My Armitage's were in QLD and they were a CIRCUS family so traveled Australia. There is also a book on Australian traveling circuses that they are in. cheers Jewelly -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 6/11/14, Dawn Webb via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] ARMYTAGE and PETERS To: "'Mabel Harvey'" <mabel.harvey@gmail.com> Cc: "'AUS-TASMANIA'" <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> Received: Thursday, 6 November, 2014, 5:15 AM There certainly seems evidence that George was a farmer at Bagdad – I am sure I have driven through there – and also that he went to Melbourne/Victoria nearly every year – seems he might have had adult children living there, which adds weight to the idea his adult children came here. Some of them anyway! Dawn From: Mabel Harvey [mailto:mabel.harvey@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2014 4:59 PM To: Dawn Webb Cc: AUS-TASMANIA Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] ARMYTAGE and PETERS Hi Dawn your best bet would be to have a look on the new Tasmania LINC website the link to it is: http://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names had a quick look for you and there are lots of applicable records there including: MARRIAGE: George ARMYTAGE age 23 to Elizabeth PETERS age 17 at Hobart 29 September 1818 RGD36/1/1/290 BIRTHS: Ferdinand Felix ARMITAGE 14th Jan 1844 at Brighton RGD33/1/126/306 It looks like George was a Farmer Charles Henry ARMITAGE 24 August 1824 Hobart RGD32/1/1/1803 Emma Henrietta ARMITAGE 1840 Alfred ARMITAGE 1823 Frederick William ARMITAGE 1837 All the above Births match your details there are prob lots of other records but I will leave that for you as you should have some fun looking them up on the site now it has been updated. Don't d forget to also search using ARMITAGE . you are likely to find there immigration to Victoria on there as well. might be a good idea to view the tutorial first which only takes a few minutes. the site is FREE. maybe once you have more detail TROVE online newspapers will prob b worth a look Good luck Mabel On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Dawn Webb via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: And yet another Digger - Edwardian Index. Victoria 1902-1913 ARMYTAGE  Fredk Wm Event: D Father: Armytage Geo Mother: Elizth PETERS Age: 74 Death Place: S Y Year: 1912 Reg. Number: 12181 Well - I guess there will be a ship that brought the Tasmanian born across to Victoria as well as marriages etc? Please help! Dawn (Melbourne) The house Como is now a National Trust property and the Armytage family was well known.  I think (???) three spinster (Armytage?) sisters lived to a ripe old age there and died perhaps in the 1970s - and it went to National Trust if not earlier, with them being allowed to live their till they died. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- 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