Majm, thank you for your interest - this is what i wrote to a chap on ancestry and his reply:
"I hope you dont mind me contacting you, but I am helping a dear friend trying to trace his fathers whereabouts from birth to 6 years and how he came to be placed as a foster child with the Perkins Family in 1906 -
http://sites.google.com/site/perkinspioneerfarmers/chapter-5---remarkable-robert I wrote to ********* as he has a George Newton in his tree and he suggested that I contact you.
Our story so far is we have a Herbert George Newton DOB 26th June 1900 and died 13th December 1975 in Peterborough SA. My friend, Bernard Newton, could never find a birth certificate in Australia for his father, so had always assumed that he was a child migrant until........we posted on the rootschat forum
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,577644.0.html for information on child migrants and a user found a birth account of Herbert in Queensland with the exact date of his birthday, so naturally we have assumed that it is him (I hope we are on the right track!) from there we have gathered the following information. His father is listed as a George Newton and his mother is listed as Frances (Fanny) Fountaine, Frances died on the 14th July 1900 only a few weeks after Herbert was born which may explain why Herbert was placed into foster care 6 years later. Our question being where on earth was he until being placed - in an orphanage or did the family try and cope without a mother and wife? There is apparently a sister to Herbert, a Frances Mabel Newton born 1898, I am unable to find any further information on Frances Mabel Newton, which would be of great help
My question to you is would you know if your George Newton was married previously before marrying Ellen Elizabeth Mills in 1906? Could it be possible that there is a far extended family that may be able to answer my friend Bernards questions?
All Bernard remembers is his father saying that he was delivered to the Perkins family by a salvation army lady.
Many thanks for your time in advance and I look forward to your reply.
cheers JO & Bernard"
AND THE REPLY (sorry not yelling): Hi Jo & Bernard,
"My George Newton, parents George Newton and Fanny Oakley, was born on 19th May, 1887 Brisbane Qld married Ellen Elizabeth Mills 01 January 1906 aged 18 and died 28th June, 1961 Toowoomba Qld. In 1900 when your Herbert George Newton was born my George Newton was only 13 years old.I did find a George Newton had married a Fanny Fontaine on 02 March 1898 in Queensland via ancestory inquiry. We don't seem to have a connection here. I wish you well in your research. "
