LoneyBones Scavenger Hunt - Part 2...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[majm]

  that's a grand idea... 

[Tephra]

Time for this weeks Scavenger Hunt and here it is......a hard one, but well worthwhile.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,434782.0.html

Good Luck and Good Hunting

As usual, this Hunt will remain open for any further information which may come in.

Barbara

[LoneyBones]

I'm glad you like it.  
But I'm still no closer to Elizabeth.  

I'm still looking tho'.

[majm]

 

We've got stacks of info still to find on your Elizabeth... I'm banking on lots of clues in those records from the NSW State Records Office...

JM

[LoneyBones]

Time for this weeks Scavenger Hunt and here it is......a hard one, but well worthwhile.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,434782.0.html

Good Luck and Good Hunting

As usual, this Hunt will remain open for any further information which may come in.

Barbara

  I didn't know we did commercial breaks.   

So. I'll just have to wait and see what is revealed by the postman.....

[Ebch]

Anything I can chase up in England?  Read all the old papers nothing and I am bored 

[majm]

Hi there,

Another sighting of John ENNIS at Hill End....

Its as a signatory on a petition to the NSW Government.  LB, it suggests he was not a great writer, its his X mark.  "John X mark Ennis"

Its in the NSW Government Gazette, page 964 published Tuesday 1 April 1873.  The Petition had 587 signatories, all supporting the raising of a Municipality to be known as "Borough of Hill End".   Reading the Gazette notice carefully it explains that the signatories were all checked by various people, and so I note that next to John Ennis' signature it lists the initials J R F.  There's a statement from John Richard FERRIS confirming that he checked "323" signatures on 11 June 1872, and JRF's statement was certified by the Police Magistrate. 

That statement gives some info about the qualifications of those signatories.  "....such persons are persons liable for assessment for Municipal taxes in respect to property or household residence...."

Umm, well I'm still on the hunt for Elizabeth    I'll see if there's any likely candidates for William Larson on that petition 

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

Err....

No sighting on that petition for William Larson.   

But....... the signature immediate after John ENNIS'  will bring smiles to you .... Its a chap named John JONES.   Also I ought to mention that there's females who signed the petition...  alas, could not see Elizabeth ....

Oh dear, perhaps the State Records Office have already photocopied the file and its being posted to you today  , but mine took a fortnight...

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

Anything I can chase up in England?  Read all the old papers nothing and I am bored 

Do you have access to Pallot's London Baptismal/marriage Index?
I was going to look there at the library this AM but didn't get time. I have no idea how extensive that is, the library had 1780-1837 for baptisms and 1521-1869 for marriages. I'll try and get back there next week.

JM, I noticed in Papers Past that John ENNIS is on several petitions, can't recall off hand what they were for.