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Apr 22, 2013 •
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17 April 1880
Compagnoni Insolvent.
Those who have often partaken at public banquets of the menu provided by Compagnoni, will learn with regret that the excellent caterer's estate was placed in th...
Apr 22, 2013 •
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In February 1900 contingents from New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia gathered at the Fremantle oval before being shipped off to South Africa.
A banquet was organised by Archibald...
Apr 16, 2013 •
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Fanny was born in Armidale, New South Wales on the 10 April 1866 the eldest daughter of six children born to Scotish immigrant James Ross 1835-1892 and his wife Isabella, nee Mitchellhill 1839-1918.
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Apr 15, 2013 •
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Built 1891 as a first class passenger ship, by Harland & Wolff, in Belfast for the Bibby Line and named the CHESHIRE and later used during the Boer War as a troopship. In 1910, the Cheshire was sold t...
Mar 31, 2013 •
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Now-a-days wives are occasionally treated with barbarity. When they are, however the husbands are severely dealt with by law. But at one time wives were considered as a mercenary commodity, and the di...
Mar 31, 2013 •
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Alderson's Mounted infantry
Amphlett's Mounted hfantry
2 Cavalry Household Cavalry
1st King's Dragoon Guards
6th Carabiniers
2nd Scots Greys
Scots Guards,
lst & 2nd Life Guards,
lst & 2nd...
Mar 26, 2013 •
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The following is a list of names of the candidates who were successful in passing the examination held by the Nurses' Registration Board on 18, 19 and 20 November 1930.
The list is as follows:
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Mar 23, 2013 •
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Benjamin Bridge was born at Stockyard Creek in the Wollombi district of New South Wales
on the 31 May 1860.
One of seven children and second son of Hawkesbury born Joseph Bridge Jnr.1835-1923
Jo...
Mar 2, 2013 •
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A LOST SECRET.
Cement Like Iron.
LIVE OYSTER SHELL.
By Mary Gilmore.
The seepage from Burrinjuck Dam in New South Wales, brings up the subject of cement, and cement recalls to me a se...
Mar 2, 2013 •
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The following poem was written by Catholic priest, Fr. Patrick Joseph Hartigan 1878-1952 under the pen name John O'Brien and was first published in the anthology, 'Around The Boree Log and Other Verse...
Mar 1, 2013 •
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These cousin Cousins have confused some, particularly when their names happened to be Richard Young.
The subject of this case was Richard Young Cousins born on the 5 March 1875 in Wellington New Sou...
Mar 1, 2013 •
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THE APPLICATIONS.
For the 35 closer settlement farms in the Richlande Estate,
48 applications were received, covering all the farms.
The time for the receipt of applications closed...
Jan 6, 2013 •
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Baptised 10 October 1827 at St Austwell,Cornwell, England
the son of William TONKIN 1788-1876 and Elizabeth, nee WELLINGTON
Arrived in Port Adelaide on the ship China on 14 December 1847
Photograp...
Dec 24, 2012 •
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Thankfully.
It is Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 1836. The heat is rather trying, 100 deg. in the shade. A number of immigrants, dressed in their best, and carrying their seats with them, are on...
Dec 15, 2012 •
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This festival is not of divine institution or is it easy to assign the first period of observing it, although it was certainly kept before the age of Constantine.
Much uncertainty prevails with resp...
Nov 7, 2012 •
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This article published in The Sydney Morning Herald on the 25 September 1886 has not appeared fully transcribed online before.
Parts of the text may be offensive to non historians today. I have tra...
Nov 5, 2012 •
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If you are a member of The Female Convict Research Centre you will have already been notified;
but if not, and you're interested I'd like to let you know of a new doco-drama film 'The first Fagin' ...
Nov 1, 2012 •
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Hobart, initially known as Hobart Town or Hobarton,
Australia's second oldest city after Sydney.
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Abbott John, freehold. Davey street
Abbott George, householder, Argyle st
Adams John, do Ma...
Oct 31, 2012 •
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Frank Norris, as he was familiarly called, was one of the best known men
in the Hawkesbury, and one whose life was linked with the 'good' old days
of Windsor.
He was a native of Cornwallis, and ...
Oct 31, 2012 •
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