George and Isabella Grecian , Geelong Australia

[sparrett]

As it is an unusual surname, I wonder if this is the brothers George and Thomas coming to Victoria from NSW per Clarnce, 1847
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226517246
Sue

[MemI]

Yes that would be them . It us a very unusual name

[Dundee]

There does not appear to be a burial recorded for Isabella or young George in the Geelong church registers.  It is not impossible that she didn't die but instead just disappeared into the sunset.

http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/databases/gddbs

Debra 

[sparrett]

There does not appear to be a burial recorded for Isabella or young George in the Geelong church registers.  It is not impossible that she didn't die but instead just disappeared into the sunset.

http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/databases/gddbs

Debra 

And George waited about the standard 7 years before another marriage

Sue

[sparrett]

 Edit an error

[MemI]

So I wonder if. Young Georgewas born in Geelong or even Australia ? My mother says that she was told that a wife and children died by drowning and she thinks it was when dissembarkingfrom a ship . She is very old and can’t remember where she heard this story .

[sparrett]

Hi Meml

 He was born in Geelong.

GRECIAN George Hills
Mother Isabella MCKENZIE
Father GRECIAN George
GEELONG
1850
33152/1850

Sue

[bbart]

Is this young George's 25th anniversary?

From the newspaper, "The Age", 25 Dec 1909 edition

[MemI]

Wow , so maybe George was the beginning of a second family and when Isabella was a second wife . The address in Richmond is next door to where I work !😀🤯i guess Melbourne was a very small place . Maybe the first wife and his first 3 children died . ??