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From: Kristy Willoughby <>
Subject: Re: [NORCO] Nimbin History- Info
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:09:45 +1000
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Hi Marg, Thanks for the input, but your looking at the wrong Richard Collier. My Richard was a convict ,came out on the Royal Admiral, and is a legend in my family for his sheer awfulness! The family settled in Surry Hills Sydney and Richard spent most of his time in Darlinghurst goal for abandoning his children, drunkeness etc. His wife Elizabeth Martin was born in 1836 in Tasmania, daughter of George Martin and Ann Burnside.George Martin died in Tasmania in 1846 and I can find no record of what happened to Ann. Ann was born at Windsor NSW in 1819, daughter of Ambrose Burnside and his wife Sarah. In 1834 Ann was tried and convicted of "highway robbery " and transported to Tasmania were she met and married George. Obiviously their daughter Elizabeth returned to the mainland, and I'm presuming that Ann and the rest of the family did as well. In my desperation to find ANYTHING on Ann , I asked the NSW BDM website to give me any Ann with a father named Ambrose (not that common a name) who died in the relevent time frame and out popped Ann Smith who died at Lismore in 1888. An Ann Martin married a George Smith in Sydney in 1846 and a George Smith also died at Lismore in 1886.I know it's a HUGE HUGE longshot, but I thought if it were possible that the NIMDEM on Elizabeth's sons' birth certificate was meant to be NIMBIN then that would place the family in that part of the world and I might POSSIBLY be on to something ( though your guess is as good as mine as to what they were all doing there in the first place! ). I hope this all makes some sort of sense. Thanks Anne.

> From: > To: > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:48:19 +1000> Subject: Re: [NORCO] Nimbin History- Info> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kristy Willoughby" <>> To: <>> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 8:49 PM> Subject: [NORCO] Nimbin History> > > > Hi, I'm new to the list and was wondering if someone > > could help me out with some Nimbin history. Around what > > time was Nimbin settled? i'm desperately trying to trace > > my gggrandmother Elizabeth Martin who was married to > > Richard Collier. I can find no record of their marriage, > > but do have their son Ambrose Collier's birth > > certificate. The writing is REALLY hard to read, but it > > looks like it says they were married in 1852 in NIMDEM > > .I presume that's suppose to mean Nimbin. Was Nimbin > > settled that early?> > Hi Ann> > This doesn't give good vibes at all ........They had a > son , George in 1858 RC Sydney and in the early 1860's > moved up to the Hunter Valley> > Richard COLLIER is listed as a sawyer at Patterson in the > on line 1872 PO Dir> > Nimbin is close to 800 ks north from Sydney ......... > Was no H'way 1 in the late 1850s> Do you have transcriptions of any of the other kids birth > certs ?> > > Bye> MargM> Member of> Central Coast FHS> Gosford> NSW> > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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