No: 88 the Black Sheep

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Contents No. 88 October 2015

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Dear Ma, do not worry yourself about me at all 4 In this issue of BS we revisit the story of Agatha Beaumont first submitted 15 years ago

WWI: Those confusing abbreviations 8 What should prove to be a useful guide to interpreting the abbreviations used in Attestation Papers and such. The Black Sheep is the official journal of the East Gippsland Family History 25 April 2015 : North Beach, Gallipoli Peninsula 10 Group Inc. and the East Gippsland Historical . . . one hundred years later Society Inc. , who are both EGFHG President Tony reports on his visit to Gallipoli and the placement of our gum leaves. members of the East Gippsland Heritage Network. It may be mailed EGFHG : Investigators Extraordinaire 12 to non-members anywhere EGFHG members find the family of a WW2 soldier to return his property. in for receipt of $20 per annum.

The opinions expressed in WWI: Those confusing abbreviations 13 this journal are not What should prove to be a useful guide to interpreting the abbreviations used in necessarily those of the Attestation Papers and such. respective committees, but of the author [of any article] only. Medical Practice in East Gippsland: 1840 - 1990 15 The contents of the Black EGHS volunteer Tansy Bradshaw looks at the present exhibition at the museum. Sheep are copyright. Copyright remains with the author, or where no author Copyright, Citing and Sources : is attributed, the EGFHG Inc. All enquiries regarding The elephant in the room 19 articles and information Editor Debbie Squires takes a look at the effect of the digital age on our abilities to cite to sources. should be directed to the editor at [email protected] ISSN 1035-6363 In Memorium 21 © EGHFG Inc. Joan Mawson Margaret Ah Sam

Have you met WorldCat ? 21 Cover: A collection of World Accession Register 22 War 2 images relevant to the discovery of the owner of the two up tin shown. Bulletin Board 22 “Fergie” was Ian Ferguson Remember to use Vipre; Facebook pages, and the Lucknow School book who was a prisoner of war on Java during this time.

t h e B l a c k S h e e p 8 8 . 2 bethink . . . . What do you think your 1917, and the Dreier family results would be today if you collection. started your research all over again? This amazing collection of photographs, taken by Annie, Interesting thought. For Albert and Jack Dreier of Wy those who have been Yung dates from about 1916 researching for “as long as I and covers scenes and activities can remember” or “just a few around their farm plus the years” consider what changes local district. They also bought have taken place in that time. photographs from professional If you have been researching photographers and each had “forever” consider what NEW their own collection. When records have become available Albert died in 1956 his and what is now online compared to you may even look at an actual collection was left to the State when you started. (When I started - parish map. Library of . After Jack and shock horror - there were no Annie’s deaths, some photographs computers - (imagine that, no If we hit the restart button were sold but the executors donated Ancestry), card indexes were the what might we find. It is likely to those of local relevance to the East thing in libraries and maybe - if you be material that strengthens and Gippsland Historical Society. were lucky - some microfilm!) I will enriches our family histories ten All photographs have names, dates, bet that you are not aware of half of fold - if we just move out of our places and sometimes even the what has become available and if comfort zone and hit that restart weather in pencil in the back you haven't checked all these new button. making this a very valuable records as they have become collection. I think it would be worth available (in other words you have In the September 2015 issue a trip to when they are been content with what you of The Genealogist published by being exhibited. Why not check out initially found out about your the AIGS our little newsletter was issue no. 80 when you are next in family) ….. imagine what might be most favourably reviewed by the library to see what I mean? waiting out there Frances Barrett and Lesley While you are looking at the for you to discover. Haldane. photographs you will also see the

Now have a think about your quality of the articles. In issue The Black Sheep - research from the other direction. no 86 there are articles on A modest publication of fifteen abbreviations used in WW1 What if you didn’t have a pages is the official journal of the documents and another on the computer and online resources and East Gippsland Family History hidden meaning of tombstones. had to do everything “the old way” Group Inc. and the East Or what about the family history of by using those things made of Gippsland Historical Society Inc. William Campbell of Boggy Creek paper called books, and looking up in issue 81 which consists of five an index, and using obscure Do not let its size fool you. This pages of rhyme. This journal, while microfilm or microfiche or an actual journal would be worth looking at slightly irregular in its publication, old paper map? just for the wonderful black and is a little gem. I really enjoyed my white photographs alone, of which Maybe we are all due for a journey through its pages, and you most are from the East Gippsland “genealogy do-over” as those of us can find it at the end of the Historical Society’s collection. It’s who were satisfied with what we Victorian section of books. impossible to mention them all so had need to look at new resources I will just mention a few. There are Thank you ladies, on behalf and flesh out our trees. And class photographs from Nicholson of those involved, I am humbled, perhaps those of us who only know State School in the 1940s, a great and you will be pleased to know we the digital age need to consult with old stone house at Boggy Creek are endeavouring to be not quite so material that hasn’t been digitised. with a few of its owners since irregular! Pick up a book, consult an index, Debbie

I wish I had realized that family history is a perishable commodity. It disappears with time, as memories fade, and as loved ones pass on. I wish I had known that the most important aspect of family history is preserving a record of the present for the future. Guy Black

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‘Dear Ma do not worry yourself about me at all’ Fifteen years ago I published an article submitted by Betty Avery about the marriage of Agatha Burnett to Captain Frederick Beaumont (BS 56). In this issue we revisit it and look at some of the new material that has now come to light….. most courtesy of digitisation.

Agatha Ellen Burnett, was born then about the value of keeping 22 September 1867, daughter of ephemera and the light and Thomas and Frances Burnett of shade that it gave to Agatha and Lindenow. In 1888 she married Fred’s life. the Captain of the “Dargo”, Frederick A. Beaumont. And light and shade it did Frederick was the son of John give the story when not many and Jessie Beaumont of other records were available but Aberdeen. She was 21 and he now, with “new eyes” there is so was 32. Their daughter Alice, much more that we know about known as Dolly, was born the the couple. following year. In 1891 Captain Beaumont was appointed pilot Agatha was the eldest at Lakes Entrance and daughter of Thomas and Frances subsequently transferred to Burnett of Lindenow. Thomas, a Snake Island c1897, Latrobe labourer and horse trainer, had Island c1899 and then to come to Australia from Portland. Agatha died here just Somersetshire and married four years later in 1904 when Frances Hall of Lindenow in she was 37 years old. Frederick 1866. Agatha, the first of four remarried in 1909, at the age of daughters and four sons, was 53, to 19 year old Rachel born the following year. Her Isabelle Lewis. In the six years siblings were William, Arthur, of their marriage they had two Lillian, Ida, Thomas, George and sons, Lennox and Fred. Captain Daisy. Thomas selected a 53 acre Beaumont died at block on the corner of Scotts and on 31 December 1915, aged 59 Baudinets Lanes and at the first years. Rachel remarried to “Alexlea” subdivisional sale he Henry Day and had another Agatha, William and Arthur Burnett : Tom and purchased five adjacent half acre Frances’ first three children. (Linda Avery) son. allotments in Lindenow township that he built the family home on. At the time this was the basic information that Linton and Agatha and her siblings, Betty Avery had about Aunt including William and Arthur Agatha and Captain Beaumont and pictured left, went to school at it was fairly typical of the scant Lindenow. In 1888, when Agatha details that we would have on our was 21, she married the captain forebears. The years of births, of the “Dargo”, Frederick A. deaths and marriages we scoured Beaumont. He was 32 years old. from the Register records. It was not until after a death in the Frederick Beaumont, the family, and the usual clearing out son of John and Jessie nee of the family home occurred, that Lennox, was born in Forfar, extra information came to light Scotland on 19 October 1856 and about Aunt Agatha. In the clearing was one of nine children - out the family found the two William, John, Jessie, Robert, photographs for the original story Margaret, David, Jacobina and (Capt. Beaumont, right and the Harry. After completing his then thought wedding photograph education at his father’s over the page), a wedding report academy he went to sea when he pasted into a scrap album and two was 15 years old. He pursued old letters. this for a short time before returning to school when he was We reproduced the original Captain of the Dargo , Frederick Beaumont 18 years old and studied (Betty Avery) wedding report and the two medicine. But the call of the sea letters and I asked the question

