invitation

THE INVITATION

Dear Mould Cousins,

I hope you will take the time to read this letter.
A number of family members have attended a few meetings with the purpose of holding a Family Reunion. The organising is going ahead in leaps and bounds, but we need help and registrations from as many family members as possible. If you and your family intend to come along please let us know as soon as you can by filling in the attached registration form.

The Venue:

As the majority of the people interested at this stage are from the George Yonge Mould family, it has been a general consensus of those interested that Cooma would be the best place to hold a reunion. Primarily, so that everyone attending would have the opportunity to visit places of historical interest i.e. George Yonge Mould’s grave in Cooma, the house ruins and graves of other members of the family at Boconoc, and other historical sites such as the Churches at Adaminaby and Cooma. The date and venue chosen are the Cooma RSL, Fri 15^th - Sun 17^th Feb 2002.

Could you help?

Could you please help us update our addresses, genealogy and photographic libraries so that we can put on the best display possible? Our first priority is to put together a comprehensive mailing list of as many family members as possible. I have attached a list of the names and addresses of the family members we have been able to put together so far, we are missing complete families, so we need all the help we can get. We also need to update the family tree and gather more photos and memorabilia, so that we can put together a comprehensive display at the reunion. I would be grateful if you would consider helping us out by sending as much information as you can. More information in regard to these items is attached

I look forward to hearing from you in the near future, please help if you can.

Yours Sincerely
Pattrick Mould

REGISTRATION

Mail to; or email to

MOULD REUNION mould.reunion@pattrick.net
46 Rome Street,
Toowoomba, Qld, 4350
Australia

ٱ ٱ YES, I WISH TO ATTEND THE 2002 MOULD REUNION
Please send me further information.

Names of Family Members attending:

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Street:
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Town/Suburb Post Code
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DO YOU REQUIRE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

ٱ Transport to historical sites. (Required if you are not bringing your own car.)

ٱ Activities for family members not interested in the reunion. ٱ How many. ٱ When

ٱ Baby sitting requirements. ٱ How many. ٱ When

ٱ Youth Activities. ٱ How many. ٱ When

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO BE SENT TO YOU ON RECEIPT OF YOU REGISTRATION:

Program, Local Maps and Accommodation Contacts.
Details of transport available to Cooma from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.

YES, I WOULD LIKE TO HELP WITH THE ORGANISATION OF THE REUNION,

I WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE HELPING WITH:

ٱ Advertising                                                ٱ Reception/Name-tags etc
ٱ Meals and Accommodation                        ٱ Photographs and Memorabilia
ٱ Genealogy/Family trees                             ٱ Biographies.
ٱ Displays                                                   ٱ Historical Tour
ٱ Coordination with the Family History Group and the Historical Societies
ٱ Other, please nominate

√ SIMPLY TICK THE JOB YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED WITH.
You don’t need to live in the district to do these jobs

THE PROGRAM
Fri 15^th - Sun 17^th February 2002.
The Ex Serviceman's Club, 106 Vale Street, Cooma, NSW, Australia,

FRIDAY
8.30 - 9.00 am REGISTRATION AT RSL
9.00 am. Choice of non-family orientated activities i.e.
Snowy Scheme Tour
Historical Tour of the Monaro etc.
6.00 - 7.00 p.m. REGISTRATION AT RSL
7.00 p.m. WELCOME DINNER AT RSL
10 minute speaker on Mould Family History (Cornwall - Devon)
Ted Egan/Boyd Mould Video
Displays manned/Photo, book and literature orders taken

SATURDAY

8.30 - 9.00 am REGISTRATION AT RSL
9.00 am. OFFICIAL OPENING AND WELCOME BY THE MAYOR AT RSL
9.30 am. 10 minute speaker on Mould Family History (London - Sydney - Adaminaby)
10.00 am. CAR CONVOY TO BOCCONOC AND ADAMINABY
Boconoc - Fraser's House, Graves and House Foundation (Bruce?)
Adaminaby - Church, School, Cemetery and Stewarts Displays (Herb/Anita)
Lunch in Adaminaby - Catered (CWA, Church, Red Cross?)
7.00 p.m. DINNER FUNCTION AT RSL (MC Amanda Fraser)
10 minute speaker On Mould History (Gore's - Boconoc - Adaminaby - Cooma)
Countdown of attendees i.e. Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, GG Gran's etc
Displays manned/Photo, book and literature orders taken.

