Wolfe in possibly Victoria, possibly not....

[Stuart_McDonald]

Hi everyone
Can anyone assist, the trail has gone cold....
Keith Wolfe (born 3 January 1911 Albany WA) married in 1943 in Victoria to Alberta Jean Compt and seems to have disappeared from online sources I've been consulting.  I can't even locate where Alberta originated.  Any suggestions?
Kind regards
Stuart

[Dundee]

You really need to buy a copy of the marriage cert to get information about both of them - parents, ages, birthplaces.

I can see that he enlisted 1943 - 1945.

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=981487&c=WW2#R

I can't see a birth registration in WA.  They had a son that died at Carlton in 1951 aged 9 months but I can't see either of them on the electoral roll there.

https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history

Debra 

[Stuart_McDonald]

Thanks for that Debra, something to go on with   The birthdate on the Nominal Roll might be wrong, I am working on the unsubstantiated premise he was born Keith Parker and was "adopted" by his mother's marriage to a Wolfe, in which case he was born in 1913 at Pingelly WA.

[sparrett]

Hi
This is the death notice for the brother of Alberta Jean (nee COMPTE), Claude COMPTE  She was seemingly known as Jeannie or Jean. 1952 Melbourne. It mentions Mrs WOLFE

Her parents were Edward and Jessie COMPTE of Fitzroy.  Other items connected to this COMPTE family can be found on Trove .
Sue

[Stuart_McDonald]

This is the death notice for the brother of Alberta Jean (nee COMPTE), Claude COMPTE.....
Thanks for your time, I appreciate it.  It's all too convoluted, death notices for Alberta Jean's mother in 1942 and a sister Joyce in 1941 list differing arrays of children and siblings, one lists Ernie and Claude as brothers (but appear to be one and the same) and Jeannie is possibly a typo as a sister Jessie.
I might give it away as it's helping out a friend, I can locate no references at all to Keith Wolfe and his wife Alberta Jean after 1951 and if Keith is stilling living he'd be at least 110 years old!
I do appreciate it when others do gratis searching for me.
Best wishes
Stuart

[sparrett]

Regardless of the differing names on the lists of COMPTE children.I have no doubt that this is the family of Alberta Jean.

Thedeceased infant was named after her father, Edward Christian.
Sue

[maddys52]

Of possible interest, prison record and photographs of Edward Christian COMPTE
https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/21F927C2-F3A9-11E9-AE98-2BB4B8CDC3AE?image=152

You can find some records for the family of Edward and Jessie COMPT(E) nee PERKINS on the Victorian BDM site - no apparent birth registered for Alberta Jean though. Edward and Jessie married 1918, I had a look to see if Alberta may have been registered as PERKINS, but couldn't see a likely birth. They had a child died in 1918 aged 3 (William Edward), so he was born prior to the marriage, unless the index is meant to be "3 months", though both Edward and Jessie must have been quite young.
https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history

[maddys52]

Sad story about the COMPT family in 1934 (reported in various papers around the country)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204821943
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/182888410
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229212428
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97716565

Photo here:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/249476870

[Stuart_McDonald]

Sad story about the COMPT family in 1934....
Thanks for the links and finding them Maddie, very much appreciated and probably so very indicative of those times across Australia.
If you believe what is recorded elsewhere, Edward Christian Compt would have been 16 when he married Jessie Victoria Perkins in 1918.  Elsewhere he is recorded as older. William Edward was born before they married as he is registered as Perkins in 1918 with no father.  I am still nofurther down the track, the unusual surname is recorded as Compt, Compte,Comt and Comte so far as I can thus far determine.  I might just leave it, but I do appreciate your precious time!
regards
Stuart