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John Symonds

Welcome to the Symonds Home Page!

This page has been accessed times.

You will find some family and social history here.
In Cornwall, the paternal Symonds and Caust homes.
In Somerset, the maternal Lloyds were parish clerks and carpenters.
In Essex, the White and Hills families were also carpenters.
Apart from the personal interest, there will be contact with Cornish Associations and Family History Groups around the world.
Enjoy your stay with us!

You can go direct to the various pages developed by John Symonds if you wish, from the links just below:

[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 to the many other pages on this site!

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]

[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 ....

CORNWALL & CELTIC INTERESTS Cornwall Family History Society Cornish Surnames & Places List CFHS Electronic Members Pages Cornwall On-Line Cornwall Connections Cornish Solidarity: The Aims of this interesting Cornish Organisation. Bretagne Home Page Cornish Forefathers Society Willow Books, St Agnes CON: Online Cornish/Celtic Bookshop Cornish Products On-Line - A Wide Range to choose from.	SOMERSET INTERESTS Somerset & Dorset Family History Society Somerset County Council Somerset Archives & Record Service Genuki Somerset Home Pages Bernard Welchman's Pages Michael Tutton's Wedmore SOM NEW - Parish Records, BDMs and other interesting items about Wedmore SOM ENG
DORSET INTERESTS Welcome to Dorset Genuki Dorset Home Pages The Dorset Page of Brian Tompkins England's West Country - Directory & Heritage Raymond's British Genealogical Books NEW - DORSET: A Genealogical Bibliography — Stuart Raymond	WILTSHIRE INTERESTS Welcome to Moonrakers Wiltshire Home Page
CANADIAN INTERESTS Canadian Genealogy Resources Family Finders Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogy A Crant History; People and Places; Newfoundland & Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island; Visitors' Guide	AUSTRALIAN INTERESTS Celtic & Cornish Web Page Celtic Council of Australia Cornish Association of Victoria Australian Family History Compendium South Australian Wombat on the Web
ESSEX INTERESTS Essex Home Pages	MINING INTERESTS Mining History Network Home Page Roland's Cornish Steam Engine Page Kewbridge Steam Museum Kelly 'Shiny Ore Mine', Dartmoor

[Cornwall On-Line] [Essex Home Pages]
[Somerset Home Pages] [Wiltshire Home Pages]

Here is something old and something new for your active interest. Click on the image above and you will be taken to pages about
the Construction of the Great North Road in NSW and the Convict Trail Project and taken to the Project Web site.

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About Me

Originally a full-time physicist, now nominally retired - but not completely.

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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About My Interests

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.

Cornish Association of NSW Involvements

Actively involved in the Cornish Association of New South Wales:
Have you seen our logo with its waratah bloom in colour?
There are photographs of a real waratah in flower elsewhere on this page.

Find out what Events in the CANSW Calendar are coming up.
You would be very welcome at any of them.

NEW CORNWALL TRAVELOGUE — Go with The Frequent Traveller to Cornwall, our Member Tony Hill, November 2003.
Travel with him in spirit around Cornwall!

New link to CANSW Stories underway

CANSW Stories Projects

The CANSW Secretary and the Webmaster have been working together to transfer of the Stories of the Byng, Cadia and Cobar regions onto a new set of CANSW pages at the
Celtic Council of Australia's Web site.

We are well into this process of transfer.
The Stories shown in the links on this page will go to this new CCA set of updated pages.

The Link to the CCA Site is listed here.

CANSW Stories Pages

Please try it out.
Make a Bookmark entry
on your computer for future use.

When we start to remove these pages
from the John Symonds' Web site,
you will be so advised.

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.

CANSW Cobar History Project

CANSW Cobar Cornish History Project
Did you know that Sidwell Kruge
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. hensid200a.jpg - 11651 Bytes Sidwell nee Willcocks
and her husband
Henry Kruge

You can also go directly to the story of Sidwell Woolcock,
presented at the Kernewek Lowender 2005 Seminar, "Notable Cornish Women" at the link
SIDWELL - The Bal Gal of Cobar

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.

Researching Cornish families?
Look at the CANSW
Cornish Surnames Interest and
Family Queries Page.

CANSW Byng and Cadia History Projects

Interested in
Cornish Engine Houses?
Look at what has been done
at the old copper mining village of
Cadia near Orange in NSW. Interested in
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.

Byng Wesleyan Chapel Baptisms
A table with the records of
Baptisms from 1843 to 1898
has been prepared.

NEW — 2 May 2000
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 150th Birthday Celebrations

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. On October 27, 1996,
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

In making the trip to Orange
for the beginning of the Celebrations,
an opportunity was taken
to visit a number of
beautiful and interesting places. Admittedly we took a route
to Orange
which was rather circuitous.
You can join in at what we saw
Exploring Over the Blue Mountains.

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CLARE REGIONAL HISTORY GROUP (CRHG) at Clare in South Australia

Committee member and assisting with their history projects.
The CRHG Web Page can be accessed at History Group.
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.

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 page

MUCHELNEY
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.

View the connection between the Verran Family of Cornwall
and the Lloyds of Somerset in the Clare Valley at Armagh in South Australia.

If you wish to visit Clare to investigate history - and of course the wines of the district - you could stay at what was the site of the old Chaff Mill,
dating to the 1860s. It was originally part of Inchiquin, the estate of Clare's founder E.B. Gleeson and was threatened with demolition in 1987.
With a determined effort, it has become the Chaff Mill Village, with accommodation, gardens and shops.
Look at its Web pages to see what its history was and what it now is.
Visit it or stay there.

Member of: Cornish Association of Victoria, Society of Australian Genealogists,
South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, Cornwall Family History Society,
Somerset and Dorset Family History Society.

We regret that we have closed the Somerset and Dorset Surnames pages and our S&D page.
Many of the entries had incorrect email and postal addresses and some of the researchers have changed their surnames or are deceased.
If you have a link to these pages on your broswer, please delete it.
This Home page will remain as our main link for all the other pages on this site.
We regret that the S&D pages were closed as of 17 December 2010.