Thank you all very much for your help.
It is a really difficult one but I appreciate your help. I am trying to find any lead I can.
My gut feeling tells me the Terence Francis Lynch in Ballarat is not one and the same as mine. (I believe the TFL in Ballarat had a son with the same name also).
My TFL could not read nor write and seemed to be deserting his wife regularly.
Frederick was a son of theirs (apologies for leaving him off my list Jamjar - I had to rush out after I posted)
It's as though they (Terence and Mary) just disappeared from Emerald Hill so I am trying to make sure I seek out as much information from the possibilities I have found.
I have quite a lot on Terence and Mary's children. One child Edwin, who was in the Army in Victoria (his wife was recorded as Next of Kin) moved to Western Australia, had the incorrect parents details on his Marriage Certificate (even his name was recorded as Ernest Edward & Ernest Edwin Lynch on the birth records) and on his Death Certificate, his parents were recorded as 'Unknown'. He was very young when Terence was deserting his wife.
I will look at all the information you have posted and see if I can find anything from that.
Again, thanks very much!
Karen :-)
