Monthly Mini Connector Challenge (Australia)

Date: 1 Jan 2024 to about 31 Dec 2024
Location: Australia

Contents 1 Montevideo Maru Monthly Mini Connector Challenge (Australia) 2024 2 June 3 Stats 4 Unable to Connect 5 Completed Challenges 2024 5.1 January Challenge 5.2 February Challenge 5.3 March Challenge 5.4 April Challenge 5.5 May Challenge

Montevideo Maru Monthly Mini Connector Challenge (Australia) 2024

The Montevideo Maru was a merchant ship that was commandeered into service as a Japanese military troopship during World War II. It was sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon on 1 July 1942, drowning 1,055 prisoners of war (POW) (both military and civilian), mostly Australian who were being transported from Rabaul, the former Australian territory of New Guinea, to Hainan, China.

A colleague has already created a profile for each POW.

The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to help connect a POW to the one tree.

• Pick a profile from the June list below.
• Add your name/ID to reserve that profile while you work connecting it.
• If you're short on time, consider teaming up with some else to connect a POW
• Create profiles with a Biography and at least one valid source please (more sources are better)
• Please keep the integrity of the original profile as it is (someone else worked very hard on it first)
• You have a month to connect to the main tree if you can.
• Please ask for help if you need it from the Australia Project or g2g. We are all happy to help.

Thank you for any assistance, you may be able to give to this worthy cause.

Last months challenge was a wonder success. Thank you to all those that participated.

June

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	Richard Mackinnon	1915	New South Wales	-	No
2	John Manyon	1921	New South Wales	Carolyn	No
3	Colin Mater	1913	New South Wales	Danny Stapleton	yes via his mother
4	Anthony McDiarmid	1921	New South Wales	Sue Crerar & Anne Fiordalisi	No
5	William McEwan	1893	New South Wales	Peter Kane	Yes
6	Albert McKenzie	1915	New South Wales	- Craig Seller	No
7	Bartholomew Valle	1922	New South Wales	Sue (Gollan) Crerar	Yes - via a first cousin
8	Ronald Brown-Bishop	1919	Queensland	-	No
9	Edward Butler	1917	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes, via mother's family
10	Jack Neil	1921	Queensland	Peter Kane	No
11	William Rowland Rawlings	1905	SA/Vic	Amanda	Yes
12	Arthur Reed	1895	South Australia	Sharryn Nankervis	No
13	Eric Robinson	1920	South Australia	Sharryn Nankervis	No
14	Harley McCallum	1921	Tas/Vic	Sue Wyatt	No
15	Gerald McShane	1922	Tasmania	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his father
16	Ronald Mundy	1921	Tasmania	Heather Stevens	No
17	George Walker	1917	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	No
18	Gerald Mahaffy	1905	Victoria	-	No - Unable to find any records for birth or any record of father. Cousin maybe ?Robert Jason MARSHALL
19	Wallace Matthews	1922	Victoria	Sharryn Nankervis	Yes, via grandmother Barbara Ellen (Girling) Matthews
20	Albert May	1907	Victoria	Sharryn Nankervis	No
21	Ian McCarthy	1908	Victoria	Sharryn Nankervis	No
22	Allan McColl	1920	Victoria	Danny Stapleton	No
23	Hector McEachran	1905	Victoria	Sharryn Nankervis	No
24	Glynn (Wragg) Norgrove	1922	Victoria	Narelle Di Trento	Yes - via Mother's sister's husband's father
25	Edmund Hawnt	1883	England	Amanda	Yes
26	Thomas Kimber	1904	England	-	No
27	Frederick Limbert	1918	England	Darren	No
28	John Lockhart	1898	England	-	No
29	Herbert Millington	1881	England	-	No
30	John Morell	1918	England	Amanda	Yes
31	Frederick Mottershead	1922	England	Sue Pardey	No
32	Albert Thomas	1902	England	-	No
33	William Tomlinson	1919	England	Amanda	Yes
34	Thomas Brown	1895	Scotland	-	No
35	John Cameron	1910	Scotland	-	No
36	James McGowan	1902	Sct/Qld	Darren	No
37	Gunnar Edvardsen	1917	Norway	Vicky Majewski	No
38	Kåre Fagervik	1910	Norway	Vicky Majewski	No
39	Reidar Grytnes	1915	Norway	Vicky Majewski	No
40	Helge Bjorklof	1905	Finland/Australia	-	No

Stats

Originally the Montevideo Maru started with 1055 profiles most of which needed connecting.
At the beginning of this challenge on 1 January 2024, 688 profiles still needed connecting.

