This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tania_Dennis Surnames: Bligh Classification: will Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11674.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Following on from Leanne's post, if you go to address below and search using party details for sylvia pearl bligh it may give you a further lead. http://apps.courts.qld.gov.au/esearching/ Cheers Tania Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RhondaEmbee Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ellen, have you seen this death notice? The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 26 June 1939 HOLMES - On the 24th June 1939, at his residence 29 Iona street, Black Rock, Thomas William Henry Holmes, loving father of Haidee (Mrs W A Edwards), Gladys (Mrs H. M. McEwan) and Dawn aged 79 years. Who was daughter Dawn? Rhonda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: corahlf Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11674.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Ancestry Electoral Rolls show a Sylvia BENNETT in QLD, I do not have access to same. The following may be of interest from Ryerson Index: BLIGH Sylvia Pearl Death notice 29 SEP 2004 Death late of Chapel Hill Courier Mail (Brisbane) 01 OCT 2004 3 entries. Free BMD have the following : CAIN Sylvia P SIMMONS Colchester 4a 1404 Leanne Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RhondaEmbee Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is the record. Marriage Index. Victoria 1921-1942 Family Name: HOLMES Given Name: Thos Wm Henry Spouse Family Name: COLES Spouse Given Name: Edith Mary Registration Year: 1922 Registration Number: 5292 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: though who did this other Thomas William Henry Holmes married? that married in 1922? did it say? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi, yes, it's the same Thomas William Henry Holmes who married Blanch Emily Peregalli and unfortunately had an affair with someone named May Wright who could've been some servant of some sort and had a child who was born in 1927 and the father raised her until he died.... Ellen Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: andreamitchell1967 Surnames: McGraths Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11676/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My mother always mentioned relatives in Kyneton with the name of McGrath, but i have yet to find any link while doing the family tree. Is there a way of finding out who they might be without resorting to calling all Mcgraths in the Kyneton area? Thanks Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

April Sans Souci is in New South Wales you need a mailing list for that area, Victoria is a different state. Eileen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jessicabennett01 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11674.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Oh my gosh, Yes that is her, now I know her full name and DOB I might have better luck in my searches. Thank you so much! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Sad_Mushroom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11674.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, This from National Archives...do the names match (I have removed the dates for privacy purposes but will send them via PM) BENNETT William born ; Sylvia Pearl (nee Cain) born ; William born ; Jacqueline Ann born ; travelled per CASTEL FELICE departing UK on 5 February 1964 under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme Kellie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RhondaEmbee Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Ellen I'm just a little confused with this search. Thomas William Henry HOLMES and Blanch Emily PEREGALLI were married in 1882 (Reg #4915); and Blanch Emily aged 69 died in 1930 S YARRA. Do you mean to say this man aged about 67 had a child in 1927, and died at the age of 79? There was another man of the same name who married in 1922. Rhonda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jessicabennett01 Surnames: Bennett Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11674/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am searching for my paternal grandmother Sylvia Bennett. All I know about her is that she originated in Scotland and moved to Australia when my dad was about 5 years old (1963, 64, 65?) and she was married to a William Bennett. If anyone knows anything about a Sylvia Bennett, please contact me as I am desperate to find her. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: thanks for all the help by the way : ) Ellen Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi, yeah, and actually, about the May D Wright who married Hans Broduner, in Queensland, that I've figured out that it just didn't make any since anyways, since she probably would've been married by then when she did arrived to Australia from England or that she met him in Australia and it was just a totally different May Doris Wright and not what we're looking for, so I just deleted that one post..... so anyways sorry about that.... and about the prayers book, we were just wondering about that if the book was from England or Australia, and I was going to look at that book again when we were up visiting my grandparents and just forgot about it and we don't really know, but I'll probably call my grandmother or something, sometime to see if she knows.... and no, not really much other than what it had on the first page that had May Wright on it.... and we think that this W. Fowler that was written on the book, could be like a teacher of some sort during the confirmation/communion that he/she given the book to May Wright when May Wright was confirmed in 1915, and there were no sons by the way from Thomas William Henry Holmes, my grandmother's father.... only two daughters from when he married Blanch Emily Peregalli, Gladys Sylvia Marian Holmes, and Haidee Violet Blanche Holmes..... