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From: Frank Whillans <> (by way of Linda Barraclough <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L] SIMS, Port Albert -> Tongio
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:06:47 +1100 (EST)


Hi, folks!
I've often wondered about my wife's forebear Richard SIMS, who, after
serving his convict days at Bothwell Tasmania, transported his wife and two
young adolescent daughters to Port Albert on Victoria's coast, and from
there to Tongio near Omeo. This family movement would have occurred
probably in the very early 1870s, since an extract taken from 'Echoes from
the Mountains' (by A M Pearson , publ. James Yeates Bairnsdale 1969, page
91) states "Publicans' licences granted to R Sims, Wing Tooke, Ho Sim Lim,
Ah Chane, and E J Johnston" during june 1873. My query relates to how & by
which route Richard would have moved from Port Albert to Tongio - oral
family history, unreliable though it can be, has it that he moved his
family and meagre possessions in a wheelbarrow. All the way to Tongio? He
then managed to become quite successful as a Clydesdale horse breeder at
Tongio, and his subsequent sons went on to become Gippsland publicans.
Does anybody have any thoughts on such a mammoth task with a wheelbarrow?

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Dr Frank Whillans <>
"Coranderk" 47 The Righi, Eaglemont
Melbourne Victoria 3084 Australia
Telephone 03-9457-2893 (local), +613-9457-2893 (overseas)

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