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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: Marama on Wednesday 21 January 15 00:52 GMT (UK)
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If anyone has access to the Queensland censuses for 1871 and 1881 I would be grateful if you would look up William Mune who had left his job as Manager of Ageston Plantation in February 1881. I'd like to know where he went. I'd also be interested to see just who lived at Ageston in 1871 and 1881. There were a number of houses and in 1871 there were 30 people recorded as living there. With kind regards, Marama.
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Is this him?
Australian Town and Country Journal 14 May1887
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/71677319
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No surviving census in Aus for that period.
I suggest you always search TROVE for information about your people of interest and google for the plantation information.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71677319
Australian Town and Country Journal [Sydney] 14 May 1887
FIJI AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
Mr. William Mune, manager of the Rewa Sngar Company's plantation, Koroniria, Fiji, baa been instrumental in inaugurating an Agricultural and Industrial Association for Fiji. The association has been launched under favorable auspices; the Governor, having thrown his influence into it.
Cando
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Hi,
Queensland Police Gazette, Saturday 14th October 1882.
13th October 1882
Appointed Magistrates
Mune, William, Fountainsville,. Cannibal Creek.
Gerry
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QLD ERolls 1874-1879
MUNE William - Logan, 1874 Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1875 Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1876, Residence, Albert River
MUNE William - Logan, 1878, Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1879, Residence, Ageston
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Here is his death notice:
MUNE - On the 18th January, at his residence, Na Samabula, Fiji, William Mune (late of Ageston, Logan River) after a long and painful illness, aged 48.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3573924
Debra :)
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Yes, that is William Mune. Thankyou very much all of you. He managed Ageston from 1871 to 1881. He went to Fiji to manage the Rewa Sugar Mill in 1883. I'm trying to find out why he left Ageston in 1881 and what he did for the next couple of years. I know he applied for the lease of Darnley Island in Torres Strait to cultivate sugar but was turned down and that by mid 1882 he was mining and prospecting at Fountainville, Cannibal Creek. His older children were at school in Jimbour in 1881 and 1882. His wife was Martha Fountain and one of her sisters was married to the manager of Jimbour Station.
That's a blow that the census returns have not survived. I do keep a very good eye on Trove but they have invented many strange ways to interpret MUNE electronically so I do miss some of them.
Thanks for your replies. I live in Perth so your help is greatly appreciated. Marama.
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During the quarter ending 30th June 1882 William Mune was issued with a Business Licence No 5601 by the Warden at Palmer in North Queensland.
Gerry
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163902422
Logan Witness 5 March 1881.
Farewell dinner to Mr Mune.
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I guess you know about this ;)
http://fijilandofourfathers.com/grace-morrison/
Cando
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Hi to you all
Thankyou so much for all these answers. Unfortunately, I do know about all of them and one I even wrote. How do you know so quickly that someone you might be able to help has written?
Cheers, Marama.
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Hi to you all
Thankyou so much for all these answers. Unfortunately, I do know about all of them and one I even wrote. How do you know so quickly that someone you might be able to help has written?
Cheers, Marama.
Yes I realised that :)
You need to be a good detective when researching family history.
You use your name as a username on another well known family history website.
You have searched for your family on another site and the posts are available via google.
You have a publication on another branch of your family.
There is a photo of your mother as a bride on TROVE and your parents are on the NSW 1980 electoral roll.
You father died in NSW and his death registration is available on the NSW bdm website and your mother in WA and her burial record is available on the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website.
Then I found this link......
http://www.mfhn.com/auger/geds/afsa/augg368.htm
If information is published on the net then someone is sure to find it.
I didn't read the text of Wm's farewell dinner so not sure it was helpful.
Cando
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Hi Cando
How did you do all that so quickly? Everything you have found is correct but I must confess I have never seen the picture of my mother as a bride on Trove. Must go and look for it. That last family tree you mentioned - Auger I think - has been annoying me for many years. I never gave them permission to us it and they have managed to transcribe several things wrongly - and they won't do anything about correcting them so that all sorts of other people are just blindly carrying these mistakes on.
Bye for now.
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Here you are :)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17433281
Cando
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That last family tree you mentioned - Auger I think - has been annoying me for many years. I never gave them permission to us it and they have managed to transcribe several things wrongly - and they won't do anything about correcting them so that all sorts of other people are just blindly carrying these mistakes on.
Yes I can understand your frustration. After having my 'fingers burnt' I am now extremely careful with whom I share either my own or my OH's family history. I don't have either of our trees online have spent a lot of time suggesting to the compilers of the online trees that they re-visit their research. Most appear to have been copied from a couple of very poorly researched trees. Two of the trees have been compiled by persons who are not related to our family in any way. One appears to be about people in Maryborough Qld and some of my paternal grandmother's distant relatives lived there for a period before moving to NZ and for some inexplicable reason, two generations later my deceased parents are included. Weird. Another compiler said "I have an interest in genealogy". Weirder. The oddest one is a person who compiled family trees of those who were born or lived at Walhalla in Victoria....and was extremely rude when I asked him in a private message, to explain his connection to our family. Refused and rudely said - you haven't a public tree I can look at. I worked out who he was and he made a brief appearance on this board. I say no more. :-X :-X ;)
I share any information that is available in the public area. Some are most appreciative, some have been rude and some ignore me ::) ::)
Cheers :)
Cando
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Have you seen this obituary?
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168393968
Cando
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Thanks for the obit - I hadn't seen it although I have seen another one that mentions the Wedding in Northumberland! The Auger person who wrote that family tree replied when I asked him exactly how we were related to him that we have some Cornish ancestors called Odgers. I wasn't impressed with that either and I think any connection must be very vague! I found my mother's photo. A tinted one always hung in my parrents' bedroom. I thought I might spend an idle hour or two trying to work out just who you are but you haven't left any clues so far except that you live in New Zealand.
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Hi Marama,
The Qld State Archives hold a Land Selection File for William Mune on microfilm, do you have a copy of this?
Gerry
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I thought I might spend an idle hour or two trying to work out just who you are but you haven't left any clues so far except that you live in New Zealand.
If you look at my profile you will see I am female and I live in Victoria. It was the very distant ancestors who moved to NZ :)
Cheers
Cando
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Hello, I am new to this site and this is my first post. I am researching the Edwards line on my grandchildren's family tree. I am stuck on the predecessors of Gwendoline Ageston Mune, b 1905 (unknown location) and died 15 Aug 1981 Tauranga NZ as Gwendoline Edwards. The name is too much of a coincidence not to be connected to William Mune especially as this family has connections in Fiji. Her husband, (Arthur Thomas) Bruce Edwards died there in 1969 but we cannot find out why.
I would be very grateful for any information that you may have on Gwendoline.
Thank you.
Flobo.