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Hi cando

I have finally found the birth certificate.   Thanks

Gosh ... it looks like our family has the wrong name.   Wow is that going to make a few surprises.....
The birth date is exactly that shown in the family bible written in his own hand.

Thanks so much for your help.  I have to sit down and ponder over all this again and look for the links to the other children.

A BIG thankyou to you all for your help.  I do have a copy of the B&D for Charles Galvin and I do believe that the union between May and John was a little bit cloudy.  For this is the only child to have a registered birth and then to have the father stated as "putative" under his own signature.  And also to state the mother as Mary Morrison.  Latter death certs. show her as Galvin nee McNichol from Scotland
I think Debra has hit the nail on the head.  I could not find anything on Mary Morrison or a spouse.  
I have looked at the Rates Book @PROV for the house in Octavia St St Kilda (which by the way is pronounced as written - there is no saint) and it shows that the property changed from John Galvin to Mary Galvin after Johns death in 1867.  
My father worked with his father for 40 years and yet my father was told very little about his fathers family so it is possible that my grand father learnt from a young age not inquire about or talk about earlier generations, hence little was passed on.
It would be interesting to discover what became of John Morrison???
Thank you all again and have a wonderfull New Year
P.S. All this makes us apprreciate what a wonderfull time we live in

Just got your latest reply Cando....gosh.. the plot thickens

I have traced back to John Galvin who arrived in Melbourne, November 1852 on the ship "Severn" (I think that this is the correct person).  I cannot find any evidence of where he was from or of his family.  His eldest son was born in St Kilda 1854, (this was recorded in a family bible some years latter) but no record was lodge with BDM.  His wifes name was Mary McNichol.  Not sure if they were married as there is no record.

Thanks