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The popular S.S. Dargo at the lower Bairnsdale wharf c1888 with Captain Beaumont (circled) on the deck., (F.W. Eastwood photographer, image 182670091 ) was too strong and he couldn’t settle to medicine and eventually returned to the sea becoming the third officer on the Columbia in September 1879 and working on a variety of ships in the Anchor Line including the Furnessia, Glenoora and the Anchoria all over the world. During this time he served briefly in the Mahdist War in the Sudan before receiving his master’s certificate on the 28 April 1885 at the age of 27 years. Gippsland Times 17 Feb 1888 (Trove)

Beaumont then captained the dredge The quiet little church at Lindenow was filled by a (later known as the Tommy Bent) to Melbourne arriving on large congregation on Wednesday last, when 5 November 1885. At the time, it was said that the Captain Beaumont, the popular “skipper” of the Melbourne was the largest dredge that had ever been built. Lakes’ Navigation Company’s steamer Dargo, led to In 1887, after twelve months in the Victorian Railways he the hymeneal altar Miss Agatha Burnett, daughter was appointed master of the Dargo and Omeo trading on of Mr T. Burnett, an old and respected resident of the . Lindenow. The bride looked very pretty in a dress It is not known where or when Frederick met of pale grey satin tastefully trimmed with laces and Agatha - perhaps it was as a passenger on a trip to ornaments. She also wore a very elegant veil, each Melbourne—but their meeting led to their marriage at corner of which was handsomely worked with Lindenow on 8 February 1888. Agatha was eleven years satin. Miss Saunders was the only bridesmaid, and younger than Frederick when they wed. she was dressed in white with pale blue trimmings. The bride’s mother was dressed in brown satin, and Locally the marriage notice was placed in the her aunt (Miss E. Hall) was attired in grey and pink. Gippsland Times while the clipping that was pasted in the scrapbook had come from the Melbourne Punch 16 The bride was given away by her father, and Capt. February 1888. Strachan of the S.S. Tanjil, a countryman of Capt. Beaumont, acted as best man. The Rev. D. Cameron

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Feb 11th 1888 Saturday morning Sale Dear Ma, Thinking you would be anxious to hear from me I thought I had better write to you this morning. I suppose you got the telegram on Thursday. Jessie and Mrs Fraser have not gone home to Melbourne yet - Jessie says she is not going to leave until she stays a little longer with me she told Fred she was so pleased with his choice she is such a nice girl so is Miss Fraser. We all went up to Sale yesterday was introduced to Mr Kim and Clues. Mr Hally from Melbourne sent me a most beautiful handkerchief and glove box yesterday. The Dargo will be running the excursion next Sunday, that is tomorrow week. On Friday she goes to the entrance then I am going down to stay with Mr Davis until Sunday night so if some of you came down on the trip I could see you for I do not think I will come home for a week or two. Dear Ma do not worry yourself about me at all. I am perfectly happy and well, I have got such a good husband all his thought is me. He is so kind and attentive I have a very nice sitting room so when any of you come down I can make you quite comfortable. The mail is waiting for the letters to take to Sale so I can not write any more just now but will write again on Monday. I wish you would send the Lady's Companion down by the mail when you get a chance. I would find it useful. Give my loved to Tom, The Beaumonts , possibly shortly after their wedding in 1888. (Betty Avery) George and all at home, don't forget Daisy, Jessie has taken quite a fancy to you Ma, she says she would like to see you again, she sends her love to all Miss Frasers, of the Presbyterian Church, Bairnsdale, performed the dear Nell and Mary Saunders. I will write Monday. Fred wedding service, at the conclusion of which the sends his love and a kiss to all guests who were numerous returned to Mr Burnett’s from your loving daughter farm, where a spacious marquee had been erected Agatha Beaumont. and here a recherché wedding breakfast was in readiness for them. Breakfast over, the usual toasts The year after their marriage, in 1889, Agatha were honored in a very hearty fashion, and several and Frederick welcomed their only child, Alice (who songs were sung, including the “White Squall,” by was affectionately nicknamed Dolly by her father) into the family. There is one suggestion that Dolly was jovial Mr E. Saunders, and “The Barley Mow” by Mr born at Geringhap near Geelong, however as her birth W.S. Ross, who was equally happy, whilst, as the was not registered it remains a mystery. wedding couple departed on their honeymoon trip, Mr Crowley who was in excellent voice, gave the After three years on the Gippsland Lakes - appropriate song, “The Good-bye at the door.” Mr Melbourne run, Beaumont joined the Victorian and Mrs Beaumont left for Mrs Thomas’s hotel at the Harbour Department and took up an appointment at Latrobe and were escorted by several guests for some Cunninghame (Lakes Entrance) as pilot and harbor distance on the road. Captain Beaumont is as popular master on 1 June 1891 where Agatha and Fred resided for the next three years. an officer as ever brought a vessel alongside our wharf, and in honor of his wedding day all the About 1894/95 Frederick accepted another shipping was gaily dressed, and at night there was a appointment, this time at Snake Island near Port display of fireworks. Albert, probably as a pilot to guide shipping through the channels to Port Albert. Within days of the wedding, Agatha, in one of the letters found, wrote to her mother. Her joy of About 1900 the Beaumonts transferred to being married is openly expressed in the Portland where Frederick was pilot for about four communication. years. This position involved much more prestige and responsibility as Portland had a new deep sea port -

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The piers at Portland c1895 (National Library Australia image 140559484-1)

Beaumont piloted the Australian fleet into Frederick was well ensconced in the local society Portland in 1902. There had been some doubt about and well regarded. He was a member of the local bowls the ability of large ships to dock at the pier but club and was regularly called upon to judge and steward Beaumont assured the community that there would at the annual regattas that he instigated. be no difficulty and subsequently he was lauded as being right in his judgement when they were Beaumont also raised concerns about the successfully docked at the pier without incident. usefulness of the lifeboat in his charge. He claimed that while it would affect any rescue from a foundered vessel, Not only did he pilot in the Australian fleet in 1902 he felt that the lifeboat would be almost impossible to he also piloted in the first two large steamers to the get back to shore safely. While he wasn’t authorized to new pier with acknowledged expertise. correct the problem, he solved the problem by making up a sail for the vessel which was claimed to be extremely effectively.

In June 1903 he had an altercation with the Collector of Customs, Mr Smith, when he was accused of refusing to give him the keys to the customs house and of being intoxicated. An inquiry ensued where five local members of the community swore that Beaumont was not intoxicated at the time and gave him character references. The decision of the future of his position was referred back to Melbourne and some weeks later Beaumont received a telegram ordering him back to work.

While Frederick was reinstated to his position at Portland he may have been uncomfortable about his future long term prospects with Mr Smith. Just six The customs house at Portland 1933 months later on 6 April 1904, The Portland Observer (State Library of Victoria, Andrews, M.E. photographer, had learned with regret the removal of pilot Beaumont image 182668860). who had accepted a posting back to Port Albert.

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The second letter found was from Captain Beaumont to his in laws after Agatha’s death at Portland.

