I agree with you, but I'd like to find a record of our George's birth date in a document in Australia to be absolutely sure we have the right one. I can't find a record of it anywhere and now I'm trying to find historical publican licences to see if it's recorded on his licences, but I'm not having much luck.
I've just found a note about Martha Augusta attached to the back of the information my distant cousin wrote about her and this may explain why we've had no luck finding her birth record. I quote from the note:
"In a hand written document found amongst personal papers after the death of Gladys Ruby Locke daughter of Walter Randall, (brother of Martha Augusta) it lists the birth dates of the children of George Randall and Ellen Janeway. Although some of the dates are not correct with the actual day, they are, on the whole, fairly accurate and in my opinion can serve as a guide where no details survived. It states that Martha Augusta Randall was born in Adelaide 21 August 1857. This year seems unlikely when you compare details on later documents (wedding, death certificates). It's more likely to have been 1851, particularly in light of the fact that no record of the birth is available from the pioneer index of South Australia. I was told that there had been a fire and some records from the Mt Barker area had been destroyed. This may account for the fact that no record for either Martha Augusta or her sister Ellen appears."
So it seems that some of the dates of the births of George and Ellen's children that my cousin has recorded have been taken from my Aunty Glady's notes.
