Dear List, I am trying to locate the passenger list for the ship Ventura, which left Auckland New Zealand on 25 Aug 1901, arriving in San Francisco on 15 September 1901. Both my grandfather (who resided in Dunedin) and my grandmother (who resided in Melbourne) were on this ship, where they met and later married. Would anyone know of an archives or a library that might have this info, or a microfilm? I have tried to find this ship in the arrivals in San Francisco with no success. Thanks for your help. Marilyn in Idaho, USA [email protected]

Hello Listers, Could someone advise me how best to find out if a family returned to England in the late 19th century? Any help greatly appreciated. Regards, Beverley NSW

I have the following ads if anyone is interested and connects to the names. I am happy to send copy Stevenson and Elliot, for carriages buggies and waggons 177,179 and 181 King St Melbourne Douglas and Sons for Mantlepieces Marble and Enammelled Slate - Gasfitting, Hearths and other house related products. 108,108a and 110 Flinders Lane east W.T. Keith - manager of Apollo Hall Eastern Arcade Bourke St E Melbourne Mrs. J. F. Roberts - Imperial - registry offices for servants 13 and 15 Bourke St W, Melbourne. Cheers Denise

Hi Sybil, Good Friday 1872 was 29th March have a look at: http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Cheers, Robynne ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 7:55 PM Subject: [A.G.R. ] Good Friday 1872 Would a kind soul please tell me the date of Good Friday in 1872? Many thanks Sybil Cameron ==== AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Mailing List ==== Have you visited AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Web site yet? Please do? And do sign our visitors book? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ausgenres/ ************************************************************************ SAVE OUR CENSUS! ON 7 AUG 2001 TICK "YES" Want to know more? See: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~affho/affho-07.htm ==================================================== Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! ==================================================== Searchable Archives at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-GEN-RESEARCH-L ============================== Ancestry.com--Your #1 Source for Family History Online--FREE for 14 Days http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1238

In October 1874 the head office of the above was at 15 Queen Street Melbourne Directors were WM McCulloch Esq H.A. Crawford Esq Hartley Williams Esq Hon W Ramsay M.P John Ella Esq W.G. Lempriere Esq Agent for Avoca was J.F. Paten I would like to communicate with anyone who has more history of the company during that time. regards Denise Denise Marriott McMahon Researching - Crawford * Foster * McNeil * Haeffner * Conway * Noonan * Sherry * Pinner * Marriott * Hall * Simmonds * Sennett

Would a kind soul please tell me the date of Good Friday in 1872? Many thanks Sybil Cameron

29th March 1872 - Good Friday Cheers Chris Bryce (Qld) Cameron wrote: > Would a kind soul please tell me the date of Good Friday in 1872? > > Many thanks > > Sybil Cameron

To all who responded to my question re the family video.....I thank you. I've forwarded on the information to my cousin in the States, and she will get it copied to the correct one for us. Again, thankyou all.........you make it easy. regards Denise Denise Marriott McMahon Researching - Crawford * Foster * McNeil * Haeffner * Conway * Noonan * Sherry * Pinner * Marriott * Hall * Simmonds * Sennett

Hi Diana, Many thanks for checking for me. I think the Mary A. LAYTON who died in 1888 must have been another as I'm pretty sure the one I'm after died before her husband remarried in 1857. Does it have a place for the 1888 death? Cheers Jan >Jan, I checked the Aust. Vital records and Mary Ann's marriage entry was the >only entry for any CORINGS. She must have arrived in Australia alone. >There was a Death entry for Mary A. Layton in 1888. >Diana Sydney