Sunday Island Port Albert 13 May 1904

My Dear Dad and Mama, I am sure we were pleased to get your letter this morning. I have received letters of sympathy from all parts of Victoria. Even from the highest officials in the Government service but they do not touch the heart as a kindly word from those who loved my dear Frederick, Alice (Dolly to her father) and Agatha Beaumont taken at Portland not long little girlie as much as I did. I before Agatha’s death in 1904. (Linda Avery) am still very weak and But things were not to go smoothly for the practically confined to bed. family. While Frederick is mentioned in the local That is I can do no work in fact can hardly walk about. paper regularly - Agatha is not and this perhaps is My nervious [sic] system is completely unstrung and I indicative of her health. For while they packed to cannot get a wink of sleep in this emergency. Dolly my relocate to Port Albert, without warning, Agatha died dear little pet has proved herself a perfect wonder. She at 35 years old. manages everything like a practiced housekeeper and waits on me hand and foot. I feel better down here although it is somewhat lonely, I don’t feel inclined to

talk to anybody. I have a man working here all the time

and intend to engage a boy to help Dolly, he should have been down here before now but expect him soon. Now I will brace myself for an effort because I am sure you would like to know how our dear one passed away from this earth. When we received notice that I could go back to Port Albert if I liked, poor spoof was delighted and was for packing up right away. However I managed to calm her

a bit but next day she was at it although even she accepted we need not leave till the end of the following month. All the same however she would do it and was th full of excitement, before the 20 of April everything was ready to be removed, on the 23rd my relieving officer came up, th24 was Sunday so we did no work but most of the furniture in fact all of it except a bed and blankets we stacked on the floor intending to send

them down to the van next morning and live at the

hotel till I handed over the customs. About 10 o’clock on Sunday night Spoof took a violent vomitting [sic] fit, I got up and put on a big fire and wanted to call in the Doctor but she would not hear of it. I applied hot cloths to the stomach and this seemed to relieve her emseabrily [sic]. She seemed to have a great craving for ginger ale so I went and got some with a little shot of brandy and it was now daylight after two

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or three little drops of Brandy she seemed inclined to Oh God, it is hard to pen to these lines but I will never go off to sleep. Dolly now came home (she was living approach them again. with Mrs Lear). I asked her to look after Mama and Sorry to learn that Dad is not yet altogether recovered, give her about a teaspoonful of brandy and ginger I weary to see some of them. Lil wrote that she will ale if she woke up. Then I went over for the mail and come down with George for a week, I hope she will if found my successor waiting for me to take him [to] only for Dolly’s sake. As soon as I feel able I will make the Ports and Harbours also a letter from the arrangements for her visiting the Port at least twice a Department informing me that I could take fourteen week, But at present I cannot part with her altogether days leave when relieved as asked for. When I came she is such a comfort to me. home I told Ag, she seemed pleased and looked comfortable. I told her I was off to hand over the This is where the letter ends with any stores and to the Pilot. She asked me not to be long subsequent pages being lost. away. I came back in about two hours and stood After Agatha’s death Frederick, with Dolly, talking to the Pilot for a minute of time in the street returned to Port Albert and duties at the signal station opposite the house when all at once Dolly rushed out on Sunday Island. In 1908 Dolly left home and at 19 and I could see by her looks something had married James Avery in Melbourne. Frederick, now 53 happened. and alone, married local Port Albert girl Rachel While I sent some boys rushing for the Doctor I was Isabella Lewis on 1 March 1909. Rachel was the inside the house in a minute. One glance told me the daughter of John and Ellen Lewis and was 18 years end was near poor spoof could only say Fred, I’m old. They had two sons, Lennox (named for John’s dying! The Doctor arrived almost immediately and mother), born 1910 and Frederick jnr who was born in 1912. Even in the birth notice for Lennox , below, one injected morphine we then removed her in a cab to can also see that Frederick, as the father, was more Mrs Hutchinson’s private hospital where the Doctor important than mother and child. and nurses did all they could but about 4 o’clock she took another relapse and half an hour later closed her earthly career. Oh Dear me, but it is a sad blow and one I never expected. The certificate was firstly convulsions of the Kydney [sic], secondly heart failure. She looked Frederick’s own health was deteriorating and as calm and quiet in death as if she had only gone to after surgery in May 1915 he never fully recovered and died on 31 December 1915. He was 59 years old and sleep. I bought one of the finest sites I could find in was buried at Port Albert cemetery on 1 January 1916. the Portland cemetery. My poor girl lies between two high marble columns not far from the gate. I have made arrangements to look after the grave until I get it fenced in and a stone erected but after paying for Doctors, Nurses and finally the funeral I have barely enough left to carry me to Portland. Indeed I was very glad to slip away down here on the quiet as I Three years later Rachel, with two young sons, could not be bothered speaking to anybody. married Henry Darling Day in 1919. They had forty Still now, Dear Mama and Dad, that is all I can tell you years together before Henry died in 1960 and Rachel about it. herself died in 1973 when she was 82 years old. When God in his mercy sees fit to restore me to health and strength I will try to follow a nice easy Meanwhile Dolly and James had five children: course through the rest of my life. What is life at the Arthur, Ellen, Frances, Ida and Norman. Sadly Dolly, best? A few short years of worry and trouble, thence like her mother, died at an early age. She passed away to the great unknown. I have one great satisfaction on 31 October 1929 at Caulfield, when 40 years old and although my poor girl could not say good bye her last when Norman was just three years old. effort was to look upon me. They used to say in Agatha’s parents, Thomas and Frances, also died Portland, here comes the chums or now and again it around this time. Thomas in 1909 and her mother, would be, did you ever see these two apart from one Frances, in 1917 and they are both buried at another. Now God has pleased to part the chums, Coongulmerang (Lindenow South) cemetery. may he grant me grace to follow her as true and as dignified as she was. True she had her failings but Resources: they were not vicious. Her perfect happiness was to Portland Guardian, Gippsland Standard, Alberton Shire live in peace and harmony with everybody, added to Representative, Bairnsdale Advertiser, Gippsland Times and this her ever kindly and all cherishing love for her The Argus newspapers (through Trove) Richardson, J. and Treasure, M., History of Lindenow and family and husband. There you have my poor spoof. District (2005)

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25 April 2015 : North Beach, Gallipoli Peninsula . . . one hundred years later TONY MEADE President Tony Meade had the opportunity to return to Gallipoli during the 100th anniversary and shares his experience with Black Sheep readers.

Recently I had the Our bus then picked privilege of attending the us up from Lone 100th Anzac Day Ceremony Pine and we went to at Gallipoli. Unexpectedly I our motel for the received a pass into the night (90 km away!). ceremony in the third ballot The next day we of the Anzac Day passes. I returned to the had missed out on the peninsula and to the original ballot in January commemoration site 2014 but in February I was and ANZAC Cove. informed that I had the opportunity to attend the Here I had ceremonies at Lone Pine the opportunity to and on the beach at North spread the remains Beach commemoration site of a Boronia which for the Dawn Service. had belonged to a Gippsland digger, I travelled to Don Ross, who had Istanbul on 22 April and posted it to Australia went to Gallipoli on the during the War. evening of the 24 April. After a very cold night, forecast for The Dawn Service at the Commemoration Site on North Beach. The Smith 4˚C and felt like -4˚ due to the Anzac Cove is on the other side of the point (Ari Burnu) in the background. sisters of Hillside cold breeze, I witnessed both had corresponded the dawn service at North Beach commemoration site just with Don and he sent it to them. Their extended family had north of ANZAC Cove and the Lone Pine service at 11am. kept this dried flower, which had now become just a small After the ceremony we walked about 3.5 km up the hill to pile of dust, for 100 years. Don Ross had apparently picked Lone Pine. the flower probably while in Albany waiting transport to the war and pressed it in a book before sending it back to On the way I stopped at Ari Burnu, Beach, Australia. After much discussion about what to do with the Shrapnel Gully and Shell Green cemeteries to place boronia it was thought it would be fitting to return it to tributes on behalf of the East Gippsland Family History Gallipoli where so many soldiers had died. When the family Group to the fallen Gippsland soldiers who were buried at heard of my trip I was requested to carry out this duty for those sites. I then attended the ceremony at Lone Pine and them. following this I placed the tributes for the soldiers buried there as well as one for all the East Gippsland Soldiers who I spread the remains of the flower in the waters at the were named on the memorial for those with no burial place. edge of ANZAC Cove beach. It was, and I might add still is,

Placing a gum leaf tribute on the grave of 931 Trooper JH Finch of the 13th Australian Light

Horse, and right on the grave of 824 Trooper K.E. Watt, who was born in Bairnsdale and died

on 11 July 1915. Trooper Watt enlisted in W.A. with his brother Charlie. His brother returned to Australia in 1917.

