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Hi Danielle, The Brisbane Council cemetery records (on-line) has one 'Patricia May Wallace' d age 77yrs 2007. You could ask Brisbane Council for more details - even who paid for the funeral etc. Aus National Archives has 'Ronald Stanley Bates b 5/10/22 Adelaide enlisted Glenelg SA n.o.k.Patricia. All State Libraries have an 'Ask a Librarian' service - (query forms on-line) they will check their records - electoral rolls etc. Suggest you firstly check SA State Library for her FULL name on elect.roll when she's Ronald Bates wife. .......The QLD State Library can then check her from the date she's 'missing' from SA. and from when she's later Walter Wallace's wife. ......Valerie

Done thanks Reg.

You would probably benefit from adding 'Australia' to your title..........people with appropriate resources would pick up on it...........

Reg

Hello Again
Well i have made a little progress since my last post and would greatly appreciate if someone could check any S.A, or W.A records for me please. Patricia Bernadine O'Callaghan (born c1922 in South Australia, middle name Bernadine is in quesiton, as it may have been her 'confirmation' name) was living at Unley Road in 1941 with a John O'Callaghan (not sure of John's relationship to Patricia). She was a young unmarried woman when she gave her son John Michael O'Callaghan up for adoption in Rose Park Norwood in 1941. In the 1952 Electoral Role John O'Callaghan is still living at the Unley Road address with a John Michael O'Callaghan but no sign of Patricia, they remain there until 1961.

I have found a cousin of a Patricia Eileene O'Callaghan and they say she married a Ronald Stanley Bates in South Australia, and was believed to have been pregnant during WW2, I wonder if someone can find this marriage for me. This cousin thinks there is a good chance that her cousin Pat is the same person as the Patricia Bernadene I am looking for, even though they have different middle names. Patricia and Ron moved to W.A, NSW and then to QLD where Patricia remarried to W. Wallace. She is the daughter of Michael and Nellie and was born in 1923. So basically I have a whole heap of 'speculation' and only a few facts:

FACT: Patricia 'Bernadene" O'Callaghan born c1922 in South Australia, is age 19, unmarried in 1941, has a son John Michael O'Callaghan b. Nov 1941 in Rose Park Norwood, gives the child up for adoption.

In 1941 at her same address is a John O'Callaghan living with her.

In 1952 there is a John Michael and John O'Callaghan at this address, no Patricia.

SPECULATION:

There is a Patricia Eileen O'Callaghan born 1923 dau of Michael and Nellie O'Callaghan.

Believed to have been pregnant in 1941 though denied it to family memebers. Never did have children.

Married Ronald Bates and then later Walter Wallace in Gold Coast QLD. Died aft 1995 in QLD.

Not sure what records are available to be searched but any advice/assistance is greatly appreciated.

Danielle