Thanks Grahame, have tried all those, but with no luck. Eve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grahame & Rosslyn Thom" <grthom@bigpond.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] KINNEAR > Hi Eve > > Re your enquiry Kinnear, the following sites are useful re arrivals but > yours dont seem to appear. > > cheers > > Grahame > > http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/ > > http://www.users.on.net/proformat/auspass1an.html > > http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/ > > on 17/12/03 4:50 PM, Eve Anderson at eanderson@bigfoot.com.au wrote: > > > This family tracing is a most frustrating business, I have enquired of the > > now owners of "Ballanee" and the only grave on the property is his mothers. > > I found the graves of their other two children on "Madowla Park" n/e of > > Echuca. It has been classified and it was so sad to see the little graveyard > > and graves in such a bad state when we visited there in 2001. > > Eve. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robyn Shaw" <mrshaw@bigpond.com> > > To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:34 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEELONG] KINNEAR > > > > > >> Don't live in hope with the burial ground. > >> I drove from Toowoomba, near Brisbane, to Croydon in far north Qld to find > >> my great grandfathers grave. > >> > >> Found afghan camel drivers, chinese gold miners, but no great grandfather. > >> He died in 1888. Local publican. Left a wife and a tribe of kids. > >> > >> Many people died up there and now some of the places where they were > > buried > >> as now fenced of and private property. You cannot get to them. > >> > >> Had similar trouble with Grong Grong. Floods, cattle stamping over them, > >> more floods (cemeteries are always put on awful ground to keep the best > > for > >> grazing). > >> > >> Maybe you need to ask a bit more to verify that you can even get to the > >> supposed place of burial. robyndehood. > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Eve Anderson" <eanderson@bigfoot.com.au> > >> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:20 PM > >> Subject: [GEELONG] KINNEAR > >> > >> > >>> Hello List, > >>> I am a new subscriber from W.A.and am looking to find when > > and > >> where and on which vessel my GGrandfather Robert Hill Kinnear and his wife > >> Rosalie Magdalene Catherine and their two children arrived in Australia in > >> 1852. I have had no luck with passenger lists. I have records from > > Pioneers > >> of Pt. Phillip (i know he came out from Scotland in 1839 and returned in > >> 1844. He took up land on the Mooroobool 1840-41) Married in Dundee 1847. > >> Sold their farm in Corston (Scotland) June/July 1851, (I have an original > >> poster for the "Finishing Sale" dated 8th July 1851 in Corston). Their > >> second child, month old Robert Shiell Kinnear was christened in Scotland > > on > >> 27th Oct 1851 and their little 4 year old daughter Rosalie Korn Kinnear > > died > >> on the property "Ballanee" (4 miles north of Ballan, Vic on 14th Sep 1852 > >> (no death reg. for her on the indexes only an entry in the family Bible I > >> have) and I have this obsession to find where she is buried so I can visit > >> her grave next year w! > >>> hen we go across to Vic. They had to have left after the end Oct 1851 > > and > >> arrived before he took up "Ballenee" (as it was spelt then) in July 1852. > >>> I know it's a big ask, but I am hoping some of the historians who are > > more > >> into this sort of thing than me, may be able to help me or give me some > >> clues as to what to do. > >>> My family motto is "I Live in Hope" above crossed anchors, so here's > >> hoping. > >>> Eve Anderson (nee Kinnear) W.A. > >>> > >>> > >>> ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > >>> Geelong & District and Bellarine Indexes : > >>> http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdbksrc1.asp > >>> http://www.zades.com.au/bellhs/bpnmsrc1.asp > >>> > >> > >> > >> ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > >> Geelong Family History Group : > >> http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist/index.htm > >> > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > > Geelong & District Churches : > > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdchur.htm > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Geelong & District Cemeteries : > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdcem.htm >