Country	Start	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Unconnected	688	652	579	517	466	424	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Australia	517	488	427	384	345	318	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NSW	180	177	167	159	151	145	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Queensland	44	42	36	33	25	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Australia	25	22	19	16	13	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tasmania	48	45	39	35	30	26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Victoria	204	188	156	133	122	115	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Western Australia	16	13	10	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Countries	171	164	152	133	121	106	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
England/Wales	102	98	94	86	82	74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Finland	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ireland	7	7	6	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nordic	29	28	26	24	22	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Scotland	20	19	18	16	13	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Papua	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Singapore	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United States	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Unable to Connect

• George Soutar 03 Jan 1903 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 01 Jul 1942 February Challenge
• Harry Bernstein 20 Aug 1899 Whitechapel, Middlesex, England - 01 Jul 1942 April Challenge

Completed Challenges 2024

January Challenge

Completed by 14 January 2024

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	Frederick William Mansley	1918	New South Wales	Ball-19346	Yes via the Great grandmother of his brother's wife (sister -in-law)
2	George Eric MacAdam	1899	New South Wales	Sue Crerar	Yes (via father-in law)
3	Michael John McAuliffe	1923	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes. via an Uncle: Denis James McAuliffe (1893-1970)
4	Roy Stewart McPherson	1910	Queensland	Mike Young	Yes. via father's mother's first husband James Mitchell (bef.1848-1872)
5	Lewis Thomas Moss	1909	South Australia	Pardey-31	Yes via father
6	Mervyn James Murray	1918	South Australia	Davis-42955	Yes, via father's sister
7	Lloyd Edward Martin	1915	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes, convoluted connection
8	Mervyn Albert McPherson	abt.1920	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via mother Jemima Mary Gourlay (1887-1929)
9	Elgar George Marshall	1917	Victoria	Monika	Yes
10	William Raymond Mason	1902	Victoria	Peter Kane	yes. via paternal grandparents
11	David Bertram McCullagh	1911	Western Australia	Amanda Myers	Yes
12	Charles Hubert George Moore	1910	Western Australia	Freeth-52	Yes, via stepmother's father Charles Owen Leaver Riley OBE (1854-1929)
13	Roderick John MacLennan	1908	England	Freeth-52	Yes via maternal grandmother's family
14	William Melling	1910	England	Veronica	Yes
15	Alfred Coutts Meldrum	1904	Scotland	Thomas-7679	Yes via sister
16	Bjarne Møller	1911	Norway	Sue Wyatt	Yes via Even (Pedersen) Ulstrup (1783-)

February Challenge

Completed by 28 Febuary 2024 (1 profile - not possible to connect)

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	Patrick Salway	1922	New South Wales	Ball-19346	Yes, finally
2	Liege Seater	1917	New South Wales	Sue (Gollan) Crerar	Yes
3	Frank William Smith	1918	New South Wales	Peter Kane	Yes, via his sister's in-laws
4	Albert Samuels	1919	Queensland	Dianne Garner Added parents	Yes
5	John Squire	1917	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes
6	Adolf Schmidt	1903	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes, via his parents. Also added his wife
7	Herbert Bowman	1920	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes via grandmother's brother
8	Thomas Shaw	1917	South Australia	Danny Stapleton-	yes via his father.
9	Arnold Scriven	1917	South Australia	Veronica	Yes, maternal side
10	Brian Stevens	1920	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via mother Ina Florence Parker (1894-)
11	Walter Sullivan	1920	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via great uncle James William Cannan (1867-1920)
12	Thomas Bartels	1919	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via his father August Bartels (1881-)
13	William Simmons	1921	Victoria	Monika	Yes
14	Donald Steward Smith	1908	Victoria	Heather Stevens	Yes via grandfather Clarence Smith (abt.1842-1919)
15	Leonard Smith	1915	Victoria	Monika	Yes
16	Clyde Sauer	1922	Western Australia	Darren	Connect to maternal grandparents
17	George Densley	1916	Western Australia	Amanda	Yes
18	Allan Ferguson	1904	Western Australia	Amanda	Yes
19	Horace Sawyer	1892	England /Victoria	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his first and second wives.
20	Ronald Spriggs	1917	England /Victoria	Amanda	Yes
21	Henry John Stuart	1933	England	Ros Haywood	Yes - via his father
22	Thomas Nevinson Simpson	1909	England	Gillian	Yes
23	George Soutar	1903	Scotland	Gillian	No- posted to G2G. At this stage not connectable
24	John Sutherland	1905	Scotland	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his father and mother
25	Magnus Skaug	1920	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via his great-aunt Regina (Svendsdatter) Johnson (1858-1929)
26	Finn Thoresen	1923	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via convoluted connection through distant cousins in USA
27	Stephen Lamont	1898	Ireland	Vicky Majewski	Yes via stepmother's uncle Cornelius Baird (1861-1930)
28	Dougall McDonald Smith	1903	New Zealand	Darren	Connections to Flora Ellen Rogers (1884-) and Edwin Albert Vyle (1839-1921)
29	Thomas Walker	1887	Canada /Queensland	Vicky Majewski	Yes via his sister Blanche Helen (Walker) Stout (1892-1939)
30	John Felix Bunney	1872	South Africa	Heather Stevens	Yes

