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Thomas Edgar Fullerton born 1911 Avoca, Victoria. He was 25 years old when he married Alice Violet Gray on 12 September 1936 at St George’s Church, Hurstville. His occupation was mechanical engineer. His father was Thomas Edward Campbell Fullerton, his occupation was engineer and his mother was Alice Muriel Agnes Morrison. His place of residence was 54 Osroy Avenue, Undercliffe, Sydney. NSW. I believe he died 23 September 2003 Melbourne, Victoria

Alice Violet Gray 1936, Hurstville NSW, Born 1910 in Greenwich England. Her place of residence was Boronia St, South Hurstville. Her occupation was costumier, her father was Herbert Ethelbert Gray his occupation was marine engineer and her mother was Alice Martha Rayson. I believe Alice died 29 July 2004.

I do not know if Thomas Edgar Fullerton is any relation to Norman Kennedy Fullerton. They were both born in Victoria and were married at Hurstville.

As far as I know George Fullerton married Margaret Kennedy had two sons: Norman Kennedy and Archibald George

Norman Kennedy Fullerton, born at Newport, Melbourne, Victoria 1888 (died 1935 Beach Street, Blakehurst NSW).

Archibald George Fullerton born Newport, Victoria 1894, he worked on the Victorian tramways.

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Norman Kennedy Fullerton, laborer, born at Newport, Melbourne, Victoria 1888 (died 1935 Beach Street, Blakehurst NSW).

Married Florrie Isobel Groser on the 10 July 1913 Hurstville Sydney (born. 5 November 1889, Edinburgh Road, Marrickville, Sydney. Died 24 October 1984).

Garth Kennedy born 30 April 1918 Hurstville NSW (died 13 July 1997 Blakehurst NSW)

Leicester Paul born 27 July 1925 Hurstville NSW (died 3 September 1989 Randwick NSW),

Ituna “Una” Flay Tapscott born 14 December 1875 in Church St, Parramatta. (died 1956 in Kew Victoria)

Married William Milne Wallace 1898 in Victoria (died 1879 at 1 Mollison Street Collingwood)

Ituna Flay Wallace (born Abt 1899 Collingwood, Victoria Died 1985 Prahran, Victoria).

Married Daisy Evelyn Rule 1924 had 2 children Bruce Wallace (died 1932 Carlton, Victoria) and Ruth born Victoria about 1930

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Charles Flay Tapscott born 28 October 1832 at Culmstock, England. His profession was a weaver. He probably left America on the “Great Britain” arrived in Melbourne then went to Sydney on the “City of Adelaide”. He died 22 September 1904 in Varian Street Collingwood, Victoria. Age 72 cause of death cardiac failure: buried at Springwood Cemetery Baptist minister Rev Balantyre. Father Charles Tapscott born Culmstock, England. Mother Ann (Flay) Tapscott.

George Henry Wallace, born 1901 (son of Ituna Flay Tapscott and William Wallace)

During the 1936 Infantile Paralysis epidemic in Melbourne Ivy Wallace, (my mother), sister Margaret and I (Merle) lived in a big house with my Uncle George Wallace, his wife Aunty Daisy and their daughter Ruth. We visited either his or Aunty Daisy’s parents who lived in a property with an orchard at Fern Tree Gully, up the mountains from Melbourne.

William (Bill) Wallace worked at the Melbourne Sun/Herald and when his elderly mother Ituna Flay was ill he looked after her until she died in 1956. “Bill” was an epileptic and was found unconscious in a Melbourne street and sent to Beechworth mental home. A friend found him there and took him home to look after him. He later found rooms in a lodging house in Melbourne. He never married. When Katherine went to Melbourne she found him and later he came to live with our family in Sydney and then Lismore. We enjoyed many happy hours with Uncle Bill until he died in Lismore NSW on the 28 November 1994.

