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Contents Presidents Report 2 Council 2 Vale 3 My Inimitable Grandfather-in-Law 4 Immigrants of the David Clarke 6 Letter from England 7 Bendigo Diggings 9 Sunday Talks 10 Interest Group details 11 Annual Reports 12 Photo Restoration Service 16 ICI vintage advertising 18 Etc 19 Walhalla 20 Mission to Seafarers 22 Prahran Mechanics Institute 24 From Here and There 26 New Resources 28

The official magazine of Family History Connections (AIGS Inc.) Reg. No. A0027436X ABN 97 600 455 890 From the President

The first things that strike me when members seated near each other are I arrive at the newly named Resource helping each other and offering tips Centre at Blackburn is the new Family and ideas. The office is always busy History Connections signage and the with Tricia PARNELL, our Office three eye-catching photographs on Manager, patiently helping everyone the windows facing Railway Road with answers to their questions. Some and Queen Street. These all help to days Coral POWELL is also there to deliver the message that this is a place help, particularly with answering the where you can undertake your family phone. She is an expert at explaining history research. the benefits of joining FHC, and she is very persuasive! Every time I visit the Resource Centre, it is gratifying to see members Some afternoons the small meeting engrossed in their research, mainly room is full of Interest Group members using the computers, but sometimes attending their monthly meetings. They reading books or magazines! Often are always lively and informative the volunteer Library Assistants will meetings where members can learn and be helping someone with a problem share information in their particular or showing them how to use a areas of interest. website or access a CD. Sometimes Council for 2018-2019 Executive

President Gail WHITE Vice Presidents Robin STUTCHBURY Oops... Eagle eyed members Carolann THOMSON will have noticed the gremlins crept in and Treasurer Ron GRIMES upset the numbering of the December 2018 and Minutes Pauline TURVILLE March 2019 editions, with each being labelled Responsibilities as Volume XVI, No 12.

Education Gail WHITE Having got ahead of ourselves, we have Magazine Carolann THOMSON indeed begun Volume XVI, and this June issue Membership Marg STAMMERS is No 2. Network Gary FITZGERALD Property Robin STUTCHBURY Other Responsibilities (non-Council positions) Publicity Wendy BROWN Interest Groups Carolyn MORRISEY Records Gail WHITE Newsletter Cheryl HEAZLEWOOD

VAFHO Mary MIDDLETON Research Jenny WYKE Volunteers Bev GREENWAY Website (General) Linda FARRELL Facebook Linda FARRELL Website (Members area) Gary FITZGERALD

4 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 If I come in on a Thursday when the to be hard at work. Once a month Despite this rosy picture of the Resource Centre is closed, this doesn’t Lesle BERRY will be presenting the organisation, the membership numbers mean the place is empty, far from it, popular free IN-SITE talks on various are still slowly declining each year, there are the volunteers of the various topics to help with research. Saturdays despite our best efforts to maintain groups hard at work. Projects vary may see a library tour for new members numbers. Member subscriptions are from indexing land records and the taking place, led by Lorraine SALTER our main source of income, and we Hue & Cry Police Gazettes to members and in the afternoons there could be a need this money to keep the Resource of the IT group adding CDs to the Starting Out class being taken by Jane Centre running. Finding other ways to network or updating computers. DAVIES. Our premises may be small raise money takes much time and effort The fiche and film catalogues are but they are always a hive of activity. by Council and other volunteers. being completely revamped to The Council has worked very hard accurately reflect the vast holding of again this year on behalf of all Gail White unique records held in the library. the members. We were pleased Maintenance work is often carried out to welcome Ron GRIMES as our on a Thursday as well, organised by Treasurer, and Margaret STAMMERS The many highlights and achievements Robin STUTCHBURY, the Property as Membership Secretary. They have for 2017-2018 are recorded in the and Maintenance Co-ordinator. both been on a steep learning curve reports beginning on page 12. Friday mornings are the time for the and their contributions are greatly cleaning team and book shelf checkers appreciated by Council.

Oops... Vale

Muriel THOMAS, a long-time member of the Bendigo FHG. She has been a member since 1993 and very much enjoyed researching her family.

Lesley STURT passed away 5th February 2019. This is the first opportunity the friends of LESLEY STURT have had to acknowledge her devotion to the AIGS (as it was for most of her time). She was a very early member, joining in September 1980 and made a valuable contribution in many different ways.

Lesley was always available to proof read whatever needed doing: this magazine which she helped proof for at least 10 years, in later years the Parliamentary Papers for Victoria and the Hue & Cry Project. Prior to this Lesley was a part of Olive MOORE’s Land Records project. Lesley always had a reliable eye for correct punctuation and spelling but more than that, she was a delight to work with. Although quietly spoken she could be relied upon to make a valuable contribution to most working problems.

For the last ten years I had the privilege of working with Lesley on the Hue & Cry Project. She was most concerned to see it completed and it will be with Lesley STURT in mind that we will celebrate its completion in 2019. - Noelene Goodwin on behalf of the Hue & Cry team.

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 5 My Inimitable Grandfather-in-Law Ian Nowak

My wife, Margaret (née WILLIS) had always thought her maternal grandfather, Hector Roderick MCWILLIAM, was an orphan. The truth, discovered only recently by Margaret’s friend Gail THOMAS, was that Hector was born on 9th August 1877, out of wedlock, to Nancy MCWILLIAM. Although the records have always been there for the truly delving genealogist, this latest revelation was only surprising as, such was the family lore quite possibly believed by Margaret’s mother, Jean WILLIS (Hector’s daughter) or, back in those times, a honeyed version of the truth was preferable.

When Hector was only seven, his mother married William CLEAVER and the couple went on to have five children of their own. Nancy lived to the age of 84 and Gail turned up four obituaries, each mentioning that Nancy had been a pillar of society, kind, and indeed pious. But her son Hector is not mentioned in any of them, he seems to have been ‘airbrushed’ out. Quite possibly Hector’s ‘non-existence’ was the price Nancy paid to marry the man she loved.

I came to know Hector well from 1959. We liked each other and I came to respect him for the man he was, all that he had achieved, and the way he always sought to Ian & Margaret NOWAK with Hugh McWILLIAM conquer life’s obstacles, including that he was very short at 5’2”, when I knew him as an elderly man in his eighties. I never knew any of my own grandparents, so Hector was real estate man, set about developing the Tuross area as a something of a stand-in. He always reckoned that this sought-after locality for purchasing land, with the word particular granddaughter was about to marry wisely, as I ‘resort’ being subtly planted in investors’ minds. To that was a geologist and therefore useful. This was of course the end, he built tennis courts, and in 1927 made a 16mm clincher for my affection! movie called ‘Beautiful Tuross’, which he showed all over NSW. Such was the drive and energy of this man. A little background before my memories intrude. Hector MCWILLIAM sat for, and passed, the NSW government Hector also planted hundreds of Norfolk Pine seedlings, public service exam in 1898 (clerical division), which allowed most derived from the lone tree by Tuross House, over him to hold positions in the Chief Secretary’s Department some thirty years which still line the impressive four to from Walcha, through Orange, to Wagga. Over the years five kilometre-long Hector McWilliam Drive from the he dabbled in politics, initially as a Liberal and then as an highway to the coast, passing between Coila and Tuross Independent. In 1904, he married Jessie FORSYTHE in Lakes, and terminating at Tuross Head. These days Tuross Young with whom he had three children, including my Head is a thriving township of nearly 2,500 folk. In the wife’s mother, Jean. Jessie died in 1914, and in 1916 Hector fullness of time Margaret’s uncle Harry OVERGAARD married Ethel GRAY in Sydney, with whom he fathered two (husband of Jess), whom I knew well as an engaging man, sons. Margaret tells me her mother and her siblings from the built a cairn as a memorial to his remarkable father-in-law, earlier marriage found their stepmother ‘difficult’. Around Hector Roderick MCWILLIAM (1877–1974). As a retired this time he stood for election twice as a local councillor in geologist I cannot help but admire the rounded granite Sydney, both unsuccessfully. boulders that Harry used in the cairn.

