Warren I think we have corresponded before re Hamilton/Diggins connection. There are no indexes to the newspapers as such but I have compiled an index to items in the Examiner and the Mercury involving inhabitants of Shellharbour, Albion Park, Kiama, Jamberoo and Gerringong up to 1862. The Allen case is reported in the Examiner of 10th March 1860 from court on 8th March. I have the papers on microfilm but no printer at home-I can send a copy of the article in about a week after I next visit a library. The death of Benjamin (reported as Hyndes) appears in the Mercury 25th March 1858.(Kiama Examiner for 1858 "disappeared" from the Mitchell Library some years ago before microfilming occurred) I have the microfilm for this also -just quickly he died while felling timber for the building of the first Church of England in Shellharbour. Do I have your snail mail address? Lorraine ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:42 PM Subject: Re: Illawarra Newspaper Indexes > Hello Listers, > I am hoping that someone may have access to the indexes of the following newspapers - The Kiama Examiner and Independent and the Illawarra Mercury for the period around 1860. I was told some years ago that there was an article in one of those papers about a Court case involving a boy by the name of William Allen who burnt down a building on an adjoining property. I really need to find that article as it may give me vital clues with my Allen family research. > The time period was somewhere between 1859 and 1863 (from memory). I am also interested in the death of a Benjamin Hines in the Kiama area at about the same time, I think 1859. The Hines family is also vital to my research. > Thanks in advance, > Regards, Warren Diggins > > > ============================== > 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 > > >