first and > second names, I can't find him on the Vic BDM site, in order to buy his > death certificate. I wonder whether one of you wonderful lateral thinkers > can find him on a Vic CD for me please? Here's one of his many death notices > popsted in Vic. and VDL newspapers: > > "At Kyneton, on the 18th instant, Benjamin, third son of William James > Cockerell, aged 19 years, late of Circular Head, Van Diemen's Land." - The > Argus, 25 August, 1852. > > Fingers crossed, > > Carol Brill. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Hi Carol, Just a follow up on my previous email. I did a bit of googling, and there are many websites that confirm that civil registrations began in Victoria in 1853, including the Registry's website. Some even confirm the actual date as 1st July. I also have an ancestor who died just prior to 1-7-1853, and have not been able to find anything about him, not even a newspaper entry or a burial. Chris. On 3 September 2014 10:29, Ray Hayes via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Carol, > > Have you contacted the Victorian registrar? > > Given that you have the name, date and place, surely they should be able > to check for you? > > Ray > > On 3/09/2014 10:47 AM, Carol Brill via wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > For years I've been trying to discover how and why 'my' Benjamin > Cockerell > > died, but try as I might, with any number of permutations of his first > and > > second names, I can't find him on the Vic BDM site, in order to buy his > > death certificate. I wonder whether one of you wonderful lateral thinkers > > can find him on a Vic CD for me please? Here's one of his many death > notices > > popsted in Vic. and VDL newspapers: > > > > "At Kyneton, on the 18th instant, Benjamin, third son of William James > > Cockerell, aged 19 years, late of Circular Head, Van Diemen's Land." - > The > > Argus, 25 August, 1852. > > > > Fingers crossed, > > > > Carol Brill. > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >