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Thank you Wivenhoe...actually have that notice.  I have all the info except the name of her mother....fairly important in researching the WILSON family and my ancestors.  Rev Robert WILSON"s second wife Anastasia SKELTON was my gggrandmother's sister.  I have only discovered he was was married twice. 

I would appreciate help with deciphering the name of Isabella WILSON's mother.  This snip taken from a Victoria, Australia 1863 marriage certificate.  ?Grace WILEY.   This is the only resource that shows Isabella's mother's name.  She was born in Ireland in 1833.

I am trying to locate the source of a burial for an Elizabeth Underdown who died age 30 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia in 1898. Her father was recorded as Robert and her mother as Elizabeth.

Erimophla

There is no death registration for this person on my resources or the Vic BDM online database.

On my resource I can search for a death in Victoria using just the given name, parents given names age and year.  Nothing for an Eliza/Elizabeth in 1898 aged 30 years with parents Robert and Elizabeth.

In my opinion family history can only be researched using primary and secondary sources.  You need to purchase a few certificates along the way to validate your research.

If this  was my family and I suspected there was another child whose birth had not been registered, I would purchase the youngest child's birth certificate.  This would record all previous children born to the parents including chn who had died.  I do recall a long thread some years ago about quarterly returns from the Bendigo area which were not submitted to the Melbourne Registry.  Perhaps make some enquiries to the one of the Bendigo history or genealogy societies.

I have researched as thoroughly as possible using my own resources and those available online.  The only Eliza/Elizabeth UNDERDOWN death in 1898 in Vic, SA, WA, Qld, NSW and Tasmania with parents Robert (BEAVIS )and Elizabeth was in Western Australia however she was aged 38.

Eliza's second marriage was to William Joshua UNDERDOWN, son of Robert UNDERDOWN and Elizabeth McBROOM.  He appears to be known to his family as Joshua.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177586677

The Bendigo Independent  24 Nov 1898

DEATH.
UNDERDOWN,—On the 6th November, at Cookernup, West Australia, the beloved wife of J. Underdown, and daughter to Mrs. R. Beavis, sister to Mr. W. Beavis, Spring Gully, and E.Trewern, T. Head, Long Gully; H. J. Wilkinson and G. Beavis, West Australia.
Deeply regretted.

And he died aged 19 days.

PALIN James
22 Dec 1882   19 days 
Relative Amelia PALIN (Mother)
Lived Maitland   Died Maitland  Dal 124/331