We are giving this site a make-over
Welcome to our new genealogy & family history site. It's having a facelift & addressing some potential security & privacy issues. Please read our publishing policy by clicking the link to right of screen. I'm working on the site each week so check back regularly to check the progress.
Hint: When visiting next, click your refresh button to ensure you're not viewing an old version of the site, cached on your computer.
My Current Research Emphasis
The people I am most interested in & actively researching at the moment, are shown to your left (& below). Clicking on any of the underlined names on this page will (as work progresses) take you to information about my research on that person. The menu to your right will access any news, our policies & other information.
- George Frederick GARDENER (abt 1886-1970)
- Nellie Marion Mc DOUGALL (abt 1892-1952)
- William GARDENER & Elizabeth Annie COX Having been unable to find George's birth record, or one that we can positively say is Victor's leaves these two ancestors out there hanging. We know nothing about them except that William was listed as a labourer on George's wedding register.
George appears to have been born in Yarraville (Vic) in 1886 or possibly, late in 1885, just 3 years after Krakatoa erupted, shaking the entire planet & 5 years after Sioux chief Sitting Bull led the last of his people to surrender to the U.S.
He married Nellie Marion Mc DOUGALL on the 20th August 1910, producing a total of 12 children. George, Victor, Elizabeth, Leslie, Jean, Eileen, Dorothy, John, James, Robert, Peter & Edward. Although 5 of the children died very young, some of the younger siblings not knowing/remembering that they had been.
His wedding certificate lists his parents as William GARDENER & Elizabeth Annie COX. He almost certainly had a brother, Victor GARDENER & that's about the sum of what we know, we can find no trace of his birth. George Frederick Gardener died on December 26th 1970 in Boronia (Vic).
We are desperate to find proof of George's birth in Yarraville or elsewhere. Then I can try to trace his ancestry while his last living son Peter (b1934 -my father) is still with us.
Nellie's wedding certificate lists her as being born in Melbourne (Vic) and her parents as John Mc DOUGALL (publican) & Ellen SHANAHAN. That is about all we know of Nellie and her lineage.
