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JEFFREYS & DAVIS, Casterton Could you please place me on the contact list as I am researching the Jeffreys and Davis families from Casterton. My wife is a direct descendant of Thomas Jeffreys. Contact: Rick Tomasinski, Traralgon, Vic - Ph (03) 5174 7705 - EMAIL : ricktoma@wide.net.au [November 2005] McMILLAN (Branxholme, Casterton), McDONALD (Hotspur, Digby) Contact: Libby McMillan - EMAIL : libbymcm@tpg.com.au [August 2004] TURNER (Casterton) We lived in Casterton from 1949 to 1952 then my father stayed there where my brother was born there. Jack and Eileen Margaret TURNER, my brothers Christopher, Malcolm and me Gary James Aubrey born there. We lived not far from Bob ELLIS whose family are still living in Casterton. Its been my wish now that I live on Jersey in the Channel Islands of the coast of France and would love one day to go back and see where I lived for those years after 55 years. If there are any replies my address is: Gary and Joanne TURNER, No 13 Le Petit Marais, St Clements, Jersey, Channel Islands JE26NF Phone 01534 767892 mobile 07797 725433 e-mail gary-turnerjsy@supanet.com There is much more to tell after Dad worked there. Thank you and God bless Australia. Hope I can make it before 1 day, I have thought of nothing else for all those years. Is "Turkey Bottom Creek" still there and the "Blue Lagoon" where I fell in and Dad saved my life. The bush fires and we had to park our old Model T type truck in the river it stopped one mile from town. My father who was nicknamed Jack TURNER, worked with Bob ELLIS, he died after playing cricket in Casterton after hot day also same fate to his son died after cricket in shower. My fathers sister, Amy i think might be alive and still in Casterton. My mother's only sister Aunt Beet lives in New Zealand in North Island. My youngest brother James was born there went to Bendigo University to gain entrance but dont now at this moment if he managed to enrol thr raf paid for Dad and James to come back and they were held up in the Suez crisis at the canal went and overland through Genoa, arrived in England and what a shock to see my youngest brother I had met only once when he was a baby, born with hair lip and cleft pallete which i belive was common in oz at that time. All my life I have wished to go back but could never afford it. I work for Ford Motor Company in Jersey and also work at our castle showing visitors medieval sword fighting and longbow and Mongol bow shooting. Hope I have not bored you with to much family history there is so much more to tell espcially about Aunt Beet. Contact: Gary Turner - EMAIL : gary-turnerjsy@supanet.com [August 2004] MAYBERRY / JENKINS / BRETAG / ETHERTON I have been doing family research for only twelve months but have been fascinated by the information you have through the Ballarat Genealogy site. My mother is descended from the MAYBERRY and JENKINS families both which come from the Merino, Casterton areas. I have been researching the JENKINS family as the MAYBERRY family already have their own book in print. I am wondering if I can be added to your list of researchers for the family of JENKINS. I am also researching my father's family ie. BRETAG, ETHERTON who settled further west and north - Natimuk/Nhill/Rainbow. Contact: Karen Wolswinkel - EMAIL : karenwolswinkel@dcsi.net.au [October 2003] Byaduk Pioneers Photograph
(Byaduk Pioneers Day 27 Mar 1907, photographer G. EARNEY) Photograph and names are on the web at: WELLINGTON / WILLINGTON / TURNBULL, Dundas - Mt Koroit - Coleraine, 1880's. I am trying to find more information re my great uncle William Wellington brother of Thomas Wellington who had the Funeral parlour in Ballarat. William WELLINGTON was a labourer who died at the residence of Adam TURNBULL in 1888 in Winninburn and is buried in the Coleraine Cemetery. He was 54 years old and had been in Australia for 20 years. He was born in Gloucestershire England in 1834. His parents names were Stephen and Hester WILLINGTON. The surname became WELLINGTON on arrival in Australia. Parents names and any marriage listed as unknown on his death cert. Adam TURNBULL operated the Mt Koroit and Dundas Pastoral runs in 1855 - 1871 and in the Dundas and Mt Koroit and Coleraine area in 1855 to 1871. Information is sought re William WELLINGTON as he may have been a work hand or overseer in the area for some time leading