Obituary - Tamar CASWELL

Mrs. E. E. Caswell  

The death occurred on June 18, at her residence, Coburn, Wonglepong, of one of the oldest pioneers of the Logan district, Mrs. Tamar Caswell, relict of the late Mr. E. E. Caswell. Mrs. Caswell, who was in her 87th year, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to Queensland in the sailing ship Agricola in 1853. She had very vivid recollections of the early pioneering days, when the blacks were numerous and troublesome; also of the disastrous flood in 1864, when she and her parents lost all their belongings in the deluge. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.  Caswell made their home at Woodhill, near Beaudesert, where they resided for many years, and reared a family of twelve children, all of whom are living, with the exception of one son. There are also 27 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Caswell resided at Coburn, Wonglepong for over 40 years, and was predeceased by her husband nearly six years ago.   Her favourite hobby was crochet work, specimens of which are greatly admired and prized by her family and friends.

Her parents were listed as Peel WRIGHT and Mary Ann CHAPMAN.

 Obituary. (1935, June 22). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 17. Retrieved November 7, 2011, from TROVE 

ANOTHER OLD COLONIST GONE

One by one the old pioneers who have   helped to make Queensland history, and have seen the colony grow from its small beginning into the important position it now holds among the Australian colonies, are passing away. Another of them has just been claimed by death in the person of Mr. William Melton, who had attained the ripe old age of 80 years. He made his first acquaintance with Brisbane forty-seven years ago, having arrived in the barque Agrícola  in 1853. He at once settled down in South Brisbane, and has resided there ever since. In the earlier years he was employed with the late Captain T. Winship in assisting to build some of the first steamers which plied on the Brisbane River. Mr. Melton was a native of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He has left behind him the aged helpmate of his life and a family of three sons and eight daughters and many grandchildren to mourn their loss.

 ANOTHER OLD COLONIST GONE. (1900, September 4). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 3. Retrieved November 7, 2011, from TROVE   

Sad Death

Over the years I have moved house a few times and didn't always have a job to go to when I arrived. Fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of the future do play a large part in the way we react to the events of the day. It must have been quite a burden for Johann.

Johann was aged 35 when he arrived in Brisbane on the 26th of June in 1899. There was no date recorded for his death and no one knew the names of his parents.

He was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park Portion 2H, Grave Number 425 on the 8th of July, 1899.

Bessie BROWN (nee McGREGOR) came to keep him company in 1956.

Convicts on Pyramus 1832

These are some of the names of convicts mentioned in the journal of the ships surgeon, James Rutherford.

Jamima Chapman    22

Sarah Hodgekin    18

Bridget Verden    56

Jane Ray    34

Hannah Barber    19

Elizabeth Probin    31

Margaret Anderson    26

Margaret Williams    20

Susanah Davis    49

Sarah Drake    25

Ann Lawless    19

Catherine Furneough    22

Mary Kelly    27

Jane Hudson    25

Mary Burrel    39

Ann Trolop    26

Margaret Jones    24

Ann Sheeley    28

Eliza Hobbs    19

Hannah Helly    35

Susan Davis    49

Eliza Hurry    25

Mary East    20

Ann Stephenson    19

Eliza Moss    26

Margaret Anderson    26

Mary A Burns    20

Margaret Carrol    18

Ann Bird    38

Ellen Crowley    17

Mary A Brown    24

A list of these people and what ailed them can be seen at this address.

Transmission by Death

Government Notices
Transmission by Death  
Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877

Richard Edward MAY              2/4/1940
Thomas John WHITMORE            4/6/1940
John FLYNN                     28/4/1938
Fred BOOTH                     30/1/1939
David FRANZESKAKIS             17/8/1935
Theodore George FRANZESKAKIS   3/12/1938
Denis Joseph BARLOW             6/6/1940
Charles STEWART                27/3/1939
Lancelot Salisbury BAGSTER     15/3/1940
Ellen SAVERY                    3/5/1940
Mary CARBY                     30/7/1940
Daniel O`DONOGHUE              18/5/1939
Annie Margaret Sophia PRICE    13/1/1940
George Ishmael CHANT           27/1/1916
Caroline TODD                  22/6/1940
Agnes Elliott MURPHY            4/2/1940
Edward HEYWOOD                 12/6/1940
Benjamin Thomas HARRIS         14/7/1939
Conrad SCHAUMBURG              3/11/1939
Doreen SLEEMAN                 19/1/1940
George Thomas GOODWIN         17/12/1939
Mary KATER                     18/7/1930
James EVANS                    18/5/1937
William Warrington WOOD         7/4/1938
William WOOD                  13/11/1936
George Arthur Victor ORR       28/4/1940
Christian TERKLESEN             2/3/1940
Thomas Edward DIXON            25/2/1938
Mary Eliza AGNEW               14/6/1940
Anne McCULLOUGH                15/1/1940
Mary Jane SMYTHE               25/4/1940
Jeanette Annie MOFFATT         12/4/1940
John Suter McDONALD             8/3/1940
William Henry HARRISON         21/7/1939
George Aaron PONTING            5/8/1939
Edward Hector McKAY            31/3/1940
Catherine CLAIR                10/1/1940
Henry READY                    14/5/1940
Edward Cureton TOMKINS          7/6/1931
Caroline Maria DUSTAN          21/3/1940
Bertram Algernon
    Sheppard DUNSTONE         23/12/1939
Ana Catrina CHRISTENSEN        22/6/1940
Susannah DUNTON                 6/5/1940
Louise Florence MARTIN         23/6/1940


