Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Trove Tuesday: In which Jane is lost in the bush


Getting lost in the Australian bush is easy to do, especially if you're only three. Finding someone who's lost in the bush is really hard.

Jane Perryman was lost in bush near her parent's farm at Woolshed Flat near Korong Vale north of Wedderburn. It's a goldmining area so there would have been mine shafts and other hazards and luckily it was spring not summer. Jane was found and lived until she was 85.
Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 18 Sep 1873, p1
Wychitella Nature Reserve, Korong. Photo: K Stockwell

This article was found using Trove. It amazes me that the Maitland and Hunter River areas are in New South Wales, hundreds of miles from Wedderburn, but the incident was reported as newsworthy. And I'm glad it was because the Inglewood Advertiser hasn't been digitised as yet and it doesn't appear to have been reported in the Bendigo paper.

Jane PERRYMAN, daughter of Zechariah PERRYMAN and Margaret KERR was born in 1870 in Korong Vale, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1955 in Swan, Western Australia, Australia (Registered as MILLAR on online index.). She married John MILES in 1904 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. 

2 comments:

  1. I'm so pleased that your Lost in the Bush story had a happy ending. Mine didn't. http://genealogymatters2me.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Elizabeth%20Flynn

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  2. http://boobookbacktracks.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/trove-tuesday-lost-in-bush.html
    Hi Sharon. Not all my stories have a happy ending. See the above about my great aunt Frances.

    Your 'brick wall' about Elizabeth is fascinating and I look forward to hearing more as your research progresses.

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Lorraine

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