Many thanks Keith will follow up these leads.
Regards
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Ramsey" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: Miss Alice Cornwell
I'd never heard of her before this, but she's in the "Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography" and I think she's also in the "Australian
Dictionary of Biography".
She brought the 17,000 acre Wyong estate for £280,000 in 1888 intending
to mine coal. Around the same time she was involved in the British and
Australasian Mining Investment Company and the development of a harbour
at Port Adelaide.
She was something of a self-trained geologist and had previously been
responsible for the discovery of gold on her father's land, resulting in
the formation of the Midas Mine Company. Her later mining ventures seem
to have been failures.
Keith Ramsey
John Shoebridge wrote:
> Hi Group
> Has anyone come across "Miss Alice Cornwall's British Australasian Mining
> Investment Company". floated in London in July 1889.
> Associated with "Miss Cornwall's Wyong Estate" ... in Sept 1889 it became
> the British-Australian Mining Trust and Miss Cornwell was paid was paid
> 73 thousand pounds for her property and for floating the Company.
>
>
> Wyong is not far north of Sydney in NSW..apparently the Trust planned to
> mine coal. Had aspirations in South Australia and Tasmania apparently. Any
> information appreciated.
>
> Regards John
>
>
>
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