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All of the entries on this conversation have turned out to be our people!

Albert definitely married both Ethel and Sarah.  After Ethel eventually caught up with him in the ealy 1930's, he went on to marry the woman she caught him with, one Maud Chamberlain! 
However, he then died aged 55, on 03/01/1935 in Richmond, Surrey.  His address was 50 Raleigh Road, and by some miracle, I found a photo of the property on line!  The marriage to Maud I found a couple of weeks ago and his death cert. arrived today!

Is there any one who could locate what cemetery he may be buried in? I have the third edition of the National Burial Index, but cannot find him on it.  Maybe he was cremated.

I managed to find his oldest son Sidney married to Ethel D Wickham.

Many thanks for all your help, it has been great to finally track him down.

Cathy

That would be great, if we could find out where Section B is/was!

Its George Christopher Brown who is buried in this grave, I was in Australia last week and walked around Castlemaine Cemetery!  I did not have this information then, mores the pity.
There is nothing to say there is a headstone though and George died from wounds received in an accident.  His wife did not know until she contacted the hospital that he was dead - they were living in North Melbourne at the time and he was away on business.

Cathy

As the Brown family I am researching lived in the Daylesford area and surrounds (Victoria) I am sure that is where I should be looking.

My man was born in about 1847, so I am searching from about 1865 through until about 1884, when he jumped ship and came to New Zealand.  (Thomas Henry Brown)  Not sure of exactly when he came over, but it was between 1882 and 1884

I am not sure if he is Brigga Brown or that was a name one of his sons went by, but I believe that several of the Brown men may have been bare knuckle fighters.  If Brigga Brown was one of Thomas' sons, then the time frame would be later.

Thomas was a Sawyer in Victoria but his occupation after arrival in New Zealand followed a completely different path.

Tony

Me again!

My George Brown appeared in New Zealand sometime before 1843-44, in time to marry in Wellington.  The only George Brown I can find on shipping records during this period is a Parkhurst boy.

George Brown from Lincolnshire who was sent to Parkhurst Prison and then to New Zealand, had a father named William, which is the name of the first born child of my George.  We can find no record of my George Brown where he says he was born!

I think I noticed on one of the posts about the Parkhurst boys mention of records that were kept for the first three years they were here.  Can you tell me how to access these.

I know that someone has "claimed" him but with a 40 year gap with no knowledge of his whereabouts and apart from the fact I am not the only member of the family to have picked up on the Parkhurst boys, I have become very interested in what happened to them.

Were there any ships logs from the St George put into book form?  I have just read "No Simple Passage" which was great reading and would quite like to read more along the same lines.

Regards

Cathy