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Hi all

Can anyone date this photo please.  Its not very clear as it has come to me via email and I have tried to make it a bit brighter.  The two women have been identified but I am not sure as one of them died in 1898, so that is why I would like a dating.

Many thanks

Acookey

Hi All

I am back on the track of William Smith.  We now know he went to NZ and became Thomas Dillon Smith and died there.  However, we do not know anything of his life before he married Eliza Sullivan in 1837 in Oatlands.

There is an advertisement in the Hobart Town Courier of 17 Nov 1837, of a property for auction in Oatlands owned by William Smith Builder.  The property is a "delightful cottage and garden well stocked with fruit trees".

William Smith was leaving Oatlands to go to Hobart, and it fits as his eldest daughter was baptised in Hobart in 1838.  Other children were born in Launceston.

My question is how do I find the land records for Tasmania (from Qld)?  We hope that they may contain information about his earlier life etc.  Thanks everyone.

Annette

Mary Ann Goodwin shows up on the 1861 census as a grandchild of Elizabeth Goodwin, 1 year old. . I know the other grandchild Joseph was the son of Elizabeth's daughter Jane.  Joseph was born abt 1866.  There is no father on the birth certificate. 

Would like to know if Mary Ann's father is known, and whether any remark was made in the Church Register re Joseph's parentage.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Annette (from Sunny but raining yeh!! Qld)

Hi

After having had so much help in finding the grave of William Thomas Smith known in NZ as Thomas Dillon Smith, I wonder if I can ask for a bit more help.

We would like to establish when William actually went to NZ, and whether he took the two girls with him at that time, daughters No. 3 and 4, Mary Ann and Margaret Letitia.

The youngest daughter (No. 5) was born in July 1852 and William and Eliza's only son died in August 1852.  Eliza had a child to Henry Smith (confusing!!) in 1854.  Eliza married Henry in 1860, so I suppose we can make an assumption that she had not seen William for seven years.

The first time William as Thomas Dillon shows up (NZ PapersPast)is when he brings a shipment of furniture from Wellington to Napier to be auctioned in 1859.  The only time I can find him in Wellington is in 1860 when he is taken off the electoral roll because he has left the house at Lambton Quay.  Earlier editions of the Wellington papers were not available on the website.

By 1860 he had moved to Napier and was on the electoral roll there, and in 1863 was advertising as a Cabinet maker and undertaker.

I have his death notice and the marriage notices for the girls, but wonder how is the best way to find when he might have arrived.  I have been told that there was a newspaper advertisement advising he was selling his business in Launceston in 1857 but that is unconfirmed.

I know this is a bit long, but have included detail so people don't spend time looking for what we already know.

With thanks

Annette

Hi all

Would someone kindly look up the Tasmanian birth records for a Reginald C McMinn.  He married Ellen P. Buckley in NSW in 1895.  I would think his father was one of Washington McMinn and Phoebe Gee's sons, Alexander Washington, or William Cranston.

I am trying to establish the exact relationship between  Philip Palmer, son of Catherine Matilda McMinn and William Cooke's daughter, Constance, who died at Fromelles, and Reginald W McMinn who died in 1818 near Harbonniers.

In Philip's war records, Reginald McMinn is called a cousin.

Thanks

Annette