Today's post involves my great great grandparents Edward Joseph Battye and his wife Ellen Mary nee Pierse. The couple were married in Gundagai on the 27th April 1885 but had separated by about 1898. Ellen died in Gundagai in 1944, while Edward's fate is thus far unknown. Source: POLICE COURT. (1900, December 4). The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW : 1868 - 1931), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125513833 Transcript: POLICE COURT. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. Before Mr. Clarke, P.M. ELLEN BATTYE vs Edward Joseph Battye, wife desertion and child desertion. Mr. Crowe for plaintiff. Defendant did not appear. Mr. Crowe said defendant had admitted service of summons, and had agreed to pay £1 per week. The P.M. said he could not proceed with the case, as the constable who served the summons was absent. The constable had gone to West Maitland, and the case would be postpone...
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