Mungindi records -Completed Thanks

[Lady Di]

Oh blimey - sorry Merlin, I must have been otherwise occuppied and missed your reference to the assylum.

THANK YOU so much for the extra information. Someone has just quoted $60+ to supply that very same information so thanks from green-girl as well (she'll be over the moon at having saved $$$'s)

She's just ordered the proper marriage cert from NSWBDM so now we wait (abt 3 weeks I believe) and then start all over again!

Again - many thanks 

Di

[green-girl]

Thanks to all for joining in on the continuing saga of "Alice and Fanny"...the next episode will be scheduled in 3 weeks time when I get the marriage certificate. Hopefully there will be some kind of clue that my cousin Allen missed 20 years ago.
Your good people and I'm very grateful!
 

[majm]

The Dimantina ...  The Travelling Stock Routes ....  There was one from South Lead ie Forbes right up through Bourke across the Border at Mungindi and then up through to Winton ...   I lent my TSR maps from the 1880s just last week ...  It has proprty names on it ....   Fingers crossed it could mention NORAH   

I will see the chap who needed it in a week ...  I will phone him tomorrow for us  alll
Drovers Plants and their Captains .!   

[~MERLIN~]

Di, you didn't miss the reference in my original post #24 because I didn't mention the Asylum record as I hadn't checked those indexes. I only did so when you posted that green-girl had noticed a reference to it.

Do not pay anything for them, there is very little information in them. They mostly only contain the register record of the patient names, file numbers, dates & sometimes family names. The actual persons case files were destroyed a long time ago most of them due to damage from poor storage & some under old laws. Anyone can view the register books for free at the QSA photograph them or pay a few cents for a photocopy. The books are in very poor condition also.

[Billyblue]

MAJM, the Diamantina mentioned is actually a hosopital in Brisbane, now renamed Princess Alexandra Hospital (locally known as PAH).

      

Dawn M

[majm]

Well, ummm.....  I have always willingly admitted to being very NSW centric, so much so that I really did not realise that that hospital could have been in Brisbane....  Shhhhhhhhh.....  it never even crossed my thoughts !             

But after making a phone call, my TSR maps do not throw up any property named NORAH or similar ..... and I should also note my TSR maps are for the 1880s, and NOT for the 1860s/1870s.  So it is possible that the property may have been consolidated into a larger holding before those TSR maps were drawn up, or simply overlooked by the surveyor who prepared those maps.


Cheers, JM (despite being so  NSW Centric errr.... I ought to, at least occasionally, try to remember that there's more to Aust family history of the 19thC than just outback NSW      )


 

[Lady Di]

Thanks JM for checking the TSR maps. If the property existed and was still named Norah a decade or two later you'd expect it to show on those maps - if the stock route went somewhere near their property of course!

I know in NSW that the CP scheme came in abt 1870-1880 (depending on the area) when they subdivided so many of the biggest properties for conditional purchase. Obviously the same may have happened up north on the Barwon River (whichever side of the River you happened to live)

I'll also check the Qld archives or their Lands Dept as well.

Thanks everyone

Di

[majm]

Errr  May I offer “Old Norah Station” .... as in the these articles from the Australian Town and Country Journal linked below

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70607438  14 July 1877
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70607531  21 July 1877 .... “I next cross a ridge, and find myself on the waters of the Macquarie at the head of Norah Creek. Here there is a selection on what was once known as the Norah Old Sheep-station” ....
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70608310  18 August 1877

I think there's a slight crack developing in the mortar 

PS, Norah Creek, Molong is of course very near to Cumnock, so it  would be fairly close to being half way between the Vic and the Qld borders,      and thus a neat compromise between Corowa and Mungindi.       

Cheers,  JM

[green-girl]

Holy Guacamole! 
JM...you are a legend!
Printing it out now for my dad to read tomorrow!
Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou