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Offline Lucy2

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Re: Immigration - Duckworth
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 07 March 13 03:29 GMT (UK) »
... and this from the Australian Death Index (@ ancestry), which gives parent's names.

John EATON
Year:  1946
Death Place:  R Pk.* Victoria
Aged:  73 years  [bc 1873]
Father:   John EATON
Mother:  Sarah KNOWLES

[* Sorry, the "R. Pk." abbreviation, is something of a mystery to me.   ;D ]

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Re: Immigration - Duckworth
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 07 March 13 11:55 GMT (UK) »
R.Pk in Victoria might be Roxburgh Park with postcode 3064, it looks like it's a Melbourne suburb.

PROVIC might be able to tell you what the abbreviation stands for.
Victoria has these obscure abbreviations which only a Victorian can understand !   ::)  ::)  :P  :P

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Re: Immigration - Duckworth
« Reply #38 on: Friday 08 March 13 16:40 GMT (UK) »
Bless you, Lu ! - you have now completed the story for me - and my friend  ;D

I didn't receive an email notification of your latest posts, so I have only just found them.

I have located the newspaper entries on Trove that you provided me with - thank you.  I must have my 'thick' head on because it took me some time to find them, even with the dates that you provided.  I probably would not have found them by myself  :-\  ???    I suspect that your familiarity with the site makes you more adept in navigating it.

I couldn't search on Ancestry for Australia because my own family have been a stay-at-home lot, so I have only ever subscribed to the UK version.
[I must admit that I got all the paperwork to fill in to emigrate to NZ in about 1982 - but changed my mind]

I have told my friend about what has been found by you (lives 120 miles away) and her response is "WOW! Can you send her a bunch of flowers to say thank you?"  -  So you will have to imagine a bunch of flowers from her  ;D

I guess I can leave you in peace now   :D  Give my love to Aotearoa

DAWN:  It seems you have been following this thread, and thank you for your latest input.  I hope you have found it interesting.  I don't know why I have rambled-on with so much unnecessary information in my posts - I guess some would say it is because I am a SLOB (sad, lonely old b......!)  ;)

Best regards to you both,
Malcolm  :-*

 
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