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From: "Louise Reynolds" <>
Subject: Re: [NSW-W] Employment in Hay
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:15:56 +1000
References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060504170225.02114d68@pop.netspace.net.au>


Thanks for your reply David, much appreciated.

Louise


----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Barraclough" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:03 PM
Subject: [NSW-W] Employment in Hay


> Forwrded on behalf of David Dixon
>
> Note to David - that address is not the one from which you
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> and I will weave the magic that lets that address
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> Cheers
>
> Linda
> List-admin AUS-NSW-WEST
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> David wrote:
>
> Louise,
> I would think so - there was an employment agent in Hay looking for
> domestic servants about that time (information ex the Hay Historical
> Society). I also suspect that there was an agency headhunting from
> the UK. Squatters had deep pockets & female labour was probably hard
> to recruit from the big smoke. Sorry I can't be more help with your
> Mary Scoffin.
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >My name is Louise Reynolds and I live in Melbourne. I have just
> >joined your list as I am interested in a Sarah Frances SCOFFIN, who
> >arrived in Sydney from England in 1884.
> >She resided in Wilcannia for 2 years, somewhere in the period
> >between 1884 and 1888. She would have been between 29 and 33 yrs
> >old, and was a single woman - I am guessing a domestic.
> >
> >Would it be usual to have domestics come out all the way from Sydney?
> >
> >Does anyone have any knowledge of this lady please?
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Louise
> >
>
>
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