The Courier-Mail               21/9/1940

VARDON

An obituary which appeared in the Croydon Mining News on the 24th of July, 1913. Guess they didn't have a lot to say about this politician.

Alice - SCULLY - WILCOX - CLARKE

In a previous post - Unclaimed Money - mention was made of an Alice SULLY who married a WILCOX and went to Australia and assumed the name CLARKE. An article appeared in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' on the 27th of March, 1912 with regards to the will of one Thomas WILCOX and a beneficiary of that will was Alice SULLY.

Later in the same paper the following notice appeared -

NOTE-The said Alice Sully (formerly Wilcox) was a daughter of George Wilcox who was a son of the testator Thomas Wilcox. The said George Wilcox formerly resided at Weston-super-Mare Somerset, and he died on the 27th June 1862. The said Alice Wilcox married Charles Wesley Sully, and resided at Weston-super-Mare aforesaid. She was employed as a Milliner's Assistant until shortly befort the year 1883, when she left Weston-super-Mare and it is alleged went to Australia, and adopted the name of Clarke. It is alleged that she was last heard of in Sydney, New South Wales, in January, 1884.

MEREDITH MILLS, and CLARK, 
8 New Square, London, W. C. 
Agents for
BAKER and CO.,
Weston-super-Mare, England.

Murder Suicide

The Murder and Suicide at Smithfield.

(Abridged from the Cairns Advertiser.)

INFORMATION reached Cairns on Boxing Day, from Smithfield, that Mr. Robert Craig had been shot by Bill Smith, and that the latter had shot himself. The particulars, as detailed at a magisterial enquiry before W. Mowbray, Esq., P.M., appear hereunder:— A magisterial enquiry was held on Thursday the 27th instant, before W. M. Mowbray, Esq., P.M., touching the cause of death of Robert Craig and William Smith, of Smithfield, when the following evidence was produced :—

James H. Norris, a constable, stationed at Smithfield, stated:
I remember yesterday, the 26th December; I was in Smithfield all day; I know the deceased Robert Jackson Craig, a storekeeper, and William Smith, a publican, both of Smithfield; at about 8 o'clock in the afternoon I heard several revolver shots—I think five; I immediately went down the street towards Mr. Craig's store; I saw Mr. Craig running across the street—he was running pretty quickly; I saw him immediately afterwards lying in his own door, and Mr. W. Cochrane and several others near him; immediately afterwards I went over to Smith's public-house on the opposite side of the street from Craig's store ; I saw William Smith lying on his back under the verandah; there was blood on his shirt; he stretched out his hand and said, "Will anyone hold me up ?" another man and myself took him by the hands and raised him up to a sitting posture; a few minutes after he seemed to get very weak ; he said, "Oh, I am done !" he died in about fifteen minutes, in the place where he was lying, under the verandah ; I examined his body ; I found the marks of a bullet about two inches under his right breast; there was only a small quantity of blood on his shirt; there were marks of powder on it too; a short time afterwards a packer named James Ferrier gave me a revolver and said "That was the one Smith shot Mr. Craig and himself with"; he said Smith threw it out of his hand when he shot himself, and he (Ferrier) found it lying on the ground beside Smith; I found five barrels had been recently discharged ; I also examined the inside of the dining room at Smith's public-house; I found a bullet, which appears to be one which fits the revolver produced; it was lying on the floor; I could   find no marks of where it had been discharged ; I noticed no bullet marks of where it had been discharged ; I noticed no bullet marks inside the place; there was only one wound on Smith's body; I did not examine Mr. Craig's body; I took charge of Smith until he died ; when I saw Smith was dead, I went over and saw Mr. Craig was dead ; Smith was about 45 or 50 years of age; he has a wife here; he told me about ten days ago he was often going to commit suicide while travelling through the bush; he was sober when he said this: Smith appeared to be under the influence of drink when I saw him immediately after he shot himself; I know of no motive he had for shooting Mr. Craig; I have heard he was in Mr. Craig's debt; he was in the habit of drinking a good deal; he did not get drunk, but got a good deal excited whilst under the influence of drink.

