Dear All I just love this article and had to share it with you all - it shows just how early we were beginning to become the egalitarian society we have today. " To the Editor of The Australian. SIR, - What are some of the Colonists about? Do they forget the Anniversary of the Foundation of the Colony? I should like to see two or three hundred sit down to dinner to celebrate the day - not like last year, to have, ten or a dozen people, to the exclusion of those who could not afford ten dollars. Five dollars should be enough for a good dinner and a bottle of wine for each gentleman. Yours, &c., A LONDONER. - The Australian (Sydney, NSW ) 20 January 1830" Happy Australia Day Carol Brill.

I did a fair amount of research into the NSW Corp (as they were known as then) When the NZ soldiers needed reinforcements in their battle against the Maori in the Waikato they called for reinforcement from Sydney. The enticement was land grants in return for the services of the NSW soldiers. I was researching one connections of my late grandfather and discovered he was part of the British contingent to NSW who had answered the NZ call. In return he was granted land in Invercargill and posted there as the Migration Officer for a time. Cheers, Ainslie.

Sharon Memorial notice from the Examiner website, 1 January 2015. CANNON, Robin Allan (Robbie) - August 2, 1926 - January 1, 2014 Missing you today and every day Dad but especially Sundays. Love you Dad. RIP. - Denise Can't find a death notice for January 2014, but the Examiner changed it's Notices/Announcements setup last year, and only seems to have more recent notices. He's not on the online index for Carr Villa Memorial Park. http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/lcc/index.php?c=30&burial_search=1#search_results Judy

Hi Sharon, Reference to him in the Tasmanian Govt. Gazette, 2 April 2014 - NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hobart an election to administer the estate(s) of ROBIN ALLAN CANNON late of 110 George Town Road Newnham in Tasmania retired builder/married man deceased Dated this 2nd day of April 2014. DAVID BENBOW, Chief Executive Officer, Public Trustee. Cheers, Peter On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Sharon Finn via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all, Thanks for fantastic response. Bessie was Robin's mother. > Thanks to you all I now have her parents. > > Robin's father, Gordon Douglas Cannon, was the son of James Cannon, > engineer (married in England, divorced in Tasmania, remarried and died in > Launceston) I have that OK. > > Gordon seems to have disappeared off the scene after about 1928. I have a > death in Victoria but cannot yet prove it is the same man. > Gordon Douglas Cannon > Birth Year: abt 1896 > Age: 73 > Death Place: Windsor, Victoria > Registration Year: 1969 > Registration Place: Victoria > Registration Number: 6200 > > Robin's wife is one of my Andrews family descendants. I am trying to tie > up some very loose ends with another Cannon marriage. > If anyone can easily check ona death for Robin Allan Cannon - I would be > grateful I have looked in Trove, Ancestry, Family Search etc. but his > death is probably too recent for me to get the details. > > regards > Sharon > > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:44:47 -0800 > From: ejhanford@att.net > Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] re Robin CANNON 2/8/1926 Launceston > To: psym8950@bigpond.net.au; aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com; > sharonfinn@hotmail.com > > Sharon,It would seem that Bessie would more likely have been the mother of > Robin Alan Cannon.In the electoral rolls, he is listed with Margaret Jessie > Cannon:1949 Bass Launceston South -- 81 Melbourne street as a carpenter > 1949 & 1954 Wilmot Beaconsfield - Ilfraville as a > carpenterCheers,ElaineTAS Descendant in Reno, Nevada > > On Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:30 PM, symonds3 via < > aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi Sharon,His name turns up on the > WW2 Nominal Roll - Robin Alan CANNON, born 2 August 1926 at > Launceston-Tas. His next-of-kin is Bessie but it doesn't say if that is > his mother or spouse. > http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=784356CheersTrishNowra > NSW> If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would > > appreciate the details.> Sharon > Finn-------------------------------AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/Contact Admin > AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.comSearch the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in > the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl-------------------------------To > unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi all, Thanks for fantastic response. Bessie was Robin's mother. Thanks to you all I now have her parents. Robin's father, Gordon Douglas Cannon, was the son of James Cannon, engineer (married in England, divorced in Tasmania, remarried and died in Launceston) I have that OK. Gordon seems to have disappeared off the scene after about 1928. I have a death in Victoria but cannot yet prove it is the same man. Gordon Douglas Cannon Birth Year: abt 1896 Age: 73 Death Place: Windsor, Victoria Registration Year: 1969 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 6200 Robin's wife is one of my Andrews family descendants. I am trying to tie up some very loose ends with another Cannon marriage. If anyone can easily check ona death for Robin Allan Cannon - I would be grateful I have looked in Trove, Ancestry, Family Search etc. but his death is probably too recent for me to get the details. regards Sharon Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:44:47 -0800 From: ejhanford@att.net Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] re Robin CANNON 2/8/1926 Launceston To: psym8950@bigpond.net.au; aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com; sharonfinn@hotmail.com Sharon,It would seem that Bessie would more likely have been the mother of Robin Alan Cannon.In the electoral rolls, he is listed with Margaret Jessie Cannon:1949 Bass Launceston South -- 81 Melbourne street as a carpenter 1949 & 1954 Wilmot Beaconsfield - Ilfraville as a carpenterCheers,ElaineTAS Descendant in Reno, Nevada On Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:30 PM, symonds3 via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi Sharon,His name turns up on the WW2 Nominal Roll - Robin Alan CANNON, born 2 August 1926 at Launceston-Tas. His next-of-kin is Bessie but it doesn't say if that is his mother or spouse.http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=784356CheersTrishNowra NSW> If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would > appreciate the details.> Sharon Finn-------------------------------AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.comSearch the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box)http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl-------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Sharon, His name turns up on the WW2 Nominal Roll - Robin Alan CANNON, born 2 August 1926 at Launceston-Tas. His next-of-kin is Bessie but it doesn't say if that is his mother or spouse. http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=784356 Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would > appreciate the details. > Sharon Finn

