Posting my interest JAMES FOWLER arrived in Australia in 1864 and went to the Wingham area He farmed with his cousins GEORGE & ARCHIBALD FOWLER at Karaak Flat and later with his brother ARCHIBALD FOWLER at Hursley via Rawdon Island Hastings River.Is anyone else researching these names? I would love to hear from you. JAMES FOWLER, SARAH OLIVER, ELLEN HARRIOTT Regards Carol Baglee at Beautiful Lake Macquarie

Hi Listers, Would appreciate hearing from anyone with information on Henry Ivey LANE b Euroka, 25/10/1855 and later a successful businessman at Macksville. Henry was son of Edwin Whitelaw LANE and Mary LANE (nee NANCE) from Kempsey. Regards, John Nance

Hello I posted a message earlier this year and was contacted by a relative of Leonard Watterston who married a Daisy Green. I have misplaced your address I am sorry and I think I have some information for you. Could you please contact me. Regards Gabrielle Watterson _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Hi I have decided to post my interests again: Brian KEARNEY and Mary BOURKE, of Dungog, and formerly of Tipperary in Ireland. Michael and Mary had four sons: SAMUEL married Ellen O'BRIEN JAMES married Margaret BANNISTER MICHAEL married 1st marriage - Annie CAMPBELL 2nd Marriage - Annie Minna BUCHAN at Grafton WILLIAM - never married Jennie Rediger [email protected] ---

Does anyone have anything on 2713 Pte John Wylie who served in the 52nd Battalion Australia Army between 1915 & 1917, anything would be appreciated. David

Thanks all those who responded. All messages are now in London for the family to look at. Les H., Napier, NZ

When searching for any information try the Google search engine www.google.com or similar. When you open the page in your browser, bookmark the site (by clicking Favourites > Add To Favourites in Internet Explorer) For information on the Australian Blue Cattle Dog I searched those words and there appear to be excellent results. Many of the sites will also have a links page with more relevant links. To see the search results for Australian Blue Cattle Dog see http://www.google.com/search?q=Australian+Blue+Cattle+Dog&btnG=Google+Search Other Search engines (or sources of search engines) include: http://www.topclick.com/ http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html http://www.anzwers.com.au/cgi-bin/print_search.pl http://au.altavista.com/s?r=1 Alta Vista Australia http://new.ozsearch.com.au/cgi-bin/search/ Try searching a combination of a surname and a placename. Have a look at Alta Vista's advanced search which allows you to define the search more closely. Cheers Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Hewett, Napier, New Zealand" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:17 AM Subject: AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOGS > Off topic but I have an research associate/lister in London, England, who would dearly love to find a webpage featuring the breed. Her son wants an Australian Cattle Dog but this is not allowed as the family already has another breed, so a web page will allow him to find out more. Any advice will be flicked on to London. Thanks: Les H., Napier, NZ. > > > ==== AUS-NSW-NORCO Mailing List ==== > Search the archived emails of the Norco and other lists. Go to the second group of search boxes at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/world/Australia/NewSouthWales/ > >

Off topic but I have an research associate/lister in London, England, who would dearly love to find a webpage featuring the breed. Her son wants an Australian Cattle Dog but this is not allowed as the family already has another breed, so a web page will allow him to find out more. Any advice will be flicked on to London. Thanks: Les H., Napier, NZ.

Hi Derek The entry for John May is very short: "Mary (Smith, daughter of Harriet and Thomas), who was baptised Chiurch of England, married John May on the Nambucca in 1871 in a Wesleyan service." Mary was the sister of Isabella, who married William Argent - it is the Argents and the Ballards that I have been researching for a friend. On page 43, John May is mentioned as a shipwright from Devon who came to the nambucca as a selector but reverted to his trade. He worked for the shipbuilder John Campbell Stuart, on the Royal Tar (598 tons), launched 1873? or 1876?, "the largest-colonial built vessel". On page 119-120, it is George May who is listed as a shipwright working on the Royal Tar, who came from the Macleay for that purpose. The only source of "Valley of the Crooked River" that I know of is the Nambucca Shire Council, which commissioned the writing of the book. They still have copies (about $45, I think). Peter Peterson At 01:41 PM 22/05/01 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Peter, > >I hope you dont mind me asking this but I just looked up the >index for this book and it appears to Have my GG Grandfather in it. > >I was wondering if you can tell me if it has much about him >John May, marriage to Mary Smith 176 > >Also there is this but not sure if he is related so if you can let me >know what it has about this. >May, George, shipwright 43, 119, 120 > >I would like to get a copy of this book and know that I can get a new >one from the Nambucca area but I am in Sydney and hoping that >i could get a copy of it down here, or get a second hand copy. > >Hope that you can help me. > >Regards, Derek May. >Sydney, Australia.

