OPIE & DEVONSHIRE South Australia

[ChristineR]

I would love to have the birth regs for the children.

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Taking up the thread here, from Exeter, since we are now into Australia.

Births, South Australia
father: Edward Andrew OPIE, mother Mary Jane DEVONSHIRE

Annie, 17 July 1849, Adelaide,
District: Ade Book: 2 Page: 179

Elizabeth Jane, 26 May 1851, Adelaide
Ade, 3, 219

Harriet Winn, 22 Oct 1853, Adelaide
Ade, 4, 231

Deaths: South Australia

Annie OPIE, died 28 July 1893, aged 49 yrs, married
Relative: Edward Andrew Devonshire OPIE - husband
residence and death place: Kensington
Dist: Now Book: 211 Page: 357

Constance OPIE, died 23 Nov 1886, 3 m, child - dau of Edward A D OPIE
same residence as above
Nor, 159, 83

another daughter
Jessie, died 3 Dec 1896, aged 3m, Child, at Kensington
Nor, 239, 295

Mary Emily OPIE, died 15 Jan 1850, aged 3 yrs 6 m, residence Adelaide
Relative, Edward Andrew OPIE
Ade, 1, 204

Sarah OPIE, died 27 April 1889, aged 58
relative - Edward OPIE, husband
residence and death place - Parkside
Nor, (Norwood) Symbol H, Book: 178, Page: 252

South Australia - marriages

Edward Andrew OPIE, aged 21, (father: Edward Andrew OPIE) married
20 NOv 1860, Sarah ANTHONY, 25, (Richard ANTHONY)
Place: Res of Mr Orr, Goolwa
Dist: EnB Book/Page 44/169

Edward Andrew Devonshire OPIE, widow, 45, (Edwd Andrew OPIE) married
4 May 1889, Annie MELLOR, S, 45 (Mitchell John MELLOR)
Place: Trinity Church, Adelaide
Ade, 159/1108

and again..
Edward Andrew Devonshire OPIE, widow, aged 50 married 7 March 1894
Martha COUZENS, s, 30 (Henry COUZENS)
Zion Chapel Adelaide
Ade, 178/878

3 of his kids marriages also here -
Norwood Wynne married Edith May Quinnell 11 Dec 1903
Edward Campbell married Florence North 25 Feb 1909
Annie Mary married Robert Candy 10 Feb 1902

Christine

[ChristineR]

Birth, 23 Jul 1843 , Launceston, Tasmania 1559/1843 RGD 33
Name not recorded, Male
father: Edward Andrew OPIE
mother: Mary DEVONSHIRE

That is the only registration for Edward. Yes, it did say Mary.

There is a John Opie and a Catherine Hoskin/g having kids.
Also a Thomas Opie and Elizabeth Jane Hoskin/g.
Most of their kids seem to have died as infants.

Christine

[ChristineR]

No sign of them in Victoria

Some DEVONSHIRE lasses having kids, husband's surname in brackets - Anna Maria (Hobson), Harriet Wynne (Stamp), and Augusta Bessie (Tadgell)

Christine.

[JJOP]

thanks Christine for all that info. I googled on Internet Explorer & came up with three references, art site, the ships passenger lists, & a family tree site by Nicko.According to a book "Dictionary of Aust Artists"edt by Joan Kerr, Edward Andrew spent quite a lot of time in Victoria, involved in theatre. She says he had a daughter, Mary Ellen Andrews,born in Melbourne 1846, & dying in 1850, although she doesn't say where,but probably in Adelaide, as by then he was back there. Apparently he died in Melbourne on 31 October 1879, according to a book, "South Australian records prior to 1841", by his son E.A.D. The Edward Campbell who married Florence North is my husband's grandfather.
Jenny

[ChristineR]

....According to a book "Dictionary of Aust Artists"edt by Joan Kerr, Edward Andrew spent quite a lot of time in Victoria, involved in theatre. She says he had a daughter, Mary Ellen Andrews,born in Melbourne 1846, & dying in 1850, although she doesn't say where,but probably in Adelaide, as by then he was back there....

would she be this one? (posted above in the deaths) Age fits your dates.
No baptism shows up in Victoria.

Mary Emily OPIE, died 15 Jan 1850, aged 3 yrs 6 m, residence Adelaide
Relative, Edward Andrew OPIE
Ade, 1, 204

Apparently he died in Melbourne on 31 October 1879

Just noticed the death (burial record) of a 1 month old at Geelong, Vic
Edward A OPIE, no parents listed, 1852 Christ Church,Geelong - Church of England reg: 24475

Here we go, another Edward OPIE too, one born Cornwall. Also one married Elizabeth MATHER in 1857.

Edward OPIE, died Victoria, 1879, aged 70, born Devonshire
reg:11148, parents unknown

Do you have Mary Jane's death?

ChristineR

[JJOP]

Mary Jane died 16 July 1901, aged 85 years. Apparently the marriage broke up & she married an Archibald Eliot, date unknown

[JJOP]

Mary Emily OPIE, died 15 Jan 1850, aged 3 yrs 6 m, residence Adelaide I would presume that this child would be one and the same. The editor of the book does have some info that is a little incorrect, so its possible that a third name has been added to the child, & not registered

[JJOP]

Do you have cds relating to births, deaths & marriages for some states of Australia?

[ChristineR]

Do you have cds relating to births, deaths & marriages for some states of Australia?

yes SA & Victoria

WA, NSW and Qld are now online for free searching, and I think the Tasmania cd is the same as the database online too.

from the SA marriage index 1842-1916
Archibald ELLIOT married Mary Jane OPIE, 20th Aug 1862, at the Residence of Edward OPIE, Adelaide
Reference no: Ade 51/62
Both of full age, the Groom's marital status not recorded, but Mary Jane said she was single.
Fathers: Mark ELLIOT, John OPIE

So, if this is she, then she is telling fibs then? her father had to be an OPIE if she was making out she was single.

Christine

edit: or the person filling out the register just did not fill it out right.

[JJOP]

The other family name I'm trying to research is my maternal g.mother Florence Loose, an interesting lady!( this one did tell fibs!!) All I have is my mother's birth certificate (born 3/11/1912), naming parents as Florence Loose 22yrs from Brancaster Strathe(which is in England) and Arthur Spencer Harvey(alias Harvie, alias de Harvie), 34yrs from Nelson N.Z., married 1911. I have no info on where they married, or when she died. My mother(died Feb 2001) always said that her mother died when she (mum that is) was 16, which would have been around 1928/29. There apparently is no record at registrar of bmd under the name Harvey, but I didn't think to check under maiden name, or the name of a defacto, Back. Can you help?