Hi
I think I've hit the end of my family journey. I have been unsuccessful in finding more on the one family line that I wanted to find out about.
I have been trying to find Ada Jane Gray's (b 1887 Dubbo, d. 1945 Innisfail) parents lines. I have found quite a few brothers and sisters of Ada as well as her marriages and other children and partners, but nothing on her parents. I have a death certificate for Johanna Stanley which states she was born "Near Gray River, New Zealand", but we assume that may be another fib as I cannot find anything for her in NZ.
Johanna Stanley b. abt 1860, died 24 Jun 1898 Qld, parents John Stanley and Mary Raymond
and
John William Gray, m. 1876 wellington, nsw (no proof of this though, just what was written on a death certificate.
We assume that both were of Aboriginal descent as we have found a brother and a niece of Ada Jane Gray who were "Native" and "uncontrollable Aboriginal". It also appears that Ada (although stating born in Dubbo in her first marriage) has stated in her later second marriage that she was from "Mexico".
I believe that John Gray (Ada's father) was perhaps living at Apsley Mission in NSW (Black's camp) as when he buried a son in Dubbo in 1886, the witness to that burial was a person who is named at that camp - Charles Campbell. There was also a John Stanley at that camp at one stage.
I have looked through the AITSIS data and cannot find anything either.
Does anyone have any idea on where else I can search for this difficult line?
Thanks
Deb