Hi List If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would appreciate the details. regards Sharon Finn

Sharon, Here it is: trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/154053642 Douglas On 25/01/2015 1:13 PM, Sharon Finn via wrote: > Hi List > > If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would appreciate the details. > > regards > Sharon Finn > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I would like to sincerely thank Suzanne Griffin for her much valued continued support for her assistance in researching. Suzanne, you are a gem. Ann Daniel

Sharon, It would seem that Bessie would more likely have been the mother of Robin Alan Cannon. In the electoral rolls, he is listed with Margaret Jessie Cannon: * 1949 Bass Launceston South -- 81 Melbourne street as a carpenter * 1949 & 1954 Wilmot Beaconsfield - Ilfraville as a carpenter Cheers, Elaine TAS Descendant in Reno, Nevada On Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:30 PM, symonds3 via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi Sharon, His name turns up on the WW2 Nominal Roll - Robin Alan CANNON, born 2 August 1926 at Launceston-Tas. His next-of-kin is Bessie but it doesn't say if that is his mother or spouse. http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=784356 Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > If anyone has access to the birth records for this fellow, I would > appreciate the details. > Sharon Finn ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear List I am looking for a man called Horace Cooley (not connected with the Coolies Hotel in Moonah) Horace was transported from Canada with the other Canadian Rebels to Hobart on the Buffalo in 1840. He was sent to Port Arthur for 2 years for attempting to escape. He received his T/L in 1844 and a Conditional Pardon in 1849. Cooley did not leave when most of the other Canadian’s left Tasmania. I found him when I was writing about Henry Woods at the Springs, Henry worked for him at the foot hills of Mt Wellington, building a track and taking out timber. This would have been in the early 1850s. Cooley applied for 1,500 aces of Crown Land in 1952. He seems to have married Mary Skinner in 1850, but from there I can find no trace of him. Did her leave and go to another part of Australia or even back to Canada? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Regards Irene Schaffer Hobart 2/5a Marys Hope Road Rosetta 7010 03 62 722 124 irene.schaffer@bigpond.com http://www.tasfamily.net.au/~schafferi

