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I don’t have full birth certificates only record numbers from BDM NSW.
Mary was born 14 Feb 1889 in Uralla NSW. She was 6/13 children of Job Carpenter and Sarah Billington. The family story about Mary is that when she was 16 she went to town one day and never came back. The belief was that she was living with a miner or ran away with the circus. Really? No-one looked for her or reported her missing? Would have been about 1905. I cannot find any trace of her other than her birth certificate. Can anyone help?
"..Family records have Mary still in Uralla in 1905 but then she disappeared".
What are these records? How is Mary identified to be in Uralla?
Records = Stories passed down from generation to generation…. I have all the info and docs I need on the rest of the family; both parents and all other siblings.
I have Mary's birth certificate but cant find a marriage or death certificate. Family say she ran away.
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Birth cert only has Mary J. I suspect it would be Jane as this was her paternal grandmothers name.
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Sorry, but I am unable to reconcile several pieces of info from some of your posts, including the ones I have included above, and I again note that the NSW BDM online index does NOT include the initial 'J' in its listing for the birth registration of Mary, daughter of Job and Sarah CARPENTER, registered in the NSW BDM district of Uralla. Ref #31471/1889.
The index is simply that, an index, - currently for online ordering purposes the NSW BDM has it set up as a database - but it is still an index, so it is only actually a summary ... a pointer to the actual official document upon which it is based.
Do you have the death certificates for Job and/or Sarah ... Mary's parents?
JM ADD I have just added the quote from reply #23, it is 8:18 am NSW time, I have added it here to keep it all together. Sue has already asked the question about the letter J in her reply #28, which was posted before I added that quote.