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Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

Jurisdiction
Victoria
Registering authority
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria
Record type
mixed
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index
my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au ↗ retrieved 2026-09-04 Added manually

Browser-only (form ignores scripted values; type into fields). Windows: births 100 years, marriages 60, deaths 30. Result columns: Family name | Given name(s) | Event | Mother's name / Spouse's name | Mother's family name at birth | Father's name | Place of birth | Place of death | Spouse at Death | Age at Death | Reg. year | Reg. number.

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Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 3177/1861 · Year 1861 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Richard Thomas Cridland & Bridget Holohan

CRIDLAND | Cath | Birth | <Unknown Family Name>, Bridget | HOLOHAN | <Unknown Family Name>, Richard Thomas | WINCHELSEA | 1861 | 3177/1861

Names both parents — Richard Thomas Cridland and Bridget Holohan — proving the child link in this family.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 15452/1959 · Year 1959 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Antonino Santospirito & Giuseppina Lazzaro

SANTOSPIRITO | Antonio | Death | <Unknown Family Name>, Giuseppa | LAZZARO | <Unknown Family Name>, SANTOSPIRITO Antonio | BRIGHTON BEACH | <Unknown Family Name> | 67 | 1959 | 15452/1959

Names his parents Antonio Santospirito and Giuseppa Lazzaro — evidence for the child link in this family (#60153 × #60164).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 2669/1868 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For James Patrick Vesey & Mary Jane Fields

FIELD | Mary Jane | Marriage | VESEY, James | 1868 | 2669/1868

Victorian BDM marriage index (source 1719, VIC-BDM-3.md); marriage rows in this capture carry fewer columns than death rows (Family name | Given name(s) | Event | Spouse family+given | Reg. year | Reg. number), quoted in that order. Matches family 32525 (James Patrick Vesey x Mary Jane Fields) by both given names; 'Field' vs 'Fields' is a one-letter spelling variant, not a different person. First primary citation for this marriage.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For John Hammer & Ellen Ballinger

HAMMER, Jno Jos [John Joseph], Death, Mother: Ellen BALLINGER, Father: Hammer Jno, Place: Preston, Age at Death: 42, Reg. year 1909, Reg. number 10242/1909.

Both records name the father as 'Hammer Jno' (John Hammer), but the mothers differ - Elizabeth Cock/Cox for Joseph Hammer Sr, versus Ellen Ballinger here. Since John Hammer Sr (Joseph's father, already in the tree) is recorded as dying in 1861, he cannot be the father of a man born abt.1867 (implied by age 42 at death in 1909) - so this is almost certainly a different, unconnected John Hammer, not John Hammer Sr under a second marriage. Added as a standalone family per Helen's standing instruction to include everyone even without a confirmed link, since the shared father's name and Victorian location could still indicate a more distant relationship (e.g. a cousin also named John Hammer) worth investigating later.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For John Richard Hammer & Elizabeth Yeadon Busfield

Ada Hammer, mother Elizabeth Yeadon Busfield, father John Richard, Ballarat East, 2 days old, d.1895, reg.7999/1895. Jno Hammer, mother Elizabeth Busfield, father John Richard, Ballarat East, 1 day old, d.1896, reg.4712/1896.
Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For William Hammer & Elizabeth Jane Treloar

Children of William Hammer and Elizabeth/Eliza Jane Treloar (Ballarat/Stawell/Pleasant Creek, 1872-1882): Maria Alfred[a] (9 months, d.1872, reg.8581/1872), Jane Frances (8 months, d.1878, reg.12235/1878), Albert Henry Treloar (3 months, d.1881, reg.5516/1881), Ernest Varcoe (4 months, d.1881, reg.5541/1881), Jane Frances (5 months, d.1882, reg.13442/1882 - a second daughter given the same name after the first died), John (age 11, d.1882, reg.7152/1882).

