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The Monaro Pioneers NEWSLETTER
Published regularly, this newsletter is designed to keep people informed about our activities including:
- the latest additions and corrections to Monaro Pioneers Website and database.
- to collect and communicate Historical information about the Monaro District and the Families that lived there
-  and most importantly the newsletter is a venue for people who have an interest in the district to keep in contact with each other.

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Latest News

Reunion:  There is a Wood Family Reunion being held at Bega on 13 March 2010. The organiser is Kaye Jauncey <kaye.jauncey@bigpond.com>

Reunion: A reunion of the descendents of James O’Brien and Mary Ann Smith, and their eight children, who came to Australia from County Meath in Ireland in 1864. Most of the family initially settled in the Bega region of  NSW, but one girl, Ellen, settled in the Strathmerton/Bulla region of Victoria after marrying Thomas Branigan at Keilor , Victoria .  
Names prominent in the family include O’Brien, Went, Goward, Whitby, Hyde, Holzhauser, Smith, Peisley, Black, Pheeney, Branigan, Pinnuck, Brown, Webb, Collins, Coman, Holland, Duley, House, Madden, Meaker, Moran, Noonan, Rixon, Ziegler. (Of course, there are many more that I have not listed here and I apologise if your family name is not listed).
Many of those who initially settled at Bega then moved to the Illawarra, Bondi in Sydney, the North Coast of NSW around Lismore, Kyogle and Casino, and the Sunshine Coast of Queensland around Woodford.
Please contact your near and distant relatives about this function as we do not have the addresses of many family members. We would like as many family as possible to attend.

 Date:             Saturday 27 February 2010
                        10:00am to 6:00pm

 Where:          Jamberoo Youth Hall
                        Allowrie St
                        Jamberoo NSW (opposite the Jamberoo Pub)

Cost:               $10 per family to cover the cost of the hire of the hall

If you have any photographs of your long past relatives, and your recent and present families, and would like them to be added to the wonderful book that Alf O’Brien has previously produced, please contact Barry about the loan of them so they can be copied.

A questionnaire will be available for completion so that Barry can update the O’Brien Family Tree.

Please contact Barry (Gus) O’Brien at obrienfamilyreunion@hotmail.com for an invitation.

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