James Ferrier, sworn, said:
I am a packer; I was in Smithfield yesterday afternoon between 2 and 8 o'clock; I was standing at Solomon's store, opposite Smith's public-house ; I heard a noise inside Smith's house ; I heard talking and two shots fired ; the first thing I saw was Craig running out of the front door of Smith's public-house ; he was holding his hand on his breast, shouting out, "Murder!" and that he was done for; Smith ran out close behind him, and fired two shots at him from a revolver; he then held his hand up quickly towards his breast and shot himself; I heard the report and I saw him fall, and drop or throw the revolver down ; he then fell over, and I picked the revolver up and handed it to Constable Norris; the revolver produced is the one; I am sure Craig was wounded when I saw him first; he was holding his hand to his breast and calling out; the whole thing only took a few seconds from the time I heard the first two shots until I saw Smith shoot himself; I ran over as soon as I heard the two shots; Smith fell before I got across the street: he said to me, " Give me a drink of water, old fellow"; someone gave him water; he could not drink it; I afterwards saw both bodies dead ; I knew they were the bodies of Robert Craig and William Smith ; I saw Craig going into Smith's door about a minute before I heard the shots; I saw no one else but Smith and Craig near the public-house.

William Cochrane, sworn, deposed :
I knew the deceased Robert Jackson Craig and William Smith; Mr. Craig was my brother-in-law; I remember yesterday afternoon, about 25 minutes before 8 o'clock ; I heard two shots fired; I was then behind the grocery counter in Mr. Craig's store; I heard Mr. Craig's voice call out " Murder " twice; I ran from behind the counter into the street ; I saw Mr. Craig running across the street from Mr. Smith's public-house towards his store; he was holding his hand to bis breast; I saw Smith holding a revolver in his hand, and standing under his own verandah; I went past Mr. Craig towards Smith ; before I reached him I saw him throw the muzzle of the revolver quickly towards himself ; I heard a shot go off, and Smith fell immediately ; I did not stay to look at him, but turned back towards Mr. Craig; he was then under his own verandah ; he was staggering; I caught hold of him and laid him just inside the doorway of his store ; he died in a few seconds ; he said, "I am done, Bill; I have it in me ;" this was as I was laying him down ; I am not aware of any disagreement between them; Smith came into the store immediately before the occurrence and asked Mr. Craig to go over and he would settle with him ; he owed an account to Mr. Craig, and I understood Smith to mean he was going to pay him ; Mr. Craig then went over to Smith's public-house; they both went out together ; I heard the shots a few seconds afterwards ; Mr. Craig was 84 years of age, a native of Glasgow, Scotland ; his family and friends live in Brisbane ; Mr. Craig and Smith always appeared to be very good friends ; I know of no motive ; Smith was not sober before he came into the store; I did not notice what state he was in when he went out with Mr. Craig ; I noticed he was under the influence of drink about three-quarters of an hour previously ; after Mr. Craig's death I noticed a small wound about three inches below the left breast; it had the appearance of a revolver bullet's wound; it bled very little; it was the only wound I noticed; the two shots I heard were like shots from a revolver; I saw no one but Smith at the public-house.

The depositions were ordered to be forwarded to the Attorney-General. Mr. Robert Craig was (says the Advertiser) a young man in the prime of life, whose wife and children went south about three weeks back. He was one of our earliest merchants; a business man in every particular, and the one most largely engaged here in pursuits of every description. He was held in universal respect, and was justly considered one of the leading men—in fact, it may be said the most prominent one. Amongst the hundreds of packers travelling between this and the Hodgkinson goldfields the name of Craig is as a household word. The deceased had but recently added to his extensive operations the exportation of cedar produced here, and with reference to this a strange coincidence may be mentioned. On Wednesday the Lucy and Adelaide, schooner, arrived for the first cargo of cedar, and must have reached her point of destination, up the Barron River, some- where about the time the melancholy and fatal occurrence took place. Mr. Craig's awful and untimely end has shed a sad gloom throughout Cairns and Smithfield, as it will wherever it is known. The corpse was brought into Cairns on Thursday, and buried in the cemetery, the attendance at the funeral being very large, and without exception every house in town was closed. The funeral service was impressively read by Mr. James Powers. The awful catastrophe, so sudden, so unprovoked, and so very fatal, entirely unhinged everyone's nerves. Business was at a complete standstill, and the sorrowful countenances met at every stop manifested the universal grief for the late Mr. Craig and sincere sympathy for his family. The unhappy murderer's fate can but likewise cause a sorrowful feeling. Smith was a man known by and to all of us. We all are cognisant of recent troubles and misfortunes which overtook him, and, although we cannot conceal from ourselves that those troubles have been sensibly brought about by bis own passions and irregular conduct, still a thought of christian and human regret must flash through our brain, knowing this man took his own life at the moment he took that of another, and was hailed into the presence of his Maker without time to implore divine forgiveness for the cruel and cowardly murder he had committed.

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Article appeared in The Queenslander on the 12th of January, 1878.

Old Smithfield

SOMETHING ABOUT SMITHFIELD.

Tragedies Which Occurred There.

The Shooting of Craig, "Coyyan" contributes the following article on Smithfield:-

Smithfield was situated on the north side of the Barron River, and was opened previous to Cairns as the port for the Hodgkinson goldfield. It is named after Bill Smith, who also opened the track to the Cairns inlet and Smith's CreeK landing, where the first goods and passengers were landed. Smithfield township only lasted eight months, but during that time it left some history to record. Smith fatally shot Craig, the merchant, who at the third shot fell in the doorway of his store. Smith committed suicide with the same revolver, but lived for about two hours. Craig died instantly.

A young man named Cunningham shot Frank, the packer, and also robbed him. He was caught at Bowen, on his way south, and was at the time wearing Frank's ring. He suffered the supreme penalty in the old Petrie Terrace Gaol.   

A policeman was seriously injured when using an adze, erecting the police camp in Smithfield. A young policeman on escort duty and Inspector Joley were shot at Stratford, and were carried to the camp by a packer named Guilfoyle. The policemen were buried on the river bank at Stratford. Guilfoyle met a tragic end at Black Gully, on the  Herberton road, and a man named Rody Hogan received a life sentence for the deed. It was the result of a drunken brawl.

The first cattle brought to Smithfield and Cairns were taken there by a Mr. Bird, father of the present  Baird Bros., of Merriwinni. Magnus Peterson was the first purchaser, and paid £10 per had for eight cows.

Smithfield Range Track

The Government expended £12,000 on the Smithfield range track. All work at that time was done by Government parties, and wages were 7/6 per day, and rations. Chas. McDonald, afterwards owner of Warthedge Station, was works inspector for the North. Carriers (bullock teams) who used this road were George the Greek, Reynolds, Cuddily, Mahony, Mullavey, and others. About 100 pack teams were also operating to the various fields at that time.

During the 1881 flood the waters reached the foot of the range, all Smithfield being submerged, and the few residents had a very anxious time. Mrs. Kopp was three nights and four days in a flattie, and subsisted on a  young pig that she caught when  swimming past the boat. Smithfield at one time was practically deserted, only two families remaining there. Double Island was selected by a Mr. Jamieson, and was known as the Buchan Estate. Yorkie's Knob is named after a beche-de-mur fisherman who died on Green Island, of which he was caretaker. 

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Article appeared in the Cairns Post on the 1st of November, 1926

Headstones Maryborough Cemetery

These are the surnames for whom I have photographs of headstones in the Maryborough Cemetery. If you are interested in any that I may have please write to me (geneblog at gdavis.id.au) and I will see what I can do for you.
   

