Where is my great grandfather???

[Andrea Pea]

Help please!  I’ve been searching for my gt grandfather Joseph Parkes. UK GRO has no birth cert(b 1874ish), even though I have his parents names (Philip & Phoebe) and no marriage cert to my gt grandmother May(née Claridge b 1883) though on my grand fathers birth cert it says they married in Birmingham 1908…no shipping records of them going to NSW Australia, though my grandfather was born there in 1911…no shipping records of them soon after all then going to Perth Western Australia where they settled. I have no birth dates for either Joseph or May. I’ve contacted Australian archives and I’m on ancestry and still can’t find him.  Where else can I go? 🤯

[Tickettyboo]

As he was born c1874 and didn't emigrate till c 1910-ish have you found him on any of the
UK census returns between those dates?

Boo

[Dundee]

What information is given on your grandfather's birth certificate - parents' ages, places of birth and father's occupation?

Debra 

[ShaunJ]

I have his parents names (Philip & Phoebe)

A couple of online trees (public trees on Ancestry) have his parents as John and Phoebe.

[Dundee]

A bit of background for Joseph.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81001167

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynoch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company

Debra 

[Tickettyboo]

I have his parents names (Philip & Phoebe)

A couple of online trees (public trees on Ancestry) have his parents as John and Phoebe.

Which would make this 1881 Census 'possible'
Piece 2825/folio/15/page 4

I think that can be discounted as that Joseph seems to have married and is on the 1911 census

Boo

[carol8353]

Could this be her?

Looks like May went to Canada in 1910, so it looks like she married over there or in Australia and not in 1908 in Birmingham.

Name:   May M Claridge
Gender:   Female
Arrival Age:   28
Birth Year:   abt 1882
Departure Port:   Liverpool, England
Arrival Date:   18 Jun 1910
Arrival Port:   Quebec, Canada
Vessel:   Victorian

Looks like that's the wrong May. She was born as Mary Eaves Claridge.

[jonwarrn]

no shipping records of them going to NSW Australia, though my grandfather was born there in 1911…no shipping records of them soon after all then going to Perth Western Australia where they settled.

How about, 21 July 1913, Moldavia
Passengers disembarking Fremantle
Mr Parkes
Mrs Parkes
Master Parkes (under 12)
Embarked Sydney

[jonwarrn]

Daily News (Perth), Tue 22 July 1913
MOLDAVIA'S PASSENGERS
The passengers who landed at Fremantle from the R.M.S. MOLDAVIA from the East were: —
...Mr. J. Parkes, Mrs. Parkes and infant...

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79856160?searchTerm=parkes