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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 01:09 GMT (UK) »
Oh, good, JM. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to come to that end either.
Then there is the Indian connection. If he could still speak the language (and retain an accent) into his 80s he must have spent a few years in India/Burma in his young childhood.

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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 03:56 GMT (UK) »
Assuming Robert did alter his surname I do have work references:
10 May 1923 - Mangahao Hydro Electric - States that R W Stevens worked for 15 months etc (typed)
25 Aug 1923 - "Forest Home" Matcham - Robert worked for 3 months ....
13 Apr 1925 - R H Stevens (hand written) worked for nearly 2 years ... "Wakefield" SCONE.
So it is a definite he was using Robert Stevens from 1922.

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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:36 GMT (UK) »
Another couple of snippets, which may help. And again, they are only what was told to me

Robert was left money from a Will but refused it as he hadn't earned it.
As a child, him and his brother were sent around the world with a tutor.

Reading his references, and hearing what people thought of him, and of course growing up with him, he was a man of high morals and principals, so his "disguise" could have been to "hide" from the money. Does that make sense? TIF Betty

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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:40 GMT (UK) »
What was Robert's birthday?  We can search NSW BDM for a particular day.

And when and where did he die?


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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:45 GMT (UK) »
As mentioned on the wedding certificate to my mum, 18 April 1895.
I've posted the details on the wedding certificate. Betty

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« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:45 GMT (UK) »
Here's the live link to the free to search NSW BDM indexes  :)  You can enter the dates in the dialogue boxes on the relevant pages. 

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/family-history.aspx

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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:47 GMT (UK) »
Sorry Ros, he died in Perth 18 June, 1984. Betty

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Re: Robert Stevens photographer
« Reply #34 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:54 GMT (UK) »
Re "Wakefield" Scone NSW

Sands Pastoral Directory 1920
UPPER HUNTER DISTRICT
Mrs B PAGE, Wakefield, Scone.   26 horses,  140 cattle, - 917 acres.



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« Reply #35 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 04:56 GMT (UK) »
Trove has plenty of info re Wakefield, Scone in the 1920s.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=

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