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The Common Room / Re: Dee's Clegg/Lees Scavenger Hunt..Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 13:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dee

The Mary Clegg on Oraparinna Station in 1865 would appear to be the one who married Mark Francis. The other Mary Clegg of matching age married Louis Holzberger - and it was she who was the daughter of Benjamin Clegg.

Mark Francis, son of Edward Francis, was working a mine near the (then) Angorichina Outstation (the Carey Hill Mine, which he called the Mount Carey Mine). At that stage, Carey Hill was on the Oraparinna Station, so he would no doubt have met that Mary Clegg while working there.

At least it all solves a puzzle I have had for years - what became of the Mary Clegg who worked on Oraparinna!

If you wish, you can check out my Clegg clippings at my Evernote online storage at:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/e7e55af9-7567-47b6-93f0-e137198ccae5/5689a6b8e19ed2fed4e7719947d46c85

That URL should give you free and no-joining access to that bundle of clippings - let me know if it doesn't work.

Frank

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The Common Room / Re: Dee's Clegg/Lees Scavenger Hunt..Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Tuesday 11 December 12 03:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dee

A couple of Clegg fragments:

A Mary Clegg, aged about 16, was housemaid/servant to Charles and Charlotte Dawson, managers of Oraparinna Homestead in 1865. At the end of that year the great drought drove them off the Station, and they shifted initially to Port Augusta. The family then went to Hanson / Farrell Flat where they took over the pub and later farmed in the area. Source: Henry Hammond Tilbrook papers, State Library of South Australia manuscript collections.

A Thomas Clegg died at/near Beltana in 1877. The headstone inscription (I have photographed it) reads: 'In Memory of Thomas Clegg who died 4th May 1877 aged 51 years'. I don't think he's in the SA BDMs.

Maybe something will fit with information you already have.

Frank

PS: congratulations re the outcomes of the bible search!

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I have just come across this thread, and it appears to connect with some research I have been doing on a family in the Flinders Ranges (my area of historical research). Their great grandmother was a Nellie Lamb Conway, and the name Lamb has been a bit of a puzzle. I have found that Nellie was the daughter of John Nixon Conway and Beatrice Tortoise. John Nixon Conway was the son of William Thomas Conway and Cora Matilda Lamb.

Cora Matilda Lamb was the daughter of William Bailey Lamb and Mary Ann. She is listed as their child on the passenger list of the Marquis of Anglesea. She married William Thomas Conway in 1846 at Fremantle; their son John Nixon Conway was born in 1847, and William Thomas Conway died that same year. She remarried in 1854 to Edward Newman. She is listed as the wife of Edward Newman in the 1867 advertisement re the estate of Elizabeth Matilda Corbin of Clapham, Surrey (although I think Cora had died by then?).

My sources have been the SA BDM CDs, the SA Biographical Index, the WA Online BDMs and backup material from the NLA's Trove online newspaper site.

There's a large amount of Trove newspaper material on the various parts of this family, which you have probably come across - Corbin Lamb in SA, Edmund Lamb in Sydney, William Lamb in Fremantle, John Nixon Conway in Port Augusta SA. And of course Edward Newman. There was also Cora Lamb, daughter of Corbin, who featured in a number of quite informative newspaper articles in South Australia over the years.

How does this fit in with your collective knowledge of William Bailey Lamb's family and descendants? I can provide my source information where needed.

Frank
in Adelaide South Australia


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Australia / Re: SA BD&M help please
« on: Tuesday 13 July 10 07:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Elsie

The Thomas Quirk of Blinman (mentioned in previous posts), son of Timothy Quirk, is listed in the Port Augusta Hospital Index as being from Hammond, but a laborer of Blinman, when he died at the Pt Augusta Hospital 4th or 5th (it says 5th) November 1890, having been admitted on 31 October. Delia/Adelia, his daughter, aged 13 months, died in Blinman on 4 November (as noted in an earlier post). The hospital index also has the mother, Elizabeth Quirk, age 26, admitted on the 6 November with bronchitis; also Catherine Quirk, age 5, her daughter, on 6 November with whooping cough; also Ellen Quirk, age 3, daughter of same, on 6 November with whooping cough.

