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The following information is discussed in this section:-
Of course, if you would like your family research query included on our website, then please contact the Burra Family History Group and we will be happy to help. |
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Start with yourself and work backwards! Talk to your parents and other family members. Write down all the details that you know about your immediate family such as:-
Collate all relevant documentation - birth, baptism, marriage, death certificates etc. If you are fortunate enough to have older relatives still living, ask them what they know about the family - any family stories and of course, if they know the birth, marriage and death dates of other family members. It is much easier when researching, if you have at least rough dates. Remember to ask whether anyone in your family has ever done any family research themselves and if so, see what they have! The internet is a very useful resource, particularly the Latter Day Saints family search site for those wishing to find family members overseas. For that and other useful sites, go to our Resources page. Data CDs of births, deaths and marriages are available for purchase for every Australian state. Although pricey, they ultimately are much cheaper then purchasing individual certificates. As your research takes you further into the past, you will find that censuses are very useful sources of information, as it is really only in relatively recent times that birth certificates were more readily available. If your family came from the UK, then do a search for the county from which they came. Most counties have family history groups which are very helpful and often have either databases that can be searched and/or publications for purchase. And remember, make sure you gather photos of family members - this makes your research more interesting, as future generations will be able to put a face to the name on the chart. |
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The following is a list of the things that researchers commonly want to know when they come to Burra. Here is a quick guide to help you find answers to those questions.
Of course, there are also other useful places to look. Try the photograph collection at library, obituaries from Burra Record or even the anecdotal information from Burra Record Summaries at Burra Library. |
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Genealogy is popular the world over. The following people are researching family members who once lived in the Burra District. If you think you can help, please contact them via the details provided. If you have any difficulty making contact please email us and it will be passed on. And don't forget, if you would like your family research query included here, then please contact the Burra Family History Group and we will be happy to help. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
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Trent Niemann or his website Janine Jones (nee Fitzpatrick) |
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Surnames and Research Details |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Darby and Catherine (nee O'Brien) c1860 onwards. Children: John, Francis, Patrick, Mary, Timothy Jeremiah, Catherine, Elizabeth, Annie and William John and Anastasia (nee McNally)c1856 onwards. Children: Gerald, Patrick, William, Norah, Edmund, Margaret Anastasia, Mary Ann, John Francis and Mary (nee Hogan) c1860 onwards. Children: Patrick, Mary Anne, Catherine, Francis |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Kerin Patrick b abt 1845 County Clare, Ireland, m Burra 1872 (Euphemia McDonald) employed at Hill River Head Station. d 1897 near Broken Hill . Any information on Arrival, Employment. His grandson Albert W Kerin is listed on the Burra War Memorial. McDonald James arr Hercules b Scotland 1834 d Burra 1914 Fitzgerald James b 1845 Ireland arr Stamboul 1858 m 1870 (Elizabeth Kerin) d 1916 Broken Hill Nolan Ann Rose b 1841 Ireland m 1862 Bendigo (Johann D C Niemann) d 1905 Broken Hill .. no known connection to SA Nolan's. Patrick and Euphemia (nee McDonald) m1870; had several children Family lived in Burra for a time. One child was named Elizabeth Jane. Elizabeth Jane married John Dorman and had six children, was widowed and then married James Triplett and they had six of their own after they moved to Broken Hill Niemann Johann Heinrich b Bremen 1799 d Eaglehawk 1886 .. no known connection to the Burra Niemann families. Arrived in Adelaide, went to Bendigo and from there Broken Hill. Hopkins Thomas J b 1853 Wales, Bridgend m 1885 Wollongong NSW (Mary Barlow) d 1908 Broken Hill .. suspected connection to Burra Hopkins via Broken Hill |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched William and Martha (nee Harris) John and Maryanne (nee Lampshire) |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Georg Gottlier and ?. Children: Carl Johann. Stasinowskys came across on the ship "La Rochelle" on the 3/9/1855. Carl Johann and Anna Wilhelmine (nee Schier). Married at the Evangelical Lutheran Church @ Emmaus on the 27th September 1877. Children: Charles and Caroline. Children: Anna Caroline, Em (Emielle?) John and ?. Children: Arthur Joseph (Joseph), Patrick, Thomas Arthur Joseph (Joseph) and Anna Caroline (nee Stasinowsky). Married: 4 September 1900. Joseph died n Pt Pirie hospital 22nd May 1945 and Anna died in Port Pirie 17 February 1958. Children: Rosilia (Rose/Dolly) Hilda Dorothea, Johann Carl Benjamin (Ben), Arthur (Art), Margaret Caroline (Lena), Pauline Anna (Ann), William (Bill), Neta (not sure of proper name) Alfred St. George (Jim) and Rosilia (aka Rose/Dolly) Hilda Dorothea (nee Abbott). Both of them are buried in the Port Pirie Cemetery. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Richard married Elizabeth (nee Bawden) November 5, 1812 in Camborne, Cornwall. Children: Ann 1813, Thomas 1815, William 1818, Christopher 1820, Matthew 1822, Richard 1825, Edward 1827, Gilbert 1829, Elizabeth 1832, and Joseph 1834. Joseph and Elizabeth Ann (nee Temby) married in early January, 1855 and embarked on their voyage from Cornwall in late January, arriving in Adelaide in April/May. Children: Edward Albert in Kooringa July 1856, second son born in Linton, NSW in July 1858. Gilbert arrived in November 1857 and he and his wife Mary (nee Sullivan) had 2 children born in Burra; Ann 1859 and Richard in 1861. They moved on to Moonta sometime between 1861 and 1868. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Edward Barnard (1830-1911) and Maria Ann (nee HALL) (1841-1922) were in the Mt. Bryan area from ca 1882. They had 12 children. Three of them married into the THOMAS family from the Burra area. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Arrived in Adelaide 1 Aug 1848 Forfarshire All b. Cornwall: Joseph, ; wife Jane Symons VINCENT and child, Joseph Charles Vincent Boundy (d. 1850 Magill, aged 4) (on same ship Francis and Elizabeth Bishop). Other children: William Pedlar Boundy, b. 1848 Magill; m. 1878 Vic. Harriet Tyman (9 chn), John b. 1850 Burra, d. 1850 Burra, Charles b. 1851 Burra (Died?), Charles Vincent b. 1852 Kooringa; m 1880 Vic. Mary Newton (6 chn), Martha Jane b. 1853 Gawler; m. 1874 John Fenton, Vic (1 child), Sarah Ann b. 1855 Adelaide, d. 1856 Ade., Sarah Ann b. 1858 Vic. plus 3 more chn. b. Vic. Arrived 26 Aug 1858 Constance John, wife Ann Maria COCKING and 7 chn. Also Joseph Cocking. Boundy, Christopher, arr. 1849 Mary Ann; wife Mary Ann Vincent and child Martha Ann Boundy (m. Vic.William Henry Bennett). Other Children: John Henry Boundy b. 1850 Burra (m. 1870 Vic.Emma Louisa Chivers b. abt 1851 Ade), William Charles b. 1852 Burra; d. 1853 Ade., Sarah Jane b. 1854 Vic and 5 more b. Vic.,Boundy, Richard, arr. 1849 Mary Ann (d 1873 Kooringa); wife Elizabeth Bailey (d 1978 Kooringa), 5 chn. John m. 1863 Kooringa Sarah STANNER = 1 child 1864 m. 1869 Burra Mary Jane CARTER Richard d. 1868 Burra aged 27 (wife Elizabeth Ann DAVEY) Mary m 1863 Kooringa John EDWARDS Joseph JENKIN m. 1873 Burra Barbara YOUNG = 4 chn. b. Burra Elizabeth Jane b. Burra 1854 Joseph b. Burra 1857 William Thomas b 1861 Burra BOUNDY, Martha, m. Henry BISHOP, arr. 1849 Mary Ann; 4 chn (to Vic. abt 1852; As 1875, d. Vic. 1880, aged 69) Mary Ann BISHOP (d. 1915 Burra) m. Richard SNELL (arr. S.A. 1848; California; Vic; back Burra 1876; d. 1906 Burra) 1852 Kooringa = Sarah Jane b. Vic 1855, m. John HOCKING 1877 (+ 7 more, all b. Vic) Henry b. Con. m 1863 Vic Mary Jane Carter (arr with father Edward Carter on Mary Ann 1849) = 6 chn all b Vic abt 1878 to NZ d. NZ 1903. John Boundy Bishop m 1863 Vic = 6 chn Robert = 7 chn all b. Bic Edward Charles b. 1851 Burra m. 1873 Vic. = 7 chn b. Vic. Boundy, Thomas arr. Ade. Aug 1857 Sumner; wife Thomasine Bray (nee Bishop) Nanny, 23 (child b. Jan 1858, fa. John Edwards) Elizabeth Ann 14 Richard arr. Ade Queen Bee 1863; wife Eliza Mary Ann 1. Bishop, Emma (20) and Joseph (14), arr. Ade. 1857 Sumner Philip, arr. SA 1850 Francis Ridley Philip, arr. SA 1858 Confiance, and wife Emma BROAD = 8 chn (Dau. Emma m. William Pearce ROWE, son of Cyprian Rowe arr. Ade 1854 Confiance) Phillips, James arr Ade 1854 Taymouth Castle, wife Catherine TREZISE and 5 chn. James b. Con m 1858 Burra Elizabeth COCKING Elizabeth b 1858 Burra m. Vic. Catherine b 1860 Burra William James b 1862 Burra m. Vic. Joseph b 1864 Burra m? = 5 chn b. Wallaroo Mary b 1865 Burra John m. Kooringa 1859 Fanny Yates Macdonald (arr Ade 1853 Epaminondas with parents, siblings) Fanny b 1860 Burra (twin) Samuel b 1860 Burra (twin) m. Mary Ellen Trezise Hand = 6 chn b. Moonta Amelia b 1862 Burra m Edward Old Moonta = 5 chn John 1866 Burra Thomas (Blacksmith, d Burra) m. Elizabeth Thomas (?) = 5 chn Elizabeth Jane 1848 d 1851 Burra Amelia b 1850 Burra Richard b 1857 m Kadina, Polly Hannah Richards Elizabeth Jane m William Henry Phillips = 3 chn b. Moonta Phillips, Elizabeth m 1854 Ade Hugh Dunstan. Both d. Currency Creek. Phillips, William m Mary Jane Wilkins Con. (sister of Thomas Wilkins who m. Jane Phillips) 6 chn. Vic. Phillips, John, arr Ade 1854 Taymouth Castle, wife Mary Harris Phillips, Richard m. 1. Emma Doney Vic. (1 child) 2. Elizabeth Ann Boundy Vic. (8 chn. b. Vic.) Phillips, Jane m. Thomas Wilkins Con. (his mother was a Rowe!) = 7 chn Vic. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched William JAMES was born on 6 Aug 1847 at Willunga, S Aust to Bennet John(s) JAMES (born in Wendron, Cornwall in 1818 and arrived on the JAVA in 1840) and Jenifer WILLIAMS (born Crowan(?), Cornwall in 1818, married at Crowan to Bennet, and arrived with him and her parents on the Java). Bennet is buried in the Uniting (old Methodist) cemetry at Willunga and Jenifer at Boroondara cemetry in Victoria. There is a family history of the WILLIAMs held in the library at Willunga although we have some questions regarding earlier generations. William married Milbah Maria (nee TINK). Milbah died on 15 Nov 1879 as a result of complications during the birth of her 6th child (Milbah Maria JAMES) and was buried in the local cemetry. William was builder and an insurance salesman who moved a few times around S Aust during their 10 year marriage and on or soon after the death of his wife Milbah moved down to Adelaide, remarried (to Mary Elizabeth PETTER) and then around 1885 moved over to Victoria. My understanding is that the infant Milbah JAMES died in early 1880, as did an older sister Matilda Martha JAMES. I do not know where these 2 children are buried. Milbah Maria TINK was born at Sourton in Devon on 14 Jan 1846 to William TINK and Jane TAYLOR. She emigrated from Plymouth on the 25 May 1854 on the William Prowse with her family arriving in S Aust on the 20 Aug 1854. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I have information back to 1728, however the Burra connection is through William Lawn and Elizabeth GRAY and their 9 children most of whom were married in the Burra area (Kooringa). |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John Bickley and wife Harriett, with two year old son, William Henry, came to South Australia in 1849, arriving 6th January on the Rajah. They lived in Burra until about 1861, at which time they left and went to Wallaroo, where they stayed. There are still members of the family there. Whilst at Burra they had five more children, only two of whom survived (They had and lost another baby daughter after they went to Wallaroo.) William Henry married Sarah Ann SMITH. Sarah Ann was the daughter of Robert SMITH and Mary MORGAN. I believe she was a "servant" in Burra. She later became a midwife in Wallaroo - so family legend has it. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched The children of Luke TEDDY and Julia THOMAS: Elizabeth b. 1858, Johanna b. 1865, Luke b. 1864, Mary b. 1869 Ernest Arthur, son of Charles Swithen. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Wilhelm Christian Heinrich Pilz, lived in Burra and was married there in 1860. They had 10 children including my grandfather, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich (Harry) Pilz |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched The Grau/Grow family arrived in 1846 on the George Washington. The HANN family arrived from England around the same time as the GROW family from Germany and settled in Payneham. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Walter ROBINS married Elizabeth WOODS in Kooringa in 1863. He died there in 1864 and she died there in 1869. However they were living together as Mr and Mrs ROBINS prior to that date as they had six children born to them either in Kooringa or on Mt Bryant Station between 1855 and 1863. THEEUF (Spelt in a variety of ways!) One of their daughters (Sarah Emma Robins married Alfred Wilhelm THEEUF at Kooringa in 1879) Alfred's mother - Charlotte THEEUF lived in Kooringa for many years. Other surnames which have been connected by marriage with these three surnames (ROBINS, WOODS and THEEUF) are FORD, WILLSDON, DREWERY, SHEPPARD, SEYFORD, BROMLEY, SEYMOUR and SYMONDS. These were between 1855 and the early 1900s and were in the districts of Mt Bryant, Kooringa, Burra, Redruth, Halletts Station and Stoney Gap. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John and Sarah McKenzie came to Burra in 1866 from Dalmellington in Scotland. John worked in the mines at first and later became a railway ganger. I believe about five of their 12 children were born in Burra. I could not find records for Edward, 1868 or James 1870 but I was able to trace Ann 1872, Mary Jane 1874, and Sarah 1876. In about 1877 the family moved to Riverton where more children were born. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Thomas & Elizabeth NICHOLAS nee ROWLING arrived in Sth Australia per "Phoebe" 1847, with five children. Approximate dates in Burra (1847-1852) Mary "Rowland" NICHOLAS married Nicholas WHITE at Kooringa 14 August 1850. (Moved to Victoria). Elias NICHOLAS (moved to Victoria), Elizabeth NICHOLAS married Thomas KISSEL at Kooringa 6 March 1852. (Moved to Wallaroo), Thomas Henry NICHOLAS (moved to Victoria) and John NICHOLAS (moved to Victoria) Two further children were born to Thomas & Elizabeth at Kooringa - Charity Code (6 January 1849) and Charles (12 November 1851) .. both died in infancy. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Charles Julius Schmidt and Maria Caroline Augusta |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched We have family connections with Burra ROWE as well as an interest in WAY family and NETTLE (who were there in 1850/1851 when James Rowe arrived. Rev Rowe was the first Bible Christian minister in the Paxton Cottages manse and church. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My main concern is to try and locate my Great grandfather GEORGE FREEMAN he was born in Coggeshall Essex England on 14 th May 1825 and migrated to South Australia with his sister Anne on the Samual Boddington in 1849. George Married JULIA BIRT at Blakiston S.A. on 17.11.1852.This family had four children at Bugle Ranges, had hotel at Langhorne Creek and Mt.Barker before moving to Burra about 1860. Four children Frederick, Amy, Charles and Walter were all born at Burra. George was a Coachdriver at Burra. Do not know who he worked for. Mother and children all moved to Melbourne about 1873/1875 and I have been unable to find any details of father Geo.Freemans history or death. His youngest child was born Redruth 1873. Did he die or desert his family ? My other family I have researched is WILLIAM BIRT and his Second wife JANE HOCKING They arrived in Adelaide on 8 Sept.1847 with children Orlando, Mary, Julia, Eliza and twins William and Walter. All these children were from Williams first marriage to Mary Jeffrey who died in 1847 in Cornwall. William and family moved to Burra about Oct 1849 and was employed as a Foreman Carpenter at the mine. William and Jane had four children William, Harry, Mathew and Robert. I have quite a bit of info on the Birt's whose old home at Hampton is signposted The Birt House. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched The family name I'm researching is Gillett. In particular I was looking for information on descendents of Charles and Judith Gillett who arrived in South Australia on the Royal Admiral in 1840. My gg grandfather Samuel, youngest son of Charles worked around Clare and was married at Penwortham. I found a death register for Charles J (Joseph) Gillett in the library records however, I found no evidence of a headstone at the cemetery. I also found the grave of George Benjamin Gillett and his wife. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched JOHN WHELLUM Arrived 1839 on Ganges. Settled Black Springs between 1865 and 1870. He and his wife Frances died in Black Springs, John 14th April 1874 and Frances 8th July, 1876. They had 13 children. JAMES PASCOE believe arrived on the Norfolk in 1847 with wife and child Thomas. Remarried Elizabeth Turner 1851. James died 25th February 1878 at Yongal and Elizabeth death unknown but thought to be 24th March 1900 Orroroo. WILLIAM PASCOE born 19th April 1855 ALBERT PASCOE born 16th March 1860 at Black Springs. THOMAS PASCOE born 1844 married Mary Jane Turner born 1846. They were married in the Primitive Methodist Church at Glendore on 29th August, 1865. Both died in Yongala. They had 8 children ALFRED HORACE PASCOE (my grandfather) was born in Yongal 15th April 1876 he married Edith Maria Whellum (born 9th March 1881 in Black Springs) on 25th April 1906 at Black Springs. MURIEL GRACE PASCOE (my mother) was born 15th January 1908 in Burra. ELSIE BEATRICE PASCOE (my mother's sister) was born 20th April 1912 in Burra. I would love to find more details of James Pascoe and Elizabeth Turner. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My great, great grandparents, Joseph and Nancy (nee Trembath) Hocking arrived in South Australia on the Buzzorah Merchant in 1848 and they were accompanied by some younger members of their family. Joseph worked on the Moonta Mine but was drowned in June 1852 when the coach he was travelling in from Burra to Adelaide overturned in the swollen Light River. Accounts of the accident were reported in the Adelaide Times on Sat. 26th June and again in the South Australian Register on Sat 10th July 1852. I found the site of his grave at Burra cemetery but there is no headstone, an ordinary miner's family probably would not have had the finance to provide one. Nancy died, destitute in Adelaide in 1856. I would be quite happy to forward this information to anyone researching this Hocking name, and likewise receive any more data about the family. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John HARRIS Emigrated 1857 to Burra with wife Mary [nee COCK] Several generations lived in Burra until the 1960s. Had son John, daughters Jane, Mary and Ann and another son William. Mary died in Burra 1860; John senior went to Moonta Mines where he died in Dec. 1877. Francis PASCOE emigrated 1847 with wife Elizabeth [nee WILLEY] One daughter, Ethlenda - born 1843 - married the younger John Harris listed above. Joseph PHILLIPS married Elizabeth BRUCE. Lived at Mintaro and Waterloo. He died Burra 1906, she in 1926 at Robertstown Richard BRUCE and family. Formerly he was a soldier and convict guard in eastern Australia and came to SA around 1850 on discharge from the army. Father of Elizabeth (above) and Richard Hamilton Bruce of World's End & husband of Maria who married (2) John Abraham at Waterloo. William and Mary WOOLLACOTT emigrated 1848 to work in the smelters. Both buried at Burra. Martha Williams (died Burra c. 1863) was mother of Mrs. Mary Woollacott. William John and Thomas Henry Woollacott were sons, the latter only had children (13 born between 1879 and end 1900.) Married daughters were Mary Jane Clode, Martha McKeevor, Esther Eichler, Sarah Eichler, Alice Williams Hill and Elizabeth Woollacott (unmarried). Mary Woollacott is a first cousin of my husband and still resides in Burra. Thomas YOUNG and Lydia Mary [nee CHECUCCI] emigrated 1857. Son, James John Henry Young born 1859 "Ashmore" nr. Burra - location? Moved to Tyabb in Victoria in 1894. (Other sons and a daughter, Elizabeth Selina Y. born Burra between 1859 and 1872.) A daughter Catherine Frances Carnatic Young married Thomas Henry Woollacott. Catherine was born on the ship Carnatic. She had 13 children of whom 8 survived to adulthood. My husband' mother was the youngest, Bessie. On my side of the family John and Mary Ann BRENTON are my great, great grandparents. Note that their family born at Burra are recorded in the Engine House display at the Mines. However, my great Grandmother, Catherine Brenton, and her brother James Brenton were born in Zelah near Perranzabuloe , Cornwall prior to emigration in 1851. The Brentons moved on to Moonta Mines where Catherine married James Letcher. W H WILKINSON was the chemist at Burra for a period. He was the brother of my great grandfather James Wilkinson Auctioneer of Jamestown. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched George Blencowe (1824-1907) along with his brothers John (1830-1898) and Robert (1837-1913) were bullock drivers carting ore between Adelaide and the Burra Burra mines. On one such trip George's young 12 year old brother Thomas who was on the trip as a treat fell from a dray driven by Francis Williams and was killed in 1846. I have copies of two of the witness statements from the Coronial Inquest which you may find interesting as part of the history of the life and times of the mining era. Let me know if these would be suitable for the collection. This same George Blencowe later moved to Black Springs in the Burra district with his wife, Ellen Green (1826-1916) and his young family. They had 13 children many of whom were born and died there. Some of the children's names were Maria Blencowe (1849-1942) who married Thomas Carter (1845-1932) also of Black Springs, Thomas (1853-1885), Anna (1857-?), George (1859-1940) who married Matilda Nourse (1865-1945) also with Burra connections, William (1861-1862), Francis (1863-1935) who married Martha Rivett (1869-1932) Edwin (1866- ?), Josiah (1868-1952) who married Amy Nourse (1869-1938) and Arthur Blencowe (1873-?) George and Ellen Blencowe moved to Black Springs between 1853 and 1859 and were still paying land tax there until 1878 even though the family had moved to Yongala by 1875. Their son George (1859-1940) is my great grandfather and he was born in Black Springs where he spent his entire childhood, moving to Yongala when he was sixteen. He married Matilda Nourse, the 15th of 16 children born to Richard Nourse and Mary Ann Bickford. Several of Matilda's siblings lived in Burra and district and I believe their descendants still do. It is a widely held belief that George and Matilda also lived in Burra, but I cannot establish when. They were married in Petersburg in 1882 and judging by the births of their children spent until 1906 in Yongala, Eurilpa and Carrieton before moving into NSW. Any help on that mystery would be appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Davis, Watts and Hirschausen The names I am researching are my great grandparents - Frank Watts Davis (parents: Thomas Davis and Matilda Watts from Clare) and Annie Hirschausen (father: Wilhelm/William Hirschausen of Burra). Hirschausen has been spelt in a number of different ways in the records (Hirschausen, Hirschaussen, Herschausen, Haerschausen, Hushhouden). Frank and Annie married at Kooringa on 4.11.1876. Annie's name is incorrectly spelt as Hushhouden in the marriage records. They had 3-4 children in the Burra area (not sure if Annie and Eva are one and the same): Matilda Ann (Tilley) Davis - born 18.9.1877 (Millerton) Alice Ada Davis - born 31.3.1879 (Yarcowie) Annie Davis - born 7.4.1881 (Millerton) Eva Howard Davis - born 4.4.1882 (Burra) I believe Annie senior died at Burra in late 1888 or early 1889 after a sudden illness but have been unable to find any record of her death. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am researching Richard Need who arrived in Australia on the Eliza in 23/8/1949. He bought section 2054 in Kooringa on 9/8/1853. This is detailed in a book “More than just a Need” by Rosalie Hill. My other great great grandfather, John Edwards, bought land near the Karkulta mine somewhat later but I have never been able to find his birthdate or place of origin. He is mentioned in a letter to Henry Ayers. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched All lived in the HALLET region in the 1880s. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Francis JOLLY b 1793 Cornwall d 1872 Millbrook (in Burra Nov 1846 to about 1852) Mary Ann JOLLY (nee BARBERY) married to Francis daught. Jenatta JOLLY b 1826 d 1910 mar. James DAY b. 1804 d. 1852 daught. Cordelia DAY b. 1847 (supposedly Burra first white female) daught.Elizabeth Ann JOLLY b. 1834 mar. William MURRAY in 1850 at Kooringa? son John Barbery JOLLY b 1835 d 1911 mar. Ann WILLS (John lived at Hallett died in Burra bur Kapunda) son John Brilliat JOLLY b 27 May 1855 d. 23 June 1879 at Kooringa bur Burra daught. Cecelia JOLLY b 1869 d 1909 mar James Alfred BYRNE b Kooringa 1865 daught. Cordelia JOLLY b 21 Dec 1872 at Kooringa d 1954 mar. George Albert VINALL son William Henry JOLLY b 1823 d 1876 mar Alice HAWKINS son Francis JOLLY b 1844 d 1915 mar Eliza OPIE son Francis JOLLY b 23 Mar 1859 Kooringa son Alfred JOLLY b 26 Apr 1861 Kooringa The William JOLLY who lived at Belalie appears to have had children living at Gladstone, Georgetown, Crystal Brook and Narridy. I also have another family line who lived in Burra dugouts and lost everything in the floods. I understand they were only there for a couple of years and moved on after the floods. They are the VANSTONE family. John VANSTONE and wife Mary Ann with sons John, James, William and Phillip I think were in Burra together in the dugouts when the floods hit and they lost everything. They moved back to Willunga. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched The Prowses were Cornish miners who emigrated to Australia in the mid 1800s and may have worked in the Burra mine. I could not find any specific mention of their names so would be interested in hearing from you if anything turns up. From memory, their names were William, John, James and Richard. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Charlotte or Charity who had a possible relationship with Edward RANDLE with child Fanny 19 November 1946 but babe died 21 December 1846. Looking for Charlotte or Charity's relatives who seem to have come from Burra. She would have been born around 1828 and she might have had a relative Edward REYNOLDS, but we don't know for sure. We're still trying to confirm whether Charlotte and Charity are the same woman or two different women! William Thomas and Clara (nee HURLE) REYNOLDS married at residence of WJ REYNOLDS 1 April 1896. Trying to establish relationship to Charlotte/Charity & Charles - they were ex Burra but buried at Auburn. GUPPY and SMEEDY / SCHMIEBIG / SCHMEDIG / Schmiedig Edward (m. Fanny Thomas 9 Feb 1869) listed as Uncle of the following (don't know the connection to Burra yet):- SCHMIEBIG/SCHMEDIG or similar - Anglicised as SMEEDY (Charles or Karl G. or Charles/Karl Augustus? arrived Australia 22 January 1846 on the George Washington married Charity or Charlotte REYNOLDS 21 September 1847 at Auburn, but both seem to have lived in Burra at some time. Henry BARNES who married Mary SMEEDY (daughter of Charles & Charity/Charlotte above) Carl Schmiedig & his wife Charity nee Reynolds, lived & worked (He was a Shoemaker), in Burra in the 1850s and had 2 children in Burra. Fanny was Born in 1850 and died at Burra in 1851 and Charles August born in 1852 in Burra, but died in Adelaide. (They are mentioned in the Directory of the Early Folk by Jennifer Carter.) |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My interest is in Charles Nankervis who arrived in Adelaide on the Pakenham in early 1849 and Mary Madden (or Maddern or Maddren) who arrived with her family on the William Money in early 1849. After disembarking, they went to Burra where Charles and Mary met and eventually were married on 10 July 1851. They had a child, Mary I think, and then left for Ballarat around 1852-54 where they had further children including Elizabeth my great grandmother. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Schmidt, Baum, Forden, Bertram and Hocking Carl Friedrich Julius Schmidt and Johanna Friederike Baum came out to Port Adelaide on the Ship "Herder" from Clausthal in Germany with four of their eight children. My g.grandfather was the eldest and was only 9 when they arrived in Australia. The children wee Charles Frederick Julius, Carl, Bernhard and Johanna (Annie) who was born on the ship. Johanna Augusta Mary was born in Burra on 3 Apr, 1853 and died in Coburg Victoria 20 June, 1923, she married William Sanders in Wallaroo 21 July, 1873, next child Elveana born in Burra 1855, and died in Cheltenham 28 April, 1930, married Isaiah Wood in Adelaide 9 Oct 1875, next child born in Burra, Ernest August Louis born 1st July, 1857, died 10 Feb 1921 Boulder, W.A. buried Boulder Cemetery, Salvation Army Section, no headstone. Married Louisa Forden at the residence of Mrs. F.Forden, Portland Estate, Port Adelaide, 9 Nov. 1882. Next child, Charles August Albert born 24 May, 1859, Burra, died 4 Feb 1922, Coburg Victoria, buried Coburg Cemetery, married Mary Eliza Walton, 6 Dec 1888, Carlton Melbourne. My g.grandmother, Caroline Augusta Maria Bertram also arrived in Port Adelaide on the ship "Herder" same voyage as Charles, she was called Marie and was age 4. Her parents were Heinrich Friedrich Bertram and Louise Henrietta Conradine Krugener and they had 7 children all born in Germany. Caroline was No. 6 in this family of 7. Caroline and Charles were married at St. Mary's Church, Kooringa on 27 May, 1865. They had 10 children but the first two were the only children born in Burra and they were Caroline Augusta (Aunty Lena) and Augusta Fredericka Louisa, the next three children were born at various mine sites in S.A. then one was born in Ballarat, the next born back in S.A. and the last three born in different areas of Victoria. My grandmother was No. 8 child, Florence Mary Julia born in Ballarat 6 March 1882 and married my grandfather John Nankervis Hocking in Boulder, W.A. 10 July, 1902, at the residence of her father. Charles must have moved the family around and he died in Boulder in 1909 and is buried at Boulder Cemetery. His wife is buried at Melbourne General Cemetery in the same grave as her father-in-law. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My family that lived in Burra are the Baynes and Duells in the years 1876 c. to 1895 but other family members still lived there from this date. The other family name is Cox, and they lived at Burra from 1884 (Edward) to the present day. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched James (or William) Turner, (b c 1828, m 1855,d 1878) was listed as a Shepherd on Mannanarie Station in 1870 where my Grandfather Daniel was born,(b 1870) 6th of 8 children.the 4th child was the first to be born at Mannanarie in 1867 the 7th was born at Belailie & the youngest at Clare. We believe the records of the station were lost in a fire about 1900 and am having great difficulty in finding much about the Parents (William/James married MaryAnn Connolly/Connoy who later built & ran the Bangor Hotel. She later married Walter Purchase in 1880 we think, but to much blurred to really think the date true. When in Burra we found in the old Goal in 1861 James Turner age 28 was jailed for 11-12 weeks for deserting ship (the 2nd son was born this year) & a William Turner age 50 spent 3-4 weeks for Arson in 1876 First 2 children & last child have their father listed as James & others listed as William but the same mother & we know 6 are definitely family. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched HENRY PINCH arrived in S.A. in 1848 on the “Duke of Bedford”. He was born at St. Mabyn, Cornwall in 1828, son of William Pinch and Mary Pearse Johns. He met Francis Hicks on board and they married in the C.of E. Limehouse Hill Kooringa in 1849. Francis was born at Mevagissey Cornwall. Their first home was a dugout whilst he built a house at Lot 104 Illogen St., Redruth. Their daughter Mary was born there in 1852 (first girl to be born in Redruth). Henry worked on the Burra Mines. He sold his home and went to the Victorian goldfields but did not stay long and returned to Burra. Their second daughter Fanny was born at Burra in 1853...he worked on the mines as a tributer until 1869. Henry then purchased “Pencarrow” now called “The Grove” and sold it in 1883 for 6,000 pounds. He moved to Lot 62 St. Dye St., Burra. Henry repurchased “Pencarrow” in 1897 for 4,077 pounds and 10 shillings and deeded the property to his daughter Fanny who was by then married to Edwin Nicholas FINCH. The property remained in the Finch family nearly 75 years. Mary, his other daughter married Josiah Thomas and they lived at “Three Trees’, the adjacent property. Henry was a keen supporter of the community and was for years a Councillor, on the Committee of the Show Society, the Redruth Church and twice a Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge (who presented him with an illuminated address on his Diamond Wedding Anniversary). Francis died in 1912 and Henry died in 1916. Richard Finch son of Nicholas and Grace Tuckerman was born in 1810 at Kingsbridge Devon. He married Jane Wilcocks (b1811) daughter of John and Mary Wilcocks of Buckfastleigh Devon in 1833. Before sailing to South Australia Richard worked as a Maltster. They arrived in 1855 aboard the "Magdelana" and went straight to the Burra. With them were their two youngest sons George and Edwin Nicholas. Richard worked on the mines and in 1859 took up land at Princess town...he subsequently took up further land at Springbank and Copperhouse and east of Burra. Richard was killed at a level crossing by a train near his home on 27th October 1885. Jane stayed at Springbank with her son Edwin Nicholas and Fanny and their children until she died in 1894. As the Finch family grew each generation acquired further land holdings both as farms and homes in the town. Richard and Jane's children were: William born in 1833 at Buckfastleigh, Devon. He married Thurza Tuckerman . He was a farmer. William died at Burra in 1911 and Thurza in 1917. There were three surviving sons. John was born in 1839 at Ashburton, Devon. He married Mary Jane Bourne in 1867. Died at Quorn 1882. In 1883 his widow married Henry Moss at Gordon near Quorn. Four daughters survived the first marriage. George born in 1842 at Buckfastleigh ,Devon . He married Phillis Bennet Rogers in 1870 at Gum Creek. He farmed at "Baldry" and died at Medindie Adelaide in 1925. Phillis died previously in 1913. They were survived by daughters. Edwin Nicholas born in 1853 at Torquay, Devon married Fanny Pinch second daughter of Henry and Francis Pinch of Burra in 1878. Fanny was born in 1852 and died in 1932. Edwin Nicholas died 1921at "Pencarrow" Burra. They had 5 sons and 1 daughter RICHARD FIELD was born 1825 at Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England In 1851 he married Amelia Mary Teresa Jones who was born in 1825 at Llangarron, Herefordshire, England...they married at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. They arrived in South Australia aboard the "Victoria Regis' in 1855. Except for four years farming at Hamilton in Victoria they lived the rest of their lives in the Burra district. Richard worked briefly as a miner and then took up land at Princetown and at "Monavea" in the Hundred of Hanson. Richard was a successful farmer and became involved in Burra Community affairs a perpetual light has been installed at the Burra Church of England in respect for the Field family who gave one thousand pounds to the Church. Their children were: John Richard Field (born 9/1/1853), George Albert Field (born 5/5/1855). Mary Anne Field (born 1857 d. 1878), William Henry Field (born 11/10/1860), Frederick Arthur Field (born 7/.05./1863), Eliza Alice Field (9/9/ 1865), Arthur Walter Field (born 29/9/1868) Their eldest son John remained at "Monavea" for all of his life and William farmed at "Westbury" an adjacent property. "Monavea" is still owned by the Field family. Richard died at "Monavea" in 1905 and Amelia died 1909. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My Great Grandfather was a Thomas Highett born C1848 Died 24/12/1916 at Burra & was married to a Harriet Lines. Their son Joseph was born 7/11/1879 at Mongolata-Burra. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched FARNSWORTH and Wiltshire David & Martha FARNSWORTH and family, also his 2nd wife, Hannah Phillips WILTSHIRE (previously married to Michael BOWEN), at Burra about 1847-1853. Henry & Fanny TREWREN, 1848-1851 John & Ellen TERRELL, 1857-late 1860s Henry & Eleanor BOSANKO, mid 1850s-late 1860s |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Joseph Thomas born 1833,1834 in Cornwall? He married Mary Ann Michell on 28/7/1856 - they had two children while in Burra and then moved to Wallaroo S.A. My gt. grandmother was Amelia Banfield Thomas |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I have been unable to find anything about Jeremiah Hartnett’s birth records. His marriage certificate and his death certificate (a copy of which I have) says he was born in 1875. However - the children of Cornelius and Mary were: Patrick (1864); Daniel (1866); Catherine (1870); John (1872); Margaret (1875); Mary Anne Julia (1877) and Timothy (1880s). I think this is right - I have been poring over the SA birth records and given quirky spellings, all of the above were born in Kooringa to Cornelius and Catherine (nee Wade). If that is so, then Jeremiah would have to be Margaret’s twin if he was born in 1875 or something else very funny was going on! So, I am coming round to thinking that Jeremiah was really John born in 1872. However I can’t prove this. My mother, who is 87 and from the other side of the family (Osborne and Francis, all Sydney people), recollects Jeremiah as only ever being called Jerry, never John. I had noticed the other Cornelius in the death records, but hadn’t thought any more about him at this point, wanting to see where the other information took me. It’s certainly a bit strange. The other mystery is what happened to Jeremiah and the family between their departure from Kooringa and arrival in Sydney. My mother remembers my father (who was Kevin Hartnett), as having told her they left SA when he was about seven, and then managed or owned a hotel in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains. I have been unable to find any record of the family either in publicans’ licenses, or in the Sands Commercial Directories for anywhere in the Mountains towns between about 1919 and 1923. Jeremiah appears in the Sands directory for 1923 as occupying 28 Powell St Coogee, which is in Sydney’s eastern suburbs near the beach. The family lived there until well after my grandmother died in 1958. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Generation No. 1
James Hartley PEARCE, born 31 January 1886 in Kooringa District of Burra, South Australia, Australia; died 3 May 1968 in Netherby, South Australia, Australia. He was the son of Henry PEARCE and Sarah Charlotte WRIGHT. He married Gertrude Evelyn TRENOUTH 12 October 1910 in Residence of Richard Trenouth, Parkside, South Australia, Australia. She was born 9 June 1889 in Strathalbyn District of Stirling, South Australia, Australia, and died 28 April 1972 in Netherby, South Australia, Australia. She was the daughter of Richard Frank TRENOUTH and Sarah Ann HOWLAND. Generation No. 2
Henry PEARCE, born 2 January 1855 in District of The Murray, South Australia, Australia; died 10 January 1914 in Parkside, South Australia, Australia. He was the son of James "Sawyer" PEARCE and Ann WHITNEY. He married Sarah Charlotte WRIGHT 13 May 1880 in Residence of William Henry Wright in Wright St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Sarah Charlotte WRIGHT, born 1857; died 1939 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She was the daughter of William Henry WRIGHT and Matilda SHEAN.
Children of Henry PEARCE and Sarah WRIGHT are: Henry Whitney, James Hartley, William Henry, Matilda Ann, Horace Clifford and Ruth Marion. Generation No. 3
James "Sawyer" PEARCE, born 28 December 1810 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedford, England; died 26 September 1867 in Kooringa District of Burra, South Australia, Australia. He was the son of William PEARCE and Mary REEVE. He married Ann WHITNEY 11 July 1833 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. Ann WHITNEY, born 1814 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedford, England; died 9 June 1889 in Kooringa District of Burra, South Australia, Australia.
Children of James PEARCE and Ann WHITNEY are: Ann Elizabeth, Thomas Whitney, Sarah, John, Jane, William, Charles James, Henry and Alfred Generation No. 4
William PEARCE, born 27 January 1787 in Buckinghamshire?, England; died 7 January 1867 in England. He was the son of James PEARCE and Mary HOW. He married Mary REEVE 2 March 1810 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. Mary REEVE, born Abt. 1785; died 30 March 1845 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedford, England.
Children of William PEARCE and Mary REEVE are: James "Sawyer", William, Elizabeth, Sarah, William "Tailor", John, Sarah Jane, Charles. Generation No. 5
James PEARCE, born Abt. 1753 in Buckinghamshire, England; died 2 September 1819 in Leyhill, near Chesham, England. He married Mary HOW 7 December 1778 in Chesham, Buckingham, England. Mary HOW, born Abt. 1759 in Beaconsfield, Buckingham, England; died 28 December 1835 in Chesham, England. She was the daughter of Henry HOW and Elizabeth ?.
Children of James PEARCE and Mary HOW are: Mary, James, Elizabeth, William, Joseph, James, Sarah, John, Ann and Daniel. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Thomas GEACH (JOSEPH6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, JOHN3, ELYZAB-ELYABETH2, ELYZAB1) was born 1829 & Christened 22nd Nov 1829, both in Chacewater, Corn, Eng. Son of JOSEPH GEACH & JOHANNA JANE BARBER. He died on the 24th Sept 1897 in Corowa, N.S.W. Aust. Thomas married ESTHER KELLY on the 4th May 1856 in Orange, N.S.W. Aust. She was daughter of MICHAEL-MILES KELLY & JANE-JEAN BROWN. She was born 1826 in Ireland but raised in Maxwell Town, Dundee, Angus, Scotland. She died on the 4th Jul 1893 in Apollo Bay, Vic, Aust. Notes for THOMAS GEACH: Thomas lost his mother Joanna Jane Nee Barber when he was only 2 years old and his father Joseph soon re-married the following year to Loveday Warmington. Thomas is on the 1841 Census for Chacewater with his father, and Loveday and his sister Mary. Thomas became a Blacksmith like his father, and then at the age of 19 decided to immigrate to Australia. Shipping record of the “BABOO” 423tons o.m. 3 Mast Ship Rig, Built in 1835, in Howrah near Calcutta, 115’7”X28’5”X5’8-1/2” Between Decks. T.Kincaid, of Greenock - Owner. Left Plymouth on the 24th Aug 1848 Then Via London and Arrived Adelaide South Australia on the 5th Dec 1848 with Capt Barker – Trip was then Registered on the 6th Dec 1848. He left Plymouth on the ship the "Baboo" and arrived at Adelaide S.A. on 5th Dec 1848. (Family Story states he was apprenticed to come out to work at the Thompson's Foundry in Castlemaine, Vic, but we have no evidence he ever got there. Most who came out, hated the long trip, and were eager to get off the ship at the first port of call, which was Adelaide). Thomas 1st married Ann Snell on the 8th May 1851 in Wesleyan Chapel Kooringa (Burra) He is listed as 21 years and she as 18 years (Reg in Book 10 Page 186 of S.A. Govt Records). We know nothing about her, and she possibly died during childbirth and the child also died. (No record of either death, has been found) A few years later in 1856, Thomas with a group of other gentleman made the long trip on foot to Orange N.S.W. (Some nearly died of starvation getting there) It's possible Thomas stayed only one week here and married, a total stranger in Esther Kelly? (Don’t feel myself that they only knew each other only a week. More likely their son has details on the death cert incorrect) The marriage certificate states they are both 30, with Thomas a Widower and Esther a Spinster, and both from Frederick Valley. It’s also possible that son Joseph had forgotten his parents had met & married in Orange and the One week in N.S.W. stated on the death certificate is just the last week of his life in the Corowa Hospital. Which is more likely. After the marriage Thomas took Esther back to Burra S.A. and must have stopped in the Mining District of Burra, for the next few years as their, 1st four children possibly were all born there, and two are known to have died there. They then in 1860 moved to the Goldfields of Ballarat, Vic where their son Joseph was born in 1861 and then the others. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched William Pearce |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I believe my Grandfather is buried in the Burra Cemetery. Francis Patrick Casey..........listed as F.Patrick Casey Plot Grave # 3341 Date of Burial - 25/02/1919 Francis Patrick Casey was born in Melbourne but his siblings were born in the surrounding areas of Burra. Parents: James Davoren Casey + Amelia Quinn Siblings: Mary Amelia - b. 1877 Yarcowie SA Mary Margaret - b. 1883 Smithfield SA Gertude Johanna - b. 1885 Aldgate SA James Leornard - b. 1886 Stirling SA Francis Patrick - b. 1888 Williamstown VIC Possibly another brother called Jesse? Francis Patrick Casey m. Catherine Margaret Lynch (b. 1888 Pekina SA) They had one son - Davoren Joseph Casey - b. 1915 Broken Hill NSW. d. 1958 Sydney NSW |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched PAULL, John & Elizabeth. John was a Captain at the Burra Mines. I am aware that there is another John Paull who is referred to as a Captain and it is hard to distinguish between the two. The Paulls came out to Australia in 1853 on the ship Calabar (he was 24) and first went to Kapunda before moving to the Burra. My ancestor was a local preacher and after the mine closed, he travelled a bit around the state and retired to Kadina. John became blind and died there in 1919. The other family is LOMMAN who lived in Wirrabara Forest until 1912. Joshua and Elizabeth LOMMAN had an apple orchard (also pears I think) and had 8 surviving children of which my mother was the youngest. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John and Elizabeth Goldsworthy. |
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KITCHEN The Kitchen family later moved to Adelaide in 1894 and, following a brush with the law by Thomas senior, they moved to Broken Hill in the late 1890s. Anybody wishing to pursue details about this family can contact me by email. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My name is Marie Burge (nee Quinn). I currently live in Melbourne. My Mother was the late Norma Lillian Quinn (nee Earle) Her Mother was Mary Catherine (Cass) Earle (Nee Parker). Cass was the daughter of George Parker born Burra Creek 25/01/1870, he married Rebecca Flower born Stony Gap 24/05/1869. George & Rebecca had 6 children. Vida Ethel who married John James Pens. Mildred Callis who married William Herbert Collins, Mary Catherine (Cass) who married John Oliver Earle, Rachel Lillian who married Herbert Henry Cornelius Joseph James Parker born 04/06/1904 died 04/08/1925 I know these families have considerable history in the Burra District. I know Mum's cousin Bert Cornelius died 02/09/1996 and I think he may have been the last relative still living in Burra. I am not sure. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Wahlert and Hirschausen Carl Heinrich Friedrich Wahlert and his wife Caroline Dix arrived S.A. on the ship Herder from Germany. Arrived in Adelaide on 21.9.1851 they settled in Burra, I am not sure of the date they arrived in Burra. They are both buried in the Burra cemetery. I have found 4 children Ernest Frederick, Heinrich, Amelia Augusta and Eliza. Heinrich my grandfather married Henrietta Hirschausen also known as Dorothy Frederika Augustine, on 10.10.1885 they married at the Destitute Chapel in Adelaide. I understand Henrietta came from Burra. They had 9 children Henry William, Charles lewis. Charlotte Louisa, August, Dorothy Frederika, Theodore Ernest, Lionel Joseph (my father), Norman Clyde. All the children except Charles were born at Burra. I understand both Carl and Heinrich worked in the Burra mine. I believe Heinrich and family lived in Paxton Square. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My wife's g-g-g-grandmother Elizabeth Mitchell married Octavios Geach and they both died and are buried at Burra.
