Reunion in NSW!

Descendants of George and Matilda Blencowe are invited to attend a reunion at Griffith Pioneer Park Museum on the NSW Labour Day Long Weekend 2 & 3 October 2004

Anne Burton, who is organizing the gathering, wrote:

George and his wife Matilda Nourse had seven children while farming in the lower Flinders Ranges of South Australia. George's father, also George, had migrated from Brackley to Australia in 1830, a small child accompanying his parents John and Mary Blencowe.

In 1905, after many years of drought, and plagued by kangaroos and emus desperate for water, George and Matilda moved with four of their children to Tamworth, where water was more plentiful and the soil more fertile. In 1912, with the three youngest children, they purchased a business in Sydney.

In 1918 George and Matilda with daughters Olive and Ivy came to Leeton to try their hand at irrigation farming. They were followed by son Richard Allan and his young family in 1919 and George Henry's family in 1921. The latter was a pioneer in the rice industry. Three generations of Blencowes were born in Leeton, none of whom reside there now.

Anne has contacted as many of George's descendants as possible, including a dozen names of families related by marriage. So far some 94 have said they'll attend and numbers may pass 100. Anne is hoping to hear from descendants of her uncle Bruce Blencowe (1925-98), the only branch she has failed so far to contact. Any more Blencowes out there, related to this family or not, would be made welcome. Contact <alkblencowe @ yahoo.com.au> Anne & Dennis are just now off round the world and will be here in Oxford (via Canada) in early September. You can catch up with them at <dennisburton @ yahoo.com.au> whilst they're travelling.