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

[majm]

Err... not sighted any Ennis in several Country Directories for Mount Vic.

Sorry,  I must apologise,  I looked up several Country Directories for One Tree Hill...  that's the old name for Mt Vic (or at least I'm fairly positive that's  the old name...  I'm remembering my late Dad's yarns about Mt Vic, where his name sake lived back in late 1870's, I could be wrong, and errr .... losing my Dona Keyoteeeeeeee tag )

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

Now this is downright creepy. 
The Manor House was in the possession of my COOPER family! 1887- until the 1960's.
As far as I know there wasn't any relationship for another two generations.

I really think it's time I took a break. A stiff drink would be good....but apple juice will have to suffice.

Major creepy.    

[majm]

Really .... definitely creepy....

I can't find that Mrs Ennis though....   Am I right about One Tree Hill being earlier name for Mt Vic

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

Don't know about Mt Vic/One Tree Hill.  Possible.

[majm]

One Tree Hill.... I've just checked, it was the former name for Mount Victoria, change of name occurred when the Post Office was built in 1876 ....

Wow, I wonder how many NSW centric family history buffs think that they have forebears born out in the outback Wentworth district where there was another One Tree Hill ... when there's the possibility the birth was at what is now Mt Victoria ....  One day I will find some spare moments to figure out why anyone would have given the One Tree Hill name to what is now Mt Victoria .... there's all those trees there, and it was definitely full of trees when Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains and stood at Mt York, then got across to Mt Vic, and thence to Mt Boyce and then got as far as Mt Blaxland ...

Afterall, from Mt York they saw they were nearly across, and they figured out to get to Mt Boyce would lead them to the slopes thus becoming the famous "first" explorers to cross the Blue Mountains .... and from memory that was in 1813.

Cheers, LB, many thanks for giving me the heads up on The Manor House ... its led Moi to have some good memories of moi late Dad's yarns. 

 

[LoneyBones]

I thought you went to bed.
I know that's where I'm off to.
You might have some nice fatherly yarns to dream about, I have a weird tangled yarn to have nightmares about. 
But I still thank you for your help. 

[majm]

Hi LB,
I’m not getting very far at all, but do you have a contact for your Cooper branch...  Perhaps they may have some records or diary etc for the late Mrs Margaret Cooper, ....  “She was an authority on old Sydney”....

Thursday 28 March 1935 SMH 
LATE MRS M COOPER MT VICTORIA Wednesday...Mrs Margaret Cooper widow of Mr George Hubbard Cooper of Coopers Hotel Mt. Victoria died at the age of 85 years. She was born at Chippendale She was an authority on old Sydney She is survived by three Daughters .....
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17159247

Also, before a (not sure if she was your, but perhaps could be) Mrs Ennis was the Manageress at The Manor House, in the mid 1880's (aka Cooper's Hotel), there was a tenant who operated it as a private school.  (I think Atkins was his surname ... it was in the smh online, but I lost it somehow last night)....  I'm wondering if there could be records for the students at that private school .... errr.... Martha Alice perhaps. 

Although I've NO idea where to find records of students at private schools in NSW in any era   

But I'm still looking through newspapers online...

Cheers,  JM

[regross]

hi,
Found a death in England for a Martha A Innes aged 78 in 1933 est dob 1855. Only one in Free BDM in Reigate but there is also an Elizabeth A Innes dying there but far to young by over 20 years to be our missing lady. Doubt either are connected.

Just to throw a firework in the pot:
In the period between 1880 and1900 when Australia was in a depresson, many people left the eastern staes most went to WA as you have found but some to New Zealand others to expanding religious colonies in South America

Australia had been increasingly seen as the working man's paradise but the 1890s challenged that view. One response to the resulting disillusionment was the New Australia movement led by William Lane which attempted to create a utopian society in Paraguay in 1893

  from http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/key/HistoryTowardsFederation

Thre is the faintest possibilty that she may have been one of those in the shift to PAraquay.

Robyn

[majm]

Hi there,

I've had a quick read of the passenger list for William Lane's New Australia, its in the  Brisbane Courier Friday 21 July 1893, ..... I could have missed, but I didn't see any ENNIS (variations) or Larson etc.

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3563245

I'll try other newspapers, in case ....

Cheers,  JM