"Pioneering New England" lookup offer

[PrueM]

I have a copy of the following book, if anyone would like me to see if there's information in it about their family, I'm happy to have a look  My great-great-great-great uncle is mentioned in it, as he carved a wooden fireplace for Salisbury Court homestead.
The book mentions the original homesteads and settlers of the region, as well as social history like Captain Thunderbolt and gold/tin mining.

Starr, Joan.  (1978).  Pioneering New England.  Adelaide etc:  Rigby Ltd.

Prue

Added - list of names mentioned:
Baker
Barney
Bent
Bowers
Britten
Browne
Caldwell
Cameron
Carleen
Cory
Costa
Cottle
Croft
Cullen
Dangar
Dawson
Dickson
Donaldson
Eichorn
Fletcher
Geldart
Gibson
Gilchrist
Gunn
Haynes
Henderson
Herring
Hewitt
Horton
Howell
Irby
Jeffrey
Jolley
Kermode
Kuskey
Lawson
Leslie
Luke
Mackenzie
Marsh
McAlpine
McCallum
McGlew
McIntyre
Merewether
Middleton
Morton
Murphy
Mylne
Nicol
O'Connell
Palmer
Paterson
Perkins
Podmore
Reberdy
Rebora
Robertson
Roper
Ross
Rossiter
Semphill
Simpson
Taylor
Templer
Traill
Tuckwood
Utz
Walker
Ward
Watt
Whereat
White
Wills
Woolnough

[ChristineR]

Thanks for your kind offer Prue.

I am interested to know anything that might be there about the WHILEY family, I believe they were in that area before they ventured further westward.

thanks
Christine 

[scrappyshaz]

Hi Prue,
That's a very generous offer, thanks
Could you check for HOLMES, LOVEGROVE or SNOOK families please,
Thanks
Scrappyshaz

[PrueM]

Hello both 

Really sorry, there is no mention of any of those families in the book 

Prue

[trish251]

Hi Prue

You mentioned gold mining - does it mention anywhere (place,mine) by the name of "Rocky River Diggings". I went looking for this & think I found a place near Armidale - but our ancestor was supposed to have WALKED there from Brisbane in the 1860s - so I wonder if it exists and if the story is true.

Trish

[PrueM]

Hi Trish 
Sorry, nothing for you either   
This isn't going too well, is it!!!

Brisbane to Armidale is quite a hike - maybe he did go, but didn't walk.  He would have been too tired to dig if he had! 
Found this link, don't know if you've seen it before:

http://www.uralla.com/history/details.php?who=11

Prue

[ChristineR]

Thanks Prue
think of the typing you were saved.
Christine
(who asked about WHILEY)

[PrueM]

 

Well, after I posted my lookup offer, I realised the book has no index 
So the time between reading your message and posting my reply was spent going through every page and noting down names!  I'll type them all into a spreadsheet and then I'll be able to search quickly in the future (not that my searches are going very well so far  )

Cheers
Prue

[trish251]

Hi Trish 
Sorry, nothing for you either   
This isn't going too well, is it!!!

Brisbane to Armidale is quite a hike - maybe he did go, but didn't walk.  He would have been too tired to dig if he had! 
Found this link, don't know if you've seen it before:

http://www.uralla.com/history/details.php?who=11

Prue

Thanks for the link Prue - it is probably the one I found before - I shall save it this time.  The family had little money, it is difficult to know how else he got there - but perhaps he rode a horse - I can't imagine what type of road/track may have existed. Wherever he went it seems he did reasonably well as  on his return he was reasonably wealthy   

Trish