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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: aussie-girl on Wednesday 07 June 17 06:26 BST (UK)
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Looking for any information about Gavin , born abt 1940 , died 2008 in Perth , WA
TIA, AG
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http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=KC00171715
Gavin Hamilton FRENCH also known as Guy FRENCH
Date of Death: 18/07/2008
Aged: 68 years
Suburb: Mount Pleasant
Karrakatta Cremation, Ashes, taken by funeral director at Karrakatta Cemetery
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For just $8 you can have access to The West Australian 2004-current(-1 day) for 24 hours.
https://archive.thewest.com.au/sign_up1.php?sc=0
Of course there may not be a death notice (no entry on ryerson). But if you have a few people to look up it can be worthwhile.
Ros
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Electoral rolls
Gavin Hamilton FRENCH - no-one else of that surname at that address
1968 at 43 Corbel St, Riverton WA, paper technologist
1972 at 5 Leichart St "Mlvl Gl" (sorry don't know abbreviation) WA, engineer, with Maisie Evelyn FRENCH hd
1977, 1980 at 5 Leichart St, Bull Creek (obviously the same address!), with Maisie as above and Peter Raymond FRENCH, police officer.
1980 all three at 535 Marmion St, Booragoon WA. Gavin's occupation here: manager
Judith
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Would not believe it , every month of 2008 on The west archives ,except July only had to the 4th ...Just my luck. this chap is proving to be very hard to find any details
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http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/search/index.aspx
FRENCH Gavin Hamilton born 26 December 1939; travelled per aircraft departing UK on 6 March 1964 under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme
Doesn't appear on freebdm database so born elsewhere.
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Cando
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I have just joined this group and I believe that Gavin is a close relation of mine.
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Welcome to Rootschat, Calderlass
Aussie-girl will be pleased to see your post. I notice she is still active on R'chat so she should receive notification of your post. You will need tomake 2 more posts yourself if you wish to use the Private Message system here.
Cheers, Judith
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I see from other posts he had no one to collect his ashes. How sad.
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Gavin had one sister and one brother. Both have now passed. He didn’t keep in touch with his family after moving to Australia.
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I see from other posts he had no one to collect his ashes. How sad.
The funeral director took his ashes from the crematorium at Karrakatta. Nothing unusual with this. Why is this sad?
Cando
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Hi
I confirm that in NSW the ashes are usually collected from the crematorium by the funeral director. I am not sure why, but perhaps it could be so that the funeral director is responsible for ensuring that ashes are handed to the person who made the arrangements with the funeral director, including the financial aspects. I am not sure of the W.A. practices, but in NSW it is usually the funeral director who lodges the paperwork to register the death.
Aussie-girl asked about the 2008 death earlier this year. I would expect she was asking this to advance her own family history, and thus Gavin was a member of her own family?
Fingers crossed that Aussie-girl and Calderlass can exchange PMs and share their backgrounds.
JM
Looking for any information about Gavin , born abt 1940 , died 2008 in Perth , WA
TIA, AG
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I have just joined this group and I believe that Gavin is a close relation of mine.
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Gavin had one sister and one brother. Both have now passed. He didn’t keep in touch with his family after moving to Australia.
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Thank you for explaining that it is normal practice for the funeral director to collect the ashes. Much appreciated.