Other mentions of the Quirks (from my research at State Records SA): A man by the name of Quirke applied (through an agent) for a permit to strip wattle bark on the Wilpena Run in 1886; the letter hasn't survived - only the index entry. And a T Quirke applied in May 1888 for a permit for an Accommodation House at Perawillia Gap (NE of Hawker). And a T Quirke applied on 31 October 1888 for permission to remove the Wilpena Eating House to land he leased in the Hundred of Carr (ie in or near Blinman). Wilpena lessee, HS Price, objected in November 1888 to T Quirke removing the Eating House from near Wilpena Homestead.

Regards
Frank

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Australia / Re: Old Bible Challenge - CLARKE family
« on: Saturday 19 December 09 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
One branch of the original James Clarke - Bridget Doherty family still lives in the Hawker district (there may be other branches there that I haven't come across). These are the descendants of Ashley's brother, Albert, sometimes listed in records as Albert Edward Clarke.  Historically, they have variously been involved with properties in the Carrieton, Cradock, Pine Grove and Yednalue areas. More info if needed.
Frank

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Help with SA lookup please - JONES
« on: Saturday 02 May 09 00:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Elsie

Source details mailed to your message box

Frank

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Australia / Re: William John Darmody
« on: Tuesday 14 April 09 01:47 BST (UK)  »
The William Darmody (senior) who had the Prairie Hotel at Parachilna from 1883 til 1913 was the ex-manager of Moolooloo Station (he stated that in a newspaper advertisement when he took over the pub). He died in 1914. His niece, (Miss) Ellen Darmody, was the manager from 1909 to July 1912, and from June 1913 to September 1916.

In September 1916 the hotel was taken over by a different William Darmody - I *think* he was a nephew, but this needs more research. He wasn't William (senior)'s son. This younger William Darmody ran the pub until October 1933, and for a few more months in 1937. (Publican records from Hoad's book: Hotels and Publicans of South Australia)

I've never been able to satisfactorily sort out the Darmody family background - the spelling changes a lot (Darmody, Dermody, Dormody, even Dearmiday) - even among people of clearly the same family. A fair proportion of them seem to have South Australian origins around Macclesfield in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges. Interestingly, the Dearmiday one (marriage registration) becomes Dermody and Dormody on the later births registrations.

Re the photo mentioned in an earlier posting: I have always understood that is of William Darmody Senior, as the collection it is from in the State Library of SA is of Pioneers of the North; strictly, he should be shown as W Darmody, Moolooloo. The Nilpena bit comes from two possible sources - the south-western end of Moolooloo Station became part of the Hundred of Nilpena, and the Parachilna township is in the Hundred of Nilpena. That photo collection was not put together until around the 1890s, even though it was about the early days. Many of the captions on the photos in this collection are very inaccurate/misleading.

JM Gillick (and his father Patrick) held pastoral land in the Parachilna area as well as around Cradock (Wirreanda, and smaller pastoral leases to the east of Hawker).

Frank

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Help with SA lookup please - JONES
« on: Tuesday 14 April 09 00:33 BST (UK)  »
JE Jones, from the information I have found over the years, was in the Yednalue area in the mid-to-late 1880s; I have him applying to occupy a house at Yednalue Station in 1885, and writing about the poor state of the road from Yednalue to Curnamona in 1889. Perhaps he was a hawker - he wrote a letter of complaint about unlicensed hawkers in 1892.

From 1896 to 1912 he seems to have been a storekeeper at both Blinman and Parachilna at various times. Parachilna was the railway siding for Blinman, so it is possible that he had stores at both - or a store at Blinman and an agency at Parachilna. He leased a block or two at Parachilna (or in the Hundred of Nilpena, which includes Parachilna township).

From 1912 to 1915 or thereabouts he was a member of the Angorichina Vermin Board, a local board responsible for building and maintaining the vermin fence around the Angorichina and Artimore pastoral leases - just to the east of Blinman.

I haven't ever checked the Sands and MacDougall Directories for entries for him over that period.

Frank

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Help with SA lookup please - JONES
« on: Thursday 09 April 09 07:21 BST (UK)  »
Have you seen the photos of JE Jones' store at Blinman?

http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/31250/B31035.htm

and

http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/15250/B15127.htm

Any dates quoted in the text are fairly rough and ready!

Frank

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