October 2017 blog posts (5)

Parents Auguste Lashatel

Eugene Jvernois

Looking for any information on 28 year old, Louis Lashatel born France c 1827.

Shipping from France to Australia 1851-1856

Want to locate where in France he was born.

thank you

I am new to family history research and have come to a brick wall.

I have traced my my maternal grandmother's father to Victoria.

His name was Peter Edward LESTER. He was a carpenter. His father is listed as John LESTER on the Naturalisation Certificate in 1869. I have an approx birth date of April 1836.

A friend of a friend was able to post this but no link ..."There’s also an online index to Victoria’s Naturalisation Certificates.  It has a Peter LESTER in that index. …

I have received the message copied below and can I say that this is not what I expected from a site like the National Archives of Australia.

When you are searching for somebody and they send you an email asking you to contact them as they have information, it builds your hopes up and then when you receive this your hopes are dashed.....I am very, very unhappy about this!!…

I'm looking for information about my great-uncle Mário Vitorino Enguiça, a politician deported in East Timor. For years I've been looking for information since Portugal has a democracy.

One of the chances could be his escape to Australia. In my research I think he may (not sure) escape between 1941-1945, after the invasion of the Japanese.

I live in Portugal and…

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I am trying to trace Stephen Hoy who I believe emigrated to Australia, possibly NSW in 1965. I have found online Incoming Passenger Cards relating to the years 1962,1965,1967 and 1972 for Stephen all giving NSW as the area he was living.There are also records of Carol Ann Hoy who I believe to be Stephens wife

In 2003 Stephen posted on Genes Reunited the following message:

"Any information on Margaret Mary O'Callaghan living in Romford Essex in 1940's and early…