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My grandfather Linthal James JESSER was born in Burra, so too his 8 other siblings. Thomas Linthal JESSER died in WW1 (he was born in Burra). He was the son of William and Mary JESSER, but I have not as yet linked how he is related. Any help would be kindly appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am interested in the Farrelly family. The original family of John & Ann Farrelly (nee Brady) came to Australia, not sure if firstly to WA or SA. Haven't found them on a ships list yet. Ann is supposed to have been a sister to the 1st Bisop of Perth, John Brady. John & Ann Farrelly settled in the Mallala/Salisbury/Peach Belt area. Their children, possibly all born in Ireland as I have no records of their births, were, Michael, Thomas, John, Patrick, Bridget Mary, Peter & Edward Francis. My line comes from Michael b.c.1834 who married Christina Graham b. c1836 on the 5th February 1856 at River Gilbert in SA. Christina was previously married to a John Donoghue (LDS Site). Michael & Christina's eldest son John Farrelly b.c.1857 (place unknown) married Mary Bourke (father Patrick) on the 12th June 1881 at Mallala. John & Mary are buried at Burra, so I presume they lived in that area. I know very little about John & Mary's backgrounds. I do know they had 12 children, one being my grandfather Edward Francis Farrelly b.22.1.1897 at Booborowie. He was a twin brother to Joseph Patrick Francis Farrelly. I have been told that my grandfather worked on his parents property until he was aged about 20 and then moved to Adelaide. His twin brother Joe, (who had a broad Irish accent) played football for Burra/Booborowie? If you can help with anything to do with the above I would be very grateful. I have a lot of family history from my grandfather onwards except for a few missing links I will now list:-
I will also give you some info regarding my earlier Farrelly's which I can't unravel:-
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Return to Surnames Being Researched EDWARDS, SYMONS, BOUNDY, SLEEMAN and WILLIAMS My name if Felicity Triglone and my connection is through Sam EDWARDS b. 1.4.1898 mentioned below, he was my grandfather. John EDWARDS son of Samuel and Elizabeth ? b. 1841 UK. Came to South Australia per 'Ancient Briton' in 1849 aged 8 years. Miner, labourer. Married 8th July 1895 in Burra Mary BOUNDY b. 23/8/1843 Redruth Cornwall, d. 30/11/1913 daughter of Richard and Elizabeth BAILEY. John and Mary both buried in Burra cemetery. Children: Samuel b. 30/11/1864 Kooringa. D. 5/6/1941 Perth WA. Elizabeth b. 10/4/1867 Kooringa. D. 10/4/1867 Kooringa SA William John b. 30/3/1868 Kooringa. D. 26/7/1901 Broken Hill NSW Richard b. 4/12/1870 Moonta SA Two death dates, 11/5/1871 Moonta SA and 29/12/1871 Moonta SA Richard Thomas b. 24/11/1872 Moonta SA Elizabeth Hannah b. 5/3/1875 Moonta SA. D. 24/3/1898 Kooringa SA. Married William SLEEMAN, was living in Broken Hill prior to death. Joseph Henry b. 2/8/1877 Kooringa SA Horace Albert b. 6/1/1880 Kooringa SA. D. 21/11/1969 Broken Hill NSW Hurtle Stanley b.8/6/1882 Kooringa SA. D. 25/5/1964 Broken Hill NSW Herbert Edgar b. 8/6/1886 Kooringa SA. D. 2/1/1947. Samuel EDWARDS, butcher by trade, married Annie SYMONS 14/9/1887 at the home of her father Matthew, East Street Kooringa. Children: Cyril Milton b. 22/3/1890 Kooringa SA. D. 1929 Millicent May b.16/10/1892 (Jack) John Hartley b. 21/4/1896 Kooringa SA Sam b. 1/4/1898 Broken Hill NSW William John b. 1899 Boulder WA. D. 1964 Vera b. 1902 Boulder WA. D. 1982 Nita Annie b. 1903 Boulder WA. D. 1973 Unnamed stillborn female b. 1905 Boulder WA (Fred) Frederick b. 25/10/1906 Boulder WA. D. 1951 Dorothy b. 1909 WA Clement b. 6/2/1912. D. 1954 Unnamed stillborn female Matthew Eddy SYMONS b. 1832 Breage Cornwall, died 2/8/1904 Guildford WA is son of John Henry SYMONS and Alice Arthur EDDY He is the father of Annie SYMONS, this is shown on her marriage certificate. Matthew had four children with he MUTTON that all died in Kooringa. Susanah died in 1886 and is buried in the same grave as Matthews parents. Matthew then married Jane WILLIAMS 29/5/1871 at his home East Street Kooringa and they had three children who attended the Burra school. There appears to be no birth certificate for Annie SYMONS but on the birth certificate of her son Sam her birth is listed as 1867 in Adelaide. Matthew was a butcher and had a shop on the corner of Kingston and East Streets Burra. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched We are trying to follow up on descendants of John HARRY & his wife Elizabeth (White nee Geach) HARRY. They probably married in the mid 1880s. They had four children Albert, Elsie, Hilda & Sylvia. Two of the girls married and then had surnames of Pens and Halls. We would like to find out information on any of their children . Any help would be very much appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched The ancestor is question was one of my ggg-grandfathers, James HINCH, who was a miner in Burra -certainly in the year 1851. He lived in a dugout. There was an article in one of the Adelaide newspapers describing a court case in which he was witness to an assault (in 1851).
James was originally an Irish convict who was transported to Sydney in 1831. He obtained his Certificate of Freedom in 1837 and somehow made his way to Adelaide (maybe as an Overlander?). He appeared on the 1841 Adelaide Census and was then working on the Angas Special Project. He married Mary TORRENS and they had five children born between 1842 and 1854 in Adelaide. He purchased land in Hindmarsh and subsequently sold it to Robert McBURNIE who married Mary in 1857.
We have lost track of James' movements from around 1855 but think that he did travel about Australia quite a bit. Mary maybe remarried on the basis that he'd not been sighted for two years and could be presumed dead. There is a death of a James HINCH about the right age at Mudgee NSW in 1877 but no information is included on the death registration so it is not possible to identify him as being the same person.
The story also goes that he was speared by an aboriginal - possibly killed. I've not found any evidence of this but the other family story which said that he had been a policeman has been proven correct - in 1837 he was gazetted as a constable at Penrith. He resigned several months later. Maybe because he'd been speared - or maybe he was speared when he was moving south the SA - or maybe he really was speared to death somewhere.
Any information regarding James HINCH will be very much appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am looking for any information on the UREN and CUNDY families who were in the Burra district in the late 1840's and early 1850s. They left the area by the mid 1850s to go interstate. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Am researching surname, Chirgwin. John Chirgwin married to Caroline Ayers, date....??? Children , ??? Looking for info on John , his birth date , were he was born or what ship he came out on. I am great granddaughter of John Chirgwin who married Eliza Comley, they lived in Delamere area. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Joseph FORD, a miner, & wife Caroline (nee HAUGHTON/HOUGHTON) and their descendants. Arrived in Kooringa approx 1849. Children were William Thomas (married Sarah Ann THEEUF), Jane (married William SYMONS), Francis, Joseph, Samuel, Carrie (married Thomas ROGERS), Annie, John (married Letitia ALTON), Elisha (married Berthia THEEUF), and Francis Henry (married Elizabeth GOULD).
John FRADD & wife Ellen (nee GRACE) and their descendants. Married in Kooringa 1859.
LOMMAN – all of them & all dates – they’re all related.
George GOULD & wife Isabella (nee WILLIAMS) and descendants. Lived in the region approx 1860 onwards. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My late husband's grandfather Edward CALLAGHAN was born in Kapunda, South Australia. He was baptised at St. Roses Church, Kapunda on 28.12.1878. His parents were James and Mary Jane (nee Fudge) Callaghan. Any help or direction would be appreciated thank you. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched BRUSE, WEGE, LUEBKE, JAMES, DEVLAING and ANDERSON My G-grandparents migrated to Burra in the 1840s. Short details are:- Paternal g-grandfather, Marcus Johann Heinrich BRUSE left Bremen (?), Germany aboard SS George Washington, with his mother (Maria Sophia), step-father (Heinrich WEGE) and 4 siblings, on 11 October 1845. They arrived in Port Adelaide on 24 January 1846. From here they settled in various parts of South Australia (mainly Burra, Hahndorf and Coramandel Valley). I assume my paternal g-grandmother, Margaret DAWE (nee JAMES) arrived about the same time. Few details are known apart from the fact that Margaret was born in Cornwall (possibly Madron or Gulval), England. The longer details are as follows:- Maria Sophia Margaretha LUEBKE (various spellings) (b 26 Aug 1792 Gustavel, Mecklenburg, Germany; d 15 Nov 1856 Hahndorf, SA) m 1 - 5 Nov 1817 Mecklenburg, Germany to (Andreas) Heinrich BRUSE (b 7 Feb 1793 Pastow, Germany; d C1833 Germany). Children of Maria Sophia Margaretha LUEBKE and Heinrich BRUSE -
Children of Heinrich WEGE (from his first marriage) are -
Marcus Johann Heinrich BRUSE m 1 - Augusta MEYER (No details known). m 2 - 10 Aug 1856 Burra SA to Margaret JAMES (b 1836 Madron, Cornwall, England; d 2 Sep 1812 Fremantle WA). Children of Marcus Johann Heinrich BRUSE and Margaret JAMES -
William Henry BRUSE m 1890 Burra SA to Helen DEVLAING (b 1870 Burra SA; d Jul 1896 Burra SA). Children of William Henry BRUSE and Helen DEVLAING -
Margaret BRUSE m 28 Jul 1882 Burra SA to George ANDERSON (b 23 Dec 1857 Burra SA; d 24 Aug 1918 Fremantle WA). Children of Margaret BRUSE and George ANDERSON -
A few notes of interest:- William BRUSE was a publican who either built or refurbished many hotels in country South Australia (Eg Gladstone, Port Pirie, Crystal Brook and Quorn). The Criterion and Transcontinental in Quorn are just 2 which come to mind. I believe one hotel in Quorn is now 'Bruse's Hall'. Frederick BRUSE I understand built "The Academy" and other buildings in Hahndorf. I believe the "Academy" was home to the painter Hans Heysen at one stage. Sarah Lydia BRUSE (1860 - 1944) "married a Danish-born Schleswig-Holsteiner, Jacob MAAG. He 'deserted' ship at Port Adelaide and they made their way to Coramandel Valley." (From 'A College In The Wattles' By Reg Butler.) |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Armstrong, DAVIES/DAVIS, STONE and BLADIN ARMSTRONG family of Burra Samuel Armstrong b.1813 in Jarrow England and his wife Ann (nee TURNBULL) travelled to S Aust aboard the ship “Chatham. They arrived there on 18 March 1852 along with their children: Isabella b. 1834, John b. 1837, Jane b. 1844, Ann b. 1846 and Eleanor b. 1848.
Samuel and his son John (only 15yrs old) were miners. The family was brought by assisted passage through a joint British and S.Aust govt scheme to man the many mines that were being established at this time. Prior to leaving England they had lived at the Ludworth and Shadforth Colliery in Durham.
