NEED HELP TO FIND AUSSIE RELATIVES

[Browniescorner]

|help| As there are a few aussies here I thought I might give this a shot......

I am researching my husbands family, the Johnson's who are from Yorkshire, England. We already knew of one Johnson daughter coming to Australia, Sydney, but this week I find that her sister also came here, but to Queensland.
I don't know when she came out here, but I cannot find her between 1881 & 1901. In 1901 she is back with her father & brothers with 2 children who were born in Queensland, Australia.
She married a Taylor, I don't know whether it was in England or Australia.
I have tried Quensland BDM but no luck there.
Is there somewhere else I can look to try & find what, where & why?

My husband has no family here anymore & wouldn't it be wonderful if we found some who were here all the time.

BTW this site is great, I have learnt quite a lot over the few days I have been a member. I am also a member of a Liverpool forum & they are wonderful too!

[ChristineR]

Some forenames would have been handy :D

I see a marriage in 1889 in the Qld BDMs between James Taylor and a Jane Maude Johnston. They were not that fussy about spelling of surnames those days.

I only see one child registered in Qld to this couple - James Robert - 4 May 1890, in the Brisbane area (cd goes to 1914) If this is them, then they might not have bothered with registering the other child since they were leaving.

ChristineR :)

[Browniescorner]

Thanks, but as I said I have trowled through the Queensland BDM & have found nothing.

I am looking for Ann E Johnson, her children were Arthur L Taylor born approx.1896 & Lillian A Taylor born approx.1900.

You're right, sometimes names get lost in translation & I have tried so many different variations I ran out of options. My guess is they probably weren't registered, births or marriage. Maybe they were in a remote area.

What I'm hoping is that someone knows of some other way of tracking this family, maybe someone has these names in their tree. That's what I am hoping anyway.......

Thanks again
Browniescorner

[ChristineR]

The children are registered under the name of JOHNSON in the Qld index.

Arthur Leslie Messenger JOHNSON born 7 Oct 1895 Brisbane area
Lilian Ada Taylor JOHNSON, born 19 June 1899 Brisbane area

no father named on either entry
mother - Annie Elizabeth JOHNSON

ChristineR

[Browniescorner]

Thanks Christine, no wonder I didn't find them, I was looking for Taylor! That's their name in the 1901 census.
Thank You so much! |hug|