BIRKENSHAW mystery

[CLawlor]

I am looking for more information about Emily Maud BIRKENSHAW.She was adopted by Henry DUNBAR.
He married Elizabeth ? .They had a daughter May.Six years later he deserted his wife and 2 children.Elizabeth was destitute so she asked that Emily be taken into care and she was sent to the ?Industrial School in Sydney
There is an article about it in the Broken Hill newspaper 27 Aug 1897.
Does anyone know what became of her?
Regards Carolyn

[ennael]

BIRKENSHAW Emily Ann
3

17 Sep 1877
NRS 12266;
[4/10585];
Page 132,
COD 506

wrong Emily

http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexsearch/keyname.aspx

Leanne

[karenlee]

Hi

There is a marriage for an Emily Maud DUNBAR to a James Leonard WOOKEY in Victoria 1917.

Not sure if she is the right person but her marriage certificate should show her father.  Victoria BMD Certs can be searched, paid for and downloaded from



online.justice.vic.gov.au


Cheers
Karenlee

[Aussie1947]

Hi.

Emily Maude WOOKEY's death registration has her father as Thomas Dunbar & mother Ethel Hall.

1963, Prahran Victoria, age 69.
Reg: 21690.

Regards
Gerry

[karenlee]

Gerry... saw that too so have been looking for a marriage for a Thomas DUNBAR and Ethel HALL and for a birth of an Emily Maud DUNBAR to those parents in Victoria.  Not found any of that yet but of course that does not preclude their existence, but it also calls into question the knowledge of the person giving the information at Emily's death. 

Cheers
Karenlee

[Neil Todd]

Henry Dunbar and Elizabeth had a daughter Elizabeth M Dunbar in 1895, Broken Hill.

Given the time I would be looking at South Australian records as many travelled the shorter distance and she possibly married there.

Neil

[CLawlor]

Hi,
Thankyou for all your suggestions
The Elizabeth M is the May I mentioned in the first post.I thought it was strange that Henry Dunbar adopted Emily BEFORE he married .
Regards Carolyn

[ennael]

For clarification purposes:
The Industrial School for Girls  was at Parramatta, not Sydney.

http://www.parragirls.org.au/parramatta-girls-home.php

Leanne

[majm]

Hi there,

At the NSW SRO index for deceased estates, there are two files that pay point to possible parents for Emily Maud ... there's a chap named as Thomas Birkenshaw, of Balmain who died in 1883, and a lady, Elizabeth Birkenshaw, also of Balmain who died in 1890.   

NSW BDM index gives
Thomas W Birkenshaw's d.c. as #2291 of 1883. (no given name for his mother, and his father was recorded as William)
Elizabeth C Birkenshaw's d.c. as #2722 of 1890.  (no given names for parents)

From the newspaper cutting, Emily was adopted circa 1891 by Henry Dunbar. 
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44195530

From the NSW ER 1903, The BARRIER, polling at Burke (as in part of Broken Hill)
James DUNBAR, a miner, of Wolfham St
Verginia DUNBAR, at her domestic duties, of William St  (spelling of her given name as per the roll)

I cannot find any NSW BDM indexed reference for Henry Dunbar's marriage to Elizabeth, and I agree with Neil's suggestion re South Australia.  May I ask if you have a transcript of the 1895 b.c. for Henry's daughter with Elizabeth please?  It should give you details about both Henry and Elizabeth, when and where married, Elizabeth's nee and any former names etc.  It could well be that the adoption of Emily was undertaken because her birth parents were connected to either Henry or his then future wife, although the newspaper cutting makes no mention of that, so I should add that it is very much speculation on my part ...

Cheers,  JM