BILLY GRIFFIN

The book "Captain Thunderbolt & his Lady" written by Carol Baxter in chapter 26 starting at page 232 talks about William Ward's time at Carroll. It names GG Grandfather William Griffin as the owner of the Albion Inn at Carroll when Captain Thunderbolt held up everyone in the Inn at 4 o'clock on Sunday 10th December 1865.

He rode from Tamworth to Singleton to give evidence in the trial of Kelly.

Mary Ann Bugg, Fred Wards lady left  Fred and had another baby at Carroll in August 1868 Frederick Wordsworth Ward. She now was living with John Burrows. She died in Mudgee 22 April 1905. Page 336, Mary Ann worked at Griffin's Inn at Carroll. The Innkeepers wife and wife of another robbery victim helped deliver her child Frederick Wordsworth.

TROVE. Billy Griffin died 23 October 1931 aged 92 years buried at Goolagimba  Qld. He was born at Singleton shortly after his parents Edward and Mary has migrated from Kent England on 22 March 1842. Educated at Singleton teacher Dr White. Served in British East Africa in charge of a bridge building and painting gang on Mombasa to Port Florence railway line.