Hello List,William Evans born 1830 at Parcymarriage, Newport, Pembrokeshire,  a master mariner, left the sea aged 38 and built a grand house (for Newport),which is today's Lloyd Bank at the Square. How did he have the means to do this? A local historian had suggested that he had made money in the Californian gold rush. After passing as a master mariner most of his sailings had been in the Atlantic. However his application to become a master showed that he sailed as a mate on the Alice of Sydney between 16 June and 18 November 1853. His application then showed a gap in his sailings of nearly 4 years. So assuming that the Alice sailed in Australian waters he can be shown to have been in that subcontinent. In his will, probate 1908, he bequeathed to the London Missionary Society a piece of land in the parish of Burrumbees, Victoria, Australia which I understand was once a gold mining area. Could this have been a source of his wealth? Can one find out the exact location of his land and what the Missionary Society did with it.   hwyl Reg Davies http://www.welshmariners.org.uk/

Hello Reg, There is a book listed in the National Library of Australia: * Local history ephemera. * File: NMFC 4424. * Material collated by the North Melbourne Library for the Local History Collection. * Three typed and photocopied letters written by William Evans to his mother and father. William Evans arrived in Victoria (Hobson's Bay, Port Phillip) from Wales in the year 1853. His letters dating 12th September 1853, 23rd September 1853 and 9th March 185? outline his travels, work, accommodation and personal relationships. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28180950?q&versionId=34092119 Good reading! Dai On 24/08/2013 08:53, REGINALD DAVIES wrote: > Hello List,William Evans born 1830 at Parcymarriage, Newport, Pembrokeshire, a master mariner, left the sea aged 38 and built a grand house (for Newport),which is today's Lloyd Bank at the Square. How did he have the means to do this? A local historian had suggested that he had made money in the Californian gold rush. > After passing as a master mariner most of his sailings had been in the Atlantic. However his application to become a master showed that he sailed as a mate on the Alice of Sydney between 16 June and 18 November 1853. His application then showed a gap in his sailings of nearly 4 years. So assuming that the Alice sailed in Australian waters he can be shown to have been in that subcontinent. > In his will, probate 1908, he bequeathed to the London Missionary Society a piece of land in the parish of Burrumbees, Victoria, Australia which I understand was once a gold mining area. Could this have been a source of his wealth? Can one find out the exact location of his land and what the Missionary Society did with it. > > hwyl > Reg Davies > http://www.welshmariners.org.uk/ > > ================================ > Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I think that might be 'Burrumbeet', Victoria, Reg. You could try searching Trove, the National Library of Australia's site which includes digitised newspapers (there are 52,000 odd hits for Burrumbeet!) http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=Burrumbeet Hwyl David Canberra On 24/08/2013, at 5:53 PM, REGINALD DAVIES <regandpaddy@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hello List,William Evans born 1830 at Parcymarriage, Newport, Pembrokeshire, a master mariner, left the sea aged 38 and built a grand house (for Newport),which is today's Lloyd Bank at the Square. How did he have the means to do this? A local historian had suggested that he had made money in the Californian gold rush. > After passing as a master mariner most of his sailings had been in the Atlantic. However his application to become a master showed that he sailed as a mate on the Alice of Sydney between 16 June and 18 November 1853. His application then showed a gap in his sailings of nearly 4 years. So assuming that the Alice sailed in Australian waters he can be shown to have been in that subcontinent. > In his will, probate 1908, he bequeathed to the London Missionary Society a piece of land in the parish of Burrumbees, Victoria, Australia which I understand was once a gold mining area. Could this have been a source of his wealth? Can one find out the exact location of his land and what the Missionary Society did with it. > > hwyl > Reg Davies > http://www.welshmariners.org.uk/ > > ================================ > Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message