Hello listers Received this query from a Queenslander and I wonder if anyone on this list could offer her any knowledge, as I know little about the North East history. Of course, it could be too vague to evince an answer, but at least I have tried to put it where an answer might pop up! Here is the query: Please reply to the final address in the signature, thankyou ********************. A little while ago , there was an ongoing discussion on the AVNE site re deaths without death certs. I have a question, request, concern, that I have not been able to find an answer to. My grand mother told me about a small child (boy, I think) being lost in the bush in NEV and never found. My uncle now 80 confirms the story but is unsure iof the family the child came from (TANNER, BOURKE, FLYNN being the most likely names). 1. Would there be a police inquiry, coroner's hearing, etc? 2. How can I begin to look to narrow down exactly which child it was? There was talk of it perhaps having been raised by aborigines in the area, so I think it would probably be fairly early in the settlement of the NE. Hoping you might have a suggestion, Many thanks, "Rosalyn" <rosalynms@yahoo.com.au> regards, Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia formerly Ackerly DocuSearch