Have you considered that the marriage may have taken place "on" the Jetty of the Grooms Residence at The Steam Packet Hotel. Assuming of course that this hotel had a beachfront location. Tony Meade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Ward" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:27 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] W'bool "Jetty" & Lady Bay Hotel > Hi all > > I have a marriage certificate of George SHAKESPEARE and Julia Belinda COOK > from 1870 which gives the location of the marriage as "the residence of the > groom, Jetty " and I've always assumed that "Jetty" was the name of a house. > > However I've just looked up the Warrnambool rate books for the 1870s and I > see that there was an area of town called "Jetty Allotments". Can anyone > confirm my current assumption that "Jetty" was (maybe is) a locality in > Warrnambool? > > George Shakespeare ran the Steam Packet Hotel, which I'm told was on the > site of the present Lady Bay Hotel. Would the LBH be at "Jetty" ? > > Regards > > Malcolm Ward > [email protected] > Sydney, Australia > > > > >