Lilian's Tree

I have no doubt that there are interesting placenames in every country of the world, so for today's letter I, I have chosen some interesting ones. Illabrook, Victoria. Aboriginal. A corruption of Illburro. Formerly Bulldog Creek. Illbille, South Australia, Aboriginal. Indooroopilly, Queensland. Aboriginal. Running water. Innamincka, South Australia. Aboriginal. 'You go to the hole there.' Then you have the straight forward ones. Ingleburn, New South Wales. After Ingleburn in England. Ipswich, Queensland. After the town in Suffolk. Ivanhoe,   New South Wales. Adopted from Sir Walter Scott's novel. They were all taken from this little book. Do you have a book, that helps you with different place names? Bye for now, Lilian.

Before we went to Melbourne, last week, I was given a book and another mystery to try and solve. The book is, " The Road From Coorain, An Australian memoir" by Jill Ker Conway. Coorain is a sheep station in New South Wales, near the town of Mossgiel, which is between Ivanhoe and Hay. That isn't a mystery but the note inside is. H Findlay had penned a note detailing when the author's parents settled on the station. Who the local doctor at Mossgeil was. What the settlement was like and other bits of information, all on a slip of paper no bigger than a 6" x 4" photo. My search is to try and find any descendants of either Jill Ker Conway or H Findlay and to offer them the book and note. Watch this space for updates. Bye for now, Lilian