thank you Gerry, I am so keen to find out more on the New descendants now. My parents travelled to Rollingstone, Queensland back in the 1990's looking for my Dad's brother b. 1902 Newbury, found someone with a similar name and age, and thought this could be him, but alas no. However, now I am thinking that this fellow could have been a descendant of this other side of the family (maybe even the son of Charles William New).
Would love to get to the bottom of what happened to this family (distant cousins).
We did in the end find out what happened to my Uncle (Dad's brother), well after my Father's death sadly. It was a long journey of searching all over NSW, and finally found step grandchildren of his living just nearby to us, Uncle Albert New changed his surname to his new lady's.
Jan