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From: "Claire Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: [AVNE] PRICE family
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 01:00:47 +1000
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Hi,

I have an ancestor, Hannah McIntosh born in England about 1783, who arrived
in Port Jackson around 1817.
I'd love to know if there were any other McIntosh relatives who also came
here, either at the same time or later?
Is Hannah one of your ancestors?
Claire Taylor


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paterson, David (BCE, Highett)" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, 4 August 2001 9:51 PM
Subject: RE: [AVNE] PRICE family


> Lorraine,
>
> ---
> Harriet Elizabeth PRICE b. C1848
> m. 5 Apr 1870 in Beechworth to James Henry McINTOSH
> d. 1901 Beechworth
> ---
>
> My Harriet Price was definitely an older sister of your William, I have a
> listing of the siblings. I know a lot about Harriet's descendents. I found
> the following three brief mentions of Harriet and another about James in
my
> sources but didn't find a photo or copy of the wedding certificate as I
had
> hoped:
>
> 1. (author unknown)
> James was my paternal great grandfather. He was a miner all his life and
> worked in and around Yackandandah. His home site was a mere two hundred
> metres from my childhood home. On many occasions, I ate of the citrus
trees,
> and the walnut tree that still grow there. A perfectly clear spring below
> the homesite and beside the creek yielded a cool refreshing drink.
>
> Jim [ie. James McIntosh] married Harriet Price of Beechworth and they had
> nine children 6 sons and 3 daughters. Jim was of fairly short stature, and
> of slim build. His house was made of vertical slab timber, lined inside
with
> hessian and paper, with a bark roof overlaid later with galvanised iron.
The
> cooking was done on an open fire, in a camp oven, in a fire place with a
> bricked up chimney.
>
> I recently [early 1980s] visited a Miss Nell Atkinson who lives at
> Beechworth. She is a relative having descended from James Price, who was
the
> father of Harriet McIntosh (nee Price).
>
> 2. (author Lily Hart, nee Drenan)
> My Mother, before her marriage, was Mary Ann Matilda McIntosh. Her parents
> were James and Harriet McIntosh nee Price. My given names are, Lillian
> Harriet Mary; Harriet for my grandmother, Mary for my mother. One sister
is
> also Harriet (Joyce).
>
> 3. (author unknown)
> My father recalled some quaint ways that old Jim had. He had vivid
memories
> of Jim being typsy and slashing the tops off thistles with a sword. Guess
he
> kept well away, in case he was next. Jim used to hide his money up in the
> bark roof of his house and forget where he had put it. Then the boys,
young
> Bill and George would be accused of "pinching" it. Jim spoke with a slight
> brogue apparently, that is what you would expect since he left Scotland
when
> he was eight years of age.
>
> [two more paragraphs about Jim].
>
> 4. Re: Frederick William 'Bill' McIntosh (author 'a grandson')
> He built several homes, the first for his mother because his father James
> had a drinking problem later in life and used to ill treat Harriet, his
> mother. So Bill built a new home of vertical slab timber on the site of
the
> present concrete and red tiled house on the Twist Creek road.
>
> ---
>
> I am looking for info. on the PRICE family that lived in Beechworth.
>
> James PRICE (b.c. 1826, Eng.) married Harriet DANCE (b.c. 1824 Eng.) in
> England. They arrived in Black Springs about 1862.
>
> Son William(b. 1857 Eng.) married Elizabeth STOLLARD in 1880 in
Beechworth.
>
> Their son William James (b.1888) married Sarah Jane SKINNER (b.1888)
>
> Does anyone have info. on the PRICE family and the bakery they owned at
> Black
> Springs?
>
>

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