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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #54 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:01 BST (UK) »
From NSW BDM online index death registrations

UNKNOWN  (Male)  # 20188/1932
ADULT Age Unknown, death at Narrandera registered at NARRENDERA

UNKNOWN  Male #  259/1932
aged 37 Yrs, at Sydney registered SYDNEY

UNKNOWN  (Male)  #3151/1933
at Tocumwal, registered TOCUMWAL 

many other examples,  Tocumwal .... that's Riverina.   

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #55 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:08 BST (UK) »
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194341349 16 June 1933

Father identifies son's trinkets at Tocumwal

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #56 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:10 BST (UK) »
I searched the Vic deaths at the same time as my Riverina Resources.

Is this Donald's parents and his sister's headstone at Woronora Cemetery?

http://austcemindex.com/inscription?id=9093364
http://austcemindex.com/inscription?id=9093366

Would there be an inquest file 'somewhere' for his suicide/death?  At NSW records?

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #57 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:21 BST (UK) »
Managed to have a quick read between child-sitting duties.

Wow! You people are like a dog with a bone. Thank you!

Just a quick clarification on the aunty Nell bit:
My source for the story is a book by a second cousin, “From Glenquaich to New South Wales: The Story of John McGregor, his forebears and their descendants”. In it, that part of Donald's story is re-told by a granddaughter of John McGregor (Donald’s father) from what she heard from her aunty Nell (Ellen/Nell M[a]cGregor who never married).

So, by the time it’s reached us, quite a bit could have been varied, as they tend to with things not written down.

Yes, Cando, that’s them.

Sorry, haven’t read everything - and must go. Duty calls again.

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #58 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:33 BST (UK) »
I wondered about this electoral enrolment.  Probably at the grasping at straws level now :o

Ellen MACGREGOR living on Zara [station], Wangenella, north of Deniliquin in 1935 and 1937.  Occupation Home duties  No other MACGREGOR enrolled to vote at the same address.

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #59 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:41 BST (UK) »
Would there be an inquest file 'somewhere' for his suicide/death?  At NSW records?

Cando


There certainly should be a record of it even if not a file, as was the case with my ancestor.

Narrandera is also Riverina.

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #60 on: Friday 23 September 16 05:52 BST (UK) »
Sands Pastoral Directory 1930 
Deniliquin Pastures Protection district
C L FAULKNER, Zara, Wangenella
36 Horses
33 Cattle
15714 Sheep
65817 Acres

Also
FS Faulkner & Sons, Wangenella Estate, Finlay. 
34 Horses
89 Cattle
15501 Sheep
37975 Acres

ADD
Falkiner and other alternative spellings  :) may be significant.

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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #61 on: Friday 23 September 16 06:13 BST (UK) »
Another quick note:

Nell, as far as I'm aware, spent all her adult life in Sydney suburbs so probably no connection with Narrandera.

Don had a brother Robert with service record 3409. His initial next of kin was N. MacGregor, so maybe that's where that part of the story came from. Family may have thought Nell was the nok for both. Bob joined in Brisbane, Don in Sydney - perhaps that's why there were different noks.

Gotta go again. Thanks, again.

Peter
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Commoners: DOUGAN (1844); FORD (1849); JOHNSTON (1850); BEATTIE (& LONG) (1856); BRICKLEY (1883).
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Re: Was he really dead or legally on that date?
« Reply #62 on: Friday 23 September 16 07:41 BST (UK) »
No help with Donald but this is, perhaps, an obit for another brother, John MCGREGOR who is listed on the grave memorial for their father and mother put up by Cando from Austcemindex.

John died Grafton, 27 March 1952, aged 71 and born in Glasgow if the obit is correct
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/195520224

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