I am having a lot of fun and excitement with my family tree at the moment. I have managed to locate the family of one "lost" brother which has led to many pieces of the jigsaw falling into place. But it also meant that a few pieces that I thought I had actually belong to a completely different puzzle and it added a lot more pieces that don't seem to want to fit anywhere. Everytime I think I have put a few pieces nice and neatly into the puzzle some marauding event comes along and upsets the whole lot and I need to start all over again :-) Hence the reason for my posting - Canonbar Holdings has crept into the edge of the puzzle on me and while I know that I have seen Canonbar mentioned here on the list before I never paid a great deal of attention. Hence my request - is anyone in the position to give me a brief overview of who and what Canonbar is or was in 1917? My interest is not so much in Canonbar the property (thats a long way from the piece of land I am researching) but rather the company that purchased land in and around Nyngan. I guess the real question that I am asking is who and what made up Canonbar Holdings in and around 1917 / 1918. Any help is most gratefully received!!!! Regards Karen

Dear Karen, You will be very pleased to the note that the same family that now owns and operates Canonbar I believe owned it back then too. I think that it would be the grandfather of Shane who set up the merino stud. They have now diversified into winemaking as well. There are 3 variations on the spelling of Canonbar: Canonbar, Canonbah, Canonba. They are all the same place. The web page for the property is: http://www.canonbah.com.au/ You can contact Shane McLaughlin (Principal) on 0418-636918 or by email: shane@canonbah.com.au. If you contact Nyngan Library you should be able to get lots of historical references too: http://bogan.local-e.nsw.gov.au/community/01/ Contact details: The Librarian Bogan Shire Library, 73 Cobar Street, Nyngan Ph: (02) 6831 1151 Fax: (02) 6832 2533 boganlib@Anaustralian.com Happy continued hunting, Tony Moore (Balgo, Western Australia) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 22 Nov 2003 at 6:56, Karen wrote: > I am having a lot of fun and excitement with my family tree at the > moment. I have managed to locate the family of one "lost" brother > which has led to many pieces of the jigsaw falling into place. But it > also meant that a few pieces that I thought I had actually belong to a > completely different puzzle and it added a lot more pieces that don't > seem to want to fit anywhere. Everytime I think I have put a few > pieces nice and neatly into the puzzle some marauding event comes > along and upsets the whole lot and I need to start all over again :-) > > Hence the reason for my posting - Canonbar Holdings has crept into the > edge of the puzzle on me and while I know that I have seen Canonbar > mentioned here on the list before I never paid a great deal of > attention. > > Hence my request - is anyone in the position to give me a brief > overview of who and what Canonbar is or was in 1917? My interest is > not so much in Canonbar the property (thats a long way from the piece > of land I am researching) but rather the company that purchased land > in and around Nyngan. > > I guess the real question that I am asking is who and what made up > Canonbar Holdings in and around 1917 / 1918. > > Any help is most gratefully received!!!! > > Regards > Karen > > > ==== AUS-NSW-WEST Mailing List ==== > The Home Page for this List is at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/NSWW/ >