Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc. in Yarrawonga, Victoria | Community organisation

Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc.

Locality: Yarrawonga, Victoria

Address: Dunlop Street 3730 Yarrawonga, VIC, Australia

Website: https://yarrawongafhg.com

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21.01.2022 #OnThisDay 10 September 1823 Susan Courtney was tried in England for returning from transportation. She had escaped from Van Diemen's Land and returned to Engla...nd, only to be recognised and arrested. Susan was re-transported to NSW in 1825 with a life sentence. Susan Courtney is an interesting example of an intrepid female convict ‘an escape artist’ who managed to board a ship and sail back to England before her original sentence had expired. She was originally tried and convicted for forgery on 16 April 1817 at Middlesex and sentenced to 14 years transportation. She arrived in Sydney on the ‘Friendship’ in January 1818. She was then sent with other prisoners on the ‘Duke of Wellington’ to Van Diemen’s Land. There she married John Peck and subsequently managed to escape back to England. Perhaps unwisely, Susan returned to her old haunts, and was recognised in the street by William Nicols ‘one of the conductors of the Bow Street Night Patrol’. She was apprehended (despite giving the false name of Elizabeth Jones), and was tried on 10 September 1823 for returning from transportation, and found guilty. She was re-transported to New South Wales on the ‘Grenada’ in 1825 with a life sentence. NRS 12188 [4/9009A] Convict Indent for Grenada, 1825, including entry for Susan Courtney More > http://ow.ly/ecFf50vNf6q

20.01.2022 January 1898: Bullock team pulling waggon with 141 bags of wheat. Waiting at the customs house in Mulwala, before crossing the old wooden bridge and entering Yarrawonga in the Colony of Victoria.

16.01.2022 Main Street Rutherglen. Circa 1875 (?) taken from the J. Harvey collection, Libraries Australia.

15.01.2022 How many ancestors do we have? Enough to keep us busy for a very long time.

09.01.2022 RUTHERGLEN ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB, 1896, taken at Beechworth. Winners of the Bowser Trophy in the VJFA competition. (courtesy the State Library NSW). Names ...- 1 J. Dunn 2 T. Swind 3 W. Robb 4 H. Armstrong 5 W. Collins 6 A. Purser 7 H. Tidyman (Ump) 8 F. Hollis 9 T. Williamson 10 R. Drummond 11 C. Whitley 12 J. Williamson 13 J. Ashton 14 B. king 15 J. McKie 16 H. Wilkinson 17. G. Walker 18. C. Devers 19 M. Herron 20 H. Gray 21 (?) Sanderson. See more