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From: "Dawn Webb" <>
Subject: RE: Footer
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:55:49 +1000
In-Reply-To: <F102HeAZebxTWoGE1p8000231f3@hotmail.com>


Love the story of the dog, Tom!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Woolman [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 9:32 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Footer


Hi Jeff and listers,

Jeff, Could your ancestor have been the W.T.Foote who was vice president
of
the Maryborough Traders' Association in 1891? Source- Maryborough and
Dunolly Advertiser, 22 May, 1891 quoted in 'Maryborough A Social History

1854 -1904' by Trenear Dubourg and Betty Osborn, Maryborough City
Council,
1985. There's quite a good photo of the traders group [individuals not
identified] in the book.

A reference which isn't in the index [a fluke I found it] is on page 299
and
says " Three years later [ meaning 1887], W.T.Foote took over from
Millers".... who had bought the Beehive store from Thomas Fielder
Fuggle.

Another reference is, page 320 "In 1894 property owner A. Miller and Co.

purchased W.T.Foote's assigned estate and made arrangements for
renovations
and the establishment of a permanment business in Maryborough".

Later in the book , there's a reference to Millers owning what in later
years became Lucas's*, the major department store in Maryborough, but at
a
quick glance I can't see if it's the same property as Foote had. You'd
need
to access the rate books and/or the Maryborough Advertiser I'd say. If
it is
the same location, you may pick up a glimpse of it in very early photos
of
Maryborough as it was very near the main crossing -of High and Nolan
Streets, a couple of doors down from the Bull and Mouth Hotel.

The final Foote reference relates to the Ancient Order of Druids which
commenced in Maryborough in 1872. "(In 1890 Lodge Stanley No.280 was
formed
with businessman W.T.Foote as Arch Druid. This was the first newspaper
reference to a Druids Lodge for some years)."

I've had a look in the second volume [1905 - 1961] but there's nothing
in
the index for Foote/r.

You might like to try the Maryborough Family History Group [they have a
website with their contacts] and the Midlands Historical Society
[Dorothy
Ingram posted their details earlier this year] for more info.

If you have a death date, they may have an obituary, death notices,
cemetery
info, rates info, hospital info, who knows what.

Good luck, Cheers, Tom

*Lucas's had one of those overhead wire pulley systems to centralise
payments and the return of change to the counter where the customer had
been
served. In the 1940's we lived at the edge of town, and our dog would
escape regularly and end up in Lucas's amongst the town's well dressed
matrons, chasing the money containers as they whizzed back and forth
along
the system. Fortunately we had the phone connected for our business,
and
after a call from Lucas's, my mum would ride her bike, with me on the
back,
into town to sheepishly collect the dog. What a dog!







>From: "Footer" <>
>To:
>Subject: Footer
>Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:34:42 +0800
>
>G'day List,
>
>Im seeking some info on one of my ancestors,his name is WILLIAM THOMAS
>FOOTER all I have on his death cert is he was born in MARYBOROUGH VIC
in
>1860 he died age 49yrs.Im hopeing people in the MARYBOROUGH district
would
>be able to help me. Ive asked people on the list to check CDs and he
>doesn't show.
>
>Thankyou All.
>
>jeff footer
>
>
>
>
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