UNCERTAIN whether this William is Richard Hammer Sr's son William (1846-1896, added bare with no spouse in proposal #806) - the birth year matches exactly and the family's known Ballarat/Stawell/Pleasant Creek locations fit, but nothing here directly confirms it beyond the coincidence. Two (Albert Henry Treloar and Ernest Varcoe, both dying within days of each other in 1881 at 3-4 months old) may well be twins.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Henry Hammer & Emma Grange

Children of Henry Hammer and Emma Grange (recorded once as 'Grangey', Eaglehawk, Victoria): Jane (age 3, d.1876, reg.1383/1876), William (age 26, d.1877, reg.10791/1877, implying birth abt.1851), James (age 23, d.1878, reg.11825/1878, implying birth abt.1855).

This is the previously-bare 'Henry Hammer (1800)' - one of John Hamer and Loveday Clemo's children (the 'great-aunts/uncles' generation flagged as needing detail since early in this project), now given a wife and three children found via Victorian BDM.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Phillip Henry Hammer & Elizabeth Jane Luke

Phillip Hammer, mother Maria Tonkin, father Richard, Ballarat East, age 47, d.1893, reg.4716/1893. Lavinia Jane Hammer, mother Elizabeth Jane Luke, father Philip, Ballarat, 8 months old, d.1875, reg.220/1875. Albert Ernest Hammer, mother Elizabeth Jane Luke, father Philip, Stawell, age 4, d.1882, reg.7142/1882. Elizth Jane Hammer, mother Maria Tonkin [sic - likely a clerical error naming the grandmother rather than the actual mother, Elizabeth Jane Luke], father Philip, Stawell, 6 months old, d.1880, reg.2273/1880. Roda Maria Hammer, mother Elizth Jane Luke, father Phillip Hy, Ballarat Hospital, age 13, d.1898, reg.5735/1898.

CORRECTIONS to proposal #813's 'phillip_sr' record: his own death record gives age 47 in 1893, implying birth abt.1846 - not abt.1850 as previously estimated. His death place is Ballarat East, Victoria - not St Austell, Cornwall, which was mistakenly carried over from his birthplace in #813.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Secondary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Alfred Hammer & Mary Jane Evans

Chas Gordon Hammer, mother Mary Jane Evans, father Alfred, Eaglehawk, 5 months old, d.1895, reg.13026/1895.

Given name 'Evans' appears - a surname that keeps recurring near this family (the WA McLachlan-Hammer connections) but nothing here confirms any link; treated as coincidence.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 9336/1925 · Year 1925 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Wilton Edgar Trompf & Ida Margaret Benallack

BENALLACK | Ida Margt | Marriage | TROMPF, Milton Edgar | 1925 | 9336/1925 || TROMPF | Milton Edgar | Marriage | BENALLACK, Ida Margt | 1925 | 9336/1925

Same Victorian BDM index row as the MARR event citation, filed on the family per convention of citing both family.startDate and the MARR event.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 5468/1932 · Year 1932 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Percival Albert Trompf & Vera Johns

JOHNS | Vera | Marriage | TROMPF, Percival Albt | | | | | | | 1932 | 5468/1932 || TROMPF | Percival Albt | Marriage | JOHNS, Vera | | | | | | | 1932 | 5468/1932

Victorian historical BDM index result rows (source 1719), read from both spouses' own entries for the same registration, columns: Family name | Given name(s) | Event | Spouse's name | (blank result-table columns) | Reg. year | Reg. number. Confirms the family's already-recorded startDate 1932. Read in the owner's signed-in Chrome 2026-09-17/18 (chrome-answers/U018.md request 1).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 4685/1915 · Year 1915 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For George Percival Trompf & Margaret Ann Criglington

CRIGLINGTON | Margt Ann | Marriage | TROMPF, George Percival | | | | | | | 1915 | 4685/1915 || GRIGLINGTON | Margt Ann | Marriage | TROMPF, Geo Percival | | | | | | | 1915 | 4685/1915 || TROMPF | George Percival | Marriage | CRIGLINGTON, Margt Ann | | | | | | | 1915 | 4685/1915 || TROMPF | Geo Percival | Marriage | GRIGLINGTON, Margt Ann | | | | | | | 1915 | 4685/1915

