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Offline Dave Stuart

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Looking for my Great Grandad
« on: Saturday 22 December 12 22:39 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help with some information on David St James (or St John) VD Stuart, born in 1875 in Sydney NSW, married Ellen Augusta James in 1899.

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 22 December 12 23:18 GMT (UK) »
Hi Dave

Welcome to Rootschat  ;D

Specifically, what information are you looking for so we don't duplicate what you might already know?

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 December 12 08:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi Dawn, this is all I know so far, I can't find any records of him other than what I've found which is when and where he was born, who he married and that he had 2 sons Gordan and Donald David Braybrook ( who is my Grandad).
Any information you can offer would be appreciated.

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Dave

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 23 December 12 23:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi Dave,
   I can't see his birth on NSW BDM http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au

   Do you have the marriage cert or a transcription which is cheaper and they e-mail it to you
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/howToTraceYouFamTree.htm#TranscriptionAgent

   I have looked on trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/   without finding a marriage announcement or a death or any other snippets. :(

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     Ros

adding : Do you know if  they lived in NSW in later life?
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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #4 on: Monday 24 December 12 00:23 GMT (UK) »
I can see birth registration for son Donald (your gf) in 1900 in Ashfield district in Sydney.
But none for Gordan/Gordon up to 1911.

And their marriage in 1899 at Petersham.  Do you have this certificate / transcription?
It may throw some light on his actual birth year/place?  As Ros says, his birth doesn't come up online in NSW BDM.  Do you know his parents' names?  There is a David born 1883 but that would make him only 16 when he got married which would be fairly unusual in those days, even in these days.   :)

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #5 on: Monday 24 December 12 00:55 GMT (UK) »
Birth in NZ:

1903/15053
STUART, Gordon Douglas
Mother: Ellen Ann
Father: David St John Vincent Donald

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #6 on: Monday 24 December 12 05:12 GMT (UK) »
"...David St James (or St John) VD Stuart, born in 1875 in Sydney NSW"

What is the source of this  information please?

If it is his death certificate it might not be correct.

I can see marriages for Gordon and Donald in NZ, also divorce for parents in 1920, so they lived their lives in NZ?.

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #7 on: Monday 24 December 12 05:12 GMT (UK) »
On Archway NZ there is a record of a Divorce in Christchurch Divorce Files 1920

Stuart, Ellen Ann v Stuart, David St.John Vincent Donald

also  a marriage 1926 NZ Ellen Ann Stuart  to James Swanson  might be your Ellen

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Re: Looking for my Great Grandad
« Reply #8 on: Monday 24 December 12 06:46 GMT (UK) »
Going with the marriage Cass found for a Ellen Swanson, i think this could be her death. Age would fit also.

NZ death index
1957/33307
Swanson  Ellen Ann  82Y
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