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a tremendously moving Boronia in the water and I moment for me. I do not know have been able to share why but it seemed that in this these with the family. action I was in some way feeling a tiny bit of the loss of They have said they feel all those poor men and boys of happy in sending the 100 years ago. It was perhaps Boronia to Gallipoli. In a the most emotional time of my small way it pays homage whole trip. Many people to the brave Australian speak of the death of our Soldiers who lost their lives young men so far away and of and pays tribute to all the their making ‘The Supreme others nations who lost Sacrifice”, however I have many men, especially the always felt that their deaths Turks who lost over 85,000 were only a part of the great men defending their loss our nation suffered with country from our invasion. the events of the First World One of the most amazing These are the words spoken by Mustafa Kemal, later known as War. More than 60,000 things about my trip to Kemal Ataturk, to the families of all those who died - his pledge soldiers died, however there to care for the deceased soldiers, as they lay “side by side”. Gallipoli was the manner in were also that many sets of which the Turkish military parents, children, siblings, forces protected us on our grandparents, wives, pilgrimage and also the husbands, sweet hearts and way in which they honour friends who also suffered our dead as their own. We these losses. And that is not owe them a debt of all, out of 5 million Australians, gratitude that I believe can 420,000 enlisted and 60,000 never be repaid. did not return and a further 60,000 died within several I thank the family for years of the end of the war, the opportunity to many by their own hand. A participate in this small further 60,000 or more token of our gratitude and returned with their lives forever remembrance, it made a blighted physically and particularly poignant and mentally by the war and at emotional trip even more least that many again who so. were profoundly changed by A post card photo of Donnie Ross whose dried Boronia flower Perhaps one of the their experiences. was spread at Anzac Cove. most striking aspects of

If you think of those both of my visits to Gallipoli numbers in today’s population, has been the manner in that is 300,000 deaths alone which the Turkish people out of our current population of seem to be pleased to see 25 million. The whole nation us and to commiserate suffered for generations after with the loss of so many the war due to these losses lives even though we were and it is this that most affects the aggressor in this my feelings about the action. The politics of the importance of remembering. moment are forgotten and their only interest is in the I tried to speak of what remembrance for the lost I had done at ANZAC Cove to men, be they Australian, several onlookers but found Turk, New Zealander or I was unable to speak due to British. It was amazing to the emotion of the occasion; me that as I walked up the they quite understood my ridge toward Lone Pine limited discussion and also looking down into Shrapnel clearly understood the Valley there were groups importance of the ceremony. of Turkish soldiers, I noticed at several different weapons in hand vigilantly places there were others like looking for any threat to me who were obviously This view is down onto North Beach our safety, one hundred overcome by their emotions from a position below the Nek. years before when my two when they were visiting the Great Uncles Ted and Bob th graves of relatives or just The grand stands for the Dawn Service are the red objects. Meade in the 8 battalion feeling the sadness of the The end of the ridge on the left is the one that forms the edifice were making their way up place, I did not feel alone or known as “The Sphinx” by the diggers. Shrapnel Valley they would out of place with my emotions. have seen a similar site I was fortunate that someone The place this photo was taken from I have been told is one of with a vastly different managed to get a few photos the points where the initial defence of Gallipoli was held by the intention in the minds of Turks, I don’t fancy a charge up there against machine guns! and video of me spreading the the defenders.

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EGFHG : Investigators Extraordinaire In case you missed the piece in the local and eventually to suburban Melbourne, Whitepages confirmed that in fact there paper (and you wouldn’t have seen the ultimately finding his burial in the wasn’t and while “googling” Libby piece from The Border Watch) that Springvale records. Over to the Eykelenburg (we had looked for Elizabeth explained the investigative skills of the Tributes on the Herald-Sun website and and got nowhere) we found an L. EGFHG members : here are the details we found his death notice and also that Eykelenburg as the organiser of the for you. of his wife a few years later. From the community market at Kalangadoo, South funeral notice we knew we might be Australiia with a contact number. The SCENARIO : Paynesville resident able to find family through the funeral best bit about the whole process was arrives at the rooms with a tin, containing director the next day. So by the end of convincing Libby we weren’t a prank call! two dice, some Japanese money and a the day we knew where he had been, RESULT: From go to whoa we had an possible identity. Can we find the family it his death details and (from the death answer in less than 24 hours. Libby was belongs to? notice) that there was one married stunned and the original custodian was daughter - Libby. The next morning we LEADS: Service number, Nickname shocked we came up with a result so were considering contacting the funeral and a location are engraved on the tin. fast. director when one of the searchers

remembered that one of the Ancestry PROCESS: EGFHG members MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM LIBBY: trees she had consulted trying to find immediately spend a couple of hours to “It is just so hard to comprehend that I will the family was owned by an Elizabeth confirm the number and identity of the have something of Dad's from those dark Eykelenburg. Could Elizabeth name engraved on the tin. Yes, Ian days in Java. … Ok, in tears now, but I Eykelenburg be the “Libby” we were Ferguson served in Borneo and was a think it is important that they know their looking for? Eykelenburg. It’s an POW as indicated on the tin. We tracked Great Grandpa and remember him and unusual surname, couldn’t be too many him through Electoral Rolls from all those boys who gave up so much.” Shepparton to a stint in area in Australia surely. A check on

The Border Watch courtesy Libby Eykelenburg

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WW1 : Slang usage We continue in this issue with the COLD FEET: Fear, "Coldfooter," one who CORPSE FACTORY: The Western Front. abbreviations commonly found in WW1 was afraid to enlist for active service. correspondence and files. While some CRABS: Shells; shelling; parasites. terms have been well and truly lost you COLLEGE: Nickname for 39 General can see where some terms that are in Hospital and No. 2 Stationery Hospital, CRACK: Hit; punch; cracked; crazy. common use today have come from and when Venereal Disease was the chief if still being used 100 years later. not the only ailment treated. A soldier CRASH: To suffer misfortune (See who received full treatment was regarded Gutzer) CHIV: Chin or jaw, alos [sic] see Chip-in. as having graduated. CREAM PUFFS: Shell bursts. CHIVOO: A Celebration. COIL-UP: To go to sleep. CROOL THE PITCH: To spoil a chance, CHOCS: The 8th Brigade, A.I.F. COME-AT: Undertake. or the further exploitation of some ("Tivey's chocolate soldiers.") enterprise. COME OVER: Deliver, "of the enemy to CHOP: Share. "To hop in for ones [sic] attack." CROW-EATER: A South Australian. chop," to enter in, in order to secure a priviledge [sic] or benefit. COME THE DOUBLE: Demand ones due CRUMBY: Infested by lice. after having already received it. CHRISTEN THE SQUIRT: To bayonet a CRUMP: Explosion of a heavy shell. man for the first time with that particular COMFORTS FUND: Shells. bayonet. CRUSH: Unit, i.e. "What crush do you CONCRETE MACAROON.: Army belong to." CHUCK A SEVEN: See "Throw a seven." Biscuits. CUSHY: Soft, easy, safe, comfortable, CHUCK IT UP: Give in, surrender. COLD STORAGE: "To go into cold the "Cushy job." storage" - to be killed during the 1916 CHUM (choom: Form of address winter. CUT: See "Chop." amongst English Troops, used by Australians as a nickname for COMMON-TALLY-PLUNK: How are CUTHBERT: A man with a cushy job in a Englishmen. you." A mutilation of the French Government Office, esp. one who "Comment-Allez-Vous." avoided Military Service on the score of CIRCUS: A Flying Squadron. occupation. Personal name supposedly COLUMN OF LUMPS: In disorderly suggestive of effiminacy. CIVVIES: Civilian people or clothes. formation. CUT-IT-OUT: Desist. CLICK.: To promiscuously make the COMPREE: Understand. From the acquaintance of a young lady. French "Comme Ca."[sic] CUT-OFF: "To push in ones [sic] cut-off" - to stop talking. CLINA: Girl. This term with most others COMME SA: Like that. From the French with the same meaning was in use in "Comme Ca." CUT-THROATS: See "Nose-bleeds." Australia before the war. COMME SI COMME SA: So-So, DAB: Expert, extremely proficient. An CLICKETY-CLICK: Number 66 in the indifferently. From the French "Comme Ci abbreviation of "Dabster." game of "House." Comme Ca." Daddies, The CLINK: Prison, field punishment Conchy: A conscientious objector to the compound, or Guard Room. Military Service Act 1916. DAG: Hard case, either as a humorist or disregarder of convention. CLOBBER: Clothes. COOLER: Prison or Guard Room. DARK: Mode of addressing especially CLOUT: A wound or hit. COOL OFF: To take things easily. those with dark hair or complexion.

