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Australia / Re: A friend's brother died in Victoria
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 06:26 GMT (UK)  »
Your friend would need to contact the relevant state government department in Melbourne and apply for a copy of the death certificate.   There are privacy rules for persons who have died in the past 30 years. 

Your friend's status as the legal next of kin would depend, among other things,  on whether the deceased also has any spouse, children, or surviving parents.  I would suggesting calling them and asking,   they should be able to tell her whether they are likely to provide the certificate and what evidence of their relationship she would need to provide.

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Australia / Re: Re: Alfred BEESTON emigrated to Australia 1912
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 02:40 GMT (UK)  »
Sharon, the first two things you should do,  is check the records at www.bdm.nsw.gov.au

The second thing you should do  ,  is visit www.nla.gov.au   and use their "Trove" system.  It's like google.   Start with the query "Beeston Kahibah",  and then try the names of the people it turns up.

In 20 minutes I found out more than I need to know about your Beeston forebears,  including a photo of your deceased ex-mother-in law,  who had her tenth child at the age of 30,  and looked in remarkably good shape considering.

It would appear that your C.A.L Beeston ( decd. 1973 ) originally lived at Kahibah,   he had three brothers who were in trouble with the law ; he wasn't.   His father Richard apparently owned a quarry there.      And later at Warner's Bay.

It would appear that Richard married in 1910. He died in 1953 and his wife in 1954.   

It isn't at all clear where Richard came from.

The next thing you should do,  is get transcriptions of the marriage and death certificates for C.A.L Beeston and Richard Beeston,   and see where the information leads you from there.






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Australia / Re: Re: Alfred BEESTON emigrated to Australia 1912
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 01:52 GMT (UK)  »
Are you looking for information about him ?

Your Charles Alfred Lyle Beeston would seem to be a different family to this English Alfred Beeston.   

There is a Charles Alfred L Beeston who died in 1973,  and his father was Richard McKara or Merkara or McKenna Beeston who died in 1953.  This is probably the Charles who was married in 1939.  It appears Charles had at least two brothers,  this family lived at Kahibah near Charlestown.

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Australia / Re: Frank Hammersley BAX born 1890
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 01:26 GMT (UK)  »
What that is telling you,  is that they lived successively in the suburbs of Brisbane called West End,  New Farm,  and Northgate.

These suburbs, which are all in the city of Brisbane,  are about 2 km west, 2 km north east,  and about 10 km north of downtown Brisbane.

These suburbs are ( or were at the time ),  in the electoral districts named Kurilpa, Merthyr and Nundah,  defined for electing members of the Queensland STATE Parliament.  These are different to the districts for the Federal Parliament.

So, for example, in the first address there,  you would be voting in the state election to choose the state MP for Kurilpa ,  and also at a different time, in the federal election to choose a federal MP for Griffith.

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Australia / Re: Frank Hammersley BAX born 1890
« on: Monday 01 December 14 03:14 GMT (UK)  »
"Brisbane",  "Lilley"  and "Griffith"  are the names of three of the electoral divisions ( constituencies ) for the Federal Parliament,  in Brisbane.    There is no "town" ( or suburb ) called Griffith,  nor is there one called Lilley, to the best of my knowledge.   

If you look in the electoral roll,  that's what you get...

Furthermore,  it would be misguided to assume that he "moved"  from one to the other.   The boundaries of the electoral divisions get modified every ten years or so,  to keep up with shifting populations.   People residing in the exact same place can find themselves voting in one division at one election,  and a different division at the next,  because the boundary has been moved.




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The Common Room / Re: Re: Scotland to Australia - How long a journey?
« on: Monday 01 December 14 02:29 GMT (UK)  »
How do you actually know he went to England,  and back ?

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Australia / Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« on: Friday 28 November 14 06:47 GMT (UK)  »
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/812537

A few weeks after your relative passes away,  Sun Go Sun & Co.  announce the establishment of a new branch store at Coolah.

This ad appears 6 times in 6 weeks.

The curious thing is,  this "Sun Go Sun & Co",  never seem to be mentioned,  ever,  as having a store somewhere else.

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Australia / Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« on: Friday 28 November 14 06:05 GMT (UK)  »
In 1883,  a photographer named Scott,  went to Coolah,  and poisoned himself.

Probably explains why the other photographers stayed away.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/137086722

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Australia / Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« on: Friday 28 November 14 05:36 GMT (UK)  »
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Coolah was ” proclaimed a Village under 4th Sec of Act ‘84”  (as in 1884 !)

Which raises the question of how a man who died in 1880 came to own two of the small subdivision blocks which only came into existence as a result of the plan.

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