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« 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