[Peter Libra]

The connection between 'The Articled Law Clerks Society of Victoria'- E F Lavender- Melbourne University Law Review...

What might that suggest to you?

I will have to do further research on that aspect. In the meantime I tried to identify the original E.F. Lavender. I used Ancestry.com . Now it is pretty much hit and miss without a first name. On Genes Reunited, another subscription based site, I see somebody searching an Elijah Lavender of Victoria, Australia, born 1885. Now when E.F. Lavender offered his services for the "War Census" as a law clerk,(Australian newspaper 1915), he would have been born well before the turn of the last century. In 1961, he could just about have been still active in employment. Unlikely though.

I would presume the G.F. Lavender on the Bomford birth certificate, would be another Lavender. Certainly in the line of bureaucratic employment. Then there is the question of the usual and known mistakes in transcribing things, which I well know. It is a minefield, but to use an old country saying:

Press on regardless. (chuckle).

[hoosiermama]

Try Edward F. Lavender....I think we found something that would have made him working at the age of late 60s that would be consistant. Military date 1915 ish

[Fred Nerks]

“PRESS ON REGARDLESS!”

E. J. Lavender. Document from 1990.

http://www.landservices.sa.gov.au/5Publications/Notice_to_Lodging_Parties/_filespre1996/No_069-New_Document_Delivery_System.PDF

Note: Two images:

Heads Up - Multiple COLBS Warning [someone swapped out the Kenya BC AFTER it was posted]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308435/posts?page=59#59

[Fred Nerks]

...I see somebody searching an Elijah Lavender of Victoria, Australia, born 1885. Now when E.F. Lavender offered his services for the "War Census" as a law clerk,(Australian newspaper 1915), he would have been born well before the turn of the last century. In 1961, he could just about have been still active in employment. Unlikely though...

this E.F. Lavender would have been aged 30 in 1915...the Bomford birth in 1959 would have him aged 74 years of age. Not impossible?