*From the Australia Post web page:Why have postcodes?* Postcodes are allocated to geographic areas to facilitate the efficient processing and delivery of mail to customers. The current four digit numeric postcode system was introduced in 1967 in association with the first mechanised mail processing centre in Australia. Lynette Begg wrote: >Hi Liz, > >I'll be 50 in a couple of weeks and I can't remember any codes at all. I >vaguely remember the postcodes coming in, but never anything before that. >You never had to put it on your letters to post them - or do you disagree. >I'm sorry but I don't remember anything other than a town and state being >put in an address. Hope we solve this. > >Lynette > > >Lynette Begg >P.O. Box 289 >East Maitland NSW 2323 Australia > >BROBBEL One Name Study - brobbel@one-name.org Guild member 4139 researching >BROBBELs worldwide from all time periods. > >SUTHERLAND Family Reunion for descendants of Robert SUTHERLAND and Grace >LOUTFOOT / LIGHTFOOT on 14th & 15th October 2006 at St. John's Centre, >Morpeth NSW >Australia. Their grandchildren's surnames SUTHERLAND, HOY, RODEY, TICKLE, >SMITH, WINTERS, HENDERSON, WESTWATER, SMART, PETERSON, ISLES and MEDEW. >http://www.geocities.com/sutherlandreunion > >New England surnames from late 1800s - BERRY, BRIDGE, EGAN, FARDELL, >FENERTY, FRANCIS, GOODWIN, HANSON, HATCH, HAYDEN, HERON, HOLDER, HOY, >HUNTER, JONES, KELLY, LISLE, McMILLAN, OGILVIE, RODEY, SCOTT, SMITH (James >from Niangala), STEIR, SUTHERLAND, TICKLE (Henry from Quipolly), WEBB, >WINTERS, WOOD, WRITE > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Eliz Cook [mailto:divaandwillow@yahoo.com.au] >Sent: Friday, 16 June 2006 10:01 AM >To: AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [AUST] Assistance required > > >Hi Grant and others >I live in Victoria Australia >I remember when the 4 digit postcodes came into being. >Before that we had something like >S 10 >for populated places. >I am not that old either. >Perhaps the mail peoples would be able to help here. >I am ill at present but a look at the Australia Post web page may help >the search >Elizabeth >Lynette Begg wrote: > > > >>Hi Grant, >> >>I live very close to Largs, an outer 'suburb' of Maitland. We've never had >>any kind of postcodes like that here, just 4 numerals in this case, 2320. >> >> >I > > >>suggest it would be Largs somewhere else in the world and not in Australia. >> >>Lynette >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Grant Cargill [mailto:Gcargill@btinternet.com] >>Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:27 AM >>To: AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [AUST] Assistance required >> >> >>Hi Everyone, >> >>I have heard great things about this mailing list, so I thought I would see >>what assistance you could provide for me. >> >>Just after WW1 my great-aunt (Barbara Duncan) married William Adam and they >>soon moved to Australia from the NE of Scotland. I have been able to >> >> >obtain > > >>a photo which I believe to be of them and their family. I am very >> >> >confident > > >>that this photo is of them, and at the bottom of the photo it reads: >> >>"Dellow-Studio. >>Largs >>S-17" >> >>I have had a look around on the web and believe that there is a Largs in >> >> >NSW > > >>and one in South Australia. I also have checked a BMD database for NSW but >>I cannot see either William or Barbara there. >> >>I would love to be able to find out more about the family, in the >> >> >photograph > > >>there are five girls. Any help on the old postcode, if indeed that is what >>the S-17 is, would be of help and I can then be at least hopefully be >>searching in the correct state. >> >>Regards, >> >>Grant Cargill >> >> >> >>==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== >>Plea >> >> >> >> > > >==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== >For all Rootswebs lists check out >http://lists.rootsweb.com > >============================== >Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > >==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== >If you can help someone with an answer, Just edit their query as you reply . Quite un necessary to return their entire message. > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >

Hi List, I lived in Williamstown in Victoria and the old Postcode was W16 which then changed to 3016, hoe this helps, Colin Potter in Sunny Queensland (4053) Colin Jeffery Potter, searching for Potter,Preston,Bloodworth,Fowler,Thorpe in Rutlandshire England, Potter,Hurst,Orr,McNally,McMaster Wilson and Hackett in County Tyrone Northern Ireland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliz Cook" <divaandwillow@yahoo.com.au> To: <AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [AUST] Assistance required > ==== AUSTRALIA Mailing List ==== The address for posting any message to any Rootsweb list is ALWAYS LISTNAME-L@rootsweb.com ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/366 - Release Date: 15/06/2006