Dear Heather,
Thank you for your most generous offer. Edward Spillett died on 17 May 1870 and was buried at Penola on 19 May 1970. I am not sure if this is the Edward Spillett I am looking for. I would like to find if there are any details of parents and place of birth on a death certificate. Would you have access to such details. Of course, if nobody knew his background, there would be litte information on a death certificate. Edward Spillett was transported as a convict to Fremantle in 1850 age 32 on the ship "Scindian",15 year sentence, but was paroled in 1856. I am trying to trace him and the only entry I could find was a burial at Penola. There are seven by the name of Spillett buried at Penola. Would appreciate your views. Thanks, Grace Parker

Will check the death details in library today - but you would need the West. Australain board for any details that may be on shipping arrival record. Maybe too there is some convict register in UK.

Heather

hobbis@dodo.com.au

Hi
Can you please look up a marriage record for Elizabeth Warne and Henry Thomas.
Jack

Hello Heather,

I hope you may be able to help with a marriage and death lookup for Mildred Agnes GALBRAITH who married (or was known as his wife at least) Edmund Conrad Thomas DIHM, or Deihm/Diehm/Deam. Mildred was born 1878 Victoria and had a son Tommy Dihm born about 1910-1915. I can find no record for her marriage, the birth of her son Tommy, or her death (or Tommy's death) in NSW or Victoria.

Mildred lived in Castlemaine Victoria in the 1920's, where she was known as Millie Dihm. She may have moved to South Australia where her stepfather lived.

I'd appreciate any information you may find, even if it is only to confirm whether or not she was in Sth Australia.

Thanks, Debbie

Appreciate if anyone else could help for now as I am not very well at this time.

Heather

Hello Heather,

I hope you're alright. Could I suggest that you change the original posting for this thread if you're able, as people may miss your last message and continue to ask for help. All the best.

Debbie

Hi Debbie

Did not find a marriage or death in SA for Millie. Did she use her own birth name or stepfather's surname?

This record confirms son Tommy was in SA at some stage though you may already know this? Looks like Tommy was born c1916.
South Australian Marriages, Registrations 1917-1937
Groom: Thomas DIHM
Bride: Irene TREVORROW
Date: 1937-06-12
Groom Age: 21
Status: S
Groom's Father: Thomas DIHM
Bride Age: 16
Status: S
Bride's Father: William TREVORROW
Place: St Peters Church Robe
District: Rob
Book/Page: 378/2398


South Australian Deaths, Registrations 1916 to 1972
Mildred Catherine DIHM
Date: 1944-07-05
Age: 6y
Status: C
Relative: Thomas DIHM [F]
Residence: Port Adelaide
Death Place: North Adelaide
District Code: Ade
Symbol: H
Book: 678
Page: 3049


Rhonda

Hi Jack

This is the THOMAS/WARNE marriage.
South Australian Marriages, Registrations 1842-1916
Groom: Henry THOMAS
Bride: Elizabeth Esther WARNE
Date: 1878-10-26
Groom Age: 19
Status: S
Groom's Father: William THOMAS
Bride Age: 20
Status: S
Bride's Father: Richard WARNE
Place: St Luke Parsonage [Adelaide]
District: Ade
Book/Page: 117/760


Rhonda

Wow Rhonda,

That looks like Tommy alright, thank you. No I didn't know Tommy was over there, he disappeared from Castlemaine Victoria along with his mother in the 1920's.

Mildred Dihm was born Mildred Agnes Galbraith. She was young when her mother married Charles Richmond Lampard, and may have used the surname Lampard I suppose, or remarried and died under a different name altogether after leaving Castlemaine. Millie's mother was Elizabeth (Bessie) Lampard, nee Galbraith, who died in Castlemaine in 1906. Millie's stepfather Charles Richmond Lampard died at Parkside Adelaide in 1938.

Mildred was an actress, according to her cousin's son who remembered Tommy, and died two days ago aged 93.

Thank you for the help Rhonda. If there are any further clues, I'd be very pleased to know.

Debbie

Hi Debbie

Have you been to www.naa.gov.au

There are open records for an Edmund Conrad DIHM.

Cheers jmc39780