ALLCOCK	ABBS	ADAIR
ADAMS	ADDERTON	ADKINS
ALEXANDER	ALLAN	ALLEN
AMBROSE	AMOS	ANDERSEN
ANDERSON	ANDREWS	APPLETON
ARMSTRONG	ASHFIELD	ASHFORD
ASMUS	ASTON	AUSTIN
AWDRY	BAILEY	BAINES
BAKER	BARBELER	BARLOW
BARNETT	BARNS	BARRETT
BASSETT	BASTIMAN	BATES
BATTERSBY	BAUER	BAUMGART
BAYLDON	BEATSON	BEBBINGTON
BEGICK	BEIERS	BENGTSON
BENNETT	BENSON	BERRIE
BIDDLES	BIGNELL	BIRCH
BIRD	BIRT	BISHOP
BLACKWELL	BLANCHARD	BLATCHFORD
BLOOD	BLUE	BOLDERY
BOLWELL	BOTTCHER	BOURKE
BOWDEN	BOWYER	BOYD
BRADDOCK	BRADFIELD	BRADY
BREAKEL	BRECHT	BREEN
BREMNER	BRETT	BRIGHT
BROOKS	BROOM	BROPHY
BROWN	BUCKLER	BUETTEL
BUFFEY	BULLS	BUNN
BUNTING	BURCHARD	BURGESS
BURKE	BUSHNELL	BUSS
BUTLER	BYRNE	CAIN
CAIRNS	CALDECOT	CALDWELL
CAMERON	CAMPBELL	CANE
CANNY	CARROLL	CARSTENS
CARSWELL	CARTER	CARVOSSO
CATER	CHAMBERLAIN	CHANDLER
CHAPLIN	CHAPPELL	CHARTERIS
CHATTIN	CHEEKE	CHEESEMAN
CHEESMAN	CHEW	CHILD
CHRISTENSEN	CHRISTOE	CLARK
CLARKE	CLARKSON	CLEAVE
CLYNE	COASE	COGDALE
COILL	COLLISHAW	COMPTON
CONNELL	CONNOR	CONSIDINE
COOK	COOTEN	COPLEY
COPY	CORSER	COUTTS
COX	COZENS	CRANE
CRAWFORD	CREE	CROSS
CRUMP	CRUSE	CUNNINGHAM
CURTIS	CUTTLER	CUVET
DANIELS	DAU
DAVIS	DAWSON	DAY
DEACON	DEAN	DEARNALEY
DEERE	DEIGHTON	DELANEY
DENNINGS	DENT	DIAMOND
DICKFOS	DINGLE	DITTMAN
DITTMANN	DIXON	DORAN
DORMER	DOWZER	DREISS
DRINKWATER	DUCKWORTH	DUNN
DUPLICATE	DUTTON	DYMOCK
EADIE	EALES	EDGAR
EDWARDS	EILBECK	ELFORD
ELLWOOD	ELY	ENSLEY
ETHEL	FAGG	FARROW
FENTON	FERGUSON	FINN
FINSELBACH	FITZGERALD	FLETCHER
FLETT	FLYNN	FOOTE
FOREMAN	FORSTER	FORSYTH
FOWLER	FRANKLIN	FRANKLING
FRANTZ	FREHMANN	FRENCH
FRESHNEY	FROST	FULTON
FUNK	GALVIN	GAMBIE
GARRETT	GARTON	GARVIE
GEE	GEITZ	GEORGE
GERITZ	GERLER	GIBSON
GIFFORD	GILBERTSON	GILHAM
GILLAM	GILMOUR	GODDARD
GOLDSMITH	GOODGER	GOODWIN
GORDON	GRAHAM	GRANT
GRAY	GRAYSON	GREGORY
GRIFFIN	GRIGGS	GRIMMETT
GROSS	GRUBB	GRUHL
GRUTCHFIELD	GYPPO	HABLER
HADDOW	HADLINGTON	HAGGER
HALCRO	HALIFAX	HALLETT
HALLIDAY	HAMILTON	HAMMANT
HAMMOND	HANCOCK	HANSEN
HANSON	HARDIE	HAROLD
HARRIS	HARVEY	HARWOOD
HATTON	HAYDON	HAZELL
HAZLETTE	HEALY	HEATH
HEMERDINE	HENDERSON	HENDLE
HENDRICKSEN	HENRY	HERBERLING
HEYER	HIGGINS	HILCOAT
HILL	HILLCOAT	HILLIS
HINSCH	HIRST	HOCKLEY
HODGSON	HOGAN	HOOK
HOOLE	HOPE	HOPPER
HORNE	HORSBURGH	HOUGHTON
HOWARD	HOWES	HOWLETT
HUBBARD	HUGHES	HULL
HUME	HUMPHREYS	HUMPHRIES
HUNTER	HURFORD	HUTCHINS
HYSLOP	ILLIDGE	ILSE
IMHOFF	IRVING	IRWIN
ISABEL	JACKMAN	JAMES
JAMIESON	JARVIS	JENSEN
JESSE	JOHNSTON	JONES
JUDAS	JULIN	JUNO
KEANE	KEELER	KEEN
KEENAN	KELLY	KENNELLY
KENT	KERR	KERRIDGE
KETTLEWELL	KINAHAN	KINDT
KING	KIRK	KLEIN
