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I'm looking to see if I can find what happened to a family who left England in 1959 for Australia.  A member of their family has asked me to look but I don't want to name them as some are (hopefully) still alive.  However, I'm drawing blanks.  Trove seems not to have records recent enough and I can find nothing on FamilySearch.  I have names and dates of birth only and the surname is very common. I have an address for them in Brisbane in the early 1960s and they have visited "home" once since then.  My friend has a photo of the couple with two girls but the passenger lists show two girls when they left England and three when they arrived in Fremantle.  The last had a name but no date of birth - I'm assuming she was born on the journey.  Can anyone give me an idea of how I might find them.  My knowledge of Australian research is very limited, I'm afraid.  Thank you in advance.

I have a baptism for  James Horatio Budds in Great Yarmouth, Suffolk, on 30 December 1830, son of William, a sail maker, and his wife Thomasin.  William and Thomasin had twelve children between 1814 and 1834, all baptised in the same church although the six oldest were also baptised at the local Wesleyan Chapel in 1842.  Three of the children, Frederick Charles Budds, James Horatio Budds and Ellen Eliza Budds were also apparently baptised in Earsdon near North Shields - all on the same day that they were baptised in Yarmouth. I have seen the original baptism entries for Yarmouth but the Earsdon ones are only transcripts (on both major genealogical websites).  Even today you'd hardly make the trip in time for two baptisms.  What's going on here, do you think?

I have a will from 1806 where the testator leaves his son "three thousand pounds four per centum bank annuities to be transferred unto him". 

Can any of you wise ones out there explain to me what that actually means?  I would be grateful for some help.

Will definitely look into that.  Thank you, not sure how I missed it as there is a suggestion that her mother originated from the Manchester area!!!

I have a baptism certificate for Mary Teresa Baker, daughter of Michael Baker and Nancy Iris Baker (formerly Smith), who were "lawfully married".  Mary Teresa aka Maria Theresa was apparently born on 10 December 1928 and baptised in St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, by Rev B.P. Murphy, on 11 March 1936.  Firstly, Michael and Nancy were not married; Secondly, Michael was Jewish, possibly from Russia and, I suspect, his surname was not originally Baker.  I am wondering if the original entry might give any more information; did either parent leave a signature or an address/occupation?  According to an account written by a family member in the 1940s, Nancy left home when the baby was three so a bit of a mystery as to why the Jewish father would have her baptised in a Catholic Church eight years later.  I would be grateful if someone could look this entry up for me or tell me where I might find the original record.  Thank you in advance.