Hector MCWILLIAM was listed as a property agent in the Sufficient unto the man himself. Anyone interested in Wagga district, when he fell in love with and purchased further information may wish to contact the Moruya and Tuross Estate from Mary MYLOTT in 1923. The Tuross District Historical Society Museum. land, which is south of Moruya and north of Bodalla on the south coast of NSW, came with ‘Tuross House’, a * * * wonderful and gracious stone and weatherboard residence, built in 1870. Margaret’s mother and her sister Jess, took With my mind now awash with personal memories of this over the running of this residence as a boarding house in diminutive giant of a man, I feel the need to record some of 1926. Meanwhile Hector, an incorrigibly entrepreneurial these as I approach my own eightieth birthday. As I wrote

6 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 best hotels laid their dining tables. I recall being (quietly!) absolutely horrified; my own mother would have given her eye teeth for such a cloth for her table. The waiter, when he brought the food, did not bat an eyelid.

On the second such occasion, months later and again at the Metropole, I was more involved. We had a European waiter take our order, and all was well until he happened to bring my rare steak before the others. He then hovered over me and said, I believe, “Must start zis steak”. Having been brought up to wait until everyone has food, I felt his urging was a little inappropriate. He then repeated “Must start zis steak”. Upon a third repetition, much louder now, “SIR — MUST START ZIS STEAK!”, my confusion turned to anger. I asserted myself. “I’ll start when I’m ready . . . “ I almost shouted, barely in control of myself. It was at this point that Margaret’s grandfather leant across and whispered in my ear “I think our friend is inquiring as to whether you would like some mustard with your steak”.

I remember Hector as a very generous man. When he took Margaret and me to see Sir John GIELGUD perform The Ages of Man, a solo performance, probably in 1960, at the old Theatre Royal in Castlereagh Street, he bought tickets in the very front row of the stalls. We were seated only a few metres from the great actor; totally out of our own reach financially. Although it was just GIELGUD in a dark suit with a background of deep scarlet velvet drapes, in my memory I still see and hear only the commotion of battle GIELGUD conjured up in one of his soliloquies. Such was the power of this man to instill lasting images into receptive minds. A younger Hector MCWILLIAM Date unknown One last recollection. When he heard I was leaving Sydney earlier, we liked each other, and that always catalyses the for Western Australia to work with the State government fonder recollections. Such as the time I managed to avoid Geological Survey, he must have invited me somewhere for being bored to tears by a slide show Margaret and several lunch, during the course of which he gave me a sound piece other family members endured of Hector’s recent trip of advice. “If you ever feel the need to talk to someone around the south island of New Zealand, which consisted about your career, give my old mate Charlie COURT a largely of some 200 slides of green paddocks containing ring. I believe he’s progressed to a fairly senior position these various numbers of sheep. Ever the rural man, he was days. Just mention my name and he’ll see you right.” When fascinated by how many sheep were able to be run per acre I came to WA I discovered ‘Charlie’ was indeed holding a in a cool climate with plenty of rain. He was no doubt “fairly senior position”; that of Deputy Premier. He was wistfully extrapolating to the south coast of NSW. knighted soon after I arrived (1969) and spent many years himself as Premier Sir Charles Court. So, perhaps not Hector always stayed at the Hotel Metropole in Bent Street surprisingly, I let the advice I’d been given lapse. when he came up to Sydney. By the time I knew him he was moderately wealthy, sufficiently so for the persistent Hector McWILLIAM was indeed an indomitable man in rumour of his having flagged down a Sydney taxi one time so many ways. It has been my privilege to have known and requesting “Tuross Head please” to the astonished him. He died on 5th July 1974 at the age of ninety-six. driver. But I recall Margaret and I being invited to dine with him on two separate occasions, both of which left me squirming with embarrassment. On the first of these, he wanted to draw us a map for some reason. He had a pen but could find no paper, so he proceeded to draw the map on the exquisite damask tablecloth, with which the very

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 7 Immigrants of the David Clark, arrived 27 October 1839 Michel Raymond

The David Clark Courtesy of Lance PYMBLE To mark the 180th anniversary of the David Clark’s dropping Australia (Vic) (see www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/ anchor in Hobson’s Bay on 27 October 1839, a reunion is gulf-station). Gulf Station was the venue of an event that planned for Sunday, 27 October 2019, at Gulf Station, 1029 was part of the 150th David Clark anniversary weekend Melba Highway, Yarra Glen, Victoria. Descendants of those celebrations, and of a small event for the 175th anniversary. 229 passengers are invited. To receive more information as plans progress, email now to: Gulf Station was the farm of David Clark passenger William [email protected] (that should be easy to remember!) BELL and it has connections to several other David Clark Please feel free to share this message with others who might families who settled at nearby Kangaroo Ground. This be interested. historic farm is now managed by the National Trust of

As a participant, you may wish to do more than just attend (some possibilities below), include that in your response: • Bring a gazebo or banner to be the focus for descendants of a specific passenger or family (so we can allocate spots and prepare a map for the day). • Display artefacts, images, etc (there is limited indoor space at Gulf Station). • Give a talk (so we can prepare a program for the day). • Sell publications relevant to specific passengers or the voyage. • Play the bagpipes (especially Lochaber No More, the tune played as the ship sailed). • Provide suggestions for appropriate food vendors (eg, haggis).

8 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 Letter from England Peter Bennett

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There have been some very useful records come online I have used the returns successfully many times to trace a recently, which have the potential to add to the family convict. I have usually known the ship and date of histories of many people. transportation, so just use the returns for that quarter until I find the person. I then know where he or she was at a date, I recall back in my Melbourne days, the inwards passenger and can work back from there, and so pick up all the other lists of assisted migrants with huge numbers of people from hulks or prisons which are part of the story. Scotland arriving in the 1850s, many of them from Skye and other island communities. The Scotlands People site, If you have a convict from Hampshire, do look at scotlandspeople.gov.uk has recently released records of the Findmypast’s collection of Portsmouth Quarter Sessions Highlands and Islands Emigration society, which arranged records, dating from 1672 to 1882, although some years are many of these migrations. There are records of almost 5,000 missing. These are only available for browsing, so first you people between the years 1852 and 1857, with name, age need to determine the year and session from the Criminal and residence of each, and with useful extra information. Registers on Ancestry, or the transportation record. The remarkable thing is that the images are free to view. Researchers will need to set up a free account with Scotlands The labelling of this collection appears to be less than People but then you just go to the tab for ‘Poor Relief and helpful. There appear to be only the East and Michaelmas Migration records’ which takes you to the Highlands and sessions, but I found that Easter records included the Islands Emigration records. Epiphany Session (in January). It might take some time to find your ancestor, but these records are worth persevering As an example, there is record of John MACSWAN and his with for they are likely to add detail not found elsewhere. wife Margaret who left Glasgow on 13 July 1852 on the Georgiana for Port Philip. They are shown as coming from On the other side of the law, Findmypast now have police Glendale, Dr. MARTIN’s estate, and there is the remark that records from Portsmouth, 1908 to 1924. These are full they are an ‘eligible young couple’. On the same page, the service records, including some with photographs. MACINNES’s were a ‘strong, healthy family’, while the GRANTs were just a ‘poor family’. It’s good detail for the Turning to the nuts and bolts of our research, the births, descendants and will hopefully help in tracing the families in marriages and deaths, there are more records coming aboard Scottish records. all the time. Most marriages were after the reading of banns, for which you will sometimes find a register of banns which And while we are looking at Scotland, Findmypast has does not usually add anything, but when the marriage was by recently added the ‘Scotland, Criminal Database 1801- licence then we should spare no effort to track down the 1917’. There are some 130,000 records in this series, which documentation. There were two parts to the licence, the include accounts of witness evidence and trial papers, and they allegation and the bond. Both are likely to give the give useful details about people. occupation of the groom, and the bond could name a relation as a party. There are sometimes declarations by the Tracing the movement of a convict awaiting transportation father of the bride or groom giving his permission to an has often proved difficult. Many of the prison registers and under-age marriage. hulk records are now online, but some are lost forever. Duplicates of some exist in a separate series, the quarterly Findmypast has released a number of marriage licence returns of prisons. These are held at The National Archives records for places all over the country. Not all will have the in class HO8, and consist of bound volumes for the returns details I have mentioned, being transcripts with just the bare of each institution, be it a prison or hulk. The inmates are details, but they at least lead you to the existence of the listed by arrival date, and the remarks column will give their document and you can work on getting the original. Jeremy fate, be it transportation, another prison or, occasionally, GIBSON’s volume on marriage licences will help but have a ‘escaped’ or ‘died’. The series runs from 1824 to 1876, and now they are available on The Genealogist site. Continued over page >