COAL BOX: A type of German shell from COOTIES: Lice, chats. DATE: (1) A term for the posterior orifice. which, upon explosion, a dense cloud of smoke (black) emanated. COUSHAY: Sleep; "Coushay full (2) An appointment. marching order" - to go to bed with ones COBBER: Mate, friend. Used in the [sic] clothing on. DEAD MEAT TICKET: See "Meat ticket." second or third person. Was largely superseded as a mode of address by COUGH-UP: Part with; speak. DEARAUNTIE: A phrase signifying utter "Digger." weariness or disgust. It implies the well- COW: The vilest of invective; to refer to known text of a fictitious soldier's letter: - COFFIN NAILS: Cigarettes. anything as a "fair cow" was the worst DearAuntie, this ain't no ordinary war ITS that could be said of it. A BLOODY BASTARD, and if you want to COG-WHEELS: "To have cog-wheels" to see your little Johnny again, get right be demented. COWPUNT ROAD: Horseferry Road, the down on your knees, and pray like hell. location of the A.I.F. H.Q. in London and COLD: Dead. abhorred by the fighting forces. DEAR BILL: see "DearAuntie."

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DEEP THINKER: A reinforcement who rhyme for "donk" the D.A.C.'s trying to remain out of the danger zone arrived in a fighting unit late in the course containing many mules. Another or, if in the forward area, by rarely leaving of the war. possible derivation is the adaption of his shelter. Also applied to elderly the sound made by the sinking of the returned Officers called up for service at DIAL: Face. mule's leg into the mud. the outbreak of war. "Dug-out King" - an officer who remains at the bottom of a Diehards, the DONG: To hit, to punch. dug-out while his men are exposed to danger. DIGGER: Mate, friend. Used in the DONK: Mule. The average Australian second or third person. This term had soldier would rarely refer to anything by DUG-UP: Found (usually an absentee) been in use on the Aust. gold fields, and its proper name if he could find another New Zealand Kauri gum fields for many as expressive. EAT CROWS: Suffer humiliation; eat years prior to the war. It was not until the humble pie. end of 1917 or early 1918 that it came DONK'S DINGBAT: A mule groom or into universal use in the A.I.F. or N.Z.E.F. Driver. EATS: Food. The first to use the term, to any extent were the N.Zealanders from whom it DOOK: Hand. EAT-UP: A meal. quickly spread through the A.I.F. DOOK 'IM ONE: To salute an Officer. EDGE: To discontinue. DINGBAT: Batman, servant; also used in the plural to indicate that the person DOOK IT: Shake hands. EGGS-A-COOK: The cry of the Egyptian referred to had "rats" or was not speaking egg vendors. Later used for members of or acting in a rational manner. DOPE: One who is absent-minded or the third Australian Division who wore an eccentric; information; line of conduct; oval color patch. DINKUM: Good, genuine, honest. liquor; poison. EGGS-A-FRIED: Name applied to the 4th DINKUM THE: The 2nd. Division. Also DOPEY: Dazed, bemused; lacking in Div. Pioneer Battalion who wore a circular applied to the New ZEALANDERS. vitality. white patch with a smaller circular patch superimposed [sic]. DINKY-DIE: An oath of truthfullness [sic]. DOUGH: Money. EMMA EMMA ESSES: Smoke-o (from DISASTER: A piastre (Egyptian coin) DOUSE THE GLIM: Put out the light. the signal alphabet capital letters M.M.S. men may smoke). An order used on the DIVVY: Abbreviation of "Division" & DOWN SOUTH: Hidden, buried. In march at attention when it is desired by dividend, meaning in the former case a one's pocket. the Officer Commanding to march at Military formation, in the latter, one's fair ease and allow smoking in the ranks. share. DOWN - to have a down on: To have a grudge against; to take a dislike to. EMMA PIP: Signalmen's way of saying Dixie M.P. Used as a nickname for the Military DRAFT UP or DRAFT VERTICAL: Police. DIZZY-LIMIT: The last straw; See "Wind up." incomparable; the height of "cheek." ESSES EMMA: The Sergeant Major; DRAGGING SPARE: Surplus, i.e. "Is again signal's pronunciation. DO; to do in: To kill; to make away; "do anything dragging spare?" Sometimes your nut" - loose [sic] one's head. abbreviation to dragging. EYEFULL.: A close scrutiny; a good view.

DO A BUNK.: See "Bunk." DREADNOUGHT: V.D. Prophylactic EYEWASH.: Deception; humbug. outfit issued to troops before departing DOCK.: A Military Hospital. on leave. F.A: Field Artillery; F**k All; Fanny Adams; Nothing; vacuity. DODGER: Bread. DUCKBOARD: A wooden frame about five feet long and 18" wide, on which FAG: Cigarette. DOER: A person unusually humorous, are nailed crosswise, short pieces of reckless, undisciplined, immoral or wood in the form of a grating. The FAGGED OUT: Exhausted. eccentric. Military Medal Ribbon was frequently referred to by this term. FAIR GO: Equitable treatment, a fair field DOG FEVER: A mild form of influenza. and no favour. DUCKS BREAKFAST: A drink of water DOG'S-LEG: A lance corporal's stripe. so and a wash. FAKE: False. called on account of its shape. DUCKS DISEASE: A description of a FALL TO A JOB: To be detailed to do a DOINGS: A place, billet or trench, a person's physical build indicating that piece of work. circumstance, an affair. his legs are short and his buttocks are too near the ground. FALL TO THE JOKE: To be ordered to DOLL UP: Ornament. do something unpleasant. To have a joke DUCK'S EGG: A half piastre nickel played on one. Dolphin (Sopwith) coin. FANGS: See "Put the Fangs in." DOMINO: To kill; to knock out. DUD: A shell that fails to explode. An incapable person; no good. FANNY DURAK: The hanging virgin and DON ACK PLONK: Divisional child of Albert Basilica. Frequently Ammunition Column (D.A.C.) "Don Ack" DUG IN: In a safe position. referred to as Annette Kellerman i.e. the is the Army method of pronouncing D.A. champion Lady diver. and "plonk" may have originated as a DUGOUT: One who avoids danger by

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Medical Practice in East Gippsland: 1840 - 1990 COMPILED BY TANSY BRADSHAW

This year the new Bairnsdale Hospital celebrated its 75th Birthday in July. Coinciding with this milestone, the East Gippsland Historical Society thought that it would be a good opportunity to showcase the history of medical practice in East Gippsland for its current exhibition. Not only will we acknowledge the development of the hospital but also focus on the development of the health industry, and highlight prominent doctors and nurses in the district.

