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From: "Caroline Chapman" <>
Subject: Re: [NORCO] Re Boney of Urunga
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:42:31 +1100
References: <45C9D7BC.3010605@optusnet.com.au>


I know Boneys up here in Armidale if that helps. They originally come from
the coast and have spent time at Inverell as well.

Caroline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Goopy" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:44 AM
Subject: [NORCO] Re Boney of Urunga


> Hi all,
>
> can anyone help with an address for Linda Bradbury as below? I found an
> old message in the archives which prompted me to try her address, but it
> was returned. I would love to hear from Linda, or anyone else that has
> an interest in the following.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> /Hello Linda,
>
> I'm talking a chance that this email address is still current. I've been
> looking through the archives on Root Web and noticed this entry, where
> the name, Boney, caught my attention.
>
> My family, the Catsoulis family of Urunga, had a long association with
> the Boneys. Mr. Andy Boney worked with my Dad on the railways at one
> time and he was also a good friend of my grandparents, Chrisanthe and
> Theo Catsoulis. His wife worked for my mother, Peg Catsoulis, for some
> years helping in the house as Mum was ill. I don't recall all the
> family, but there was a daughter, Margaret and a son, Kevin. Kevin was a
> very well respected footballer and could run like the wind.
>
> Mum and Dad ran the Beautizone Cafe in Urunga in the late 50's to 1960
> and they promised Kevin a chocolate malted for every try he
> scored...they made him many. What great memories this has rekindled...
> it was a pleasure to know such nice people and the memories remain,
> though I left Urunga when I was just 12. Dad still talks very fondly of
> Andy Boney in particular.
>
> Chris (nee Catsoulis)
>
>
>
>
> From:/ "Linda Bradbury" <
> <mailto:>>
> /Subject:/ Re: [AUS-Koori] Nulla Nulla Station + Talgarry Station
> /Date:/ Sun, 1 Sep 2002 08:00:25 +1000
> /References:/ <>
> <011201c24330$5e3de100$>
> <002001c24685$f06fd210$>
> <000d01c24744$0f5e9440$>
> The jigsaw is starting to take shape - re Nulla Nulla - I know this sounds
> weird - but one day recently - I sat down and a vision came into my mind
> an
> old Aboriginal woman was talking to me in her local language and all I
> understood was Nulla Nulla - I wasn't sure if she was saying it was her
> name
> or that's where she is from. I'm not a case, I was so stunned. I can still
> see her. Our family has been so scattered, that it will take me a while to
> pull it all together. This Nulla Nulla vision may be nonsense, but I felt
> the need to follow it up. Thank you to everyone who has offered help.
> I have a strong belief that our ancestors talk to us, and we must show
> them
> respect.
> By the way I met a man yesterday in Macksville named Robert Boney. The
> Boneys come from Urunga,but they are all around the place. I was teaching
> a
> girl in Goodooga who is a Boney. Anyone want any messages passed on?
> Yes, he is real!
> Linda
>
>
>
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