Hello Peter, Are you saying that Frances LOMEN / LOMAN is definitely not your Frances LIOMIN? You said that the death certificate said 35 years in Victoria which is exactly the opposite to my argument of why 53 years was precise. 35 years is VERY imprecise and more likely a guesstimate and as she was married twice then chances are the informant was from her second family and possibly had no idea when she arrived in Victoria! Also, with such an unusual spelling of a surname it is extremely rare for transcribers to get it spot on. For example, my grandfather died in 1931. His surname on his death certificate is extremely easy to read ....... for me - because it was my maiden name - no doubt that it says FUSSEN however it was transcribed as TURNER. I can easily see how someone got TURNER out of it because someone wanted to RECOGNISE the name!!!!! .... and TURNER fitted - but it wasn't even close. So all the same warnings apply - as well as checking details! <vbg> Regards ...... Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter O'Sullivan" <sullivan2076@hotmail.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: [GEELONG] LIOMIN-Geelong/Melbourne Directories > Hello Everyone, > > My apologies. the death certificate of Frances LIOMIN stated 35 years, not > 53 years. > > I'd like to blame the email gremlins but it was my bad typing late at > night.
Hi Peter and list, Vic BDM has My gr gr grandmother listed as Louisa Flegg, although she was a Clegg, they have transcribed her mothers previous married name, which of course was Flegg. How I actually found her birth certificate was purely an accident. Human error huge! Also have found, no-one in one of my lines could write, being of scottish ancestry the first ones here, never got the "registrars" to understand them. hence frequent misspellings of the same surname. And our gr gr grandfather could have been born from 1859-1872 according to all his, wife's and his children's certificates. A little wiser now! Fran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Zada" <szada@zades.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] LIOMIN-Geelong/Melbourne Directories > Hello Peter, > > Are you saying that Frances LOMEN / LOMAN is definitely not your Frances > LIOMIN? You said that the death certificate said 35 years in Victoria which > is exactly the opposite to my argument of why 53 years was precise. 35 > years is VERY imprecise and more likely a guesstimate and as she was married > twice then chances are the informant was from her second family and possibly > had no idea when she arrived in Victoria! Also, with such an unusual > spelling of a surname it is extremely rare for transcribers to get it spot > on. For example, my grandfather died in 1931. His surname on his death > certificate is extremely easy to read ....... for me - because it was my > maiden name - no doubt that it says FUSSEN however it was transcribed as > TURNER. I can easily see how someone got TURNER out of it because someone > wanted to RECOGNISE the name!!!!! .... and TURNER fitted - but it wasn't > even close. > > So all the same warnings apply - as well as checking details! <vbg> > > Regards ...... Susie Z > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter O'Sullivan" <sullivan2076@hotmail.com> > To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:55 AM > Subject: [GEELONG] LIOMIN-Geelong/Melbourne Directories > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > My apologies. the death certificate of Frances LIOMIN stated 35 years, not > > 53 years. > > > > I'd like to blame the email gremlins but it was my bad typing late at > > night. > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Geelong & District Research Centres & Museums : > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdresc.htm >