Hi Jenelle, Many thanks for your response. I would very much like to discount this fellow as being mine, however I guess you have to take the bad [if it comes] with the very, very good! Would you like me to keep you in the loop on this one? Kind regards, Jen -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jenelle McCarrick Sent: 30 March 2014 18:11 To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. Jen, I have the Martyr connection.I chased her information (Ernest's wife) not Riley. Jenelle. -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Jennifer Lambert Tracey Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2014 5:49 PM To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-QLD] William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. Hello to the List, Re: William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. There is a "William RILEY" charged with having burned down the Coongoola woolshed at Cunnamulla in August 1894. This Riley subsequently murdered Ernest Henry Martyr at Wallen near Coongoola, on 14 July 1895. There are many news reports - very repetitive - about the fire and the murder, but nothing that gives any useful information other than that he was working as a shearer in Cunnamulla in 1894 and then in 1907, confessed to the murder and the fire. In 1908 the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and a death sentence imposed, later commuted to life imprisonment ["The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts"]. My "William Riley", son of John RILEY and Sarah Florence EDWARDS, literally drops off the planet for about 30+ years from late 1907, just after his daughter Kathleen was born. Riley was working as a stockman in Mitchell, Qld. The family, William and his wife Annie [Vincent] Riley, lived in Bowen Street, Mitchell. Riley was 31 years old in 1907 and I have a Queensland death for him as 15 August 1952. I have also found reference to a "William Riley" working as a station hand on "Gordon Downs", via Clermont, Queensland in 1936. [Qld. Electoral Roll] - so if anyone can claim him as well, it would help greatly in my process of eradication. If anyone has a RILEY line with ties to Queensland, particularly western and north western Queensland, I would appreciate talking to you. My email address is noted below. Kind regards, Jen Dr. Jennifer Lambert Tracey BA (ANU);M.APP.SC.(UC); PhD (UC); MPHA; Archaeologist ~ Historian PO Box 629 Morayfield, Queensland 4506 AUSTRALIA Email: jtracey@heritagearchaeology.com.au Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes please, I think he was of unsound mind so maybe he spent some time in a sanatorium/hospital. Jenelle. -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Jennifer Lambert Tracey Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2014 6:32 PM To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. Hi Jenelle, Many thanks for your response. I would very much like to discount this fellow as being mine, however I guess you have to take the bad [if it comes] with the very, very good! Would you like me to keep you in the loop on this one? Kind regards, Jen -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jenelle McCarrick Sent: 30 March 2014 18:11 To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. Jen, I have the Martyr connection.I chased her information (Ernest's wife) not Riley. Jenelle. -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Jennifer Lambert Tracey Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2014 5:49 PM To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-QLD] William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. Hello to the List, Re: William RILEY - Coongoola Woolshed Fire, August 1894. There is a "William RILEY" charged with having burned down the Coongoola woolshed at Cunnamulla in August 1894. This Riley subsequently murdered Ernest Henry Martyr at Wallen near Coongoola, on 14 July 1895. There are many news reports - very repetitive - about the fire and the murder, but nothing that gives any useful information other than that he was working as a shearer in Cunnamulla in 1894 and then in 1907, confessed to the murder and the fire. In 1908 the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and a death sentence imposed, later commuted to life imprisonment ["The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts"]. My "William Riley", son of John RILEY and Sarah Florence EDWARDS, literally drops off the planet for about 30+ years from late 1907, just after his daughter Kathleen was born. Riley was working as a stockman in Mitchell, Qld. The family, William and his wife Annie [Vincent] Riley, lived in Bowen Street, Mitchell. Riley was 31 years old in 1907 and I have a Queensland death for him as 15 August 1952. I have also found reference to a "William Riley" working as a station hand on "Gordon Downs", via Clermont, Queensland in 1936. [Qld. Electoral Roll] - so if anyone can claim him as well, it would help greatly in my process of eradication. If anyone has a RILEY line with ties to Queensland, particularly western and north western Queensland, I would appreciate talking to you. My email address is noted below. Kind regards, Jen Dr. Jennifer Lambert Tracey BA (ANU);M.APP.SC.(UC); PhD (UC); MPHA; Archaeologist ~ Historian PO Box 629 Morayfield, Queensland 4506 AUSTRALIA Email: jtracey@heritagearchaeology.com.au Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message