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Title: Victoria BMD
Post by: fairlane on Friday 29 August 08 17:21 BST (UK)
I'm having great difficulty in accesssing online.justice.vic.gov.au to search for two deaths. Is this usual?
Could anyone look for Walter H Ashton (b.1918) and Doris Ashton (b.1913)who sadly died, I believe, in the 1980's in a car crash in the Adelaide area.

Many thanks,

Fairlane
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: tropicalj on Friday 29 August 08 23:43 BST (UK)
Are you  looking for deaths  in Adelaide or Victoria?
There are no deaths  listed for either  Doris or Walter Ashton up  to 1984 on  the Victorian Indexs
Jenn
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: deeiluka on Friday 29 August 08 23:53 BST (UK)
And they are not listed on the SAGHS newspaper indexes for South Australia for that time frame. There's a Doris Marjorie Ashton who died in 1970 and a Walter Hannaford Ashton who died in 1960.


.......dee
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: tropicalj on Friday 29 August 08 23:54 BST (UK)
Snap  there Dee  just about to  post  the same information

kind thought Jenn
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: troods on Friday 29 August 08 23:56 BST (UK)
I was thinking the same thing. If the couple died in Adelaide would the death not be registered in SA ??????

I had a quick look on the Ryerson Index nothing listed for those exact names.

Troods
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: deeiluka on Saturday 30 August 08 00:02 BST (UK)
South Australian Index only goes to 1972. The two I listed would be on it, and I could check the details. But.....they don't fit the time frame that Fairlane is talking about.  :-\


.....dee
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: sparrett on Saturday 30 August 08 00:58 BST (UK)

Hi All, This caught my eye.
Is it your people arriving Fairlane.
Was his middle name Hoyle? With Brian and Robert

ASHTON Walter Hoyle born 29 October 1918; Doris (nee Elliott) born 8 August 1913; Walter born 19 May 1942; Brian born 3 May 1944; Robert born 2 August 1949;  per RANCHI departed UK on 6 February 1952 under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme
1951 - 1952

Sue
 
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: cando on Saturday 30 August 08 01:02 BST (UK)
Previous thread
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,322952.msg2037037.html#msg2037037
in which Fairlane says they died in their 70's.

Cheers
cando
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: sparrett on Saturday 30 August 08 01:16 BST (UK)
MMmmm... so just the death he is seeking ;D

But the middle name is Hoyle. Right?

Sue
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: fairlane on Saturday 30 August 08 17:17 BST (UK)
Hello everyone,

Many thanks for your assistance.

Yes it is Walter Hoyle Ashton & family I'm interested in. Apologies for the awry geography between Victoria & Adelaide.

If SA death index only goes to 1972 it would seem that they won't show up yet and from what I have gleaned they were in their 70's so the timescale could run into the early 1990's. Is there a (roughly) 30 year rule for publishing of death index?

Kind regards, Fairlane
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: cando on Sunday 31 August 08 01:28 BST (UK)
The limit of indexes varies from state to state...1972 in South Australia, 1985 in Victoria, 1929 Queensland, 1977 New South Wales...I think about 1940 in Western Australia...not sure about Tasmania. 

Were your couple resident in Victoria at the time of the accident?...and have you attempted to contact any of the descendants?  May be your only hope of finding out any details.

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: fairlane on Sunday 31 August 08 22:08 BST (UK)
Hi Cando

Thanks for your reply. I don't know where they were resident at time of death and the person who gave the information regarding car accident has since sadly passed away. By getting the death cert. I was hoping to find a place of residence to start searching for the rest of the family.

As I'll be offline for a couple of weeks I'll put this on the back burner for now.

Thanks to all who helped.

Best wishes, Fairlane

Title: Re: Victoria BMD
Post by: Robert Ashton on Wednesday 14 September 22 06:00 BST (UK)
Hi Fairlane,
My name is Robert Ashton, I am the son of Walter Hoyle Ashton. What do you want to know about our family?