Hello List - errrr, now you've woken me up! I've been researching my Penrith family for many years and mostly just observe on the list in the hope that someone will express an interest in - William Augustus SMITH born Rope's Creek, 1850 to Thomas and Jane (nee Laimbeer) Smith who built the "Red Cow" hotel, Penrith. Have lots of info on the parents and some of the more notable siblings, but William was the family rover who travelled to remote properties around Qld and N. West NSW for about 10 years after 1870 using his occupations as a bootmaker/saddler; pastoral agent/auctioneer cum licensed bookie to support his family. He was married 3 times that we know of, the first wife Jane WALTERS he married at Mudgee in 1870, probably an elopement that was later annulled, or maybe she died. Can find no record? wife No. 2 was Mary Molloy WICKHAM, born Drayton NSW & Qld, 1859, married Clermont Qld, 1875; wife No. 3 was Mary Jane MURPHY of Armidale, married Newtown, 1886; and common law wife Mrs Ann Eliza LAWLER nee HEMSWORTH in Bourke, NSW from approx 1882 - 1896. William lived with his last wife, Mary Jane Murphy, and daughter Rubie Violet (Mrs George H A MATTHEWS of Parkes, NSW) in the Penrith district from about 1896 until his death at his inherited property in Colyton in 1923 of asthma and is buried near the family plot at St Mary Magdalene's c/yard, St Marys in an unmarked grave. Regards Jacquie Christensen, Ormiston, Qld.