Completed wth many thanks

[grandpa]

Hello everyone,
    I am looking for help to find my grandfathers 1st wife. Walton Harry EUSTON married Ella Gertrude SMITH in 1917 as a widower 17.1.1914.   Ella SMITH was his 2nd wife (it seems) but I cannot find a marriage or death for his 1st wife.  It is possible he was married in UK and came to Victoria in 1903 (but can't find immigration) or that he married in Victoria (or another state I suppose) post 1903 when he is supposed to have arrived in Victoria.
   I know all about Walton until his death in 1930 but need help with the 1st wife.


Kind Regards
Peter Euston

[deeiluka]

Here you go, Peter.....

Walt Hy EUSTON married Ruby Easton PRIGG in 1913
Ref = 8406

I'll look for her death for you.....

.....dee

[Necromancer]

just as well - no sign of him as a Walton in the UK !

 

[deeiluka]

Now this is strange.....

There's a birth in 1913 at IWOOD of a Wm Hy EUSTON to a Walt Hy and the mother is given as Mabel Jane LINES
Ref =  4772


And I can't see a death for Ruby Euston .  

I'll keep looking.....

....dee

[deeiluka]

I'm finding rather strange things all round......

The only death of a Ruby with father Prigg was in 1958 and she was then a Birch and aged 65.

But there is also the death of a Mabel Easton Harvey aged 84 in 1961, with mother given as Eliza Prigg.

So did he divorce the first wife, and what was her name?

I'll see if I can find any more on the child Wm Hy that was born 1913.

......dee

[Raylen]

Another birth


Geo Eric Lines ENSTON
born 1911 Prn  Reg no 14311
Father:  Walt Hy    Mother: Mabel Jane Lines

Raylen

[deeiluka]

Oh well done, Raylen...

Just to add to the confusion, a reverse search of the marriage finds that Ruby Easton Prigg married Walter Hy Euston.

There are very few results for Euston at all.

.....dee

[deeiluka]

Ah....

Ruby ENSTON married Albt BIRCH in 1934
Ref = 12093

.....dee

[deeiluka]

Peter,

I don't quite know how we are going to sort this lot out.....because now I have found the following....

Ronald ENSTON born in 1917 at COLAC
Father = Harry Walt & Mother = Ruby Easton PRIGG
ref = 2473

It would make life much easier if they weren't transcribed using abbreviations.

.....dee