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  TASMANIA - LoveToKnow Article on TASMANIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is composed of the island of Tasmania and its adjoining islands, and is separated from the Australian continent on the south-east by Bass Strait.
Tasmania is wholly occupied by the ramifications of this chain, and in itself may be said to embrace one and all of its characteristic features.
Tasmania shows a decline in sheep-breeding, yet the state is singularly well adapted for sheep-raising, and its stud flocks are well known and annually drawn upon to improve the breed in the other states.
www.1911ency.org /T/TA/TASMANIA.htm   (5731 words)

  
 Beaconsfield (town) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Beaconsfield (town)
The majority of houses in the Old Town of Beaconsfield date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The tower of the parish church, which is a flint and Bath-stone building, dates from the 15th century but the rest of the church was restored in 1879.
Distinguished figures associated with the town include the political theorist Edmund Burke and the poet Edmund Waller, former inhabitants who are both buried at the 15th-century church.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Beaconsfield+(town)   (339 words)

  
 Articles - Australian gold rushes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Six months after gold was found in New South Wales, it was found in Victoria at Ballarat, and a short time later at Bendigo Creek.
Gold was found all over Australia; it was discovered in Western Australia in the 1850s, in Queensland in 1853, in the Northern Territory in 1865, and at Beaconsfield, Tasmania in 1869.
With the goldrush came a huge influx of immigrants, the continent´s population increasing threefold from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_gold_rushes   (259 words)

  
 Genealogy-Homes and Institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alice Norton supplies the information that after children had spent three months at Berry Street they would be sent to Beaconsfield.
The latter place was purchased in 1913 as 38 acres adjoining the Beaconsfield Railway Station,and sold in 1963 to raise funds for the erection of new buildings at Berry Street.
Beaconsfield Bethesda-NSW religon: Salvation Army located at: Marrickville-NSW established: closed: records: extra: [also a private hospital] Bexley Boys Home.
www.genseek.net /homes.htm   (3683 words)

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