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Lu, Thanks for all that information...I'm really trying to get my head around it all,I have read it through a couple of times.
 I actually did wonder if Henry and Frances ever married!
Thank you doesn't seem enough for the amount of work you have done.
I'm thinking I may order the certificate of the marriage with Henrietta Rasmussen and see if there is anything on it that may connect!!

Regards Carol

P.S, Thanks also to Eyesee for the extra information about the Manuwatu Gorge Rd.It always amazes me someone is always able to answer about the roads tracks and even dwellings that no longer exist

Oh Lu, You have done such a lot of work looking for Henry George Watson, thank you so much. I have just been reading the info. you have found.
Frances wasn't the informant on the death certificate it was the clerk at the Hospital in Melbourne where he passed away. death certificate (1923) gives his birth as Timaru New Zealand and had been in Australia 14years so my calculations on arrival in Australia would be 1909.
On Gordon St.Clair Watsons birth certificate  Henry Watsons birth is Oamaru New Zealand  as far as i can understand the writing.( I have tried earlier on to upload a little of the certificate but had trouble doing it) Frances on the birth certificate has Melbourne as place of birth!
As we know birth certificates are the most reliable but  as far as family knows she was from New Zealand. On Frances' death certificate Place of birth is Auckland New Zealand  in 1959 when she died at Traralgon Victoria  she had been in Australia for 50 years
Have had a look at distance between Timaru and Oamara and the distance is not great but guess it was a good way in the 1800's.
I wonder would local family history societies perhaps have information on any Watson families that I might be 'lucky' enough to be able to connect to Henry George Watson.
Regards
Carol

I'm sorry i haven't answered any replies the last few days have been away from my laptop!
thanks Ian C for the info. re Rowntree children attending Dunedin school to be honest I haven't concentrated on Frances as yet but I'm aware of who her parents most likely are.

Lu yes I am still trying to sort through Henry Watson info.
once again I'm sorry I haven't been able to get back to you earlier.
Regards,
Carol

Lu, thanks for all that you have done, Today I discovered that Henry George Watson died in 1923 in Melbourne! and buried at Burwood Cemetery Victoria along with Frances and I knew by Frances death certificate that she was buried at Burwood, so just thought I would check the cemetery records for deceased and Lo and behold Henry George Watson is buried in same grave aged 50yrs.! I then bought his death certificate and gives his birth as Timaru New Zealand had been in Australia for 14 years, and had been married to Frances Rowntree when he was 31yrs old. So by my reckoning he would have married in 1902 in I think its Kaikoura New Zealand. So of course that brings me back to trying to find his parents. On checking the New Zealand BDM for about 1872 I can find two George Henry births but no Henry George.
Regards
Carol

Thanks for the 1919 electoral roll! that is a positive, I hadn't noticed that one....wonder how many others I haven't seen