Roy Dodd and Mary Elizabeth White

[Kandi Burns]

no I do not know what my great grandfathers occupation was. As far as I know my great grandparents are from Sydney or Melbourne or Tasmania. I don't know much on him at all

[Jamjar]

Your, GGrandfather’s occupation should be on your grandfather’s marriage cert, I believe. Also, should be the name your GG was known by at the time.

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

my grandfather as far as I know was born in Sydney Australia in 1932 and his father from what I was told died in port Melbourne and a uncle in western Australia

Did your gfather grow up in NSW and was he married in NSW?

Do you have a name for the uncle who died in WA?

Jamjar

[Kandi Burns]

I was told that he was born in Sydney but later found out that he was born in port Melbourne along with his twin brother John Moris Dodd and Roy Robert Dodd

[Jamjar]

The Roy Robert Walters who died in 1954 was buried a Catholic, at Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne.

Are your family members, Catholic?

Jamjar

[Kandi Burns]

I was baptised church of england

[chempat]

As your grandfather is still alive, then someone of his family must have his birth and marriage certificates and the necessary information to fill in his death certificate.  Are you not in a position to ask him or others, directly, to see the certificates?

[sparrett]

I can find no evidence that the woman Roy Robert WALTERS married in 1918 and for whom he claimed to be arranging repatriation to Australia in 1921, ever arrived in Australia. She was Phyllis Queenie WILSON, as mentioned.

Does anyone else see her?

When he married in 1927 to Mary Elizabeth WHITE, he was possibly still legally married to Phyllis.

He married as DODD and later it seems reverted to WALTERS, though Mary Elizabeth seemed to retain her DODD married name.

As mentioned, the couple were living in Tasmania at 281 Charles street Launceston and he was Roy Robert WALTERS while she was  Mary ELizabeth DODD.
They were there from 1943 to 1949 together. Prior to that seem to be in NSW as listed

There is one Mary Elizabeth DODD in Launceston in 1954, but the address is different 102 St John Street. Another male live there too. A truck driver.

As noted, Roy Robert was in Melbourne in 1954.

Sue

EDIT
The text is poor on the 1954 Tas E Roll digitisation.
The truck driver DODD may have been at 192 St John Street.

 

[chempat]

I can find no evidence that the woman Roy Robert WALTERS married in 1918 and for whom he claimed to be arranging repatriation to Australia in 1921, ever arrived in Australia. She was Phyllis Queenie WILSON, as mentioned.

Still looking for her birth, to check her out in full.

Can see a Phyllis Queenie Ringshaw born 1898 in West Ham.
But she died 1899.