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Note for:   Mary Vokes,   APR 1811 - 16 SEP 1832         Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   16 APR 1811
     Place:   Limerick, Ireland

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Note for:   Beatrice Emma Broughton,   6 JUN 1869 - 22 SEP 1932         Index

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Nickname:   Bird

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Note for:   Ellen Campbell,   17 OCT 1839 - 25 JUN 1880         Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   24 MAR 1840
     Place:   Durham, NSW

Burial:   
     Date:   1880
     Place:   East Maitland, NSW
     Note:   Buried at St Peter's (Old Glebe) Cemetary, East Maitland

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Note for:   Francis Rawdon Hastings Campbell,   4 APR 1798 - 19 OCT 1877         Index

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     Possible son Archibald buried Morpeth CofE cemetery 5.1867 aged 32.
Tarban Creek Asylum 1848-1867

First Medical Superindentent, Tarban Creek Asylum - later called Gladesville Hospital.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030321b.htm

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Note for:   Peter Durie,   1845 - 18 MAY 1920         Index

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Individual Note:
     Notes written by Verity Irene Durie about 1972. (grand-daughter of Peter Durie)
ASSERTIONS ARE UNVERIFIED

Peter Durie born in small NSW town had an unusual story. He would never speak of it himself except to forbid Walter to ask questions, but his father whose family name was CHESTER was the son of an English earl. He fell in love with a London "milliner" (at that time the term employed for a high class dressmaker - one who employed a staff of seamstresses and hat makers (c.f. Madame Mantelini in Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickelby)). Chesters family had forbidden the match and sent him on a trip to Australia hoping that he would forget her, but he and his milliner arranged to travel on the same ship and were married at Cape Town. Perhaps to avoid gossip in Sydney Town he took his bride up the country and they boarded with a childless Scottish Shoe Maker and his wife. Later they went on to New Zealand leaving the boy Peter with the Duries they left a sum of money, and sent more from N.Z. but after that the Durie's did not have any news. Mrs Durie even travelled to N.Z. to look for them but could find no trace so finally the Durie's adopted the boy. He was very bright at his lessons and became a pupil teacher or "monitor" at 12 years of age and by successive studies, examinations became an adult teacher, a Head Master at Wagga to which my father Walter John went at 5 yrs old, and later he (Peter) became a district Inspector of Schools, finally a Senior Inspector. He was a great disciplinarian & teacher - a loving but slightly awe-inspiring grandfather who died in 1919. P.D. was very fond of his foster mother Mrs Durie & looked after the couple in their old age.

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Note for:   Catherine Leek,   1846 - 20 AUG 1913         Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   19 JUN 1846
     Place:   Wolverhampton, England

Event:   
     Type:   Emmigration
     Date:   ABT 1850
     Place:   VIC

Burial:   
     Date:   22 AUG 1913
     Place:   Rookwood, NSW

Individual Note:
     Notes written by Verity Irene Durie about 1972. (grand-daughter)
ASSERTIONS ARE UNVERIFIED

Catherine Leek, my grandmother. Her father migrated to Victoria during the gold rushes. He was a Welshman who found it more profitable to cook for the miners than to dig for gold. My father remembers that when Peter Durie was Head Master at Wagga he boarded some of the scholars and old Mrs Leek to live with them (now a widower) - to cook for boarders and the family.

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