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From: "Thelma" <>
Subject: [AUS-Tas] Thelma Birell's photos of historical places
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:51:13 +1000
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Dear Lenore and others,
Fancy speaking about Ellinthorpe Hall. This was a most beautiful place when
we visited some years ago, during Simon Brown's occupancy. The years have
taken their toll and the property is in need of much repair. All the country
around that region is very dry, but the new owners have begun restoration.

We had a most marvellous visit to Tasmania and after 16 or more years
researching, were amazed to find the large marble gravestones of my
forbears.
NEVER GIVE UP................. Rachael d.1837 ; Robert d.1847 ; Charles
d.1838 at Ellinthorpe Hall, as he was about to pick up his sisters from the
school. It was during a raid by bushrangerCash.
George Bostock (my gr.grandfather) was also laid to rest there in 1858.

We had been looking in, what we thought was the general cemetery at Campbell
Town, on our previous visits. However when we saw it all tidied up, we
called to the Newsagent who was most obliging and he told us where the
Bostock graves were.
He even had the inscriptions written on a page in his shop, which he gave
me.

I could hardly believe what I was hearing and seeing. What a wonderful
surprise.
Of course I did not take too many photos !!!!!!
We called to the "Vaucluse" homestead (c.1828) at Conara. It has been
beautifully restored by the new owners who allowed us to share the
experience on the flagstone verandas.
Enough of my excitement for now.....Sincerely in Searching...
Thelma (Bostock) Birrell

p.s. Meryl, I hope you don't mind this kind of email.

Cox-Upjohn - www.angelfire.com/rnb/mrbirrell/
Birrell-Kirk - www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/birrell2.html
Bostock-Rafferty-Rhodes - http://birrell.1hwy.com/index.htm
Irish-Scots - http://matthewbirrell.50megs.com/index.html
Stokes-Yates-Owen - www.freehomepages.com/mrbirrell/
Pour a cup of Kindness and Sweeten with a Smile.

For those who don't know what they are -Thelma Birrell culled her collection
of holiday snaps of places she visited during the 1980s and 1990s in her
family history research.
Ellenthorpe in Tassie has recently been claimed, but the rest are still
available, on a first in best dressed basis.



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