KNOWLES	KRUGER	KYHL
LACEY	LACKEY	LACY
LAING	LAMB	LANG
LANGLANDS	LANGUSCH	LARSEN
LASSIG	LAWSON	LEBECK
LEE	LEFTWICH	LEIGHTON
LENNIE	LEVIN	LEVISTON
LEWIN	LEWIS	LITTLE
LOBB	LOUDEN	LOVE
LOWE	LUCAS	LUCK
LYONS	MACKENZIE	MADSEN
MAIDMENT	MAITLAND	MALONE
MALONEY	MANN	MANSON
MARDEN	MARDON	MARKS
MARSDEN	MARSHALL	MASON
MASSEY	MAUND	MCALLISTER
MCARTHUR	MCCARTHY	MCCREADIE
MCDONALD	MCDOUGALL	MCDOUGHALL
MCDOWALL	MCDOWELL	MCELLIGOTT
MCEWAN	MCEWEN	MCGAVAN
MCGOWN	MCGUIRE	MCKAY
MCKENZIE	MCKERGOW	MCKIVER
MCLACHLAN	MCLAUGHLAN	MCLAY
MCLEAN	MCLELLAN	MCLENNAN
MCMAHON	MCMANARA	MCMEEKIN
MCNAB	MCNALLY	MCVINISH
MCWATTERS	MEALAND	MEDLEY
MELKSHAM	MELLOR	MENZIES
MERCARD	MEREDITH	MERGARD
MESNER	MESSNER	MEYER
MILLAR	MILLER	MILLS
MITCHELL	MOLONY	MOORE
MORAN	MORDEN	MORRISON
MORTENSEN	MORTON	MOSMAN
MOSS	MOTEN	MULHOLLAND
MULLANCEY	MULREENY
MUNRO	MURPHY	MURRAY
NEAL	NEGUS	NEILSON
NETTERFIELD	NEW	NEWNHAM
NIBLOE	NICHOLAS	NOAKES
NOLAN	NOLLEN	NORRIS
NOWITZKE	NUNN	OAKLEY
OBRIEN	OCONNOR	OGDEN
OGILVIE	OKANE	OLDFIELD
OLSEN	OLSON	ONEIL
ORAM	ORIELLY	ORIGINAL
OSBORN	OSULLIVAN	OTOOLE
O`SULLIVAN	O`TOOLE	PAIN
PARMENTER	PARNHAM	PARRY
PARSONS	PATEY	PAUL
PAVELIN	PAYNE	PEACOCK
PEARCE	PEARL	PEARSON
PEATEY	PERISON	PETERSEN
PETHEBRIDGE	PETZKE	PINCH
PINCHBECK	PITT	PIZZEY
POLLARD	PONTING	POTMAN
POTTER	POULTER	POWELL
POWERS	PREW	PRICE
PROCTOR	PURCELL	PURSER
RAMPTON	RAMSAY	RANDALL
RANKIN	READDY	REARDON
REID	REISENER	RENDALL
REYNOLDS	RICHARDSON	RIDGWAY
RIECK	ROBBINS	ROBERTSON
ROBINSON	RODGERS	ROOK
ROOME	ROSEBY	ROSS
ROWE	ROWLAND	RUDOLPH
RUFF	RUSSELL	RYAN
RYRIE	SAINSBURY	SALMON
SANDERSON	SATCHWILL	SAUNDERS
SAWYER	SCHAFFERIUS	SCHEUERMANN
SCHIBROWSKI	SCHMUCK	SCHULZ
SCOTT	SENIOR	SEYMOUR
SHAW	SHEASBY	SHEPERD
SHERIDAN	SIMPSON	SIMS
SKIRROW	SLADE	SMITH
SMYTHE	SORENSEN	SOUTHERDEN
SOWERBY	SPAROZVICH	SPEAR
SPENCER	SPIDEN	STACEY
STALLEY	STELEY	STENDRUP
STEPHENS	STEVENS	STEVENSON
STEWART	STILLWELL	STONE
STORER	STOREY	SUTCLIFFE
SUTTON	SWANBOROUGH	TAIT
TAPPENDEN	TAYLOR	TELFER
TEMPLEMAN	THACKER	THAKE
THEFS	THOMAS	THOMPSON
THOMSON	THORPE	THURECHT
TIBOR	TIDCOMBE	TODD
TOMSON	TOOTH	TOWN
TOWNSEND	TRAVIS	TREDWEN
TRIGGER	TROTMAN	TURNER
VALENTINE
VARY	VITTER	WAKEFIELD
WALDRON	WALKER	WALLACE
WALSH	WALTON	WARBURTON
WARNOCK	WARRELL	WARREN
WARRY	WATSON	WEBB
WEBER	WECENER	WEEDON
WEGENER	WELLINGTON	WELLS
WELSH	WENDT	WENK
WERDER	WHAYMAN	WHEELER
WHETTER	WHITE	WHITING
WHITTAKER	WIECKHORST	WIGHTMAN
WIGMORE	WILES	WILLIAMS
WILLIAMSON	WILLIS	WILSON
WINTERHELD	WITT	WIX
WOODHOUSE	WOODWARD	WRIGHT
WROE	WYETH	WYLIE
YOUNG	ZIMMER	ZWISTLER

