----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Player" <player6@bigpond.com> To: "Susan Patterson" <aapatterson@bigpond.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 5:34 PM Subject: Re: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D Digest V05 #217 > Hi Susan, > > I was very interested in your information about marriage. I have an ancestor > Thomas Fowler who married Jane Broughton/Bruton in 1851 in Port Phillip (I > have yet to find a record). The marriage information came from his sons' > birth certificates (William John 1855 and Thomas jnr 1857) the latter birth > took place in Buninyong. In both cases the father was the informant. He > described himself as a butcher (1855) and miner (1857). > > I am descended from the older son William John. On William's marriage > certificate his mother is listed as Sophia Fowler. In 1864 there is a > marriage between Thomas Fowler (snr) and (Ellen) Sophia Ball. On the > certificate he describes himself as a bachelor and no children are > mentioned. On his death certificate in 1913 his children William and Thomas > are mentioned as well as several others - none from his wife Sophia. Three > marriages are noted - first two 'unkown'. The children are recorded as being > from previous marriages. > > Meanwhile Jane Fowler is recorded as giving birth to a daughter 'Jane' in > Buninyong, 1864 who died six months later. She describes the child as > illegitimate but lists her other children including William John and Thomas. > She also lists an older son Henry and a couple of stillbirths. > > In 1878 I found a death cert for a Jane Fowler, right age, in a Lunatic > Asylum in Kew. > > I am stumped as to what happened here. Did Jane lose the plot, have an > affair and Thomas abandon her for Sophia? Or did he get cosy with Sophia > causing Jane to hit rock bottom? How was he able to marry again? > > I would love to hear any theories of ideas. > Cheers Maureen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Patterson" <aapatterson@bigpond.com> > To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:33 PM > Subject: Re: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D Digest V05 #217 > > > > Former convicts could marry after seven years. It was like the seven years > > people had to wait, when someone disappeared, before the estate could be > > cleared up. > > Susan > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D-request@rootsweb.com> > > To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:00 AM > > Subject: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D Digest V05 #217 > > > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > > Victorian place names database > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~auswgw/vic_place_names.htm > > >