March Challenge

Completed 19 Mar 2024

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	Thomas Walsh	1901	New South Wales	Carolyn	Yes
2	Ronald Wayne	1904	New South Wales	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his wife
3	William White	1919	New South Wales	Rosalie Neve	yes
4	Frederick McGavin	1910	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes
5	Charles Highland	1911	Queensland	Mike Young	Yes (via his mother's father added by S Stevenson)
6	John Allen	1920	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes
7	Milton Warner	1909	South Australia	Veronica Williams	Yes - through his mother's cousin.
8	George Watkins	1916	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes
9	James White	1920	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes
10	Francis Williams	1920	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via sister's father-in-law Cecil Hickman (1865-1950)
11	Valentine Willis	1919	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via brother-in-law Robert Gerald Giblin (1905-)
12	Keith Berwick	1918	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes via grandfather James Berwick (1853-1930)
13	Reginald Watkins	1917	Victoria	Amanda	Yes
14	Herbert Washington	1887	Victoria	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his father and his uncle.
15	John Wilson	1920	Victoria	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his father.
16	Thomas Watson	1914	Western Australia	Virginia	Yes, via his mother
17	Edward Mulligan	1916	Western Australia	Amanda	Yes
18	Colin Henson	1913	Western Australia	Amanda	Yes
19	William Wainewright	1912	England	Danny Stapleton	Yes via his father and brother.
20	William Wilkin	1885	England	Rosalie Neve	Yes
21	Walter Willmet	1900	England	Darren	Yes via paternal line
22	Jack Woodford	1907	England	Jo-Anne	Yes
23	Francis Somerville	1914	Scotland	Gillian	Yes - grandfather was on WT and connected
24	Duncan Wallace	1912	Scotland	Amanda	Yes
25	Horace Newman	1910	Wales	Heather	Yes via wife's second husband
26	Ronald Yerbury	1920	Wales	Amanda	Yes
27	Axel Koinberg	1913	Estonia	Vicky Majewski	Yes via his niece Joan Koinberg
28	Arthur Landhaug	1908	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via his first cousin's father, Ole Andersen Kamsvåg (1872-1950)
29	Walter Ryan	1891	Ireland	Vicky Majewski	Yes via son-in-law's grandfather Robert Richardson (abt.1861-1929)
30	Thomas Evans	1904	New Zealand	Monika	Yes

April Challenge

1 profile to be completed sent to G2G

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	William Atkinson	1904	New South Wales	Virginia	Yes - via Aunt, Margaret Ann (Atkinson) Ambler
2	Victor Bexton	1918	New South Wales	Sue Crerar	Yes - vis brother William's in-laws
3	Bruce Dargin	1915	New South Wales	Heather Stevens	Yes - via Dargins on father's side, also Oxley on his mother's side
4	Henry Dodd	1888	Queensland	Peter Kane	Yes, via his wife's family
5	Claude Drane	1886	Queensland	Danny Stapleton	yes via his mother and is wife
6	Ronald Dwyer	1920	Queensland	Sharryn Nankervis	Yes, via his brother Harold John Samuel Dwyer
7	Douglas Evans	1922	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes
8	Robert Paine	1913	South Australia	Sharryn Nankervis	Yes. aunt Eva Eleanor (Mount) Boehme
9	Howard Pearson	1913	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes
10	Leslie Brown	1919	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	thru grandmother Sarah Rosina (Watson) Gaskell (1862-1940)
11	Alfred Crawford	1921	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	great grandmother's second partner Hugh Stevenson (-abt.1893)
12	William Ekblade	1915	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Great grandfather Michael O'halloran (1790-1850)
13	George Davidson	1916	Victoria	Virginia	Yes - Father
14	John Donegan	1917	Victoria	Sue Crerar	Yes
15	John Edwards	1894	Victoria	Amanda	Yes
16	John Day	1915	Western Australia	Danny Stapleton	Yes - via his birth father's sister.
17	Thomas Newton	1913	Western Australia	Sharryn Nankervis	Yes, great-aunt Eliza (Trevithick) Durie
18	Charles Nolan	1921	Western Australia	Sharryn Nankervis	Yes
19	Stanley Ashby	1894	England	Amanda	Yes
20	Frederick Attwood	1914	England	Heather Stevens	Yes - via Thorburn on his mother's side
21	Reginald Beecroft	1920	England	Amanda	Yes
22	Harry Bernstein	1899	England	Veronica Williams	No
23	John Brough	1907	Scotland	Darren	Yes via brothers wife's mother
24	Robert Dalziel	1905	Scotland	Heather Stevens	yes - mother's second husband
25	Robert Hannah	1917	Scotland	Heather Stevens	Yes - Robert's maternal grandfather
26	Olvar Andersen	1919	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via paternal uncle's wife's ancestors
27	Peter Brandal	1895	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via brother's wife's ancestors
28	Patrick Mahony	1902	Ireland	Amanda	Yes
29	Frederick McCaffrey	1899	Ireland	Amanda	Yes
30	Herbert Andrew	1912	Wales	Heather Stevens	Yes - via brother's wife

May Challenge

Completed 28 May 2024

No.	Name	Year Born	Place Born	Your ID/Name	Connected
1	Brian Hanigan	1918	New South Wales	Sue Crerar & Anne Fiordalisi	Yes - via great aunt
2	James Hannay	1917	New South Wales	Sue Crerar	Yes via his aunt (father's brother's wife)
3	Ethelbert Hannon	1924	New South Wales	Danny Stapleton	yes via his mother
4	Geoffrey Hannah	1914	Queensland	Heather Stevens	Yes - via his maternal grandmother, also his paternal grandfather
5	Alex Houghton	1915	Queensland	peter kane	Yes. Via numerous connections in Victoria.
6	Colin Jackson	1917	Queensland	Heather Stevens	Yes - via his wife's father
7	Murray Pickering	1892	South Australia	Sue Pardey	Yes
8	John Price	1913	South Australia	Scott Davis	Yes
9	Thomas Price	1913	South Australia	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes, grandmother Catherine (Bray) Fisher and sister Audrey Catherine (Price) Copley cousin of John William Price see #8 in this list
10	Roy Harman	1919	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	Yes Great Grandfather James Henry Ollington (1850-1931)
11	Ivan Hatcher	1922	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	yes, uncle's wife's second husband
12	Alan Jeffreys	1921	Tasmania	Sue Wyatt	yes, mother Patti (Lord) Jeffreys (1900-)
13	Alan Hancock	1914	Victoria	Monika	Yes
14	Alfred Herron	1921	Victoria	Amanda	Yes
15	Matthew Hodder	1919	Victoria	Amanda	Yes
16	Charles Houghton	1904	Western Australia	Danny Stapleton	yes via his wife
17	Henry Gregory	1898	Western Australia	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes, grandmother Catherine (Kelleher) Gregory
18	Arthur (Laurisch) Owen	1915	Western Australia	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes, via his father Bernhardt Oscar Waldama Laurisch
19	Frank Venning	1903	England	Darren	Yes through wife's second husbands paternal line
20	Anthony Watson	1919	England	Heather Stevens	Yes - via his sister's husband
21	John White	1919	England	Amanda	Yes
22	Orville Woodhams	1901	England	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes, wife's father Samuel Shepherd
23	Cyril Woodward	1904	England	Amanda	Yes
24	Harry Mooney	1920	Scotland	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes, via sister-in-laws great grandmotherElizabeth (Borack) Proposch
25	Andrew (Perratt) Perrett	1886	Scotland	Heather Stevens	Yes
26	Francis Pollock	1920	Scotland	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes
27	Victor Hugo Andersen	1913	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via 3xGGPs Baard Jacobsen and Anna Maria Gundersdatter
28	Benn Bolt	1914	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via convoluted connection through sister-in-law's family
29	Alf Jemtland	1907	Norway	Vicky Majewski	Yes via paternal grandparents David Evensen Lerud and Berthe Helene Kristiansdatter
30	Hamilton Mooney	1897	Ireland	Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis	Yes