Unclaimed Money

AUSTRALIAN HEIRS -WANTED.
To Claim Money and Property during. 1912.
(To the Editor.)

Sir, Scattered throughout Australia and New Zealand there are thousands of families who are entitled to funds in Chancery, monies and properties, the existence of which they have no knowledge. Many of these are the descendants of people who emigrated to Australia, and New Zealand in the early days and lost all touch with their relations and kindred. Some of the latter amassed money in the land of their birth, whilst others emigrated to Canada and the United States, and died there intestate, leaving substantial fortunes. Every year a large number of advertisements appear in Australian, New Zealand and British newspapers inserted by solicitors, trustees executors and by order of the Court of Chancery, in respect of beneficiaries, next-of-kin, etc., sought for to claim money and property, who, or whose descendants or representatives are supposed to be resident in Australia or New Zealand, and a selection from the principal of these advertisements which have appeared during the year 1912, may interest, and be of possible benefit to your large circle of readers : —

Michael Ahern, son of Martin; the heirs of Catherine Baillie, nee Charles; James and Mary Bain, children of James, Thomas Barnabas Baldwin, otherwise Paton or Maos; Edward Bashford, formerly of Wanganui, late of N.S.W. ; John Wilson Beattie, arrived Australia about 1886; William, Margaret and John Bell, who emigrated from Ireland to Australia; James, William and John Bird, left Essex for Australia 1828-1887 ; Blivet family from the north of France; George Kenny Brown, Maria Brown, late Charters Towers, or representatives; Thomas Burgess late of Dunedin ; the next of - kin of Eliza Campbell, daughter of Peter; James Carlyle, late of Queensland ; Mary Jane Carlyon, daughter of John; Edward Carroll, son of Richard; William Chandler, son of W. B. Chandler, of Suffolk; Herbert Clapham, in N.Z. 1887 ; Emma Clegg, who married a Mr Mills, or Milne; Clarke William, late of Sittingbourne, Kent; Elizabeth Collier, at Dunedin 1863; Eliza Elvina Fanny Well Collings; Richard Collings, left England for Australia 1862; the heirs of James Collison, native of Aberdeen; John Condon, last heard of in Queensland; Thomas and Henrietta Connolly, nee Martin, married, in 1860, or descendants; Hichard Blake , Connolly ; the next of kin of Margaret Connors, late of Sydney, spinster, deceased ; James Creedon, formerly of Co. Cork; Miss Crosskill, daughter of Walter Crosskill; the next of kin of Stewart William Crozier, late of North Melbourne, deceased, intestate; Stephen Cunningham, a tailor; Marie Anne Eugenie Cuvet, born St. Brieuc, France, 1853; the heirs of Samson and Ann Reeves Davis, nee Rawbone; the next of kin of Eliza Delany, nee Campbell ; Margaret Donoghue, of Co. Cork, hat heard of in Dunedin ; Edward Allen Elliott; Harry A. Elsworth, last   heard of in Brisbane ; Henrietta Emett (sister of Henry), who married and emigrated to Australia about 1854 or representatives; Maria Ann Harriett Evans, nee Stafford, or next of kin; the nephews and nieces or their, descendants of Isaac Feldheim, late of   London, deceased; the next of kin of Kate and Mary Foley, sister of Michael, late of Dublin, deceased, and the next  of kin of the said Michael Foley; John   Foley, son of Michael, of N.S.W.; Theo Lindsay Freeman ; Owen Gallivan or Galvin, who emigrated from Ireland to N.Z. ; the next of kin of Andrew and Norah Gallivan or Galvin, formerly of Co. Kerry ; the representatives of Charles and Thomas Powell Gough, who emigrated to Australia in 1853; Caroline Amelia Grant, formerly of Tarnagulla, Victoria, or representatives; the wife and children of William Franks Gray; Charles George Greenwood, born 1859, or his next of kin; John Griffin, formerly of Dunedin; Francis Charles Griffin, in Melbourne 1885; or representatives; John Harding, son of Alfred ; James Harris, left England for Australia 1869; Sarah Harrison, nee Meredith; Martin Hassett, son of Patrick ; Charles Fawell Bath Hayes, late of Sydney; Albert Calvin Hayes; Sophia Hislop, arrived Australia about 1877; John Hogan, husband of Sarah; Robert Collins Hol?an; Richie Huggins, of Co. Cork; Catherine Hughes, nee McFadden ; Sarah Jane Huelett, late of Queensland; Janet and Elizabeth Hunter; William Limbert Hutchinson, born Ayr, Scotland, 1818, or next of kin; each son and daughter and granddaughter and brother and sister of Edward Ingle, formerly of Colsterworth, England, and each son and daughter and each granddaughter and each brother and sister of Eleanor Ingle, nee Butterfield; James Swanton Waugh Ingliss; David Johnston, in Melbourne, 1911; Aubrey, John, Daniel and William Jones, sons of William Jones, of Dowlaes, Wales; the next of kin of George Jones, late of Victoria, deceased; Mark Keenan, last heard of in Melbonrne, or children; William George Kenny, late of Darraville; William King, son of Elizabeth, late of N.Z., or representatives; May Elizabeth Knight; James Lane brother of Joseph and, Ellen; Digby Henry Lawrell, at Taranaki. 1885; Halford Barnard Lawrell ; Nicholson Lee, a schoolmaster; Richard Moore Lillington, born 1819, or representatives; Robert Littleshales to claim £1000 within 7 years, or legacy will lapse; William Loveridge (son of Richard) last heard of as being in an asylum in Australia in 1854 or representatives; John Lupton son of William; Thomas Barnett Marshall; William Marshall, late of Queensland; Benjamin Mathhias, formerly of Swansea; Jane Mort, or Maute, nee Parr; Patrick McCarthy, formerly of limerick ; McClaskey Catherine and Maria, daughters of John and Ann; McDonough Patrick, son of John; McLean, William John; McNeill James, late Baldatha, N.Z. ;   McFhail Donald, fomerly a jockey in Durban; Mee Francis William, formerly of Brighton, England; Middlemiss, James Joseph; Mills or Milnes, Emma, nee Clegg; Moore James Henry, otherwise Harry Gill; the next of kin of Denis Naughton, late of   Bentleigh; Neilson, Mrs Emma Augusta; Harold Edward Newman; George Neek, left Basset Letcombe for Australia 1862; the next of kin of John Norris, fomerly of Co. Tyrone; Sarah Noris; Alice O'Brien, late of Yarraville; Jane Parr, born 1811, married at Wigan 1835 (relatives of) Robert Parr, son of William ; Edgar James Pettman ; Tom Piddell, formerly of Cardiff; Alfred Robert Preece; Thomas Preston, formerly of Walney Auguste or Joseph Quermar or Quemard or heirs; Denis and Margaret Quinan; Register Mrs, formerly of Trales late N.Z. ; Alexander Richardson late of Adelaide; the representatives of William Roberts, son of William and Ann; Francis, Eugenie and Jeanne Marie Roue; Thomas James Harris Salter; the children of David Sang; Jeanne Maria Saulier, nee Roue; Eliza Elvina Fanny Wells Scarlett; the representatives of William Sturt Scott; Charles Edward, Frederick Richard and Victor Murray Sewell, of South Australia; Charles Sheffield, in Geelong, about 1886; Jane Shields, at Waranga 1889; Benjamin Shoesmith in West Australia, 1897; Annie and Jessie Louisa Shoter ; the relatives of William Sidders, deceased; Anne Jane Spear, emigrated from Co. Down to Australia about 20 years ago; Mrs Joseph Smith, last heard of at Townsville, or children; Alice Sully, formerly Wilcox, who emigrated to Australia and assumed the surname of Clarke; James Tagg, formerly of Reading, Berks, brewer; William Taylor, son of John and Ann ; William   Bell Topping last heard of at Wagga; George John Torrens, son of Elizabeth ; Jonathon Ernest Edward Turner ; John Wall, late of Suva; Sarah White, daughter of George; Frederick Wilson, formerly of Mosman, Sydney; Leslie Wilson ; Arthur Winsor, left England for Sydney 1876; John Wolstenholme, born Rishton 1812, in Australia 1857, or representatives, Younghusband Frank, late of Henderson.

