Reg, The archives of the London Missionary Society, are held by the School of African and Oriental Studies part of the University of London. This is probably the reference you need. Office Use Only CWM/LMS/01/02/1 Title Registers of Legacies Date(s) of Creation 1817-1912 Level of Description Sub-Series Extent 6 boxes (9 vols) Held at: SOAS, University of London Description Registers containing information on legacies given to the London Missionary Society. Volumes include lists of benefactors, arranged chronologically by date in which the will was proven, information on next of kin, executors, the amount and the outcome of the legacy. Access Status Open Copyright Apply to SOAS Archives & Special Collections in the first instance Language(s) of Material English Achwr ======================================== Message Received: Aug 24 2013, 09:46 AM From: "David Rowlands" <drowlan1@bigpond.net.au> To: "REGINALD DAVIES" <regandpaddy@btinternet.com> Cc: "dyfed@rootsweb.com" <dyfed@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [Dyfed] William Evans, Newport and gold mining 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 ================================ 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 ACHWR