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From: "Daryl Murphy" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Re: AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-D Digest V05 #76: Marion Stainsby
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:22:48 +1000
In-Reply-To: <5b172d3afd6754295eae86820684a663@yahoo.com.au>


Hi Marion!

May I please ask you to do a look-up in the McAdam Barrabool Shire Centenary
history for 2 Powells - first, Thomas POWELL(born c 1812 Tulla, Co Clare,
Ireland - died 11 Mar 1877 at Stawell). He was a publican (Union Hotel in
Malop Street) and brewer in the Geelong district. He built the Claremont
homestead at Waurn Ponds. He was one of the trustees of St Augustine's
Orphanage. Thomas first married Susanna McNAMARA and later Mary Ann ROWLEY.
Thomas Powell's obituary in the Geelong Advertiser records that he was a
much respected old colonist.

The second Powell is Connor POWELL. Connor and Ellen Powell and their
children (Michael, Patrick, Dennis, Maria, Martin and Margaret), from Tulla,
Co Clare Ireland, left London for Melbourne on the 'Neptune', arriving on 29
Mar 1841. They were bounty migrants, introduced into the Colony of Port
Phillip by the agent John Marshall of London. The address of Connor Powell
as at 3 Jul 1849, according to the Electoral Lists 1841-1851, was Barrabool
Hills. Connor was living at Waurn Ponds, but was visiting his son at Ashby,
when he died of consumption on 6 Jan 1870.

These 2 POWELLs were related, I think, but I don't know what the exact
relationship was.

Do they get any mention?

Thanks in advance.

Daryl F MURPHY
Brisbane QLD

>From: Marion Stainsby <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Re: AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-D Digest V05 #76
>Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:56:23 +1000
>
>Marie
>
>Stewart (N.S.) McAdam, Honorary Shire Historian who wrote the brief
>Barrabool Shire Centenary history in 1965, was the local focus for
>information about the district families. Over the years he amassed a
>homemade card index, sorted according to surnames, which fills five
>shoeboxes. Since he died it sits in my living room, but in due course is to
>go to the Heritage Centre.
>
>Much of his information came from death notices in the Geelong Advertiser,
>or from ratebooks, government gazettes, Bill (W.J.) Morrow's summaries of
>the Geelong Advertiser, and just the fact that he was a sociable man with a
>wonderful memory.
>
>I also have four old exercise books in which he pasted typed-out "Bits and
>Pieces" as he called them - brief scraps from here and there, often just a
>year and a mention of e.g. a property up for sale, and obituaries or
>write-ups of local people. These scraps have been roughly indexed, again
>mainly by surname, so e.g. to search for a property or event is more
>difficult.
>
>I am willing to do look-ups, but won't promise to be prompt with answers if
>there are too many! If I am warned, I can make just enough space for an
>occasional visitor to squeeze into my living-room, but it's a major
>undertaking. At present I am supposed to be working on a particular
>project, and it's amazing how papers spread out and time contracts!
>
>Marion
>(Belmont)
>
>
>
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