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My gg grandfather was Philip Walter Veale B.1845 cornwall U.K.

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My gg grandfather was Philip Walter Veale B.1845 cornwall U.K.

Posted: 27 May 2015 8:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Veale / Rowe /
I am looking for help re. any family history. He came out with Eliza Jane Rowe they married in Mount Barker South Australia in 1874. lived & worked in copper mines Kadina Sth. Aust. then moved to Broken Hill. They had several children, my grand father was Thomas Oliver Vale, my father was also Thomas Oliver Vale. Because Philip could not read or write when they told their names to the ships people the name changed from Veale to Vale & was never changed back.

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