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From: "Susie Zada" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] The Archers of Geelong?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:07:07 +1100
References: <005b01c62dd0$2a713eb0$c202a8c0@lesley>


Hi Lesley,

I'm not sure if the email address is still valid but there is someone
researching the same ARCHER family on our Geelong & District Surnames of
Interest ........

http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdname.htm

Regards ........... Susie Z


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lesley Jenkins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: [GEELONG] The Archers of Geelong?


> Dear Members
> I am writing the history of the Barcoo Shire in far south west Queensland
> for the Council. This shire takes in the small towns of Jundah, Stonehenge
> and Windorah. The first white settlers to the area are claimed to be Tom
> Palmer Archer and his brother Fred Archer whose mother, Mrs John K Archer,
> lived near Geelong ( the only details I have). The boys left Victoria from
> Tooram, Warnambool with bulls and horses and moved them up to Jundah in
> 1874. Tom Palmer Archers' son, also called Fred, later made a name for
> himself as a plantation owner in Rabaul, New Guinea. I was wondering if
> you would have any information about these Archers ( perhaps a Victorian
> member of the family has done some genealogical research?) I live in hope!

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