SUNDAY
8.30 - 9.00 am REGISTRATION AT RSL
9.00 am CHURCH SERVICES (Where?) (Contact Ian Litchfield re Christ Church?)
11.00 am REUNION GROUP PHOTOS TAKEN AT RSL
12.30pm LUNCH AT RSL
10 minute speaker on the children of GY Mould
1.30 p.m. CAR CONVOY TO CHRIST CHURCH, NEVILLE LOCKER'S, GEGEDZERICK
Christ Church GY Mould Graves etc, Neville Locker's - relics etc., Gegedzerick - Fraser and Mould graves.
6.00 p.m. FAREWELL GATHERING AT RSL - Thank you's etc
Displays manned/Photo, book and literature orders taken

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

FOR THE REUNION TO BE A SUCCESS WE NEED THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND MATERIALS

Names and Addresses
Our first priority is to put together a comprehensive list of as many family members as possible. I have attached a list of the names and addresses of the family members we have been able to put together so far. You can no doubt see how incomplete this list is, we are missing complete families, so we need all the help we can get in this area, as soon as possible please. As a starting point, I have the following names but no addresses: Nancy Curry, Joan Mould, Gladys Mould, George Alpen, Margaret Doyle, Jennifer Harrison. PLEASE HELP.

Genealogy/Family Trees
Before we hold the reunion we need to update the family tree, so that we can display a comprehensive tree on the day. We also intend to publish a book for the reunion, this would contain all the family history we can put together at this stage. Please contribute if you can.
The information we need includes the names, date and place and any other details you have about all the births, marriages, deaths of your family members, especially of your own family, and if possible of your sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. (If you have this information on a computer, a disc would be great, alternatively if you have a genealogy program a ‘Gedcom file’ would be even better).

Family History/Biographies
A number of people have sent me essays/notes about their family history. I would be very grateful if you would consider doing the same. I will be happy to receive material that is typed, handwritten, taped etc. If you would prefer to be interviewed let me know.
This information could include:

articles passed to you from other family members.
your story.
the story of your children,
recollections about your childhood,
memories of your parents and grand parents,
details of where you family have lived,
a story about a prominent family member,
Or something I haven’t thought of.

Historical Family Material
Photographs Marion Mould 02 6452 1057, is coordinating this venture.
Any photographs you can lend us of members of the first five generations in Australia would be greatly appreciated. We would get negatives made and get them back to you as soon as possible. If you don’t feel comfortably with lending us your photos that’s okay, would it be possible for you to get negatives made for us? We intend to use Theo Schoo of Schoo’s Studio in Cooma to reproduce all the photos, so you can leave originals with him to make the negatives. Any photos of family groups of living members are most welcome to, but we have to watch the expenditure so we would appreciate you getting the negatives done, where possible.

Other Memorabilia:
I am aware that there is a lot of memorabilia out there (bibles, books, original portraits, paintings of homes, cutlery, crockery, copies of birth and marriage certificates etc It would be great to be able to display it all at the gathering. If you could let us know what you could bring along, that will allow us to organise space and cabinets etc for display purposes. Also, if we can list some of this material it will encourage people to come and have a look, so as to ensure a more successful weekend

Establishing a Committee and Helpers
Would you please give serious consideration to being involved and helping us put this gathering together. Your skills are needed. We need people to be on the committees and take responsibility for the following areas: Program, Venue, Invitations and Correspondence, Reception/Name-tags, Advertising, Meals, Accommodation, Photographs and Memorabilia, Genealogy and Family History, PA System, Data Entry, Displays, Historical Tour, Master of Ceremonies, Coordination with the Monaro Family History Group and the Historical Society and more. You don’t need to live in the Cooma District to do these jobs. And we also need helpers to assist those with these responsibilities. Can you help? Please drop me a line, phone or email me as soon as you can.
If anybody were in a position to help us with the data entry, we would be very grateful.
Yours Sincerely
Pattrick Mould
mould.reunion@pattrick.net