William ROBERTS - Ballarat, Victoria

[cando]

Ro do you need any further help with this family?  Would you like the death records for William and Thomas.

Search for William's here
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx

and Thomas's here
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/

Good luck.

Cando

[Roseamry]

Cando you are a marvel - thanks so much.
I really would like to know about Oliver Robert's family - there are so many stories that I got straight from the horses mouth so to speak. The Oliver I am talking about would have been born between about 1904 and 1910 - he told me on the phone that his grandfather was William so I am working on the premise that this was the William we are also talking about.
Oliver & my father grew up quite close. I cant find him and I am sure he too has passed.
This Oliver had three girls - Valerie b 1938, (d. 2008 )  Jean b 1943, and Judith about 1946 ( ? ). I know lots about the girls exploits over the years.
Oliver was  Schoolteacher, and I know that he lived in Ballarat when the girls were young. Last time I saw them was in about 1950 (? )
thanks
Ro

[Aussie4]

Ro,
     Old Cemetery   Area F1 Section 3 Location 27
     Oliver Richard ROBERTS d 1931 Ballarat reg no.3672 age 56yrs bur. 13 Apr 1931 (occ. clerk)
     Residence Nightingale st Ballarat (parents William & Jennifer)
     Jean Bachanan Roberts d 1959 Ballarat reg no.27047 age 82yrs bur 26 Dec 1959     
     parents John GLOVER & Jane Howitt BUCHANAN   
 
     Have sent a pm with the birth details of son Oliver.


Donna

[cando]

Birth - over 100 years old so there should no problem with posting it.
ROBERTS Oliver Richards
Father Oliver Richards  Mother Jean Buchanan GLOVER
At Ballarat  1909  Reg#16009

His parents' marriage

ROBERTS Oliver Richards
Father GLOVER  Mother Jean Buchanan
At Ballarat  1899  Reg#3116

Marriage
ROBERTS Oliver Richards
LYONS Olga Lillian
1936  Reg#15106

Australian Electoral Roll
1931
ROBERTS Oliver Richards, 23 Nightingale Street, Footscray   Teacher
1933
ROBERTS Oliver Richards, 28 Nicholson Street, Footscray   Teacher
1937
ROBERTS Olga Lillian, 14 Drummond Street North,  Ballarat   HD
ROBERTS Oliver Richards, 14 Drummond Street North,  Ballarat  Teacher
1949, 1954
ROBERTS Olga Lillian, 29 Anderson Street, Geelong  HD
ROBERTS Oliver Richards, 29 Anderson Street, Geelong  Teacher

Had a search of the Geelong cemeteries and crematoria however only the ashes placements are on the database.  Of course they could have moved anywhere.  There are no deaths to 1985 for either Oliver R or Olga in Victoria.

Cheers
Cando

[Roseamry]

Thanks Cando - from what I remember this would be about right.
Last time I spoke to Uncle Oliver would have been between 1985 and 1988 and I had forgotten that they had also lived in Geelong so you are right on he button - thanks so much. My father was born also in 1907 in Ballarat so it fits in.
xx Ro

[cando]

Ro it is only information which is publicly available.  Can you recall where Oliver R was living between 1985 and 1988....I could search some cemeteries.

Cheers
Cando

[Roseamry]

Hi again Cando - U dont know if you know Melbourne at all.

I know it was definitely a Melbourne suburb - but to tell you the truth I only THINK it was Doncaster way but this is not a great deal of help.
I lived in Mount Eliza at the time & it was way too far for me to find my way there.
Thanks
xx Ro

[cando]

Box Hill and Templestowe cemeteries would be the closest to Doncaster and neither have online burial records .

Cando

[Roseamry]

Thanks Cando you have really been a great deal of help and I cant expect you to do any more
xx Ro