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Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 422 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	2 Dec 2007 18:56
	Trying to find any family of Henry and Margaret Pocock who emigrated to Canberra in 1950. Margaret was my father's cousin Sylvia
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 1,236 Send Message	Valerie	Report	3 Dec 2007 00:58
	Hi Sylvia, The Aus National Archives has this: Henry James Pocock b13.5.1908 & Margaret Ann Pocock nee Newton b 23.11.1914 travelled on 'Dorsetshire' dep L'pool 6/9/50. ........ The National Library of Australia has an 'Ask a Librarian' service (query form on-line) -they will check their records -including electoral rolls. (couldn't see their deaths on RYERSON INDEX which has newspaper death notices for NSW/ Canberra to present day). -Valerie (WA)
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 422 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	3 Dec 2007 07:27
	Hi Valerie thanks for that. I had found the immigration record but the Nat Lib service sounds like a good idea. I'm not sure if they stayed in Canberra, as Henry was an engineer and I have a feeling he might have been lured to the Snowy Mountain scheme. My Mum and Dad talked about going over for that, but with a young family they must have had second thoughts. cheers Sylvia