wanted information Edwin Muir

[squatt]

Hello I am trying to find any information on an uncle of mine who lived and died in Australia details are a little vague.

He was called Edwin Muir born about 1929 in England, after doing his national service he joined the Australian army around 1955 he was kicked out of the army (bad sheep of the family) Married a local Girl called Elizabeth I think and had at least 1 daughter.

There are a few articles about him on the Newspaper site and the Australian national archives detailing him Stealing an army jeep and getting kicked out of the army.

Think he died between 1975/85.

I know its very vague but any information that can be found would be most appreciated.

thanks for looking

[Neil Todd]

Was he Edwin John MUIR and his mothers name Elizabeth?

Neil

[majm]

Do you actually know that this person you are naming is actually no longer living?

There's strict privacy laws in Australia, so in many of our various Australian jurisdictions it is not possible for members of the general public to look up BDM indexes for recent deaths.  "Recent" in most instances can mean within the past 30 years.

A person born about 1929 is possibly still living.   I have living relatives, born in 1910.  So in that sense, a person born in 1929 could well be young enough to be a child of my rellie born 1910.  So it is very possible a person born 1929 and living in Australia is simply expecting their own personal privacy to be observed.

However, if you can confirm that you already know that the person is deceased, then it is likely we can help.

Please click on this live link and read through the replies, http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=368728.0   (How to request). 

As I mentioned, there's eight different jurisdictions in Australia.  One country, occupying an entire continent.    

http://www.ryersonindex.org/   click on this live link, and it takes you to the index for death and funeral announcements for many of the newspapers, but not every death/funeral is announced in newspapers and not every newspaper has volunteers doing the indexing. 

Cheers,  JM

[cupoflife]

Was he Edwin John MUIR and his mothers name Elizabeth?

Neil

Probate Packet: http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=%5CItem%5C1533171
Edwin John Muir - Date of Death 22/07/1975, Granted on 25/08/1976   

[rosball]

At the time of the jeep incident he was in Brisbane http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69458289
so there is this possibility ....

Death Qld BDM https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/
1970 Edwin Horace MUIR , father William Thompson MUIR and mother Jane Tyrrell

regards
   Ros

adding : If the NSW probate packet above is for the correct person then I can photograph it for you the next time I am there

[cupoflife]

http://naa.gov.au
MUIR Edwin born 7 July 1929; Father - James William MUIR http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8046614
MUIR Edwin http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=9575149
MUIR Edwin Item details: J25, 1955/3186 ; Item barcode: 3075982

[majm]

Cup,   

I have not found any record/index etc to show that the chap in that court martial is deceased.  Been looking most of this morning  .... not all the records have been examined and so I am wondering who paid for the CM records to be examined and opened.  I seem to recall that the  requirement by NAA and DoD is that the person applying for these to be digitised can confirm the subject is deceased, or otherwise is actually the subject.   Do you know if that practice still stands when these Mil records are being sought?

Cheers,  JM

[cupoflife]

Not sure JM, maybe the OP requested the CM records. Hopefully the OP can confirm that the chap he is requesting information on is deceased.

[majm]

My retired rellie, former archivist at NAA doesn't know either.  But the CM was digitised 06 Sep 2006 (oops, no it wasn't, it was digitised on or shortly after 14 Nov 2008  trust me to fail to listen carefully to rellie's phone instructions      ) so it was back in the era when that info was sought by NAA.

Fingers crossed the OP will be back shortly.

Cheers,  JM