My second cousin three times removed, Mary Anna BROWN, married a Charles Edward Devenish Meares in Ashfield, NSW in 1908. Charles had previously been married to Annie E Pechey (they married in 1899 in Burwood.) There is a death in 1906 for Annie E Meares at Ashfield which I would think is the same Annie.
I can only see two children for Charles and Annie on the NSW birth index - Alfred D Meares in 1904 and Stanley D Meares in 1906.
Charles and Mary Anna had at least two children - Russell Devenish-Meares who was born 10th Oct 1910 at Ashfield and was presumed dead in 1942 after his plane went missing in Dec 1941 (he was a pilot in the Australian Air Force and I've just been reading through the 58 pages of one of his files on NAA.) And Lambert Devenish-Meares who died in 1960. The online birth index only goes up to 1907 so I have got this from the CWGC and the death index.
Now then, on the 1930 electoral roll for Ashfield, Charles Edward and Mary Anna are at 6 Chandos Street with Alfred, Stanley and Charles Laycester Devenish-Meares, a student. Then in 1936 Lambert and Russell appear on the e roll too.
Searching for Charles Laycester Devenish-Meares, it seems that his second name should actually be Leycester. And there seem to have been two people of that name but one died in 1922 so can't be the one who was on the e rolls. The other one was a Supreme Court Judge in NSW from 1969-1979 and Chairman of the NSW Law Reform Committee at the same time, and has a page on Wikipedia and everything. He was born 16 Jan 1909 at Summer Hill, NSW and died 5 Aug 1994. His WW2 army papers are listed on NAA but not available to download yet and it gives his next of kin as "Charles Meares".
I should add that these people seem to have started out as Mear(e)s with Devenish as a middle name but at some point made their surname into Devenish-Mear(e)s. On the e rolls the parents don't have the second e in Meares but the younger people do! Makes searching take four times as long as it should!
So, what I'm trying to do is to find something somewhere which says that Mary Anna was definitely the mother of Charles Leycester Devenish-Meares before I start telling all my family that we were related to an NSW Supreme Court judge! (I know it's the right Mary Anna because it has her marriage in a family Bible, but it doesn't list her children, annoyingly enough.) Can anybody help, please?
I can only see two children for Charles and Annie on the NSW birth index - Alfred D Meares in 1904 and Stanley D Meares in 1906.
Charles and Mary Anna had at least two children - Russell Devenish-Meares who was born 10th Oct 1910 at Ashfield and was presumed dead in 1942 after his plane went missing in Dec 1941 (he was a pilot in the Australian Air Force and I've just been reading through the 58 pages of one of his files on NAA.) And Lambert Devenish-Meares who died in 1960. The online birth index only goes up to 1907 so I have got this from the CWGC and the death index.
Now then, on the 1930 electoral roll for Ashfield, Charles Edward and Mary Anna are at 6 Chandos Street with Alfred, Stanley and Charles Laycester Devenish-Meares, a student. Then in 1936 Lambert and Russell appear on the e roll too.
Searching for Charles Laycester Devenish-Meares, it seems that his second name should actually be Leycester. And there seem to have been two people of that name but one died in 1922 so can't be the one who was on the e rolls. The other one was a Supreme Court Judge in NSW from 1969-1979 and Chairman of the NSW Law Reform Committee at the same time, and has a page on Wikipedia and everything. He was born 16 Jan 1909 at Summer Hill, NSW and died 5 Aug 1994. His WW2 army papers are listed on NAA but not available to download yet and it gives his next of kin as "Charles Meares".
I should add that these people seem to have started out as Mear(e)s with Devenish as a middle name but at some point made their surname into Devenish-Mear(e)s. On the e rolls the parents don't have the second e in Meares but the younger people do! Makes searching take four times as long as it should!
So, what I'm trying to do is to find something somewhere which says that Mary Anna was definitely the mother of Charles Leycester Devenish-Meares before I start telling all my family that we were related to an NSW Supreme Court judge! (I know it's the right Mary Anna because it has her marriage in a family Bible, but it doesn't list her children, annoyingly enough.) Can anybody help, please?
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