I assume the site was Bellingen Gen Web which incorporates the NSW North Coast Book Indexing Project. If you have a book about people, places events or history relevant to the North Coast of NSW (Hunter to the Qld border, please: 1. Check the books page http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/books.html to see whether it is listed and has a link to an index. 2. If there is a link but no index, please consider copy typing or scanning the index (or contents or chapter headings if there is no index) so it can be added to the on line indexes. See The Transcription page http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/transcribe.html for more details on subscribing. Email [email protected] with the name of the book you are indexing so that we can avoid duplication of effort. 3. If the book is not list, please send details of title, author, publisher, date of publication, price availability, no of pages, no of maps, no of photos to [email protected] and consider indexing it for us (see 2 above. With over 200 list members if everyone did one book think of the resource we will have created together!!! Thanks and regards Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: E G Cory at Nambucca > Dear Group, > > Whilst trawling the Inter-net I came across a site with an index to The > Valley of the Crooked River Settlement of the Nambucca . Apparently, > Edward Gostwyck Cory is mentioned on page 31. I would be very grateful if > someone could look this up for me. > > I hold a lot of information about the Cory family in the Hunter Valley > but was unaware of any connection to Nambucca. I am particularly > interested in finding people who worked for the family in the 1800s. > > Cheers, > > Jocelyn Lloyd > > > > > ==== AUS-NSW-NORCO Mailing List ==== > Got the address of a really useful website? List it at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/world/Australia/NewSouthWales/ > >

Dear Jocelyn The passage that mentions Edward Cory is not long, so I will type it out in full for you. "The first <pastoralist>, James Taylor, took up a run, TRY Station, between Warrell Creek and Taylors Arm in 1841. The coincidence of the name and the location suggest that Taylors Arm owed its name to him. In 1844 Charles Ducat, son of a Macleay pastoralist held TRY station. By the next year it was in the hands of Edward Gostwyck Cory, a Hunter River land owner and early New England pastoralist. Cory still held it in 1846 and James Taylor, who must have fallen upon difficult times, was Cory's overseer. TRY station was abandoned by 1847. R. G. Massie commented that it had been 'deserted from the general want of fresh water, and the bad nature of the country.' " [Norma Townsend, Valley of the Crooked River, page 31] Peter Peterson Newcastle At 06:19 PM 21/05/01 +1000, you wrote: >Dear Group, > >Whilst trawling the Inter-net I came across a site with an index to The >Valley of the Crooked River Settlement of the Nambucca . Apparently, >Edward Gostwyck Cory is mentioned on page 31. I would be very grateful if >someone could look this up for me.

Hi Does anybody know where I could check old records for the Benevolent Society in Victoria please? Jennie Rediger [email protected]

Hi All, I wish to thank all you wonderful folk, for the help you gave in the form of advice, I had no idea where to look. The office shop I rang wanted to charge me $500.00 , but persistence pays off, I rang the hospital and asked for the stores manager, she said she had one, and three was no charge for it, just pick it up. A very thankful Karen.

Dear Group, Whilst trawling the Inter-net I came across a site with an index to The Valley of the Crooked River Settlement of the Nambucca . Apparently, Edward Gostwyck Cory is mentioned on page 31. I would be very grateful if someone could look this up for me. I hold a lot of information about the Cory family in the Hunter Valley but was unaware of any connection to Nambucca. I am particularly interested in finding people who worked for the family in the 1800s. Cheers, Jocelyn Lloyd

Hi all, With thanks to Diane, I have just added the contents list of the book "The Disputed Plains Armstrongs and their Magnificent Horses". The URL to go directly to the list of contents is http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/indexes/armstrongs.html There are a couple of other updates also: 1. The URL to the Parish Maps Project Page has been updated 2. The books page has been updated with the Disputed Plains Armstrong book details and link to the contents. Cheers Paul Hanly Rhodes, Sydney, Australia If you have any books about the area and its history or families, I would be grateful if you would consider transcribing or scanning the indexes for the NSW North Coast Book Indexing Project See www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/transcribe.html for the why and how and the links to indexes from the books page www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/books.html for examples of the finished product.

http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/maps/pmap/ This is the current URL for the Parish Map Preservation Project site. Cheers Paul Hanly Rhodes, Sydney, Australia

Hello All, Thanks to all who responded to my plea for help, I now have a list of places to call, I also have an idea of what I'm expected to pay. Bless you one and all. A very thankful Karen > > > > > > > > > > > ==== AUS-NSW-NORCO Mailing List ==== > > Check out the books page on Bellingen Gen Web. Can you transcribe an index? See www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/books.html and > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/transcribe.html > > > > ==== AUS-NSW-NORCO Mailing List ====

Hi all, I have just uploaded some updated content on the Harvie, Sheils, Williams families and the Aboriginal Battle page on Bellingen Gen Web. The pages were redone by John Raymond, so I can't tell you the exact nature of the changes. The pages are live now, so go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli scroll down and click What's New, then click on the links to the updated pages. If anyone wants to add details (tree or history) of a family that has strong links to the Bellingen district, just let me know: [email protected] Cheers Paul

Any lister with knowledge of LEONARD HEWETT, b/.Norwich, Norfolk, c.1865. Parents William and Jane, m.Norwich c.1846. Leonard was a carriagebuilder and was a coach smith in the 1881 census at West Derby, Lanc. Had sister Hannah, Jane Marie, Emily and Ellen; brothers John and Frederick William at least. Understood to have emigrated to Australia. Les Hewett, Napier, NZ

Hello All, I have offered to do some transcribing, but I have to have a FICHE READER a new one costs $500.00 the 2nd hand shops here [ Lismore] don't have any. Have been told they can be found, and I shouldn't have to pay too much for a 2nd hand one. Please advise me. Thank You Karen