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From: Kelvin and Marcia Penny <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Boolite, Minyip, Dunmunkle, Nullan
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:05:40 +1000
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Hello Listers,

I would be interested to hear from anyone interested in the following names in these localities


BOYD, Alexander, Lachlan, Alan and John
COWAN
CRAINE John Philip
MCKENZIE
MCLEAN Murdoch
NICHOLLS, Francis, Nicholas and Martin
PENNY
POTTER Mercy
RADFORD Edwin

if you had a musical family living in Boolite at the turn of the century, a photo of the Boolite Brass Band can be seen here

http://www.optom.unsw.edu.au/public/bbhistory/boolite/B'lite-1896.htm


and this is our unsolved mystery : In the year 1880 as the Penny family moved with pack horses from North Rhine in S.A. to Boolite in the Wimmera, the patriarch of the family Thomas Penny, died.
His death is not registered in SA or Vic.
I have found no will, probate info or letters of Administration in either state.

Many years ago a family member had the foresight to write down the recollections of one of the grandsons of Thomas (who also made the trip)
But the story says Thomas Penny was buried at Nerum along the way.
I can't find a place called Nerum
The Mortlock Library suggested that it might have been Miram, but I have been unsuccessful in finding any records for that time for Miram, or a burial there.


Regards
Marcia Penny
Geelong


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