Hunting for a family.

[Suffolkgal]

I'm looking to see if I can find what happened to a family who left England in 1959 for Australia.  A member of their family has asked me to look but I don't want to name them as some are (hopefully) still alive.  However, I'm drawing blanks.  Trove seems not to have records recent enough and I can find nothing on FamilySearch.  I have names and dates of birth only and the surname is very common. I have an address for them in Brisbane in the early 1960s and they have visited "home" once since then.  My friend has a photo of the couple with two girls but the passenger lists show two girls when they left England and three when they arrived in Fremantle.  The last had a name but no date of birth - I'm assuming she was born on the journey.  Can anyone give me an idea of how I might find them.  My knowledge of Australian research is very limited, I'm afraid.  Thank you in advance.

[Neale1961]

Some places to use for search -
National archives of Australia
Electoral rolls
Ryerson Index

[sparrett]

Hi,
Hopefully your Ancestry sub includes Australia and, as Neale has said, the Electoral roll records will be a help up to 1980. As the family originated from UK, they will have been automatically eligible to enrol to vote in Aust at the age of 21 before 1973 and 18 after 1973.

Establishing their whereabouts and occupations might lead to more findings

Another possibility is a cemetery and search in the Brisbane area.

Sue