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Hi Alison, very interesting website. The reason I am especially interested is that a John Orth, Hessian soldier, is thought to have settled in Quebec about 1796 and become the progenitor of the...

Hi Dan We still live on the Rock (of Gibraltar). You're right, although the name is originally Jewish, many were forced to convert by the inquisition so there are plenty of Cazes now who are...

Brunswick Street, Melbourne

Dan,yes I knew all this and thanks for posting it on here. Boguloosa is where all the other family is buried.Do you know why he is buried there instead of Boguloosa? Just wondering!

Not a common name the Tremills. They were from Widecombe on The Moor in Devon there was another Elizabeth Tremills who married into the Nankiville family. I saw her grave at the St.Kilda cemetery....

Sorry! I should have made myself clear. The Bishop town I've heard of is somewhere in Virginia, Scott County, thats where my dads family was from,

The Argus Thursday 3 March 1859 Funeral Notices. THE Friends of the late Mr. EDWARD CHAFFE are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the New Cemetery,...

Compolsory registration of births started in 1853. The births recorded in the VBI between 1836 and 1853 are baptism records. When you looked up John's birth you found he was born in Newtown in...

"Brunswick Street, believed to be named after Captain Brunswick Smythe, owes its origins to Benjamin Baxter, who owned a lot of land along Victoria Parade, in the recently proclaimed township of...

You're right, so there was. I think it was up off spring Street somewhere. Up towards Victoria Parade. I'll have a look at an old map tomorrow. I don't have one here at home.

I know Newtown is near Geelong,but l thought there was a 'newtown' next to Collingwood 1840's as John Fletcher was b Newtown Melb and Josiah and family lived Brunswick St.Collingwood,

Thank you so much. That is her.Eugene was my dad.Now on to finding out more.Thanks alot this is a real help

a big thank you to Paula for her message on 27 May 2011: ... I saw your notes on Ransom Garbutt and wondered if there is some connection with one of 'my' Garbutts here in England? Lately...

Also have got a copy of one of the Harris family homested in Woodbury. found it at the old library down there. Also was noted on the ,marriage cert that Alfred Harris was a labourer Emma and...

Newtown was also known as Scaresdale.

It's taken a full day of record searchers but I think all your questions will be answered when you view the CHAFFE Posts I put up today. It turns out Emily's parents also came to Australia and had...

Hi, Just been researching my dads side and have found that my gtgtgt grandparents are Emma maud Harris her parents Alfred Harris and Mary Ann Walton . My infor has it they were down in Woodbury...

One of the children of Alfred Ashley 1855-1935 and Gertrude Winnifred, nee KEATCH 1887-1924 was Alfred Cecil ASHLEY born in Sydney 1909 14183/1909 ASHLEY ALFRED C ALFRED GERTRUDE W GLEBE...

Yes, thanks Elaine, I've done quite a bit of reading about it since I posted that. Also, if an individual who owned property of a certain value in more than one electoral district, he was entitled...