Research To Do List

 I am setting this page up as a kind of To Do list and Research Log of sorts

 

Research Trips To Do

Bustard Head

This has been on the wishlist for a long time.  It would be nice to trace some of the places that my great-great-aunts taught at when they came out to Australia from England.  Harriet CONNER taught at Bustard Head Lighthouse.  It would be good to see if I could find where Cometville and Blackall Range Schools were too. My quilting group goes to Barcaldine once a year and is talking about going there again next year and maybe Longreach too and I know my sister-in-law wants to look for the elusive Robert James DAW in Augathella.  Now that would be a really long road trip!

Ballina to Chatham in NSW 

It's definitely out of bounds at the moment but I'd like to explore this area looking for my husband's ancestors - wait for it - the SMITHS!!! Yes, I know, lost cause and all that but I'd like to give it a go.  William Arnold SMITH was born at Warrell Creek and his father Patrick Daniel SMITH was born at Chatham.  William Arnold Smith married Frances Elizabeth - wait for it - SMITH in Ballina in 1882 but we can't find any record of it.  I'd like to visit some family history societies and cemeteries around there to see if we can find the family and the parish they came from. There's the Richmond Tweed Family History Society and the Ballina and District Historical Society too.  Between the two of them and the local library, which I understand is very good, we should be able to turn something up I hope. The Historical Society website is very good.  Just look at this Cemetery Page and the Stories page - great huh?

Orange, NSW

I've wanted to go here for a while to explore the McLOUGHLIN story a bit more.  My maternal grandfather Thomas McLOUGHLIN was born in Bathurst but his family must have lived in Orange for a while too.  His brother Frank was born in Orange and I think the boys went to school at Croagh Patrick Boys College.  Tom's father was born in Bowenfells.  It could be a Bathurst, Orange, Blue Mountains trip. The Orange FHG and the local library also look very promising. There happens to be a Bridge weekend in Orange in early December too.  Hmmmmm. 

Marvellous Melbourne.  

I didn't get to visit the Parliamentary Library last time I was there to see what my ancestor Peter Sinclair's workplace was like and I would like to visit cemeteries and other repositories to do more research on the ELLIS family and the CONNERs when they first arrived in Australia.

 

 

Repositories to visit and what to do when I am there

Ipswich Libraries

  • Go to Local History section and look for:

    Haigslea State School Centenary book

    Rosewood then and now

    The Rosewood Railway

    Rosewood A & H Society

    German Settlement in the Rosewood Scrub

    Walloon School 1877 - 1977

    Ipswich Stories


SLQ

  • Look at Baptismal and Marriage Registers for Uniting Church http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/1oppkg1/slq_alma21148574380002061
  • Look at 100 years of Christian witness book http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/1oppkg1/slq_alma21114733900002061
  • Look at The Marburg Branch book by Greg Cash  

 

OTHER RESEARCH

  •  Find out where Harriet GROSSMITH's family came from - Harriet was born c1786

    Find out who Louisa FOYN married and where they ended up

    Join GSQ

    Find out if George FOYN married and where he ended up

    Can Hampshire Archives give more info about the "begging-letter" imposter incident?

    Get death certificate for Samuel Foyne 1865  

    Look at burials and baptisms for all FOYNs at affiliate library for CLDS.

    Maybe do tree for Baltazar FOYN if you can (can't be too many of them)

     

     

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