Tracing Family Branches

Today's post involves my great great Uncle Alfred Lloyd Jones death in 1943. Source: WARREN SUB. TRAGEDY. (1943, September 10). Cootamundra Herald (NSW : 1877 - 1957), p. 2. Retrieved August 31, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144399924 Transcript: WARREN SUB. TRAGEDY Porter's Grim Find When Albert Mark Halls railway porter was returning to Miss Richard's boarding house at about midnight on Wednesday he was very much startled to hear the report of a gun. On investigating he made the grim discovery of the body of a man in the lane at the rear of the boarding house.  Both barrels of a shot-gun had been discharged into the victims head.  A piece of string had been attached to the trigger of the gun. The victim was Alfred Lloyd Jones, 34, who had been employed on "Beggan Beggan" station.  He married a Cootamundra girl, Miss Mary Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore, of Cootamundra.  His wife had been ill in Young Hospital, wher...

Archibald John Sinclair is my 3rd great grand uncle.  The son of Scottish immigrants William Sinclair and Flora (nee McRae) he was born in New South Wales in 1848.   Source:  Mr. Archibald John Sinclair. (1928, August 16). The Catholic Press (NSW : 1895 - 1942), p. 16. Retrieved June 2, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107353894 Transcript: Mr. Archibald John Sinclair. The death recently occurred at Mt. St. Joseph's, Young, of Mr. Archibald John Sinclair, at the advanced age of 80 years.  The deceased was the last surviving member of the family of the late William and Flora Sinclair, pioneer settlers from Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands, who came to Australia in the forties.  The Sinclair family will be remembered as being one of the first families to take up land at Eurongilly, near Junee, just on 60 years ago.  The deceased gentleman was married twice, his first wife being Miss K. McDonald, of the Goulburn district, who pred...