Wonnangatta - Harry's Hut

[mum mum]

Hi
There is a death for a Mary Hayes 1935 at Sunbury, father George, mother Dorothy Wilson, can anyone see her age?

mum mum

[c more]

Hi Mum Mum
Just wondering about the death date for Oliver SMITH in 1875.
The newspaper article for his son William's death in Queensland seems to indicate that Oliver SMITH
snr was still alive in 1885. 
Quote  from the Wonnangatta-Harrys Hut webpage
"Oliver and Annie move away for a while but return and buy Denny Connolly’s old pub at Upper Dargo which they kept for the best part of 20 years. Oliver combined this with some gold prospecting."

Maybe there is confusion between Oliver snr and Oliver jnr
Cheers Laonie

[mum mum]

Hi
I guess we would need the death certificate to know, but the age fits, parents unknown and place of birth TENN, I presumed Tennessee.

Stop Press, I think that is the wrong guy.

I have just recieved a reply from a lady in the USA who is descended from Oliver Smith who was born in Kentucky, married Mary Brown, went searching for gold, and came back in the 1890'2 before disappearing again. His parents were William and Melinda, he had a brother Thomas. Names look familiar.

The plot thickens, is that where he went to before they came back to buy the pub. Who was the other Oliver Smith?

mum mum

[mum mum]

Hi
The dirty bastard!

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MOMONROE/2002-07/1025960217

Wonder where his Australian wife was at this time.

mum mum

[c more]

WOW
How bizarre
Leonie

[tedscout]

Hi everyone,

I a so amazed at all your investigations. I have just had time to sit down and read it all. (and put it in an excel spreadsheet).

I wonder if Graeme (the website owner) has any idea about Oliver Smith's other family in America.

Oh and I'm not sure about the Mary Hayes who died in Sunbury. I live near Sunbury (its where I do my shopping) and there are 2 possible Mary Hayes on the Electrol roles one in Newham and one in Woodend. Both small towns not far from me. Although the hospital is a specialist hospital now, back then Sunbury Hospital was the largest regional hospital for the area. If you lived in Newham or Woodend and died in hospital chances are your death cert would say Sunbury.

I can't find a marriage for a George Hayes and a Dorothy Wilson but that doesn't mean it didn't happen they could be immigrants.

Anyway, I will keep in investigating. Somehow I thought this one would be a good one.

Cheers, Ted

[tedscout]

I've heard from Graeme,

He will probably be here to see what we've done in a few days.

He has just recieved newspaper articles about William's death in Charters Towers and he knows how James died. He was speared in the chest whilst playing at Wonnongatta Station.

I'm still researching but I have 5 teenagers in the house so I keep getting interupted.

Cheers Ted