G'day Ada, I've done a random sampling, comparing Hatches, Matches & Despatches against the Digger CDs Out of about 50 checks, I couldn't find the ones below in Digger Baptisms Goldsworthy, William Ward - Parents William C R & Isabel, birth 21 July 1902, Baptiam 28 Sep 1902 Church Reg#CL/2099 Father's Occ. Engine Driver St John's CoE, Creswick Gollan, Keith Alexander Baptism 23 Jan 1902 Scots Church Ballarat Glendinning, Ethel Bell - Parents Henry & Elizabeth - Birth 22 11 1875 - Bap 8 Aug 1877 - Church Reg #2442 - Father's Occ. Farmer - Residence Smeaton - St Paul's, Ballarat Trenerry, Alice Emily - Parents Joseph & Anna - Birth 8 Apr 1875 - Bap 9 5 1876 - Church Reg#639 - Fath. Occ. Miner - Res. Ballarat - St Peter's Ballarat (Siblings are listed in Digger) Cassidy, George James - Parents James William & Caroline Harriet - Birth 23 Aug 1856 - Bap 6 Jun 1858 - Church Reg#0026 - Father Occ. Miner - Res. Little Bendigo - St Paul's, Ballarat Burials Afflick, Carleen Swinton - Dth 25 Oct 1954 - Bur. 26 Oct 1954 - Church Reg#741 - Age 65 - Occ. Housewife - Springvale Crem - St Peters, Ballarat Goldsworthy, Joseph John Couch - Dth 10 Feb 1935 - Bur. 11 Feb 1935 Reg #Kingston - Age 78 - St John's, Creswick Marriages Mary Curtain m John Frederick William Ziplinsky - 26 Jan 1866 - Ch Reg# B2/290 - Ballarat - St Paul's Anglican There are also marriages & baptisms after 1920 & burials after 1985 Cheers... Pat... At 20/01/2004 Tuesday12:57 PM, you wrote: >Hello Pat, > >I don't have this cd (limited means in old age) can you indicate how many >marriages were not on the indexes? (Bit of an imposition, I know, but if I >refer to the cd and there's only one (which could be named) I don't want >to be taken to task by an irate purchaser who buys only for the one available) > >It will be just my luck that the marriage cd the registry has signalled >will contain most of the marriages I have found unregistered and will make >my article redundant! > >Regards Ada > > >At 19:46 15-01-04 +1100, you wrote: >>G'day Ada, >>I've found several BDM records on the Hatches, Matches & Despatches CD >>(Ballarat Church records) that are not in the Digger Indexes. >>Cheers... >>Pat.. >>At 15/01/2004 Thursday08:48 AM, you wrote: >>>Hello Diane, >>> >>>Did you make a note of the missing marriages? >>> >>> >>>I'm writing an article on "Missing marriages" starting with the CofE >>>non-registered ministers which research began in the Attorney General's >>>Correspondence, went to CofE archives, and the Ararat early newspapers. >>>Also the unregistered marriages of Rev Waterfield 1838-40, NSW maverick >>>presbyterian marriages disallowed by the courts, and a list of CofE BDM >>>at Bendigo And maybe the early NSW marriages performed after Gov Bligh >>>was deposed and anulled by the UK government.... and whatever other >>>anomalies I can find. Just to whet the appetite. Since I've actually >>>said I will submit it, I would like to cover as many anomalies as I can >>> >>>I've just heard that Portland has a local list of unregistered marriages >>>and am wondering if the listing you refer to could be similar. It may >>>be sufficient to just refer to the whereabouts of the list so people can >>>search for themselves (that's how the NSW presbyterian list will be >>>referred to, as I have not seen it myself). >>> >>>Of course, such an article cannot answer all the queries out there, and >>>could never be definitive, but may alert people and encourage a search >>>outside the Registrar General's indexes for answers. >>> >>>Hopeful..... Regards Ada >>> >>> >>>At 19:24 14-01-04 +1100, you wrote: >>>>The Geelong Heritage Centre has copies of the indexes to the St.Andrews >>>>baptisms. I don't think there were any baptisms missing from the >>>>Pioneer Index. I know I went through all the early St. Andrews >>>>baptisms at Births, Deaths and Marriages, I don't think any were >>>>missing, some of the marriages were but not baptisms. >>>>Dianne Hughes >>>>Teesdale >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== >>>>Geelong & District Towns and Regions : >>>>http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdtown.htm >>> >>>regards, >>>Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia >>>formerly Ackerly DocuSearch >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== >>>Geelong and District web site : http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/ >> >>pat@ozonline.com.au >>www.gencircles.com/users/pat-online (updated weekly) >>Check out the Cerberus http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cerberus/ there's an >>O'Sullivan! 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