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Only two beaches I have been to in UK are Brighton and Llandudno !! I will see if I can find some photos - it was pre digital days (for me) unfortunately so harder to find

Trish

But surely on this page:-

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

in the top box there used to be a choice of Births, Marriages and Deaths?  Now there are only the Ms & Ds!     Does this mean that the FreeBMD Births are now complete?

It seems as though the subscription goes up and the contents comes down.  Now the Incoming Passenger lists are unavailable on the UK subscription.

Salvia

They have replaced the unindexed  births 1837-1983 with the fully indexed births 1916-2005.  For births before 1916, use Freebdm on ancestry or on the free bdm site. You no longer have to search by quarter to find births. Check the Rootschat threads on this board - there is lots of discussion.

You will find what you want in one of Stan's links

Trish

Edit I can still get the incoming passenger lists with my Australian subscription - usually has less England than the UK subscription 

hi Don

Google finds the clipping in NZ with the information from Sydney about the Lindale Colliery - but I can find very little else about it. I began to wonder if they were referencing Newcastle in UK, so I checked there for a birth for Albert Lindale without any success. Given as you mentioned Armidale, I guess it was not going to be successful

Trish

If you are going to chat over here Dave - you had best learn the lingo of those descended from the population of the UK who had the good sense to accept a government trip to other Climes 

Costs us an arm and leg to purchase BDM records over here - transcriptions are the cheaper option and you can still buy 5 from scotland for the price of 1 over here. It is also quicker to buy certificates from England (in Australia) than to buy them from Australian registeries - hence Di's comment cheaper and faster if a transcript is available.

Hi susan

I would think the IOL  may still be a way of writing TOL - but the time is interesting.  Convicts needed permission to marry (and if a record can be found it should include the name of his wife to be) - however there were "convict exiles" who arrived after 1846 that instantly received Ticket of leave. 
Some indexes at the archives mentioned by Di that may help - but as you know there are many Joseph Smiths!  Finding a "permission to marry" if he was a convict, would be most useful
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=19

There only seems to be 1 convict exile Joseph Smith - but he went to Moreton Bay - may have stayed in Queensland.

Was the fact that Mary was a free immigrant also on the marriage record? or have  you simply traced her immigration? 

Trish

Hi Jen

That chap seems to be there in 1861  - Liz's man was a Millwright in 1861 born Northumberland - if I have the right record

Trish

Edit: Have you checked for any children Liz - married daughters? He may be living with them - I don't easily see him but could be the spelling & my searching