John married a Mary DAVIES/DAVIS on 12 June 1859 in Kooringa. Mary lived at Gum Creek before her marriage. John and Mary had 11 children between 1859 and 1874. Mary died 5 days after giving birth to their 11th child Alice Armstrong Williams ARMSTRONG. Alice died 5 months later. Only 5 of their children survived beyond infancy.
William Thomas b. 1861 their second son was my GGgrandfather. The other children were: Elizabeth b. 1859, John b.1860, Samuel b. 1862, John b. 1864, Catherine b. 1865, David b. 1866, John b. 1868, George b. 1869, Mary Jane b. 1871, John Bassett b. 1873, and Alice b. 1874.
John, died 4 years after Mary in 1878 at Hallett.
I am looking for any descendants of this family as I have much info to share. I am also interested in where their children would have gone after both parent’s deaths.
DAVIES/DAVIS William DAVIES was a farmer who lived at Inman Valley in 1873 and Gum Creek between 1877 – 1888. His wife was Catherine (surname Unknown). I only have details on their daughter Mary DAVIES/DAVIS who married John ARMSTRONG in 1859 in Kooringa S.Aust ( my GGgrandparents).
I would like to make contact with any descendants of William and Catherine DAVIES/DAVIS.
Olaf Victor BLADIN and Frances Matilda SHORE/SHAW Frances Matilda SHORE/SHAW married Olaf Victor BLADIN in Victoria in 1857. Frances' death certificate of 1912 states that she spend 1˝ years in South Australia. She was born in Mayo, Queen’s County, Ireland in c. 1839.
Is anyone able to help me find out when she spent her time there? Theresa STONE and Robert Victor Stone BLADIN Theresa STONE had a child by Olaf Victor BLADIN on 15 November 1877. It is believed that Robert dropped the BLADIN surname in favour of his mother’s surname of STONE.
I would like to make contact with any descendants of Robert and Theresa. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Thomas Butson b.c1833 & Caroline Sanders b.c1837, married 24.11.1855 Bible Christian Kooringa. In Bendigo from 1856 / 1857 Any information particularly on Butson line. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am trying to trace the family McBride who were friends of my late Grandmother and I think originated from Cornwall (not sure about this). I have found an address 23 Fisher Street, Fullarton SA where a Mrs McBride lived approx time 1929/30/31. Also mentioned in the letter was the youngest daughter McBride who was to marry a Mr Pellew. I have found on this site a H E Pellew who married a Betty McBride in 1931. Does anyone know if this family or relatives still reside in Burra or did they move on? Are they the same McBrides? Can anyone help? |
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Oliver Bristow Cromwell BARNETT born c. 1874 in Wentworth, NSW to Henry BARNETT and Arabella ?. Siblings: Thomas H (c. 1864) and Herbert W (c. 1869).
Oliver BARNETT married Mary Ellen Frances GAINER in Broken Hill, NSW circa 1905. Children: Pearl Ella Norma (born c. 1908 in NSW), Barney (born in NSW ?), Francis Ethel (born 06/07/1910 in Glenelg, SA), Glory Olive (born 25/08/1912 in Glenelg, SA) and Yvonne Bernice (born 25/10/1915 in Camden, SA).
Oliver BARNETT remarried on 18/08/1933 following Mary Ellen France GAINER’s death (between 1926 and 1933). Oliver married Ida MASTERSON nee CUNNINGHAM (she was a widow).
Pearl Ella Norma BARNETT married Thomas Francis Lake HALLS (born 28/07/1909 in Kooringa, son of Thomas Philip HALLS and Jessie Margaret ATTRILL ) on 16/11/1926 in St Marys Church Kooringa. Children: Joan Isabel (born 07/04/1927 in Kooringa, SA) plus two children – names and dates unknown. Pearl died 07/02/1938, aged 33.
Ethel Frances BARNETT married Lionel Ernest Leo FROST on 15/08/1931 in St Paul’s Church, Adelaide.
Yvonne Bernice BARNETT married Leslie Louis GEHAN on 10/07/1937 in Methodist Manse, Glenelg.
I live in Vancouver, Canada and my grandmother was Francis Ethel BARNETT. I would be particularly interested in hearing from any descendants of Pearl Ella Norma HALLS nee BARNETT or any information relating to her mother, Mary Ellen Frances GAINER. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am researching two families that arrived in South Australia during the 1800s. The first family were tin miners from Ludgvan in Cornwall. The family name is Martin (Martyn). Benjamin Champion Martin and his wife, Martha Nichols (Nee Memory) Martin arrived at Port Adelaide on 16th August 1876 with their children, possibly 11. They lived in South Australia for around 6 years before moving to the tin mines in the Inverell District of NSW. The second family arrived in Australia some time between 1855 and 1880. Mark Thomas Partridge came out to South Australia where he also spent around 10 years before moving to the tin mines in Inverell, NSW. His parents were James Partridge and Eliza (nee Walsh). Any ideas/help would be appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched William Hocking was born in approximately 1805 in Cornwall, England. In 1848 he sailed to Pt Adelaide, South Australia with his wife, Elizabeth and 4 children aboard the 'Bussorah Merchant' from London via Plymouth under the command of Captain Edwards. Most migrants came to Australia as farm labourers, having passage paid through the sale of land by a South Australian Company. William Hocking was a labourer although he and his family settled in Moonta and became a miner. Little is known about their life in Australia the information I do have is based on a lot of hard research, internet surfing and records. They arrived in Australia with their 4 children:
There were no other children born to William & Elizabeth after they arrived in South Australia. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched William SMITH married Mary Jane Lawrence/Laurence. We are still unsure if they were born in Cornwall or Burra. Their children were:
Clara married Archibald Riddle. Nicholas married Mary Ellen cock. Elizabeth married Fredrick hawse. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Eli (born 30th March 1828 Hinton Martell Dorset England) and Maria Goodridge came out on the Sir John Lawrence in 1863. They arrived with their 3 children: Thomas Palmer (1851-1922) Henry Michael (1854 1912) Isaac James (1856-1935) Maria passed away in the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum 19th March 1873 Eli then went onto marry Jane (nee Brown nee Ross) 27th March 1874 near Kooringa Burra, she passed away 4th Feb 1883 at Gum Creek. Eli married for a 3rd time to Sarah (nee Bailey) 16th Nov 1889. Sarah died 2nd March 1891 buried at Burra with Eli. Eli passed away 26th Aug 1917. I am trying to find out more about his 2nd wife and 3rd wife. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I would like to make contact with any descendants of William Trevorrow and Honour Trevorrow (nee) Napton, both were born St Ives Cornwall, William 5-9-1817, Honour 1815 and they were married at St Ives Cornwall 27-12-1840. They arrived in South Australia from England 28-11-1856 on the Lord Hungerford. William was a Miner he worked at Burra, Blinman and Moonta mines he is buried in the same grave at Moonta with his daughter Ann who died 15-6-1885. The children of William and Honour who were born in Cornwall, were Honour 1841, Ann 1843, Mary 1845, Elizabeth 1847, William 1850, Jane 1855. Their children born in Australia were Patience 1860, Eliza 1864, Thomas born at Burra 1868. My connection to William and Honour is their daughter Honour who married Thomas Vivian Williams at Burra 1859 Honour and Thomas were my G G Grandparents. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My request is connected to my paternal grandmother, JESSIE MABEL BATH PETHERICK, b May 1885 at Kooringa. Her father was a jeweller, we understand, in Burra named JULIUS EVAN PETHERICK, who, sadly, died when Jessie was 11 mths old. He was a brother to EDMUND AUGUSTUS PETHERICK, prominent bookseller and publisher whose specialized mammoth collection of Oceania formed the basis of the National Library, Canberra. Jessie’s Mother was known as THIRZA ELIZABETH “SMITH”, but we have it on good authority (within the family) that her birth father was actually an uncle named THOMAS BATH, a prominent Burra businessman. Thirza’s mother was ELIZABETH SMITH nee BALL who married JESSE SMITH. Jesse had a sister SARAH who married THOMAS BATH. They had a daughter SARAH JANE BATH (and 4 younger childen, all of whom died, buried at Mintaro). These are the surrounding details to validate the family. The mystery is to find any record at all of the birth of THIRZA, on 18 June 1862. This date is written in a number of birthday books in the family. Over many years we have tried for a birth certificate under each of the family surnames, but to no avail. After the death of PETHERICK she married EDMUND LINES and they had 6 more children. We recognize the delicate and embarrassing nature of THIRZA’s birth and we understand that she was brought up with SARAH BATH and her father THOMAS. Mrs BATH (SARAH) died at her last childbirth. We are also told that the two girls – THIRZA & SARAH JANE (CISSY) were given special schooling where they were groomed to be “Ladies”, in preparation for going back to BATH’s native land of Cornwall. This did later eventuate but without THIRZA, who married. If any lead could be found re birth of THIRZA ELIZABETH ( Smith ? Bath ? etc ) I would be more than grateful. Over 23 years we have nothing but blanks. Note: Throughout her life she always used SMITH as her original name. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Thomas Brady and Elizabeth Ann Williams were married 1859 at Burra. Children were James, Harriet, Thomas, Eliza, Mary, Lucinda, Clara, John Thomas, William, Thomas Francis and Joseph Godfrey. I am hoping someone will know something of Thomas Brady senior, he died 1882 at Mount Bryan East. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched NEWMAN, NESBITT, HERBERT and HORNHARDT Hannah Nesbitt b. 1827, d. 12/01/1913 (Burra, SA). m. Francis Newman, 1/11/1847, St Pauls Church, Alnwick came to Adelaide in 1850, had two daughters Hannah Martha Newman b 15/10/1848, and Margaret Ramsey Newman b.17/11/1850 . Francis Newman decided to try his luck in Victorian Goldfields and died soon after arrival in Victoria. Hannah Newman married William Herbert, Children: William Henry, b. 9/7/1856, John b. 3/06/1862 and George circa 1967, others? (death certificate states at time of death there were 3 males and 2 females children living and 5 males and 1 female deceased. John Herbert, b. 3/6/1862, d. 5/1/1926 (Burra) . John married twice:-
Roy Clarence Nesbit Herbert, b. 2/4/1909 Burra, SA d. 15/3/1959, Broken Hill, NSW. (my grandfather) m. Edna Hazel Palin 24/7/1929, Methodist Church, Broken Hill Children: Charles John, Hazel Moreen (my mother), Brian, Joan Lorraine, Helen Faye. I would appreciate any help with researching my family and would like to contact anyone else who is researching this family. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am researching what happened to Arthur Motley (b 1824 Leeds, Yorkshire, UK). I have two letters from him to his father Thomas written in 1856 from the Burra Copper Mine, Kooringa. He arrived with his wife and at least two children and he was an educated engineer with experience in Copper Mining. I have also found details of an Arthur Motley as a teacher in Kooringa-Redruth (1860-2). There is also mention of a Wheal Motley Cu Mining Syndicate in 1888. I have very little other information about him and wondered what happened to him and his family - did they stay in Australia and might there be descendants there still? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Will Motley London, UK |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My name is Michael Sangster, and I have been researching details of my late father ; Grandfather and, GGrandfather ; all whom were either born in Burra, or later practised their profession of being doctors, in Burra. My late GGrandfather, came to Sth. Australia, aged 15 years old by himself, to be with his Uncle, a Dr. John Forster, of Streaky Bay, and later, Adelaide. His name was John I. Sangster, who later went back to Leeds in England, and studied to became an doctor and was known as Dr. John Ikin Sangster, sen., then came back to S.A., and in particular, settled in Burra, from 1879 to 1917 approx. His son, Dr. John Ikin Sangster, jnr, went to Adelaide University, and became a doctor in 1897 and practised in Burra with his Father. Dr. J.I.Sangster, was Mayor of Burra, from 1908 - 1910, and there is a photo of him in the Foyer of the Burra Hospital. I do have more details, and sometime back, I left an copy of the Sangster / Bagot / McCarthy Family Tree, at the Burra School around 1997 - 2000 approx., plus another Family Tree of two pages, from John Sangster, solicitor of Leeds, around middle of the 19th Century, to present day. My late father, who was killed in WW2, was Dr. John Clive Sangster, born Burra in 1903, &, practised at Clare, where I was born, back in 1935. His younger brother, was Dr. Christopher Bagot Sangster, also born at Burra, and their parents were Dr. John Ikin Sangster, jnr, and, Ruby K. Sangster (nee Turnbull). |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My mother was born in Burra in 1904, her family name was Hunt, her father was Edward Reece Hunt a blacksmith in the Burra area. Her mother Charlotte Perkins was born in Jamestown. Edward Reece Hunt's parents were John Mitchel Hunt and Margaret Rees. John Mitchel Hunt was a shoe maker, they migrated from Woolwich in Kent in 1852. Hope we are able to find out more about the family while we are in the Burra. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am trying to locate information of two families from the Burra district in the 1840s onwards. They are Thomas Moody and William Henry Batchelor. I know that H.W Batchelor was on the council between 1878 and 1881 and that he was a storekeeper. Thomas Moody was a miner and also a storekeeper. I am also trying to find details on a John Moody who was in jail for attempted murder in 1871 in the Redruth jail. I believe he is one of our ancestors. Any help you could possibly give me in pointing me in the right direction to find out more details would be greatly appreciated. Particularly details of the Redruth Jail inmates. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I note with interest that the name of my great-grandfather Isaac NONMUS is listed on the Miners page of the website connected with Jennifer Carter’s book about Burra. Isaac NONMUS was born in 1802 in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. Emigrated to Adelaide in 1839 on board Bardaster. Moved to Victoria near Ararat in 1852. Isaac died in Ararat, Victoria, Australia, on 6 Apr 1874; he was 72. Buried on 8 Apr 1874 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Occupation: Auctioneer, School Master. Religion: Wesleyan? On 6 Mar 1832 when Isaac was 30, he married Harriett Mathews WEST, daughter of William WEST & Anne, in Frant, Sussex, England - M148461. Born in 1810 in Gravesend, Kent, England. Harriett Mathews died in Victoria, Australia, in 1858; she was 48. They had the following children:-
My grandfather, Alfred Edgar NONMUS married Sarah Catherine BRIERLY in Eversley, near Ararat, Victoria in 1873 (January-June, 1360), before travelling to Brisbane then moving a little further north to Woodford to take up dairy farming and sawmilling. Alfred and Sarah had 8 children, one of whom was my father, Gilbert Brierly NONMUS (1885-1966). |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My ancestors were named DAVEY. I have located a headstone in the Burra Cemetery which reads : "Caroline;d.14/12/1881 aged 58 years Richard J., hus. of above, d. 23/3/1884, aged 57 years. Lillian J., d. 28/2/1893, aged 3 months Lillian M.J.; d. 4/1/1900, aged 11 months. I do know there were several relations living in Burra, however I have been unable to find any other information other than what was on the above headstone. I am a member of the S.A.Genealogy Society. I would like to know what work Richard J (Jenkin) Davey did, where the family lived and any other information that is available about them. I thank you in anticipation. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I’m researching William COCK & Helen Georgina JEMMETT married in Kooringa School house 18/2/1848. William Cock was christened on 2 May 1820 in Saint Enoder Penhale Cornwall. Helen Georgina Jemmett arrive in Adelaide at the age of 9 with he parents in 1840 from London via Plymouth on the JAVA. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched A lot of my family history evolves around Burra. Looking for information on the following Surnames: COCK COCKING LANGMEAD
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am looking for some information on my great-great-great grandparents who I believe lived in Redruth/Burra from the 1850s until the end of the decade. I am in Adelaide and have done some research here, but wonder if there is more in the Burra Records. Their names are William and Elizabeth Hanford (nee KINGDOM). They had (I believe) six children: William, Fanny (my great-great grandmother), Thirza, Eliza and twins James and John. I am particularly interested in Elizabeth's story. I know that she arrived alone, with no family whatsoever, on an "assisted migrant" scheme in (September?) 1854, aged 28 - which I find interesting in itself. I have records of the birth of her children in Redruth from 1856 onward, with William Hanford listed as the father. However, I'm not sure of William's birthplace and their is no SA marriage record on file for the pair. I also have a record that suggests that Elizabeth was a publican in North Adelaide at some point - however, I know she died in Burra in 1905. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Elizabeth Donoghue , servant, married Edward Manning at St Marys, Mudgee 20 November 1882. Because through her life she has spelled her name variously we have had difficulty tracing her. Perhaps she is part of the family mentioned in this site. She is our great grandmother. Elizabeth's husband died at age 34, leaving her with sons 5 and 2 years. She may have remarried. We would be interested in any information concerning her and her family. Thank you for reading this! |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I would be grateful for any information on the MILLAR or McLAGAN families. Archibald MILLAR (1804 - 1884) my great-grandfather and gentleman/farmer migrated to NZ in 1840 then at some time moved to Victoria where he live for the latter part of his life. Family rumour has it that he owned a farm in the Burra district presumably about the 1850s or 1860s. In 1862 (in Victoria) his daughter Fanny MILLAR married an architect George McLAGAN and they lived for some time in Kooringa, SA. I believe that George had moved to Burra by 1879, he was buried at Aberdeen, Burra in 1891 and Fanny was buried there in 1898. In 1891 Fanny started Bleak House Girls High School in Burra and a sister Anne Balleny MILLAR came over from Victoria to assist her. I would love to find evidence of any Millar farm. I believe that George McLagan had a son who may or may not have been Fanny's son. George was a widower when Fanny married him. There are references in a 1910 Millar will to a child Colin McLagan (?George's grandchild) son of Archibald George Remington McLagan. I have found no records. Thanks. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John Edwards (as cited by Allan Need above) has many descendants, I understand ….. Coincidentally this same John EDWARDS is also my great, great grandfather. I too have been unable to locate his exact birth-date or place of birth, but through my research at the SA Geneaology and Heraldry Society, and through various genealogical on-line databases I have located the following information: Source: Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record 1842-1890 EDWARDS John (1827-1894) Miner and farmer of Black Springs SA Born 1827 CON ENG Arrived SA c 1850 (aboard Stebonheath) as immigrant; land granted 48 acres Apoinga 1857; Spouse: Catherine RIDGWAY (1822-1898:Hawker) daughter of Anthony RIDGWAY of Wednesbury STS ENG and Mary Ann (ROADS) Married 29th May 1851 Kooringa C of E, Burra SA Children · Mary Ann (1852-1932) (m. ADAMS) – my great grandparents · Elisabeth Eustace (1854-1927) (m. NEED) · John (1857 – 1905) · Catherine (1859-1926) (m. EASTER) · Joseph Ridgway (1861-1938) Died 30th April 1894 Willow Plains SA Buried Hawker SA
Another source cites John EDWARDS and his involvement in mining. Source: “Burra 1845-1851 A Directory of Early Folk”, Jennifer Carter 1996 Page 41: EDWARDS, John b. circa 1826: Occ. miner; the man who worked for W. Hall, tributer , in 1849? (BRG 22/7/2/92): challoner to Ayers (28.7.1849): Res Karculto at the time of his marriage : m. 29.5.1851 Kooringa Catherine nee RIDGWAY aged 28 of Black Springs. If anyone in is researching the ADAMS family line in Burra and surrounds I’d be quite interested to find out more, for instance: How long they lived in the area What they were involved with (work, community activities) Religious activities (at some point, the family or descendants become heavily involved with the Salvation Army)
Here are the family name details I have to date re eldest daughter of John EDWARDS, Mary Ann, who married Charles ADAMS: Mary Ann EDWARDS b 1852 ? place d: 1932 Kingswood SA Charles ADAMS b: 1842 Dorset UK; arr SA 1851 married Mary EDWARDS: 1871 Burra d. 1924 Mitcham SA (10 children) Charles's occupation "mason". Lived in 3 room stone house Roach Town , Redruth
Children of Mary Ann and Charles ADAMS
Catherine (Annie) FORD 1874 -1956: Burra
Arthur Symes ADAMS 1876 -1957; Burra
Blanche WHITE 1878-1941 Yongala
Edgar ADAMS1881-1952; Yongala
Victor Emmanuel ADAMS1883-1956; Prospect
Jane KURTZER1885-1959; Aberdeen , Burra
Adeline ADAMS1887-1974; Redruth, Burra
Myra Bertha ADAMS 1889-1892 (died 3) Hampton, Burra
George Charles ADAMS1890 - 1959? Hampton Burra George married Olive EDWARDS
Bertha Marion EDWARDS 1895-? Married Joseph EDWARDS |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched HOCKING, ROBISON, KESSELL, NETTELL, PAUL, CARNE, DREW, YOUNG, PHILLIPS and ANDREW
WILLIAM HOCKING, son of Richard HOCKIN and An DAVEY, was born 1793 in Cornwall. He died on April 27 1881 at Burra. He married Ann ROBINSON on Sept 2 1814 in Wales. They arrived in S.A on board the “Bussorah Merchant” on Nov 10 1848 with some of their children. Those that came to Australia were: John HOCKING born 5 Sept 1820 in Cornwall. He married Frances Ann NETTELL in Cornwall. Richard HOCKING born 1825 Cornwall. His first wife was Elizabeth PAUL, hi second was Mary CARNE. Elizabeth HOCKING born 1827 Cornwall. She married Samuel DREW. Emma HOCKING born 1830 Cornwall. She married Brooke YOUNG. Mary HOCKING born 1832 Cornwall. She married William Henry PHILLIPS. James HOCKING born 1833. What became of him? Louisa HOCKING born 1836. She married Joseph ANDREW. Other surname interests include: HOCKING ROBISON KESSELL NETTELL PAUL CARNE DREW YOUNG PHILLIPS ANDREW |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My grandfather's surname was LOECHEL. I don’t know his first name. He died around 1960s, but I have not got much to go on. He had an accident on a grader and tipped it into the dam. He had one son, Neil and three daughters; Coral, Josie and Beverley. (Neil and Coral are deceased. Any information would be appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am researching the Peak family. John Peak's wife was my great grandfather's sister. JOHN3 PEAK (JOHN2, JAMES1) was born 05 Apr 1833 in St.Just, Cornwall, and died 06 Jan 1899 in Cross Roads nr Burra, SA Bk 258 Pg 272, son of JOHN PEAK and ELIZABETH NANKERVIS. He married JANE COCK 04 Oct 1856 in Fryers Creek, Victoria #3972, daughter of THOMAS COCK and MARY ANN WHITE. She was born 20 Oct 1839 in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, and died 09 Jan 1920 in Kooringa , SA 435/221. John was a butcher/farmer in Cross Roads, SA and the publican of 'The Cross Roads Inn' 1861-1898 (in partnership for some years with Maddron Leggo who was a brother of his half sister, Johanna Olds' husband, Thomas Tregear Leggo) Children of JOHN PEAK and JANE COCK are:
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am having difficulty tracing the family name & I am wondering if possibly I am on the correct tract at "Burra". My father's name was Frank BOSCENCE - born in Broken Hill NSW, 23rd December 1917. I cannot find his father's birth certificate, although I have his death certificate RICHARD JAMES BOSCENCE BORN AT SILVERTON NSW & DIED AT BROKEN HILL AGE 29, 29TH APRIL 192. I also have his marriage certificate & this is where I become confused! The spelling for the surname is Richard James BOSANCE - BIRTHPLACE SILVERTON NSW. When googling the name BOSANCE I came across the site www.burrahistory.info/KooringaWardBurraAssessment Books1873.htm & came across the name Richard BOSANCE. I also saw the name RICHARD BOSANKO and am wondering if there is any connection. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am researching Sharp family: Thomas and Jane (Allsop) Sharp arrived on "Ramillies" May 1853 with daughter Esther. Children: Esther b.c1851 - bapt. 13 Oct. 1857 St. Mary's, Kooringa Thomas Edward b.10 May 1856, Canowie - bapt. with Esther William b. 25 March 1859 Mannanarie, bapt. 8 July 1864, Holy Trinity, Melrose Elizabeth b. 2 Sept, 1865 World's End Sarah Ann b. 18 Aug. 1867 World's End - died 1869 (Buried Burra) John b. 29 June 1870 Kooringa - died 6 July 1870 (Buried Burra) Alfred Henry b. 7 Sept. 1871 Pt. Augusta William was my grandfather, my mother was from his 2nd marriage. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I believe my Great Grandfather : (Albert or Alfred Edward) WILLIAMS was born in Redruth in 1856 & married Victoria Alexandria HALL there in 1863 (22 Dec?). I believe they had 2 children, Albert & George. Would welcome any info. that would verify this and any additional info. About them and their families. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My Grandmother Susan (Sarah on her birth certificate) was born in District of Clare on April 3rd. 1881 to Mary (nee. Lang) and William CHERRY.
