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[rosball]

Oh well back to the drawing board ....

adding : no the address in Strathfield for Maud and for the presumed son's father are the same.
We're on the right track   

[Deirdre784]

Thsnks Ros, you are being most helpful. I have only been researching this family group for 2 days and thanks to links on here have found info i never expected to. Checking other links i spotted your offer of probate records and responded, but this is all extra so thanks again. Looks like Thomas married his first wife, Elizabeth Jeffrey Roddick, presumably Thomas’s mother, in Tasmania in 1911. Both appear to be from Scotland.

[rosball]

Pleasure to help Deidre 

I think this is Elizabeth's death notice ...   https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18145188
and it seems that she was mother of Marjory rather than Thomas  ...     Was there an earlier marriage for Thomas ...?

adding : whoops no son Thomas was the last mentioned in Maud's death notice so presumably the youngest ...

[Deirdre784]

I’ve been trying to unravel that - hadn’t found the death notice so thanks for that - as there’s a Marjorie Reddick Little Stewart on the electoral roll with Thomas and Elizabeth in 1933 (922 Military Rd, Mosman, Warringah, Thomas is retired).   

[Deirdre784]

Thomas didn’t hang about! He married Maud sometime in 1950 (from the BDM site) and travelled with her to visit family in England in December.   

[Deirdre784]

We didn’t know Maud had a son, so i was assuming that Thomas was a step-son. So maybe another marriage for Thomas whose mother was a Little

[rosball]

Here is a death notice for a Bruce SHOOBERT (mentioned in Elizabeth's death notice as husband of Marjory (Marjorie)). 

Not sure if this is the right one ...?

[Deirdre784]

Weirder and weirder 🙄 will look at that death notice now.

Was checking the obituary for Maud’s first husband Henry Mackie and it only mentions the 2 daughters Betty and Margery, so no Thomas there. Strangely another Marjorie / Margery though.

But...i also saw the death notice of Maud’s mother, at Strathfield (as you queried re Thomas’s service record) 🤔

[Deirdre784]

This only started as a ‘look’ for a  death for Maud, with a second husband, known as Uncle Tommy. That is now sorted but the search to complete the picture is proving to be a challenge.

If that’s the right husband for Marjorie and if she was the same age, born around 1909, it might point to an earlier marriage for Thomas. I do love a challenge but am extremely grateful for your help Ros given my lack of experience with Australian records 😀

Edited to say... doesn’t make sense as if she’s Elizabeth’s daughter but not Thomas’s why does she have names which link her to Thomas as well (Little)