http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/passing-of-the-pioneers-2/ Stories of My Pioneering Families From the Western District of Victoria Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/passing-of-the-pioneers-2/#comment-99 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:25:39 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1019#comment-99 Enjoy reading the Guardian. I hope you have plenty of spare time!

]]> http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/passing-of-the-pioneers-2/#comment-97 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:11:43 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1019#comment-97 The Simkins had a Cinderella in 1893 – that just slays me.
Thanks for alerting me to the Portland Guardian online.

]]> http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/passing-of-the-pioneers-2/#comment-92 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:05:37 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1019#comment-92 Hi Ann, thank you for your comments. I know George Simkin, his great grandson, Charles Picken Simkin married my 1st cousin 3 x removed, Florence Jelly.

]]> http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/passing-of-the-pioneers-2/#comment-90 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:49:44 +0000 http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/?p=1019#comment-90 Hi from a Ballarat descendant of George*Simkin who came to Rifle Downs to work for his relative Richard Lewis.
Also a descendant of George*Sedgwick a Portland pioneer builder whose grisly death was fulsomely described in the newspaper of 1898.
The wwweb has been a boon to researchers of family history.

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