1885 Marriage - Witnesses

[DaveHam9]

SCHEDULE D
1885 MARRIAGES solemnized in the District of South Yarra in the Colony of Victoria
No. 49
McKean St, North Fitzroy 17th November 1885
Charles Henry Downes - Bachelor - Dublin, Ireland - Accountant - 24 - Michael St., North Fitzroy - Michael St., North Fitzroy - John Patrick Downes & Mary Jane Downes (Maiden Name Boles) - House Decorator
Elizabeth Angel - Spinster - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - - - 24 - McKean St., North Fitzroy - McKean St., North Fitzroy - Stephen Angel & Elizabeth Ann Angel (Maiden Name Lewton) - Gentleman
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I, Edward Wason Nye, being Wesleyan Minister, do certify that I have, this day, at McKean St., North Fitzroy ... Dated this seventeenth day of November 1885 Signed: Edward Wason Nye
Marriage by License was solemnized between us according to the rites of the Wesleyan Methodist Church - Parties signed Witnesses: Phillip William Smith, A ? C Garritty ?, John P Downes

Thanks,

Dave

 

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1880
Appointments. — Magistrates : Within the Central bailiwick — Philip William Smith, Alphington :
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202147204

 

[DaveHam9]

Thanks gibbo.

Be back later.

 

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1909
PROBATE of tho WILL of JOHN PATRICK DOWNES, late of 103 Richmond-tcrmcc, Richmond, in Victoria, Decorator

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196037694

 

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I will have a look at the middle one tomorrow.

 

[DaveHam9]

Thanks gibbo.

 

[gibbo]

Im stuck with the middle one, not finding anything that looks like it.

 

[DaveHam9]

Thanks gibbo.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9882092
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Mon 17 Apr 1905 Page 1
DEATHS
GARRITTY. —On the 16th April, at his residence,
"Edgecombe," Alfred-crescent, North Fitzroy,
William Garritty (Clerk of Works), beloved husband
of Susanna Garritty, and father of William
Croker Garritty, of the Central E.T.O., Melbourne,
aged 75 years. A resident of Victoria for
58 years. No flowers, by request.

 

[DaveHam9]

City Directories

Name: William C Garritty
Residence Year: 1931
Street Address: 50 Kneen-St, Fitzroy N., N.7
Residence Place: Victoria, Australia

I think that is a transcription error. Keen St is in Glen Iris a long way E of North Fitzroy.

Ok, according to the clear image it is Keen.

 

[DaveHam9]

The Downes family are one step off my main line 3 generations back by Mary Ann sister of Elizabeth Angel.