Thanks for trying. Regards, Terry ---------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Hanson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: RE: [AVNE] Lookups offer Melbourne Commercial & Squatters Directory 1854 > Terry, > > Sorry no listing. > > Anne > > -----Original Message----- > From: tjk2001 [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AVNE] Lookups offer Melbourne Commercial & Squatters > Directory > 1854 > Importance: High > > Hi Anne, > > Would be very interested to see if you have anything on a John Doughney > (Doheny) who apparently owned Wando Vale Station at some time between 1854 > & > 1861 > His occupations vaned as follows - Innkeeper, Labourer, Squatter, Miner > His son James died at Wando Vale in 1854 aged 12 > > Regards, > > Terry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Hanson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:26 PM > Subject: [AVNE] Lookups offer Melbourne Commercial & Squatters Directory > 1854 > > >> 27 July 2005 >> >> Hi All >> >> I have just purchased the above cd and am offering look ups BUT please >> when >> writing your look up request, give me the full name of the person you are >> looking for and if possible their occupation. I do not need any other >> details than the ones I've just mentioned. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Anne Hanson >> >> >

Way back in 1980 I started to research my family. Bits of information were gathered very slowly. In those days I had to write letters and post them , some even had to be sent by Airmail and then I had to wait for a reply ! Over the years I have put my Genealogy research to bed and vowed never to touch it again! Then things got a little better people got the internet. Still some branches of the tree were hard to find. One such branch lived in SA so information was scarce on documents. Since 1980 I have not been able to get much information on the Cook family. Then the mailing lists changed everything! In a space of one month (in 2005) I find my Cook relatives from all over. A friend of my relative saw my posting, recognised the name and within a week I was speaking to my 85 year old cousin who had photos and information to share! I then found my other Cook members by writing to a local family history society. I will now have to go on a road trip around Australia to meet all my "new" relatives. Cheers Kathryn

Dear Kathryn, I too have Cookes from S.A. I wondered if there might be a connection. Jas Cooke b 1814 in Scotland married Mary McPherson in Kingston S.A. One of their children Jas McPherson Cooke married Elizabeth McLaurin at Deniliquin NSW in 1893 They are buried in Brighton cemetery Victoria Happy Hunting, Margaret Kennedy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul & Kathryn Lucas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:01 AM Subject: [AVNE] The power of a mailing list and the internet > Way back in 1980 I started to research my family. Bits of information > were > gathered very slowly. In those days I had to write letters and post them , > some even had to be sent by Airmail and then I had to wait for a reply ! > > Over the years I have put my Genealogy research to bed and vowed never to > touch it again! > > Then things got a little better people got the internet. Still some > branches > of the tree were hard to find. > One such branch lived in SA so information was scarce on documents. Since > 1980 I have not been able to get much information on the Cook family. > Then the mailing lists changed everything! > In a space of one month (in 2005) I find my Cook relatives from all over. > A > friend of my relative saw my posting, recognised the name and within a > week > I was speaking to my 85 year old cousin who had photos and information to > share! > I then found my other Cook members by writing to a local family history > society. > > I will now have to go on a road trip around Australia to meet all my "new" > relatives. > > Cheers > Kathryn > >