There have been Melbourne. After many doctors, some discussions nurses, and medical regarding a suitable professionals who site, a block of land have given service, referred to as dedicating their Fregons, in Day time and expertise Street, adjacent to to helping the sick, the Princes injured and those in Highway, was need. They became chosen. The an integral part of architects awarded community life, not the contract to build only providing the new hospital to medical care but L. McBean for taking on many £40,000.00. voluntary positions in local committees The and community foundation stone organisations. was laid on Saturday 16 The laying of the foundation stone at the new hospital on 19 December 1939 by the then December, 1939 by The New Hospital Deputy Premier (and local representative) Sir Albert Lind. (EGHS collection) the Deputy Premier In September the honourable A E 1936, Mr McVilly, Lind. The new the Inspector of hospital was Charities visited the officially opened on Bairnsdale Hospital 18 July 1940, by the in McKean Street Governor Sir and reported that the Winston Dugan. hospital was out of date and unsuitable The new for the requirements hospital was in of a modern hospital. three sections: The main nursing At the and administrative suggestion of Dr unit, the nurses’ Alsop, the hospital home and the committee resolved infectious disease that this committee, block. as a matter of public hospital policy, is (EGHS collection) There were prepared to vacate 61 beds providing the existing hospital for the purposes of a Benevolent private, intermediate and maternity Home for the Gippsland area and build a new community accommodation, with room for extra beds if required hospital nearer the centre of town, providing satisfactory on verandahs. There were eight beds in the financial arrangements can be effected. This brought to infectious block and verandah space for more. The an end the era of the Bairnsdale Hospital in McKean midwifery and intermediate section was named Street and gave birth to a new and modern hospital. McMillan House. All equipment and facilities were of the most up-to-date standard, including radiology Architects appointed to design the new hospital and pathology departments. were Yuncken, Freeman, Freeman and Griffiths of

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The view from the first floor looking over the back of the hospital. The philosophy of the public The pathology section is the white building on the left while the infectious disease (TB) section, hospital system was to endeavour later the children’s wing, is on the right. The building behind them is thought to be the stores to make people help themselves, room and the mortuary. Note the tennis court, stable for the gardener’s horse, the hospital garden and orchard. In the far distance the triangular roofline of the CRB Depot, later and for this reason the public demolished and sold for housing, can be seen. c1970s. (EGHS collection) patients were charged according to their means. Destitute patients were always treated in the public section of the hospital at no cost.

The building of the hospital was justified by the number of patients treated, which jumped from 694 in 1939/40 to 1362 in 1941/42.

The maternity ward had a slow start, no doubt due to a number of mothers preferring to use the familiar private maternity hospitals, but as these closed down the maternity ward became exceptionally busy. Sisters McIntyre and Leary who had worked in Sister Mooney’s private hospital moved to the Bairnsdale Hospital. It was a sign of the times that the small private hospital The women’s ward taken shortly after the opening of the new hospital. Volda Seehusen is one could no longer exist alongside the of the staff in the image. Note the location of the charge sister’s desk. (EGHS collection) public facility.

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Bev Mather, Lesley Edwards, Sr Pat Kilsby and Sandra Wadsworth The rehabilitation ward. (EGHS collection) (later Marshall) posed training photograph in one of the wards c1964. (EGHS collection)

THOMAS CHONG : HERBALLIST

Alternative medicines have been a part of urban and rural areas of Victoria for around 170 years.

Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine from the last quarter of the 19th century until WWII were known as herbalists. They were familiar in inner Melbourne and in country cities and towns. From the 1920s through to the 1940s, Thomas Chong made Bairnsdale his home.

Thomas was born in Sydney in 1877 and at age 12 he was sent to China under an apprentice system to be educated and trained as a herbalist. He returned to Australia in 1908 having graduated from the clinic- dispensary of Huang Jy Shen, at Qi Sha, Zhen Jiang, Guangdong. It is thought that Thomas Chong moved to Bairnsdale about 1912. He became a member of the Chinese Medical Association in Canton, and in 1924 he was licensed to practice by the Interior Ministry; this meant that he was qualified according to the Chinese standards of the time.

A year later Dr Argyle, MP for Toorak and member of the British Medical Association, introduced into the Victorian Parliament a bill to limit the right to dispense medicinal herbs to pharmaceutical chemists. In retaliation, Chinese and British herbalists began a public campaign to broaden the views of people who agreed with Argyle. They brought forward the Thomas Chong c1910 arguments that it was a right of the people whom (Donated by Dr Dorothy Lau, OAM, daughter of Thomas Chong orthodox medicine had failed to have one last chance; to Federation University Medical Library collection.) also the Chinese stressed the thousands-of-years-long efficacy of their tradition. Thomas was among 46 Like most herbalists Thomas rarely did “house herbalists who proposed an amendment to allow some calls” and over the course of 28 months from 1936 to practitioners to continue in business, an interesting 1938 Thomas treated 1204 patients: 626 men, 549 amendment that stipulated that herbalists would only women and 29 children at his practice and “by post”. work with each other. The campaign was successful and They came from a geographical area of 4,200 square after 6,800 signatures to a petition opposing it, the bill miles. Patients came from a wide socio-economic was withdrawn. It left 76 ‘Asian’ and 44 ‘European’ background - landowners, farmers, shopkeepers and herbalists free to practice in uneasy co-existence. business people of many kinds from undertakers to ice

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Thomas Chong on the front verandah of his home, 38 Grant Street, Bairnsdale where he Stratford Sentinel & Briagolong Express conducted his practice. He had purchased the house, known as Shalford, Friday September 1914 from Captain Bull, c1915. (EGHS Collection P11922 ) merchants, hairdressers and professionals such as a Thomas married Florence May Sam in 1916 and pharmacist and a minister of religion. He also treated of their six children, five followed their father by artists, domestic servants and toddlers and some of his becoming health care professionals, Ray and Dorothy in patients travelled from Melbourne to see him. medicine, Bert and Norman in pharmacy and Geoffrey in dentistry. Gilbert became an engineer. Several of his Although Thomas never used the title “doctor”, he grandchildren also entered the health care industry. was known throughout the district as “Doc Chong” and While Thomas confined his interests to medical theory in common with many legally qualified, registered and practice, his wife and children were actively doctors of the time, he had a red lantern above his gate involved in the community through their school, church which glowed all night. Thomas worked seven days a and sports interests. week, averaging 24 to 30 consultations in a week. For patients that couldn’t make the trip, he ran an The advent of WW2 also introduced “wonder- extensive mail order system. His annual income over drugs” into the community such as sulpha tablets and 1936-38 averaged £916, which placed him comfortably antibiotics and the role of the traditional Chinese in the middle class. This however, was not excessive for herbalist started to wane in the 1940s. the times. For comparison, Dr David Fitzpatrick who practiced in Sale was very different to Thomas Chong. In 1950, after successfully working in Bairnsdale He treated mainly infectious diseases (measles, mumps for over three decades, Thomas Chong died. His coughs and colds), together with trauma, midwifery and competence as a practitioner had won him the respect of surgical cases and also did “house calls”. Fitzpatrick the community and in 1994 his abilities were recognised averaged 70 patients a week and his estimated income when the Brownless Library of the University of in 1937 was about £1,700 compared to Thomas earning Melbourne Medical School accepted his library of texts £916. The highest rate for a secondary school teacher which no doubt would have given him a great deal of around this time was £650. satisfaction.

From patient records between 31 August 1936 to 26 December 1938, Thomas treated a wide range of conditions that were listed under 15 categories, they included: digestive system (228), rheumatology (213), The exhibition is currently on view at the Museum, neurology (141), dermatology (109), urology (77), 40 Macarthur St Bairnsdale until Sunday 29 November. psychiatry (65), respiratory system (52), otolaryngology Opening times Wed/Sat/Sun 1.00 – 4.00 pm (37), cardiology (28), obstetrics and gynecology (20), surgery (20), proctodeum (11), hematology (7), pediatrics (1), and ophthalmology (1). This article was compiled by museum volunteer Tansy The most common complaints were lower back Bradshaw and draws heavily on Ann Andrew’s book pain (100), hepatalgia (100), headache (80), rheumatic Bairnsdale’s Home and Hospital published in 1999 and Morag Loh’s article ‘An outpost of the Chinese Medical arthrodynia (40), gastralgia (40), irritability (31), Tradition : the practice of Thomas Chong, Bairnsdale’ that insomnia (30), enteritis (30), exanthema (28), cranial was originally published in Gippsland Heritage Journal neuritis (25), bronchopneumonia and cough (24), and No. 18 (June 1995), 2-7. pain on urination (24).