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 9 Letter from England Continued from page 9

look too at other sites such as Familysearch. I have found Lancashire researchers are doubly lucky with many such documents there. Findmypast. They can now look for their ancestors among some 2.5 million people in the admission and As many will know, Yorkshire is a huge county, but is discharge registers of a variety of hospitals and fortunately fairly well covered by Ancestry and Findmypast. workhouses all over Liverpool. And the children might Still more is being added, and Findmypast now have another appear in Liverpool and Lancashire school registers. large batch of baptisms, marriages and burials from various These can be very useful in giving home addresses and parishes. If you did not find the entry last time, it is well naming the parent or guardian of the child. worth going back from time to time. The recent addition was for 135,000 baptisms in 81 parishes, and around the same for Looking ahead, we learn that Findmypast is to make the burials, so these are not insignificant numbers. 1921 census of England and Wales available online in January 1922. The 1921 census gives more detail than We have seen a huge increase in the release of Catholic records, earlier returns. Names of employers are given, marital especially on Findmypast. They have well over a million new status including if divorced, and a very interesting records from Liverpool, which was always a huge centre for addition, in that those under 15 were to say whether both Catholicism on account of being one of the major ports for or either parent was alive. immigrants from Ireland. The latest records run from 1754 to the late 20th century, and there are images too. For some years we have had the London FamilySearch Centre at The National Archives at Kew. Technology has The nonconformist records held at The National Archives moved on, and many FamilySearch records can now be have been available for some years now, on Findmypast and consulted online rather than via microfilm or fiche, so the Ancestry. Although all of the records were supposed to have FamilySearch staff will no longer be present at Kew. The been sent to the Registrar General in 1837, many were not, National Archives will become an Affiliate Library, which and these can often now be found in local record offices. means that all the FamilySearch records will be available Here in Oxfordshire there are several, thankfully transcribed on the site. Not so much news for my readers in Australia, by the Oxfordshire Family History Society. but I know that many of you make the journey over here and some get to Kew. It is useful to know what to expect. Findmypast have just added a large collection of Methodist records for Liverpool, and although they do not say so, I I’ve made no mention of military records this time, but I presume these have come from a local source. There are some came across a book in my local library recently which I 50,000 records, covering the years 1800 to 1915. found very interesting and readable. It is ‘Australia in the Great War’ by Philip PAYTON, published in 2015. The Most of the Lancashire parish records came onto Ancestry author follows the Australian troops through all of their some time ago, but now Findmypast have added those for engagements during 1914 to 1918, and also describes the parishes in Liverpool. This gives us a second chance of finding events happening in Australia, from the conscription crises those ancestors we feel sure must be there, but not found via to animosity against aliens deemed disloyal. Ancestry. Findmypast will also index them, and hopefully give a different interpretation of poorly written entries. Your If you have any family interest in the First World War, or ‘lost’ ancestor just might now appear in these over two none, I thoroughly recommend the book. It is terrific million records from 1653 to 1991. background reading as we research the lives of our ancestors.

Library note: The Genealogist (UK), Ancestry and Findmypast are all available to search on computers in the Resource Centre.

10 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 Bendigo Family History Group Bendigo Diggings

A plea for help from The Fromelles Association.

Percy Thomas KNIGHT was a Bendigo born soldier in 1st AIF who was killed in Battle of Fromelles France on 19 July 1916. This battle was a disaster for Australian and British troops and hundreds died and many of their bodies have never been found and properly buried.

A mass grave was found some 10 years ago and since then The Fromelles Association in conjunction with the Australian Army have been trying to identify the individual remains of the soldiers so that they can be individually buried with a named headstone. To do this the organisation seeks the DNA of living relatives of the soldiers. The following information may help identify the relevant family.

In April 1853 Rebecca COLE aged 40 with 3 children Descendants of Percy from his mother’s side of the family Rosetta aged 9, William aged 5 and Henry aged 2 arrived are more difficult to find, but are the most important in in Melbourne from London on the ship James L Bogert. this search. His mother Minnie, born 1869, has no father It is believed her maiden name was BUTCHER and listed in Vic BDM index but it is believed her father was husband was William COLE. We have not found him or Benjamin WIDDERS who lived with a Rosetta COLE. a marriage in England but Rebecca and the 3 children are in 1851 census. She was born Northleach Gloucestershire This couple probably had another daughter in 1865 and the 3 children in London. Rebecca died in 1889 named Phoebe who is therefore a possible sister having been in The Bendigo Benevolent Asylum since of Minnie. Phoebe married in 1885 to a William 1885. Asylum records say she has a daughter and two sons GOODING and they lived in Epsom, Bendigo. They had in Sandhurst but they cannot help her. children Reuben, John, William, Leonard, Percy, Rose and Horace. The DNA of any descendants of these children Rosetta does not appear to have married but has at least may help identify the body of Percy KNIGHT. two children, Minnie and Phoebe from a Benjamin WIDDERS. She died in 1886. Her brother William Can you help? COLE did not marry but his brother Henry did to Elizabeth VINNARD and they had children.

Percy KNIGHT was born in Epsom/Huntly in 1895. His father was Thomas KNIGHT and mother Minnie WIDDERS who had married in 1893. Thomas KNIGHT died in 1903 and widow Minnie remarried in 1909 to William Ormond FARRELL and they moved to South Melbourne where Minnie died in 1945. Thomas KNIGHT and Minnie had twin boys in 1898 who are brothers of Percy. They are Frank Matheson KNIGHT and Herbert Cole KNIGHT. Frank married in 1925 to Ida ENTWISTLE and died in Preston 1966; Herbert married in 1928 to Olive COLLINS and he died in Geelong in 1960.

