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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 25 November 14 02:06 GMT (UK) »
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13387970

This is an excellent book,  I've just re-read the three chapters about Coolah and scanned the rest, but it does not appear to mention your relative.

The link does not refer to a publication ???

Nothing like local knowledge so I suggest you contact the Coolah Historical Society, Binnia St
Coolah, NSW 2843

Cando

Sorry,   I was referring to your previous link,   and selected the wrong bit of blue code

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35100820?selectedversion=NBD9281579

The book, "Around the Black Stump"  by Roy Cameron.   Roy Cameron was the shire clerk of Coolah Shire for 40 years,   the book was written in collaboration with people from the Coolah Historical Society,  don't you think ?   Why yes,  they are named here,  right in the introduction.

If there were any genuine 19th century photos of Coolah in existence,  I think he would have used them instead of the very boring more recent photos that he did use.

Coolah only has a newspaper between 1907 and 1918,  published,  as it happens,  by my great-grandmother's brother in law,  and of about 500 weekly issues published in that time,  none at all survive in any public collection.

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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 25 November 14 06:19 GMT (UK) »
The NSW State Records Office – Deceased Estates INDEX has:
Benjamin ROWE, and the location as COOLAH with DD of 18 Aug 1880.
 HOWEVER, in the remarks column of that index it lists the locality as COOYAL.

These are two different locations, about 60 miles apart.  (Coolah is north of Cooyal)

According to Google Maps
Cooyal is 32.450563 (south) 149.757047 (east)
Coolah is 31.8333 (south) 149.7167 (east) 



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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 25 November 14 21:07 GMT (UK) »
You are quite correct,  I noticed that too.   However,  I think that the Coolah location is correct,   and the reference to Cooyal is a mistake.   It is certainly something you need to consider, though.

Benjamin Rowe was appointed as one of the trustees of the Coolah common,  along with three Coolah local bigwigs of the time.   The same three,  without Rowe,   were appointed to a committee to establish a school.

Cooyal is quite close to Mudgee.  If that was where he lived,  and he died there,  his death would surely have been registered at Mudgee, not Coolah.   He might have lived at Cooyal,  and fallen off his horse, or been bitten by a snake, at Coolah.   Or vice versa.

Perhaps the OP can enlighten us as to what his death certificate actually says,  and what kind of assets he left in his will.



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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 25 November 14 21:37 GMT (UK) »
.....  his death would surely have been registered at Mudgee, not Coolah. .......
Perhaps the OP can enlighten us as to what his death certificate actually says,  and what kind of assets he left in his will.

Excuse me please, the towers, BUT I think it best to mention the following:  that in fact, the NSW BDM online index does NOT show the death was registered at Coolah. I am happy to be corrected, but as far as I am aware, there was no person appointed to receive bdm registrations at Coolah.  The NSW BDM online index shows the death was registered in the BDM district of MUDGEE, and that the death occurred at Mudgee, not at Coolah. 

NSW BDM #8219, in 1880, Benjamin ROWE, aged 50, died MUDGEE, registered Mudgee.

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/bdm_fh.html


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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 04:41 GMT (UK) »
By 1880 Mudgee was a thriving community and boasted a hospital from around the 1840's. So likely if he was in poor health, he may have had a stay in there prior to his death?

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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 04:50 GMT (UK) »
Just as a point in the period between 1830 and 1900 no deaths are recorded in any name beginning with S* at COOYAL, 5 Only at COOLAH, but over 500 at MUDGEE. So it would be unlikely at either of the first two. I doubt if any place was available at either Coolah or Cooyal prior to around 1895 when some deaths were recorded at Coolah.

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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 05:29 GMT (UK) »
As far as I am aware, Cooyal never ever had it's own BDM deputy registrar.   It was part of the Mudgee BDM district.  I am not nearly as sure about Coolah.    But I do know the NSW BDM geographical districts were re-distributed in the late 1880s and into the 1890s.    Each NSW government department had its own pens that determined their own geographical boundaries, and those pens draw wavy lines, that were revised on whims of ministers, senior officers, and even at local levels.   And of course, within the Reg Gen's Office, there were Pastoral Districts, Lands Districts, Civil Parishes/Counties, BDM districts, Land Divisions, etc etc.


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Re: Benjamin ROWE, Coolah NSW - any images
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 05:42 GMT (UK) »
That is certainly the case.   It was the OP who appeared to claimed that they died at Coolah,  and I took that at face value.

Does the OP have the death certificate ?   That should state where the person died.

The correct location for deaths at Coolah to be registered,   would have actually been Cassilis.