Could I please get a hand finding some details for Alice's parents. [closed]

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Please. www.wikitree.com/wiki/Watson-29959 www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richardson-27896

=====Searching for Death Record of John Watson and Sarah Jane Watson (nee Richardson).=====

=====Searching for Passenger Record for John Watson and Sarah Jane Watson and children.=====

I have struggled to find much other than a potential bunch of children whom may have come from these two, with common enough names, John Watson, and Sarah J Richardson.

I was struggling to find Birth or Death or Marriage, but having exhausted the Australian states for BDM, I think I have found their marriage in Gateshead, Durham, England. But I would like to back this up with a ship record, which I am struggling with. If a shipping record does back this up, at least I will know where to start looking for their births.

I would also like to find where they died. Haven't managed to narrow down anything I am happy with yet, even looking on FindAGrave and BillionGraves. The family seemed to live in the Dungog, Maitland, Newcastle area, with several strong possiblities for children dying in the area, or moving to Melbourne.

The one thing that seems to help with this family, is that they seem to have given each of their children three names, which is not overly common.

I did have a look on Trove, unsuccessfully so far. But I'll look again.

On 27 Mar 2021 Ben Molesworth wrote on Watson-29700:

I am struggling to find adequate information to get Alice back another generation. As much as her parents names seem sure, it is a difficulty to find BDM information supporting her parents existence. Not that they didn't exist, but that there seems to be several couples of the same name, which make it difficult to differentiate which one is which.

Thank you for any help that you can bring.

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If the marriage record is correct, they would have travelled to Australia between 1882 and 1890, but probably on the later end of this. I have listed a bunch of possible siblings for Alice on her profile, some more, some less likely.

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Thank you Chris, for finding the deaths.

Answer 1

Name:	Alice Royal Westly Watson
Spouse Name:	Osborne George Elliott
Marriage Place:	Tasmania
Registration Place:	Tasmania
Registration Year:	1909
Page Number:	0127 Source Information Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Comments

Name:	Alice Royal Wesl Elliott
Birth Year:	abt 1890
Age:	79
Death Place:	Footscray, Victoria
Father's Name:	John Watson
Mother's Name:	Sarah Richards
Registration Year:	1969
Registration Place:	Victoria
Registration Number:	2??66 Source Information Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

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Thank you Marion. That is fantastic, and I didn't have the marriage yet. (Funny, even now when I go to the Tassie site, it doesn't come up with it.) Unfortunately, I was trying to find the details for her parents, specifically how they got from England to Australia, because I think I found their marriage in Co. Durham, England. And their deaths in Australia. They seem to be difficult because of the common name.

And I believe the Sarah Richards is wrong, because I have traced found siblings for Alice, Richards seems to be a mistake, and it should be Richardson.

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The full death registration number at Victoria BDM is 28566/1969.

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Thank you. But. Death of John Watson, and Sarah Jane Watson (nee Richardson). and Ship record of the same from England to NSW.