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Yettigirl
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Driver Family Lookup please
« on: Monday 19 September 05 10:11 BST (UK) »
Can someone please see if a Robert Francis Helliot Driver immigrated to Australia from England sometime between 1855 and 1876.   I think he may have gone to Victoria.  Hoping someone can help me trace my great grandfather and any of his family.
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Re: Driver Family Lookup please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 19 September 05 13:18 BST (UK) »
I found the following in my copy of Victorian BDM to 1888.  He moved to and settled in Victoria for a while, before moving to Tasmania. 

Births:

DRIVER, Ethel Maud Evelyn   CB 568311  Birth
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Paris Annie
Event Place:   Emerald H
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1877
Ref Number:   15321

DRIVER, Robert Cecil   CB 568436  Birth
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Paris Ann
Event Place:   Em Er
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1878
Ref Number:   22621

DRIVER, Francis Herbert   CB 568322  Birth
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Paris Ann
Event Place:   Emer
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1879   
Ref Number:   22887

DRIVER, Amy   CB 568240  Birth
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Paris Annie
Event Place:   Sand (not sure what this is the abbrev for)
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1881
Ref Number:   5504

DRIVER, Amy Elizabeth   CB 568241  Birth
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   U Annie
Event Date:   01 Dec 1880
Reg State:   Tasmania
Reg Year:   1882
Ref Number:   6811

(Amy's birth seems to have been registered both in Victoria and Tasmania.  There is also a christening record from Tasmania.)
DRIVER, Amy Elizabeth   CC 568242  Christening
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Annie U
Event Date:   01 Dec 1880
Reg State:   Tasmania
Reg Year:   1882
Ref Number:   6811

DRIVER, William   CB 568466  Birth
Father:   Robert
Mother:   Paris Annie
Event Date:   14 Jan 1884
Reg State:   Tasmania
Reg Year:   1884
Ref Number:   1540

Deaths:
DRIVER, Francis Herbert   CD 246549  Death
Father:   Robert Francis
Mother:   Paris Ann
Age at Death:   1D
Birthplace:   Emerald Hi
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1879
Ref Number:   10428   

DRIVER, Robert Cecil   CD 246613  Death
Father:   Robert Franc
Mother:   Paris Ann
Age at Death:   U
Birthplace:   Emer
Reg State:   Victoria
Reg Year:   1878
Ref Number:   11132

I couldn't find the reference to his marriage to Ann Paris.

The last birth I could find was in Tasmania in 1884 so you will need to search the indexes there to find where he died. 
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Lookups:  NSW & Norfolk Musters to 1828; Rookwood Cemetery and Woronora Cemetery transcriptions and grave photographs - post at Australian Emigrants board
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Re: Driver Family Lookup please
« Reply #2 on: Monday 19 September 05 13:22 BST (UK) »
There were two Robert Drivers arriving in Victoria.  Your Robert was the second arrival - he was an unassisted immigrant (http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/Index_search.asp?searchid=23):

DRIVER   ROBERT   
Adult
arrived: AUG 1853
Ship: VICTORIA   
Port: B
Fiche: 049
Page: 002
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Re: Driver Family Lookup please
« Reply #3 on: Monday 19 September 05 20:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks very much for what you have found.  I know Robert and Annie married in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1876.  They seemed to travel between Australia and New Zealand in the first few years before finally settling in Dunedin, NZ.
I thought Robert was born around 1855 in England because it said he was 21 years when he married in 1876 on the church register so that would mean he was born around 1855.  The Robert you have said that arrived in 1853 as an adult just doesn't add up.  Wondering why now but thank you very much for the other details. 
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