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 11 • FREE to attend • Bookings essential Sunday Sunday 7th July Resource Centre “Making the most of your membership: Using MyHeritage and other Talks resources in the members area from home” First Sunday of the month, 2 – 4pm Presented by Gail WHITE (unless otherwise stated)

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11:00am - 2:00pm 10:00am - 4:00pm Sunday 6th October Sunday 20th October Blackburn RSL Bookings essential Resource Centre Bookings essential

“Accessing the Public Records Office”. “Parish Registers” and “The Parish Chest”. FHC volunteers FREE $50 Presented by Mark Grealy Members $25 Lunch included Presented by Dr David Wright GSV and CAV members $27.50 This is a repeat of the popular seminar on using the wealth of Two talks with a lunch break. BYO lunch. Non-members $30 records at the PROVic

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FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 13 ANNUAL REPORTS

Records Management 9 Awards 9

The Library at Blackburn is now referred to as the Resource The forty fifth Centre of Family History Connections. This name better conveys Alexander the range of resources that we hold besides books, the traditional Henderson and definition of a library. A major coup for the year was securing a sixth Don Grant subscription to the MyHeritage database, which can be accessed Awards winners by members in the Resource Centre or through the Members Area for 2017 were at home. What a great advantage of membership of the FHC! presented at the Luncheon on A milestone has been reached this year with over 4000 CDs 27th May 2018. being made available on any computer in the Resource Centre, a great achievement by the Records Management Group and the Network Administrator! The judges were Don GARDEN, Helen HARRIS and Gail WHITE. There were ten entrants for the Research Services 9 Alexander Henderson Award for family history and six for the The Research Team is made up of a group of members who are Don Grant Award for biography. experienced family history researchers, each with their own areas of The full report can be read in the expertise. Last year we undertook a variety of requests both small and September 2018 Genealogist. large from members and non-members alike covering all parts of the world. Sources consulted included records held at FHC, on-line sites, Qwezsxdfgchvjbkj subscription sites, and private resources held by our researchers. The Team were extremely proud of their achievements over the past year IT Group 9 waezsxrdctfvygbhnjklm bnv with all funds received from clients going directly to FHC to assist in the running of the library and increasing the records available. The past year has seen a number zsxdfcgyvhbjkn of upgrades carried out by the Information Technology asdfghjklqwertyuiop[] Education 9 Group. The move towards zxcvbnm,.1234567890-= replacement workstations along Family History Connections provides several avenues of education for with Windows 10 and superior its members and non-members. We try to make these opportunities hardware has meant those as accessible as possible. For those beginning their research, there are workstations are much faster than Starting Out classes which are provided at no cost and presented by the Windows 7 workstations. Jane DAVIES. For members, the monthly Friday morning IN-SITE This also resulted in an increase talks are presented by Lesle BERRY and are very popular with an of workstations available in the attendance of about 200 members in 2018. These are practical classes library. We have also been busy on resources on the Internet. There is no charge for these classes. upgrading our main servers to The monthly Sunday afternoon talks are presented by a range of cope with the influx of digital knowledgeable speakers, some of whom are members of FHC, some media, something which is only are from outside the organisation. There is a small charge for these going to increase over time. talks, but free to FHC volunteers to attend. Every month the talks The Member’s Area website has are booked out, leading to a total of 365 participants in 2018. The undergone some changes to monthly Interest Group meetings and newsletters provide another provide faster and better search avenue for members to learn more about their particular areas of provisions. Planning toward new interest. All these classes covering so many aspects of family history technologies is ongoing. research are popular and invaluable to members.

14 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 Awards 9 Magazine 9 Property and Maintenance 9

If a magazine has a philosophy, ours is three-fold. The change of name from AIGS to Family History First, we provide a service to members and non- Connections provided the opportunity to update and members alike, alerting them to the resources and replace all the building signage. The artwork installed services they can access through membership of the on the windows, using members photographs and the Institute. Second, the magazine introduces different expertise of Michael TROIANI at Baron Printing, has avenues for the consideration of family historians given the Resource Centre an increased street presence, and makes new connections with interesting places making it easily seen from the nearby streets, and even in Victoria. The continued association with the from across the train line. Ongoing roof work has Prahran Mechanics Institute seeks to illustrate how now been completed by the Body Corporate, making a family history can be enhanced looking beyond the building waterproof whenever there are torrential census records, BDMs and newspapers. The link downpours. Internally, the downpipe in the sluice with Kilmore Historical Society began with a room was also stopped from leaking, and the air- chance photograph and now showcases the work of conditioner pipes re-routed for the same reason. a dedicated family history group. Third, we like to entertain readers with a mix of stories and articles, A major project of the year was the massive job of mostly contributed by members. Have you told the reinforcing many of the book shelves, in danger of story of your family yet? collapse. Max CALLEJAN began the work which has been completed by Mal BROWN, husband of The magazine has successfully weathered changes in Councillor Wendy. We thank him very much for his design intended to update its appearance without dedication and hard work. The annual carpet cleaning losing any of the features readers seek: interesting was carried out when the Resource Centre was closed family stories, hints for further research, dates and over Christmas, and this year the upholstered chairs IT Group 9 times of meetings, new resources and all the rest. were also cleaned. Two new key safes were installed, Pete COWLED, our new designer, has prepared one to store master keys for the building and various the clean and crisp layout of the magazine and his cupboards, the other safe to hold all the USBs that have influence can also be seen in publicity fliers and become the popular media used by suppliers of family promotional material. history records, taking over from the once-popular CDs.

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Requests for Family History Presentations came from Deepdene U3A, Balwyn Probus, Waverley Combined Probus, and Balmoral Village in Wantirna. Between February and November these visits were undertaken and well received by these groups. Alex GLENNIE and Wendy BROWN represented FHC at the VAFHO Expo at Sale in April to answer queries and promote FHC services and resources. Frankston Library requested a FHC speaker during National Library Week in May, where an enthusiastic audience of around 30 people attended. Gail WHITE and Wendy BROWN attended Prahran Mechanics’ Institute for a day exhibit during National Family History Month in August. FHC participated in Whitehorse Council’s annual Heritage Week in September and ran two sessions on Family History for the Seniors’ Festival in October. The monthly mailouts continue to help publicise our regular Sunday Talks and Seminars. Flyers, brochures and leaflets outlining our resources and services are sent to Municipal Libraries and other organisations associated with family history. Thanks to Jo IRVINE for overseeing this area of Publicity and to Margaret PIKE for her assistance with distribution. Our association with Golden Days Radio continues and Wendy was interviewed on 3MDR 97.1FM (Mountain District Radio) in the days leading up to the Seniors Festival. Just in time for Christmas, a range of “Family History Connections” stylus pens and mechanical pencils were made available for purchase from the Office.

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FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 15 ANNUAL REPORTS Continued

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The strength of our organization Our website has been running smoothly over the last year, without any outage. has always been the We now list all events in our calendar. The website continues to attract visitors, commitment and dedication but since our business listing was confirmed in Google, we have also been able to of our many volunteers and track Family History Connections’ performance in Google searches. Council extends profound thanks to all of them for their The following statistics are available for the period of splendid efforts on our behalf. 01/04/2018 – 31/03/2019. Number of times found by searching on Google Search or Maps 35377 Every one of our volunteers deserves an accolade for the Number of times customers have visited the website 755 splendid services they provide, Number of times customers have requested directions 143 both behind the scenes and Number of times customers have called the business 45 “front of house” for the benefit of members and visitors. Over the last 3 months, people found us on Google by using the following top 5 search terms: They carry out their allocated “Library” 1,577 tasks with considerable skill “AIGS” 344 and profound good humour, “library near me” 287 sometimes in difficult “family history connections” 242 circumstances. “libraries” 170

