victoria

This person is from several online family trees and is a DNA Match of mine who died last year so I can show her name: Joan Eileen Barton, KW's DNA Match; B:7 Sep 1930 Victoria, Australia; D:17 Aug 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, married a Mr Brown and died as Joan Brown. Her GGGF Joseph...

I am trying to find the correct Benjamin Jones who was the father of the 2nd Railways Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia. I know that Benjamin married an Anne/Annie Bond (often mistakenly written as Bona), in 1867 in Victoria (Reg. 2398). Their children were at least Florence (b...

Mary Ann Foley married James Benjamin Smith at North Farm, Port Sorrell, Tasmania on 3 Mar 1859; Reg No. 603; the image of the marriage record on the Tasmanian Names Index shows that she was age 18 and he was 24. James died at Bridgewater, Victoria on 17 Apr 1895 and his will left everything...

Initially the colony of Victoria was known as the Port Phillip District (or 'Australia Felix') of New South Wales (NSW) and although there were petitions for the colony to be separated from NSW from the 1840s it was not till 1850 - 1851 that things started to happen. Queen Victoria signed the...