Thanks List for your questions on Alma / Timor and for 'WAKING TOM', knew the Timor reference would probably get a response. Sorry but I do enjoy his very informative and accurate responses to queries. regards Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Listerman" <nanknoo@hotmail.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Timor > hi Folks > putting off going out into the ice covered garden here on the goldfields > ...... > > Sam wrote: > snip: am wondering whether the TIMOR cemetary and TIMOR TULLAROOPSHIRE are > of the same place? I have a relative with the surname SAMPSON nee ORGAN who > I believe to have died and be buried there.... > > My reply: yes, they are, Tullarooop Shire becoming part of the current > Central Goldfields Shire in the amalgamations not too long ago. The early > Cemetery records were lost by the usual process, in a house fire. Other > listers and the Midlands (Maryborough District) Historical Society ( who > have a website) will have more info., on the area as well. > > There are many surviving headstones in the cemetery, including those of my > ggggrandmother, and alleged gggrandfather. The last one and a bit of the > very fancy timber Art Nouveau grave surrounds were still standing a year and > a bit ago, but most other timber headstones have gone. > > A map from c.1900 exists of the location of the houses for Timor-Bowenvale > > Note that there was almost continuous settlement, following the mining > leads, from the edge of the Crown Land where Dundas Road and Pekin Road from > Maryborough meet, through Leviathan Reef, to Chinaman's Flat to Bowenvale to > Timor, all in about 4 km, maybe less, with lateral settlement across to > Lower Alma (where my gggrandmother lived) to Alma itself. > > There was also reef mining in the area, with one minor reef being named > Hastings Reef, and mined by my ggrandfather of that surname. > > There's the remains of considerable lead mining in the area, including those > of puddling machines, some of the mullock heaps, and the huge arches which > supported the cornish pumps. There's also evidence of much later cyaniding. > > There will be lots of information on Alma, Timor, etc in the List Archives. > They're at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS > > but don't blame me if you get stuck in there for hours! Discipline, Doris! > > Tom > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Practice safe genealogy - don't include the personal details of the living. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: 9/07/05 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: 9/07/05