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From: "Kylie Hoschke" <>
Subject: Re: [NORCO] Austral Eden
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:35:21 +1000
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Hi Christine,

My husbands family is also decended through Thomas Smith and Mary Birdsill's
daughter Isabella Smith, who married an Argent. I have little to no info on
these families, having only just started researching them after my
father-in-law had me email a picture to a Joan Ainsworth (possibly yours!)
I'm keen to share what I do have, and also swap information. I'm situated at
Coffs Harbour.

Cheers,

-:¦:-..· ´¨¨)) -:¦:-
¸.·´ .·´¨¨))
((¸¸.·´ ..·´ Kylie -:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.·´*

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not
even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Kahlil Gibran


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Read" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [NORCO] Austral Eden


> Hi Peter
>
> I am a descendant of Thomas and Mary Harriet Birdsell from their
> daughter Charlotte. My mother (a Ainsworth) and I have done some
> research on the couple and there family.
>
> Love to swap stories
>
> Christine Read
>
> Peter Peterson wrote:
>> Hi Lorraine
>>
>> Your mention of Austral Eden caught my attention. The families I am
>> researching (for my wife) (Ballard, Argent and connections) have links
>> with Thomas Smith (ticket of leave) and his wife Mary Harriet Birdsell.
>> The last three of their children (Isabel 1855, Kenneth 1857, and Agnes
>> 1861) were born at Austral Eden and the two girls married Argent boys.
>> As far as I can determine, the families all headed north to Argents Hill
>> on the Nambucca in the early 1870s.
>> Do you happen to have any information about the Smiths, or Argents
>> (assuming they happened to be in the area for at least a while) or
>> perhaps Ainsworth (since two of the Smith children married Ainsworth
>> cousins)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Peter Peterson
>> Newcastle, NSW
>>
>>
>>>>> Lorraine Stacker <> 24/06/2007 5:59
>>>>>
>> pm >>>
>> Hi Ellen
>>
>> In my research on Austral Eden tenant farmers on the Macleay River at
>> Kempsey, I have a family Thomas and Sophia Jeffery. Thomas died in 1862
>> and
>> Sophia married Owen McGearey in 1863 at Kempsey. The details he gave at
>> the
>> time of his marriage were: he was a batchelor, born in North America,
>> aged
>> 30, a farmer, his parents: Catherine McCauley and John McGearey
>> (farmer).
>> This marriage did not last long and they separated. Owen was still in
>> the
>> Macleay district in the early 1870s.
>>
>> Is this Owen the same as yours?
>>
>> Hope this is useful
>>
>> Lorraine Saul Stacker
>> Emu Plains, NSW
>>
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>> Subject: AUS-NSW-NORCO Digest, Vol 2, Issue 104
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>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. McGEAREY Bellingen- help! Help! (Ellen McNally)
>> 2. McGEAREY Bellingen- help! Help! (Ellen McNally)
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:04:14 +1000 (EST)
>> From: Ellen McNally <>
>> Subject: [NORCO] McGEAREY Bellingen- help! Help!
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>>
>> Hiya list,
>>
>> Looking for someone in the know.... I know there are a few distant
>> relatives
>> of mine belonging to this and hoping someone can shed some light for
>> me.
>>
>> I have Margaret McGearey dying in Bellingen in 1969 at the ripe old old
>> age
>> of 96. I would've presumed that she was the daughter or granddaughter
>> of
>> Owen McGearey and his wife Bridget. However looking at her death
>> records it
>> would appear that her parents were Alexander McGearey and his wife
>> Mary. I
>> can find one other possible sibling who was Janet Margaret who died in
>> Bowraville in 1936.
>>
>> My question now is who were Alexander and Mary?? Could Alexander be a
>> brother to Owen McGeary (who was the son of Batholoew McGeary and
>> Alice
>> Coulter)????
>>
>> I am hoping that anyone who lived to be 96 was well known in Bellingen
>> and
>> perhaps those Bellingen-ites could assist on whether or not she is
>> related
>> at all!
>>
>> Hope this makes sense.....
>>
>> Ellen McNally
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:04:14 +1000 (EST)
>> From: Ellen McNally <>
>> Subject: [NORCO] McGEAREY Bellingen- help! Help!
>> To: ,
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>>
>> Hiya list,
>>
>> Looking for someone in the know.... I know there are a few distant
>> relatives
>> of mine belonging to this and hoping someone can shed some light for
>> me.
>>
>> I have Margaret McGearey dying in Bellingen in 1969 at the ripe old old
>> age
>> of 96. I would've presumed that she was the daughter or granddaughter
>> of
>> Owen McGearey and his wife Bridget. However looking at her death
>> records it
>> would appear that her parents were Alexander McGearey and his wife
>> Mary. I
>> can find one other possible sibling who was Janet Margaret who died in
>> Bowraville in 1936.
>>
>> My question now is who were Alexander and Mary?? Could Alexander be a
>> brother to Owen McGeary (who was the son of Batholoew McGeary and
>> Alice
>> Coulter)????
>>
>> I am hoping that anyone who lived to be 96 was well known in Bellingen
>> and
>> perhaps those Bellingen-ites could assist on whether or not she is
>> related
>> at all!
>>
>> Hope this makes sense.....
>>
>> Ellen McNally
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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