----- Original Message ----- From: "Nevada Jack" <[email protected]> To: "MR PETER.P.R.DAVENPORT" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Family History > You will need to post your message to [email protected] in order > for the list members to receive it. > > Regards, > Nevada Jack > List Administrator > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MR PETER.P.R.DAVENPORT" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:42 PM > Subject: Family History > > > > Re George Henry Davenport. Died 28/10/1936 Aged 73 Years District > Hospital Cunnamulla Qld Entry No 3378 > > George Henry Davenport. Marri 3/06/1895 > > Mary McCormack.....................3/06/1895 Thargomindah Qld > Australia Entry No 103 > > Mary McCormack............Died 23/6/1946 Aged 83 Years Mental > Hospital Toowoomba Qld Entry No 18216 > > The above is as far as I can trace my Grand Parents. Mary > Davenport nee McCormack her Farther I think Married a Rossanna McCann. > > Mary Davenport nee McCormack Parents lost there life on the S S > Yongala after it was sunk in a storm off the Queensland Coast of > Australia on the 28th March 1911. Found by Divers in 1958. My Grand > Mother. It was led to believe that she also was on the S S Yongala as > well,? Mary's 3 Children then aged. 12 years 7years and 4Years at the > time. Never found out about there Mother until after she was dead and > buried as a Pauper in Toowoomba with someone else.Having lost 2 Children > Francis James 5 months old 1900 and Henry George Carson Douglas drowned > 4.1/2 years. The loss of her Parents on top. The Estate was worth a > fortune at the time.But with her out of the way Mary and her Living > Children got nothing. As her Mother died first when the S S Yongala sank > being the weaker sex?.So the estate went to the other side of the family > Mary her Husband and Children got nothing. > > Peter Davenport > > > > >