Author Topic: New to Australian research! Looking fordeath record for Helen Antoinette Wright  (Read 3690 times)

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I'm looking for a divorce and/or death record for Helen Antoinette Wright nee Davies.
I know she married in 1912 thanks to help from rootschatters:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=749949.new;topicseen#new

I'm after advice on where I start looking?

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Re: New to Australian research!
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 June 16 16:34 BST (UK) »
Per that 1916 newspaper article she was living with a man named Barton.

A Helen Antoinette Barton died in Braddon, Canberra in 1938 aged 59

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2455896

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2455863
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Re: New to Australian research! Looking fordeath record for Helen Antoinette Wright
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 08 June 16 16:46 BST (UK) »
Thanks ShaunJ - looks like she's the right age, presumably that means there should be a divorce record somewhere?


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Re: New to Australian research! Looking fordeath record for Helen Antoinette Wright
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 08 June 16 16:57 BST (UK) »
Not necessarily. She may not have been legally married to Richard Barton.
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Re: New to Australian research! Looking fordeath record for Helen Antoinette Wright
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 08 June 16 17:06 BST (UK) »
UK Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: New to Australian research! Looking fordeath record for Helen Antoinette Wright
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 08 June 16 23:56 BST (UK) »
There is a probate packet for Helen Antoinette BARTON at NSW state records office
http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Item\629097

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adding : It should contain her death cert.  Probably going Monday or Tues.
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Crikey - thanks for all of that ShaunJ.
rosball - that would be much appreciated if it's not too much trouble, what sort of information is normally shown in them?

I've been thinking about this overnight, I think one of the next steps is to try and find a passenger record for Helen, she's on the 1901 England and Wales census with her father and from the looks of it marries in NSW in 1912 - she certainly doesn't appear in the 1911 census or the 1939 register.
Based on that she presumably travels between 1901 and 1912.