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marquette
20-08-10, 10:05
Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Emma Lewis Leake or Leeke or Leek, also known as Emma Lewis Smith also recorded as Emma Louisa a couple of times.

Date and place of birth
18 Feb 1824 (from the family Bible) "Monmouthshire England" (from death registration)

Names of parents
Ann Leek, father unknown (see baptism)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
POSSIBLE - 30 Mar 1840 at St James, Bristol -has the notation "illegitimate" and birthdate as 18 Feb 1824. The co-incidence would be if another Emma Lewis Leek was born on 18 Feb 1824 !

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
married George Cole, 14 July 1847, St Peters Church, Melbourne Victoria

Occupation(s) - if any
1840 - servant (in baptism register)
1843 - nursemaid

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
POSSIBLE 1841 census -18 West Mall Clifton Bristol, 18 year old not born in county living with Alice Leek, 50, boarding house keeper
1843 - arrived Melbourne Australia, per ship "Imam of Muscat" (as Emma Smith)
1847 - Merri Merri Creek, Melbourne
1860 - Gardiners Creek Melbourne

Date, place and cause of death
10 Mar 1866, Gardiners Creek Melbourne, COD post natal haemorrhage.

Date and place of burial / cremation.
12 Mar 1866, St Kilda Cemetery Melbourne

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
none

Memorial inscription - if any
none known