Victorian historical BDM index: this registration is indexed under BOTH bride surname spellings, Criglington and Griglington, same reg. no. -- an attested spelling variant (name.create aka added), not a correction. Confirms the family's already-recorded startDate 1915. Read in Chrome 2026-09-17/18 (request 2).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 4306/1917 · Year 1917 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Harold Egbert Trompf & Elsie Jane Mitchell

MITCHELL | Elsie Jane | Marriage | TROMPF, Harold Egbert | | | | | | | 1917 | 4306/1917 || TROMPF | Harold Egbert | Marriage | MITCHELL, Elsie Jane | | | | | | | 1917 | 4306/1917

Victorian historical BDM index, both spouses' own rows for the same registration. Confirms the family's already-recorded startDate 1917. Read in Chrome 2026-09-17/18 (request 3).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 2584/1925 · Year 1925 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Howard Leslie Trompf & Dulcie May Darby

DARBY | Dulcie Mary | Marriage | TROMPF, Howard Leslie | | | | | | | 1925 | 2584/1925 || TROMPF | Howard | Marriage | DARBY, Dulcie May | | | | | | | 1925 | 2584/1925

Victorian historical BDM index. The SAME registration spells the bride's middle name two ways depending which spouse's row is read -- her own row 'Dulcie Mary', his row 'Dulcie May' -- both quoted verbatim; 'Mary' added as a name.create aka. His row also drops his middle name to bare 'Howard' (an index abbreviation, not treated as a variant -- 'Leslie' is independently attested, e.g. the 1945 death notice already cited on this family). Confirms the family's already-recorded startDate 1925. Read in Chrome 2026-09-17/18 (request 4).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 11842/1926 · Year 1926 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Albert Edward Trompf & Janet Eleanor Elizabeth Tait

TAIT | Janet Eleanor Elizth | Marriage | TROMPF, Albt Edw | | | | | | | 1926 | 11842/1926 || TROMPF | Albt Edward | Marriage | TATE, Janet Eleanor E | | | | | | | 1926 | 11842/1926

Victorian historical BDM index: this registration is indexed under both bride surname spellings, Tait and Tate, same reg. no. -- an attested spelling variant (name.create aka added). Confirms the family's already-recorded startDate 1926. Read in Chrome 2026-09-17/18 (request 5).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 5935/1936 · Year 1936 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Alfred Reginald Cleasby & Olive Jessie Fox

CLEASBY | Alfd Regd | Marriage | FOX, Olive Jessie | 1936 | 5935/1936

Index row (Family name | Given | Event | Spouse | Reg. year | Reg. number). The reverse row reads 'FOX | Olive Jessie | Marriage | CLEASBY, Alfd Reginald | 1936 | 5935/1936'.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 4373/1887 · Year 1887 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Alfred George Cleasby & Elizabeth Crowe

CLEASBY | Alfred George | Marriage | CROWE, Elizabeth | 1887 | 4373/1887

Other children of this couple in the index (not created here): Alfred Norman b. 1891 Carlton (d. 1892 Preston, 5 months), Margaret Irene b. 1893 Preston, Edgar George Victor b. 1895 Hastings/Tyabb (d. 1913 Preston, 18), Warwick Alexander b. 1898 South Melbourne (d. 1928 Heidelberg, 29), Eva Mary b. 1899 (d. 1899, 3 months), Doris Gwendoline b. 1902 Carlton (d. 1967 Fitzroy).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 26588/1912 · Year 1912 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Ernest Samuel Fox & Ella May Carter

FOX | Jessie Olive | Birth | <Unknown Family Name>, Ella May | CARTER | <Unknown Family Name>, Ernt Saml | BENDIGO | 1912 | 26588/1912