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A steep learning curve was on my agenda when James Our Council members, along with many volunteers, BULBROOK handed over the Membership Secretary work hard to attract new members and despite our role to me in April 2018. Much work is done behind renewals declining, we are still attracting new members the scenes during the year with processing new members, on a regular basis. During 2018 we welcomed 119 new managing the database, working on projects for the members. Our Membership* reduced from1601 (Dec Council e.g. fees/subscriptions for the following year. 2017) to 1479 (Dec 2018). Society subscriptions** November to February are the busiest time in my year reduced from 120 to 110 over the same period. when we send out renewal invoices to Members and *Membership includes Individual and Family members, Societies for the following calendar year. I process Life members (some of whom paid a membership several bulk renewals during this period and this certainly years ago for life; others are Honorary Life members), and keeps me away from enjoying too much sunshine in Magazine only membership. All Memberships are available in Australia and Overseas but most of our Members are summertime! Many thanks to James for assisting me within Australia. with the changeover and my queries that followed. I also appreciate the help from several volunteers with the **Society subscriptions are taken out by Libraries and renewal invoice mailout in December 2018. Family History Societies in Australia and Overseas. These subscriptions also include an exchange of our magazines Unfortunately our overall membership is still in decline with Family History groups which don’t incur a cost for as many people starting family history are opting to do either party. You will find many exchange magazines from all their research online from home. If only they checked Australia and Overseas in our Research Centre. the wealth of information that is available at our Research I look forward to continuing as your Membership Centre, as well as the Internet subscriptions that are Secretary and hope to fit in some research of my family available to our Members, it would be a significant saving in the quieter periods during the year. in cost to them to take out a membership.

Vale 2018 9 NAME: Years a member: Loraine Dineen 23 Denis Harris 12 Jack Asher 39 Mary Daly 23 Clive Sorrell 4 Lesley Sturt 38 Robert Dunster 20 Jim Shaw 1 Gillian Pavlovski 37 Graham Swenson 19 David Leach 1 Gary Toal 26 Lyndal Saunders 15

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A lack of original posts makes it difficult to keep the Facebook page active on a daily basis. We can attract a lot of traffic to our page and the library with high quality original posts. We urge IG leaders and members to send through any original blog posts or articles you or your groups publish. The most read and shared posts are those which point readers in the direction of new places to search, or previously unused features of familiar websites, such as a recent popular post alerting readers to the TROVE forums.

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n FINDMYPAST The Findmypast World Collection contains over a billion records from Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, British India and the United States. Parish records, census records, government gazettes, military records, and more, are available to search. This huge collection of historical records, which is being added to every week, will help with your family history research.

n ANCESTRY One of the largest collections of worldwide genealogical resources, Ancestry includes every type of record – census, probates, births, deaths and marriage indexes for England and for Australia, electoral rolls, immigration, convicts, cemeteries and obituaries.

n MYHERITAGE LIBRARY EDITION MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind in the world. It includes billions of historical documents from over 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources. Millions of additional records are added on average every month. Home access is available for your convenience through the members area.

n THEGENEALOGIST Search this database for English parish register transcripts, nonconformist records, court and criminal records, military rolls and lists, poll books and electoral rolls, probate records and indexes to tithe records, including tithe maps for every county in colour.

n BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE Search millions of pages of digitised historical newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland from the 1700s through to the 1900s (dates vary with newspapers). Britain’s answer to Trove! Search by name, place and event, or browse by title and date.

n DURHAM RECORDS ONLINE For those with family from the north of England, this collection provides parish and census records mainly for County Durham, but also some from neighbouring Northumberland.

n EMERALD ANCESTORS One of the largest collections of Northern Ireland records available, containing over 1 million birth, marriage and death records from civil registration indexes, church records and other historical sources for Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone.

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www.familyhistoryconnections.org.auFHC | The Genealogist | December 2018 17 Robert Hishion, Poet Continued from page 21

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FHCFHC | The| The Genealogist Genealogist | March| June 2019 19 From the Vault Industrial Chemical Industries (ICI) of Australia & New Zealand Advert

This 20 paged two-tone booklet1 sought to explain and transparent plastics allowed the introduction of the products and services of the ICI. “When we raincoats, travel goods and fashionable faux leather started to prepare this booklet on the products of products. ICI, through its work with nitro-cellulose, Imperial Chemical Industries, we felt rather like Alice also produced ammunition. in Wonderland, for everywhere we turned we found new and strange things – new chemicals, new processes The booklet makes great use of text taken from Alice and new lines of research were on every hand. As a Through The Looking Glass and several fine pen result, we reluctantly decided that we could not tell sketches to illustrate the many and varied products of all of ICI’s products, but only of a few of the more and services offered. The weblink contained in the interesting ones.”2 endnotes takes you to the collection at Museum Victoria where a digital copy of the booklet can be Browsing through the booklet brings forth a list of names viewed. It was produced in the 1950s at a time when and products which will resonate with many. Soda ash, ICI was engaged in building its new headquarters in caustic soda, chlorine, thermo-set plastics (fixed into shape Melbourne, in that city’s first sky-scraper, designed by at a certain temperature) such as bottle tops, table ware, Sir Osborn McCutcheon. The building, now called torch cases; thermo-plastics (those softened by heat) such Orica House, stands on Eastern Hill at the edge of the as Perspex. World Wars precipitated the development city grid. The history of its design and construction3 of other uses for plastics such as insulating electrical is a fascinating look back at the beginnings of wiring and covering submarine cabling. These flexible Melbourne’s towering skyscape.

1 https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/2098438 2 Booklet, page 4 3 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/07/melbourne-australia-first-skyscraper-ici-orica-house

20 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 - Wanted - “WANTED, a sober steady Woman, who can Cook, and who will occasionally make herself useful about the House. No one need apply whose character will not bear strict enquiry” Etc. “WANTED, as Cook in a genteel Family, a Man of good character. Apply to G. HOWE”

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A cumulative index to this magazine appears in the Members “The accident of her birth neither Area of the FHC website. Volume 2 has just been added, with made her life more virtuous nor her all Volumes up to 11 completed but some awaiting proofing. All death more worthy of grief” entries are exactly as printed in the relevant magazine. Click on the folder icon to open the search facility. Bound copies of all (Shelley in an address to the people on past issues are available to consult in the Resource Centre. the death of the Princess Charlotte)

Anyone wishing to volunteer to assist in the proofing should Source: Oxford Dictionary of contact the Editor. Quotations 2004 - report - - probate Entry - “Twenty thousand persons have been rendered WIGGINS, Hannah Winifred Sarah of 68 homeless by the flooding of Augusta, in Georgia, USA Shrubbery Avenue Worcester spinster died 7 on Friday (August 28th, 1908). When the city became January 1962. Probate Gloucester 15 March flooded by the bursting of the canal, many took refuge in to Agnes Beatrice HUTCHINSON spinster and trees, and in some instances are obliged to sleep in them” Frederick Graham WEBB, medical propaganda representative. Effects £1989 10s. 7d. Source: The Melbourne Herald, 29/8/1908

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FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 21 Windsor House, Walhalla Kim Crane

On a recent visit to Walhalla, staying at the iconic Windsor House, a little of the history of Walhalla was explained. An information panel erected outside the house reads: “Johannes GLOZ came to Stringer’s Creek1 in the 1860s. He was a stonemason and along with his stepson Herman, who was a carpenter, commenced Windsor House in 18902. An estimated 90,000 hand-made bricks were used in its construction. The section on the left was first built, hence the different coloured bricks. A verandah was planned but never built, explaining the door on the second floor. The attic contained two bedrooms used as accommodation for the maids. An extensive vineyard extended up the hill behind the building. The wine was stored in the cellar cut into solid rock at the rear of the ground floor. According to GLOZ family history, the best seasonal yield was 900 bottles. After the gold era, Windsor House was operated as a boarding house until 1942, when the GLOZ family left Walhalla. Since then it has been used as a museum, private residence and guest house.” The last GLOZ family to live in Windsor House are pictured in the front doorway. Honor was the last member of the family to be born in the house which today is hidden in The GLOZ family c. 1925 the trees beyond the rebuilt Star Hotel and outbuildings. Johannes, Honor, Ethel St Omer (nee DENTRY), John & Merle Windsor House was owned by the family until the 1970s.

