Thanks Tom I"ll follow up the information you have given me. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Woolman" <woolmant@hotmail.com> To: <AUS-VIC-CENTRAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [AVC] William Wilson > Hello Andy and Listers, > > Here's the information I have on John Wilson, from the Obituary of my > relative, James Crawford, in the Kyneton Guardian, 16 August 1898. > > "the same year ( 1853) he managed a farm situated where the Newmarket > railway station now stands, for Mssrs Wilson and Bateman. Here he had charge > of the two imported Clydesdale Stallions, King Robert Bruce and Wilson's > Clyde....... In 1857, he leased from his old employer, Mr John Wilson, > Wilson's Clyde, an imported Clydesdale, and brought him to Kyneton, gaining > first prize at the show that year against another imported horse, Black > Prince........." > > How reliable this information is, is unknown. His wife and son who had > arrived in Victoria on 21/8/54 on the Morning Star, were still alive, so the > information may be quite accurate, although the events happened 40 years > before his death. > > While I'm at it, I'll list the coffin bearers "John, Hugh and James > Archibold, W. Crawford, J. Anderson, and J.Orr and the pallbearers, H.J. > Armstrong, J. Bailey, T. Milvain, F.E.Adamson, and J. Hobbs" > > Tom > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to > http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp >