some snippets that may be of interest to some. Jenelle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold & Dorothy Abel" <hgabel@optusnet.com.au> To: <FHANQ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Gleanings by Dorothy No 175 > > > The World Charters Towers & Dalrymple FHA Inc No 61 November 2005-Miners Rights Cape River Miners Rights 30th September 1871 2 A4 pages of names helpful if chasing Chinese ancestors *Early Sports Activities On the Towers lots of names *HENRY PAGE Compiled by Les Halvorsen interesting story tells that Henry was born at Kingsbridge, in Devon, England he married Isabella MOLLISON at Townsville *The Northern Miner March 6 1919 Charters Towers Red Cross Society Number of socks knitted by each school and sent to Brisbane Centre March 1919 (don't miss this one names of children and their number of socks!) > > Mount Isa FHS Inc No 83 Nov 2005-*Combined Churches of Mount Isa 75th Anniversary *OPTOMETRISTS 1953 Board of Optical Registration AKES-YOUNG (long list worth a look) *Wally MAILMAN Based on a personal interview published in the North Queensland Register, May 20 1999-Wally was born near Auguthella, his great-grandfather was a Maori who heard of a whaling boat sailing for Australia. Wally competed in rodeos and his interest took him across to New Zealand and it was there that he met Jane and they married. Later the family moved to Mount Isa-Wally MAILMAN died Tuesday, 25 January 2000 aged 77 years > > The Ancestral Searcher The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc Vol 28 No 4 December 2005-http://www.hagsoc.org.au/ *How British Consuls' Archives can add value to family histories by Frank Murray *Australian Civilian Internees of the Japanese by Christina Twomey, School of Historical studies, Monash University *Two Contrasting Lives by Ted Frost tells story of two brothers Roger and Charles PITT born Tiverton, Devon came to Australia - Charles came to Queensland > > The Hawkesbury Crier Hawkesbury FHG September 2005-*Never Stop Looking Manslaughter at boxing in 1836 by Bill Shute-James GAUDRY was convicted for the manslaughter of James BISHOP. Other names Samuel TAYLOR, John BATES, John ALLCORN (sic), Charles GAUDREY John LUCAS, George KEYS, & Thomas MARTIN the authors John EARL was a witness *Mailing Lists in family history research *Subscriptions to the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society 1886-First on List A Friend, then ARNDELL-YEO *Table of attendance of certain children at the North Richmond Public School 1876-CLARKE James-EZZY Florence > > Herefordiensis Herefordshire FHS Vol IX No 8 January 2006- www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs * "My Grandfather" Henry Charles CLARKE 1868-1957 By Paul Clarke his grandfather was born in Birmingham he married Clara EMBREY both buried in Herefordshire *160 Years Ago From the Hereford Journal of October, November and December 1845 by John Harnden 15th October George HALL and John SULLIVAN got ten years transportation for burgling the house of Thomas PUGH at Ivington *10th December-Ledbury: Hannah BOWKETT, a young female from the workhouse, has been taken into custody for leaving her three week old male illegitimate child under a hedge in Bosbury -the child has survived and the mother is in gaol (now where does she fit into my BOWKETT family tree?) > > Progenitor GS of Northern Territory Inc. Vol 24 No 4 Dec2005 http://www.octa4.net.au/genient * Ground Breaking Greeks by Enid Woodley Tracing Greek Australians in the National Archives of Australia, mentions lots of Names *11th Congress to be hosted by Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory Inc. 1 - 4 June 2006 in Darwin Email: congress11@austernet.com.au > > Websites > Re The Hawkesbury Crier story - Never Stop Looking author Bill Shute provides this website - Decisions of the Supreme Courts of NSW 1788-1889 www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/html/family_history.htm > Napier Earthquake Death List http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/napier.html > > Hope all's well with you and yours - Dorothy > > > ============================== > 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 > >