Edward STRINGER memorial plaque Honor GLOZ c. 1977 c. 1911

1 Stringers Creek was re-named Walhalla in 1866, assumed to have been taken from 2 Other sources suggest the building was built in 1878 but the present house is listed the name of a gold mine in the area and alluding to Valhalla, the hall of immortality with the Heritage Council, Victoria which explains that Johannes built other houses in in Norse mythology. The original name celebrated one of the first gold miners of the town during the 1880s and planted the vineyard in 1870, selling the wine at local the settlement. events. According to their database, the house was begun in 1890 and completed in 1899. (https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/1179/download-report)

22 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 Windsor House

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 23 Mission to Seafarers Victoria (MtSV) Flinders street frontage Mission to Seafarers Victoria: “caring for seafarers in Victorian ports since 1857”

The MtSV is a non-profit service provider offering practical, well-connected women known as the Ladies Harbour Lights social and welfare support to the seafaring community. It Guild (LHLG) and a government grant. The LHLG rallied provides a safe place for rest and relaxation, communications with across the nation drawing attention to the welfare of seafarers family via internet and phone, comfort and counsel in times of and raising supporting funds. The Guild was well patronised distress, and aid in emergencies and assistance in cases of injustice. by prominent members of Melbourne society and grew to be a substantial and influential organisation. The MtSV buildings have historical and social significance. They provide tangible evidence of prevailing concerns for the The first Mission building in Melbourne was at Sandridge, religious, moral and social welfare of seafarers throughout now Port Melbourne. By the 1890s most ships were berthing the 19th and 20th centuries and continue into the 21st along the Yarra, and there was a need to establish a branch century. The complex was purpose-built to look after the in the central Melbourne area. A site in Siddeley St, close to welfare of seafarers of all ranks, faiths and nationalities. It the river, was leased from the Melbourne Harbour Trust and had its origins in Bristol, England, in 1837 when a Seamen’s construction began in 1907. The building was designed by Mission was formed. The first Australian Mission was started Walter BUTLER and built in two stages between 1916 and in 1856 by the Rev Kerr JOHNSTON, a Church of England 1919, during WW1. The Mission complex is architecturally clergyman, and operated from Emily, a hulk moored in significant as a fine urban example of the Arts and Crafts style. Hobsons Bay. The Mission later occupied buildings in Before coming to Australia, Walter BUTLER was greatly Williamstown and Port Melbourne. In 1905, the Rev Alfred influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement in his native Gurney GOLDSMITH arrived at the behest of the London England. He became a popular society architect in Melbourne Seamen’s Mission to establish a city mission for sailors and designed many fine houses in Toorak. Today the complex working on the river wharves and docks. The construction of consists of the Chapel, extensive club rooms, the Chaplain’s the building was funded by a group of energetic, skilled and house, a small cottage, and the Norla Dome.

24 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 The Memorial Chapel of St Peter The Celia Little Room The chapel is a common place for prayer and meditation for This room is named after the aunt of one of the early Mission seafarers of all faiths. While most of the complex is in the chaplains and, along with the kitchen and toilets, is located Arts and Crafts style, the chapel and adjoining courtyard are in the main part of the complex. Together they offer meeting possibly the first example of Spanish Mission style in Victoria. facilities for private and corporate entertainment. The chapel reflects both styles with its rough-hewn timber trusses, bell tower and its pinnacles and turret surmounted by The Norla Dome a rustic cross, and the monastic courtyard. Within the chapel is fine collection of crafted joinery by Robert PRENZEL, The Mission’s distinctive dome is familiar to most including the altar and sanctuary chairs with their carved Melbournians. Norla was the residence of Sir Simon and Australian flora motifs. The chapel’s close connection with Lady FRASER in Irving Road, Toorak. The regular fetes seafarers and the sea is illustrated in the pulpit in the form held at Norla raised considerable funds for the construction of a ships poop, and other fittings donated to commemorate of the Mission complex. The Norla Dome is a feature of long-serving volunteers. The fine stained glass windows the MtSV’s annual Maritime Art Prize Exhibition hosted in commemorate seafarers lost at sea1, and two windows at the October. The exhibition was introduced in 2002 to promote rear of the chapel depict the President and Secretary of the maritime and seafaring subjects in art. It is Australia’s LHLG. The chapel is open daily for prayer and meditation leading maritime art prize and contributes to the ongoing and is also used for celebrations and memorials. fundraising required to keep the Mission doors open.

The Flying Angel Club Rooms The Mission to Seafarers complex is classified by the National Trust2 and entered in the Victorian Heritage Register.3 There are a series of interconnected quiet and comfortable spaces for seafarers to relax or socialise in while on shore leave. They comprise the billiards room and the main hall which incorporates a small bar and shop.

1One example of the windows can be found here: 2https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/64997 https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/196673 3https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/756

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 25 PMI Natural History in your Family 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran

Welcome to another look at the PMI’s collection and how it is relevant for family history. It has become a focus for this series of articles to consider the importance of thinking outside the box when it comes to family history research. It’s easy to stick to names and dates, but to write and research a full and rounded family history you should consider many different angles.

Natural history might seem to be a strange area to discuss, but gardening and plants have been crucial to the lives of Australians both before and after colonisation. The themes might seem to be an odd thing for a Victorian history library to collect at all, but the gardening and plant books illustrate the core of the our philosophy. The PMI is building a collection that reflects the nuances of Victorian history. It is vitally important that the collection tells the story of Victoria as a multifaceted narrative and the natural history collection is very much an important part of that. Only by combining as many aspects as possible can a complete and complex picture of Victoria be built. It is essential that smaller stories don’t become lost in a broader narrative. This is true of family histories as well, considering the broad aspects of the life your ancestors might have lived can allow you to examine a fully fleshed person, rather than have them reduced to milestones and dates.

Our books on gardens, gardening and plants range from the practical to the spectacular (some of them are very pretty books). Whether you want to know about specific plants in a region your ancestors might have lived z Gardens and plants were important to the settlers too. (tomatoes or orchids for example), about the magnificent One of Victoria’s earliest records of garden making comes rural Australian gardens, or the history of the Royal from the 1834 journal of Edward HENTY. He arrived Botanic Gardens of Victoria, the PMI has you covered. in Portland with quite the entourage including turkeys, The collection is a wealth of information on all things guinea fowl and heifers, but also plants. Within the week gardening and plant related and can tell some amazing he’d dug his first garden. stories. The books illustrate the importance of gardens and Gardenesque: A celebration of Australian Gardening by plants in both the construction of Australia and Victoria, Richard AITKIN and to the overall history of both. Included below is a sample of information to be gleaned from the natural history collection.

z Indigenous Australians cultivated swathes of landscape with native plants like kangaroo grass and murnong (yam daisy), and arguably used kangaroo grass to make bread before the Egyptians. Dark Emu by Bruce PASCOE

z Indigenous women in what is now Victoria provided 50% to 80% of their families’ food sources from harvesting local plants. Indigenous people managed the land as a whole, cultivating and working with the landscape. Much of this practice was destroyed with the arrival of the colonists, with their European methods of farming and land cultivation. Koorie Plants Koorie People: Traditional Aboriginal food, fibre and healing plants of Victoria by Nelly ZOLA and Beth GOTT

