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My grandmother Elizabeth Mary Tucker born in about 1896, I think in Victoria or Queensland. Elizabeth married Frederick William Holman in Brunswick. She was widowed in 1934. Later married a Galwey in South Australia. Buried under the name of Galwey in Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne.

I have been trying to find Elizabeth's parents and have constantly come up against a brick wall. WHO ARE THEY?

Elizabeth is my grandmother.

Can anyone help me please.

For starters add "Australia" to your title :-)

Jude

As Jude says, adding Australia to the title would help attract the member helpers who know about Australian records.


Do you have either of her marriage certificates?

Does that not name her father?

only trace I can find of her



Elizabeth Mary Galwey

Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers

Name Elizabeth Mary Galwey
Occupation Widow
Death Date 02 Jan 1982
Event Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Residence City Parkville
Event Date 18 May 1982
Series Number 903
Record Number 604

Elzth Mary Tucker
in the Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name: Elzth Mary Tucker
Spouse Name: Wm Fredk Holman
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Year: 1916
Registration Number: 2852

Her death again, giving her age:

Elizabeth Mary Galwey
in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Elizabeth Mary Galwey
Birth Year: abt 1896
Age: 86
Death Place: Park, Victoria
Father's name: Tucxer
Mother's name: Mary Elizabeth
Registration Year: 1982
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Number: 01272

EDIT: NO, this isn't her, in light of Judith's later post below, saying Elizabeth's father was William.

EDIT again (08/07/2016):
Turns out this is correct after all!




VERY long shot:


Elizth Mary Eliza Tucker
in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
Name: Elizth Mary Eliza Tucker
Father's name: Louis Herbt Egbert Edgar Tucker
Mother's name: Elizth Clark
Birth Place: Ringwood, Victoria
Registration Year: 1895
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Number: 15623

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Thank you for your help. As for the marriage cert. It only shows a William as Elizabeth's father. No mother listed.

Oh! I think I forgot to say Frederick William was my Grandfather who died when mu father Stanley Edwin Holman was only 13.

a tree on ancestry has her born in 1891

?


Elizabeth Mary Tucker
in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
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Name: Elizabeth Mary Tucker
Birth Date: 08 May 1891
Father's name: William Henry Tucker
Mother's name: Elizabeth Jane Thomas
Birth Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1891
Registration Place: Queensland
Page Number: 26452
Registration Number: 005344

Do you have any idea of the names of your grandmother's siblings?

If the birth posted earlier is correct, then these would certainly be siblings:-

1889 C4393 Margaret Ann Tucker William Henry Elizabeth Jane Thomas

1895 C5049 John Tucker William Henry Elizabeth Jane Thomas

.............would these be correct?

As far as I know she was the only child. That is what makes this search harder.

I have just gone through some more of my records and another name she went by was Elizabeth May Tucker, her mother was Elizabeth Mary and father William. I still have no luck with that search though.

Interesting update by PM from Judith today. It turns out that the birth I posted on 22 Dec 2015 @ 23:33 was correct after all!:


From: Judith Holman

11:44 AM

I want to both thank you and apologise for not going into the record you sent me and not getting back to right away. Even though I have known very long.

I have sent away again for my grandmothers marriage certificate and this time I received more information. I asked for a copy of the original cert and not a typed one. Now I know who my great grand parents as well as my grandmothers full name. I also understand now why she was like she was.

I feel like I have missed out on so much now. So here is a little of her story.

Elizabeth Mary Eliza was born to an unmarried mother and a father who had already been married three times. When he married my grandmother Elizabeth was three years old. There were two more children after that until Elizabeth found about the terrible secret Louis was keeping.

Louis Herbert Egbert Edgar Tucker was one of the worst bigamists in the whole of Australia, he was also a small time their and con man.

This man was my great grand father. You had a good part in me finding all about him and most of all my grandmother and her mother, all my new uncles and great uncles/aunties.

Thank you very much.

Kind Regards Judy.