Hi All, Thanks very much to all those who sent me a "Welcome" email. My Great Grandfather was Henry Vincent BUTTERWORTH who was a ship's carpenter. In Australia he always went by the name "William" which was the name of his youngest brother and we believe that he "took" that name because he "jumped ship" along with the captain and other officers. We have nothing to prove this storey but to date I have not been able to find any shipping records of his arrive or ID him on any "Ships Deserter's List". He arrived in Australia between 1881 (he is shown on the 1881 UK Census) and 1888 (when he) married Ester (Asa Esther) CUTTS. Ester was born 1858 at Sandhurst (now called Bendigo), Victoria having grown up on the Bendigo Goldfields. They only had the one child - William Henry Vincent BUTTERWORTH. Ester's parents were Thomas CUTTS & Esther THOMPSON. They married 7 Dec 1857 in Victoria, Australia. Thomas was born 24 Jan 1836, Chr. 21 Feb 1836 at Brimington, Derby, England and Esther was born 6 Nov 1836 at Queens County, Ireland. Thomas & Ester had 12 children. On a separate email (Subject - 4 Generation Descendant Report based on Robert CUTTS ) I have given you the 1st 4 Generations of my CUTTS Line. I hope by doing this I will find a "long lost" relation or two. For those of you not familiar with the Australian BDM's that have been released I though you may be interested in the following: - Australian Vital records - Covers NSW (1788-1888); Tasmania (1803-1899); Victoria (1837-1888) & WA (1841-1905) for BDM. NSW Federation (1889-1918) for BDM. NSW Between the Wars (1919-1945) for DM only. Queensland Pioneer (1829-1889) for BDM. South Australia - Births (1842-1906). South Australia - Deaths (1842-1915). South Australia - Marriages (1842-1916) Victoria - Federation (1889-1901) for BDM. Victoria - Edwardian (1902-1913) for BDM. Victoria - Great War (1914-1920) for BDM. Victoria - Deaths (1921-1985) for deaths only. I have access to these records on CD and am happy to do a look-up for anyone on the List but please give me as much detail as possible. Finally if anyone can add or correct anything that I have on my information, please let me know. I believe that no one gets their info 100% and that we can all do with a bit of help along the way in correcting and extending our info. Talk to you all later. Best regards, ,--_|\\\\ ---------------------------------------- / \\\\ Ian Butterworth. \\\\_,--.x/ Member, Melbourne PC User Group v -------------------------------------------- 23 Glenvale Road RESERVOIR VIC 3073 AUSTRALIA Phone/Fax +61 (0) 3 9470-1170 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] For Life Address: [email protected] Web Site: http://member.melbpc.org.au/~ian