He's not in Altona Cemetery either I checked that. Denise > Bryan. > > I spent some time yesterday afternoon trying to find a birth registration > for Francis Martell b. 1859 using the Victorian BDM cds that I have and > was > spectacularly unsuccessful. After I found his death 1921, Essendon, - I > did > do a search on the Fawkner Memorial Park, Springvale and St. Kilda > Cemeteries and came up with zilch. It might be worth putting a message on > either the Vic Rootsweb or Melbourne Rootsweb mailing list and asking what > cemetery someone might be buried in if they died in Essendon. If you could > find where he is buried and what section he is buried in, e.g., Church of > England, that will help you in relation to locating his baptism. > > Another thought is - could his birth have been registered in his mother's > name, that is Trimble. > > Cheers > > Anne >

Where would anyone be without the ever efficient pp Martell, Francis Place - Broadmeadows State - Victoria Date - 1 Aug 1921 Event - Death Source - Cemetery Transcript Unspecified Reference - C7/11/3 P57 Held by - Society of Australian Genealogists 120 Kent Street Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [HC] Baptism Martell Now that there is a date it would be worth checking the newspapers around that date pp > He's not in Altona Cemetery either I checked that. > Denise > > > > Bryan. > > > > I spent some time yesterday afternoon trying to find a birth registration > > for Francis Martell b. 1859 using the Victorian BDM cds that I have and > > was > > spectacularly unsuccessful. After I found his death 1921, Essendon, - I > > did > > do a search on the Fawkner Memorial Park, Springvale and St. Kilda > > Cemeteries and came up with zilch. It might be worth putting a message on > > either the Vic Rootsweb or Melbourne Rootsweb mailing list and asking what > > cemetery someone might be buried in if they died in Essendon. If you could > > find where he is buried and what section he is buried in, e.g., Church of > > England, that will help you in relation to locating his baptism. > > > > Another thought is - could his birth have been registered in his mother's > > name, that is Trimble. > > > > Cheers > > > > Anne > > > >