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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: craigt on Saturday 31 March 12 09:28 BST (UK)
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Hi, I am looking for what the local cemeteries would be nearest to 24 Brighton Road in Kurilpa, Griffith electorate in Queensland. The couple I am looking for and who I suspect died in the area, lived at that address up until 1963. Their names were William Hamilton Paterson and his wife Nellie Paterson nee Roff. With luck if I can find the names of the likely cemeteries where they lived the cemeteries will either have online records or I can e-mail the staff at the cemetery to determine whether this is where the couple were buried. They were both born about 1890 so are unlikely to be the people of the same or similar names in the Ryerson Index.
Many thanks,
Craig.
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It would seem that 24 Brighton Road in Kurilpa, Griffith electorate in Queensland doesn't exist. Where did you get it from?
Jamjar
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Griffith covers an area of approximately 60 sq km of the southern Brisbane suburban area.
I checked http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/community/community-support/funeral-planning-and-grave-search/grave-location-search/index.htm and they aren't listed.
Were they Catholic?
Jamjar
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Their names were William Hamilton Paterson and his wife Nellie Paterson nee Roff.
As you know her maiden name, would you tell us please where she was born and where and when the couple married please...... if you know...
Sue
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Kurilpa is an indigenous name for West End, the address would be Brighton Road, West End. The nearest cemetery would probably be South Brisbane (otherwise known as Dutton Park).
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They are not in Sth Brisbane. See my link. If Catholic, they'll be at Nundah.
Jamjar
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Sorry Jamjar, wasn't trying to disagree with you. Was just directing OP to the suburb and nearest cemetery. :)
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Their names were William Hamilton Paterson and his wife Nellie Paterson nee Roff.
As you know her maiden name, would you tell us please where she was born and where and when the couple married please...... if you know...
They were married in NZ:
PATERSON William Hamilton m. ROFF Nellie 1920 #3332
Children born in NZ also, a son was in the RAAF & died in an accident in AUS:
http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=559546
http://www.twgpp.org/information.php?id=2872800
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran_certificate.asp?VeteranID=1021482
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Hi, it looks as though someone already has the answer to where Kurilpa is, but I found it when I did a search of Australian voter lists and came up with William and Nellie living in the electorate of Kurilpa district, Griffith sub-district in Queensland in 1963 and before-hand. I had guessed from looking on an online map this was part of Brisbane. Nellie was born on 2 November 1889, I presume this was in Invercargill, New Zealand, where her parents Charles Roff and Jessie Roff nee Taylor lived at the time. I don't know where or when William was born. He first appears in electoral rolls in New Zealand in Wellington in 1919. I can't see that he served in the armed forces in NZ in WWI. Nellie also appeared in a 1919 Wellington roll, previously she had been in the South Island of New Zealand, so they might have been married in Wellington, but of course they might have followed tradition and married where Nellie's parents were living: Invercargill. I have only just found this couple so don't know too much about them including their denomination.
Craig.
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The Catholic cemetery in Brisbane is NUDGEE cemetery. There is no record of a burial of the
Paterson's at this cemetery.
Nundah cemetery is a historic cemetery originally for early German settlers in the Nundah district.
The first settlers were mainly Lutheran missionaries.
Jen.
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Thanks, Jen, that is the one I meant.
Jamjar.
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You could also look in Bulimba/Balmoral Cemetery if they lived at West End and aren't in Dutton Park Cemetery.
Then again, you should always try Toowong Cemetery as people from all over, are buried there. I think it's the largest in Brisbane (one of the largest anyhow)
Dawn M
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They aren't at Toowong, unless I missed them. See the link I posted for the online search.
Jamjar
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They may have moved out of the area after 1963 and have died elsewhere.
If they were cremated and their ashes weren't interred I don't think there will be a record of their burials. :-\
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Not here:
http://www.interment.net/data/aus/qld/brisbane/mt_thompson/thompson.htm
Jamjar
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Hello,
Thanks very much for the searching you have done. This is a family I've been looking for, for a very long time, hampered by their common name of Taylor. I was recently sent a copy of a will which indicated a Taylor, bless her, had married a Roff, their child in turn had married a Paterson, and with their distinctive names I was able to trace them to Queensland. Very sad to read about their pilot son dying in WWII, thanks for sending me that. You have eliminated by the looks of things several cemeteries. If there is any way you can tell me other likely cemeteries near where they lived (other than the ones you mentioned) that if not online I could e-mail it would be great. You're right, they could have moved elsewhere; both would have been in their early 70s, but this is no bar to people shifting obviously. We had some neighbours in their 80s who used to shift about once every couple of years, sad to say their shift to our street was their last.
Regards,
Craig.
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Craig
Looking at Qld BDM online, there is a
William PATERSON death 1963/C5883. No parents given and it says
**born Sydney, New South Wales, aged 73 years.
The C in the registration indicates country but of course be as close as places like Beenleigh or Petrie or Ipswich which are quite close to Brisbane but technically 'country' as not in Brisbane City Council area.
Not sure what the two asterisks are supposed to indicate.
Aged 73 years in 1963 he would have been born in 1890, so correct age.
No second name given, and the actual death date is 08 Nov. 1963.
They could have moved between electoral roll publication and November, from West End to 'the country'.
Looked for Nellie under Paterson and Roff but no joy, even without putting in a forename. Was Nellie her actual name or was it Helen or maybe even Petronella with a surname of Roff?
Just realised I only looked 1962-63 but I'll go back and look at 1964 which is as far as they go.
Dawn M
ADD: No joy for 1964 either, under Paterson, unless whoever gave the information gave totally wrong parent names - only an Alice with parents John & Sarah and an Annie Venters with parents George & Madeliene (sic)