TYREE, Annie Jane

Annie Tyree and Frederick Tyree met on the Victorian goldfields near Ballarat in the 1850s. Her maiden name was Annie Rhodes. Annie Jane Rhodes was born on September 23, 1841, to Caroline Frances Powell, age 25, and Joseph Hallows Rhodes, age 34. Her sister Eliza was born in 1844 in Surrey, England, when Annie Jane…

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THORLEY, Mary

VPRS 24/PO Unit 38 1856/155 Item 155 Mary Thorley 11 September 1856 at The George Hotel Ballarat Death caused by drowning in the Yarrowee Creek on Wednesday the tenth inst Jurors John smith Carver Dugald McArthur William Robinson Andrew Davies Francis Herring William Waterhouse Thomas Gerrard Joseph Baling Archibald Chalmers William Herring Joseph Johns Henry…

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TAIT, Jane Elizabeth (child)

VPRS 24/PO Unit 38 Item 151 Jane Elizabeth Tait 31 Oct 1856 Inquest on the body of Jane Elizabeth Tait Injury to the brain on 31st from the wheel of a dray having accidentally passed over her head on Wednesday Robert Fawcett Corn??? On Wednesday last about four o’clock pm I was standing at the…

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