For my book about Sarah, the femme fatale in the case, I am looking for information about major players at the 1877 inquest, which was held at the Franklin Police Court. I've got loads on Sarah and on Michael Bakey and his family, and some on Dennis O'Reilly, her lover, but nothing so far on the rest. Is anyone descended from, or has anyone done any research on the following characters? Victim: Thomas Lynch Dennis/Denis O'Reilly/Riley, farmer (Sarah Oakford's lover) Catherine Connors, widow from Franklin Mrs Daley, Franklin Martin Cawley, labourer James O'Brien, farmer, Sandfly Road. The Carrs Wm Smith, GP at Franklin. Grateful for any help Susan

Hi I have a family that I am having trouble finding births for Dennis LEARY abt 1862 said to have been born Westbury Tas when Dennis married Annie Bailey he had a family of 9 and I can only find 3 births Ellen , Margaret and Annie the ones I cannot find are Cornelius abt 1884 Catherine abt 1887 John abt 1888 Susan abt 1891 Dennis abt 1898 Mary Ann abt 1902 all are said to be born Devonport area. any assistance would be most appreciated Rod

Advocate 30 Apr 1937Obit for Cornelius LEARY names three daughters and five sons and other close family.  

Thanks to everyone who has been helping me track down the Bakey/Beakey family. Susan

Dear All, Re. my recent query for any info. relating to William Longshaw and his wife Margaret Myers, who sold their property in Hobart to James Mitchell in 1814, I took an educated guess that Longshaw might have a been a departing soldier serving in the 73rd Regiment, which left for Sri Lanka that year. He was. (I had a head start, as my g.g.g.grandfather John Grierson also served in the 73rd in VDL, and I already knew the regiment's movements.) Best wishes, Carol Brill.

List The software that I suggested is NOT an OCR type programme ! It is a programme that allows you to do the old fashioned thing of transcribing a handwritten item, but it is ALL within ONE programme, instead of the system of having to chop, change and juggle between two or more programmes. As Carolyn stated in yesterday's mails, it does work, BUT ... you have to do the transcribing, and it keeps up with you line by line ! I fully agree that there is tooooo much variability within hand writing over the centuries to be able to have a good OCR specifically for it. I wish there was, as most of my current research is using pre 1600 Scottish handwritten documents and a successful OCR programme would be heaven for these wonderful variable hands. Louise Gibson Burnie, Tasmania On 21/01/2015 3:14 AM, Elaine Hanford wrote: > Peter, > > There is a good overview of the technology....and massive problems....associated with > converting handwriting into digitized text at the following site" > > http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2014/07/collaborative-digitization-at-ala-2014.html > > Given the variability amongst hand-written documents, the task of creating a program to > convert them correctly to digitized text seems exceedingly difficult. > Like you, anyone who has transcribed old hand-written records knows the difficulty of > simply reading the handwriting....and the tedious process of transcribing it to a more > user-friendly format. > > cheers, > Elaine > TAS Descendant in Reno, Nevada

Replying 0n list in case there are 0thers c0nnected with this line. I have a b00k published in 1993 by R0y A. Peck (excuse typing as I have a n0n functi0ning letter '0' and have t0 use the numeral '0' instead until the c0mputer c0mpany can get the right keys!!) N0w: The b00k menti0ns a Mary Ellen Br0wn b0rn 17th April, 1865 d 30th N0v 1932 Married a J0hn Waddell Br0wn 0n 17th January 1881. happy t0 d0 any 0ther l00k-ups The Br0wn family f0unded the Beac0nsfield G0ldmine many years ag0. Regards, Ainslie Pyne (nee Br0wn)

