Hi Melissa What direction do you want to take with your research. Do you want to find burials, research back a further generation. Children? Lyn Baker ----- Original Message ----- From: "BJ MJ Hallyburton" <hallyburton1@bigpond.com> To: <aus-vic-geelong-district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:11 AM Subject: [GEELONG] Watson family research > Good morning Listers, > > > > I am hoping SKS might be able to push me in the right direction. I am > helping a cousin to research her side of the family and to date I have > been > able to find the following data: > > Hector Norman WATSON married Kate SADLER 1916 > > > > Hector died 1968 in Darlington, Victoria, aged 75 yrs (although > Ancestory.com has it Darlington and the Digger Disc has it listed as > Camperdown). I have no dates for Kate for anything. > > > > Hector's parents I've found to be Walter James Watson and Maris Caroline > CLARKE > > > > I have found Hector listed in the Elector Rolls in 1919, 1924, 1931 and > 1936. 1919 he was in Gnotuk and a Dairyman. In 1924, 31 and 36 he was in > Darlington, a Mail Contractor. Kate was listed with him each time as Home > Duties. I also found in the last 2 a mention of Maria Caroline WATSON also > as Home Duties. This does not tell me if Caroline was living with Hector > & > Kate, or on her own. I am guessing because I could find no mention of > Walter > Watson he may have already died. > > > > > > Also we are trying to find a Laura Dandy. All I have found for her is a > death in 1977 aged 88 yrs in Geelong. Parents listed in Digger Disc as > being > Millard Abel B DANDY & Frances SKELTON. My guess to date is that she may > have been buried in Darlington as I found no mention of her in the Geelong > Cemeteries. It appear she did not marry but had a daughter Phyliss in > 1923. > > > > This is the end of what I have been able to research and am hoping SKS > might > be of assistance to us with any more information or where we can look > next. > > > > Thank you all in advance, > > Have a good weekend, > > Melissa > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District > http://zades.com.au > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message