Hello Tam, Would you have an Abner Smith on one of the branches of your tree? Do you know what happened to Samual? Did he emigrate? Barbara
Hello Barbara I haven't come across an Abner Smith so far but one never knows ... Samuel emigrated to Australia around 1882, although I've yet to positively identify him in the passenger lists. He disappears off the radar for a long time. He married Mary Elizabeth Frost in St Peters Church in Broken Hill, a silver mining town (now city) in far western NSW in 1890; at the time he was the publican of the Bancannia pub (even more remote than Broken Hill) and she was a housekeeper (probably at the pub). He held the license at Bancannia from 1889-1896. There's nothing there now, but it used to be a coach stop. He died of TB (pthisis pulmonalis) on 28 October 1899 at the age of 40. His death certificate says that he was '17 years in New South Wales', and his occupation was silver miner. I've no idea how a lad from Birmingham finished up in a what is still a very remote area. I suspect he had a hard life, but I hope that he was happy with Mary and their four children at least for a time. They had a fifth child who died soon after birth, not long before Samuel died. Mary remarried in 1904 and had two more children before her second husband died in 1908. I think she died in 1937 but I am still following up that up. Are you chasing Smiths too? Cheers Tam ----- Original Message ----- From: "John White" <jwhite65@telus.net> To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [B'ham] Smith dead end > Hello Tam, > Would you have an Abner Smith on one of the branches of your tree? > Do you know what happened to Samual? Did he emigrate? > Barbara > _____________________________________________ > _____________________________________________ > > Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Hi, Are you sure it was not Wil cannia pub. That is outback. Robyn. Qld. At 03:36 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote: >Hello Barbara > >I haven't come across an Abner Smith so far but one never knows ... > >Samuel emigrated to Australia around 1882, although I've yet to positively >identify him in the passenger lists. He disappears off the radar for a long >time. He married Mary Elizabeth Frost in St Peters Church in Broken Hill, a >silver mining town (now city) in far western NSW in 1890; at the time he was >the publican of the Bancannia pub (even more remote than Broken Hill) and >she was a housekeeper (probably at the pub). He held the license at >Bancannia from 1889-1896. There's nothing there now, but it used to be a >coach stop. He died of TB (pthisis pulmonalis) on 28 October 1899 at the >age of 40. His death certificate says that he was '17 years in New South >Wales', and his occupation was silver miner. I've no idea how a lad from >Birmingham finished up in a what is still a very remote area. I suspect he >had a hard life, but I hope that he was happy with Mary and their four >children at least for a time. They had a fifth child who died soon after >birth, not long before Samuel died. Mary remarried in 1904 and had two more >children before her second husband died in 1908. I think she died in 1937 >but I am still following up that up. > >Are you chasing Smiths too? > >Cheers > >Tam > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John White" <jwhite65@telus.net> >To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:07 PM >Subject: Re: [B'ham] Smith dead end > > > > Hello Tam, > > Would you have an Abner Smith on one of the branches of your tree? > > Do you know what happened to Samual? Did he emigrate? > > Barbara > > _____________________________________________ > > _____________________________________________ > > > > Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ > > > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >_____________________________________________ > _____________________________________________ > >Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ > >Any problems, please contact the List Admin: >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.65/2322 - Release Date: >08/23/09 18:03:00
Bancannia is north of Broken Hill along the Silver City Highway. Try these links: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~surreal/NSWW/Hotels/individual-hotel s-A-C.html http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&x=141.844706576468&y=-30.8210419652505&w=5000 &h=5000&i=554&j=554&p=15745&pp=15745&fc=1#map http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-NSW-WEST/2005-02/1107838300 Regards Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: eng-warks-birmingham-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-warks-birmingham-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Robyn Shaw Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:35 PM To: eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B'ham] Smith dead end Hi, Are you sure it was not Wil cannia pub. That is outback. Robyn. Qld. At 03:36 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote: >Hello Barbara > >I haven't come across an Abner Smith so far but one never knows ... > >Samuel emigrated to Australia around 1882, although I've yet to positively >identify him in the passenger lists. He disappears off the radar for a long >time. He married Mary Elizabeth Frost in St Peters Church in Broken Hill, a >silver mining town (now city) in far western NSW in 1890; at the time he was >the publican of the Bancannia pub (even more remote than Broken Hill) and >she was a housekeeper (probably at the pub). He held the license at >Bancannia from 1889-1896. There's nothing there now, but it used to be a >coach stop. He died of TB (pthisis pulmonalis) on 28 October 1899 at the >age of 40. His death certificate says that he was '17 years in New South >Wales', and his occupation was silver miner. I've no idea how a lad from >Birmingham finished up in a what is still a very remote area. I suspect he >had a hard life, but I hope that he was happy with Mary and their four >children at least for a time. They had a fifth child who died soon after >birth, not long before Samuel died. Mary remarried in 1904 and had two more >children before her second husband died in 1908. I think she died in 1937 >but I am still following up that up. > >Are you chasing Smiths too? > >Cheers > >Tam > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John White" <jwhite65@telus.net> >To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:07 PM >Subject: Re: [B'ham] Smith dead end > > > > Hello Tam, > > Would you have an Abner Smith on one of the branches of your tree? > > Do you know what happened to Samual? Did he emigrate? > > Barbara > > _____________________________________________ > > _____________________________________________ > > > > Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ > > > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >_____________________________________________ > _____________________________________________ > >Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ > >Any problems, please contact the List Admin: >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.65/2322 - Release Date: >08/23/09 18:03:00 _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Research in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message