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From: "Denise" <>
Subject: Re: [AVNE] Death - Ann Gedge
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:38:10 +1000
References: <MCBBKGGAFCNLAJONJIENCEJHCKAA.annehanson@hotkey.net.au>


Maybe she changed her name - perhaps embarrassed?
D
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Hanson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: RE: [AVNE] Death - Ann Gedge


> Denise,
>
> Guess what - David Baleham GEDGE and his wife Ann (nee BROOKMAN) were the
> parents of the David GEDGE who was judiciously executed (charming phrase
> isn't it). It's a long story which I won't go into now except to say I
> have
> been researching David GEDGE and his two fellow accused Elizabeth SCOTT
> and
> Julian CROSS for more years than I care to think about. I am writing a
> book
> about the case. They were all charged and found guilty of murdering
> Elizabeth's husband, Robert SCOTT at Devil's River. It's a very sad tale.
>
> I'm attempting to locate a photograph of David GEDGE, hence am tracing all
> sorts of relatives etc.
>
> Ann GEDGE seems to have disappeared sometime after 1863. Her husband,
> David
> Baleham GEDGE died in Richmond, Vic. in 1894.
>
> I think I've checked the Vic. divorce index but may be I should check
> again.
>
> Many thanks for your interest.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Anne Hanson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denise [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, 24 April 2005 5:50 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [AVNE] Death - Ann Gedge
>
>
> Anne, David Gedge was judiciously hung in Melbourne's H M Goal in 1862 he
> was a groom and 19 years of age.
> Going by the age and date of marriage, I guess it can't be your man unless
> the Inquest age was transcribed incorrectly.
> Any chance Ann could have remarried?
> Denise
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I and others have searched high and low for a death entry for an Ann
>> GEDGE
>> (nee BROOKMAN) b. England, possibly Middlesex county, 1813/1814 -
>> father's
>> name Henry and she married David Baleham GEDGE, London in 1841.
>>
>> Ann was still alive and living near Buninyong, Vic. in 1863. I would be
>> most
>> grateful if someone came up with her death entry. I should mention Ann
>> had
>> 7
>> children betw. 1843 and 1858 - David, William Benjamin, George, Sarah
>> Ann,
>> James Robert, Joseph and Catherine Jane (born in 1858, Durham Lead, Vic.)
>

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