You'd need fins and flippers right here at the moment. Worst rain and flooding in years. It's nice and green though! :) Okay, here's what I have on both birth certs. Cert No: 10657 21 March 1878 Town of Traralgon County of Bulla Bulla George Thomas Male No father's name listed. [possibly because Susan wasn't married to Thomas Dunn then.] Mother: Susan Bartlett Age 24 London England Informant: Susan Bartlett. Mother. 108 Rupert Street Collingwood. [I think I made a mistake in my other e-mail and put 104] "Declaration made by law as required" Witnesses: Mrs Bartlett Registered: 22 May 1878 Collingwood. Registered by: Adam Anderson. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priscilla Ann Dunn Platt: Cert No: 871 19 December 1879 Rupert Street City of Collingwood County of Burke Priscilla Ann Dunn... not present Female Father: John James Platt Labourer 39 years Staffordshire England [This wasn't true as Platt had died in 1877] Married: 2 August 1871 West Melbourne Victoria Issue Living: John Thomas 8 years. May 6 years, George Thomas [above] 1 year. Mother: Susan Platt formerly Bartlett Age 26 London England Informant: Susan Platt. Mother Islington Street Collingwood Witnesses: Mrs Webber and Mrs Bartlett Registered: 19 January 1880 Registered by: William Davies --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marjories siblings were: Louisa Emily Platt born 1881 Collingwood. Father: John James Platt [Platt died in 1877] Hector Bartlett Platt born 1883 Collingwood Father: John James Platt [ " " " ] Alfred Gordon Dunn born 1887 Collingwood. Father: Thomas Thomas Dunn born 1888 Collingwood: Father Thomas Ellen Josephine Dunn born 1889 Collingwood. Father: Thomas Leslie Dunn born 1891 Clifton Hill Father Thomas Bertha Alice Dunn born 1894 Clifton Hill Father Thomas Laurence Aubry Dunn born 1896 Clifton Hill Father Thomas All had Susan as mother. Hope you can find something and thanks! Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: <phasmann@cyberspace.net.au> To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN > Firstly Dale, if you are trying to make us feel sorry for you living in > Airlie Beach (references to weather), it isn't working! > > I can't find a birth for George in 1878 at all. Was he registered as > George DUNN or PLATT. When you say he and Marjorie were registered at > Traralgon, are you reading from their individual birth certificates? If > you can send me what dates you have, either B, M or D, for any of > Marjorie's siblings, I'll see what I can find from the CD's I have. > > Pam, > Clyde Vic > Beautiful one day, stinking hot the next! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Aha, George is registered as George BARTLETT. Assuming he was conceived in June 1877, (& Susan's hubby was still alive then) Susan may not have been sure who the father was??? Thomas DUNN & Susan BARTLETT are listed as his parents on his DC in 1969. Susan's parents, Hector BARTLETT & Ann GOLDING immigrated to Australia & were living and raising a family in Collingwood. Susan had 5 siblings born, in Collingwood, between 1858 & 1868. I think Susan's parents may have raised Margaret Young DUNN, Thomas's daughter from his first marriage. I found a death for a Margaret Young BARTLETT (Ballarat) in 1934 (b 1874). Her father is named as Thomas DUNN, mother unknown. I can't find a marriage anywhere, so am thinking she was given to the Bartletts to raise and she changed her name. I am almost certain your Marjorie is the natural child of Thomas & Susan Pam

A sad postscript...... Name: BARTLETT Hector Age: 63yrs Place: Collingwood Year: 1885 Ref. 504 Cause: Suicide Hanged Occupation: Plasterer ----- Original Message ----- From: phasmann@cyberspace.net.au To: aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN ........... Susan's parents, Hector BARTLETT & Ann GOLDING immigrated to Australia & were living and raising a family in Collingwood. Susan had 5 siblings born, in Collingwood, between 1858 & 1868. I think Susan's parents may have raised Margaret Young DUNN, Thomas's daughter from his first marriage. .............

Margaret Young Dunn [Flynn's Creek] whose parents were Thomas Dunn and Helen Young married George Bartlett April 13 1901. George Bartlett was the brother of Susan Bartlett. Can anyone tell me where Dunn's Crossing in Gippsland might be? Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: <phasmann@cyberspace.net.au> To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN > Aha, George is registered as George BARTLETT. Assuming he was conceived > in June 1877, (& Susan's hubby was still alive then) Susan may not have > been sure who the father was??? Thomas DUNN & Susan BARTLETT are listed > as his parents on his DC in 1969. > > Susan's parents, Hector BARTLETT & Ann GOLDING immigrated to Australia & > were living and raising a family in Collingwood. Susan had 5 siblings > born, in Collingwood, between 1858 & 1868. > > I think Susan's parents may have raised Margaret Young DUNN, Thomas's > daughter from his first marriage. I found a death for a Margaret Young > BARTLETT (Ballarat) in 1934 (b 1874). Her father is named as Thomas DUNN, > mother unknown. I can't find a marriage anywhere, so am thinking she was > given to the Bartletts to raise and she changed her name. > > I am almost certain your Marjorie is the natural child of Thomas & Susan > > Pam > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Dale, I see the parents of Thomas DUNN are named as Thomas & Priscilla PRICE on his 1942 DC. I found their marriage... DUNN, Thomas EM 273948 Marriage Spouse: PRICE, Priscilla Index Year: 1845 Reg Year: 1845 Reg State: New South Wales Ref Number: V1845744 30B Parish: Melbourne, St James' (Vic), Church of England .....but I can't find any births registered to them. Pam

Hi Pam, Yes, I have the marriage cert of Thomas Dunn and Priscilla Price. He was born in Co Kildare, Ireland in 1791 and emigrated around 1841 to Melbourne. He married Priscilla, from Devon, England [who came out on the Martin Luther] in 1845 but died in 1855 not 1942! That particular Thomas was his son [1848 to 1942] whom we are researching now. I have the records pertaining to Thomas from Ireland and his four children. Priscilla Anne Dunn [alias Marjorie] was named after her grandmother and tis she who is the mystery woman . . . . Dale. ----- Original Message ----- From: <phasmann@cyberspace.net.au> To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN > Dale, I see the parents of Thomas DUNN are named as Thomas & Priscilla > PRICE on his 1942 DC. I found their marriage... > > DUNN, Thomas EM 273948 Marriage > Spouse: PRICE, Priscilla > Index Year: 1845 > Reg Year: 1845 Reg State: New South Wales > Ref Number: V1845744 30B Parish: Melbourne, St James' (Vic), Church of > England > > .....but I can't find any births registered to them. > > Pam > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >