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From: "John Johnson" <>
Subject: Dorothy's Gleanings
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:31:51 +1000

BRANCHING OUT Whitsunday FHG Inc June 2001- 1906, People Who Bought
Mining Rights in Bowen: Pedigree Chart of Frederick Richard BIDDULPH of
Cannonvale: George Henry EVANS b Usk, Monmouthshire m Annie WATKINS 1882
in Monmouthshire. George died 1924 at Rockhampton.


ROSES & THORNS Benalla & Dist FHG Inc No 40 June 2001- FEDERATION
YEAR -1901 May Celebrations reported from Benalla, Mansfield, Violet
Town, Broken Creek, Baddaginnie, Dookie, Glenrowan, Lima, Ryan's Creek,
Thoona: The Royal Visit: Victoria Mounted Rifles -some names of the VMR
of the area.

TAMWORTH FAMILY HISTORIAN Tamworth & Dist FHG Inc - Frederick HARVEY and
wife Alice Ann HARVEY (nee GRANTHAM) arrived as bounty passengers on the
Duchess of Northumberland in 1838- other names in the article by Anne
Ware include WATSON and TANNER The Origins of Some Street Names in
Tamworth: The Story of an Irishman's Epitaph by C K Thompson (True
Detective) Michael RYAN of Thornback, County Kilkenny was tried for
murder and given a life sentence to Australia. He died 1859 and is
buried at East Maitland Cemetery (a most unusual (epitaph). Doreen Vial,
C/- PO Box 1188 Tamworth NSW 2340 is asking if anyone knows the outcome
or has knowledge of persons mentioned in this story, then she would like
to hear from you (but first you will need to read the above Magazine).

MAITLAND REMINESCENCES Maitland Family Circle Inc Vol 3 No 2 June 2001-
Cover Story The JEANS Family (from Dorset, England): Life in the 1500s:
Atherton Tablelands (Nth Qld) to Brisbane by train in 1950.

TREE OF LIFE Wyong FHG Inc Vol 17 No 2 June 2001 - First Settlers - The
CAPE FAMILY (names here): Edward Hamilton STINSON: FIELD FAMILY
GATHERING Sunday 13 October at the Melrose Hall, Emu Plains NSW at
10am - connections include- MITCHELL, PERRY, COLLITE, STRICKLAND, LEES,
ROPE, RANDALL, CALLAGHAN, McMAHON, HIGGINS, HOWARD. For further
information & names of either the two persons to contact, please read
the above magazine.

TIMESPAN Nepean FHS Inc No 83 June 2001- The Wreck of the BRITON Pt 1:
German Research Resource with maps: Clergy and Ministers of Religion,
NSW 1858: Church of England, Roman Catholic, Church of Scotland (synod
of Australia), Presbyterian (synod of Australia), United Presbyterian,
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Primitive Methodist Church, Christian
Israelite Church - Name, Registry, District, Residence from Government
Gazette 1858

THE VALLEY GENEALOGIST Bega Valley GS Inc Vol 14 No 2 June 2001-
FEDERATION CELEBRATIONS in Pambula 1901: The Last of the Lights of COBB
& Co: The BRADMAN Connection by Pat Raymond: 'Some corner of a foreign
field' - found a war memorial in Southern Cemetery Manchester. There is
a photo of the 14 Australian graves and all have transcriptions - the
writer of the article Joan Stock also has 7 photos 3 are close-ups of
the graves for Pts. FERGUSON, DOWSON and McLEOD. The others mentioned
are WILLIAMS (2), MANNIX, FLAXMORE, MERWIN, OUTRAM, LOWE, GIBSON,
TREGURTTVA (?), SULLIVAN.

Journal of WINGHAM (NSW) FHG Inc No's 9,10,11 2001- this is new to the
library. No 9 features With the SLINNS and ARUNDELS En-route to New
Zealand: Family Links between the Two Presidents ROOSEVELT.

No 10 - JOHN SKINNER b Bulli, NSW m MARIA LATTIMORE: Women and the Right
to Vote in Australia: QUEEN MARY and Morganatic Marriages. No 11-
Shipping, February 1862: Wingham Public School, Fourth Class 1952 (good
photo with names): Electoral Reform from the Australian Electoral
Office.

PRACTICAL FAMILY HISTORY No 41 May 2001 - Adoptions- The first is Tragic
family are "adopted" is about the CURRAN and ROWBOTHAM family by Kathy
Stott the second story is entitled A lucky find by Wendy Mooney with the
names CRAWLEY and LAWRENCE: World War 1 sources for research Pt 2 by
Paul Blake Enemy prisoners of war and the internment of "aliens" with a
list of some German civilians: Revolutionizing access to UK
universities' archives - the article tells us that a national service
that will release a wealth of information held in the archives and
special collections of the UK's universities and colleges was released
on 13 March 2001 at the historic John Rylands Library in Manchester. The
Archives Hub provides a single website enquiry point for the higher
education community and beyond, enabling users to source unique
material, which would otherwise be hidden away. It forms the newly
emerging National Archives Network. The site is accessible to all, free
of charge www.archi!
veshub.ac.uk

THE SCOTTISH GENEALOGIST Vol XLV111 No 2 June 2001- 1861 Census Perth-
Boys and Girls Schools of Industry in King James the Sixth Hospital
Parish of West Church Perth - compiled by Marjorie Stewart FSA Sct:
Finding Fife Forefathers by Joan Dodgin.


For those interested, there is a STRAYS PROJECT at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/beharu/strays_project.htm


The following have been added to Cumberland: - Lancashire, Durham,
Northumberland, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland and Wales with more to come
subject to demand. The main URL for the site is now
www.county-surnames.co.uk/index.mv

Ireland - Tipperary and Limerick Church records, Baptisms and Marriages
1,500 records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/


Cornwall Genealogy Links http://www.100megsfree.com/gen/crn.html

Middlesex, Lancashire, Kent, Essex, and Surrey. 1851 census indexes
http://rontay.digiweb.com

Portuguese Resources http://www.maui.net/~makule/port.html

Portuguese Libraries, Archives and Documentation Services on the
Internet http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/bad/bibpte.htm

Spain, Portugal & the Basque Country http://www.cyndislist.com/spain.htm


Hoping there is something of interest for you with this lot of Gleanings

Dorothy

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