Welcome to the Symonds Home Page!
This Home Page was accessed over 30,000 times from June 1998 to September 2006.
From October 2006, this page has been accessed times.
[The paternal Symonds Family Story and its family tree - In Cornwall and Australia]
[The maternal Lloyd and Verran Story and the family tree - In Somerset, Cornwall and South Australia]
[Cornish Association of New South Wales Page]
[The Cornish Settlement (Byng) in NSW]
[CANSW Cornish Surnames and Family Queries Pages]
[Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Family Queries Index]
Or you might still like to look at the links to other places, images of a book and places in New South Wales, before you move on!
You can move down the page to:
[Symonds Family History Book - Cornwall & South Australia]
[Lloyd and Verran Family History - Muchelney SOM, Armagh SA AUS & Cornwall]
NEW Sep 2006 - Bal Maidens Home PageExplore the many different roles which women and girls have undertaken at mines around the world.Visit the wonderful collection of stories, photographs and names of people. Go to The Bal Maidens Home Page, operated by Webmaster Peter Boorman and Author Lynne Mayers. |
[Cornish Association of NSW]
[CANSW Cobar History Project]
[CANSW Byng and Cadia History Projects]
[Byng Wesleyan Chapel Baptisms]
[Orange 150th Year Celebrations]
[Clare Regional History Group, South Australia]
[Armagh near Clare SA and Muchelney SOM ENG]
[Somerset and Dorset Interests - Locations & Surnames]
My favourite sayings are ...
Find a hole in the ground; there be a Cornishman at bottom.
Find a Somerset man and he's making zoyder, so he says.
Some of my favourite places on the Web ....
Here is something old and something new for your active interest. Click on the image above and you will be taken to a page on
the Construction of the Great North Road in NSW and the Convict Trail Project and guided to the Project Web site.
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We live in Cronulla, NSW Australia.
From our front patio, we look out over Gunnamatta Bay.
The view on the Opening Day of the yachting season is like this.
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Personal Family and Social History
See my paternal Family History of 256pp, published 1993.
"Which Francis Symonds? Cornish Oak or Australian Eucalypt?"
A History of the Symonds Families in Cornwall and Australia 1675 to 1992
The earliest Symonds story can be read next, with more to come.
The Indian Queen Inn story is the story of my Symonds ancestors who built a posting house which became an Inn,
then gave its name to a village which became a town in mid-Cornwall.
My Symonds Family Tree has found roots in a Web Page so that you can explore those who appear elsewhere in the Symonds story.
Actively involved in the Cornish Association of New South Wales:
Find out what Events in the CANSW Calendar are coming up.
NEW CORNWALL TRAVELOGUE Go with The Frequent Traveller to Cornwall, our Member Tony Hill, November 2003.
Cornish Association of NSW Involvements
Have you seen our logo with its waratah bloom in colour?
There are photographs of a real waratah in flower elsewhere on this page.
You would be very welcome at any of them.
Travel with him in spirit around Cornwall!
KERNEWEK LOWENDER 2003
Have a look at the Cornish Festival pages, prepared after a visit to Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo
on North Yorke Peninsula in South Australia from 12-19 May, 2003.
There was a Gathering of the Bards of the Cornish Gorsedd.
Among them were four members of the Cornish Association of New South Wales.
Did you know that Sidwell Kruge nee Woolcock recognised her visitor's rock sample as copper ore? Sidwell was a former Cornish 'bal gal'. That started the large mining operations at Cobar in NSW from 1869. We have the family history story of the first Mine Captain Thomas Lean. There is also the story of the Gilgunnia Centenary Celebrations in 1995 |
and her husband Henry Kruge |
If you would like to read more about Balmaidens,
the Women and Girls who worked at the Cornish Mines,
you should go to the KL2005 paper Balmaidens,
prepared by Lynne Mayers who wrote the book with that title, published in 2004.
Look at the CANSW Cornish Surnames Interest and Family Queries Page. |
CANSW Byng and Cadia History Projects
Cornish Engine Houses? Look at what has been done at the old copper mining village of Cadia near Orange in NSW. |
an early Cornish Settlement and the Wesleyan connection? CANSW involvement continues to be at Byng, formerly the Cornish Settlement between Bathurst and Orange. The story of 'Pastor' Tom and other Cornish folk at the Cornish Settlement is worth a visit to the several pages. |
A table with the records of Baptisms from 1843 to 1898 has been prepared. |
Cadia Cemetery — Commemorative Ceremony A special page has been prepared about the Garden of Remembrance where the remains from the old Cadia Cemetery have been reinterred. There are photographs of the Ceremony, the Cadia site and a listing of the Cadia Burial Register. |
The City of Orange had its 150th Birthday Celebrations on 17 November 1996. You can see some of the activities associated with these celebrations in a special Orange page. |
the Heritage Trail was opened and a Commemorative Service was held at Bethel Rock, Byng. |
We are very grateful for the information which was provided by the
Orange 150th Celebrations Co-ordinator, Alan Smith
for the beginning of the Celebrations, an opportunity was taken to visit a number of beautiful and interesting places. |
to Orange which was rather circuitous. You can join in at what we saw Exploring Over the Blue Mountains. |
Committee member and assisting with their history projects.
If you wish to visit Clare to investigate history - and of course the wines of the district -
View the connection between the Verran Family of Cornwall
Member of: Cornish Association of Victoria, Society of Australian Genealogists,
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This page is maintained by John L. Symonds. Updated 6 October 2006.
The new CRHG updated Web Page is available at this CRHG Link.
Meanwhile, if you need advice, contact the Curator, Helen Perry, by email
or write to Clare Regional History Group, PO Box 6, Clare SA 5453, Australia.
you could stay at one of many fascinating places around Clare.
There are plenty of historic places to see apart from your visit to the CRHG,
upstairs in the Clare Town Hall.
ARMAGH near CLARE
South Australia
The origin of the CRHG membership began
with a search for
the Lloyd family property
at Armagh near Clare in South Australia.
You can explore how this happened in
the first Lloyd history pageMUCHELNEY
Somerset, England
That search led on to Muchelney in Somerset
where you would see scenes such as these.
If you wish, you can go directly to
the Muchelney page.
and the Lloyds of Somerset in the Clare Valley at Armagh in South Australia.
South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, Cornwall Family History Society,
Somerset and Dorset Family History Society.
Visit our S&D; page
Browse the S&D; Surnames Index
Look at the Detailed Surnames and Queries pages.
Decide to have more Surnames added to that interesting list.
PLEASE NOTE:
These pages have been transferred to a new URL as of 20 Dec 1999.
The above links have been appropriately modified.
We suggest that you change your bookmark accordingly.
Try our mirror site in Somerset
through the courtesy of
Bakery Computing
at Ilminster SOM for the
S&D; Surname Index and Pages
You should be able to load much faster
than through our UK/Australia link
jlsymo@ozemail.com.au (j l symonds))
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