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Some time has passed since I began this search and I have made some advancements.   I have found the man I have been searching for, George Henry Mortimer was born in Islington London in 1898 1st February. He served in the army in the first WW and was still in the army when he married in 1922. There were no children to him and his wife and there are no more directory entries after 1939.  Next thing I have is an entry in 1946 for him showing his birth as 1910 as a passenger from Sydney, Australia to Wellington NZ, these dates fit in exactly as the facts we have. I now want to try to fill in the gaps between 1939 and 1946.  I think he may have left his wife and joined up on a ship as a deckhand and jumped ship in Australia, if anyone has any suggestions for where I can look please let me know.

Thank you for your responses and yes I am still looking but since the original post quite a bit of information has come to the surface, as sometimes does with family trees.  We are now pretty sure that George Mortimer was not born in Newcastle, in fact there is evidence to prove that he was not the age as described on his death certificate as I do have a copy of the death with all the info. We now think her was born on 18th July (that is the only thing we do know) but as he was a lot older than our Mum we think he was born between 1895-1905. It was thought it could be London but I have almost exhausted that also, one other thing we know is that there was a sister called Lilian. 

I am looking for any information on the family of John Caldwell b.1700 in L'Derry and who migrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1771 via New York.  His son was James Caldwell whose family also migrated, James' son Johnand his children also went.  I am trying to find the names of the wives and any other siblings of thesefamilies that may have stayed back in Ireland, please help if you can, I would love to find the name of the ship on which they travelled also...BH

Hi, how good of you to do all this work-you must love it! I have something for you to do. Please lookup Gordon Radcliffe who was born in India but died in an auto accident in Auckland about 1991.  His first wife was Thelma, I think they married in India and had  4 children, one was born in Auckland about 1960 after which his mother died. See if you can find this family. If you need them I can give you names of the living children....Thanks BH