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Searching For – Kilmurray

Kaz Robertson-Gorrie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:16:08 +0000

Denis Kilmurray

Denis was born in County Meath, Ireland about 1801. He Died on the 4th June 1878 at Yarrows on the Hastings River NSW.
# He was tried on the 13th March 1827 at Trim for Sheep stealing, and he was sentenced to 7 years.

Has anybody found my Denis in their searching?

Palaeography | The National Archives Tutorial

Kaz Robertson-Gorrie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:05:59 +0000

Fascinating article here written by The Mad Genealogist on deciphering some of those old English Documents.

For Genealogy / Photography buffs

Kaz Robertson-Gorrie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:08:24 +0000

For those of you who like to get out and take photos of historical areas, have a read of this article.
Landscape photographers, including you, are losing rights

Free Australian Newspaper Archives

Kaz Robertson-Gorrie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:12:01 +0000

Received the following email from The Mad Genealogist

Free Australian Newspaper Archives

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:20 PM PDT

If you are researching your Australian family history, one great source of information is the Australian newspaper archives. This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of old newspaper articles. The Australian newspaper archives includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s.

By searching the Australian newspaper archives, you can not only find birth, marriage, death and funeral notices, which might uncover unknown facts, but also social, political, economic and cultural issues of the day.

The first 100 years of the Sydney Morning Herald are now publicly available. (The Sydney Herald 1831-1842 and The Sydney Morning Herald 1842-1931). Issues from 1932-1954 will be added weekly over the next few months.

The Argus (and its previous title the Melbourne Argus) from 1846 -1945 are now completed and available. The remaining 10 years (1945-1954) of the Argus will be made available in 2010 (mid to end of year).

Other titles included in the Australian newspaper archives: The Maitland Mercury, The Courier-Mail, The Hobart Town Gazette, The Advertiser and The West Australian.

The secrets of a colonial forefather

Kaz Robertson-Gorrie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:09:30 +0000

A Fascinating article by KELSEY MUNRO on March 27, 2010

HE WAS a baronet, a doctor, an explorer, a founder of the University of Sydney and

three-time speaker of the colony’s legislature. Sir Charles Nicholson, who died aged 94 in 1903, was also a famous collector of antiquities, establishing the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney in 1860.

But a historian now says Sir Charles took a lifelong secret to his grave: he was not who he said he was.