Robert Stevens photographer

[majm]

I may have missed it, but has anyone found Robert Henry STEVENS or Walter and/or Kathleen STEVENS (Walter as a photographer) in the 1930s in the Australian Electoral Rolls, hopefully in Qld rolls?   Robert and Myrtle's marriage was registered Qld in 1941. 

Compulsory enrollment etc    from at least the mid 1920s

JM

[BettyBoops]

MajM - Nada results. My daughter and I have gone through just about every which way seeking the family starting in Sydney which is where Robert was supposed to have been born and the family lived. No Photographers fitting the description. I've looked through the 2 Mechanical Eye books. Nothing leapt out. I found a Walter Stevenson in Grafton but contact with the family proved a dead end. Cheers Betty

[majm]

But have we looked from the point of view Qld and 1930s electoral rolls, working with your Mayfield relatives in Childers, Qld?  - so find your Mum's mum's family and then see if there's a Robert Henry S(xxxxxxx) also on the roll?

So, from Myrtle's 1941 marriage cert, what were the given names for her parents?

JM

[BettyBoops]

William Mayfield and Mary Ann (nee Spencer), my maternal grandparents. I did know them as a child until their deaths. The marriage was not looked favourably upon at all, and the letter Grand-dad wrote giving his consent, was not a pleasant one. William Mayfield came out to Australia on the Argyle when he was 9. Mary- Ann was born in Maryborough, Australia.
My understanding is that Robert went to cut cane for them, which is how he met Mum (Myrtle).

References                                                               Electoral Rolls
   Feb 1922-10 May 1923       NZ
25 Aug 1923                        Matcham
    Sep 1923-13 April 1925    Scone
    April 1925- 5 Nov 1926     Gosford
29 June 1926- 20 Nov 1926 Broadwater Mill (not sure where)
                                                                     1932     Parkes              Possibly
                                                                     1933     Deniliquin         Possibly
                                                                     1935     Deniliquin         Possibly
                                                                     1936      Irvingdale
                                                                    1937     Irvingdale

No references until the period 1935-1940
1935-1939                           Irvingdale
1940-March 1941                 Pilerwa Gayndah Line (Qld)
1941                                   Isis Shire Council
Then he was married at the end of December 1941. He lived in Childers then until we moved to Beaudesert,Queensland.       I hope this is what you were after.                       Cheers, Betty

       

[majm]

Broadwater Mill - sounds like a sugar mill (CSR ? ) - so perhaps this one :

http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Broadwater/2005/02/17/1108500192881.html



If no one else does, I will get a start on the electoral roll hunt tomorrow 

JM

[majm]

1937 Qld ER WIDE BAY, - Childers

Mary Ann MAYFIELD, Horton, home duties
William MAYFIELD, Horton, labourer
NO Robert STEVENS or SEALE or variations.  There is a Henry STEVENS at Doolbi, a well borer.

Yes,  I will check Ivingdale tomorrow.  if others have not started on this.
JM

[BettyBoops]

JM i did find him in Irvingdale and i have work references. Just wanting to save you time

[majm]

As you have him in Irvingdale, Qld, then we should eliminate your 1932 sighting because that Robert STEVENS was still enrolled in 1937 at same address as 1932 and earlier :

NSW ER 1937 CALARE, - Parkes
Robert STEVENS,  Adavale, Goonumbla, labourer

NSW ER 1936 CALARE, Parkes
Robert STEVENS, Adavale, Goonumbla, labourer

NSW ER 1932 CALARE, Parkes
Robert STEVENS, Adavale, Goonumbla, labourer

NSW ER 1930 CALARE, Parkes
Robert STEVENS, Adavale, Goonumbla, labourer

JM  (Goonumbla, small rural locality north of Parkes, between Trundle and Alectown, umm.... I have rellies out that way).

[BettyBoops]

A Question - When did it become compulsory for non-Australian workers to become Australian Citizens in order to be employed in a Government Department, ie a hospital? Ta Betty