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I sent the following request for help to Mackiev’s Support Centre but have received zero response.  (I've also now sent the same query to the message board on Ancestry.) Just hoping someone else has experienced (and overcome) the same or a similar problem.

I have a 16” Macbook Pro with the Apple M1 Pro chip, running Ventura and version 24.1.0.520 of FTM.

When I try to merge ("replace") sources, the dialogue boxes are greyed out in the step after choosing the original then the replacement source. The only thing I can do then is close the app first (which leaves the greyed out dialogue boxes) then quit (or sometimes force quit) the app, which gets rid of the boxes but leaves a message saying the app quit unexpectedly.

To try to isolate the problem I dug out my old 13” Macbook, mid-2012 vintage, running Catalina and version 24.0.1.252 of FTM. I tested the old version of my family tree that is on the old machine and it had no problem with the merging of sources. I then sent a GEDCOM file of that tree (without media) to the newer Macbook; the same problem occurred as I'd already experienced with the newer version of the tree.

I did not update FTM versions on the old machine, fearful that if the new version of FTM was the problem I would lose the ability to merge sources at all. I did do a fresh install of FTM  build 520 to the newer machine. I also shut down and restarted the newer machine.

However, perhaps it’s  more likely that there’s some small incompatibility between FTM and the new Apple chip?

Hope you can help.

Cheers,
Peter

Could I please have some help with the image below. There are a couple of words I’m not sure of (Tumour and jodhpurs) and a couple I can’t work out at all. Thank you.
Peter

Leonard Donley
Nov 16—1887-
(?) [initials]
20 yrs
Butcher
Arkona Ont[ario]
Tumour [?] in the head several years-
?? ? ??
Rev Joseph Deacon
Thredford
Nov 18—1887
Methodist
  ??
The slip for this regis-
-tration was brought
me by the father of de-
ceased in July/88-having
found it in one of his jodhpurs [?]
almost worn out-   ? [initials]

I’m gradually working my way through a large amount of images from the early NSW Registrar General, Registers of Memorials now available on ancestry involving my ancestor’s brother, Ben Singleton. They’re a bit of a tangled web but I’m understanding what most of them mean. I’m not sure about this one:

Date: 01 Jan 1823;
Nature of Instrument: Surrender;
Names of Parties: James Norton, Cyrus McArthur Doyle and Roger Murphy to Benjamin Singleton;
Witnesses: J[?] F Josephson, Walter Smith;
Description of the lands or property conveyed: [abbrev.] 300 acres at Patricks Plains;
Consideration and how paid: One thousand three hundred and forty three pounds six shillings and eight pence;
Any other particulars the case may require: [blank]

For people with access to ancestry, the image is here:

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/5117/41492_330038-00028?pid=304911&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D5117%26h%3D304911%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DVcV3%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=VcV3&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.200807853.2012050335.1586585191-639484467.1581120369#?imageId=41492_330038-00028

(For people not aware of it, Ben Singleton was the founder of the town of Singleton, centred in Patricks Plains, NSW.)

I’m thinking what it means is that a portion of the (leasehold) land originally granted to Ben Singleton he later sold (re-leased) to the three people in the “Surrender”, and for some reason they failed to fulfil the conditions of that re-lease so they had to surrender the land back to him. The “Consideration” I’m thinking is the amount still owing to Ben: that is, the original price of their re-lease less the amount they had already paid to him (and perhaps plus any interest on arrears of payments?).

Could you tell me if my interpretation is correct, or otherwise set me on the right track, please.

Cheers,
Peter

On Saturday, December 28, 1867, my ancestor, John Harborne, working as a stockman on the NSW Hunter Valley property, Wambo, found some human bones that turned out to be those of a young family murdered about thirty years earlier. The story was told in the Maitland Mercury of January 2, 1868:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18728788?searchTerm=(john%20harborne)%20date%3A%5B1868%20TO%201868%5D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=
with a follow-up on January 14  noting that the murder victims were probably an itinerant hawker, his wife and two small children, murdered by convicts who were building a bridge across the local creek.

Your mission, dear Rootschat detectives, should you accept it, is not to find the murderer/s but to find which one of two possible John Harbornes was the discoverer of the bones.

My great great grandfather, John Harborne (1812-1882) was born in Birmingham, England and transported to Australia in 1828 for burglary. He had a defacto relationship with Alice (nee) Clarke who was officially married to Edwin Baldwin (who was serving time on Norfolk Island for being extra naughty). John and Alice stayed together until Alice died in 1863. John then married for the first time, aged 53, at Warkworth,  a 22 year-old Elizabeth Sleath with whom he had 8 more children, the last born in 1880 when he was 68).

John died at Wambo aged 69. However, the informant was his son, John (then 36), who is also described as “of Wambo”. John senior is variously described in records as a farmer or as a labourer.

My great grandfather, John Harborne (1845-1919) was born at Cockfighters Creek, (part of Wambo) Parish of Warkworth, to John Harborne and Alice Baldwin. John married Sarah Wyburn in 1878 at Singleton. In later life his home was alternately given as Doctors Creek and Boggy Flat (close together so perhaps the same home but given different descriptions by different people and/or at different times). John owned at least two small portions in this area (no.s 110 and 89, SE of the village of Warkworth).

John junior was also variously described as a farmer or a labourer.

At the time of the discovery of the bones John senior would have been 55, and John junior, 22.

William Durham had managed Wambo, then inherited the property from his stepfather, James Hale (1780-1857) an ex-convict who had amassed a large number of properties of which he was an absentee landlord. Durham died in 1891 and Wambo was sold out of the Durham family in 1894.

It seems that for at least part of the time, both Johns were living on the Wambo estate, at least until John senior died (1882).

So far I haven’t been able to separate the two John Harbornes during the period in which the discovery of the bones occurred.

I am leaning towards it being John senior. For these reasons:
James Hale was in the habit of employing ex convicts to help run his burgeoning enterprises.
John Harborne appears in the papers a number of times as a witness regarding thefts of stock from Wambo. It is probably more likely that the 50 something John would have had that responsibility rather than the 20 something John.

But it would really be great to get a bit more evidence.

As always, should any of you be caught or killed, the other Rootschat members will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Cheers,
Peter

[I’ve posted a couple of map portions to show the localities involved. On the first, “Wollombi Brook”  (underlined in white), between Wambo and Warkworth, is the newer name for the old “Cockfighters Creek”. The murder took place somewhere near that creek.
On the second map, John junior, in later life, lived at Doctors Creek/ Boggy Flat, SE of Warkworth village, marked by the white X. ]