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Re: name changes Fantastic. Yes it works. Many thanks. I could not get this to work from the search facility even putting in just Davison or the ship name. Strange. Colin

Re: name changes Hi Gibbo. Further to my earlier reply, did you get the info about the Orontes departure from Ancestry Incoming Passenger List (which I've seen) or the Victoria Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1923, which I cannot get to come up with...

Re: name changes No - Robert "Bob" John Davison never remarried. He was my grandfather, who died when I was 23, so I know his story after Australia, but he never talked about Ethel.

Re: name changes Thanks both. Firstly – how do I formally thank you for the thanks to appear under your name? You’re right. The family lived at 109 Albert Street east, Brunswick Bourke, Melbourne, in 1914. RJ plumber, Ethel greengrocer (electoral roll). In 1917 they lived at Doris Dell...

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Re: name changes Hi Gibbo, Wow. Terrific quick response. 1. Ethel, b 16 Feb 1888, Liverpool was daughter of Richard James Williams 1869-1950 and Annie nee McKinneley, 1867-1948. 2. I had seen the UK Inward Passenger Lists on Ancestry, but not list of Victoria departures. If latter is online, it...

How easy might it have been for someone in 1926 to have assumed a false name travelling between Liverpool and Australia? Might a sailor who jumped ship in Oz be able to assume a false name when returning home briefly. I've spent a year trying to trace my grandmother, Ethel McKinneley Williams, b...