Parents' names from their daughter's birth registration only; their marriage was not searched (union type left unknown).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 3669/1912 · Year 1912 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Ernest Samuel Fox & Ella May Carter

FOX | Ernt Saml | Marriage | CARTER, Ella May | 1912 | 3669/1912

Row retrieved by the orchestrator in Chrome 2026-09-04 (Family name | Given | Event | Spouse | Reg. year | Reg. number). Reverse row: 'CARTER | Ella May | Marriage | FOX, Ernt Saml | 1912 | 3669/1912'. The Bendigo Ernest Fox marrying an Ella Carter is the discriminator required for this common surname.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 1604/1888 · Year 1888 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Mary Ann Brown

KEOGH | Mary | Birth | <Unknown Family Name>, Mary Ann | BROWN | <Unknown Family Name>, U | C'MAINE | 1888 | 1604/1888

The birth registration names Mary Ann Brown as mother and no father — the evidence for this mother-only family.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 2780/1927 · Year 1927 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Warwick Alexander Cleasby & Jessie Irene Doutch

CLEASBY | Warwick Alex | Marriage | DOUTCH, Jessie Irene | 1927 | 2780/1927

Index row (Family name | Given | Event | Spouse | Reg. year | Reg. number); retrieved by the orchestrator in Chrome 2026-09-04.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 14030/1945 · Year 1945 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Edward J Fichlie & Doris Gwendoline Cleasby

CLEASBY | Doris | Marriage | FICHLIE, Edw "j" | 1945 | 14030/1945

Index row (Family name | Given | Event | Spouse | Reg. year | Reg. number); retrieved by the orchestrator in Chrome 2026-09-04. The reverse row reads 'FICHLIE | Edward J | Marriage | CLEASBY, Doris | 1945 | 14030/1945'. Identified with this Doris by the 1967 death row indexed under CLEASBY with these parents (the only Doris Cleasby in the index).

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 1702/1859 · Year 1859 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Isaac Johnson Cleasby & Margaret Buckley

BUCKLEY | Margaret | Marriage | CLEASBY, Isaac | 1859 | 1702/1859

Index row (Family name | Given | Event | Spouse | Reg. year | Reg. number). Reverse row: CLEASBY | Isaac | Marriage | BUCKLEY, Margaret | 1859 | 1702/1859. Retrieved in Chrome by the orchestrator 2026-09-04.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 4110/1880 · Year 1880 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Wenzel Grenenger & Jane Sarah Finch

FINCH | Jane Sarah | Marriage | GRENENGER, Winzel | | | | | | | 1880 | 4110/1880

The bride-side row of the same registration, quoted in the index's column order. Cited on the family because it is the record that makes this union a marriage: my earlier proposal 2195 argued for unionType 'married' from the words 'relict of Wenzel Grenenger', the monument's 'WIFE OF THE ABOVE' and the 1911 funeral notice from 'Mrs. W. GRENENGER', and noted that no registration had been found. It had been found now — in the wrong colony. It also confirms her maiden surname independently of her death notice and the cemetery index.

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index Registration No 21889/1864 · Year 1864 Primary

Victorian historical birth, death and marriage index · Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

For Henry Cole & Harriet Jane Meaker

COLE | Lucy Jane | Birth | <Unknown Family Name>, Harriet Jane | MEAKER | <Unknown Family Name>, Henry | GEEL | | | | 1864 | 21889/1864

Their daughter's birth registration, the record that names them both. No dates are asserted for either of them: a Victorian search on MEAKER (and M*k*r) with Harriet returns nothing at all, and no Cole birth with the mother's maiden name Meaker exists other than this one, so the couple married and had their other children outside Victoria — probably New South Wales, since the family is at Eden and Pambula later. unionType is 'unknown' because no marriage record has been found. Harriet Jane's surname is the index's own 'Mother's family name at birth' column, so it is her maiden name, not a guess.