« Reply #21 on: Friday 27 November 15 01:27 GMT (UK) »
Hi Cando, yes this is why I'm trying to find some conclusive proof that the Sarah Cole who died in Deniliquin in 1957 is the mother of George Charles Campbell born 1904 in Paddington because his mother was definitely born in 1875, albeit not as Sarah. The 1904 George Charles' birthdate ties in, albeit with a different year, with the details on the WW2 Attestations.
Sarah Cole's death cert from 1957 lists her as only having one child with Robert Henry Cole, a daughter born 1932. An ancestry tree belonging to the granddaughter of her son born in 1909, has a comment that the daughter was adopted by the couple. The death certificate doesn't list a daughter as being deceased, I would have thought if it was the same Robert and Sarah Cole that her husband would have listed a deceased child but anything is possible. That said, they do appear to be the only Robert and Sarah Cole in Hay.
I don't have the 1924 Marriage Cert, but the details on the ancestry tree list Sarah as born 1889 (her husband I think was born 1902) and her parents as Harry Campbell and Mary Little. I'm assuming she was probably listed as a widow but it would appear the parent's names from the tree were included on the marriage certificate as they are not on the death certificate, other than it listing her father's surname as Campbell. Mind you her death certificate states she was 35 years old when she married Robert Henry Cole, which would appear to be where the tree owner has got the 1889 birth year from, albeit that her age is listed as 74 which suggests a birth year of 1883. Obviously, 1883 would have just been young enough to have had a child in 1928.
As you can see, its a bit of a mess. I think I should email this new contact that apparently knows a lot about her after 1904 and see whether she can confirm when she died and whether the Sarah Cole who died in Deniliquin is the correct death.
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