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Thank you all very much for your interest.  It was so long ago I placed the original post I don't always look. 

I have also been onto Find My Past and, based on some information from my mother, I now think Margaret came out on the 'Perthshire' in 1910.  Mum told me she sailed with the Lalor's but I found they came out on the same ship 6 months earlier.  It's also interesting (to me anyway) that she is listed in the 'Scotch' column as she is supposed to have been born in London.

From memory her marriage certificate said she was from East Brisbane so we think she may have been living with the Lalors - by the way, the father of the Lalors was a 'Gym Instructor' so they could have been the boxing promoter Lalors of more recent history - I don't know.

I also saw the Ormuz entry with Agnes and am almost positive now that that Margaret isn't her because she did not ever have any other family in Australia and Agnes and her look to be travelling together.

Once again, thank you all very much for your interest and also thanks very much for letting me know the newspaper archives are now back in Sth Brisbane - that will save me a trip when I finally get there.

Regards to you all

Tony (tonz)

Thank you very much for your help 'retiringtype' (somebody after my own heart, I only have 43 more shirts to iron before I'm retired!!!!).  I will pass the information on to my parents to see if Mum can remember any of the names you have mentioned for her Nana's stories.

I am trying to locate some information on my GGrandmother, Margaret Robertson.  I have been able to locate a Margaret Robinson who arrived in Brisbane on the 27 August 1908 on the ship ORMUZ (Orient Line).  Unfortunately I couldn't get any from the passenger list when last in Brisbane as she was a paying passenger and was wondering if somebody could help.

I have heard the newspapers of the day sometimes wrote about the incoming passengers and was wondering if anybody who was heading out to Cannon Hill in the future if they could check the local papers of 1907 to see if there is a write-up on the Ormuz's arrival and if Margaret rated a comment. 

Margaret is a bit of a mystery to us as we have not been able to identify her in any UK census or other official source before she arrived in Brisbane (and even that we are not sure of!!!).  We have her marriage and death certificates where her parents are listed but this information is not supported by any other official documents.

We have seen postcards she received in Brighton (UK) and Southport (Aus) so we believed she was always know as Margaret Robertson.  The dates and addresses on the postcards also support her arrival in Brisbane in 1907.

Many thanks in advance for any help you are able to provide.

Regards

Tony
Wellington, NZ

I am hoping somebody else has similar interests to me.

My GGrandmother, Margaret Robertson, married in Brisbane, Australia in 1911.  On her marriage certificate she states that her father was Frank Robertson, Builder, born Hammersmith, Middlesex.  Her mother is recorded as Jane Painter born Hammersmith, Middlesex.

Margaret was born in 1876 (from what she says on the marriage certificate) and I have no information on any siblings.  She was living in Brighton before paying for a second class passage to Australia in 1908 (I think).  As you can see she didn't leave too many tracks wherever she went!!!

I have never been able to find any record of this family in any of the indicies I have searched.

Is there somebody who has an interest in the names or the area who might be able to give me some advice on where to go from here.

My GGrandmother was known as Margaret Robertson.  She lived in Brighton, Sussex until 1908 when she moved to Brisbane, Australia.  She married George Edwards in 1911 at Brisbane and then moved to Southport (on what is now the Gold Coast) until she died in 1937.  According to her marriage certificate she was 34 at the time of her marriage.

The details on her marriage certificate indicate that she was born in (about) June, 1876 at Hammersmith, Middlesex.  She gave her parents as Frank Robertson, builder and Jane Painter both born in Hammersmith, Middlesex.

To date I have not been able to find any references to this family in the various census or in the historical directories.  Is there another way of finding her family if, in fact, it did come from Hammersmith?

Thanking you in advance for any help provided,

Regards

Tony
Wellington, NZ