Help needed - DAVIES family

[cando]

And another birth with transcription error  -
  
Birth
GALDBURG Alice Maud
Father Nicholas Thomas  Mother Annie GAYNOR
1890  Reg#20990

Marriage
GOLDBERG Alethia Maud
HEDLEY Alex Francis
1926  Reg#1164

and death

HEDLEY Alitha
Father Goldberg Nicholas  Mother Annie  GAYNOR
At Armadale  74 years  1965  Reg#14421

I think it is Eileen's family however only the marriage cert will help.  I need a cup of tea and a lie down...but the garden is calling

Cando

[krisesjoint]

Certainly seems more like it Cando the more we discover. Perhaps a precedent for switching names in the family Alice Maud becomes Alethia Maud and Bessie Eileen possibly becomes Eileen Frances Elizabeth.

I need to do something constructive too before I run out of day. 

Cheers Kris 

[cando]

Birth
HEDLEY Alex Francis Gerald
Father George Nicholas  Mother Kath Ettaway WHITLEY
At Bendigo  1898  Reg#24172

Puzzled as I couldn't find Alithea Maud with husband on the electoral rolls. Only a man of the same name but with a Jean HEDLEY at the same address...

Marriages
HEDLEY Alexander Francis Gerald
SCRIVENER Laurel Voldemir
1924  Reg#11729

HEDLEY Alexander Francis
CAMERON Jean
1936  Reg#15960

1st wife died in 1924 at Bendigo.

Alexander F G was on the electoral rolls as a prospector to 1954.

He died in NSW
33457/1962     
HEDLEY  Alexander Francis G
Father George Nicholas  Mother Kathleen
District Lismore.   

Cando

[jorose]

http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ - search here to see the divorce in 1916. He's listed as Davies, Herman George Tankerlesly

info on the divorce from nz papers:
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZTR19160527.2.29.7&srpos=2&e=-------10--1----0Bollettie-all
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZTR19160603.2.26.34&srpos=1&e=-------10--1----0Bollettie-all

Note that the "Mary Moody" mentioned here is probably the same as mentioned in the Australian papers.

Addresses for Bollettie:
http://caversham.otago.ac.nz/electors/erid.php?erkey=15355
She remarried in 1919 to Thomas Edgar Hobbs (nz bmd site).

[cando]

Herma, aged 12; Ellis, aged 8; Marjorie, aged 6, Eilleen, aged 5; Mary, aged 4 and Margaret Alice 2,

It would appear that Mary MOODIE/MOODY is the mother of Herma and Ellis.  I wondered what happened to her?

Births in Victoria
MOODIE Ellis Moodie
Father not recorded  Mother Mary Sinclair MOODIE
At Prahran 1918  Reg#6057

DAVIES Ellis Moodie
Father Herman George Tankersley  Mother Mary Sinclair MOODIE
At Prahran  1918  Reg#6057

Marjorie  is registered on the Vic birth index with George and Eileen as parents.

George and Mary moved to Melbourne after George was released from prison in NSW as he received a 2 year term with hard labour in Jan 1915.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15571229?searchTerm=herman+george+davies

So when he blew into the offices of the Nicholas's 'on a wet and wind swept autumn evening in 1917' he would have only been out of prison a couple of months.

Cando

[alisonjar]

Hi there everyone.  I am overwhelmed and oh so impressed.   I have just flicked quickly through all your replies and will now have to spend a lot of time digesting all this information.  No wonder I couldnt find Herman G T Davies if he was born in NZ, he certainly seemed to get around.
Thank you all again.  Now to read and record and get my head around all this before contacting my sister and bringiing her up to date.
Thank you all again and I will reply later.
Ali x

[alisonjar]

Having read a little more:
1. I am sorry to have worn you all out
2. What an interesting family my sister has, I am so jealous.
3. I am going to need some more help I am sure so hang on in there.

Ali xxx

[alisonjar]

Well, Herman was quite the cad!  Fascinating.

[alisonjar]

Is there any record of when Herman came back to UK?