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Re: Tom Rhodes

Barry, I seem to remember that Australian death certs show the names of children of the deceased. That may be the way to answer your question.
Dave

Re: Tom Rhodes

Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply, but I cannot find any death records for either Tom Rhodes born 1873 Sheffield still on poll records in oz in 1958 and Thecla born 1884 Bombala still on poll records in 1963. Barry

Re: Tom Rhodes

Hi Barry,

Probably the reason you are NOT turning him up is that FindMyPast only has the following.

New South Wales Deaths 1788-1945

You might do better tracing them from the following.

http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=496400&sid=4079638

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Re: Tom Rhodes

I have found the death od Thecla. It was in 1973
RHODES THECLA LETITIA D
46136/1973
DONALD
LETITIA
PARRAMATTA

Donald was her father's name. Letitia was her mother's name and Parramatta was the district of her death

https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result?16

Hopefully if you click on the link it will take you to the results page and from there you can order the death certificate however no idea on cost.

John

Re: Tom Rhodes

Hi Dave, Thanks for that could not find it at all. Cost is $32 twice as much as a British certificate. Barry

Re: Tom Rhodes

Barry, the thanks should be to John S, not me. I do hope that my memory is correct about children's names being on Aussie death certs.
Dave
Edit, just checked. The death cert will contain number of children., so you will definitely get that info. I am pretty sure that the one I have somewhere had their names and birth years as well. BUT I cannot find it to confirm.

Re: Tom Rhodes

Barry,
Just to complete the picture see the link below for info available on Aussie BMD certs. They may be twice the price, but they have more than twice the info.

http://www.jaunay.com/bdm.html

Dave

Re: Tom Rhodes

Thanks for that John this is very helpful. Barry

Re: Tom Rhodes

This is a possibility I think the name Thecla may have been mistranscribed

RHODES THELMA I
Registration number 14800/1916 
Father TOM W
Mother THEELA L
Area ASHFIELD NSW

Also have you tried the TROVE site for newspaper reports or the Ryerson Index for death repots

Bev

Re: Tom Rhodes

Also found a death for a Douglas Rhodes

RHODES DOUGLAS
Registration number 339/1935 
Father TOM W
Mother THECLA L
Area ANNANDALE

So that is 2 possible children.
Bev

Re: Tom Rhodes

And a possible marriage in 1940 for Thelma

7359/1940 
CRAWFORD
SPENCER WILLIAM
RHODES
THELMA IRENE
SYDNEY

Bev

Re: Tom Rhodes

Thanks for those Bev, How did you find them I tried all sorts to try and find any children of my grand uncle. Barry

Re: Tom Rhodes

Hi Barry
I got the information from here
https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search;jsessionid=4D147C9C1413F38A31B0C8A4CE151B7E?0

Sorry for the delay in replying a storm blew my internet.

Bev

Re: Tom Rhodes

There is also a newspaper report here about the death of Douglas Rhodes in 1935 he died from tetanus and was 12 years old
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236475538?searchTerm=%22douglas%20rhodes%22&searchLimits=l-decade=193

Bev