I am interested in information about Henry (Harry) Lack and his wife, Mary Mulholland, who leased Thornton Hall (currently taken over by the Armed Forces), and also in information about his brother, Robert Lack, who was the proprietor of the Red Cow Inn, which, for a while, was known as the Lack Hotel. Harry's elder sister, Sarah, was the sole survivor of a mass family murder in Campbelltown in 1849; information on this would also be appreciated (Harry was my great-grandfather). Thanks! Alan Jarman. --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

This has nothing to do with your enquiry really but it does add a bit of colour to the Red Cow Hotel History or Lack Hotel. My Grandmother Mavis nee Haddow worked for a Mrs Lack as an upstairs maid for the Red Cow Hotel then known as Lack Hotel. My Grandfather Leo Robinson boarded at the the Red Cow as he was a railway worker in Penrith at the time, they met on the stairs one day on his return from work, he rushed past and cleaned himself up and asked her to the pictures, the rest is Family History. I remember her telling us that story when I was a little girl. That was 1927 when my Grandmother was 19 years old. . Rhonda Hunter

Rhonda, that was a VERY interesting anecdote and I was delighted to hear from you. I have come to the conclusion, over the last three years, that it is the ANECDOTES, not the bare facts, that make family research so fascinating, and that researchers ought to be hoarding these more studiously than their usual practice of tabulating birth dates and marriage dates. I am writing all the anecdotes down for future use -- my "book", purely for myself, is currently abour 230 pages long! -- and I will add this one about the Red Cow with much pleasure. Many thanks! Alan Rhonda Hunter <rhunter@apca.com.au> wrote: This has nothing to do with your enquiry really but it does add a bit of colour to the Red Cow Hotel History or Lack Hotel. My Grandmother Mavis nee Haddow worked for a Mrs Lack as an upstairs maid for the Red Cow Hotel then known as Lack Hotel. My Grandfather Leo Robinson boarded at the the Red Cow as he was a railway worker in Penrith at the time, they met on the stairs one day on his return from work, he rushed past and cleaned himself up and asked her to the pictures, the rest is Family History. I remember her telling us that story when I was a little girl. That was 1927 when my Grandmother was 19 years old. . Rhonda Hunter ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

Sorry Jack I mean "ANECDOTES" not "Antidotes" I think I need a proof reader. Rhonda