Searching for: Gibson, queensland, Australia abt 1930s

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Hi there, starting to piece together the family tree and we know nothing about my grandfather, nor if he is living, except that his parents were named Thomas Edward Gibson and Eileen Davis/Davies and a couple other facts. If anyone had any other info or help that would be greatly appreciated. I'm putting together a profile soon.

Known details:

Had an older sister and a younger brother.

Father's name: Thomas Edward Gibson

Mother's name: Eileen May? Sophie? Maiden name: Davis/Davies, we know her mother was born in Germany and could not speak english. A possible scottish father?

Knowledge from my grandmother:

- Thomas + Eileen lived in Housing commission in Chermside, queensland, australia.

- approx dobs and death dates but so far for me aren't yielding any results so may be very inaccurate. Thomas: 3/11/1915 - 12/7/1983 and Eileen: 1/4/1910 - ???, with a marriage around 1935.

- Thomas worked at the horse races, the people wearing red coats (or something like that haha)

- Eileen worked at a cafe

- Both died of lung cancer

And that's about it!
in Genealogy Help by Harriet Darnell G2G4 (4.9k points)
edited by Harriet Darnell

1 Answer

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Born in 1938 is a reasonably recent dates and most likely still living!

I would be very wary about publishing what may be sensitive details.

Having said that my most common searching sites for the 1930's time zone are:

https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/  (marriages and deaths)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers

http://ryersonindex.org/search.php

and searchign as a 'guest' on the defence records at the names search section of

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SessionTimeout.aspx
by NG Hill G2G6 Mach 8 (85.5k points)
Okay thank you! I may as well edit this now to remove some information and start looking.

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