South Australian cheap resources.

[judb]

Trove newspapers are a good resource.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers

You may like to enlist the help of Rootschatters in your searches.

Judith

[maggbill]

Hi CAndo,
thank you for the offer re the BMD indexes you have on CD.  Not sure what periods they cover and if the story is too vague??? 

Am looking for BMD's for "Hilda May Welch Noble".  Said to be born in 1891 - ? location, Adelaide or elsewhere in SA. -  A story gives her maiden name () as "Hilda May Smith" - she married Francis Harmer Smith some time in Adelaide before 1918.  She then married William Henry Noble in 1937.  Her death was 20th November 1980 and she is buried at Hindmarsh Cemetery Hindmarsh under the name "Hilda May Welch Noble". No idea where this "Welch" name comes from - Could it be her actual maiden surname? Any ideas of help would be seriously appreciated.

[maddys52]

You may have seen Francis Harmer SMITH's military file. His will is on the file (page 40) and in it he says his wife's mother is Margaret TAYLOR.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1773724

[maddys52]

Margaret Agnes SMITH, daughter of Francis Harmon SMITH birth was registered in 1912 in Adelaide ( 891/330).
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ssn/

So presumably Francis and Hilda were married before 1912.

[maddys52]

Here's their marriage - Francis Harmer SMITH and Hilda May WELCH at Adelaide in 1912 (251/725).
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sso/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ssp/

Modified to add:
According to a transcription on Ancestry, they married 31 May 1912; his father was Francis SMITH, her's was John WELCH.

[maddys52]

Francis Harmer SMITH birth registered in 1888 in Richmond, Victoria (32819 / 1888). Parents Francis SMITH and Agnes (nee BISSETT).
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ssq/

[maddys52]

I can't find a suitable birth for Hilda May WELCH (yet), though there is this mention of an 11 year old Hilda WELCH in 1901 (birth day greetings for 7 April, of Brown St)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207943767  (towards the bottom)

Birthday greetings  also in 1902:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162352105

And 1903:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207972017

And a few other mentions on trove - just a possibility. 

Modified to add:
Probably ignore the above, she is most likely Hilda Jane WELCH whose birth was registered in Adelaide in 1890, father - James Samuel WELCH.

[maggbill]

Hi everyone again - and Maddy!

Great - lots of avenues to follow.... Various possibilities - So - I know we should never presume, but maybe Hilda May's maiden name was Welch....  Will be seeing my friend tomorrow - so she is already amazed at what can be found!   Hey, I think I might really get into Australian records now!  Thank you all again - lots still to work on - but will get back with updates.

[maddys52]

For interest, Hilda May NOBLE and William Henry NOBLE are on various electoral rolls at 30 East St, Torrensville (also Kenneth George NOBLE and Frank NOBLE at the same address, presumably William's sons from a previous marriage - their birth registrations can be found on Genealogy SA).

A death and funeral notice for Margaret TAYLOR aged 76, funeral leaving "her daughter's residence 30 East Street Torrensville" in 1939. Margaret was the wife of Thomas Carney TAYLOR.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131922146

Thomas Carney TAYLOR died 1921, registered in Hindmarsh (443/150) aged 62 according to cemetery records.