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Hi, Cant help you much with any vital information but looks like Jacob was at the Eventide Aged Care Facility when he died in 1936 and that is how he ended up on the 1936 Commonwealth Electoral Roll.  He may have been residing in Charters Towers earlier but had not enrolled previous to moving to Eventide.

Eventide, I understand still exists today so maybe they might have kept records from that era or passed them onto the Qld State Archives.

Just for interest my GGF was also born at Smythesdale (1864) and died at Charters Towers in 1902.

Gerry

Hey Gerry,
yes I believe you are correct that he is only on the electoral roll because of moving into the nursing home.

I have asked the nursing home and they said they no longer have them so my next stop of the Qld State Archives. (Just need to get my head around how to use it )

That is very interesting about your GGF! How funny would it be if the families new each other 

Disappointing.
But worth it just the same to know that you had followed all steps logically open to you.

Sue

Yeah least it proved it was him. I need to work out how to use the public records in Qld to see if I can find anything. It’s so different to PROV! 

I have skimmed through several of my copies of 1878 NSW Electoral rolls for  some rural districts ... not found him.

JM

That is a shame, thank you for looking

I live in Charters Towers so if i can be of any help with his time here let me know and will see what i can find. According to the burial records he does not have a headstone otherwise i would have gone to the cemetery for a photo.

QLD Death reg.
Jacob Verbach
Death date  14/08/1936
Mother's name
Father/  name:John Conrad Verbach
Registration details:1936/C/3018

Also in the National archives site there is a reference for a John Verbach for a improved potato digger. Not sure if this is any interest to you but if so can be found on the below link.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx

Hi, thank you so much for you offer. It took us many years to find out where he died it was only recently that we found him. We did contact the nursing home that he died but they did not have records of him there sadly. I have never searched records in QLD before but I was having a look at the public records to see if I can find a will or probate or anything else about him but I was not having much luck (I don't think I was searching the site correctly). Do you have much knowledge of the pubic record system in QLD?

I was also going to contact the cemetery/council to see if I can find out who brought the plot that he was buried or if it was just a public plot, hence why there is no headstone.

Haha yes I believe John was living in NZ so I am a bit confused why it was registered here something I will have to look further into.

Thank you,
Kez

Quote from: Kezzza on Sunday 15 March 20 12:21 GMT (UK)

Hi all,
I’ve hit a brick wall.

I am looking for a property. Called Hilston’s Station I think it’s in NSW but could be wrong. I believe it is a property and not a railway station as my ancestor was a threshing machine operator. This information comes from a dead letter notice in the paper in 1879. Unfortunately this is all I have.

Thank you in advance.

Quote from: Kezzza on Sunday 15 March 20 12:55 GMT (UK)

Quote from: majm on Sunday 15 March 20 12:49 GMT (UK)

May  I add to JJ's reply ....

And what newspaper ... perhaps a live link to the digitised article?

JM

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223121372

Here is the link 😀

Thanks,

NSW Government Gazette
General Post Office,  Sydney, 15 May 1879.
No. 10
List of Letters Returned from the Country and now lying at this Office, unclaimed.

Starting at page 2787  -Ship Letters
Starting in the far right column at page 2790 – Colonial Letters

So at page 2790, and clearly a ‘Ship Letter’  there was a letter that had been returned back to the GPO, Sydney back from regional NSW (‘Country’) that had not been delivered/collected by the addressee.   So a letter that had originated outside of NSW and had arrived originally ‘by ship’ – from another colony or from further abroad -  had initially been sorted in Sydney NSW and sent to the ‘Country’ … it was addressed to a Jacob VORBACH, Hilston’s Stn.   

In Greville’s Post Office Directory for 1875, under HILLSTON, there’s quite a number of selectors and their pastoral runs are named.  NONE of those runs are named ‘Hilston’ or variations, it is not a surname listing either.   There is no one listed with the surname VORBACH or any variation on that.  There is no one listed as a threshing machine operator.   That same directory notes that HILLSTON was a settlement in the police, electoral, and pastoral district of The Lachlan, county of Ashburnham, 359 miles west from Sydney.  It was wholly a pastoral district.   So for example: James BOOTH was a selector, Priory station;  William BUDD, A SQUATTER, Hyandra;  William DUNN, mail contractor,   A Freeman, station manager, Cowl Cowl, A WARDE, station manager, Merrowe…     

So in 1875, the directory spelling is HILLSTON  (as in two ‘l’).   

From my offline resources, it seems there was NO railway line in the area until many years later, probably after WWI.   

I have also checked the 1878 electoral roll for THE LACHLAN, … nope, nothing for any of the likely surnames there.

Threshing Machine Operator ... horse drawn or bullock? 

JM

Hi JM,
thank you for all your research. Jacob is a real mystery he seemed to leave home one day never to be heard from again.

I am only guessing that the machine was horse drawn but I really have no idea sorry.

Thanks