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Notice appeared in the Townsville Daily Bulletin on the 25th of December, 1912.

Unclaimed Letters - Kingsborough

Unclaimed Letters

Letters for the following are now lying at the Post Office, Kingsborough :-

    Allen, G. B.                 Muldoon, J.
    Bell, E. G.                  McLaughlin, Jno.
    Craig, W.                    O'Grady, Mr.
    Dorsey, A.                   Ophlsson, Herr P.
    Elphick, Mrs. M. A.          O'Grady, J.
    Fullerton, Samuel (2)        Petersen, D.
    Golding, Thos.               Stansfield, W.
    Harris, Mr.                  Stansfield, W.
    Kelly, Daniel                Wieland, Mr.
    Lemon, T.                    Watson, & Co., Messrs
    Madden, G.                   Watts, A.

If not claimed on or before 1st September, 1879, will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.

R. Hy. WOOD,
Postmaster.

Kingsborough, August 1, 1879.

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Notice appearing in "The Hodgkinson Mining News" on 9th of August, 1879.

Richard HUGHES - Liverpool

Missing Friend.

Richard HUGHES, of Liverpool, England, supposed to have been on the Palmer Diggings. Your brother John is now living at 215, Crown-St., Sydney.

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Notice appeared in "The Hodgkinson Mining News" on the 6th of July, 1878.

Unclaimed Letters - Thornborough

Unclaimed Letters.

Letters for the following are now lying at the Post Office, Thornborough :-

    Athenson, Mrs.              Madden, G. W.
    Alliqy, C.                  Moggat, E.
    Augustine, F.               Moffat, Sam
    Bain, J.                    Mophatt, Mr.
    Bain, M.                    Neil, M.
    Brown, B. A.                Noble, G.
    Brooch, W.                  Othier, G.
    Bell, C. G.                 Payonseck, M.
    Burush, S. A.               Parker, Mr.
    Brown, A.                   Ratcliff, J.
    Burgess, E.                 Roberts, E.
    Crosbie, Mr.                Reid, T. H. W.
    Crowley, Chas.              Simon, B.
    Daly, G.                    Sheppard, T.
    Gard, W.                    Stacey, W.
    Gilson, H. W.               Splaine, G.
    Garrie, J.                  Thomason, J. J. L.
    Holderness, Mr.             Tanganelli, Rev. T.
    Hackett, G. P.              Thompson, T.
    Holbrook, W.                Taylor, B. E.
    Hall, G.                    Tiffle, R.
    Hake, E.                    Williams, J.
    Jackson, M. J.              Williams, J.
    Jonston, S.                 Wright, C.
    Miller, B. H.               Wah Abe
    Masterson, J.

If not claimed on or before 1st September, 1879, will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.

T. A. GULLIVER,
Postmaster.

Thornborough, August 1, 1879.

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Notice published in 'The Hodgkinson Mining News' on the 9th of August, 1879.