Can you help find death records for these profiles? (Victoria Australia, 1880)

Question

Hi Wikitreers

Today, I discovered that Wikitree+ locates only two profiles with the tag 'Needs Death Notice' said to have died in 1880 in Victoria, Australia.

They are:

• Stillborn son Smith (1880–1880) (an unsourced profile added to Wikitree in May 2017)
• Margaret Tapp (1880–1880) (an unsourced profile added to Wikitree in November 2018)

It would be great to reduce the number of profiles for people who died in 1880 in Victoria in this category to zero... 

Can you help? I can't find any sources at all for these profiles.

Answer 1

I had a quick look for Tapp but no birth, death or marriage record. Doesn't mean they didn't exist, the records are like Swiss cheese that far back.

Answer 2

Have you asked the profile managers? They are both still active. They may be able to advise further.

Answer 3

This profile is similar to one on Ancestry.com.au, but they have linked the death record of Margaret's sister Martha Jane Tapp, in error.

There is a Margaret E Tapp who died in 1880 at Deniliquin, NSW, with parents William and Elizabeth. This record is a possibility, although location needs confirming. I will add research notes to the profile.

Comments

The next child (per those attached to the parents) was born in Queensland, and the one after that in New South Wales, so it is possible.  There's definitely nothing in Victoria -- and I found nothing on Trove.

Answer 4

Took a swing, but not helpful. Sorry.

The Smith child, if young enough, may not have been reported. There would have to be some family record of the stillborn birth, if the child existed. They would have had to of been having children in very close succession.

18 Aug 1867, 1869, 8 May 1870,(19mths) 31 Dec 1871,(20mths) 17 Sep 1873,(18mths) 31 Mar 1875,(16mths) 14 Aug 1876,(31mths) 21 Mar 1879,(19mths) (2 Nov 1880),(12mths) 24 Oct 1881, (11 Apr 1885), 21 Mar 1886.

As already pointed out. Sorry to repeat. (NSW BDM Deaths, TAPP MARGARET E, 6381/1880, WILLIAM, ELIZABETH, DENILIQUIN)

Comments

I have a similar situation, a girl in  NSW who was an obvious match as the wife of one of my Stinsons, and accepted even by the genealogists I respected the most -- until somebody told me that I had the wrong person.  The original candidate has nothing but a birth record.  I am assuming that she died in infancy, but there is no record of her death, or of any other life event.  In those days, any event which was not notified to the District Registrar did not reach the BDM Registries.