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Hi Gai, yes that is the William James Campbell from the war records. I contact the appropriate department some years back in Victoria Australia to be advised that William's enlisted records no longer exist which was a big disappointment as this might have given me where his parents resided. I also had the New South Wales Birth Death Marriages Register check over a 10 year period (1925-1935 as my mother had a recollection that Mary died the year the Sydney Harbour Bridge was first opened in 1932) for the death of William's mother Mary Campbell (nee Montgomery) but it draw a blank.

With William James Campbell being invalided to Tasmania I do wonder if the family lived there but my mother was quite sure they were in NSW near Sydney. So many Campbells in Tasmania.

Can anyone please help locate this family or Mary Campbell's nee Montgomery death.

Hi Kaye
when you say your search drew blanks re NSW deaths for a Mary Campbell ... were you able to eliminate these 1932 deaths shown?
3141/32 Mary E Campbell -parents Joseph & Helen at North Sydney
6610/32 Mary Campbell -James & Ann at Liverpool
8735/32 Mary Campbell - Herbert A & Ida at Gilgandra

Valerie
WAus

Hello Gai,

Yes this is my William James Campbell. Hope to find his parents in NSW or Victoria or last resort Tasmania.

Can anyone help with a known Australian researcher who I may be able to hire to find this family for me?

Thanks Kaye

In Valerie's post above I have looked into those two other Mary Campbell's with the help of the NSW Birth Deaths and Marriages and unfortunately they are not who I am looking for.

A possible death for Mary, from Trove.nla.gov.au. This article in The Biz newspaper 15.04.1932:

OBITUARY
MRS. MARY CAMPBELL
The death occurred at 11.30 a.m.
on Thursday, April 7, at the resi dence of her daughter, Mrs. 11. J. Mrs. Mary Campbell, at the age of Collins, Smithqeld-street, Fairfield, of 75 years.
The deceased lady was in her usual good health and spirits that morning, and at 10.§0 had morning tea, after which she said she would rest for awhile on bar bed. It proved to be her last rest, for at an hour later her daughter spoke to her, but there was no answer. She had passed peacefully away in her sleep.
Mrs. Campbell was born in Lon donderry, Ireland, on September 25, 1856. In 1874 she married the late
William jCampbell and tliciy, with
their infant son, landed in Australia in 1877. Shortly afterwards they went to Sydney, and from there to this district, where they. both spent the remainder of their days. The husband predeceased her by 11 years.
Deceased had a wide circle c'X friends, and will be long remembered by them for her loving Mature and many acts of kindness. She leaves a grown Up family of three boys and four daughters to imourn their loss. The sons are William (Nsw Zealand) Robert and David (Fairfield); and the daughters, Mrs. Graham (Pen rith), Mrs. Collins (Fairfield), Mrs. Walsh (Bossley Park) and Mrs. Johnson (Fairfield). William came over recently from New Zealand for the purpose of seeing his" mother, after an absence of 27 years. He left again for his home just a week previous to her death.
The remains were interred in the Independent portion of Rookwood cemetery, the funeral being largely attended by relatives and friends. Messrs. Metcalfe and Morris, Par ramatta, were the undertakers (Mr. D. T. Campbell, Fairfield, representa tive)

Vanessa, wow, that is quite something, thank you so very much, great xmas pressie for my mother to find her grandfather's parents, we have been searching for quite a number of years. I will follow this up further, it sure looks like the family, too many possibilities. Can't thank you enough.

Will have to seen what else I can find with the fantastic information you have sourced. Very grateful.

Vanessa, if you don't mind can you please send me the link to that article, I am having trouble narrowing my search down in the Biz paper. Thanks Kaye

(sorry took me a while to get back on this site, for some reason I kept getting error messages and couldn't log in, from googling others seemed to have the same problem.)

Hi Kaye

I couldn't post the link, which is why I posted the full article!

You can go onto www.trove.nla.gov.au. Click on Digitised Newspapers and more and enter Mary Campbell 1932 in the search box.

When results are displayed go to the left hand side of the screen and under the titles column click on ''more" until you see The Biz (Fairfield).

That will be the quickest way to find it - I just trawled through a few pages of the initial results and that one looked likely with the name of the husband and son being New Zealand.

Hope this helps :-D

Hello Vanessa,

Thank you very much, took me a while but eventually found it. Great website, will use it again for this family searching. :-D

This would fit the death for Willam by date given in Mary's obituary as 11 years before her, with correct parents names:

4552/1920 CAMPBELL WILLIAM / WILLIAM / MARY / KYOGLE

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, Saturday 23 July 1904
Smithfleld and Fairfield
DEPARTURES.— Messrs. Joe Delaney, William Campbell and W. Martin left by the s.s. Victoria, last week for Now Zealand. Mr. .Randall intends leaving Bossley Park shortly, to take up his residence again iin Smithlield.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1335206

(think above tied in too Cherilyn!)

Chris :)

The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 8 April 1932
CAMPBELL-The Relatives and Friends of the late MARY CAMPBELL are kindly invited to attend her Funeral to leave her daughter's (Mrs. R. J. Collins) residence Smithfield street, Fairfield ,THIS DAY (Friday), at 1.45 pm for the Independent Cemetery, Rookwood. Friends travelllng by Funeral Train alight at No 1 Platform in the cemetery. (By request no flowers).

Daughter's marriage:
8781/1907 COLLINS RICHARD J / CAMPBELL ANNIE B / SMITHFIELD

her death?
42367/1968 COLLINS ANNIE BOLTON / WILLIAM / MARY / LIVERPOOL

Can't find her birth in NSW though.

10142/1902 CAMPBELL ROBERT J / MARTIN ADA E / SMITHFIELD

Ah thanks Chris :)

(lol, you was missed!)

Chris :)

:-D i haven't been on much lately, tne boards have been pretty quiet