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Note: NSW Birth Reg. No. 10714-7443/1865 (Stanton Recorded name on Birth Certificate)
NSW Marriage Reg. No. 4160/1890 (Rooney Recorded name on Marriage Certificate)
NSW Death Reg. No. 15015/1918 (Stanton Recorded name on Death Certificate)
Places of Residence : Tingha
The following information was supplied by Vicky Daymonds ...�John or John Alfred was born to Bernard Rooney and Mary Anne Mahoney 17 October 1862 Sydney Flat Rocky River NSW.This is in the Armidale region. Bernard was born in County Donegal Ireland abt 1826.Mary Anne was born in Queenstown County Cork Ireland abt1834.They were married at St. Mary's Sydney September 1853. From what I have found, Alfred John also went by John Alfred. I haven't been able to get any further with shipping records or Irish records but I will keep on searching. Bernard was recorded on Alfreds birth certificate as being a publican. I hope that this helps you.�
Uralla
A town famous for its connection with the legendary bushranger Captain Thunderbolt.
Uralla is a rural town situated in hilly country 1005 metres above sea-level on the Northern Tablelands of New England region of New South Wales. It is 502 km north-north-east of Sydney, 488 km south-west of Brisbane and 23 km south-west of Armidale. The district is renowned for superfine wool and cattle and characterised by extensive protrusions of granite.
Uralla calls itself �Thunderbolt Country�� and the town's chief claims to fame are the grave of notorious bushranger Thunderbolt (Fred Ward) and Thunderbolt Rock outside the town, a large granite outcrop.
The Anaiwan Aborigines occupied the area prior to the arrival of Europeans and it is from their language that the town's name derives. It is said to refer to a ceremonial meeting place and lookout, situated on the top of a hill - possibly a reference to the two hills at the town's north-western boundary.
The first white settler in the district was Edward Gostwyck Cory(see Paterson and Wangi Wangi). He sold his property in 1834 to William Dangar who passed it on to his brother Henry who surveyed much of the Hunter Valley and the Liverpool Plains in the 1820s and 1830s, acquiring vast amounts of land in the process.
In the 1840s a tiny settlement sprang from what began as a shepherd's out-station on the banks of Rocky Creek, at the southern boundary of the 'Saumarez' sheep station, established in 1834 by Henry Dumaresq.
A townsite was reserved in 1849 where a branch track departed from the Great North Road heading north-west along the Bundarra River. At this intersection Samuel McCrossin established an inn, where the town's bowling greens are now located.
However, the town really began with the discovery of gold at Rocky River in 1851. A goldrush began the following year. The village was gazetted in 1855.
New and more substantial finds at Mt Jones in 1856 caused a renewal of activity which soon made the fields the largest in northern NSW with some 4000 or 5000 miners on-site. Sluicing operations began in 1857 and large numbers of Chinese arrived in 1858 to rework the original alluvial field. Chinese miners soon outnumbered Europeans, leading to petitions demanding restrictions upon immigration. They moved on to other fields when the surface gold was depleted in the 1870s. Tunnelling by larger enterprises commenced in the 1860s and continued until the early twentieth century.
The area also prospered from pastoral and agricultural pursuits. Wheat was a major focus and McCrossin established a large mill at Uralla in 1870.
By 1871 the population was 254. Although wheat returns diminished due to competition from South Australia in the 1870s Uralla prospered as a service centre to the wealthy farming community. Local newspaper, the Uralla Times, was established in 1873.
The town was declared a municipality in 1882 when the railway arrived. The population, increased to 819 by 1891, dropped to 681 by 1901 and jumped up to 1590 in 1911. After the First World War land was resumed at Kentucky, south of Uralla, for soldier settlement and orcharding began.
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