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From: Cindy Binks <>
Subject: LOST GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 17:32:25 +0200


Hello to all

LOST/ MISSING GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER, HENRY MILTON! Advice and suggestions desperately needed in finding him! His movements I know of:

1. Arrived Sydney 1855 from England, aboard vessel "Speedy" with wife Jane Milton born Shipway and infant daughter, Mary Jane Milton. They were sponsored Immigrants. Moved to Maitland and stayed there until 1860. Moved back to Sydney and stayed in Woollahra from 1861 to 1877.

2. Henry MILTON appears in the Sydney Sands Directory from 1867 to 1877. Thereafter there is no mention of him and it appears has slipped off the face of the earth!!! Only his wife, Jane Milton is mentioned in the directory from 1878-1900.

3. In 1884, his wife, Jane MILTON purchased land at Wright St. Croydon and lives here until her death in April, 1902. The Date of Grant of Certificate of Title for the land at Lot 5 of Section 5 of Plan 369 in the County of Cumberland being an area of 22 3/4 perches was February 1883.

4. Henry Milton is not on the Electoral Roll for 1903 and he is not on the on- line NSW B/D/M/ indexes or on the AVRI for NSW, Tasmania, Victoria and WA. He is not buried with his wife, Jane Milton at Rookwood, daughter Bertha Annie also at Rookwood and son Arthur William at Camperdown.

Are there any records available for people leaving Sydney around 1877 onwards for New Zealand, England or any other country?

Any advice or suggestions that may help me find this old rascal would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Cindy Binks

Randfontein, South Africa




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