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I have got to the last of my Gibbs family in England and am struggling to find the answers needed.

Charlotte Gibbs was born on 30 March 1817 in Bishopstone, Wiltshire, daughter of James Gibbs and Jane Hart/Hort. She had a daughter Mary Jane Emm Gibbs as a single woman, baptised on 26 February 1837 in Flamston Abode, Bishopstone. Mary was also referred as Mary Jane Toomer in other Baptism results. I am assuming that the Emm & Toomer names may indicate the possible father of Mary as there were those family names found in the area on the Indexes.

The only other result I could find for both of them was in the 1841 Wiltshire Census, where they were staying together with Charlotte's mother Jane, with Elizabeth & Harriett Case. Case family is connected to Gibbs family through Charlotte's brother John, who married Susanna Case and moved to Australia. Charlotte's mother died a few years later in 1847.

I have tried various options to find them but cannot be sure I have the right ones. I would like to know whether both of them married and when & where they died.

I hope someone will be able to shed some light on their movements since 1841
Wildcats13



 

Hi,
Hoping you can assist me with my current problem.
I live in Brisbane but from Canberra originally. I am putting together a Family History Book for the Gibbs from the Burra area near Queanbeyan. My mother was a Gibbs and her father was John Michael Gibbs (1873-1948).
My query relates to a Sydney William McCauley who was born in Qbn. in 1915 and died on 27 May 2006 in GULGONG, NSW. His father was Sydney Richard McCauley, mother Janet Marion Gibbs.
I have tried every available online index in NSW and ACT, and been unable to find when he married a Marjorie Jane Unknown and where married. I am looking for those facts together whether Marjorie died or remarried. I also checked Qld & Vic in case it was an interstate marriage.

In the Australian Electoral Rolls in 1937 & 1943, they lived in Thuralilly Street, Qbn. He was a Slaughterman. From 1949 to 1958, he was a labourer and they lived in 21 North Street, Orange, however in 1963, he was living at the same address alone.
His headstone in Gulgong indicated he had a family and could have been in the area for some time . Could not access  any later Electoral Rolls with him in them.
That is all I could find. Hoping you can assist. 
Regards,                                                                                                                                                                               
Wildcats13                                                                                                                                                                 

i have been trying to find the results of a murder trial that was started in Dalby, Queensland on Friday June 14 1957. I have been searching Trove, but there are no papers available in that period, as they all stop in 1954.
I found the following article in the Chinchilla News:
"Chinchilla News,  Friday, June 14, 1957
"MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER
DALBY, Thursday - In the Dalby court of Petty Sessions today before Messrs. V. Haupt and J. Morgan, J.J.P. Alfred Francis Morrow (47, labourer) was charged that on June 12 at Jandowae he willfully murdered James Henry Wharram.
Morrow was remanded in custody until next Thursday, June 20.
Detective-Sergeant J. Hamilton said that on June 12 he saw the defendant at the Jandowae Police Station and heard a conversation in the presence of Constable Mckay.
"Defendant went with me and others to a property, "Glen Morrison", 18 miles from Jandowae, where I had a further conversation with the defendant.  Later the defendant went with me and other police officers to the Jandowae morgue.
 "The defendant then came with me and constable McKay to the Dalby Police Station and at 7.30p.m. I arrested him and charge him with the present charge."
Detective Hamilton said that when charged, the defendant said, "Willful murder! Me, haw haw. I would not say it was willful murder."
Detective Hamilton said he would be giving evidence later."

Hoping someone may have some information on the case.
Wildcats13

I am trying to find out how & when our Robert White come to Australia from Ireland, and I am hoping someone can help me..
What I know so far is;
He was 40 years old when he died in 1877 in Goulburn, NSW, making him born about 1837                   He was born in Belfast, Ireland, son of John White & Sarah Robinson.                                             
He married Mary Jane Robinson in 1859 in Goulburn, NSW.                                                                 I have been told that he was about 17 years when he came to Australia (unconfirmed).                 
One story I was told was that he arrived in South Australia on the "Rajah" in 1849 from London & Plymouth and then travelled across to NSW (cannot confirm) There was a Robert White on the ship as a single male but no age shown, and in any case as he would have ony been about 12 years and there were no other "Whites" on the ship.                                                                                   
I have also checked all the Robert White's that arrived in NSW, shown on the State Archives between 1848 & 1864, and none fit into the age required.                                                         
                                                                                                                                             
My thoughts are that he would have travelled most likely from Ireland direct to Australia.       Hoping someone can shed some light.                                                                             
Wildcats           

Hoping to get some assistance in finding marriage and baptism records for the following;

Left UK for Australia - Francis Robertson, 1 Fairey St., Stoke Newington Common, 29 April 1837. Francis aged 29 and also wife aged 26, son aged 3 months. Embarked aboard KATHERINE STEWART FORBES.

Especially looking to confirm the wife's maiden name and son's birth details

In Australia he used the name of 'Robinson'.

Wildcats13