BINI to NSW Australia

[mich b]

It wont let me look any further, but I've just found Olga Marion DONNELLY on the electoral roll in 1968 in Blaxland!

Couldn't have done it without you Karenlee.

[karenlee]

Sands Directory Sydney and NSW
1919

BINI Austin Sheehy Street Glebe

[mich b]

Aw, thanks Karenlee, that is him on the Death Index  . He wasn't even 40 years old. I wonder what he died of, his brother my great grandad died of pernicious anaemia, but his father out-lived him. His parents were my 2x great grandparents.

Edith didn't wait long to remarry.

I wonder why he went out there more than two years before his wife. Edith may have still been pregnant when he left, either way Nora would have been very young when he went.

So many questions.

Thanks for the date on the announcement.

Michelle

[karenlee]

The Ryerson Index shows..

DONNELLY Olga late of Greenacre Death Notice Sydney Morning Herald 23rd Aug 1975, death date 22nd Aug 1975

HOULAHAN Nora late of Muswellbrook died 4th Aug 1998 Muswellbrook Chronicle 14th Aug 1998

[karenlee]

Have you seen Austin BINI's WW1 Service Record and the mention of his application to join the Australian Armed Forces ?

www.naa.gov.au

Search as a guest and simply search for Austin BINI

[mich b]

Karenlee,

What an amazing resource. I've printed off all the stuff relating to Austin. I'm always incredulous when I find stuff that's still "out there" about my family. I guess that's why genealogy is sooo addictive.

M x

[rosball]

Here is the death notice of Olga Donnelly from SMH aug 23 1975

regards,
   Ros

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27916035
And this is the link to the engagement notice that you mentioned.  If you look to the right you can see the actual newspaper article - on the left is an attempt by a program to convert it to searchable text (electronically translated text) which is why it has poor spelling.

[mich b]

Ros,

Thanks so much for that. Its certainly bringing our family history alive and also vindicating anecdotal evidence i.e. we had relatives who went to Australia.

From the death notice it doesn't appear that Olga had any children, which is disappointing. Any idea how I'd find out whether Nora and Bill Houlahan did?

Thanks again for your interest and help in this thread.

Michelle

[rosball]

Hi Michelle,
   In the Ryerson Index
http://ryersonindex.net/search.php
I cannot find death notices, only probate notices for the pair and these were in the Musswell Brook Chronicle.  The Ryerson Index has a volunteer lookup service so you could request a lookup (but I wonder how easy it is to access the Musswellbrook Chronicle ...?).

  The other option is to search through trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/
digitised newspapers up until 1956 and look for birth announcements and/or engagement/wedding notices for the children (warning - it is addictive 

  But hang on I see Edith Gallagher (late of Lakemba) died 31 Jan 1957 with a death notice in SMH.  I will hunt that down (between blue screen crashes)

regards,
   Ros