Courbarron Family Tree on Ancestry

Wendy | December 9, 2007

Thanks to a colleague, Antony Maitland, you can now see the Courbarron line – and actually much of own family tree – now uploaded on the Ancestry World Tree Project. This is great news as what is there online is actually handwritten on a very large poster chart I have here at home. It was [...]

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Essay on Augustus JH Courbarron

Wendy | December 7, 2007

I am planning to publish on this site an essay written about my Great-Great Grandfather Capt. Augustus ‘James’ Courbarron. It details more clearly his early life, apprenticeship in the merchant navy, his career and family life in Sydney.
Included will be letters written to him from his family abroad and letters he himself wrote whilst on [...]

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Augustus JH Courbarron – Mary Morrissey Pt 2

Wendy | December 6, 2007

James progressed through the ranks of his career at sea; he was awarded the grading of Ist Mate on the 10th December 1885 and eventually Master Ord. in Dunedin New Zealand 21st September 1889. Finally he was granted command of his own ship, the S.S Aparima. The Aparima was commissioned and built by William Denny [...]

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