My wife's great grandfather, James Anderson, married twice. His first wife, Jane Fellows, died in 1853 and her death certificate records that she had been married in Victoria, for 7 years (thus making it around 1846), to James Anderson. The certificate records five children - none of whom are noted as 'dead': John 6 Samuel 5 Agnes 4 Catherine 3 Infant 10 days Jane's cause of death was listed as 'Childbed' For some reason James' first marriage and the offspring are not noted on the second marriage certificate (1854). However, birth certificates for first few children of the second marriage all note the first marriage and the deaths of four of the children - Samuel being the only survivor. Diligent searches of the indexes has failed to locate a record of the first marriage or any of the five births. Nor has any trace of the deaths of the four deceased children. >From other evidence it is known that James held land in the Bulla/Wellington/Kakallo area. His first wife and her parents are all buried in the old Kalkallo cemetery - and the first few children of the second marriage were all born at Bulla. Can anyone throw any light on how I might trace records of these missing events? Peter, the older of the tworobbos @ Bairnsdale, gateway to the mountains, lakes, streams (and remnant forests) of East Gippsland