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Best to add Australia to your thread heading so our Australian cousins will see this when they come online .

On the Australian Electoral Roll there seems to be a whole clutch of Needhams lving together with William Joseph and his wife but i can't locate birth registrations for any of them.

This is taken from a tree on Ancestry so I don't know how authentic it is!

William Joseph Needham
Birth: 18 Jul 1931 - Sydney, Nsw (New South Wales), Australia
Death: 4 Nov 1991 - Arcadia, Nsw (New South Wales)
Marriage: 10 May 1952
F: Edward Allen Ahearn Needham

M: Ellen Eliza Hall

your dates do not add up!!!

Theres a birth certificate added to a tree on Ancestry with the details that Erica has posted

Father: Edward Allen Needham, occ Fettler age 48, married 12th April 1906 to Ellen Eliza Hall age 45 at the birth registration

Witnesses: Nurse Mortimer and Mrs Ingham

Tree owner: ronnisly added this on 4 Feb 2011

I still think its the right tree as it says "Marriage to Living Wright 10 May 1952" and pictures of them!

His parents marriage

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950
about Edwin Needham
Name: Edwin Needham
Spouse Name: Ellen E Hall
Marriage Date: 1906
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1906
Registration Number: 3047

Williams siblings

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Lillian B Needham
Name: Lillian B Needham
Birth Date: 1909
Father's name: Edwin Needham
Mother's name: Ellen E
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1909
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 7924

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Edwin A Needham
Name: Edwin A Needham
Birth Date: 1907
Father's name: Edward A Needham
Mother's name: Ellen E
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1907
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 28606

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Emily A Needham
Name: Emily A Needham
Birth Date: 1906
Father's name: Edwin A Needham
Mother's name: Ellen E
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1906
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 28214

And the death of Williams father

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Edward A Needham
Name: Edward A Needham
Death Date: 1931
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's name: Edward A
Mother's name: Augusta A
Registration Year: 1931
Registration Place: Randwick, New South Wales
Registration Number: 17644

Williams uncles/aunt

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Laurenzo M Needham
Name: Laurenzo M Needham
Birth Date: 1885
Father's name: Edward A Needham
Mother's name: Augusta A
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1885
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Number: 3216

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Ellen L M Needham
Name: Ellen L M Needham
Birth Date: 1887
Father's name: Edward A Needham
Mother's name: Augusta
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1887
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 11319

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Ernest I Needham
Name: Ernest I Needham
[Ernest J Needham]
[Ernest John Needham]
Birth Date: 1889
Father's name: Edward Needham
Mother's name: Augusta
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1889
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 8456

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about William F Needham
Name: William F Needham
Birth Date: 1891
Father's name: Edward Needham
Mother's name: Augusta
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1891
Registration Place: Waterloo, New South Wales
Registration Number: 36642

His grandparents marriage

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950
about Edwin A Needham
Name: Edwin A Needham
Spouse Name: Augusta A Ahearn
Marriage Date: 1885
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1885
Registration Number: 546

HIs grandmothers birth and her parents

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Augusta A Aherne
Name: Augusta A Aherne
Birth Date: 1850
Father's name: Mathias Aherne
Mother's name: Ellen
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1850
Registration Place: Parramatta, New South Wales
Volume Number: V18501591 145

and death

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Augusta A Needham
Name: Augusta A Needham
Death Date: 1921
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's name: Matthias
Mother's name: Ellen
Registration Year: 1921
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 477

And this looks like his grandfathers death

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Edwin A Needham
Name: Edwin A Needham
Death Date: 1915
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's name: John
Mother's name: Susan
Registration Year: 1915
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
Registration Number: 4848

Wonder if this is his Great Grandparents marrige

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950
about Mathias Ahern
Name: Mathias Ahern
Spouse Name: Ellen Hughes
Marriage Date: 1842
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Liverpool, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1842
Volume Number: V

and g grandfathers birth?

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Mathias A Hearn
Name: Mathias A Hearn
[Matthias Ahearn]
Birth Date: 1823
Father's name: Murtagh A Hearn
Mother's name: Mary
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1823
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Volume Number: V1823435 125

and death

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Matthias Ahearn
Name: Matthias Ahearn
Death Date: 1876
Death Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1876
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Number: 2006

G Grandmother

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Ellen Hughes
Name: Ellen Hughes
Birth Date: 1826
Father's name: Robert Hughes
Mother's name: Ann
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1826
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Volume Number: V1826750 127

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Ellen Ahearne
Name: Ellen Ahearne
Death Date: 1902
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's name: Hughes
Registration Year: 1902
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Number: 8088

Seems they came from Ireland

ew South Wales, Australia,Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867
about Ahan Murtagh
Name: Ahan Murtagh
[Murtagh Ahern]
[Murtagh Aherne]
[Murtagh Ahearn]
[Murty Ahearn]
[Murty Aherne]
Pardon Date: 8 Oct 1810
Vessel Name: Atlas
Year of Arrival: 1802
Trial Location: Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
Date of Conviction: 1800
Place of Conviction: Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
Record Type: Absolute

Australian Convict Index, 1788-1868
about Murtagh Ahern
Name: Murtagh Ahern
Year: 1802
Trial Place: Limerick
State: Nsw
Ship: Atlas 1

his marriage

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950
about Murty O Herne
Name: Murty O Herne
Spouse Name: Mary Abby
Marriage Date: 1815
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Parramatta, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1815
Volume Number: V A

Grandfather to William

Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Edwin Allan Needham
Name: Edwin Allan Needham
Birth Date: 22 Dec 1864
Father's name: John Needham
Mother's name: Susan Goode
Birth Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1865
Registration Place: Queensland
Page Number: 10866
Registration Number: 001361

His parents marriage

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950
about John Needham
Name: John Needham
Spouse Name: Susan Goode
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Year: 1863
Registration Number: 1141

sorry abt that Shirley i keep forgetting that i should do that...
thank you ladies i just rang her my daughters girlfriend Ashleigh...and told her that her ancestry is Irish...she laugh her head off...i asked why the laugh ..said mum thinks that we a abbo...
but we are Irish.....sooo funny ....this is a 21 year old ....now going to start her tree
what a fantastic journey she will have going back ....and now she has the best opportunities because of you ladies ....YOU ARE ALL THE BEST ......BLESS U ALL.... :-D

I wish her luck with the Irish side, records are like hens teeth!

Glad I could help

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