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Re: Witness name help pls
« Reply #36 on: Friday 13 January 12 04:11 GMT (UK) »
Maybe a search of marriages of possible spouse surnames!? of brothers & sisters marriage or in the census also near neighbours on the same street. I have  found witnesses this way before today.
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Re: Witness name help pls
« Reply #37 on: Friday 13 January 12 06:53 GMT (UK) »
 :'(  :'(  :'(

We don't have census records like the UK ones .... our governing forefathers drew off the statistics and then to systematically incinerated the originals, leaving some scant householder reports from some of those 19th C collections. 

The couple who married were from "out of town", hundreds of miles out of town actually, down from "the BUSH" ....

I think the OP is following up by seeking to contact the Archivist for the Diosese of Sydney, who may have the original parish registers.   

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Re: Witness name help pls
« Reply #38 on: Friday 13 January 12 07:36 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

As JM says, we don't have exactly the same rules and reg's in Oz as UK. The suggestion that the PR's, or another version of the marriage cert, may have this witness name written differently is a valid suggestion so we've have just ordered another "official" (ie untranscribed) version to see if the witness wrote his name in a ledgible fashion  ::)

Unfortunately that will take up to 3 weeks to arrive so it's just a case of waiting for receipt of cert.

In the meantime, also asking/looking for the original PR's to see what they might have to offer.

So, it's just a case of wait and wait at the moment (with fingers crossed)

Thanks for all the ideas, suggestions and recommentations and everyone's help and attention.

Cheers

Di
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Re: Witness name help pls
« Reply #39 on: Friday 13 January 12 12:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi.

I'll keep out of OZ affairs   :-[  ----  'Thar Nooh-as' "Yu'd mit be reight abart! us poms' (The real ones in the UK)


Good luck  ;) ---and lets hope it of help? when you do find out the witness surname.


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« Reply #40 on: Saturday 14 January 12 05:33 GMT (UK) »
My first thought when I looked at the signature was Thos B  and what looks like the letter U finishing with an h or k

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« Reply #41 on: Saturday 14 January 12 06:07 GMT (UK) »
Thomas White possibly with the middle initial B died at Nymagee NSW in 1902.

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« Reply #42 on: Saturday 14 January 12 07:46 GMT (UK) »
Thomas B CLARK?

It's a difficult one!

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Re: Witness name help pls
« Reply #43 on: Saturday 14 January 12 13:53 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: mclachlan on Saturday 14 January 12 07:46 GMT (UK)
Thomas B CLARK?

It's a difficult one!



very possible
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« Reply #44 on: Saturday 14 January 12 19:31 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all your suggestions but at the moment I can't confirm or exclude any of those names.

When I have a better copy (hopefully) of his signature I'll update this thread but until that time we'll close this and wait for the new cert.

Thanks so much for all your ideas and suggestions

Cheers

Di
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