26 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 z Gardens are important to our inner cities as well, with z Suburban gardens have been equally important to community gardens flourishing around our high-rises. Victorians and have been subject to fads like many other These gardens help to bring people together and link their areas of suburban life. Grapefruits were unheard of in old lives with the new, as well as providing bountiful fresh Australia until the 1920s when they suddenly came into food! As Ana MARTINS from Letefoho in East Timor fashion. They were grown in California, so Hollywood said about her garden in one of Melbourne’s housing was co-opted to make them glamorous. They remained commission towers “If I don’t have anything to do I can popular until the 1970s – sitting alongside the perennial talk to my vegetables”. favourite the lemon tree- until abruptly falling out of Community Gardens by Penny WOODWARD and Pam favour again. VARDY Australia’s Quarter Acre by Peter TIMMS

z The epitome of gardening in Victoria is the Royal Botanic Gardens, and their first director Ferdinand VON MUELLER summed up their original purpose beautifully: “the diffusion of knowledge, for the experimental introduction of foreign plants into our adopted country, or for multiplying the treasures which our flora offers, and as a healthy locality for recreation.” Unfortunately, VON MUELLER took the ‘introduction of foreign plants’ a bit too far because he brought in blackberries. The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne: A history from 1854 to 1970 by R.T.M PRESCOTT Despite the issues VON MUELLER’s sentiment holds true, both to the botanic gardens and gardening and plants in generally in Victorians’ lives.

The PMI’s gardening and plant collection can give you real insight into both the natural history of Victoria, but also into the lives of the multifaceted people who have lived here including your ancestors. If nothing else, it will certainly help your knowledge grow….

FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 27 From Here and There Lesley Haldane and Frances Barrett

First cab off the rank this time is the journal of the Western Another article I must mention is in the December 2018 Australian Genealogical Society Inc. the Western Ancestor, issue called “Together 100 years Apart the 11th Battalion at researching worldwide. the Great Pyramid of Cheops [or Khufu in Eqyptian] photo project”. Undertaken by member Chris LOUDON and This is a really interesting journal with a variety of stories his team it was a mammoth project to identity and name plus the usual information on members research interests, the 700+ men from the large group photo that was taken at special interest group reports, reports from the president, the Pyramid at Cheops 10 January 1915 and shows the 704 and a little light officers and men of the battalion. To date over 400 have relief column called been tentatively identified, as at October 2018, with their Thinking Caps On. names printed on the back of the souvenir photo. This is a In this report, 20 wonderful piece of work and if you can identify any more of genealogy based the soldiers, visit their website http://11btn.wags.org.au/ A questions are put large photo of the troops can be seen in the December issue forward to test your with names on the back. knowledge, with the answers in the next The whole December issue is dedicated to articles of war issue! As this is a with the emphasis on WW1. Other articles include one on journal from Western Tunnelling and Trenching at Lone Pine. Jack PLAYNE was Australia, many of a young engineer with his whole life in front of him who the questions are joined up with his mate to fight at Gallipoli. This is a great WA based but there story of his and his friend’s journey in the Great War. They is no reason anyone were first attached to the 10th Light Horse. After each was cannot answer them; promoted to Lieutenant, they were put in charge of sappers eg In what year was at Lone Pine, building trenches for the offensive. You will an act first passed need to read what happened to Jack PLAYNE and his friend to regulate BDM to see the end of the story. registration in WA? or In what year did Other great stories include “Our Forgotten Volunteers: Hardwick’s Marriage Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War Act come into force.? Hmm, I can’t answer either of these One”, the dead from Western Australia projects; Tom ‘Barney’ questions, more research needed. These questions are in the TODD of the 10th Light Horse; and a story of two English September 2018 issue with answers in the December issue, soldiers who died in the war. By the way, the answer to the so have a go, see how many you can get right. question “in what year was an act first passed to regulate BDMS registration in WA was 1841”. How did you do with One of the articles in the September issue deals with ‘Your the rest of them? Digital and Genealogical Estate’. This is a problem that faces all of us; what to do with digital files, photos etc when we pass on. How do we get emails, Facebook and Twitter closed Norfolk Family down, Ancestry, Findmypast and My Heritage accounts History Society closed, not to mention a myriad other websites and accounts stopped or closed. Its an atlas of digital footprints we need In September to stop walking. The first thing to do is to appoint digitala 2018 the Norfolk executor just like you would appoint a Power of Attorney or Ancestor published an advanced care person. This article gives much food for a special Fiftieth thought and there is also a copy of “My Genealogical Will” Anniversary edition which becomes a genealogical codicil to denote what is to be which told the story done with all your records. of the beginnings of the then Norfolk It would help if all your passwords were also put on this and Norwich document to help close down accounts. It would benefit all Genealogical Society of us to read this article. As the writer says at the end “we in December 1968. might have to give up family research just to get enough time Patrick Palgrave- to 1. make a genealogical will, 2. appoint a digital executor, MOORE was and 3. fill in a personal affairs record book”. By the way the founder, the Duke personal affairs record book sounds a great idea, and a copy of Norfolk its patron can be downloaded from the Computer Special Interest and Sir Richard webpage at https://tinyurl.com/PRB2018JI.

28 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 BARRETT-LENNARD the president. The journal traces string and regulation knots. These bundles were used by the history of the society as it developed a constitution, soldiers in training as when the string was pulled the sound was granted a Coat-of-Arms, obtained its own premises mimicked the noise of machine gun fire. You can read more with the assistance of a millionaire member from Virginia, about the crackers and see a photograph of a giant cracker in U.S.A. and became the Norfolk Family History Society. All the December 2016 edition of The Norfolk Ancestor. this in the first 25 years! Lastly I just want to tell you a bit about Kett’s Oak. This This is an attractive journal in appearance, pale lemon in tree has already been named as one of the 50 great British colour and along with the Coat-of Arms there are historical trees and has been nominated for the Woodland Trust’s’ photographs, usually coloured, on the front and back covers. Very Important Trees Campaign’ which calls for recognition But this journal is not just a pretty face. Regular features of trees that have played a role in the history or culture of include Rod’s Roundup which lists useful websites; Letters, the United Kingdom. In 1549 men from Wymondham Notes and Queries, a help page; Book Reviews; Reports and probably Hetherset mustered under the oak tree and, from Groups and Lists of new members and members led by Robert and William KETT, marched to protest interests. Articles by members are an important part of this about land enclosures. The rebellion failed, Robert and journal and many have connections to Australia. William were hanged and the tree became known as Kett’s Oak. There are photographs of the tree in the March 2017 On 13th February 1788 five couples were married in the Norwich Ancestor. first marriage ceremony celebrated at Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales. Susannah HOLMES and Henry If you are unable to visit the library in Blackburn you KABLE/CABLE were one of the couples. They had met can read scanned copies back to 2009 at http://www. in Norwich Gaol while awaiting transportation for theft, norfolkfhs.org.uk. I hope you can find time to have a look fell in love and despite both being fitted with leg-irons at this journal as I’m sure you will find much to interest Susannah became pregnant and Henry KABLE jnr was and inform you. Happy reading! born in 1786. Henry repeatedly asked for permission to marry Susannah but was refused.