up to 1888. Contact: Judith Robbins - EMAIL : kgrobbins@bigpond.com MUTCH Family, Merino I am keen to hear from any descendants of Susannah and Henry MUTCH who were longstanding residents of Merino from about 1865. Henry (a brickmaker) died in 1899 and his wife in 1922. Both are buried at Merino. The house that was built from bricks made on site when they first settled there was still standing in 1967. I have traced all the descendants of one of their sons (my grandfather), George, who moved to New Zealand in 1900. I would now like to make contact with other descendants of Henry and Susannah - particularly the families of their children Harriet, Margaret, Susannah, James, Sarah and John. Contact: Michael Howell, Tauranga, New Zealand - EMAIL : mhowell@enternet.co.nz Muntham Station 1837+, Edward Henty Looking for names of individuals or families connected with Muntham Pastoral Run occupied by Edward HENTY in 1837. A growing list of names can be located at on the Carapook & Muntham families page Contact: Daryl Povey, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - EMAIL : povey@sebas.vic.edu.au Bahgallah Football Team 1920's or '30's Looking for names in the Bahgallah Football Team photograph from the 1920's or '30's which can be viewed on the following link. Bahgallah Football Team Photograph Contact: Daryl Povey, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - EMAIL : povey@sebas.vic.edu.au Sandford History I am looking for articles on people or events related to the history of the Sandford area on the Wannon River, south of Casterton in south west Victoria to publish on this website. Also looking for links to other websites with similar information already published. Contact: Daryl Povey, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - EMAIL : povey@sebas.vic.edu.au BRAME / BRAHAM / BRAHM - Suffolk, England & McSHEEHY BRAME, Rebecca - Born approx. 1824 - Bury-St-Edmunds, Suffolk, England Parents said to be - BRAME, William and Sarah (maiden name unknown). Sarah BRAME / BRAHAM / BRAHM was a convict. Tried at the Middlesex Assizes in August 1832 on two separate convictions, she was sentenced to 2 X 7 year terms and sent to Van Dieman's Land. She came to Australia on "The Hydery" bringing with her daughters Sarah and Rebecca aged 9 and 10 (ages shown on Convict "assigned to transportation" register). Sarah was given a Conditional Pardon 25 November 1841, and received her Free Certificate 9 May 1853. Her two daughters were admitted into The Queen's Orphan School, Hobart Town (ages shown as 6 and 8 on Orphanage records). Sarah (convict) was said to be married to William BRAME, who was meant to be following his wife to Australia. There are various records relating to "William BRAME" but not enough corroborating evidence to prove he is the correct person. There are records following the marriages of Sarah BRAME's daughters Rebecca and Sarah, but so far no one has been able to ascertain WHAT HAPPENED TO SARAH after she received her Free Certificate in 1853. Details on the birth certificate of Rebbecca's son Charles Henry LEWIS state she (Rebecca) was born in Bury-St-Edmunds, Suffolk, England. This is the only clue to the family's origins. At this stage no marriage between William BRAME and Sarah, or birth baptism details for Rebecca or Sarah, have been found in the Bury-St-Edmunds vicinity of Suffolk. There is however a marriage listed between George BRAME (widower) and Sarah BRAND, 2 November 1822, a son William born 13 July 1823 and a daughter Anne Sarah born 12 June 1825 - both to parents George and Sarah (late BRAND) BRAME. There is also a son John born 15 April 1829 to father George BRAME and mother Elizabeth nee BRAND. Nothing on Rebecca! She was my husband's Great Great Grandmother and we would love to know more about her. It seems all roads lead to Sandford! I was searching through the Ballarat Genealogy site with the intention of checking for information on the surname BEST, another of the lines in my husband's family, but as the unanswered questions surrounding our convict Sarah and her family's origins and destinies are a constant niggle - I decided to post this information in the hope that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE may just happen to have stumbled across some of the answers!!! Also researching the McSHEEHY family from Sandford. Contact: - EMAIL :
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