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Thank you, I know that John was not a local, I believe he probably worked for one of the contracting companies there. I briefly met him again at the same address one year later, he had a nurse of his daughter but didn't seem very interested.  I have put the photo on the Face Book site 'ex Mt isan's from the 70's catch up page' some of the men have been identified.  I have tried every thing I can think of, also paid $4000,00 to a detective agency,  Without a surname or a DNA hit I don't think we will ever find this man.

 I had a short romance with a man in Sydney in 1971 from which my daughter was born.  This man named John left Sydney  to work in Mt Isa, I received a letter and photo several months later, sadly I destroyed the letter, before I thought to write his surname on the back of the photo as his surname I was unable to pronounce. I have placed the photo on the Mt Isa Face Book page several times, there are several men sitting at the table in the photo and two have been identified.   My daughter has done a DNA test and discovered her grandfather is an American Marine who was in Queensland in the mid 1940s, he returned home possibly not knowing he had a child here.  It has been suggested John ? may have been adopted.  I hope I am not wasting your time.
Sonya

Betty was born c1929 in Sydney, her mother was Rita Baxter nee Croker and father Roy Baxter.  Divorce proceedings were started in 1929. Roy denied Betty was his daughter but the daughter of the co-respondent William Robert Swindail, the spelling of his surname on the divorce documents given as Swindo and corrected to Swindale.
Roy died in 1952, Betty is included on his death certificate as one of his children, she was then aged 25 years.
The Baxter/Croker families lived in the inner Sydney suburbs of Balmain/Glebe/Leichhardt/Newton.  With that in mind I searched BDM and found a Betty Baxter marry Kenneth Frederick Julius in 1952 in  Newtown.
Betty and Kenneth appear on the Electoral Roll in Gilpin St Annandale in 1954 - 1958 then in 1968 Betty is not on the Electoral at that address only Kenneth and his mother Stella.  I have searched for Betty for such a long time without success.

Thank you so much Debra, I think you have 'Cracked The Case'  Living at 10 Booth Street Balmain was Alice's' sister Charlotte Vaughan and her husband Edward Powell, Charlotte 'Carrie' Died from stomach cancer in 1937 which is probably why  Alice and Arthur moved out.  All that needs to happen now  is to prove which member of the family Doreen belongs to as Carrie and Arthur were childless.

I sincerely want to thank you and all the members of Rootschat for their support and information given to me these last few weeks.
Kind regards
Sonya