William Webster Bendigo Victoria

[budsyblues]

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I'm not sure that I do.
One side of my father's family can be traced back to Limerick but the other I'm not certain about.
They settled on the NSW side of the Murray River around 1860 or 70 and there were heaps of kids but nothing much comes up when I search the NSW births and deaths.
I can locate some of them but not others, but one of my extended family from up that way has given me some info and photographed some headstones for me so I'm going OK.
Beats me why some of their birth records don't show up though, and none of the kids who died young do either, births or deaths.
I know where most of them came from but there's one branch of the four where the records are sparse.

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[budsyblues]

One thing that we haven't been able to establish is when or where William Webster died.
If he wasn't the man killed in the mining accident then what happened to him?
His birth and parents are another matter.

[majm]

One thing that we haven't been able to establish is when or where William Webster died.
If he wasn't the man killed in the mining accident then what happened to him?
His birth and parents are another matter.

From his marriage cert, you will get HIS first hand details that he provided to the clergy.   From those details we may be able to help you find him.    I posted the link earlier that gives you the depth of detail available on VIC BDM records...

" Marriages
 Date and place of marriage;
 name and surnames;
 conjugal condition, whether bachelor or spinster, widow or widower,
 stating date of decease of former wife or husband;
 children by each former marriage;
birthplace;
 occupation;
 age;
 residence (present and usual);
parent's names of each party (including mother's maiden name) and occupation of    father;
 signatures of the parties and witnesses;
 signature of Minister. Prior to 1963 the date of termination of previous marriages of  the parties is also shown. "

So, the WEBSTER=GLASGOW marriage  would be a good record to work from  and the reference number you need is 3966 and the year you need is 1866 and Ann's surname was LESLIE at that time.

Cheers,  JM

I've searched the early Victorian marriage records to no avail...

The indexes show that Ann GLASGOW was married twice:

Marriage 1.

GLASGOW Annie m. LESLIE William 1862 #4237

Marriage 2.

LESLIE Ann (born LANARKSHIRE) m. WEBSTER William (born. LANCASHIRE) 1866 #3966

But Annie?
I have another record for a marriage in Victoria of Margaret Glasgow (born Lanarkshire) to John Canning in 1866.

[budsyblues]

Thanks JM.
I got hold of the marriage certificate for William Webster and Ann Leslie, she was indeed born Ann Glasgow. The unfortunate Mr Leslie died the year before the marriage, he and Ann had no children.
William Webster was born in Galgate, Lancashire, his parents were Thomas Webster and Agnes Watson, hence the name of one of William and Ann's daughters.
Now if I could only find what became of William.
Edit:
Ann's age on her marriage certificate is given as 27, which would make her year of birth 1839, is there something amiss in the Scottish records from earlier in this thread?
If she was in fact born in 1828 she would have been 38 on her marriage to William Webster and 43 when her youngest child was born, something doesn't add up.

[~MERLIN~]

What was William WEBSTER's age on the marriage certificate?

[budsyblues]

What was William WEBSTER's age on the marriage certificate?

25.

[~MERLIN~]

William's parents marriage:

Thomas WEBSTER bachelor & Agnes WATSON spinster, both of this parish married 4 Jun 1837
St Michael, Cockerham, Lancashire
Witnesses: Daniel Webster & Marianne Webster
Married by Licence by: Vicar John Dodson
Register: Page 30, Entry 89

[~MERLIN~]

Edit:
Ann's age on her marriage certificate is given as 27, which would make her year of birth 1839, is there something amiss in the Scottish records from earlier in this thread?
If she was in fact born in 1828 she would have been 38 on her marriage to William Webster and 43 when her youngest child was born, something doesn't add up.

I see you've added to your previous post.

It's quite obvious that Ann *lowered* her age at marriage because her husband was younger.
I have seen it happen many times before for either the bride or groom