Thomas Everard- another Man of Mystery!

Thomas Everard is the mystery man of the Everard family. Above is his birth certificate which proved he existed, but he left no tracks in his life that I can pick up...no marriage, no children, no death. Not even information on his parent's death certificates can agree on when Thomas Everard died...The 1895 death certificate of his father John Everard states that Thomas had pre-deceased him, yet when his mother died in 1908 the informant stated that Jane Everard's son Thomas was 48 years old!

I have not been able to find Tom in any electoral roll, nor in the National Library of Australia newspaper index. I have one single tiny lead that I am about to pursue....I found a death in the Queensland death index for a Thomas EVERETT, who died on November 7, 1911, the son of John Everett and Jane Saunders. Everett is one of the common misspellings for 'Everard', just as 'Saunders' has often mistakenly been substituted in records for 'Sanders'.

The Brisbane Courier of January 25, 1912, published a notice pertaining to the administration of several estates, including the estate of Thomas Everett, late of Bendena Station, Cunnamulla, labourer.

Queensland marriage records had an entry for a Thomas Everett marrying Margaret Abrahams in 1882, and a child, Annie Margaret, being born in 1883(she subsequently died in the same year). Margaret Everett died in 1945, the daughter of Henry Abrahams and Mary Williams.

I have no idea if any of these people relate to my Thomas Everard...I will have to apply for the death certificate of Thomas Everett and hope for the best.

BINGO!!!!! UPDATE ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS EVERARD.

I finally got around to downloading the death certificate of the Thomas Everett who died in Queensland in 1911, and sure enough it was a match. Our Tom was mistakenly recorded as "Everett", and his mother's name was recorded as 'Saunders' rather than 'Sanders', but without a doubt he is "ours".