Susan, I think you will find that it is standard practice not to include the possessive apostrophe in geographical names - I doubt you will find a road sign with one. The other variation often adopted in practice is to drop the 's' as well (ie Chitty's Road becomes Chitty Road). Here in North Queensland the powers-that-be are obsessed with naming every geographical and man-made feature alike (even road culverts!) after some notable person, but you will rarely see the possesive form of a name. Therefore when searching Trove, or other sources, always use the short form of the name. -- Regards Mike Hurburgh --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Caution! I recently downloaded "Free OCR to Word" and it brought with it a program called "Ads By Surfkeepit" >From that moment on any work on the web was bombarded by pop up adverts. It took some research and a whole lot of effort to get rid of the offending program. Despite the above the OCR program works very well and is easy to use. Have not tried it on handwriting though. Murray NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise Gibson via" <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> To: <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com>; "Peter Oakley" <pete.j.oakley@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Hand Writing /ICR software - anyone used such? > Hello Peter and List > > Only last night, in Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, mention > was made of a > freebie that does what it is I think you need. > Details of his article, together with the details of the programme, called > Transcribe, can > be found at: > <http://blog.eogn.com/2015/01/17/transcript-a-windows-program-for-transcribing-documents/> > > Louise Gibson > Burnie, Tasmania > > > On 20/01/2015 11:53 AM, aus-tasmania-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:08:20 +1100 >> From: Peter Oakley <pete.j.oakley@gmail.com> >> Subject: [AUS-Tas] Hand Writing /ICR software - anyone used such? >> To: "AUS-Tasmania@rootsweb.com" <AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com> >>> >> Hi Listers, >> >> I've been wondering if anyone has used hand writing recognition software >> (or Intelligent Character recognition)? >> >> This software can be utilised on (particularly) cursive hand writing and >> converts it to text as opposed to OCR which is used on block text >> formats. >> ( results can be up to 97% successful -but I think that's exaggerating >> !!) >> >> I've used AABBY Fine Reader a number of times on text pages from books >> but >> I keep looking at all the material I have that has been hand written and >> shudder at trying to translate it all manually. Especially when your a >> two >> fingered pecker on the keyboard like myself !. >> >> Has anyone used a free version of such a software with any success or am >> I >> delving into unknown territory? I've noticed some software such as AABBY >> Flexicapture but at $400 way out of my league! >> >> Hoping someone can point to something that might be useful? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 9 >> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:43:44 +1100 >> From: David Cripps <cripps@netspace.net.au> >> Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Hand Writing /ICR software - anyone used such? >> To: Peter Oakley via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <733388798.20150120114344@netspace.net.au> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> >> Hello Peter, >> Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 11:08:20 AM, you wrote: >> > Hi Listers, >> > I've been wondering if anyone has used hand writing recognition >> software >> > (or Intelligent Character recognition)? >> > This software can be utilised on (particularly) cursive hand >> writing and >> > converts it to text as opposed to OCR which is used on block text >> formats. >> > ( results can be up to 97% successful -but I think that's >> exaggerating !!) >> > I've used AABBY Fine Reader a number of times on text pages from >> books but >> > I keep looking at all the material I have that has been hand >> written and >> > shudder at trying to translate it all manually. Especially when >> your a two >> > fingered pecker on the keyboard like myself !. >> > Has anyone used a free version of such a software with any success >> or am I >> > delving into unknown territory? I've noticed some software such as >> AABBY >> > Flexicapture but at $400 way out of my league! >> > Hoping someone can point to something that might be useful? >> You ask an interesting question Peter, one I'll sit back and >> watch with >> interest. >> My first thought after looking at some of my old letters from 1861 >> and a bit >> later, is that piece of software will have to be damn intelligent >> to >> decipher some of those flowery swirls both above and below the line >> in that >> cursive script. >> I've only been able to properly transcribe some letters after looking >> at the >> word repetitions and the use of the first letter in each word within >> the >> sentences, and then looking at the likely possibilities. After >> countless >> coffees too of course and forced repeats of each transcription to >> double >> check. >> As you say OCR just won't cut it and the thought of having to >> transcribe >> lots of these letters is cause enough to distract you onto other >> things<g>. >> Again, thanks for the question; It at least made me spend a few >> minutes >> checking out Flexicapture. >> Cheers >> Dave Cripps >> -- >> David Cripps, Tasmania <[1]cripps@netspace.net.au> >> >> References >> >> 1. mailto:cripps@netspace.net.au >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the AUS-TASMANIA list administrator, send an email to >> AUS-TASMANIA-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the AUS-TASMANIA mailing list, send an email to >> AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the >> body of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of AUS-TASMANIA Digest, Vol 10, Issue 19 >> ******************************************** >> > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message