Ancestry has him on electoral rolls in 1949 in Surry Hills, then 1954, 1958 and 1963 at Paddington. When I looked at the records he was at 536 or 586 Bourke St, groomeman with Vera Evelyn McCoy Home duties in 1949. In 1954 he and Vera were at 56 Renny St also with Vera, the same details, same address in 1958 and in 1963. He was listed as a groom in all of these and Vera as home duties. There is also a tree with the following details: * /Birth: / 6 Mar 1899 - Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States * /Marriage: / 1918 - Norfolk Island * /Death: / 1968 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia * /Parents: / Michael Baker Quintal Mccoy, Elsie Adeline Christian * /Spouse: / Helena Lillian Quintal Hope this is useful. Anne

Gloria and Anne Thankyou so much for your efforts, Yes I have seen the various Ancestry records, and had the service records of him and his children to his first marriage (five of them serving in WWII) digitised Edwin Daniel (Stanny) was Bn on Norfolk Island, Helena Quintal was his first wife, they had seven children together, She left him and children on Norfolk Island with family support and went to Sydney to work as a contracted housekeeper Once war broke Stanny, His Brother Goldie, and eldest son Alfred enlisted together, Within the next three years his eldest daughter and two more sons enlist, the last being my father (Who put his age up two years) Amazingly he was enlisted into the same Battalion as his father, but by the time he joined the Battalion on the Atherton Tablelands, his father had been injured and in hospital while there he met Vera, he was transferred to transport and my father never saw him until after the war was over. He sometime during this time married Vera, I do not know much of her side of the family (like her maiden name) By this time Stanny's father had died another son had enlisted and had also brought his younger brother with him to Sydney to Helena I do know the him and Helena remained in contact, her posing as his sister and helping Vera out with her young children ( I believe she had nine) ...lol..they all knew my "Nana McCoy" as Aunty Helen, who's Sydney friends included none other than "Tilly Devine" as well as a few other Norfolk Island women who remained in Sydney after the war. My father and two of his siblings returned to Norfolk Island while the rest of his family remained in N.S.W. My father's side of the children knew but never spoke of it. I am just glad that my father's family got a chance to meet some of thier younger half siblings once they knew the truth Cheers Liz Liz McCoy No 9. Quality Row Kingston Norfolk Island 2899 Phone: 0011 6723 23009 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message