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Hi
I have a desktop icon called CCleaner, which I've never used, mainly because not sure what it does etc.  It came with the computer which runs on XP Professional.
My computer (5 yo laptop) is rather slow lately and I wonder if using this would help?

Can someone tell me?  I've looked at their website and a blog (in which contributors didn't seem too happy with it??? )

Thanks
Dawn M

 My mother's paternal grandfather was one Robert Wilson. He was a gold miner on the Turon [goldfield on the Turon River near Hill End, NSW]
I recently discovered pretty conclusively that he was the Robert Wilson who in company with Bill Day "The Blacksmith Bushranger" held up the Bathurst Mail on 24 June 1859.  Day got 7 years hard labour on the roads for his trouble, but Wilson was apparently given indemnity for leading police to their stash which resulted in most of the almost £5000 being recovered.  But he escaped from custody (probably not trusting the police to hold up their end of the bargain re him turning Queen's Evidence )
Through TROVE I have found where he was apprehended in 1862, an item in Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 19 Apr 1862 had this snippet:
"Period 11th to 18th April 1862.
The Yass Courier mentions the capture of a man named Robert Wilson, supposed to, have been one of the party of three who stuck up and robbed the Bathurst mail in the month of June, 1859. The capture was effected on Sunday week by sergeant Brennan, at Scurr's public-house, north Yass."

Does anyone know how I can find out what happened after that?  Anyone have access to copies of the Yass Courier and/or Yass courthouse records of that period?

I might add that other reports of his part in the holdup say after he escaped "he was never heard of again" which the above newspaper piece proves wrong.
Also that the local FH group say he is the only Robert Wilson they have found, in that period, on the Turon, which is why I'm pretty sure he is ours.

Many thanks for any assistance you can give.

Dawn M

Hi
In my (volunteer) cataloguing job with Qld. FHS Ins., I've come across some directories for Scotland - so far I've noticed this only in ones for Midlothian - where there are pages and pages of people who are listed as "Writers to the Signet" in the professions and trades sections. 

Can someone tell me what this entails please?

I can guess, but I'm sure there is someone who actually knows, the answer.

Thanks

Dawn M

PS  These are directories for late 1700s and early 1800s.

Does anyone know how to find out about the first marriages at St. Phillips at Church Hill, Sydney?

The other day I was reading a book on Sydney's Lower North Shore (which my family inhabited in the 1800s and first half of the 20th century).
One of the first chapters is about Blues Point and my Billy Blue.  The author claims that his was the first marriage at St. Phillips.   This is news to me.
 He was married to Elizabeth Williams in April 1805, at St. Phillips, exactly one month after their eldest child was born.   (Have the certificate.)
St. Philips - according to various websites - was at one site from 1793-1798, at another where Lang Park in Sydney now is, from 1802, and the current church was built/opened in 1848. 
I can't imagine that there were no marriages before 1805!

Dawn M