Jan, I checked the Aust. Vital records and Mary Ann's marriage entry was the only entry for any CORINGS. She must have arrived in Australia alone. There was a Death entry for Mary A. Layton in 1888. Diana Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: Jan Glasby <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:34 AM Subject: [A.G.R. ] CORING > Hi all, > > I need some help with one of my dead ends. Mary Ann CORING married William > LAYTON in 1842 in Scots Presbyterian Church Sydney. They had 4 children, > the last being Mary Ann born 26 Sept 1850 at Clarence River. William > remarried Jane TUMAH in 1857, so what happened to Mary Ann CORING? > > I haven't been able to find Mary Ann's death, in fact I haven't been able > to find any other CORINGs at all in the NSW BDMs up to 1888. Did Mary Ann > come to Australia by herself? Where did she come from? When did she die? > Who were her parents? Any leads greatly appreciated! > > Cheers > Jan > > > ==== AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Mailing List ==== > Have you visited AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Web site yet? > Please do? And do sign our visitors book? > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ausgenres/ > ************************************************************************ > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > If you are leaving town for the Holidays or on vacation, > unsubscribe while you are gone, so your mailbox doesn't > fill up > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Please take me from the list as I,m going on holiday......Denise http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.

A slight clarification, in Australia we have the PAL Television system as used in much of Europe. In the U.S.A. they use the NTSC (never the same colour) Television system, the signals of the two are incompatible, however some modern machines, both TV's and Videos have the ability to be switched from one system to the other. Hence the situation of some people being able to watch the videos and some not. The VHS system refers to the method of storing the signal on the video tape and not the type of signal on the tape. Most videos are nowadays VHS however there are probably some who still have the old (and better) BETA sytem but they are few and far between. You can liken the beta and vhs argument to PC and Mac in computers every one knows that Mac is better but not many buy them cos you cant get the same amount of purpose made software etc. just as you don't see many beta videos in the video stores! Regards Tony from Bairnsdale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [A.G.R. ] Family reunion Video > Dear Denise, I met with that same problem. I live in Arizona and here in > the USA we have the VHS system. In Australia they have the PAL system. > If you can find a transcribing service that can put the VHS into its machine > and a blank in the PAL machine and get the two machines to "talk to each > other", you should have a tape that you can view. > > On the other hand, if you have the same cam corder that they used at the > reunion, you can view it on the cam corder and look at a 2inch x 2 inch > screen to see what the reunion was all about. > hope this helps, > cheers, Beverly Markham. > Life on Earth is Expensive, but at least > you get a free trip around the sun....... > So wear a hat and enjoy the ride! > > > > ==== AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Mailing List ==== > Have you visited AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Web site yet? > Please do? And do sign our visitors book? > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ausgenres/ > ************************************************************************ > SAVE OUR CENSUS! ON 7 AUG 2001 TICK "YES" > Want to know more? > See: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~affho/affho-07.htm > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > ==================================================== > Searchable Archives at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-GEN-RESEARCH -L > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Dear Friends, I have recently purchased a wonderful little new book written by a friend of a friend and feel that many of you would enjoy it too. It is called "Remembered In Stone" and contains transcriptions of a couple of hundred of the most intersting tombstones in the Ballarat New Cemetery. The author is Marg McPHEE and she is currently working on Book 2, which will be the Ballarat Old Cemetery. As this book is privately published, you can obtain a copy by emailing Marg (not me) at <[email protected] > The cost is $13.50 + $1.50 Postage within Australia. Thanks. David in Ballarat

Hi Denise, Cheryl and All. As Cheryl said, it is not that "newer" We purchased ours 18 months before the movie Free Willy came out as our friends had sent the video to my boys as a Xmas present. that is a few years back now. At the time it was about the same price for one that played the US videos, but dearer by a long way for one that would record in that medium. Cheers Jacqui Cunningham Central Victoria http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!" > Hi Denise, > > I have a friend in America and we have exchanged videos etc, and they work fine on my VCR. I agree with Jacqui Cunningham though, that it may only be certain 'newer' model VCR's that can play > them, as I remember (vaguely *G*) discussing this with the salesperson when I bought mine. It was a few years ago now though, so they don't have to be THAT new :) Oh yeah, and mine was not > an expensive one by any means. > > I now have an American video in front of me, and the sticker on it gives the brand as TDK HS (Super Avilyn) and the number on the actual black casing says T160HS. This may or may not be > of any use, but you never know. > > Good luck. > > Cheryl > >

