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Place Name? Help Please
« on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I am researching my partner's family tree currently and have found his great-grandparents marriage certificate. The only issue that I am having with it, is where his grandfather says he was born, to me it looks like Wallerong but no town like that seems to exist, the closest place I can find is Wallerawang. What does everyone think?

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Erin

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« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:26 GMT (UK) »
My first thought was Wallerawang. Just past Lithgow, site of now decommissioned power station. What was his occupation, does it fit with that area?

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« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:35 GMT (UK) »
He was a labourer but by the time he is married in 1922 he is living in Rozelle in Sydney. His father is listed as a carpenter on the marriage record but this is before the power station would have been built, I think.

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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:45 GMT (UK) »
Do you want to share his name?

It may help with searching for his parents' location.

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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:49 GMT (UK) »
His name was John William Reynolds, his gives his parents name on his marriage certificate as John Reynolds(deceased) and Ethel Swan. I have searched but are unable to find a birth record for him, my partner is aboriginal and the family story is that his father might not have been aboriginal but Ethel may have been.

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 January 23 23:51 GMT (UK) »
There is a Wallerong mentioned here......
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65087356?searchTerm=Wallerong
.... ? maybe an error for Wallerawang which must be about 100miles west of Sydney.
Or maybe I should be thinking 100 miles west of Canberra?

Also a mention here - in the Narrandera area / Riverina?
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101438205?searchTerm=Wallerong

I think this might seem the most likely. Perhaps the name of  station which no longer exists??
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 13 January 23 00:07 GMT (UK) »
That was my thinking too that maybe it was a station. To say this guy is a mystery is a understatement, I also can’t find a death record for him but he disappears after the 1943 electoral roll and is not living with his wife in the next one so I have no idea what happened to him.

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« Reply #7 on: Friday 13 January 23 00:15 GMT (UK) »
This could be John Reynolds (the father) - the the Narrandera District

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101236971?searchTerm=%22John%20Reynolds%22
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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« Reply #8 on: Friday 13 January 23 00:28 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Neale1961 on Thursday 12 January 23 23:51 GMT (UK)
There is a Wallerong mentioned here......
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65087356?searchTerm=Wallerong
.... ? maybe an error for Wallerawang which must be about 100miles west of Sydney.
Or maybe I should be thinking 100 miles west of Canberra?

Also a mention here - in the Narrandera area / Riverina?
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101438205?searchTerm=Wallerong

I think this might seem the most likely. Perhaps the name of  station which no longer exists??

Wallerawang is about 100 miles west of Sydney. (I think Canberra did not become the capital until after 1908)

Good thinking that it may be the name of a station.
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