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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with an inventory 1710
« on: Monday 18 January 21 01:39 GMT (UK)  »
In the Kitchen
One Bed(?)
Three old Kettles(?)
Two H[     ]
Three Tables, 2 Chairs, 4 small Ale(?) T[   ubbs   ]
One [  Iron   ] Pott, Three [ cheese fatts           ]
Three old [    ?? stools    ] One Smal Table
Four Bowles, two Milk-panns

M

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with an inventory 1710
« on: Monday 18 January 21 01:34 GMT (UK)  »
Wearing Apparel & Purse
One(?) Bed(?) & S[ ettle      ]
One old Cubbard & Ch[ est   ] & 2 Boxes(?)
Four Chairs, Two Tables, 2 [  stools    ]
One B[   Pewter Dish?      ]
Three [  earthern plates       ] & Three [  dishes?     ]
Coal-grate, [       ] Tonges & Bellows

M

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Australia / Re: Bridget Margaret (Bea) CASHMAN of Bathurst and Sydney
« on: Thursday 14 January 21 03:37 GMT (UK)  »
Obituaries of the parents living at 98 Albion st

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page17316047
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146416896

Obituary for Bea Cashman who '...was for many years employed in the office of the Carlton Hotel, Sydney...'
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160692133

M

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Australia / Re: Half cousins search
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - the forum rules don't allow searching for people who are still living, but one idea would be to have a look through the DNA related threads for similar situations for clues as to what to look for with you're own tests.

M

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Australia / Re: MACRAE, Peter Sinclair and family
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 04:33 GMT (UK)  »
Birth - July 19 1931
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32353849

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Criminal registry
« on: Monday 11 January 21 13:27 GMT (UK)  »
Tasmanian convict records for him here
https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1426833

Says he is married with 3 children, wife Elizabeth at Leicester

M

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Australia / Re: Arthur William TAYLOR in ships crew lists?
« on: Monday 11 January 21 01:14 GMT (UK)  »
...served as 3rd officer on the 3-masted sailing vessel Cassius in 1903 (from an item in the Clarence River Advocate 11 Dec 1903)

1903 'HARWOOD.', The Clarence River Advocate (NSW : 1898 - 1949), 11 December, p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121360799


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Australia / Re: Arthur William TAYLOR in ships crew lists?
« on: Sunday 10 January 21 23:56 GMT (UK)  »
There is a May 1906 US petition for naturalisation for Arthur William Taylor, born Brighton England 18 Nov 1882, occupation deputy weighman, married to Alma.

It says he departed Sydney on Jan 1, 1905 on the Auchenllac (spelling?) and arrived New York 2 Mar (or May?) 1905

M

ADD: possible ship Auchenblae

ADD: 'The Auchenblae arrived at New York on Wednesday from Fiji' - Sydney Evening News Newspaper Archives March 18, 1905 Page 2 https://www.rootschat.com/links/01q7a/

ADD: Auchenblae transporting a cargo of sugar from Fiji to New York
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19050225.2.28

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Australia / Re: Andrew Forlonge.
« on: Saturday 09 January 21 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
Article about the Furlonge family referred to in the older thread.
1937 'PIONEERING OUR SHEEP INDUSTRY', Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92468353

Cargo and passenger list of the brig Czar, arrived at Launceston, Tasmania 1831, including Furlong family and 130 sheep.
1831 'SHIP NEWS.', Launceston Advertiser (Tas. : 1829 - 1846), 24 January, p. 27. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84778105

Andrew Furlong's age on arrival recorded as 11y.
https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/422050

M

ADD: Kenilworth estate near Campbell Town, Tasmania offered for sale by William Forlonge in 1837.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4169497

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