Hello all you good lookers!!
We have a marriage for Arthur Henry BEART to Ethel Mary GAUNT - they married in Victoria 1894 # 2096
then to Queensland where they had a son Arthur born 1899. (Possibly his second name was Maxwell - he's the only one who seems to fit, and Maxwell is a much used name in this branch of the family.)
Ethel Mary BEART had a daughter - (apparently out of wedlock) - Dorothy Heaton COOPER - father John Heaton COOPER. Born 4 Aug 1906 in Queensland - #009929
Ethel died in 1906 - it just say 7 1906 on the record I can see - please can someone see more - I am presuming Ethel died in Childbirth, or very soon after. #003215
It appears Arthur married again in South Australia to Clare SILVER 1909. Page 709 vol 329
What I am looking for is . .
1. What became of Dorothy COOPER? - I can't find any more trace of her -
2. What became of Arthur BEART jnr - I have a possible marriage date for A M Beart in 1917-1920 South Australia. and a possible death in 1961 also S.A.
There was some talk that Ethel had taken son, Arthur, to Tasmania to be brought up by the family there -
There's something funny going on here with Ethel we think
- maybe Arthur Hy Beart went and claimed his son back after her death . . . .
Any assistance would be most gratefully received.
Wiggy