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Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia · Trove

Braidwood, New South Wales

Newspaper
Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate
Place
Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
Years covered
1859-1862
Provider
Trove
Collection id
trove
trove.nla.gov.au ↗ retrieved 2026-09-08 Added manually

Digitised in Trove. The paper of record for the Braidwood goldfield in the years the Finch family kept an inn there; it printed the district's annual publicans' licensing lists in full.

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Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate Date 26 February 1862 · Page 2 · Article Family Notices · Trove Id 279378845 Primary

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia · Trove

For Theresa Ada Finch (1862–1948)

At her residence, Cottage of Content, Wallace Street, Braidwood, on the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. Samuel Finch of a daughter.

The daughter is Theresa Ada. NSW birth registration 5851/1862 (district Braidwood, parents SAMUEL and SUSANNAH) is the only Finch birth registered to this couple in 1862, and the Drayton and Toowoomba cemetery index makes her 86 at her death on 30 July 1948, i.e. born between 31 July 1861 and 30 July 1862 — 24 February 1862 falls inside that. Her birth was previously recorded as the year only.