----- Original Message ----- From: Ned Sinclair <ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Re posting my interests > Hi there, I went to school in Penrith in the mid 40s to 50s with a chap name > Ian Stapleton (I think there was also a Len Stapleton). They lived (from > memory) in Evan Street on the left hand side between where Jipp and Darling > Streets are now (I am using a Penrith City Council map and could be out by a > couple of hundred yards, but only that) and one of their neighbours was a > family called Blizzard. > > Something is coming back to me about a Stapleton (I won't swear to this) > drowning at the old weir... but I may be confused. Maybe he didn't drown, > but found a body of someone that had, this is about 50 - 55 years ago and a > lot of water has gone over the weir in that time. > > Hope that may be of some help to you. > > Ned Sinclair > Post Office Box 677, > GLEN WAVERLEY VIC 3150 > (03) 9727 5709 > ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Dear Ned.. Greetings from Perth West Oz... I noticed your email on the list and wondered if... considering , you were in Penrith in the forty's & fifties... if you remember a home in Lemongrove enrith... called "THORNTON HALL... " ??? Situated in Mountain View Crescent... Lemongrove Penrith... up the end in the culdesac... In the forty's and early fifties... Thornton Hall was double storied... the Com Defence Dept compulsiroly acquired the home & land in the late 1940's... and built an ARMY barracks on the land... which was previously my families since 1860's.....Thomas Smith was my grt gramps who built the home in 1870's... and previous to that , he also built and ran the ... The RED COW HOTEL opposite the Penrith Railway Station.... which is still operating... As I am in the process of persuading the Com Defence Dept to restore Thornton Hall... I am in desperate need of photos of the home or hotel.... which wouold be returned if required... also any memories.... would be welcome.... Thornton Hall's land was used in the 1920's to 1940's as PENRITH SPEEDWAY... Hoping some of this reins a bell with you... Cheers and blessings... Laura Player perth W.A. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ned Sinclair <ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: Fw: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Re posting my interests > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ned Sinclair <ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au> > To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Re posting my interests > > > > Hi there, I went to school in Penrith in the mid 40s to 50s with a chap > name > > Ian Stapleton (I think there was also a Len Stapleton). They lived (from > > memory) in Evan Street on the left hand side between where Jipp and > Darling > > Streets are now (I am using a Penrith City Council map and could be out by > a > > couple of hundred yards, but only that) and one of their neighbours was a > > family called Blizzard. > > > > Something is coming back to me about a Stapleton (I won't swear to this) > > drowning at the old weir... but I may be confused. Maybe he didn't drown, > > but found a body of someone that had, this is about 50 - 55 years ago and > a > > lot of water has gone over the weir in that time. > > > > Hope that may be of some help to you. > > > > Ned Sinclair > > Post Office Box 677, > > GLEN WAVERLEY VIC 3150 > > (03) 9727 5709 > > ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au > > > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >