Dear Janet Regarding your James Hunter... I have ascertained he was the licencee of the Live and Let Live Inn in 1884 and probably till 1886..... I have a website on the hotels of mackay at http://www.geocities.com/ghh_mackay/hotels/hotels_sources.html if you wish to find further info....never heard of a man named Savage but..... Coincidentally I have two original cedar windows from the Live and Let Live inn in my old mill house at Pleystowe when i did some renovation in 1993. My wife and I applied to buy the old Inn in 1991 in Walkerston but were knocked back by the Building Society as the building was too old even though we had a builder check it out and it was found structurally sound just in need of TLC.....Anyway an old couple bought it and stripped it and demolished the old detached kitchen and put in modern windows and new weatherboards and were in the process taking it all to the dump when i went past one day and stopped and asked if they wouldnt mind letting me have the timber and windows which they did..... The inn was demolished in 2001 sadly without any forewarning and would have been the oldest building in Walkerston at the time having been built in about 1876. Anyway if you would be happy to share any information on Mr Hunter for our Society records that would be greatly appreciated.... Regarding any newspapers from Cooktown refer to the James Cook University Website http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Specials/Nqnewspapers/place.shtml I dont know if they have all copies in their microfilm collection but i have used their microfilm in Townsville over the years and it is a wonderful resource...The are quite a few cooktown papers listed Cheers from Glen Hall Research Officer Mackay Historical Society and Museum Inc. Po Box 1349, MACKAY QLD 4740. email: bushpig3@bigpond.com our website: http://www.geocities.com/mackaymuseum/index.html __________________________________________________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:26:54 +1000 From: "Janet Stevenson" <janetimstevenson@hotmail.com> To: AUS-QLD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY1-DAV63vHjXZE9TJ0001a3d7@hotmail.com> Subject: re Hunter and Savage Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Is there anybody on the list who is researching the name Savage please? I am trying to collect information on James Hunter and have found that he was registered as the Publican of Travellers Rest Cooktown and Live and Let Live at Walkerston during the period 1843-1900. He was associated, apparently, with a gentleman named Savage in one of those ventures. James Hunter died in 1910 without marrying or producing children, so it is very difficult to establish information on a man who seems to have lived all of his life in Cooktown, having migrated from Scotland in about 1863, if I have done the mathematics properly from the information provided on his death certificate. Can anyone help please? Also was there a newspaper published in Cooktown in the second half of the nineteenth century please? TIA Janet in Sydney ______________________________