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help for records in Australia please?

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BettyLou

BettyLou Report 20 Jul 2010 07:10

Up to date records are difficult to find in Oz. Victoria particularly have a '1942' rule that no marriage details are divulged after 1942. I found it very difficult as my relatives are all female so finding married names almost impossible. Death certs of the parents were useful as were White Pages.

Cathy

Cathy Report 19 Jul 2010 23:42

Don't suppose this is him......

passenger transcript details
Name: Rev D M FAGAN
Date of departure: 23 October 1953
Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: Sydney, Australia
Passenger destination: Sydney, Australia

Date of Birth: 1929 (calculated from age)
Age: 24
Marital status:
Sex: Male
Occupation: Clergyman
Passenger recorded on: Page 8 of 36




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Ship:
Official Number:
Master's name:
Steamship Line:
Where bound:
Square feet:
Registered tonnage:
Passengers on voyage:
ORONTES
146027
T L Shurrock
Orient
Australia

11225
1296

:) still smiling :)

:) still smiling :) Report 19 Jul 2010 23:35

oh :( thank you Cathy. i got all excited- my grandfather's brother went to Australia in 1951 and stayed there the rest of his life so i thought perhaps that may have been a visit from my grandad and nan.

thank you very much for the reply though. :)
Leanne.

Cathy

Cathy Report 19 Jul 2010 23:33

I think the O/S could stand for Ordinary Seaman D Fagan aged 19.

It all seems to be young men...

:) still smiling :)

:) still smiling :) Report 19 Jul 2010 22:43

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone will still be up and able to help me out a little. I recently found that my great grandfather's brother was married and had atleast four children, when i'd beleived for years he had been a batchelor all his life.

having found his son in an ancestry tree which says he died in Victoria,Australia in 2005 i went back and checked all my other sources for a Derek Fagan. Lo and behold there at the back of my great grandfather's notebook is a scrap of paper with just "Derek" and an address in Melbourne.

I am wondering if someone wonderful could look up and see if there is a record of him leaving England for Australia as i dont have worldwide membership and can't find the records. I also wondered if there would be a way i might find a marriage for him in Australia and any children he may have had.

His name is Derek V Fagan (v is possibly for Victor) and he was born in Croydon in 1929.

also semi related to this query i have seen a record on ancestry travel records for cyril Fagan (my grandfather) and a record for "o/s D Fagan (possibly my grandma olive doreen) and wondered if someone could have a quick look at those for me too?

thanks for reading.
Leanne. :D