I am amazed at your generosity of time, resources, patience, encouragement and enthusiasm for families that aren't yours......thank you. You have restored my faith in random acts of kindness......something I practice but haven't seen much of lately.
I have entered the information about Mary Victoria......many thanks Genni and Jenn.
i don't have Ellen and John Thomas Hutton's marriage certificate, but it is listed in the Tasmanian Index and she is listed as the mother of his four children. The last child Frederick James Hutton was born in 1898 and g-grandfather remarried as a widower in 1912. Can't seem to find anything on Frederick either.
The family legend is that she left him.......my grandfather spent a lot of time with the catholic nuns whilst she was alive (I believe he lived with them for a while).....which is why my mother's name is Rosary....a comment worthy name for a C of E.!
I did a Google search but I am uncertain if BillyBong Station relates to BillyBong Plains.......I'll make some enquiries with the local libraries.
On another family......I have records that my great aunt recorded before she died listing her mother's birth.....she has the date and place, but when i looked in the Queensland BDM's she isn't listed. She apparently was born at Palmer River, Qld during the Gold Rush up there. Would births from there not have been officially recorded?
Susie