Just a, maybe interesting, sideline Our next door neighbour when I lived in Belton (then Suffolk) married an Eva Brackenbury, also from Belton. His brother shortly afterwards moved to Australia. There may have been a Brackenbury link connected with this move. David On 12/15/2015 6:22 PM, Rosemary Jones via wrote: > I found an Albert Brackenbury marrying Miss Mavis Knopka in Boilup, Western > Australia in July 1936. > > http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/212737362?searchTerm=albert%20brackenbury&searchLimits=l-decade=193 > > It may not be the right person but who knows? He wouldn't be the first > seaman to have jumped ship. > > You would probably need to get the marriage certificate from Western > Australia to see if the ages match, if nothing else. > > After that, the Australian Electoral Rolls on Ancestry.com.au may have > something unless they were in South Australia in which case there won't be > anything (they aren't online). You should also look for more articles in > the newspapers in Trove (see link above). > > Rosemary > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:37 AM, paulsheila+sandp via <norfolk@rootsweb.com >> wrote: >> Can anyone help? >> A query on behalf of a Brackenbury cousin who is not in the web: >> >> Albert G. Brackenbury whose birth was registered in the Mutford >> district of Suffolk in 1913 was a son of Frederick William and Blanche >> Brackenbury. >> Albert became a seaman and is known to have married a Jane Wylie in >> 1935 in Liverpool and had a daughter Catherine (Blanche) Brackenbury >> born in Liverpool in 1936. >> >> Albert later disappeared without a trace and none of the family know >> what happened to him! >> He had a brother, Frederick, who went to New Zealand and some of the >> family speculated that Albert may have followed Fred and others suggest >> he may have been lost at sea. >> If anyone has any information about Albert we would be glad to hear >> from you and pass it on. >> Thanks, >> Sheila >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus