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Hi Trish,
       Thank you kindly for your help. I have them on the various census etc.

Hi Rosie,
   Many thanks for that. It has thrown up a discrepancy though. I have ancestry, I can't make the other one work.
   The George Henry I am looking for, according to Ancestry, was born 10 March 1931. His birth date is combined with his date of death on there so, I can't get at his mother's maiden name.
   According to Woodhorn baptism register, he had a sister, Susannah, who in turn had a daughter in 1942. Ancestry won't turn up Susannah's birth neither. Baptisms in Newbiggin appear to be registered in Northumberland Central during that period. A puzzle.

Hi Trish,
   Many thanks for that. I am interested in George only and the possibility that he was married and may have had offspring. His mothers name was Edith Bond.
   I did find a gravestone on which the family names are given, that stone is in Lairg, Sutherland; quite a leap from Edinburgh.
   My personal interest in this family lay with his brother killed during WW2. I am putting out feelers for an acquaintance who is about to place a plaque to one of the family. He needs to know if there is a possibility of family relatives.
   As George died in Edinburgh I put it on here, maybe I should have placed it in the Sutherland section.

                Many thanks and best wishes.
                          Robert.

Hi Merlin and majm,
   Thank you both for your help. Looks like a lengthy search through the newspapers, keep me going through the weekend, maybe the week.

   There is every possibility that she traveled to Australia to get married: all I know is that she did get married. There is also a possibility that she is still alive, going off her age: most relatives have died out this end and I know of no contact with her with those that are left. Thank you both again.

               Best Wishes.
                    Robert.

Hi,
   I am looking for the marriage of a relative. Her name was Stella Margaret Haveron, born Portsmouth, England, 1920. Mother, Margaret formerly Carr, father Charles Haveron.
   Some knowledgeable people on a local board found her embarked on a ship, Orbita, leaving Liverpool and bound for Melbourne, 20 October, 1946.
   I have no knowledge of whom she married but she was known to have lived in Melbourne or its suburbs.
   The marriage, I would estimate was between c 1947 and the mid 1950s. My only proof of her marriage was a wedding photo that hung on my Gran's wall. She was registered as a Miss when she left England so, she must have married in Australia (Melbourne).

           Many Thanks.
                Robert.