BDM VIC death
1590/1909 SIMMONS Sylvia
Mothers given name: Hart
Mothers family name: UNKNOWN
Fathers given name: Walden Corns
Fathers family name: UNKNOWN
died Glong age 81
(Is this how to interpret the names?)
Do you have this death certificate?. When Sylvia dies there is someone around who knows about her origins. Age 81 seems very specific.
Marriage certificate - "...foster mother from birth " seems more than required.
Just "foster mother" would be enough?.
Geelong Western Public Cemetery
SIMMONS Sylvia buried 03 Feb 1909 WST-COE-1-807-1084
Contact these folks and ask about any other burials in the same plot.
The Gatehouse, Eastern Cemetery
03 5249 3939
info@gct.net.au Thinking aloud...some possibilities....
* Also from reply #17......for all that there might have been a falling out, surely if Sylvia has no children, and took Annie in as a baby, you might think that it would have to be a serious estrangement for them to sever all ties. It would be encouraging to see the name Sylvia among Annie's children. You might see it to be a sense of connection to foster mother Sylvia.
* Annie Mabel May........seems that all these names are important to her.
* Annie Mary May GARDINER....as mother of her children.
Is she Annie Mabel May GARDINER as mother on her childrens marriage certificates?
Annie Mabel May GARDINER as mother on the death certificates of her children.........I am seeing that on several of the deaths on VIC BDM.
Of significance is the knowledge of Annie's GARDINER name. Time, and generations, can have a diluting effect on family oral history.
Information on marriage certificates, ie mothers family name, can be informed directly from birth certificates.
Information on death certificates, ie mothers family name, can be informed directly from birth or marriage certificate of the dead person.
If, at death, the SHERRY - GARDINER children have mother's name recorded, I would consider it is because mother Annie, during her lifetime, has told her children about her family.
It is more effort than the numerous death informants would have sought to find out by accessing earlier documents.
Annie knows about her GARDINER origins.....her children know about her GARDINER origins........but Annie was fostered from birth?
