Want to find out about my great grandfather Thomas SANDERS born 1868

[Fourthdaughter]

I want to start searching for details about my great grand father Thomas Sanders born 1868 married to Ellen bourke sanders and father of my grandmother Janet Ellen Sanders Fletcher Gledhill.  He was in WA for a time but apparently moved back east.  I don't know how to do this

[crisane]

Your grnadmother Janet Ellen Sanders birth registration gives her father's name as Thomas James Sanders and mother as Ellen Bourke. registration no 1209 Perth WA.

That middle name of James for Thomas may help sort him out from others when searching.

If you don't have subscriptions to any genealogy sites you can access ancestry.com at some public libraries so may be worth asking at yours.

I found the details for Janet's birth on there.

There will be someone along soon  with more knowledge on sites to use when  searching for Australian data.

[~MERLIN~]

Previous thread that mentions the family:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,322003.0.html

[~MERLIN~]

Deaths in VICTORIA:

SANDERS Thos age 74yrs d. 1941 CLIFTON HILL #7072
Father: Sanders Jas
Mother: Cath  WILLIAMS

SANDERS Ellen age 77yrs d. 1944 CLIFTON HILL #6844
Father: Bourke Patk
Mother: Cath  DONOGHUE

[~MERLIN~]

Marriage in VICTORIA:

SANDERS Thos James m. KENWORTHY Ellen 1921 # 6804

[wivenhoe]

There is a WW1 record for Thomas Sanders, living WA, b. Guildford, Vic...44 6/12 at Jan 1916....platelayer.

NOK wife Ellen, allowances to Walter James Sanders, Joseph Sanders and Winifred Sanders.

WW2 nominal roll has Joseph Sanders, b. 7 Mar 1909, Perth, WA, NOK Ellen Sanders, Clifton Hill, enlisted 20 Apr 1942.

WA BDM has Walter James Sanders b. 1904, Perth, parents Thomas James Sanders, Ellen Bourke.

WA BDM has Winifred Sanders b. 1907

So three other children to this couple 1904+ and you would expect a few more between 1896 for Janet, and 1904.

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

Death notice for Ellen Sanders in 1944, some family history.


http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44816020?searchTerm=

Regards
Gerry

[judb]

Death notice for Thomas
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/47154413

Electoral rolls show these possibles:

1936 at 9 Peckville St, Port Melbourne
Thomas SANDERS, occupation: nil
Ellen SANDERS, hd

also in Port Melbourne at 18 Liardet St
Walter James SANDERS, solderer
Thomas SANDERS, labourer
Evelyn May SANDERS, hd

and along the same street at number 34 Liardet St
Thomas Roy SANDERS, carpenter
Minnie Emma SANDERS, hd

1937 Thomas and Ellen at 16A Compton St, Preston.

Judith

[Fourthdaughter]

Wow, thanks folks!.  I know I'm asking the impossible here, but I want to know why my great grandparents came to WA?  My Grandmother Janet Ellen married my Grandfather Leslie Gledhill and had my Dad, uncles and Aunts and then the Great Grandparents (and apparently most of their kids) returned to the east, why?  My Grandmother died in 1940 from cancer and my great grand father (her dad) died a year later.  Does anyone know what type of cancer my grandmother died from?  What did my Great Grand father die from?  Was my Grandmother Janet Ellen really the daughter of Ellen bourke Sanders or was she the daughter of Janet Rankin Sanders?  What did Janet Rankin die from?  Thanks everybody.