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Australia / Re: Banisters/Bannisters
« on: Sunday 10 February 08 05:29 GMT (UK)  »
Wow, tropicalj, all this info is overwhelming, and I will certainly follow it all up.  Talk about some coincidences, my son lived in Thuringowa, and two of my grand-children were born there!.  Spent lots of time at both libraries, with my 'librarian counterparts'.   They lived by the River, went about 4 houses then into the Ross River Park!.    Aitkenvale I think it was called, they also previously had lived at Hermit Park.
2nd coincidence is my mother-in-law came from the Hennessey's!, Ireland, Leinster.   But beware, Hennessey can be spelt in 5 different ways!,    even to Hanasheen, Hennecy, Hennecsy among others. It was phonetically spelt, gaelic speech before being anglicised.   
Good hunting, and oodles of thanks.

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Australia / Re: Banisters/Bannisters
« on: Sunday 10 February 08 00:11 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks AMBLY for the Banister/Bannister info.    I have a feeling this just might be 'my' family,
I have looked up mariage data and found spouses for most of them.  Ethel, Walter and George seem to be 'family' names.

I notice that the Birth Index is only to 1907.  So how to I find out what children there are?

Thelma Bannister       married Claude R Smith     - Lismore        -  1935
George T Bannister         "       Lillie Pearce          - Bellingen      - 1923
Herbert W Bannister       "       Annie Marshall      - Grafton        - 1923
Ethel Bannister               "       George E Baxter   - Lismore        - 1919
Walter Bannister             "       Margaret M Rae    - Randwick     - 1923

Maybe someone will recognise these names and make contact?     PLEASE

Many thanks.


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Australia / Re: Banisters/Bannisters
« on: Saturday 09 February 08 06:12 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for all that info.   Yes it is only Australian records I need.

Mum said she thought he went to live on an apple orchard, and it began with a C(!)
She was to go to Australia to live with the family after her mother died, but WW1 intervened and she never went.
When I came  to NZ in 1959, she wanted to know if it was near Australia(!) as her cousin was matron of an Australian hospital.   She said it might be Melbourne

Alas, she just wasn't interested in family history.     

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Australia / BANISTER/BANNISTER family - NSW
« on: Saturday 09 February 08 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
 Hi, I am new to this, and am trying to find my grand-father (Amos)'s brother William.   He was an assisted emigrant to Australia, sailing on the SS Devon, leaving the UK in December, 1880 and arriving in Sydney, NSW Jan. 1881, aged 18.    He died c1943.  His parents were James Bannister and Mary Ann Malin.  He was born in Headington, Oxfordshire, in 1872, James was born at Beckley (1830), Oxfordshire and Mary (c1833) at Emmington, also in Oxfordshire.   
My mother could only remember about an apple orchard, and a daughter who was a nurse/matron.
My grand-dad died in 1949, and I have no further information.  Not much to go on is it.  Any help appreciated.

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