David Gordon HAMILTON

[ennael]

a google search using terms "Camp Pell Victoria" bought up the following web page.

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/camppell.htm
( this is an oldish website)
Whilst a quick search does not bring up the appropriate HAMILTONS' it does indicate that servicemen were transferred from W.A to Victoria

Leanne

[ennael]

a search of TROVE indicates that children in the Camp Pell Emergency Housing Settlement would have gone to the Errol Street State School.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37095815?q=camp+pell&c=book

Leanne

[sparrett]

http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/default.aspx

It is possible that the certificate of the marriage   [details are above]will hold the information you are looking for. i.e. parents' names etc.

I do not know very much about WA certificate purchase.

Perhaps someone else can offer advice on that.

Sue

[judb]

A quick look at WA online records didn't throw up any clues for Cecilia as far as I could see - but I may have missed it.  In fact I couldn't anything much anywhere for her.  As Sue says the marriage certificate should give some further information.  I don't think htere would be much on the death certificate as the index indicates her parents were unknown to the informant.

Do you mean that David's siblings were the ones in the orphanage? 

I think the emergency housing would be Housing Commission accommodation.  Perhaps he was still in the Army and was allocated housing in Macleod through Defence Force housing.

Judith

[Ctucci]

Hi there. I’ve just registered today and really have no clue yet how to use this website. I believe I am a descendent of the David and Cecilia Hamilton that you are looking into whose children attended the ballarat orphanage. Did you happen to gain further information on Cecilia?

[sparrett]

Hi Ctucci,
Smiley the Original Poster of this thread has no been online in the forum for more than a year, but I have this for you.

 An engagement annoucement

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47367466

15th March 1943

.....Cecilia, only daughter of M and Mrs L GOVER (not GLOVER) of 71 Tate St Leederville.
....To private Douglas (not David) Hamilton AIF youngest son of   Mr and the late Mrs Hamilton of Melbourne...


At about this time David changed his NOK on his service records from his father to Cecilia of the above address.

Sue

[sparrett]

Electoral Roll WA. 1943. Fremantle, Leederville.


GOVER at 71 Tate Street Leederville.
Leonard Greengrocer
Florence Eleanor. Home duties.

GOVER at  596 Newcastle Street Leederville
Cissie Leonora. Home duties.

Sue

[Ctucci]

Oh maybe it is gover instead of glover, that probably marries up because I think I seen something somewhere else which indicated that Cecilia’s middle name was likely Florence. (So potentially after her mother?) I just wonder why they would print David’s name as Douglas instead of David? I should also try and check if I have a death date for David’s mother

[sparrett]

Cecilia's people were English and the family arrived in Australia (Fremantle) in 1922 on ship Barrabool when Cissie Leonora was 2years.

Their last English address had been 93 Thurleston Rd, West Norwood.
Leonard is listed as a motor driver.
Cissie has a brother aged  7. Ronald George.

Sue