Alexander Roy Wallace, born Abbotsford, Victoria 1906. (Died 4 December 2001 in Sydney NSW) Married (2) Gweneth Wiltshire during 1950

Alexander Roy Wallace, born on the 23^rd September 1906 at Abbotsford, Victoria (Died 4 December 2001 in Sydney NSW)

Married (1) Ivy May Bromley in Melbourne in1929 born 4 May 1909 Northcote Victoria (Died 2001 Lismore NSW)

They had 2 girls Ivy Merle born 4 January 1930 at Bethesda Hospital Richmond, Melbourne

Ivy “ Merle” Wallace married Roden Fullerton at Tweed Heads on 19 November 1947

Agnes married a man by the name of Cook had 2 daughters Ruth and Jenny

Samuel, was 21when he married Elizabeth, on 16 May 1868 at Sandhurst, Victoria. They settled at mining town of Redan Hill in Victoria where Samuel Dower worked in the mines.

They had a daughter Elizabeth Annie born 13 December 1868 at Redan Hill, Victoria.

John James Stevens was 24 years old when he married Elizabeth Dower 31^st March 1888 at Sandhurst, Victoria His occupation was a driver

John James Stevens “Papa” and Elizabeth Annie Dower “Nan” lived at North Fitzroy Melbourne, John Stevens Snr was a store manager, he had the first “horseless buggy: in Victoria about 1905 and was a life member of Flemington Racecourse. He owned a large photo of Pharr Lapp the greatest Melbourne Cup winner of all times.

Melbourne was a very prosperous city around the early 1900’s it was and still is the horse racing Mecca of Australasia. The Melbourne Cup is the Australasian National Day. It overshadows all other holidays, Cup Day is supreme-it has no rival.

John (Jum) James Stevens Jnr served in the 6/23^rd Reinforcement He was stationed at the Aerodrome Camp Heliopolis, Egypt. December 1915. Squadron of the 8th Light Horse Regiment arrived at Heliopolis and Camp on the grounds of Heliopolis racecourse in Cairo and there pitch lines of tents and hobble their horses between the tent rows, April 28, 1915. John (Jum) Stevens sent postcards from different places he visited around the world to his family in Melbourne.

In 1851 Mrs Margaret Kennedy and Mrs Farrell, wives of two farmhands from the Ravenswood sheep run, found gold in the Bendigo creek. Word of the discovery spread quickly and soon after the township of Sandhurst was established. Official town planning commenced in 1854 and by 1857, Sandhurst was connected by telegraph to Melbourne. The grand Town Hall was commissioned in 1859 and the Melbourne to Sandhurst railway commenced operations in 1862. Less than a decade later, in 1871, Sandhurst was proclaimed a City. By the 1880s, the city was considered the richest in the world due to the size of the local goldfields^[2]. It was not until 1891 that the city's name was changed to Bendigo, in honour of the bare knuckled boxer, William "Abednego" Thompson, whose name had been lent to the creek where gold was first discovered.

THE BROMLEY FAMILY

Married Rosetta Ashmore , born 1833, Dublin ,Ireland (Died after 1871 somewhere in Victoria)

(Joseph) Thomas, born 13 March 1856 Epsom, Victoria.(Died 25 November 1945 Carlton, Victoria)

Mary Ann born 1863. (Died 1890)

Arthur Ernest born 18 June 1870 Huntley, Bendigo, Victoria (Died 1911)

Joseph Thomas Bromley born 13 March 1856 Epsom, Victoria (Died 25 November 1945 Carlton, Victoria)

Married Rebecca Lucas 7 September 1881 Cobar, NSW Born 17 October 1865 Bullock, possibly Bullock island or Bullarook, Victoria (Died 17 June 1955 Parkville, Victoria)

Clare Ethel Maude Rose born 15 August 1883, Cobar. (Died 30 April 1973 Blackburn)

Thomas Valentine born 14 February 1892, Collingwood (Died 24 January 1964 Concord, NSW)

Carcoar is a lovely little historic town with an English-village feel which is located just off the Mid Western Highway, 258 km west of Sydney, 52 km south-west of Bathurst and 720 metres above sea-level. It is nestled in a small green valley around the oak-lined banks of the Belubula River with steep hills on either side. The town has been classified, by the National Trust, due to the number of intact 19th-century buildings.

