I may be geographically challenged but I always understood that the Jordan Goldfields were in Gippsland around the Walhalla area which is a long way from Kingower! Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robert.j Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2008 5:28 PM To: juliemhopper Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: More about place names Hi, Julie is referring to the unnamed baby daughter of Thomas CARN and Ann CARN nee MARTIN, the indexes indicate that the baby's birth was registered in 1859 at Kingower and the death of one day old baby CARN is in the indexes for 1859 - and the *birth* location in the indexes for the death is JON. JON I would imagine refers to the JORDAN goldfields - which are in the same region as Kingower - maybe 7 or 8 miles south westish of Kingower away - less as the crow flies?? It is worth noting that the abbreviation JON only appears about 6 times - and in each case it refers to the birth location of a deceased child - about 5 from 1859 and one in 1856. I can't help with any cemetery information - but googling Jordan with Kingower or Dunolly or Wehl or Rheola should help with some of the eraly history of the place ... was the baby buried in JON ??? - hmm - I really don't know - good luck Robert in melbourne juliemhopper wrote: > Greetings all, > > Courtesy of a kind lister, I now have a family record for the birth and > death of an infant whose existence I had not previously known of. The birth > and death were in 1858, on the same day - the child was unnamed. > > On the birth record the place name is KINGOWER, which is near Bridgewater in > central Victoria. But on the death record the place name is JON, which > presumably would not be far from Kingower. The person who gave me the info > suggests that this may be an abbreviation for a cemetery listed as JORDAN'S > DIGGINGS. Does anyone have any further information about this place name? > Julie H. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- 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