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Tracing Gregory Ernest Johnstone - NSW before 1930

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Re: Tracing Gregory Ernest Johnstone - NSW before 1930

Posted: 31 Jul 2015 9:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Jul 2015 9:09PM GMT
Surnames: Johnson Spring McLeod
Hi Kaytee,

Re... "I have emailed Wagga Wagga family History Group, to see if they have microfilm, of the 1906 Catholic Church Baptisms, which might list the names of the sponsors. I am awaiting a reply."

Wagga Family History did not have the films of the St Michaels Catholic Church Baptisms, however the Latter Day Saints Church in Wagga Wagga, has the films.

I went there in person and viewed, the baptisms for 1905 and 1906, in Wagga Wagga.

Index Number: 2567
Name: Gregory Johnson
birth: 30 December 1905
christening: 13 January 1906
Gender: Male
St. Michael's, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
residence: 1906, Travelling
mother: Mary Johnson
Sponsor: James Duffy
Sponsor: Ellen McLeod
Priest: Alphonsus Coen

Index Number: 2568
Name: Olive Josephine McLeod
birth: 27 October 1895
christening: 15 January 1906
Gender: Female
St. Michael's, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
residence: 1906, Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
father: John McLeod
Mother: Ellen Spring
Sponsor: Samuel McGee
Sponsor: Kathleen Curry
Priest: Alphonsus Coen

Index Number: 2569
Name: Maud Ita McLeod
birth: November 1894
christening: 15 January 1906
Gender: Female
St. Michael's, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
residence: 1906, Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
father: John McLeod
Mother: Ellen Spring
Sponsor: Daniel McGee
Sponsor: Adeline Rolbaw
Priest: Alphonsus Coen
NOTE from Mary: DOB for Maud Ita McLeod was 25 Nov 1898

John and Ellen McLEOD (nee SPRING) were living in Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga, in 1906. Maybe this is the location, where Gregory JOHNSON, was born on 30 Dec 1905?

Ellen McLEOD was one of Gregory's sponsors.
Mary JOHNSON's address was: Travelling.
I noticed a few other baptisms with Travelling, as their address.

Two days after Gregory was baptised, the McLEOD's took two of their young children, along to be baptised.

Here is a bit of history on the McLEOD's.

Marriage, in Nov 1877, at Wagga Wagga:
4618/1877 MCLEOD JOHN SPRING ELLEN MARY WAGGA WAGGA

Births to John and Ellen McLEOD, of Wagga Wagga.

24551/1879 MCLEOD EDITH JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

16293/1881 MCLEOD ETHEL JOHN ELLEN TEMORA

24966/1883 MCLEOD JOHN JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

27080/1885 MCLEOD ELLEN JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

29298/1888 MCLEOD ALBERT JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

35322/1891 MCLEOD GEORGE JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

37602/1895 MCLEOD OLIVE JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

7743/1899 MCLEOD MAUDE JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

7692/1903 MCLEOD HECTOR JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

Deaths of children:

10508/1880 MCLEOD EDITH JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

11377/1909 MCLEOD GEORGE JOHN ELLEN WAGGA WAGGA

M-05377 Wagga Monumental Cemetery McLEOD GEORGE 24/07/1909 ANG-Q-19-0010

Maybe John and Ellen Mary McLEOD, divorced?

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17013988?searchTerm=... McLeod" murrumburrah&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales

NSW State Archives, Divorce Papers:
1254/1933 Item Divorce papers Mary Ellen McLeod - John McLeod, 23 Aug 1933 ~ 17 Oct 1934

Death registration April 1935, of John McLEOD.

7492/1935 MCLEOD JOHN ALEXANDER MARY MURRUMBURRAH

Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, Friday 26 April 1935:
Mr. John McLeod, aged 85 years, an old identity of Wagga, died ... Harden. He is survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters — Messrs. Alick and John McLeod (Sydney ... , Isabel, George, Leslie, Claude and Olive.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/102426241?searchTerm... mcleod" harden&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales|||l-decade=193|||l-year=1935

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/144048969?searchTerm... mcleod" harden&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales|||l-decade=193|||l-year=1935

Death registration 10 Aug 1949, of Ellen Mary McLEOD, nee SPRING.

23417/1949 MCLEOD ELLEN THOMAS PENRITH PENRITH

So born about 1860.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/117913949?searchTerm..." jamisontown&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales|||l-decade=194|||l-year=1949|||l-month=8

Marriage of Ellen SPRING’s (Mrs John McLEOD) parents, in 1846:

32/1846 V184632 31C SPRING JOHN O'SULLIVAN ELLEN MS

MS Church of England Sydney, Holy Trinity (Garrison Church)

Births of SPRING children:

1294/1849 V18491294 66 SPRING EDWARD JOHN ELLEN

906/1850 V1850906 141 SPRING PHILLIP JOHN ELLEN

1993/1854 V18541993 71 SPRING CATHERINE JOHN ELLEN

2153/1855 V18552153 72 SPRING SARAH JOHN ELLEN

4759/1856 SPRING THOMAS JOHN ELLEN GOULBURN

7662/1859 SPRING ELLEN JOHN ELLEN GOULBURN

14649/1861 SPRING MARTHA JOHN ELLEN YASS


Death of the father, John SPRING (a compositor) in July 1863 at Forbes:

4506/1863 SPRING JOHN AGE 56 YEARS DIED FORBES FORBES

The mother Ellen SPRING (nee O'SULLIVAN), has quite a Police records, and spent time in Gaol in 1866.

Re-marriage for Ellen SPRING/O’SULLIVAN, in 1867, to John BEST, at Young.

Death of Ellen SPRING / O’SULLIVAN / BEST, at Young in 1869, when Ellen Jnr, was only 10 years old (Ellen Jnr, was sponsor of Gregory JOHNSON in 1906) :

3075/1869 BEST ELLEN AGE 46 YEARS DIED YOUNG YOUNG

Still working on your family.
Will get back to you, when I find more info.

Mary
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