Hi Chris,

Thank you for contacting me. Who was your grandfather, you didn't mention his name. My paternal Grandmother was Rosalie antonie Fopp and she married Neil Ingram Gryst and my father was ther oldest and only son Ross.

Any information on the family you can let me have would be very welcome.

My email address is suzie@digisurf.net.au As we are family this has to be easier.

Kind regards
Suzanne

Shirley Cecilia DONNELLY b 20.1.1920 and died in Adelaide some time between 1947 and 1970, husband or partner was Norman James MERRITT b 18.4.1917 at BOOLEROO and died Broken Hill 16.9.1982. Their daughter Laraine Shirley MERRITT b 2.10.1947 at Peterborough, any details of her marriages (been told she had 2) do not know husbands name or any issue they may have had. Would like to get the death details of Shirley Cecilia and marriage and issue details of Laraine. Hope you can help.

Regards June Harding

Hope someone else on the board can help.
Problem is that the marriage transcripts are only releaeds up to 1937 due to privacy concerns.
I will search around in the next week or so to see if there are any newspaper records that are indexed which may assist - but there again would Peterborough marriages be in the Adelaide papers?

Heather

hobbis@dodo.com.au

I checke in the Adelaide library yesterday without any result. Unfortunately the births only reach 1928, marriages 1937, but deaths up to 1972. (Privacy reasons)
There is no record of any death of a Shirley Donnelly in S.A. at all. Unfortunately there is no readily available index to newspaper personal notices for the period mentione, so got nowhere there either.

Heather

hobbis@dodo.com.au

Hi Heather
I am hoping you may be able to help
I am looking fo James Pritchard 1825 who married Jane Fisher
James died march 1874 Jane feb 1893
I am looking for decendants in SA
My wife's line is from son George 30/6/1853 who with brothers William & James came to NSW Gold mining at copeland NSW
Hoping you may be able to help

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

You beauty jmc!

This is the same man that our Millie was 'married' to. I'd found two puzzling marriages for him in NSW, one to Charlotte Danvers in 1914, and I'd wondered if there were two men of the same name, but your find shows it's probably the same person. The war service record you've found for him shows that in 1916 he was "Married (wife deserted)" with wife Charlotte's name crossed out.

Edmund Conrad Thomas Dihm appears on the 1924 electoral roll at Doveton St Castlemaine (Millie's mother's property) along with our Millie Dihm. Then there is a second puzzling marriage in NSW of Edmund Conrad Thomas Dihm in 1942 to Christina McGregor Ross. Had Millie died before this?

In the meantime, what happened to Millie? We now know, thanks to Rhonda, that her son Tommy ended up in South Australia and married there.

Was Millie ever married to Edmund C T Dihm, and what happened to her? Thank you again jmc. I think we're about to crack the mystery.

Debbie

Hi Deb

Have you seen this record?

Dihm, Thomas; Army Number - 447022;
Date of birth - 21 June 1916
Series number B4747
Control symbol DIHM/THOMAS
Contents date range 1936 - circa 1946
Access status Open
Location Melbourne
Barcode 9275321

View digital copy
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx

Millie was still at Doveton St Castlemaine when son Thomas joined the Army just before his 20th birthday.


I noticed on the record found for you by jmc that it looks like Mildred's name was listed as n.o.k. but also crossed out?

Rhonda

Rhonda,

I hadn't seen this WW2 Attestation record of Tommy Dihm’s and it’s a great find, thank you. It proves he was still in Castlemaine living with his mother Mrs M. [Mildred] Dihm in May 1936 (she was still alive), a mechanic working from home, born Daylesford 21 June 1916. I can't find his birth record, but maybe it wasn't registered.

So the following year, 1937, Thomas Dihm married in South Australia. His mother Millie was alive in 1936 but I’ve rechecked Victorian deaths for her after 1936 with no luck.

Yes I’d noticed that Millie was listed as a “(friend)” and next of kin at one stage on Edmund C T Dihm’s WW1 record – Mildred [Dihm crossed out] Lampard. It looks like Edmund’s second marriage in 1942 to Christina Ross went ahead, and she wrote to the department after he died in 1967, as Mrs C Dihm.

I’d say Millie possibly didn’t marry Edmund Dihm, but will say no more to respect the privacy of living Dihm, Galbraith or Lampard descendants.

Whether she went to South Australia with her son Tommy is still unknown. She could have died as Lampard, Dihm, Galbraith or some other name after 1936.

Thank you for the extra information you found Rhonda.

