Maybe she changed her name - perhaps embarrassed? D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Hanson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:31 PM Subject: RE: [AVNE] Death - Ann Gedge > Denise, > > Guess what - David Baleham GEDGE and his wife Ann (nee BROOKMAN) were the > parents of the David GEDGE who was judiciously executed (charming phrase > isn't it). It's a long story which I won't go into now except to say I > have > been researching David GEDGE and his two fellow accused Elizabeth SCOTT > and > Julian CROSS for more years than I care to think about. I am writing a > book > about the case. They were all charged and found guilty of murdering > Elizabeth's husband, Robert SCOTT at Devil's River. It's a very sad tale. > > I'm attempting to locate a photograph of David GEDGE, hence am tracing all > sorts of relatives etc. > > Ann GEDGE seems to have disappeared sometime after 1863. Her husband, > David > Baleham GEDGE died in Richmond, Vic. in 1894. > > I think I've checked the Vic. divorce index but may be I should check > again. > > Many thanks for your interest. > > Cheers. > > Anne Hanson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Denise [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 24 April 2005 5:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AVNE] Death - Ann Gedge > > > Anne, David Gedge was judiciously hung in Melbourne's H M Goal in 1862 he > was a groom and 19 years of age. > Going by the age and date of marriage, I guess it can't be your man unless > the Inquest age was transcribed incorrectly. > Any chance Ann could have remarried? > Denise > > >> Hi All, >> >> I and others have searched high and low for a death entry for an Ann >> GEDGE >> (nee BROOKMAN) b. England, possibly Middlesex county, 1813/1814 - >> father's >> name Henry and she married David Baleham GEDGE, London in 1841. >> >> Ann was still alive and living near Buninyong, Vic. in 1863. I would be >> most >> grateful if someone came up with her death entry. I should mention Ann >> had >> 7 >> children betw. 1843 and 1858 - David, William Benjamin, George, Sarah >> Ann, >> James Robert, Joseph and Catherine Jane (born in 1858, Durham Lead, Vic.) >