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Hi Virginia, and welcome to the boards.

If you are looking for connections on this site, the best thing to do is to put the names you are researching into the Search Trees box above (in the dark green bar) to see if anyone else has them in their tree. If you find a connection, you can contact the tree owner. Cx.

Virginia,

Christine's post is over 3 years old and she might not be checking it still?

Try sending her a personal message by clicking on her name. If her email address is still the same GR will notify her.

Hi Christine, I hope you're research is going well. I have some information on Charles Bushby. Charles was born on 10 Nov 1851 in West Tarring Sussex England. He was the youngest son on Charles Bushby and Jane Pelling. The family are believed to have come to Aust (Tasmania) in about 1860. Charles Bushby senior is the younger brother of George Bushby (from whom I am directly descended) who came to Aust in 1829 with the Henty's. I hope this information is of some assisstance. Cheers Virginia

Christina -- just a meddling suggestion!

A lot of people who use these boards casually don't know how they work, and tend to closet themselves off in their own surname "boards", and never see anything outside the half-dozen posts on each of those boards.

If you want to spend a bit of time, it would be fairly easy to put this post on the surname "board" for each surname in the list. That way there is a much greater chance, I think, of catching the eye of someone with that surname in their tree, anyway, if not someone related.

The general rule is "one post per topic", but I think this is a reasonable exception. ;)

I'd just copy the whole thing, and start filtering TTF by each surname in your list, and putting a post on each surname board. Maybe not all at once, so as not to occupy the entire first page of the general TTF forum! But just put a note at the bottom that you're posting it to each surname board and not looking for any research assistance other than contacts with related people.

You'd have a small crop of posts to check for replies, but the My Threads (or Bookmark) function would handle that easily.

Actually, I'd do the same thing for each surname in your list on the "History" and "Surname Information" boards (or whatever their aliases are) too -- they're filterable by surname, and that's what casual users do there too.

I don't think anybody could object to this very technical breach of the rules.

Good luck!

Hi,

I am writing a book on the 13 prisoners that were executed at The Old Ballarat Gaol in Victoria Australia. Many are from overseas originally. I would love to ocntact family of any of the prisoners. The men I am researching are:

James Murphy d 06/11/1863

Alexander Davis (Davies) d 29/02/1864

James Jones d 19/03/1866

George Searle d 7/08/1867

James Ballan d 07/08/1867

Deni Murphy d 16/04/1867

Oscar (James) Wallace d 11/08/1873

James Ash (Ashe/Asche) d 21/08/1876

Charles Bushby (alias Charles Baker, alias Charles Bushbee) d 03/09/1885

Cornelius Bourke d 20/04/1891

James Johnston d 18/05/1891

John Wilson d 11/05/1891

Elijah Cockcroft d 12/11/1894

Charles Henry Deutschmann (Deutchman) d 29/06/1908

I am happy to share information with any relatives.
Thanks
Christine