Oh my goodness - the whole marriage certificate could be WRONG!
It took me a while to unscramble the parents of Blanch (and it was definitely Sophia and John, not William - who is John's older brother!), but if the parent information was not on the original, and has been added later, then both may be wrong. Ugh!
Thanks for all your help JM. It never would have occurred to me that some of the info was added later, so I could have been stuck researching the wrong people forever. And it looks like you found the copy of the wedding certificate I have been working from, so I don't have to try and figure out what the name of the second witness was (the other witness Ann EVANS was Blanch's younger sister). I am going to have to order a copy of that wedding certificate obviously.
Hmmmm. I wonder if Campbell Town, Tasmania is an option for Patrick's birth. One of the public tree's on Ancestory has Tasmania as Patrick's place of birth, though I have seen no evidence of it. Assuming the Campbell/Town is correct, I can search at each one for Patrick's birth.
Thanks for tracking down the electoral roll info. I will go through that again, and see if I can link any of those Howard's together.... it seems odd to me that they had 8 kids but none of them ended up staying in Coonamble or Quambone. That would suggest that whole family moved to Sydney when the kids were young maybe.
Yes! That is Blanch's funeral notice at trove. Though it looks like there is no picture of her grave uploaded to any of the cemetery indexes yet. I was hoping that Patrick would be buried with her, but nothing is ever easy.
Thank you Judith! Yep, that would be were they were living when Blanch was in the hospice then. I have never used the SANDS directory before, but it looks like I am about the learn! I might be able to track down the rest of the kids and figure out when they moved to Sydney.
Also thanks Neil! I will have a look at the St George Patrick Howard. One of the public trees on ancestry puts Patrick's death as being in 1920, the same year as Blanch, but I have found no evidence of it. Modified to add: this is a really good catch Neil. Patrick's oldest son Michael apparently died at St George, Qld in 1967
More work to do
Thank you!
Tracey
