Hi Joan Was feeling thrilled when last night I found a copy available on the internet - ordered it, but today received an email to say that it has already been sold. I will search further and may be lucky!] Regards Lyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwards Joan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:17 PM Subject: [ANS] Ben Esgate > Lyn, > In addition to the entry in Blue Mountains Pioneer Register pre 1920, > Ben is featured in a book by Jim Smith called The Last of the Cox's > River Men - Ben Esgate published in 2006. Jim's book are limited > editions and would be sold out, but as it has an ISBN copies would be > in the National Library, Canberra as well as the State/Mitchell in > Sydney if you can't find one anywhere else. > > Ben played a significant role in the V.D.C. in the upper Blue > Mountains in WW2. > > Regards > Joan > On 15/12/2010, at 7:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> >> >> Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post >> any reply...... Thank you! >> >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles (Lyn Mealey) >> 2. Re: Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles (Rex Roberts) >> 3. Re: Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles (Sherrie Blackman) >> 4. Re: Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles (Jenny McCarthy) >> 5. ESGATE, Benjamin Birth Lookup (Lyn Mealey) >> 6. Re: ESGATE, Benjamin Birth Lookup (Jan Koperberg) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:07:00 +1100 >> From: "Lyn Mealey" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [ANS] Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles >> To: "Rootsweb Sydney" <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Would SKS be good enough to please look up birth of Benjamin Esgate >> in the period 1909- 1919. Possibly in Katoomba area, but don't know >> parents. >> >> Regards >> Lyn >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:39:00 +1300 >> From: Rex Roberts <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [ANS] Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Lyn, >> >> Benjamin C. ESGATE born 1914 Katoomba [NSW BDM Index # 19265/1914] >> Parents Reuben P and Alice S >> >> Regards >> Rex Roberts >> Waikanae Beach, NZ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lyn Mealey >> Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:07 p.m. >> To: Rootsweb Sydney >> Subject: [ANS] Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles >> >> Would SKS be good enough to please look up birth of Benjamin Esgate >> in the >> period 1909- 1919. Possibly in Katoomba area, but don't know parents. >> >> Regards >> Lyn >> Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post >> any >> reply...... 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Possibly in Katoomba area, but don't know >>> parents. >>> >>> Regards >>> Lyn >>> Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post >>> any >>> reply...... Thank you! >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:28:39 +1100 >> From: "Jenny McCarthy" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [ANS] Birth Lookup for ESGATE, Benjamin Charles >> To: <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Here is his birth >> 1914 >> 19265 >> 1914 >> ESGATE >> BENJAMIN C >> REUBEN P >> ALICE S >> KATOOMBA >> >> >> . >> >> Jenny McCarthy JP >> Brightwaters >> on beautiful Lake Macquarie >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:06:48 +1100 >> From: "Lyn Mealey" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [ANS] ESGATE, Benjamin Birth Lookup >> To: "Rootsweb Sydney" <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Thank you Rex, Sherrie and Jenny for your kindness. I thought >> perhaps these >> were Benjamin's parents, so thank you for confirming that for me. >> >> He married my mother's first cousin Lillian Barker in Katoomba in >> 1936. He >> died in 2003 aged 89, but no mention is made of any family. I'd >> like to >> find whether there were any children and what happened to Lillian - >> can't >> find her in NSW BDM or Ryerson, but perhaps they divorced and she >> remarried. >> Ben Esgate seems to have for many years been a bushman in the Cox's >> River >> area as there are some newspaper reports of rescues of people lost >> in the >> Blue Mountains in the 1950's mentioning Ben as a bushmen assisting the >> police. >> >> Thanks again for your help >> Regards >> Lyn >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 6 >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:48:20 +1100 >> From: "Jan Koperberg" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [ANS] ESGATE, Benjamin Birth Lookup >> To: <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> Hello Lyn >> >> There is an entry for Benjamin Charles Esgate in the Blue Mountains >> Pioneer >> Register Pre 1920. Apparently there are three children all living. >> I will >> put you in touch with the contributor, off list. >> >> Regards >> Jan Koperberg >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lyn Mealey" <[email protected]> >> To: "Rootsweb Sydney" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:06 PM >> Subject: [ANS] ESGATE, Benjamin Birth Lookup >> >> >>> Thank you Rex, Sherrie and Jenny for your kindness. I thought >>> perhaps >>> these >>> were Benjamin's parents, so thank you for confirming that for me. >>> >>> He married my mother's first cousin Lillian Barker in Katoomba in >>> 1936. >>> He >>> died in 2003 aged 89, but no mention is made of any family. I'd >>> like to >>> find whether there were any children and what happened to Lillian - >>> can't >>> find her in NSW BDM or Ryerson, but perhaps they divorced and she >>> remarried. >>> Ben Esgate seems to have for many years been a bushman in the Cox's >>> River >>> area as there are some newspaper reports of rescues of people lost >>> in the >>> Blue Mountains in the 1950's mentioning Ben as a bushmen assisting >>> the >>> police. >>> >>> Thanks again for your help >>> Regards >>> Lyn >>> Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post >>> any >>> reply...... 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