Debbie

hi i'm looking for information on a richard mitchell who married a grace thomas on 1867 richard 22 grace 18,
graces father william thomas richards father samuel .
richard and grace were married at walleroo mines sa.
they had 2 children elizabeth and ernest if anyone has any info on this family could you contact me i have just found the ship art union where its from dont no can anyone help me im stumped.

Hi, the ship Art Union arrived 22 Aug 1864 Pt Adelaide from Plymouth, from where most Cornish emigrants embarked.

The Biographical Index SA has this entry:-
MITCHELL Richard b: c1844 CON ENG arr: 1864 ART UNION
occ: Copper Miner

Richard's death
South Australian Deaths Registrations 1842 to 1915
Richard MITCHELL
Date: 1881-09-27
Age: 37y
Status: N
Relative: Grace MITCHELL (W)
Residence: Wallaroo
Death Place: Adelaide
District Code: Ade / Book: 113 / Page: 374
Symbol: S


Perhaps check out these possible records?
FreeBDMs
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Possible Mitchell parents????
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
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Marriages Dec 1839
LAWRY Jane Penzance 9 273
Mitchell Samuel Penzance 9 273

One of these births ????
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
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Births Sep
Mitchell Richard Penzance 9 209
Mitchell Richard Tavistock 9 466
Mitchell Richard James Truro 9 296



Cornwall OPC Database
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/searchdb.php?dbname=mar...

Marriages - Details of record ID 150308:
Parish or Registration District: Zennor
Date: 05-Oct 1839

GROOM: Samuel MITCHELL
Groom's age: Full
Groom's condition: Bach
Groom's rank/profession: Miner
Groom's residence: Tregurthen
Father: Samuel Mitchell
Father's rank/profession: Miner

BRIDE: Jane LAWRY
Bride's age: Full
Bride's condition: Spinster
Bride's rank/profession:
Bride's residence: Carne
Father: John LAWRY
Father's rank/profession: Miner

Banns(B) or Licence(L): Banns
Groom Signed(S) or Marked(M): M
Bride Signed(S) or Marked(M): M
Witness 1: John LAWRY


Rhonda

Hello Rhonda,

I'm hoping you can give Mildred Galbraith/Dihm one more try for me. I've looked up her natural father at Australian Newspapers beta at http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
and have found in newspaper articles that he moved from Victoria to Adelaide and was a friend of Millie's stepfather, Charles Lampard.

Her father was Robert HOWIE, horse trainer. I'm wondering if Mille may have reverted to that surname in South Australia, and died there as Mildred HOWIE? Could you please give her one more try?

Thanks, Debbie.

Hi Debbie

None of the Mildred/Millie deaths in SA are anywhere near the age of Millie DIHM.

Perhaps tracing Tommy's descendants is the only hope?


Lots of luck
Rhonda

Hello Heather, I have seen you do work for other people and I think what you do is very commendable.
I am writing to you because I am increasingly frustrated when it comes to results for researchers for Australian results in these various web sites.
I am a Paid member of two sites which claim to provide Australian results and neither can find me a "Brown" from Millicent South Australia.
Can you believe that?
Great if you want to know something about UK or USA.
OR IS IT ME?
I am trying to find out more about John Joseph Brown born Millicent SA abt 1876, married Sylvia E Attrill in Dongarra WA on 4 Dec 1912.
JJ Brown is supposed to have a twin bro named Daniel or Edwin or ??.
Thanks you Heather
Kind regards
Darrell

Hi Darrell

Heather posted a message last week saying she is unwell at present and not doing any research.

Searching Ancestry for Australian records leaves a lot to be desired!

Birth records from 1842-1906 for BROWN in SA have 2,257 entries. The only John Joseph is the following and there was no twin.

South Australian Births 1842-1906 (c) SAGHS
John Joseph BROWN
Date: 1887-06-02
Father: James BROWN
Mother: Christina NICHOLSON
Birth Place/Residence: Naracoorte
District Code: Rob / Book: 396 / Page: 66


Only these two other children recorded for this family.

Winifred BROWN
Date: 1885-08-26
Father: James Joseph BROWN
Mother: Christina NICHOLSON
Birth Place/Residence: Naracoorte
District Code: Rob / Book: 359 / Page: 55

Domnick BROWN
Date: 1898-04-12
Father: James Joseph BROWN
Mother: Christina NICHOLSON
Birth Place/Residence: Lake Omeroo
District Code: Rob / Book: 619 / Page: 356


Rhonda

Thank you Rhonda.
Does it seem that most beneficial results are gained from the library as opposed to the web?
Cheers
darrell