The original occupants of the land are thought to have been the Gundungura Aborigines and it is presumably from their language that the town's name, meaning either 'frog' or 'kookaburra', derives.

The first European to travel through what is now Blayney Shire was surveyor George Evans who headed south-west from Bathurst and camped at the head of Coombing Creek in 1815.

Unofficial occupation of the district began in 1821. The first land grant was 'Coombing Park' issued to Thomas Icely in 1829. In 1838 he requested that the village of Carcoar be established to service his large pastoral estate. The following year it became just the third settlement west of the Blue Mountains to be gazetted.

Land sales proceeded in 1840 although renegade convicts and bushrangers were a problem. German Charley, was shot to death, by Mickey Bourke while trying to prevent the theft of a racehorse from the Coombing Park stables (Bourke is buried near Neville). Martial law and the withdrawal of all convict privileges were threatened in 1841. However, the capture of the bushranger Curran and the arrival of a magistrate and more police saw things calm down and by 1850 Carcoar had become a banking and administrative centre and the second-largest settlement west of the Blue Mountains, after Bathurst.

Nonetheless the days of the bushrangers were far from over. In 1863, Johnny Gilbert and John O'Meally conducted Australia's first daylight bank robbery when they held up the Commercial Bank (still standing) but they fled empty-handed when a teller fired a shot into the bank ceiling to alert the town. The Reverend James Adam, an early Presbyterian minister at Carcoar, was held up by notorious bushranger Ben Hall but was not robbed on account of the good impression he made. Another noted bushranger, Frank Gardiner, worked in the area when he was granted a ticket-of-leave with parole conditions after serving six years for horse theft. He broke parole by leaving Carcoar and taking up cattle duffing.

The town was negatively affected by the discovery of gold further west in the mid-1860s. Furthermore, because Blayney received the railway in 1874 it replaced Carcoar as the major rural service centre in the district, particularly as Carcoar did not receive the railway until 1888.

Nnonetheless the government, foreseeing the on-going development of the town and district, began erecting a number of significant public buildings from the late 1870s. The impression may have been aided by the ongoing mining of mineral resources such as iron ore from Coombing Park, which supplied the Lithgow steelworks. However, the population was in decline by the early 1880s

John “Jack”Thomas born 1911 Clifton Hill, Victoria. Died 1970 Northcote, Victoria

Myrtle Florence born 1920 Northcote, Victoria. (Died about 2000 at Caloundra QLD)

Annie Bromley. Widow, usual place of residence, 44 Beavers Road, Northcote. She was 80 years old when she died 8^th October1970 Preston, Victoria. Cause of death; bronchopneumonia) Father Jack Stevens, store manager. Mother Elizabeth Annie (Dower) Stevens. She was survived by:

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Ivy May Bromley age 23 years old married Alexander Wallace Motor driver born 1906 Abbotsford, Victoria on the 13 February 1929 Melbourne, Victoria: had 2 children

Ivy Merle married Roden Fullerton 19 November 1947at Tweed Heads and had two children Terrance Norman born November 1951 Mackay QLD and

If any one knows more information about these people I would appreciate it if you could email me nrmecfs@nrg,com.au please.

Agnes married a man by the name of Cook had 2 daughters Ruth and Jenny

John James Stevens was 24 years old when he married Elizabeth Dower 31st March 1888 at Sandhurst, Victoria His occupation was a driver

THE BROMLEY FAMILY

Mary Ann born 1863. (Died 1890)

Arthur Ernest born 18 June 1870 Huntley, Bendigo, Victoria (Died 1911)

John James Stevens was 24 years old when he married Elizabeth Dower 31^st March 1888 at Sandhurst, Victoria His occupation was a driver