convict Owen CLEGG (b.England 1830) WA (1854) then NSW (1873-1896)

[aniph]

My pleasure

[aniph]

Judith has checked NSW but I can't see a marriage in WA either


Annie

[DarrenMW]

I'll have to see if I get any reply from emailing the Rookwood 

I am also ordering his Death cert, which may help, although it's looking less likely that he married.

I keep coming back to the very specific date of moving from WA to NSW..16th June 1873...I find is odd that  a modern prison site has such specific info on a man released 16 years before that date.

[DarrenMW]

Checking the Rookwood lists now (entering surname Clegg, and going thru the alphabet with 'first name' initials)

Already hit a few.....I'm trying to match rows/areas now....exciting stuff!


update: see a couple of possibles (i.e. Eliza Clegg d.1907) but grave number isn't the same? Not sure if goes by actual grave # or by plot # (which isn't shown)

Owen Clegg is buried in grave 202 in the Anglican section.

[DarrenMW]

stumbling block....they don't have email at that Rookwood Cemetery

only phone contact numbers or regular postal mail 

http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/contact-us.html

[DarrenMW]

2.35 am here.....I really  need to get to bed.

thank you all, but esp Trish, for your wonderful help.

I'll be back in a few short hours..I'm hooked! 
Darren

[trish1120]

If you are really lucky I will go out there for you
I live abt 15k away.
Good night, sleep well.

[DarrenMW]

HA!...I just now see this post hidden on page 2!

That is amazing that you live so close, and that you are such a sweet person that you may go visit there for MY research at some stage!

 

[DarrenMW]

Hi Trish!
acording to a newspaper clipping I saw from Nov 1875, Owen Clegg may have been working for the A.A. Company in Warrah, NSW (nr Tamworth?).

There is a record of an Owen Clegg playing in the annual A.A Company 'washers' versus 'shearers' cricket match - amazing!

No proof it's 'my' guy who moved to NSW in 1873, but it has potential as he worked in the wool/textile trade in England.

Plus he was an Englishman on the losing side of a cricket match in Australia... that's a dead giveaway there!

Hope all is well....kindest regards

Darren