Hi Kren and Lu,
Some times I really do find things.
I am going out but thought I that I had better post this from a 15 August 2002 email.
Hi Lee,
Thank you for the information.
Well, I did it. I rang.
BRAVE WOMAN - "CAUSE OF DEATH - CARDIAC ARREST FROM A TELEPHONE CALL FROM XXXX"
She is old, from Sydney so probably born there. There was a Alice who wrote to her several months ago about a McInnes connection but she didn't bother to answer so if anyone else tells you that it might be good to get details on Alice.
OKAY NOTED
OK what I got was she thought her dead husband's father was Lachlan.
Later after much talk she went and got her marriage certificate and it was Myles Murdoch and he seems to have had a third given name and it could be Laclan but she said it was too hard to read (the first two were clear but whoever wrote it was running out of space so he squashed the third name up). He was a Linotyper. Her husband was known as Mac as he hated Myles (the elder sisters had a pet name for him but he never let her know that - must have been bad!). He was born in NZ in Dunedin (which we knew). She said he was an "after thought". He had a sister 18 years older and another 12 years older.
The family came to Sydney from NZ when Mac was about 3. They were there for six years and his father died there (number 313, 1928; Father Bernard). They moved to Melbourne. Mac was in the war and she remembered when he came home from the Middle East and the Islands he said he dropped in to see his uncle in Qld (no name).
She said she had other things on her mind at the time but he had no family around at all. After the war the husband of the surviving sister was called back to NZ so his mother (Blanch) went with them.
(She said her name on the marriage certificate was Blanch Madeline.)
She also said that she thought that there was a Balranald (NSW) connection somewhere with the family but Mac certainly was not aware of any cousins/relations he had anywhere except the uncle. She also commented on the unusual Spelling of Myles (always with a "y").
I did a search for anyone with a father of Bernard in NSW births but got nothing. Dunedin is a very Scottish place in NZ.
I didn't like to ask for the names of the sisters. She said they were both long dead. She is very clear but I guess there really is no information about the McInneses in the family to get.
Don't suppose you can find out where the "Bernard" came from in your family?"
Talk to you both later
Meg
