From Keady to Emy

[J.J.]

So is this the mill, then? ( sorry, link doesn't lead to image)  Awesome collection of photos...what a beautiful place!
 keyword" flour mill crown street' to see 2 photos, one of a fire on the street,
and one of the mill just behind the church...by keywording crown street photo # 18
I'm sure there are more...awesome resource susie...!

[Siouxsie]

If this is the right Graham, then that should be his mill...........great photo collection held by the Library.

....and this is what Wollongong (or "The Gong" as the locals call it) looks like now


http://www.rootschat.com/links/060r/   

Moderator Comment: Very long link shrunk using http://www.rootschat.com/links/

Cheers
Susie

[Newgent_for_life]

I am so engrossed in the information that you have unearthed for me that I have forgotten my thank yous.
Dear Susie, J.J., Cando, and Sue,
Thank you all very much. I have some letters that Archie sent back to Keady ca. 1840s/50s. If I find any relevent information, I will tell you. There are also photographs from roughly the same period but I'm having difficultly sending them.
Yours,  etc.,  Newgent.

[J.J.]

Here is a help page....There's a practice page as well, but you can keep practicing right on the one posting on this thread by using the modify button...If it doesn't work the first time, just go in and uncheck the box for that image & try again...better yet, have 3 sizes ready, then if one doesn't work try another....cal them a b & c so as not to overwrite them...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,130922.0.html

By the way I am most envious that you have all the correspondence from that era. Do you have an idea just how lucky you are to have inherited those? ( How smart the ancestors were to not have junked them!)

[J.J.]

See that the Archibald found earlier may be this one, born to an Archibald Graham...so might still be a grandson...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswgdhs/26440.htm

Was telling my hubby about Catherine and what a strong woman she must have been and realized as I noted dates that the woman lived to be around 90...
There's a submission on LDS,  ( not always very reliable, but stepping stones, sometimes) Catherine born to Patrick Fox & Frances with the same marriage date from the memorial site...and a death date for Archibald of 1893 

submission for a birth of an Archibald Graham - 1853 Dapto,  ArchGraham/CathFox with death listed as 1920 

also see that other children are submitted with some marriages as well ...
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
Archibald Graham - c.1853 - 1919/20 b. Dapto / m. Elizabeth Cummings  c.1882
Thomas Graham -  c.1855 - 1915  b. Dapto
Alexander Graham - c.1857- 1925  b. Dapto
Catherine Graham - c.1859- 1919  b. Dapto / m. Marcus Tynan c.1882
George Graham - c.1861 - 1886  b.  Dapto
Henry James Graham - c.1863-1918  b.Dapto / m. Elizabeth Cavill c.1891
Patrick Graham -  c.1865  b.Dapto
Margaret Graham - c.1868 - 1871   b. Wollongong
Alfred Graham -  c.1869 - 1889    b.Wollongong
Frederick Graham - c.1872 - 1930   b.Wollongong / m. Lilly A O'meara  c.1897
Florence H Graham - c.1874 - 1952   b. Wollongong / m. William McNamara  c.1899

Henry James Graham - His bakery ...also a Harry Graham Drive in    KEMBLA HEIGHTS
http://illawarraimages.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/IllaWeb/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=P13029
http://illawarraimages.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/IllaWeb/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=P02079
http://illawarraimages.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/IllaWeb/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=P01936
the Henry Archibald Graham w. baker's cart, was the son of H.J. Graham of Kembla Heights
3 photos of him, here http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html


Marcus Dillon Begley TYNAN & Catherine daughter of second wife Catherine & children listed
http://www.familyorigins.com/users/d/e/a/Mary--Dean/FAMO2-0001/d115.htm

Oh, dear just saw that there are 3 different trees on ancestry one has a date of birth for Archibald as 1818 two as 1813, and all have different dates in May...

[J.J.]

and I imagine you have these submissions already ...but marriages and names can help find descendants
8 are listed for 1st wife Mary Campbell *
Robert Graham c. 1837-1883 b. Armagh, Ireland / m. 1. Rebecca MUSGRAVE 2. Anne NIXON 1860 )
John Graham -  c. 1839 Sydney / may have m.  Mary Marchant 1866 * see reply 25
Stewart Graham - c. 1840 Sydney
William Graham -  c. 1842 - 1915  b. Sydney / may have  m. Christina Fraser  1871  * see reply 25
Mary Graham - c. 1843 - 1908   b. Sydney / m.  Samuel Auckland 1865
Elizabeth Graham - c. 1846 Sydney
Joseph Graham - c. 1848 - 1929  b. Sydney
Ann Elizabeth Graham - c. 1850 - 1883 b.Sydney




Wow, if he really spent 35 years making babies, then he really did populate the area...Sounds like my hubby's ancestors...prolific....(Robert's headstone headstone at Rookwood  states he was the oldest of 21 children)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-NSW-SE/2008-01/1199514914


http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/asp/pdf/06_0257_dwyers_ea_3_appD_contamination_pt4.pdf
page 15...Part Allotments 2 & 3 Section 10 & other lands  Town of Wollongong
1893-1914
Walter Graham Robertson, trustee
Catherine Graham, widow
William McNamara, trustee ( note: her son-in-law ?)
1889-1893
Archibald Graham

[J.J.]

Not adding to family, but interesting lot, ...a guided tour you may take one day!
 http://www.mtkembla.org.au/docs/Walk%202%20%20-%20Kembla%20Heights%20&%20Windy%20Gully.pdf


# 17 is Graham’s Bakery* (No remains. Operational up to late1950’s. Ned MacNamara started work for Harry J Graham Snr in 1888 (aged 14) and finished in approximately 1948. Harry A Graham Jnr (who later became Wollongong’s first Lord Mayor) took over the bake house and delivered fresh bread baked daily in a special `Baker’s Cart’ pulled by a draft horse...refers to the photo we saw earlier, I imagine...#22 says it is the Graham Residence!

timeline has these...may also be related...then also a tour  map 
1865 - Graham Bros. sent first load of kerosene from shale oil production on American
Creek to Wollongon
1874 - Graham Bros. sold kerosene works to the Mt Kembla Coal & Oil Company
1883 - John Graham was appointed Post Master

[J.J.]

a contact is listed with this submission for a grandchild so you may have a descendant to contact -address posted:
Margaret Campbell GRAHAM b.1870 Wollongong to parents John GRAHAM & Mary MERCHANT    
married John Robert FAULKS  ...hmmmmm...but I followed the Submission Search # 3462340-0209106000618 for more Grahams, and she hasn't information on John, so perhaps she just thought it was part  her family

 pedigree files have 11 children listed to William John Graham & Christina Fraser...
between 1871  an  1888 submission search # 2385656-0821103064741
Submitter name & address are given! again the submission number seems to point to different ancestors...

[Newgent_for_life]

Dear J.J.,
This is all wonderful stuff. The names of his children reflect the names of his siblings to an extent  that its too big a coincidence. Just need to clarify that Archy's parents were;
      Peter Graham, b. Dundrum, County Dublin, Barony of Rathdown, Civil Parish of Taney, PLU Rathdown, Leinster, 1777, died Keady, County Armagh 24th. December, 1846. Mary Campbell, b. 1778 ob. 1863.  issue;

      Stuart.
      Alexander.
      John.
      Robert.
      William.
      Thomas.
      Joseph.
      Mary.
      Jane.

Yours, etc.,     Newgent.