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Sad_Mushroom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Here's the problem. It's too hard and time consuming for people to try and trace every possible May/Doris WRIGHT that might/might not fit the profile. The records here on Ancestry don't cover the years you require for VIC and chasing a name Australia wide (without any other connecting info) is not reasonable. You really need to have VIC BDM do a full search using her birthdate and providing whatever other information they require, so that you can try and work out one way or another what has happened. Even ask VIC BDM for a search of possible deaths of her mother in Aug 1927 (using just first name or surname and the date). Atleast then you would have some idea what is true and what is family story. The Book of Prayers which has May WRIGHT written in it. Does that have any 'clue' as to where it came from? eg. any clue if it was given to May in England or Australia or any other information? (scribbled notes etc) Kellie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Sad_Mushroom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Thanks for that. A few issues though....By 1927 birth and death registration was ABSOLUTELY compulsory. There would be no way for the hospital to hide the birth and absolutely no way to hide a death as a death certificate would have been needed for a burial and I doubt they just buried her in the backyard. I'd say the Private Medical Clinic would have actually been a hospital for unwed mothers. Does the baptism record state a mothers name and/or place of birth etc? Has your grandmother ever applied to VIC BDM using the date given on her baptism record and the place of birth etc or even her mothers name to have a search done for a birth with possible name variants? ((This is totally different than applying for a birth cert using exact details. When applying for a birth cert using exact details ONLY a search for those exact details is carried out)) If her mother died and could not register the birth it may have been recorded by the hospital or by Thomas and might not be the name she is using now. Even though the family may have done everything to hide the affair they could hardly convince the Government/Registrar/Hospital Board/Doctors and the Law to hide all traces just to hide an affair (especially when the father was going to take home the child and raise her anyway) Did Thomas have any sons old enough to be the father? Was pretty common for grandparents to raise grandchildren as their own. As we cannot access births for 1927 in VIC especially for people still living, you would need your grandmother to apply for a search to be done. Explaining there might be a name change/registration issue and using the baptism record might be your best chance at finding the truth. There doesn't appear to be a death reg for May WRIGHT in 1927 but there are marriages in 1929 and 1933 for Doris May WRIGHT's that might be connected. Kellie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: though there is a marriage record on Ancestry.com that I found of May Doris Wright who married Hans Johann Ulrich Roduner married on 31 Oct 1925, in Queensland, Australia, and will like to know if this is in any relation to May Doris Wright as mentioned above in the very first post... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: and if we can just find a death and possible marriage record for this particular May Doris Wright, it will help prove or disprove if this is definitely the right May Wright that I've been looking for or not..... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi, she was raised by her father Thomas William Henry Holmes. My grandmother does have a baptismal record that has her birth date 10 Aug 1927. but no birth record, since she was born in a private medical clinic or centre, where they probably didn't bother to keep any birth/death records when she was born and when the mother died, since the family was doing everything they can to keep the affair of Thomas W. H. Holmes and May Wright a secret and since it was a shame to the family. and my grandmother's stepsisters from what I heard, destroyed everything they can of records and such of May Wright. and the only evidence that we have for May Wright, is of her book of common prayers that my grandmother still has, that had writing on the first page "May Wright from W. Fowler, May 1915" and the May 1915, gave us kind of a clue that that was the year of her communion and that May Wright would have been born by 1899. and that there's only one painting of my grandmother's mother that's at my grandmother's house, that her father Thomas had it made from an original photo that Thomas kept, meaning that Thomas must have cared for May Wright after she died.... and I just for some reason feel confident that this May Doris Wright could be the right one after looking at so many possible May Wrights on Ancestry.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Sad_Mushroom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Apart from memories or family stories what documentation do you have in regards to your grandmother? Who raised her after her mother died? (eg. was she adopted/fostered, raised by mothers or fathers family etc?) I hate to say it but as your grandmother would have been too young to remember she would only be repeating what she was told, there is always the chance her mother never died but gave her up when she was born (possibly married and went on with her life) Trying to 'skip' a generation to match up records is never easy and not very often successful. It would be better to start with your grandmother and work backwards. I remember on another post you stated her birth was never registered and to be honest (again) that just doesn't ring true. Chances are she was just not born with the SURNAME (or name) she is using. Knowing who raised her might give you some clues to find what you are looking for. Kellie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>