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Hi Brenda,
Any further information you could supply would be very much appreciated. I sent you a personal message but I don't think you will get it until you do another post.

Ding

Hi earlybird,

You may have already found out the information you are after, if not the following may help.

Elizabeth Peters (Harris) death cert. says that her father was John (a miner) and her mother was somebody White. It also says that she was born in Camborne in Cornwall. I have found a John Harris who married an Ann White and had son John Baptized in Camborne on 2nd Jan 1820. The only possabilty found of Elizabeths baptism is in Tywardreath Cornwall on the 24 Aug 1828. She is shown as the daughter of John (a miner) and Ann Harris.
Her birthdate may be from 1824 (death cert.) to 1826 (Marriage cert.).
There is a record of a John Harris b; 1819 arriving in South Australia on the  Houghly (the same boat as Elizabeth)  -occ Miner, Montecute married to Alice Smitham in Linskeard, Cornwall in the Jun 1/4 1845.
Montecute is where Elizabeth & her husband,Thomas Peters' first two sons were born.

The marriage cert. of John Harris and Alice Smithem says they were married in the Wesleyan Chapel in Liskeard, Cornwall on 17 May 1845. They were both resident at St Cleer at the time. Both their fathers (John Harris & Nicholas Smithem) were Miners. I think John Harris snr. may have died before 1841.

I hope this has been helpful.

Regards Ding.

Thank you all for your replies. I have just realized that I haven't put in my new email address.
I don't have very much info on Catherine. I was hoping that the inquests may give me an age. She is listed as deceased in 1906. I was thinking that the registration in Carlton may have been her but 21 years old in 1875 seems a bit young as she witnessed her sister's (Elizabeth Francis) wedding in Mount Gambier in Jan 1872. I think she was the child of Thomas Peters and his first wife Elizabeth Brown (married Cornwall 1843) and may have come out to SA with Thomas' sister and brother in law Catherine and Edmund Martin on the Sibella in 1848.
This incident I am hoping might help prove  that but as yet I haven't got an age for her.

Ding

Since posting this request I have been able to discover that the missing child was Annie Jennifer 1894 to 1896.

Thank you for your reply, it is interesting how they named their children ( JJ, RR, WW, & HH )

Cheers Ding

Hi Keith
Great to hear from another cousin. I found you in my records, and the programme says we are sixth cousins. Do I take it that you are a fellow Australian?

Ding