From the same firm - Crawford & Co. Staff Martells of Eldorado was the coaching stop/transfer stop for Crawford & Co. coaches. Denise > 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 >> > >> >> >