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Copyright, Citing and Sources : the elephant in the room

Editor, Debbie Squires, looks at what seems to be the current “state of play” and the standards that are being applied in regard to copyright, citing and sources in the present digital age.

I’m Annoyed

I really am getting old and crotchety, I think. Either that, or I just have very little tolerance for other people’s crap. The picture with this article is one I have hanging in my living room. It is a picture of two of my grand uncles, William Carlton and Vernon Wilbur Wright. There is only one other picture like this and I am unsure of its location. I do, however, know that there are not some 20 people with a copy of it – all of them subscribers to Ancestry.com. I do know where they got the photo. I’ve posted it. I’ve also asked that if it is reused that those who use it credit me as the content creator. I own the original and the photographer is long dead. When I read the original uploader names on Ancestry, I have to ask why they don’t credit their source. Do they not care that they are using something that belongs to another? Is the world of the internet so open nowadays that content belongs to all? I am always happy to share my genealogical finds and the documents and photos I dredge from dusty boxes of old family. I would be happier if I am credited with the discovery or the ownership of my items.

When I read the above blog entry I couldn’t help but changes to the Copyright Act many of these are more relate to it and in another post the writer, Mike freely available. Take for example the thousands of Sedgwick concluded a list of disappointing behaviour digital images that available at the State Library of with his top complaint - Victoria website. There is a wide selection of high resolution images there for the researcher and others 1. Photo and document thieves. You people to use and freely access. The generosity of the SLV annoy me to no end! I hate clicking on a hint allowing free downloads of these images still astounds leaf and find it being a picture of one of my me as it was not that long ago that these images could direct family members that you have stolen – – only be seen by travelling to the respective State yes, STOLEN [Mike’s emphasis]– – from my Library, calling up the image and then, if you wanted family website or findagrave and posted as a copy of it, ordering a print. That was a minimum of your own with no notation about where the something like $25 for the smallest print and you picture came from or even just ‘I ripped Mike waited up to eight weeks to arrive in the mail. Today, off’ It’s just plain rude. with the click of a button, we have those images and they are free for us to use with very few conditions. … and again, I agreed. In the past a complete book But there are conditions that I was co-author of was reprinted in its entirety in another country with no consultation whatsoever! The State Library of Victoria is providing access to this work to support creativity, innovation and None of us are perfect with our treatment of knowledge exchange. Although there are no citations and sourcing but it seems to me that in the copyright restrictions on this work, the State present climate there is little or no regard for Library of Victoria does not endorse or support any acknowledgement and frankly, it is not really derogatory uses of this work. acceptable. We should at least be making an effort to In using this work you agree to acknowledge the acknowledge where images come from if only to work's creator and the State Library of Victoria as make it easier for historians in the future. the source of the work.

and it seems that they are largely ignored by many We live in an age of luxury where we have people who chose to download and collect (and in some access to amazing images online and with recent

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instances sell) these images. The citations are there for you to “cut and paste” into your own files. They can’t make it any easier! It has been suggested to me by staff working in these institutions just how hard it is for them when people come in with a print out that states, if they are lucky, SLV - but where in the SLV! Is it in pictures or manuscripts? Is it from a book or a newspaper? Think about it - Facebook is transient and the historians of the future are going to struggle in the current environment. Make it easier for them. If the reference is there we all benefit!

I have seen images reproduced on any number of blogs, Facebook pages, websites and other publications with what seems no thought to acknowledgement.

We can’t afford to abuse this An example of perfect citation. privilege. When the Australian War Merron Riddiford runs the Western District Families website at Memorial first started to upload images of http://westerndistrictfamilies.com/ and I am in awe of citing consistency. the WWI solders you could “save as” in an enlarged option but I have now noticed critical and scathing of the loss of old buildings in that only low resolution images are available. Could it the town. These comments have implied that it be that through all the downloads that have happened should never have been allowed to happen and that with the anniversary of WWI that the blatant the historians of the past were to blame. I remember reproduction without acknowledgement has frustrated clearly five nights sleeping in my car to prevent the this archive? I speculate that perhaps it has and the demolition of a local building and how hard it was to enlarged option was withdrawn. If you take a look at gain community support at the time. In the pre social the copy charges for hard copy and hi-res downloads/ media days it was not as easy to rally support and digital copies you may well wish that others had been ultimately we failed. It is somewhat insulting to read more responsible and respectful . these comments from people who evidently didn’t

care enough at the time or weren't here but are Don’t abuse what we have now been given by happy to make judgements without finding out the these institutions. They could have chosen not to put facts. They then choose social media to make blanket their collections online and we wouldn’t have seen 10% comments about situations of which they have little of what is now available. They could just as easily chose or no knowledge. to withdraw them.

But be heartened - it is not all bad news! If you have concerns or questions about copyright There are some who are doing marvellous work and you should be aware of the existence of the Copyright it is a joy to access their sites. Merron Riddiford from Council of Australia who are in charge of the Western District Families for example has citing regulations in regards to copyright of everything. Two prowess that I envy! Hot links jump you direct to the specialist publications which affect our field of interest original source so you don’t even have to find the are Copyright and Photographers and sites. Copyright and Historians.

So - if you are reading this and it is resonating Citing and sourcing doesn’t just apply to the with you and you are recognizing yourself through photographs you can be download. It also applies to the your actions - please - do something about it. Be knowledge that you are using. If you quote a great responsible and respect the work of those who have chunk of text from someone else acknowledge them! It is gone before and cite as you should. It would be a sad respectful and recognises that work that has already day if the libraries decided that they were tired of the been done by others. system being abused and withdrew it!

When an article that I was responsible for publishing years ago comes back to me in the guise of another author’s work I question how much respect is And just in case you are wondering - yes I did contact the being paid to the past work done in our local history. All of the owner of the blog that I extracted I’m Annoyed from that is needed is accurate attribution of your sources. who was very happy to share his sentiment. It was originally posted by Mike Sedgwick on 28 March 2013 and I have also had it bought to my attention some you can find the extract at https:// comments on various Facebook pages that have been sedgwick2graham.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/im-annoyed.

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In Memorium

JOAN MARY MAWSON MARGARET EMILY AH SAM 2.6.1924 - 22.5.2015 c1933 - 3.8.2015

Joan was one of the early members heart. Sadly, just six years after Margaret was a former member of of the family history group and was Kim’s death, Ivan also died. the family history group and generous in her support of the Her new life in Paynesville represented the members on group. She donated one of our first saw Joan develop many interests - committee. Born into the Turner microfiche readers for members to gardening, history, bonsai, family it was after her marriage to share in their own homes when we stamps, bowls, golf, Probus, Tom Ah Sam that she developed an didn’t have a permanent home! Legacy, RSL and CWA. She interest in family history and the Joan had lived in discovered a talent as an artist on Chinese history in this area. Powelltown, Balwyn, Beaumaris, both canvas and ceramic, loved When the matter of the Cheltenham, Mt Eliza and Black photography and her Siamese cats Chinese section of the Bairnsdale Rock before making Paynesville her and whippets. cemetery was being discussed home for 36 years. Her love of family history Margaret was very involved in Joan Manning married Ivan was only enhanced by her love of seeing that this facet of our local Mawson in 1946 when she was a letter writing and she wrote history was not lost. nurse in the Australian Army regularly to relatives she Our condolences to Mandy Medical Woman’s Service at discovered overseas and lifelong and Dave, Jason and Jan and her Heidelberg. It was here that she penfriends. grandchildren Jake, Beth and May. cared for many POWs from Changi, Vale Joan, your cheerful was at Caulfield Repatriation optimism, enthusiasm and Hospital and nursed those with TB support of the East Gippsland and malaria. Joan and Ivan had Family History Group will be two sons, John (1948-69) and Kim remembered. (1953-73) who were always in her

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Reminder for all members of both societies that your membership is Accession Register now overdue. If you haven’t paid up There have been donations a plenty to the EGFHG Library from both past your subscription please do so as your groups depend on subscriptions and present members together with substantial purchases. Next time you to help them operate. are at the rooms, check out some of these new items on the shelves.

