"Pioneering New England" lookup offer

[mickalex]

Hi Prue, when you get the chance, please see if there are barnes in there. Graziers Uralla,Walcha,Woolbrook and Limbri.
will be
Edward Albert Barnes
Samuel Albert    do    ----- father, Rest are son's
William M P         do
Edgar J B            do
Horace Manvers   do
Walter H             do

Thanks Prue, if you need anything looked up with the Tamworth Society, let me know and ill look it up when i get back in a couple of weeks.

Mick

[PrueM]

Hi Mick 
No Barneses in the book, sorry 
I wish I could help someone!!

Thank you very much for your kind offer - I will have a think about what information might be helpful to have from Tamworth, and let you know if I need anything 

Cheers
Prue

[mickalex]

Thanks Prue, i thought for sure they would be in there as they had some big land holdings.
Be happy to help in Tamworth or in Newcastle.

Once again, thanks Prue. It is people like you i meet over and over with family history that make it so addictive and a pleasure.

[PrueM]

 
You're very welcome, Mick - I only wish I'd been able to find something for you.
The book is not a definitive list of everyone who farmed or lived in the New England district, but it is a good basic overview of some of the early settlers and first homesteads in the area.  Some people who are incidental to the main stories are mentioned (like my uncle).

Cheers
Prue

[Walcha72]

Hi Prue,

I'm not after a look up as I pretty well know about all my New England ancestors (they weren't really pioneering).  It was very interesting to read the list of names though.  I recognise quite a lot of them that are still in the Walcha district at least.

Trish - I haven't been for a couple of years, but the Uralla Historical Society's Museum - McCrossin's Mill had a fantastic display all about the Rocky River gold diggings.  Actually the whole museum is very well done and very interesting.  As a locality, Rocky River still exists (there is still a primary school there). Its signposted off the New England Highway between Armidale and Uralla. 

I don't get up that way very often now (only a couple of times a year), but if you'd like anything from around Uralla, Armidale or particularly Walcha, please let me know.

Debbie

[trish251]

Hi Debbie

Many thanks for the information - I went to Uni at Armidale - many moons ago - and did the odd trip to Uralla - but knew nothing about the family history at that time  . It has been about 15 years since we drove down the New England - perhaps time for another visit. I'm still wondering if he really did WALK that distance from Brisbane  

Trish

[mickalex]

He could have walked it. I would imagine many would have in those days.
 I have been collecting old maps and coach routes from warwick-tamworth and reading about the road in the 1850-80's, trying to understand and imagine what it was like traveling between Queensland and Tamworth.
Hehe had to imagine at times when i scoot along at 100km/h up the New England HWY.

[PrueM]

...when i scoot along at 100km/h up the New England HWY.

Why only 100, Mick? 

Seriously though, I guess alot of people did walk vast distances "back in the day".  He could also have hitched lifts on coaches or waggons.  I wish when I was younger I'd known that my Haynes ancestors were early-ish settlers in that area - would have made mum/dad stop along the road to Sydney from Brisbane as we headed south every Xmas to visit cousins!  The Haynes family arrived in two parts - one lot in 1841 and one in 1842 - and travelled from Sydney to the Armidale area by bullock waggon (imagine!!    ).  They worked for Marsh on his "Salisbury Court" property, and then when Marsh bought "Boorolong" they moved up there for quite a while to manage it.  That's where old Ned Haynes lived when he hand carved the wooden fire surround that still stands at Salisbury Court.

Prue

[mickalex]

  100 is safe to say!hehe

How cool would it be to take a plaster cast of the fireplace and get another made for your place from the cast!