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Hi, I am endeavouring to upload a photo a photo of two merged Marriage Certificates in order to ascertain the signatures of the groom on each certificate...  The original post is in the Northumberland Lookup Requests - William Mason wed Mary King but for some reason the attach files app is not working for me there - so trying here....hopefully this works 

Hi,

Wondering if someone could please help me decipher a particular surname on this 1913 Death Extract

I only scanned the headings for reference purposes but my interest lies in the second one with the Informant Mary Ann Smith...the difficult bit is the name of the husband she first Married in Column 12 as well as the other details....

Managed to work out the marriage occurred in Tasmania - but what the grooms full name is has me tossed...John Barby perhaps???

Any clues or suggestions would help as I am not able to access the Tasmanian marriage records at this time.

Tom

Hi...

Having difficulty tracing the parents of Elizabeth GILES who was born about 1825 in Plymouth Devon and was hoping someone could assist please.

The only information on her has come from her Victorian Marriage Certificate in 1855 to a William Glover (have separately posted and also a query regarding Deciphering that certificate here : http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=665867.0 ) she stated she was 30 years old at that time and born in Plymouth Devon.

Her father was John Giles a Mariner and mother Elizabeth (surname illegible)

Have not been able to find her arrival in Australia nor death (possibly Victoria) which occurred between 1863 and 1902 (from her husbands Death Certificate) but hoping to find her and her family in Plymouth and then working out her mothers maiden name from that - perhaps a marriage reference for John and Elizabeth so I can get the Registration if possible and then trace the family from that and identify any siblings.

There are various possibilities for John Giles listed on FindMyPast but was hoping to narrow them down somewhat by a birth registration number for Elizabeth and then obtaining Certificates etc..

The 1841 Census hasn't proved helpful and quite possible her father John Giles, being a mariner; was not at home when the census fell nor Elizabeth who would have been about 16 - so the family is not listed together (that I could find  ).

Possible Christening on IGI for 1 June 1828 in Ashburton Devon with a John Giles and Elizabeth as parents but that is 3 years later than the year I have and does not mention a maiden name so any help or suggestions in finding this family and in particular her birth would be appreciated thanks... Tom

Hi,

I have posted a photo of a soldier on the Army forum and have attached a link to it here:-

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=663076.new#new

Hoping someone on that forum could identify the uniform he wears but additionally am trying to place an approximate date on when the photo was most likely taken.

Unfortunately there is no photographers stamp or other identifying material on the photo or the backing but believed taken in Victoria Aus.....possibly Geelong or Ballarat from similar backdrop photos in the collection it was with...but that's only a suggestion though....may have been all the photographers at that time had similar backdrops and vases  .

Any help in dating our soldier or identifying his uniform would be appreciated thanks.......Tom

ps...sorry about the quality but he's a bit faded with age....happens to most of us eventually 

Hi,

I am trying to find details for William Hopwood TOOLE and his family in Ireland

Details obtained say he was born circa 1824 in Ireland and his parents were Henry TOOLE and Ann DOWLING...he migrated to Australia prior 1858 and died in Victoria in 1893.

It's possible he arrived on the Anna Maria at  Portland Victoria in Feb 1856 ex London along with Emily Toole (18 years) and Elizabeth Toole (19 years), but I have no additional knowledge of any siblings at this stage...  the age stated on the Ship Manifest for William gives him a year of birth in 1831, not the 1824 which his Death and Marriage details show - so that may not be him..

His Death and Marriage Certificates don't shed any additional information on his origins prior to him migrating and am yet to research the two girls mentioned so was hoping someone could  help me track him down through any Census or Parish details in Ireland or equally point me in the direction where I can make a start on possible County or area they may have come from etc .

Would appreciate any help or suggestions please...........Tom