Owen Robert Colverd

[cupoflife]

SMH 1Sept1989 pg 30 COLVERD, Marjorie Emma -August 29, 1989, loved wife of Owen (deceased). Privately cremated.
Probate notice 5Oct1989 pg46....After 14 days...Probate of the Will dated 11th February, 1977, of MARJORIE EMMA COLVERD, formerly of Mosman, but late of The Garrison Retirement Centre, 13 Spit Road, Spit Junction...
ADDING:
Executors named were:
Kenneth Hal KINNINMONT (died 14th Feb 1997, late of Northbridge, formerly of Nelson Bay) and
Keith Bevan CAMPBELL (died 15MAR1988) ...”having predeceased the Testatrix. Creditors are required to send particulars of their claims upon her Estate to Phillips Fox Solicitors 20 Bond Street Sydney 2000..”

[PAFC]

I have already tried contacting Tim Colverd via Ancestry, but with no response. Tried again on WikiTree just now. Thank you for the picture of Owen Colverd in the article he wrote - he looks so like my Dad! Marjorie also must have had a 'type'!  Thank you for the new information on her death and probate.

[sparrett]

There is a slim chance that the whole name of Mr WALLACE may appear on the death certificate of Marjorie COLVERD.
Marriage(s) details are requested.

It would depend entirely on the knowledge of the informant assisting in the record.
Marjorie seemed to have very little family and also seems to have outlived many of her connections too, so hard to imagine the details would be accurate and complete.

Anyhow, for your interest, there is a 30 year closure on death certificates in NSW and a transcription will be cheaper than a copy.

https://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history-research/family-history-search.aspx

Sue

 

[PAFC]

Thank you Sue! I'll go and check out the link.
I may have found a contender for Wallace this morning - I looked at the 1939 UK register and found an Archibald Ure Wallace who was born in 1900 and whose occupation, interestingly, was 'Mining Surveyor.' Marjorie went with Wallace in 1933 0r 1934 to his Rhodesian gold mine. If this turns out to be the right chap, he was seriously playing away, as he had a wife, Dorothy, at home, with whom he is listed in 1939, and whom he married in 1931.

I had a friendly reply from Tim Colverd this morning, giving me access to his tree. Contact via WikiTree worked!

Pam

[sparrett]

Good to hear of a positive contact.
Do keep us posted.
Sue

[PAFC]

Can't sleep! So doing more research - and I've found where Mrs Marjorie Emma 'Wallace' aka Marjorie Leigh met Owen Robert Colverd! I had a feeling about all the globe-trotting, and checked out the ships' manifests. Here she is in 1936 coming home to Sydney from Cape Town on the 'Ceramic' after her gold-mining year with Mr Wallace -
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/5378/32704_334610-00270/1039614?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/22427996/person/1239286331/facts
  - and a few pages away on the same ship, same journey, but embarked at Durban, is Owen Colverd! Shipboard romance that actually ended up as a solid marriage in the end.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/5378/32704_334610-00267/1034769?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/22427996/person/422115177566/facts
The Imperial School for Teachers of Dancing still exists in London, so I'll email them and see if they have any record of Marjorie in 1931-33, and if so, what name she was registered under. I can't find Wallace on any of her ships around then, and she was already 'Mrs. Marjorie E Wallace' when she fled England in October 1933 after deserting Dad as swiftly as she deserted Raymond Judd. She had arrived in 1930 as Judd, and is Judd on the 1933 Marriage Certificate with Dad (Edwin C Simmonds) which I have among his papers.

[majm]

Yes,   here

Mr Owen COLVERD, Company Director, he embarked at Durban, and was a Cabin passenger on board the Ceramic arriving 25 September 1936, to NSW.  He was aged 43, single, and his last country of permanent residence was England.    Also onboard was Mrs M.E. Wallace, destined for Sydney.

http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/12076682/1

JM

[PAFC]

Did I miss that yesterday?!? But rewarding to have ferreted it out myself as well. Thank you for the reminder!

[majm]

There is a Marjorie JUDD arriving from Marseilles per the Narkunda to London on 5 September 1930.  She was aged 25 years and a clerk.

Nothing to show she was from Australia or from India, although that voyage had commenced in Australia.   Northing to show if she was a married woman.  Her last place of permanent residence was England and her intended place was also England.   Her proposed address was Dulwich Village, S.E.   There is NOTHING in that document that confirms if that is Marjorie Emma nee GEORGE born in NSW.   This passenger embarked from Marseilles. 

JM