AUS-NSW-SE-L Archives

Archiver > AUS-NSW-SE > 2002-03 > 1016930957


From: "Betty Candy" <>
Subject: Re: Cptn Towns
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:49:17 +1100
References: <000301c1d24d$25084be0$49e609d2@user>


Your Captain Towns could be the one that Townsville is named after and he is
likely to be in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Probably is you
search on "Google" you'll find him too.
-----------------------------------------------
Regards
Betty Candy
Sydney, Australia



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Bambach" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: Cptn Towns


> Hi all,
>
> My Carnell family arrived in Sydney in 1844 on the NEPTUNE. They were
> engaged in employment upon arrival in Sydney by a Captain Towns from
> Wollongong. Has anyone heard him?
> Robert Carnell was a stonemason so he may have been involved in building a
> residence for the Captain?????
> Robert also signed a declaration to the effect that he would take into his
> care for the duration of the voyage the unmarried female Euphemia Scammel
> (24 yrs). I can find no trace of Euphemia marrying or dying. Does she ring
a
> bell with anyone out there?
>
> Hoping for a breakthru!
>
> Regards
> Julie
> Batemans Bay
>
>
>
>
> ==============================
> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,
go to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
>

This thread: