Where is my great grandfather???

[wivenhoe]

Can anyone remind me please....what response to this request at reply #32?

Can you please list all the information on the birth certificate, 1911, NSW.

Can you please list all the information on the marriage certificate, 2nd marriage, W.A.

[sparrett]

HI wivenhoe,
Reply #38 offered some information about the contents of the certificates.
Sue

[wivenhoe]

Thank you for that.

It would be useful to have all the information, from both records, at one place  ie  here.

Andrea - can you please list all the information on the birth certificate, NSW....and the marriage certificate, Western Australia.

[Andrea Pea]

Wivenhoe.
It was ALL in #38 & #44.

Wivenhoe. ETC
My grandfather John Frederick birth cert 1/8/1911 - Australia NSW
May (née Claridge) aged 29 - born Birmingham
Joseph Parkes aged 37 - born Birmingham - Grinder, Engineering works
Married 17th September 1908 Birmingham England

Joseph’s (2nd marriage) cert to Dorothy Murray. 15th December 1925
Joseph - 50 yrs - mechanic - birth Birmingham - widowed (date unknown recorded)
Parents - Phillip Parkes/Moulder/deceased & Phoebe (née Sanders)/deceased


May Parkes (née Claridge) born 1883 / death 15/9/25
Joseph Parkes                   born 1874?? / death 23/5/1931

Birth registered 25/8/1911. Sydney
Witness - nurses from Women’s Hospital  Crown Street ??
Informant - May Parkes, 29 waterloo street (no suburb listed)


Second marriage cert details
15/12/25 St Albans (church) Highgate Hill WA
Reg’d 6/1/1926
No mention of first marriage
No witnesses mentioned
Dorothy Grace Murray / hairdresser / spinster 28
Father John Beverley Murray deceased
Mother Amy cecelia Hummer deceased

[Andrea Pea]

Neale1961 #90
Mary(née Parsonage) married James Claridge in Daventry Essex November 1864.
Thats the only info about him on the Parsonage family tree.

The lady who did the Parsonage tree said she couldn’t find May(18) after the 1901 UK census. She was in Aston Birmingham with Mary(59)

I have Mary on a 1991 census as a licensed victualler. (103 new John street beer house Aston Warks) Which she took over after her brother Thomas Parsonage died November 1890 & his wife Julia died august 1889. Mary took on her niece Florence.
The other kids Ernest went with Harry Claridge (publican) and Victoria went with Henry J Claridge(innkeeper). Im seeing the trend for hotel owning. 2 other boys James & Samuel went to Cottage Homes Coleshill Birmingham.

[Andrea Pea]

Jorose / Jonw65

This might be Joseph Parkes on the GRO with an unusual name spelling:
Joseph Ernest "PAERKES", mother's maiden name Sanders, birth registered December 1873 quarter Pontypridd  Volume 11A  Page 335

Does it pan out that that Joseph is the correct one…or even a big possibility at this stage?
If so…a huge thank you ☺️

[wivenhoe]

The birth certificate, 1911, NSW, should ask for "previous issue".

What do you see?

How did you access the marriage certificate, 1925, WA......where did you get it from?

Is it a handwritten document...with signatures?.......a transcription?

[jonwarrn]

Does it pan out that that Joseph is the correct one

Sorry, it seems he is not the one.
It may even be that the team has now eliminated nearly all possible Joseph Parkes?

[Andrea Pea]

Wivenhoe
1911 birth cert has nothing about ‘previous issue’ on it.
Birth certs I got from BDM NSW
This cert is hand written & states it’s a copy of original.

Marriage cert from BDM WA.
It is a typed up newer version.

Would be great if we could add pics on this platform  🙄