Warbrides

Do you need help finding out about the war bride in your family?
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If you are searching for info on Canadian women who married Australian soldiers and went to live there, check out the following sites and use key words like "war brides" +australia in order to narrow down the search results.
Canadian War Museum's Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html

Lethbridge Herald (Alberta)[Free for now but may be time limited]
http://lethbridgeherald.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
Our Future, Our Past (Alberta Newspapers)
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/

If you are searching for the marriage details of a British woman to an Australian soldier in England or Wales during WWI, check out the index at FreeBMD freebmd.rootsweb.com/. Once you find an entry that looks promising, click on the page number to see the names of the other people listed on the same page. A copy of the certificate can be ordered at the GRO in Britain at www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ Note: FreeBMD is a work in progress, check back on a regular basis if you don't find what you are searching for. There is a breakdown of what has been transcribed at freebmd.rootsweb.com/progress.shtml

My husbands grandmother Ada Cookson was born in Liverpool, England and married an Australian soldier Ernest Wickham in 1918 West Derby Lancashire. I know by Australian electorial records that she was living in Melbourne Australia in 1924.
I have found their marriage records but I have been unable to find out how or when Ada travelled to Australia.
I know Ernest returned to Australia January 1919 on the hospital transport ship "Demosthenes".
Can anyone help me find out how & when Ada travelled to Australia?

Just found this list on the NLA website....may be of interest to someone.

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/27614094?searchTerm=%22holowell%22+AND+%28zealandic%29

It lists 13-8 1919 arrivals of warbrides/fiancess on the Zealandic in WA

i a'm looking for information on a war bride who married a george o'donnell sr and came to america and lived in wolverine mi

I am looking for any information on Linda Kate Lapham. She married Frank Wilcomes in Sommerset England & came to Australia about 1920. travelling with her infant son Reginald. We are trying to establish when they left England, from which PORT & THE NAME OF THE SHIP.