Hi Kellie & Barb,

I spent all of yesterday on this KENTISH family, that you mention, and they were bank managers, and always had "family notices", in the paper.
Birth of Harold Noel KENTISH, in 1866.

Name: Harold Noel Kentish
Father's Name: Henry Nat Lip S Kentish
Mother's Name: Mary Bale
Birth Place: Castlemaine, Victoria
Registration Year: 1866
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Number: 20240


The Argus, Melbourne, Saturday 15 October 1904:

MARRIAGES
KENTISH-BROWN. – On the 19th September 1904, at the Independent Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, by the Rev. Dr Bevan, Harold Noel Kentish, manager Colonial Bank of Australasia Ltd., Collingwood, to Mary Brown, eldest daughter of J. D. Coleman, Esq., of Ballarat.

The Argus, 7 November, 1945:
DEATH
KENTISH, Harold Noel, loving brother of Kate.

The Argus, 19 February 1946:
Probate, of his Will, to his sister Kate KENTISH.

His mother Mary KENTISH died in NSW, 1929...

14125/1929 KENTISH MARY JOSEPH EMMA NORTH SYDNEY

Probate of her Will, to Harold Noel Fosbery KENTISH, the sole executor.


First Marriage of Annie May COLEMAN, on the 29th March 1883 (as per the Argus).

Name: Annie Margaret Coleman
Spouse Name: Joseph Brown
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Year: 1883
Registration Number: 868


Second Marriage of Annie May COLEMAN. The Argus, Melbourne, Saturday 15 October 1904:

MARRIAGES
KENTISH-BROWN. – On the 19th September 1904, at the Independent Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, by the Rev. Dr Bevan, Harold Noel Kentish, manager Colonial Bank of Australasia Ltd., Collingwood, to Mary Brown, eldest daughter of J. D. Coleman, Esq., of Ballarat.

SMH, 12 January, 1937:
DEATH
KENTISH.-January 11, 1937, at a private hospital, Potts Point, Annie May Kentish, dearly beloved wife of H. Noel Kentish (late of the National Bank of Australasia Ltd., Melbourne and Sydney).


It doesn't look like "your" Mary KENTISH, fits into this family.

Mary