Hi Denise, I have a friend in America and we have exchanged videos etc, and they work fine on my VCR. I agree with Jacqui Cunningham though, that it may only be certain 'newer' model VCR's that can play them, as I remember (vaguely *G*) discussing this with the salesperson when I bought mine. It was a few years ago now though, so they don't have to be THAT new :) Oh yeah, and mine was not an expensive one by any means. I now have an American video in front of me, and the sticker on it gives the brand as TDK HS (Super Avilyn) and the number on the actual black casing says T160HS. This may or may not be of any use, but you never know. Good luck. Cheryl > Subject: [A.G.R. ] Family reunion Video > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:46:45 +1000 > From: "Denise McMahon" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > On my trip to the States last month to a family reunion, I was asked if I would like to have a copy of the video taken on the day. > > We now are wondering if their videos over there will work on ours here. I have heard not. > > So I am hoping a lister may be able to tell me what type of videos we have here. Sorry to be vague about this, but I am useless even when it comes to turning the stupid thing on. > > The rellie works at a Uni and the media department is prepared to do whatever is necessary to put the video onto the appropriate type > > regards Denise > > ______________________________ > > > Subject: Re: [A.G.R. ] Family reunion Video > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:57:40 +1000 > From: "G & J Cunningham" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hi Denise, > We have a video player that plays NTCS videos. We have friends in the States > who send them over. They will not play on the older videos. But most modern > ones do both I think. > Cheers > Jacqui Cunningham > Central Victoria >

Hi all, I need some help with one of my dead ends. Mary Ann CORING married William LAYTON in 1842 in Scots Presbyterian Church Sydney. They had 4 children, the last being Mary Ann born 26 Sept 1850 at Clarence River. William remarried Jane TUMAH in 1857, so what happened to Mary Ann CORING? I haven't been able to find Mary Ann's death, in fact I haven't been able to find any other CORINGs at all in the NSW BDMs up to 1888. Did Mary Ann come to Australia by herself? Where did she come from? When did she die? Who were her parents? Any leads greatly appreciated! Cheers Jan

Hi List, I just love some of the descriptions they used. But poor old Joseph LEECH may have had no choice but to take Letitia WATT. I have uploaded the Gazette index to 20/4/1855 onto the web site. (see signature) Victoria Police Gazette, April 20, 1855: Extracts from N.S.W. Crime Reports. "Joseph LEECH is charged with stealing, at 9 o'clock in the evening of the 7th day of March, 1855, four blankets, several shirts, and about eight pounds in money, in one pound notes, the property of Joseph WATT, at Greenhills. Joseph LEECH is about 50 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, fair complexion with burly face, light hair, walks very badly, having had a bad leg for many years, and has very short feet; dressed in moleskin trousers, Scotch twill shirt, blue frock, cabbage-tree hat, and laced-up boots. He left in company with the wife of the man he robbed, who is a tall masculine woman, of fair complexion and light hair; she has a large nose, with a deep dent on the bridge, is about 35 years of age, and very wild in her behaviour. The parties have been seen making for Goulburn, and the woman has taken the name DAVIS, who says she has a husband in that town. Joseph WATT offers a reward of five pounds for the apprehension of LEECH and his wife, Letitia WATT. Warrants have been granted by the Shoalhaven Bench." Cheers Jacqui Cunningham Central Victoria http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!"

Dear Denise, As far as I know they will not work in Australia, you will have to take it and have it converted to our system. OK if from the UK. Sorry about that. I used to get my sister to send the latest Walt Disney films for my kids as we in Australia would get them a few years later and I had them converted. Best wishes Amanda

Subject: [A.G.R. ] Family reunion Video > We now are wondering if their videos over there will work on ours here. I have heard not. > Hi Denise, We have a video player that plays NTCS videos. We have friends in the States who send them over. They will not play on the older videos. But most modern ones do both I think. Cheers Jacqui Cunningham Central Victoria http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!"

On my trip to the States last month to a family reunion, I was asked if I would like to have a copy of the video taken on the day. We now are wondering if their videos over there will work on ours here. I have heard not. So I am hoping a lister may be able to tell me what type of videos we have here. Sorry to be vague about this, but I am useless even when it comes to turning the stupid thing on. The rellie works at a Uni and the media department is prepared to do whatever is necessary to put the video onto the appropriate type regards Denise