Strange Memo . . .

[rosball]

Hi Mike,

I support Sarco's comment that not all info on historic NSW marriages was passed onto the registrar.  I contacted the Uniting Church Archives about an 1875 Wesleyan marriage and was sent the full details by e-mail - it cost 26 dollars.    I see there is also an option to search for yourself at the archives - and it is not too far from me. 

http://www.insights.nsw.uca.org.au/church/archives.htm

cheers,
  Ros

[mike175]

Hi Ros, thanks for the link. I'll try emailing them to see what they can offer but I doubt if Thomas gave much information away, he seems to have cut himself off from his early life and family. He even gave a false name for his mother in one record in the USA

As for the Davis family, I hesitate to trace them too far. I have tried to make a practice of only going back or forward one generation on these side branches unless there's a special reason. It is very easy to get diverted from the main project down these side alleys 

Mike.

[rosball]

Hi Mike,
  I am happy to go and search for you.  It was the limited opening hours that caused me to pay for the research before.  But now that I am retired it only my inertia that I have to overcome.

   I'm guessing there is little/no cost if you do your own searching 

  I'll pm you my e-mail address and then perhaps you can send me a copy of the marriage cert so that I have all the info at hand.  Perhaps he gives his correct place of birth or some clues ...?  - nothing to lose anyway.

cheers,
  Ros

[snowyw]

Brilliant thread.  I watch with interest.

[rosball]

Hmmm I see the police records say he was born 1865 in South Australia ...  but no record of this birth on SA BDM http://www.genealogysa.org.au/

Police Records NSW http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=31

cheers,
   Ros