Also, my Grandfather, Benjamin Howard Gladstone KIDD was born there on 23rd. June 1880 to Elizabeth (nee. Bridle) and George Henry KIDD.
I would welcome any information regarding them and their families. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My great-grandfather James Doble came to Adelaide on the ship Confiance in 1858 with his wife Harriet. Their first two children died. We can find a record of the birth and death of the second of these two children in Woodend, Victoria, but we have been enable to locate the birth or death of the first - Jane Elizabeth, apparently born in 1859, or at least before 1861. I have just found the death of a J C Doble, age 1, in 1861 in Burra Cemetery. I wonder if this could in fact be Jane Elizabeth. Would you please know of anyone who might have information about settlers in the Burra region at this time? James, originally a farm labourer from Somerset, went to Monmouthshire, Wales, as a miner, where he married Harriet Thayer, so it is highly likely that he could have gone initially to Burra after arriving in Adelaide. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My ancestor David Mackay was a Tinsmith who came to Burra from Scotland circa 1848 and operated premises in or around Market Square. He with wife Grace and family relocated to Port Fairy and then Portland early 1860s. He was also deeply religious and believed eccentric. All but 2 of David and Grace's (nee Tozer) 10 children were born in Burra/Kooringa. One son, David junior, died not long after birth and is believed buried in your cemetery. I would appreciate the Mackay name being added to your list of surnames being researched and am happy to share my research to date with any interested person/body. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am trying to find out any information on William Earle and Jane Anna Earle (nee Carvosso). I am particularly interested in their son Munduthoo Hardman Earle born 28 Sept 1879 (my great grandfather). There was apparently a fire at the Earles household in Burra prior to Munduthoo's birth and an Aborigine saved Jane from the fire. The Aboriginal's name was Munduthoo and apparently William then named his son after that person. I would like to know any info about the fire and if possible what happened to the Aborigine. Any other info on the above persons would be of great interest also. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched In 1852 after several years as a convict guard in the 96th Manchester Regiment of Foot, Frederick Gurney (born in Sturry/Westbere in Kent, England) got his discharge in 1850 in Adelaide and then married an Irish lass called Lucy Knaggs from Mullingar in Westmeath. The marriage took place in Gawler in 1851 and by the time they had their first child Mary Ann in 1852 (married Samuel John Hall) they were living in Kilkenny. The family then moved to and settled in Burra where the rest of the children were born – Frederick (bc 1854), Alfred (bc 1856, gold miner and bachelor in Cue/Day Dawn Goldfields in WA), George (bc 1858, married Jane Roberts and settled in WA (Arthur Stanley Gurney VC (WWII) was one of this couple’s children. George died in 1948), Robert (bc 1861, married Louisa Wilhelmina Kernchen and moved to Broken Hill and died in 1950), William (bc 1865 died in 1868, Burra), Emma (bc 1868 died aged 18 in 1885 in Burra), and Arthur William (bc 1871, married Lily Rawlins they lived in Broken Hill where he died 2 weeks after the marriage in 1911). Frederick, a mail coach driver died on 1 January 1872 when the coach he was driving (Frederick jnr was sitting beside him) hit a rock and he fell to the ground. Frederick is mentioned in the book ‘The Monster Mine’. Lucy died in 1890. I would love to hear from anyone who is connected to any of these people and especially anyone descended from the son Frederick as the last I have on him is when he was a witness to his sister Mary Ann’s marriage in 1878. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched My great great grandfather was John Thomas Walker and I believe he was a draper, bootmaker and storekeeper, his first wife (my great great grandmother) was Mary Eddy, and after she died he married Mrs Annie Pearce (nee Berriman). John Thomas and Mary Walker (nee Eddy) had ten children, two girls and eight boys (Florence b. 1873, Clarence b. 1874, Walter b. 1875, Alfred b. 1877, Louis b. 1879, Oswald b. 1881, Sidney b. 1883, Bertie b. 1885, Lancelot b. 1887, Eugenie b. 1890). When John Thomas married Mrs Annie Pearce (nee Berriman) she had three daughters (Olive, Muriel and Mildred). During their marriage John and Annie had another three daughters - Rita, Rubelle and Daphne. My other great great grandfather who lived in Burra was John McLaren (b 1855). John McLaren married Mary Ellen Manhire and their daughter May is my great grandmother (May married John Thomas and Mary Walker's son Oswald Gilbert Walker). John McLaren was a stock agent from Bagot, Shakes and Lewis in Kooringa, and was Major of Burra from 1910-1913. I know that John and Mary Ellen had at least one other daughter called Nellie who married George Sackville Kidman.
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Looking for information and or photos/records of Mrs Joseph (Francesca) MCNAMARA and her teenage son, Leo Joseph McNamara who lived and worked as a cook at the Royal Exchange Hotel, Aberdeen, Burra, around 1927-1935 approx. Leo went to St Joseph's School, not sure what year he started, until he gained his Qualifying Certificate, 17 December 1931. Prizes were awarded to Winifred Neagle, Darby Killicoat, Leo McNamara, Kathleen O'Connell and Mary Killicoat. Leo then went to Burra High in 1932 until August 1933. He left school to help at the Royal Exchange Hotel, Aberdeen, Burra. I would like to hear from anyone who has old school photos, any records/photos of the people who worked at the Royal Exchange Hotel during this time frame or if you know where I might locate them. It would be greatly appreciated. Looking for information, descendants and or photos/records Mr Les PASCOE. Les lived at Burra and was working for the Burra Electric Supply Company around 1930. The Burra Record, dated April1930, mentions Les going to the Adelaide Exhibition where he exhibited a model oil engine. Any information would be greatly appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I'm doing family research on Frederick CLARK born 1853 in Burra and married Caroling Augustus on 6/2/1879 in Burra. His father was Robert CLARK. I am also interested in Henry DREYER who married Augusta BRANDT on 23/1/1858 in Burra. Any information on these people would be appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched CORSTORPHAN and SKEWES My maternal grandfather, ALEXANDER MCGREGOR CORSTORPHAN, was born at Kooringa (Burra) on 27 July 1858. His father, CHARLES THOMAS HUME CORSTORPHAN, described as storekeeper and later as an overseer lived at Wandilla (Burra). His mother, ELIZABETH SKEWES, came from Chester, England and presumably married in Burra (at ?Presbyterian Church). I would be grateful for any help in tracing my family's origins. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Freidrich, Friederike and Mulville My name is Ray Bock and I am reseaching my Bock family. The original family of my research was Johann Carl Freidrich and his wife Christiane Friederike. These people arrived at Pt.Adelaide from Hamburg aboard the Caesar Godeffroy on new years day 1854. With them were five children, August Louis Wilhelm--- Carl August Bruno ( my great G/F.) -- Carl Wilhelm Johannes --- Christiane Friedericke Charlotte --- Elise Louise Friedericke --- Johann Carl Friedrich. They first settled at the Burra from where the parents moved to Adelaide and the children (some of whom married at the Burra) later moved to all different parts of South Australia and Victoria. Any information regarding this family and in particular relating to a family name of Mulville would be greatly appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched Thomas Sulvinus Robins (1861 - 1930) and wife Clara Leah nee Arbery (1869 - 1957) moved to Copper House in 1922, close to his eldest sister Mary & John Fisher. A real toiler, he worked hard picking stone and helping with the crops on his daughter and son-in-law's farm at Booborowie (assuming Leah & Patrick Hogan), where he succumbed to sun and heat stroke, dying in Hospital at Burra. Clara moved into Burra and lived her remaining years there where she was the much loved "Granny Robins" to all who knew her. She died on 18th May 1957 and is buried with Thomas in Burra, plot number 3042. Clara Leah Arbery was born 1869 in Wirrabara to Joseph and Elizabeth Ann nee Smith Their children are: Elizabeth Jane b 1888 Quorn, died 1921 Mannahill Linda/Jane Adelaide b 1889 Hopetown - died 1894 Quorn Clara Ellen (Nell) b 1891 Hopetown d 1978 married Michael Cousins and had 4 children Thomas Sulvinus b 1892 Westward Ho Gold Fields d 1956 married Olive Bertina Hutton - 5 children (these are my grand parents) Mary Sophia (Dot) born 1893, Gordon, Boolcunda, died 1965 Quorn, married William Henry John Pearce - 13 children Eliza Rebecca (Bub) b 1895 Quorn - died 1956 Broken Hill, married Albert Davidson (Bill) - 7 children Jesse Maud b 1898 Mannahill, mrd Jerry McCarthy - 5 children, then mrd Horace James Leah Gillies b 1900, Mannahill, d 1978 Burra, mrd Patrick William Hogan 7 children William John (Jack) b 1912 d 1982 burra mrd Ivy Heneker - 1 child, mrd Matilda Sloane, mrd Irene Ginnan Joseph Arbery b 1918 mrd Alice Hettner |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I'd like to find out what happened to Capt Richard Goldsworthy, who, according to Auhl's "Monster Mine" book, was appointed as third captain in the early years of the mine, but was dismissed for "misconduct" some years later, during the 1850s I think. His wife was called Jane, nee Magor, and they had some children born in Burra. What did he do after he left the mine? There is a record of a Richard Goldsworthy, innkeeper, who died in Burra in 1865 -- is this the same person, or a different one? Does anyone know? If not, how might I find out? |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched John Spencer arrived in SA prior to 1855 when he married in abt 1855, Catherine Granger. She may have been local with her father possibly working at the mine. Their first child Thomas was born in Kooringa 7 Sep 1856. Sometime between then and 1861 the family moved to Booborowie where he was a Shepherd and the next 3 children were born: Margaret b: 13 Sep 1861 Michael b: 10 Jul 1864 Thomas b: 1871 d: 1881 buried in Burra cemetery Catherine Spencer (Granger) died 11 Jul 1871 at Devils Hole near Booborowie and was buried in the Burra cemetery. (grave 611) John Spencer may have remarried later that year but I have yet to confirm this detail. Ann Sullivan of Redruth registered the birth of Margaret Spencer at Redruth, 10 days later. She was illiterate signing with an 'X'. Was she a midwife? Any information relating to these people or descendants would be greatly appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I have a query regarding the search for any records for my ancestor who lived briefly at Apoinga Smelter when it opened. Are there lists of names of employees, residents for Apoinga? I know Bob Noye wrote a book about Apoinga, is a copy of this available? Charles GRACE & his wife Charlotte moved here in 1864. Their second child was born here Elizabeth and they left here after about a year. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated. |
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Return to Surnames Being Researched I am interested in information relating to James morley and family.
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