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Yep - for marriages
"Smith" groom surname
* in all bride boxes
Stipulate time period
And search will work ......
Kind of
 
Cocksie

ugh 

Oh my goodness, what a cumbersome interface

The old one was so much easier to to just pop in various names and dates and bring up lists. I'm sure on the old one I could search marriages just by the groom's surname - it's not letting me do it with the new search engine.

Wah!

Minnie could have been a foster child and maybe never knew who her parents were.

But i did find this ... I couldnt find any births for Minna under Kirkland so thought i would try Campbell. No father listed.

NSW birth index.
21203/1882    CAMPBELL    RUBIE L M     mother     AGNES E    MOLONG 

Most likely a real long shot.

Interesting, because there's an obit for Agnes Campbell from Molong on Trove, which states she only had one child - a son called John Henry. BDM states that an Agnes Campbell from Molong had two children around a similar time - John Henry in 1879 and Rubie LLM in 1882. Perhaps Agnes is a relative of Eliza Ann and couldn't afford to keep the second one? I might go hunting down that path for a while

Minna isnt mentioned as a sibling in William Henry's obit neither.

The late Mr. Kirkland was a bachelor and is survived by three sisters, Mrs. G. Shepherd (Casino), Mrs. J. Watterston (Woodburn), and Mrs. J. T. Clark (Coraki). Another sister, Mrs. Abbott, died some years ago in Queensland. Brothers are, Albert (Kyogle) and James (Nimbin). Two other brothers, John and Richard, predeceased him. 

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/94119962?

I obviously need to brush up on my Trove searching skills because I thought I'd exhausted every possible search term on Trove! Hadn't spotted that snippet before. Thank you so much!