Hi all Having complained off-list to Geoffro yesterday that there was no-one at the get together with COOPER connections, I woke this morning to a long e-mail from Pam Ray in Australia, replying to a message I sent her in May. She has Hawkesbury COOPER connections, and I did correspond with her several years ago. If anyone can find copies of our previous correspondence, I would be very pleased. Pam has just returned from a four month European tour, much spent in Norway doing research on her father's family about whom she is writing a book. She did, however, visit both Hawkesbury and Horton, where she said it was raining. Pam attended the recent Australasian Congress on Genealogy in Perth, where she delivered a paper. She also met Shirley STONE, but has not yet had contact with Roderick COOPER. Pam uses a Mac, so is going to post me some stuff rather than send it as an attachment. I will let you all know what she has. She is obviously very busy, and thinks membership of the mailing list may be more than she can cope with. I have said that I will forward items of interest. These Australians can be so helpful .... Bob Lawrence

This is brilliant news. I, for one, am on the edge of my chair. Geoffro

At 11:20 AM 11/10/2000 +0100, you wrote: >Hi all > >Having complained off-list to Geoffro yesterday that there was no-one at the >get together with COOPER connections, I woke this morning to a long e-mail >from Pam Ray in Australia, replying to a message I sent her in May. She has >Hawkesbury COOPER connections, and I did correspond with her several years >ago. If anyone can find copies of our previous correspondence, I would be >very pleased. > >Pam has just returned from a four month European tour, much spent in Norway >doing research on her father's family about whom she is writing a book. She >did, however, visit both Hawkesbury and Horton, where she said it was >raining. > >Pam attended the recent Australasian Congress on Genealogy in Perth, where >she delivered a paper. She also met Shirley STONE, but has not yet had >contact with Roderick COOPER. > >Pam uses a Mac, so is going to post me some stuff rather than send it as an >attachment. I will let you all know what she has. She is obviously very >busy, and thinks membership of the mailing list may be more than she can >cope with. I have said that I will forward items of interest. > >These Australians can be so helpful .... > >Bob Lawrence > G'day Bob Would that be like James and Edward COOPER of Horton, sons of Joseph and Harriet nee SIMMONDS, who arrived Sydney with their families per "Petrel" 1849? I have a couple of researchers listed for these families and Geoff has sent me info. If this is Pam's family I would be happy to make contact (or of course if she had other GLS family who came to Oz pre 1888). Regards Kaye Kaye Purnell <kayepur@ozemail.com.au> Ancestors from GLS who came to Oz? Database kept on GLS arrivals to AUS pre 1888. Entries happily accepted; searches done. Visit my site at <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kayepur>. Snail mail to 15 Balla Machree Way, Gymea Bay NSW 2227 AUS, including SSAE or 1 IRC.