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Hi Chrissy, I came across your work about Arthursleigh in my research on two South Americans Eusebio Ponce (Ponsey) and Ruperto Rodrigues. These two Chileans settled in the Canberra Region from the 1860s as shepherds boundary riders, farmers, and pise (rammed earth) building contcdators. They elft a legacy of pise structures throughout the Canberra region that still remain and taught this building style to George Green and George Hatcliff who continued it into the early 1990s. I know that Ruberto arrived on the Malacca in 1855 to the Burra mine in SA as a possible muleteer. But Eusebio is harder to find where and why he arrived to NSW. I know tha he arrived between 1857/59. His father was shepherds in northern Chile and we believe Eusebio might be one of the 12 shepherds that accompanied Charles Ledger with his alpacas in 1858. I was wondering with your connection to Arthursleigh if you have come across anyone mentioning Chilean shepherds? thanks F
Hello, have you read my book on the history of Arthursleigh? There is a chapter on the alpacas and how Ledger brought them from Peru and Chile. Also many references and sources in the back pages. I trawled libraries and archives for years for this information and a lot of it was hard won. Ledger’s story is an incredible one and few know about his alpaca adventures. I have some books on hand if you would like to purchase a copy. My email address is – pastlane@bigpond.net.au. Cheers, Chrissy
Hello Chrissy. I was one of your researchers for the 2015 project of Adopt a Digger. I noticed that the Adopt a Digger site is no longer functioning due to a technical fault. Your project is so important to the relatives of the men who left Queensland to fight in foreign fields. Is there any chance that the site can be fixed?
Yvonne. It appears the website host upgraded and the new upgrade did not support the Joomla program on which Adopt a Digger was built. They are trying for a workaround so hopefully it will be up and running again. None of the information was lost. Phew. I handed the project over after I left the Sunshine Coast to relocate so I have nothing to do with Adopt a Digger any more, but I am always interested of course. Chrissy