Cowra, NSW Marriage Look Up Please?

[fek33]

Hi, I wonder if someone could help me please???

I am looking for confirmation of a marriage between Alfred Merrall and Daisy Gouge 1916, Cowra, NSW and if they had any children?

Many thanks.

FEK33   

[PrueM]

Hi FEK33 

you can search NSW BDMs online at
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm

For free!

Marriages go up to 1956 online, but births have a 100 year closure rule so only up to 1906 is recorded online.  However, some Rootschatters do have access to later births (I think) so you might get lucky.

Cheers
Prue

[Robert Coble]

Hi fek,

Alfred Merrall
Married: 11565/1916
Daisy Gouge
Place: Paddington Sydney.

Alfred Merrall
Died: 27252/1943
Father: John Thomas Merrall.
Mother: Emma
Place: Granville. Sydney

Daisy May Merrall (ne Gouge)
Died: 4531/1966
Father: Alexander Harry Gouge
Mother: Jane Elizabeth
Place: Sydney.

Alfred Merrall
Died: 27252/1943
Father: John Thomas Merrall.
Mother: Emma
Place: Granville. Sydney.

Nancy M Merrall
Born: 46336/1917
Place: Waverley. Sydney
Father: Alfred Merrall
Mather: Daisy Gouge.

GOUGE COWRA:

Birth's:
Gordon A
Born: 13621/1908
Father: Raymond W
Mother: Daisy

Sidney A
Born: 13753/1909
as above.

GOUGE Bathurst.
Jean
born: 50819/1913
Father: nil
Mother: Daisy

[fek33]

Many thanks for your help. 

Is there any way of finding out if Alfred is buried in Cowra please?

I am pretty new to researching overseas and any help would be appreciated 

Many thanks.  FE33   

[PrueM]

Hi FE33,

Cowra is a fair distance from Sydney (even further back then, time wise) - it's unlikely, but not impossible, that Alfred would be buried there.

If you order a copy of the death certificate for Alfred, it will tell you where he was buried.  Australian certificates are fantastic like that!

Cheers
Prue

[fek33]

Hi Prue, thanks for that.  I will order a copy. 
I didn't realise that the certificate would tell me where he was buried. 
Thanks again.  FEK33 

[PrueM]

The very early ones don't have alot of info, but the latter 1800s and particularly the 20th century death certs do give quite a bit of information.  If you are lucky, and the informant was in the know, the cert might give you spouse names, children's ages and names, number of years in the colony (if an immigrant)...of course if they didn't know or weren't sure, you might end up on a wild goose chase!  One thing that is almost always correct is the place and date of burial/cremation and who it was performed by (ie. undertakers if any, ministers if any etc.).

Good luck! 

Prue

[fek33]

Hi, firstly I would like to thank you all for helping me out.

I have this morning received a NSW Death Registration Transcription for Alfred Merrall, which confirms that he was buried in the Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood.

What I am confused about is that it states he was not married.  According to the BMD's, he may have married a Daisy Gouge, but she did not die until 1966.  If they had divorced, would the death certificate say he wasn't married?  Also it doesn't list any children and according to the BDM's he may have had a daughter called Nancy with Daisy.   

Another thing I am confused about is that on the death transcription it says time in Aust Colonies, 18 years in NSW (which would have been 1925), but if he did marry Daisy Gouge, that would have been in 1916!! and his daughter born in 1917!   

I am sure this is my Alfred Merrall I am looking for as his parents were John Thomas Merrall and Emma Tomkins and he was born in Leicester, England, which is what it states on the Death Registration.

What is my next step please?  Do I order a transcript of the marriage?

Thanks FEK33

[PrueM]

Hi FEK33,

Glad the certificate arrived and you now have a place of burial - Rookwood is a really enormous cemetery and there is a published CD of transcriptions of headstones available...some Rootschatters own this, so it might be interesting to start a new thread with a request to see if your man had a headstone which was transcribed.

I'm not sure, but I would have thought that the death certificate would state any spouses, whether living, dead or divorced (certainly they always stated the former two) and any children living or dead.  Who was the informant on the death certificate?  It might be that they were not privy to any of this information, and only gave what info they knew.  If he was divorced/estranged, the informant might have had no knowledge of his former family. The only sure way to find out might be to order that marriage certificate.

Prue