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Australia / Re: John Peter SMITH 1851
« on: Tuesday 16 December 08 09:25 GMT (UK)  »
If its any use to anyone I have a jpeg of John Peter Smith's death entry in Victorian records and will quite happily email it to anyone who wants it.

Moscowman

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Australia / Re: John Peter SMITH 1851
« on: Tuesday 16 December 08 09:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there, Eveder,

No Robert (Graham) Smith was born in 1882 and died in 1966.  John Peter Smith had his children with Maria Schultze (Schulze) after the late 1870s.  He had some out of wedlock with her.  This could have been while he was still married to his first wife Emma Beattie (I dont know).  He is buried in St Kilda cemetery in Melbourne with Maria Smith (nee Schultze) and some of their children who are buried under the names Smith and also Schultze (which leads me to the view these may actually be his).  As far as I know nobody in the Melbourne end of things (I am in Moscow Russia, but come from Melbourne) knows anything about relatives in New Zealand or Canada.  This is because Robert Graham Smith was pretty much incommunicado with his family.  He left his (first) wife during WW1 and then came home with another english wife.

Would love to get in contact with you if you have more info on John Peter Smith

Cheers

Moscowman

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Australia / Re: John Peter SMITH 1851
« on: Saturday 13 December 08 13:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

with regard to John Peter Smith (son of Job Smith and Elizabeth Eagle) who died in 1900 in South Yarra in Victoria Australia, I can tell you that he married Maria Elizabeth Schultze (sometimes spelled Schulze) in the early 1880s - he was 49 and she was 23.  They had a number of children, one of whom was Robert (Graham - he referred to himself with this middle name but it was not on his birth entry) Smith, who was my great grandfather.

I dont know how he came to Australia, but he was listed in his marriage entry to Beattie and to Schultze as a 'traveller' as well as on the birth entry for many of his children. Later in his life he was listed as an excise inspector, and he died of cancer of the oesophagus.

I have (pdf) marriage and birth entries from the Victorian births, deaths and marriages site.  I would be quite happy to send them to anyone wanting copies.

If anyone has info on what John Peter's parents were and who his ancestors were then I would love to hear from you.

Moscowman

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