Vasile (Basil) Teodorescu

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Vasile is the brother of August, Smaranda, Traian and Eleonora.  He was born in about 1853-1857 in Galati, to parents Gheorghe Teodorescu and Zoia Stanciu.

Similar to the other Teodorescu siblings, I do not have his birth record. 

There are lots of differing family stories about Vasile in Romania.  Some stories say he was an accountant, some say he wanted to take on a religious ministry role.  Others say he studied at the British Merchant Marine and then worked for an unnamed uncle who owned a large shipping company, and that Vasile travelled to the USA and UK. 

It is likely that Vasile travelled from England to Australia on the Ship Fitzroy, which arrived on 30 June 1882.  He married just six months later, and changed his name to Basil Theodore.  (I have a copy of his marriage record but have been unable to find his immigration records).

I have also been told that Vasile wrote letters from Australia that were published in the Galati newspaper called the "Poșta" in the late 1800s and early 1900s but I have been unable to find these newspaper articles. 

Vasile/ Basil was only in his early 50s when he died in 1908 in Australia. 

I am hoping to find Vasile's birth record and other records that prove his early life in Romania, as well as any of the Romanian newspaper articles that he contributed to.