Help Wanted

This page is to try and put some of our researchers in contact with others who are researching the same families.

Please contact the Group if you want contact details for the following people:

John Baldwin is looking for information on a relative Albert Victor Baldwin who was born in Nathalia about 1889 and lived around the Barooga-Cobram area and died of wounds at Flanders in the Great War on 12/12/1917 age 28. He enlisted on 10/10/1916 and listed his occupation as miner. He was a Private in the 29th Battalion, number 4513.

Jan Was and family are trying to find information on George Nancarrow. George ran the Yarroweyah Hotel in the 1880's until his death in 1888. The family moved there from Wunghnu, where he and his brother both ran hotels.

Rae Fell of WA is looking for information on the Campbell, Harris and Davenport Families in the Cobram district.

Richard O'Neill was enquiring about the Crimmins and Kelly families from around Numurkah. Ellen Kelly (nee Hanrahan) who died 7th May 1923 at Numurkah, Victoria, William Kelly who died at Numurkah, Victoria 23/3/1927,
John Patrick Crimmins Born Katamatite 17/3/1871, and Francis William Crimmins who was born at Numurkah, Victoria on the 7/9/1903.

Denise Nodzio is looking for information on the Cornford family in the Cobram district particularly Ronald William Cornford died 1978 aged 41 at Cobram.

Audrey Sargent researching the family of John Hollins Craig (Cragg) whose father was born around 1772 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. John was one of the early settlers at Warrnambool, Victoria. He had a sister who married someone by the surname of Meek who lived and died in New Zealand. Audrey is particularly interested in finding descendants of these families as well as information about John Hollins' father as they supposedly had connections to Scotland. She has an account of the sad demise of John's mother. Please make contact via the Group or to Audrey Sargent, Villa 4, 2 Mary St, Gorokan, NSW, 2263.