Some years ago someone sent to me a quote from a book about Enstone Oxfordshire that stated that Alfred Henry WEARING, William RUSSELL, and one other person were trying to raise funds to go to Australia. The date would have been around 1877, because Alfred and William sailed to Australia in May 1888. Unfortunately, that was in the early days of my family history quest, and I did not make a note of the book. Can anyone tell me what book this reference came from? Alfred Henry WEARING was a brother of my late paternal grandfather. Mike Wearing Nova Scotia, Canada

Hello Mike, I have a copy of The Story of Enstone by Graham Binns and also Lifting the Latch by Sheila Stewart. Neither are indexed so it is going to take a while to browse through. I'll let you know whether or not I find something in a day or so. Pherhaps someone else will be faster than I. cheers, Stephanie Toronto, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Wearing" <mwearing@eastlink.ca> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 12:45 PM Subject: [OXF] Enstone and Alfred Henry WEARING > Some years ago someone sent to me a quote from a book about Enstone > Oxfordshire that stated that Alfred Henry WEARING, William RUSSELL, and > one other person were trying to raise funds to go to Australia. The date > would have been around 1877, because Alfred and William sailed to > Australia in May 1888. > > Unfortunately, that was in the early days of my family history quest, and > I did not make a note of the book. > > Can anyone tell me what book this reference came from? > > Alfred Henry WEARING was a brother of my late paternal grandfather. > > Mike Wearing > Nova Scotia, Canada > > >

Hi Mike... The book in question is 'Review of Enstone from 1971'. A Google search for 'Enstone Wearing Russell' quickly comes up with the answer, which is to be found in the RootsWeb Archive for the AUS-QLD list. I won't quote it again here but the passage from the book is quoted in a query from an Michael Wearing in Canada, dated 29th Dec 2004. That wouldn't be you, would it? Regards Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Wearing" To: Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 12:45 PM Subject: [OXF] Enstone and Alfred Henry WEARING > Some years ago someone sent to me a quote from a book about Enstone > Oxfordshire that stated that Alfred Henry WEARING, William RUSSELL, and > one other person were trying to raise funds to go to Australia. The date > would have been around 1877, because Alfred and William sailed to > Australia in May 1888. > > Unfortunately, that was in the early days of my family history quest, and > I did not make a note of the book. > > Can anyone tell me what book this reference came from? > > Alfred Henry WEARING was a brother of my late paternal grandfather. > > Mike Wearing > Nova Scotia, Canada > > > _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Brian, Thanks for the information. That was me. However, last year I lost most of my saved message data due to a system problem during the disk defragmentation process. That message from 2004 was one that I lost. I thought I was backing up messages when I did a system backup to an external hard-drive. Found that I was not. I do now. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <bjcurtis@waitrose.com> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:05 AM Subject: Re: [OXF] Enstone and Alfred Henry WEARING > > Hi Mike... > > The book in question is 'Review of Enstone from 1971'. A Google search > for > 'Enstone Wearing Russell' quickly comes up with the answer, which is to > be > found in the RootsWeb Archive for the AUS-QLD list. I won't quote it > again > here but the passage from the book is quoted in a query from an Michael > Wearing in Canada, dated 29th Dec 2004. That wouldn't be you, would it? > > Regards > > Brian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Wearing" > To: > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 12:45 PM > Subject: [OXF] Enstone and Alfred Henry WEARING > > Some years ago someone sent to me a quote from a book about Enstone > > Oxfordshire that stated that Alfred Henry WEARING, William RUSSELL, > and > > one other person were trying to raise funds to go to Australia. The > date > > would have been around 1877, because Alfred and William sailed to > > Australia in May 1888. > > > > Unfortunately, that was in the early days of my family history quest, > and > > I did not make a note of the book. > > > > Can anyone tell me what book this reference came from? > > > > Alfred Henry WEARING was a brother of my late paternal grandfather. > > > > Mike Wearing > > Nova Scotia, Canada > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered > your > names of interest? > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your > names of interest? > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >