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From: Marcia Penny <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-NORTHWEST] Brick Wall - Thomas Penny
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:45:18 +1100
References: <477B626A.7040309@pcug.org.au> <477C26D2.2070906@alphalink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <477C26D2.2070906@alphalink.com.au>


Hello Ada

Thanks for taking the time to send me this suggestion. We're in Canberra
so I'll put it on my 'to do' list when we next head south.

He was travelling with a family group, and I've always assumed that life
was so dreadful for them at that time, (the youngest child died the
night they arrived at Boolite), that they omitted to register his death
and somewhere there is or was a wooden cross where they buried him.
I can't quite forgive them for not registering his death in Vic though
(!) as I don't know who his parents were. They left UK before the 1851
census when people had to state their birth place, he was in Devon for
the 1841 census, and married a Devon girl in London in 1826

Sincerely
Marcia Penny


Ada Ackerly wrote:
> Hello Marcia,
>
> Have you looked at the weekly Police Gazettes for the time? At the
> Victorian PRO they have the actual volumes, which have four quarterly
> indexes in the back.
>
> You could check the name index
> then inquests
> then missing persons
> and finally the weekly front page for murders & suspects

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