**COMPLETED**Charles Beames POTTER and Eunice Bertha BRAY

[cando]

I guess all will be revealed when you have the marriage cert and hopefully his age is correct

This is getting interesting


Cheers
Cando

[karenlee]

I have the cert and it shows his age as being 23 years and Eunice as 22 years.  Charles was born in Abbotsford..... is there one of them in Victoria??  Coz there's one in QLD and I am in the process of trying to find him here.....

Emily Louisa BEAMES and Edward Thomas BRAY were married in QLD 1899.... wonder why she was up here....??

Karenlee

[cando]

Yes there is an Abbotsford in Vic.  Will have another look at the indexes.

Cando

[mare]

Hi  

Where were they living in NZ Karen ? ... there is an Abbotsford in Dunedin area

  mare

[karenlee]

Hi mare

Around the Christchurch area I think.... that is where George POTTER's first wife Bridie nee O'CONNOR died in 1894.  She is buried in Linwood Cemetery.  George and Bridie were married in NZ in 1885.  Some of George's family were in the Auckland area though.  Both his parents Mary and James died around Mt Eden... one is buried Waikumete and the other somewhere around Mt Eden.. not found yet.

According to George's marriage certificate to Charlotte, he was widowed in 1894 - that fits - and he had 3 children all deceased.  Now on his death it says that he had no children at all........  I found one child born to George and Bridie in NZ... Eili Mary Josephine not sure where she was born though, but as  yet no death for her or any other children.

I have searched for Charles Beames in QLD but nothing coming up. 

Went back to the Electoral Rolls and found Charlotte and David ALEXANDER in Portland, so it appears that Charlotte went back home after George died and left Charles and Eunice in the house in Wynnstay street for a while.  Charles and Eunice went to live in the ACT where both of them died.

Karenlee

[cando]

Karen it would be interesting to see Charlotte's death cert to see if Charles is mentioned as issue.  I noticed that he dropped the Beames from his name in 1925 and 1935 in the ACT.

Cando

[mare]

Wasn't sure if it would add up, just an option for the equation  

[karenlee]

All suggestions and ideas gratefully received mare..... and I did consider NZ as a birthplace option for Charles..... just wish that I could find the other 2 children that George and Bridie supposedly had over there.

Karenlee

[cando]

Just another snippet

ACT Electoral Rolls
Charles was enrolled until 1949 at 11 Young Street, Barton with occupation warehouseman
and
Eunice at the same address HD and last in 1967 - limit of records.

Cheers
Cando