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Note: NSW Birth Reg. No. 26162-250/1888
Birth registered as Mildred Madeline Corban
Mildred was born in Tingha is a small village located just south of Inverell in the northern part of the state of NSW, Australia. Tingha, with an Aboriginal name said to mean 'flat or open land' is located on the Northern Tablelands of NSW, 26 km south of Inverell, 629 km north-north-east of Sydney and 460 km south-west of Brisbane.
Before European settlement the area was occupied by the Anaiwan, a sub-group of the Murri Aboriginal people. Many of their descendants still live in the area.
Early European occupation of the district is related to the settlement of Inverell. In 1870, tin was discovered at Tingha, after an initial find north at Elsmore. At the peak of the tin boom Tingha was the largest tin-producing district in NSW with mines stretching for 8 km and employing, it is said, 8000 men, of which perhaps 2000 were Chinese.
Tingha was established as a private town to service the mines in 1885. New dredges were brought in to rework the old ground in the 20th century. Little remains of the old mines but a rusting steam engine and lots of weeds.
From a peak of 2500 people in the 1880s the population has declined to some 900 persons today.
NSW Marriage Reg. No. 74/1919 (Reg. in Sydney)
Mildred�s father is registered as Alfred John Rooney on Mildred�s Marriage Certificate.
NSW Death Reg. No. 1959
Mildred and Sydney are buried together in Rookwood Cemetery Roman Catholic Sec 20 Plot 2906 Mildred�s Headstone reads ... �In loving memory of a Dear Wife and Mother Mildred M Wheeler Died 14th June 1958 Aged 72 Years.�
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