Hi Bron,
I am concerned you are perhaps becoming side-tracked, so may I gently mention it is not sensible to just look at indexes, and then eliminate a possible sighting on that index without actually confirming that a particular birth in NSW then leads to a particular marriage in NSW and then to a particular death in NSW, particularly when I mention that the NSW BDM index for marriages does not give the names of the parents of either the bride or the groom, nor the ages of the bride or groom, nor any indication if they were previously married.
And of course, there’s other flaws in the NSW BDM index, including typos, different spellings, and some registrations have not actually made it to the online index. So we need to proceed with caution.
So, I am aware of the possibility that MALLOCK can have a number of possible spellings in the indexes and in the newspapers and in the various directories and in the electoral rolls.
Here’s some examples, where I suspect all are for the one chap, an engineer in Kent Street, Sydney back in the 1860s, 1870s and into the 1880s. Perhaps Agnes McGovern was his second wife, helping to raise the children of the first marriage, or perhaps Agnes McGovern was not known to this particular Alexander Mallock.
Alexander MALLOCK of 484 Kent St buries his beloved wife.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13385587 SMH 15 Dec 1876
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13386072 SMH 14 Dec 1876
Sands 1877 Directory, Sydney
Alexander MALOCH, engineer, 484 Kent St, (JM notes this is for Sydney CBD)
NSW ER 1878 WEST SYDNEY
Alexander MALLOCK, household, 484 Kent Street, Sydney
Alexander MALLOCK of 484 Kent St buries his beloved daughter
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13444448 SMH 15 October 1879
I can see a death registered in Sydney in 1886 for an Alexander MALLOCH, aged 53 years, just as I can see the death of Alexander’s daughter, Elizabeth in 1879 registered as MALLOCH, rather than Mallock, and the death of his wife in 1876, again under the spelling of MALLOCH rather than Mallock, and just as I can see the death of an Alexander G MALLOCH registered at Broken Hill in 1933. The chap who died in 1929 at Kiama was aged 69 years, and his name was recorded as Alexander MALLOCK, but I have not yet found where Agnes MALLOCK’s death is registered. Did she die interstate or overseas perhaps. However, I am not holding any of those BDM certificates, and so, I am purely speculating, based on my armchair searches of Trove and the NSW BDM indexes. And of course, that does nothing towards joining the dots between the Agnes McGovern/MacGovern/Packer born 1861 Wellington to Frances (but no father’s name showing on the index) and the 1883 marriage for an Agnes McGovern, or the 1929 death of an Alexander MALLOCK registered at Kiama.
Cheers, JM.
