Bird family Blayney area NSW

[tom mix]

That's extremely helpful !
Alan

[Neil Todd]

JM please correct me if I am wrong (Normal) but if The William Bird is connected to The earlier Birds at Hobby's Yards then they were of Aboriginal descent then why are they on the ELECTORAL ROLE. I could have sworn that in those unenlightened times aboriginals could NOT vote?

Neil

[majm]

http://www.aec.gov.au/indigenous/indigenous-vote.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_of_Australian_Aborigines
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=342595.0

Since First Fleet, any person born "here" was automatically a British Subject, regardless of where his/her parents were born.

Since Universal Male Suffrage introduced in NSW in 1858, Males aged 21 and over who were British Subjects were entitled to enrol.   

      

ADDING
http://explore.moadoph.gov.au/subjects/165-the-right-to-vote/list 

Cheers,  JM 

[rosball]

A mention of William Bird an aboriginal in 1847 at Newcastle Court although employed at New England by Mr Denne Esq (under the heading NEWCASTLE)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article688947

A much longer article with more info about a different aboriginal William Bird who is applying for a run in 1861 but in Ipswich Qld     He was very enterprising - but too far away I guess 
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4602124

Typhoid Fever hitting the Bird family of Hobby's Yard - very sad
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62015965 and http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111195521

adding : http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109940581   1916
Mr. George Bird, sen., a very old resident of Hobby's Yards district,
passed away on Sunday, after a long illness, at the age of 81.

[Dundee]

There is detailed info and lots of photos relating to this family on Mundia, just search for William BIRD born 1890.   http://www.mundia.com/gb/

According to them, William born 1890 was the son of Betsey, who was born in 1866 the daughter of George and Georgiana.  The two G's emigrated from England in 1856 on the ship Herald.

Debra 

[muss]

Hi

May help  http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=joanne%5Fwarby&id=I46744

Muss

[Dundee]

My enquirer has a particular interest in Trevor.  NSW Railways may have been a source of employment.

Alan

Trevor Derrick BIRD appears on electoral rolls:

1954 at Epping, labourer
1958 at Orange, c/- Railway Station, Guard, Nancy Olive at the same address
1958 at Gwabegar, Railway employee, Nancy Olive at the same address
1963 at Blayney Road, Millthorpe, Railway employee, Nancy Olive at the same address
1968 at 5 Railway Road, Otford, Signalman, Nancy Olive at the same address
1980 at Railway Res., Wmbldn (Bathurst), Assistant Station Master, Nancy Olive at the same address and also two possible sons TL and TW who are Station Assistant and Station Hand.

Debra 

[~MERLIN~]

A few death notices for Nancy Olive BIRD who died 6 Jan 2000, late of Fairy Meadow, formerly of Bathurst:

Published in the Western Advocate (Bathurst)
8 Jan 2000   
10 Jan 2000   
11 Jan 2000

http://ryersonindex.net/search.php

[rosball]

If you do a google search for "Bird Trevor Derrick" you get a glimpse (couple of sentences) of  a memoriam notice in the Western Advocate - but if click on the link it isn't there.

regards,
   Ros