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« on: Sunday 21 July 13 08:11 BST (UK) »
Hi there
This is my first post, hopefully I get it right. I was directed to this site from ancestry.com. I have been researching the Reader family for a number of years. Hopefully I can help you with some of your questions regarding Charles and Elizabeth Reader. My husband is a direct descendant of Charles and Elizabeth he is there great great great grandson. Charles arrived in Geelong on the Arabian with his first wife Elizabeth, she was a Bartlett and much older than him. She was committed to the Ararat lunatic asylum, Charles and Elizabeth Shannon had a son Charles Frances whilst Charles was still married to Elizabeth in the Asylum, they didnt get married until she died. It was very confusing working all this out. I have both marriage certificates as my father-in-law had kept them. We have visited the asylum but as yet cannot find a grave for the first Elizabeth. Charles and Elizabeth and Charles Frances and Blanche are buried in a double plot here in Geelong it is very ornate, with a wrought iron fence surrounding. I am trying to find Pahurs parents but have no luck whatsover, can you help? Regards Mary