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Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 14 Send Message	Trish	Report	14 Dec 2008 01:13
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 14 Send Message	I discovered that my grandfather had married twice and had a daughter Lily Fawkner born 1872 some where in M.A or Maine. She came to Sydney app 1890 and in 1892 in Sydney gave birth to a daughter Elsie Madaline. Fawkner. For years I tried to find what happen to the baby put into a home when 9 months. I had found a list of people the child was fostered out too over many years. By searching the probate will of the woman who was the last to die I found that Elsie 3 days after being left at the Orphanage in Bathurst NSW was baptised as Elsie Madeline Trim.Parents George Trim and Jane Turner. Jane died in 1899 and little Elsie returned to the Home.Then a Mrs Jessie Mc Lennan took Elsie and in her will also adopted Elsie Trim. So then I discovered that Elsie had married a Norman Colless. There was a Colless family on Genes with a Jessie Colless. So I contacted this man and asked if Jessie Colless could be my Elsie . He remembered her as the wife of his mothers brother Norman Colless. She died in 1980 so if I had started the search earlier I may have had the cahnce to meet Elsie Madeline Fawkner