Hi, thanks for taking the time to respond, we appreciate it, not sure about anything but what we posted. Their death's came from family documents. I am going to try and access South Australian Records on Friday to see if the death records have an age or parents. In the interim we have found 'two possibles' coming into Australia as unassisted immigrants to Victoria. A Joseph Mutton, an adult, came in on the St Osyth in Jan 1876 as an adult, putting his dob c 1855. Also a Julia Thomas came in as a 8 year old in Apr 1863 on the Winefred, with her parents and siblings. This also puts her dob c 1855. My computer has its good and bad days (and so do I with the stupid thing) and I am trying to get the 1861 census to work to check on Julia Thomas & family in this census. We were told by elderly relatives that they came from Cornwall.
Why do the ancestors have to make tracking them so difficult, it is like they knew it would happen someday and took pleasure (at least some of them did) in making the task very difficult in deed by lying, changing names, not registering births, and moving all over the place. However, therein lies the challenge, doesn't it.
Have a good day
Sue and Jenny
