Thank you for your input, Robert, you are quite right, it is the CARN baby I was referring to. I assume that the parents were at this goldfield when the baby was born. Conditions were I would imagine quite primitive, so if the baby was at all delicate it wouldn't have had much chance of surviving, as you and others have suggested. I agree, there is no doubt there would also have been some little ones who died and who didn't even make it on to the registers at all... I don't have actual birth-death records for this baby as yet. I do have the Digger references though, and the birth place is listed on the birth index as Kingower, and on the death index the birth place is just listed as JON. There is no reference on the death index to any other place. My thanks to you and to other listers who have sent replies on this. A special thank you also to Dorothy who was my original informant and who first sparked my curiosity about JON. Could Jordan's have been the location of the nearest cemetery to Kingower at the time, perhaps? Julie H. SNIP

I've been following this discussion due to the name Kingower. I have a family member who when their first child was born in NSW put that they were born in Kingower but there is no birth registered for him or a number of siblings and I wondered if anyone might have any suggestions on how I could prove that his parents might have been there at the time. The names are pretty common are not very easy ones to locate. I'm looking for James KELLY born circa 1860 to Thomas KELLY and either Margaret MOONEY or Catherine MARTIN. James also states that he married in NSW in 1879 to Mary Ann PERRY but this marriage isn't registered either. Other suspected children of Thomas & Margaret or Catherine, I'm missing birth information for are - Catherine - thought to have been born around Swan Hill and possibly a Thomas and a John. The only sibling registered in Victoria is Isabella b.1862 at Mount Hope Station Echuca. I presume if they were in Kingower, they were mining so it would be mining licences that I could look for, but are there any? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Regards Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of juliemhopper Sent: Monday, 20 October 2008 1:01 PM To: 'robert.j' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: More about place names Thank you for your input, Robert, you are quite right, it is the CARN baby I was referring to. I assume that the parents were at this goldfield when the baby was born. Conditions were I would imagine quite primitive, so if the baby was at all delicate it wouldn't have had much chance of surviving, as you and others have suggested. I agree, there is no doubt there would also have been some little ones who died and who didn't even make it on to the registers at all... I don't have actual birth-death records for this baby as yet. I do have the Digger references though, and the birth place is listed on the birth index as Kingower, and on the death index the birth place is just listed as JON. There is no reference on the death index to any other place. My thanks to you and to other listers who have sent replies on this. A special thank you also to Dorothy who was my original informant and who first sparked my curiosity about JON. Could Jordan's have been the location of the nearest cemetery to Kingower at the time, perhaps? Julie H. SNIP ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message