Publications USB DRIVE USAGE Single and Free : Female Migration to Australia 1833-1837 Images of Time : A Pictorial History of Healesville EGFHG members are encouraged to Brickmasters 1788-2008 bring along their own USB for storing any Mammoth Pies of Denby Dale in Yorkshire documents found when using the group computer system HOWEVER you are Public Record Office : List of Holdings 1994 reprint asked to make sure it is a clean drive Patties : The Rijs Family Chronicle without any viruses. We have had Nagle College Bairnsdale 50th Anniversary 1958-2008 instances of Trojans infecting the system Arrows of Hope : Selected Convict Stories Vol 2 so please use Vipre on the system to Coles 100 years of Quality, Service and Value protect our files and sweep any USB My Grandmother’s Story : The Life of Catherine ‘Kate’ Deery clean when you plug it in. Viruses and other files are not needed on the group Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827-1853 system. Lewis Cork - A Topographical Dictionary The Shire of Hampden 1863 - 1963 FACEBOOK A History of Bitteswell A Bush Girl If you haven’t done so already have a City of Chelsea look at the new EGFHG Facebook Under the Honour Roll pages. One “Their Duty Done” is devoted to the WW1 project and the other is No Rugged Landscape devoted to the activities of the group. Jindera : A town and it’s people Teresa Collis is managing both of them Looking at Darwin’s Past and doing a great job. Help her spread Index to Deaths in the Eurobodalla Shire the word by sharing our site with your Shellharbour General Cemetery “friends” and get us out there.! Illawarra Residents 1828 & 1841 The Way we Were : Early Days in Deakin Shire LUCKNOW PRIMARY SCHOOL Victorian Municipal Directory 1968 PROJECT Six Stamps Please - A Tableau of Australian Post Offices 150 years : Lanyon 1835-1985 In the next issue of BS we will be looking at the Lucknow Grade 5 WW1 project There once was a very old gum tree: Family History of Friedrich Herbig and the relationship that has developed Mildura Calling between the class and the EGFHG in Hill End Story Book 1, 2 & 3 detail. No. 2815 Middle Park School 1887-1987 God’s Acre : A History of the Church of St Stephen the Martyr Students have published their Hunters of God : St Bernard’s Church, Hartley NSW book Our 28 Men to record the men on Pioneering in the Bellinger Valley the school honour roll. Pictured below with the students involved are Debbie Newstead - Some Early History Squires (who liaised with the class) and Tony Meade when they recently visited CD/DVDs them to talk about Gallipoli. Berkshire Burial Index Cambridgeshire Baptism Index Plans are currently underway for Cheshire Marriage Index the class to visit the research rooms and explore the resources. Gloucestershire Wills Vol. 1 1541-1650 Hampshire Baptism Index 1813-1841 Hampshire Burial Index 1400-1837 Parish Registers Vol. 6 Sheerness Dockyard Chapel Transcript Dockyards Ancestors Parish Registers Register of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London London Compendium (Set 2) London Church Registers Compendium Scholars of St Peters College, Westminster 1561-1812 Medical Directory 1898 Britain and Ireland Crockfords Clerical Directory 1908 Crockfords Clerical Directory 1874 Hertfordshire Burial Index 1800-1851

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“Bridging Generations” : an outstanding success “Highly appropriate venue historically and easily accessible location.”

Despite a gloomy forecast (in the weather that is!) the Throughout the day the speakers fielded questions first of what is hoped to be an ongoing series of lecture from the floor and from individuals in the breaks solving and information days was an outstanding success and some of the problems that those present had attended by over sixty participants. The selection of encountered. speakers was supported by a very popular homemade The “six degrees of separation” rule became morning and afternoon tea and before the official start apparent when on Saturday morning, Tim Hogan spoke some of the titles available on the book stall were already to the organising committee expressing his delight at sold out! finding three of his grandmother’s cousins in the book The morning session started with Debra Parry that the Lucknow from Melbourne Conservation Services who went “Valuable opportunity to chat and students had presented through the basics of conserving your family network with others during breaks.” him. documents, photographs and textiles (amongst other It was suggested by many of those present that the EGFHG should hold this as an annual event. The organising committee greatly appreciated the support of the East Gippsland Shire with a grant which enabled it to bring the speakers to Bairnsdale and helped with the costs associated with running the day. It was also grateful for the sponsorship that Office National, James Yeates and Son Pty Ltd, Lightfoot & Son Wines, “Really appreciate having this seminar in Bairnsdale.” Archival Survival, Calulu Press, Pictu*resque and Collins Booksellers gave items). It seems one of the most economical (and safe) the day. Those lucky winners of the door tickets were ways of filling your documents is to use the display books Susan Cade with runners-up Tansy Bradshaw, Eril with the appropriate type of plastic pages. Andrews and Dot Hunter being fortunate enough to win After morning tea Tim Hogan, who is Victorian and prizes. Australian Collections Manager at the State Library outlined the resources that are only available “in house” as distinct to online. His special interest in newspapers and family connection with Gippsland was evident in his presentation. Immediately before the lunch break four students from the Lucknow school visited to make a presentation to Tim on behalf of the school for the State Library. They have recently completed their book, Our 28 Men , on the names of those on the school Honour Roll. All of those present were impressed with the way they conducted themselves and “Great day - well worth attending spoke to the group about their project. from 100kms away.” After a suitable lunch break (and more networking!) the afternoon session was with the Public Record Office and Daniel Wilksch ran through the Battle to Farm website that it has developed for the soldier settlement scheme and after a So - if you have a good idea for a speaker for the next short break detailed samples of the type of record you one feel free to contact one of the committee - Pam can find in relation to the Education Department including Sullivan, Wayne George, Cheryl Brooks, Dorothy Mann teachers, students and history of the buildings. or Debbie Squires.

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the Black Sheep is the combined journal of the East Gippsland Family History Group Inc. and East Gippsland Historical Society Inc

ISSN 1035-6363

Contributions most welcome to [email protected]

East Gippsland Family History Group Inc.

21 Morgan Street, Bairnsdale P.O. Box 1104, Bairnsdale 875 (off Moroney Street - look for the red door) Telephone: 5152 5590

Email: [email protected] www.egfhg.org.au

OPENING HOURS TUESDAY 10am to 4pm THURSDAY 10am to 4pm (or later) SATURDAY 10am to 12noon (or later) (except 2nd Sat. of month 10am to 4pm)

DAILY RESEARCH FEE $10 per day (non-members) RESEARCH FEE (by committee) $25 minimum fee MEMBERSHIP FEES Joining Fee $5 Ordinary Member $30 (due 1 July each year) Extra Family Member (same address) $15.00

Committee Members 2015-2016 President Tony Meade Vice President Martin Hopkins Secretary Kerry Hopkins Treasurer Neil Cox Librarian Marilyn Quayle Publicity Officer Cheryl Brooks Editor Debbie Squires Committee Gwen McInnes Deirdre Bennett Dorothy Mann Pam Sullivan Wayne George Teresa Collis

East Gippsland Historical Society Inc.

40 Macarthur Street, Bairnsdale P.O. Box 8, Bairnsdale 3875 Telephone: 5152 6363

Email: [email protected] www.eastgippslandhistoricalsociety.com

OPENING HOURS WEDNESDAY 1pm to 4pm SATURDAY 1pm to 4pm SUNDAY 1pm to 4pm

MUSEUM ADMISSION CHARGES Adults $5: Conc/Student $4 :Children $2

The museum houses furnishings, artefacts, machinery and memorabilia of local history, Calejero log cabin c1880 and Union Bank coach house.

DAILY RESEARCH FEE $10 (non-members)

MEMBERSHIP FEES Joining Fee $5 Ordinary Member $25 (due 1 July each year) Couple Membership $35

Committee Members 2015-2016 President Diana Wolter Vice President Carole Ingwersen Secretary Jacque Hocking Treasurer Ian Hollingsworth Committee Don Love Alma Angus t h e B l a c k S h e e p 8 8 . 24