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From: David Beswick <>
Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] Re: FEATHERSTONE-D Digest V99 #25
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:17:10 +1000


I have put a number links to Australian sources on the Generally Useful
Information Links page on my web site at
http://people.enternet.com.au/~beswick/geninfolinks.htm#Family history, genealogy

David

wrote:

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> FEATHERSTONE-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 25
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [FEATHERSTONE] NSW AU ["Paul Featherstone" <PaulFeatherst]
> #2 [FEATHERSTONE] Obit [Freeman <>]
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> Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] NSW AU
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:12:05 +0100
> From: "Paul Featherstone" <>
> To:
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> Does anyone know if there is census information available for New South
> Wales, Australia ? and what years?
>
> I have found a web site which gives Birth, Marriage and Death indexes- I
> have downloaded all the Featherstone information and I am trying to fit
> together families from the information. However it would be useful to have
> census records just to verify. As a lot of the time I am guessing at family
> construction. If anyone wants the site address let me know.
> There are some 90 people already in my family groups, with about another 110
> to fit in.
> Records on the site begin in 1788 but there are no Featherstone records
> before 1840.
> What I have found interesting is the change of spelling of the surname,
> there are lots of Fetherston, and then as time passes the 'e' gets added and
> then the 'a'. Births go to 1908, and deaths and marriages to 1945. The
> 'haugh' is not present until the 1890.s and then only with certain formats
> of F. Whereas the English indexes are more difficult to assess in terms of
> spellings. Other than the Fetherston(e) are much more on the decline the
> nearer you get to the present day.
>
> Paul
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> Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] Obit
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:43:54 -0700
> From: Freeman <>
> To:
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> Obit: 7 Dec, 1925 Los Angeles Examiner
> Reel of film from Calif. State Library., P. O. Box 942837, Sacramento,
> CA 94237-0001
>
> Pg 12; Death Notices; Dec. 9, 1925; Section II of newspaper.
> Featherstone, of 5921 Echo Street, William H. Feathertstone, beloved
> husband of Belle Featherstone. Remains at Cress's - Saturday, 10:00
> a.m.; Masonic Service at Forest Lawn Cemetery. (Texas papers please
> copy)



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David Beswick <>
http://people.enternet.com.au/~beswick
Wesburn, Victoria, Australia

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