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From: Eliz Cook <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] local knowledge needed Please PRATT family
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:30:56 +1100
References: <200512071144.jB7BiCTo018749@mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200512071144.jB7BiCTo018749@mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au>


carol pratt wrote:

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>They arrived in Geelong 1856 on the "Nugget"..Abigail died of Typhus 3 weeks
>after arriving leaving her husband with 6 children the youngest of whom was
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> Shipping list PROV states
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>Matthew Pratt, 40. Grocer..neither read nor write employed at Bryes Query
>(?) dec 11th
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Is or was there a Brices Quarry?

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>William 12 could read and write. servant emp with Mrs J Fleming Barrabool
>Hills nov 29th for 6 months at 10 (/-?)
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>Mary 17 could read and write..employed by Mr St James at Credric (?)
>Telegraph Office Nov 29 for 3 months wages 25 (?)
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>*Could this one be Creswick?*
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Elizabeth

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>My query is can anyone make anything of my poor attempts to transcribe the
>places they went to work?
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Poor people what a way to start a new life. But they seem to have survived.
Elizabeth

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