Victorian Birth Registration Place

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

I have a 2 Doodson brothers who married 2 Gardiner/Gardener sisters in 1853 & 1856 in Sydney and ventured to Victoria from Sydney for a few years in late 1850s before going back to NSW. 

There were a few births and a couple of deaths registered in Victoria during their stay but I don't know where a couple of the birthplace abbreviations relate to.

BEE and B'worth would probably mean BEECHWORTH but I need help with the following birth places.

SYDNEY FLA
W'SHED

Any ideas please.

Gerry

[judb]

Hi Gerry

Victorian place name abbreviations can be quite enigmatic as you have found.  My understanding is that there was no standardisation for the abbreviations at all.

The Resources section has a couple of sites which may help - but not in your case!

Place names in Victoria abbreviations
·   http://talltrees.sirrah-comp.com/resources/vic_abbr.htm
·   http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/ifhaa/misc/vicnames.htm

I note that there is a 'Woolshed Rd' in Beechworth so perhaps that's one of them? 

Not much help, really - sorry.

Judith

[Aussie1947]

Hi Judith,

Thanks for the response, I forgot there was one more

Death of Ann DOODSON, Vic, 1857/2274, birth place SYDN 

The Woolshed Rd sounds logical and it's in Beechworth.

Gerry

[warncoort]

SYDN is Sydenham.

[~MERLIN~]

WOOLSHED/WOOLSHED FALLS near Beechworth
SYDNEY FLAT near Bendigo

You can trace names of places via the registration numbers on the VIC index to see the various abbreviations & spellings given.

[Aussie1947]

Thanks Warncoort and Merlin for your responses,  I might be lucky and find the infant burials for Jane Doodson at Beechworth in 1859 and Ann Doodson at Sydney Flat or Sydenham in 1857.

Gerry