Margaret Harper married George William Williams 10 Feb 1853 at Fryers Creek, Victoria.
M and G W have 12 children firstly at Fryers Creek and then at Chewton. Youngest child Ellen Lettitia b 1874.
I expect that he was a coal miner as some of his sons are involved in this endeavour.
I have bought their marriage certificate and her death certificate. I can't find a death for George William.
No ages, nor profession, birthplace, parents on their marriage certificate.
The document is not a regular printed form. It is a handwritten certificate made out by the Church of Scotland minister James Low, it starts with George certifying that he is a member of or hold communion with that church.
George and Margaret both sign, as do their witnesses.
The witnesses were a German couple, Henry and Maria Matz, who according to Anc* trees move away to South Australia.
If George was 21 years old he would have been born 1830.
On Margaret's death certificate ...
Died Feb 1910 at Chewton, informant was a son in law William Scott, married to her 5 child Emma.
Her age was given as 75, so born about 1836, and birthplace Wales, 57 years in Victoria, married at age 17 to George William Williams.
She might have arrived in Victoria within the year prior to her 1853 marriage, so during 1852.
Her parents unknown to the informant.
In the 1903 electoral roll, which is probably the earliest available as just after federation, M is a nurse, living in nearby Walhalla, another mining town, George is not present.
So, what I can not find from the records available is anything of Margaret's origins is she possibly came from Wales, that they were both literate.
I’m researching for my auntie’s 90 year old boyfriend, a direct descendant of Margaret and George William Williams, and their son 2nd son William Nathan b 1859 d 1895.
The other day I posted a message on an old post about solider Duncan Harper and wife Letitia Kennedy Harper and the baptism of their dau Margaret Harper in Kent 1834
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=508263.0there is a 2nd almost identical post with subject line all lower case by same RC'er
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=504378.msg3621518#msg3621518As I said on that thread, I can not see a link to these people. Anc* throws out the 1834 Kent baptism as a hint. No trees that are quoting this are showing Margaret's death certificate, so no proof.
These same trees have grabbed another GWW who died 1888 in Caulfield, but he was married to Susannah, and was more likely to own the mine than be digging in one.
Any suggestions for finding Margaret's journey to Victoria as a young woman c 1852?
Any suggestions for finding George Williams' origins or his death?
Salute,
Janelle