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Title: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: Shadrach on Sunday 20 September 15 09:59 BST (UK)
Could I request help please finding information on the Electoral Roll, or anywhere else, about Richard Richardson.
He was born in Victoria in 1891 and eventually moved to Sydney probably in the early 1900s.
The only address I have for him is in 1957, in Burlington Road Strathfield.

shadrach
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: rosball on Sunday 20 September 15 12:57 BST (UK)
Hi Shadrach,
   There are a few Richard RICHARDSON's on electoral rolls in Sydney in that time frame.   Do you have parents' names or other info so we can eliminate some possibilities (using other resources)?

   Are you sure that the Richard RICHARDSON in Strathfield is your man?  (perhaps you have letters from him ...?  Or you know that he was an artist? or you know that the lady also living at that address was his wife?)

regards
   Ros
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: majm on Monday 21 September 15 01:17 BST (UK)
Hi there,

I am not related to the Richard RICHARDSON who Ros has found on the electoral roll at Strathfield, BUT .... I can confirm that there's more than a few chaps born back in the 1890s who were living in the Sydney metro areas for many decades in the 20th Century, as I am related to several.  There's a father/son and uncle/nephew naming pattern in 'my' Dick Richardson families.   

The various state/territory and Commonwealth Electoral Rolls are not the equivalent of say the UK or USA Census.  They are not issued by household order.  They do not give the age of the elector, nor their marital status, nor the names of others in the household who are not old enough to enrol, and if there are others in the household with a different surname then those electors are found elsewhere in the rolls, listed under their own surname. 

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Monday 21 September 15 02:59 BST (UK)
I have no idea if this is the man you are seeking, but hopefully you will advise us at some stage.

This is the only Richard Richardson born in Vic in 1891

RICHARDSON Richd
Father Jno Thos
Mother Matda PAYNE
Birth Place RICHMOND
Year 1891
Reg. Number 6428

Possibly his parents marriage
 

RICHARDSON John Thomas( born Newcastle on Tyne )
PAYNE Matilda(  born London)
Year 1875
Reg Number 2558


Siblings

RICHARDSON Alice
Father John Thomas
Mother Matilda PAYNE
Birth Place:PR AH
Year 1876
Reg Number 11335

RICHARDSON Sarah
Father Jnos Thomas
Mother Matilda PAYNE
Birth Place TUNGAMAH
Year 1888
Reg Number: 34015

The father may have died-

RICHARDSON Jno Thos
Father RICHARDSON Moses Aaron
Mother Ann BEWSHER
Age 63
Death Place Rmond
Year 1898
Reg. Number 13743
 
Possibly   death of Richard in NSW

25492/1976 RICHARDSON   Richard
Died at MANLY
Aged   85   

Possible death of mother?

4670/1916 RICHARDSON    Matilda
Parents Joseph and Jane
At  MANLY

Death notice Matilda 

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15636409

Sue


Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Monday 21 September 15 03:16 BST (UK)
Confirming the death for  John Thomas RICHARDSON (given above) as the correct man, father of Richard.

Death Notice

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14158175

The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 2 August 1898

Sue
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Monday 21 September 15 04:55 BST (UK)
Death Notice
SMH
15th Oct 1976

RICHARDSON, Richard- (Artist). Oct 11th 1976. Late of Newport, beloved husband of Mavis and father of ___


Sue
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: Shadrach on Monday 21 September 15 05:00 BST (UK)
Thanks sparratt, does the notice give the names of his children?
shadrach
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Monday 21 September 15 05:10 BST (UK)
Child. Yes.
Sue
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Monday 21 September 15 05:28 BST (UK)
This I think is the death of Richard's wife-

12155/1982 RICHARDSON Beryl Mavis
Parents Walter Edmund & Catherine Spence

Some other particulars to you by PM.

Sue

Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 22 September 15 03:17 BST (UK)
A few more possibilities for you, again by PM.

Sue
Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: Shadrach on Tuesday 22 September 15 05:02 BST (UK)
Thanks Sue,
Message to you, let me know if you receive it.

Title: Re: ELECTORAL ROLL help to find Richard Richardson
Post by: Shadrach on Wednesday 23 September 15 07:41 BST (UK)
Thanks everyone for your great help, as a result I have been able to fill in many details about Richard.

shadrach