Totally Lost and confused

[Tickettyboo]

The only information my daughter-in-law has that in 1934 ELLEN married EDWARD SMURTHWAITE born in 1912 (birthplace unknown) at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and in 1935 they had a son JOHN EDWIN SMURTHWAITE.

Can't help with the Australian end of things, but you may want to check the name of Ellen's husband.

All the records that I can see in the UK that match what you have said have him as Edwin Cummings Smurthwaite, not Edward.

That's birth registration, 1921 census, marriage registration, 1939 National Identity Register and death registration all of which have him as either Edwin Cummings Smurthwaite or Edwin C Smurthwaite.
The difference in forename could skew search results unless you use wild cards

Boo

[doric]

Thankyou so much Annbee for those finds.  So grateful to you. 

              Doric

[doric]

  Thankyou Tickettyboo  for pointing that out to me, I don't know how I didn't realise that.  I am going through the information I have again and see where I have gone wrong on the name descrepancy.

         Many thanks

[Tickettyboo]

IF you have confirmed that the 1934  marriage is correct then the death registration for Edward Cummings Smurthwaite was in Q1 1991, Newcastle  and gives a year of birth of 1912.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
14 Mar 1991, page 2 col 3
Deaths

SMURTHWAITE
(Gosforth) In hospital on March 10th aged 78 years
Edwin Cummings . Funeral service at West Road
Crematorium on Monday 18th March at 12.30pm

Family Search have an index to cremations at West Road, which gives the register entry number.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3VC-29SQ-W?

Crematorium registers after 1986 are still with the council cemeteries dept, but its worth asking them if they given the register entry no, name and date of cremation will tell you who arranged the funeral which may help?

Someone certainly paid for an entry in the Book of Remembrance which is online
https://www.remembrance-books.com/Newcastle/book-of-remembrance.html

and this is the page with Edwin's entry
https://www.remembrance-books.com/Newcastle/pages/031002r.jpg

Boo

[doric]

Thankyou so much Boo, that find is fantastic and I am so grateful, with the help of yourself and members of this forum, I have been successful in tracing a relation of Edwin Smurthwaite. We are in the very early stages of communication and both looking for answers. Hopefully there will be progress.
Thank you to each and everyone who have helped and offered advice.  This forum is invaluable.

Doric