Susannah was moved to Plymouth along with Henry jnr. and two other women to be transported on the Dunkirk but the captain refused to take the baby. After the intervention of the Norwich Gaol turnkey and Home Secretary Lord Sydney, Susannah and Henry were given permission to marry Name, Aliases & Gender and were transported along with Henry jnr. to Australia with the first fleet on theFriendship in 1788 . Henry worked hard Name Henry Cable in the colony, in 1796 he became Chief Constable and at the Aliases Henry Kable, Henry Cabell end of his sentence he went on to buy a hotel, a retail store, M several farms and later along with Simeon LORD ended up Gender with a fleet of 25 merchant ships. Sentenced to 14 years

After raising a family of 12 children Susannah died in 1825 Crime Burglary aged 62 and Henry died in 1846 aged 84. Both are buried in the grounds of St Matthew’s Church Windsor in a family Convicted at Norfolk, Thetford Quarter Sessions crypt. This wonderful story is told in the September 2018 Sentence term 14 years edition by Roger MORGAN. Ship Friendship Another story by Roger Morgan I really enjoyed is that of Departure date 13th May 1787 Tom SMITH. Never heard of him? Neither had I, but he Arrival date 21st January, 1788 invented the Christmas crackers. He started work in 1830 Place of arrival New South Wales at a London baker’s shop and went on to have his own shop specializing in wedding cakes. On a trip to Paris in 1840 Passenger manifest Travelled with 102 other convicts he was fascinated by the sugared almonds wrapped in tissue Primary source http://www.firstlanding.com.au known as ‘bon bons’. He developed this idea over the years until in 1860 the first crackers were sold known as ‘Bangs of Expectation’. I particularly loved the fact that during Transportation record for Henry CABLE World War Two the Ministry of Defence asked for bundles of three and five crackers to be tied together with special

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Abbreviations: B: Burials Readers are asked to check the catalogue on our C: Christenings/Baptisms & Births D: Deaths website www.familyhistoryconnections.org.au or in M: Marriages hardcopy at the library for full details.

AUSTRALIA GENERAL The Cabinet, a repository of facts, figures and fancies relating to the voyage of the SS Great Britain from Liverpool to Melbourne, 1861: with the Eleven of All England and other distinguished passengers. AUSTRALIA 387 GRE

A survey of Australian type-founders specimens. Bryans, Dennis. AUSTRALIA 686.2 BRY AUSTRALIA MILITARY Army and Navy books, all published during the Second World War by the Australian War Memorial located in the MILITARY _ AUSTRALIA collection.

ARMY – 355 AUS – 3 books: Active service: with Australia in the Middle East.

Jungle warfare: with the Australian Army in the south- west Pacific.

Khaki and green: with the Australian Army at home and overseas.

NAVY - 359 AUS - 3 books:

H.M.A.S. Mk. II, III and IV, written and prepared by serving personnel of the R.A.N.

I found some very useful information and illustrations in A very enlightening and fascinating book about the men the Navy books to help me with my research on my father who fought for their country, but along the way were on corvettes in the Navy. infected with sexually transmitted diseases, which had repercussions on many lives after they returned home. Mutiny on the Somme. Lambley, Des. MILITARY - The author quotes an astonishing statistic – about AUSTRALIA 940.3 LAM 60,000 soldiers in the AIF were treated by army doctors in Egypt, Europe and Australia for venereal disease – After weeks of hard fighting, the men of the 1st Battalion almost the same number of diggers who were killed were arrested and charged with mutiny and desertion. during the war. This is incredible story explaining what really happened at Villeret and Hargicourt. We are honoured to have a copy NEW SOUTH WALES of only fifty printed by Des, a member of FHC. Farewell to the heather: an account of the Government assisted emigrants from the highlands and islands of The Secrets of the Anzacs: the untold story of venereal Scotland to New South Wales, 1837-1840. Donaldson, disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919. Dunbar, James. SCOTLAND 929.39 DON Raden. MILITARY - AUSTRALIA 612 DUN

30 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 QUEENSLAND Gold fields of Victoria in 1862. Patterson, J. CD 4988 Bajool Cemetery burial index. CD 5013 Golden days of Mount William, Mafeking: centenary Grasmere Cemetery burial index. CD 5012 celebrations, June 1900-June 2000. VICTORIA 994.57 MAF The history of Bundaberg and districts. QUEENSLAND 994.32 BUN Myrtle Bank under Lake Bellfield. VICTORIA 994.58 MYR Mount Morgan Cemetery burial index. CD 5015 ‘Nihil Sine Labore -Nothing Without Work’ Ararat North Rockhampton Cemetery burial index. CD 5016 High School, Ararat Technical School, Ararat Secondary College, Ararat Community College, Ararat Rockhampton Cemetery Memorial Gardens burial College, 1913-2013: 100 years of inspirational life index. CD 5014 stories from past students. VICTORIA 373.9945 ARA

South Rockhampton Cemetery burial index. CD 5017 Pioneers of the Wimmera and Mallee, in four parts: the history, family tributes, key events. VICTORIA Yeppoon Cemetery burial index. CD 5018 994.58 WIM SOUTH AUSTRALIA Raywood Cemetery headstone photos, burial list and Deaths on-board immigrant ships, 1849-1865, as grave location map. Belmont, Ian and Belmont, Pat. published in the South Australian Government CD 4984 Gazette, 25 January 1866. CD 4997 Remember, respect, rejoice, our service personnel we VICTORIA salute you, 1939-1946: Pyramid Hill and District Ararat State School No. 800 centenary souvenir happenings and letters from home in World War 2. booklet, 1865-1965. VICTORIA 372.9945 ARA MILITARY - VICTORIA 940.5 PYR

Avenue of Memories [Ballarat Arch of Victory and Richmond rate books, Avenue of Honour]. Roberts, Phil. MILITARY - 1857-1902, index of VICTORIA 940.3 ROB owners and occupiers and index of streets. CD 4986 Coromby Brass Band centenary 1891-1991, a short history. Schulz, Robert A. VICTORIA 994.58 COR Silent lives: women of Warrnambool and District, The Crowlands connection, 1849-1988. VICTORIA 1840-1910. O’Callaghan, 994.57 CRO Elizabeth. VICTORIA 994.57 WAR Forty years of Scouting in Heathmont, 1957-1997. Edmanson, Claire. VICTORIA 369 EDM St. Mary’s Ararat, Honor Board, World War 1, Fifty years of Scouting in Heathmont, 1957-2007: 1914-1918, lest we forget. continued the last ten years. Edmanson, Claire. MILITARY - VICTORIA VICTORIA 369 EDM 940.3 ARA

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Plan of the village of Warringal [Heidelberg] in the parish of Keelbundora, Port Phillip, 1839.

Stephens’ map of Melbourne and suburbs, 1863.

Township of Echuca on the Murray and Campaspe Rivers, 1855.

Township of Mortlake, County of Hampden, 1866.

VICTORIA BOOKS WRITTEN BY VANDA SAVILL. Vanda wrote many books on the history of the Portland district many years ago. She called the series “Dear Friends.” Each book is packed with information and photographs. The only drawback is that her handwriting (!) is very hard to read, but with some perseverance there is much to be found in these volumes. We have purchased all the indexes that have so far been compiled by the volunteers at History House in Portland.

All this and more [Bridgewater]. 994.57 BRI Drumborg-Greenvale, heart of the Shire of Portland. Savill, Vanda. 994.57 DRU

‘For thee and thine” [Bridgewater]. Savill, Vanda. PLUS Index to “For thee and thine” [Bridgewater]. History House, Portland. 994.57 BRI Welsh on Victoria’s central goldfields: a dictionary of biography. Griffiths, Peter VICTORIA 994.57 GRI The Great Swamp [Wallacedale]. Savill, Vanda. PLUS Index to “The Great Swamp” [Wallacedale]. History VICTORIA MAPS House, Portland. 994.57 WAL in MAPS DRAWER PARISH MAPS C-1 “Now know ye” - Hamilton district, wool centre of the Guide plan to the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and world, Part One. Savill, Vanda. 994.57 HAM surroundings, 1911. Taming the wild [Tyrendarra]. Savill, Vanda. PLUS Map and directory of Geelong and its suburbs by F. Index to “Taming the wild”. History House, Portland. Proescher, 1855. 994.57 TYR

Map of the town of Portland in the Colony of Victoria, 1853. Tapestry: within the Shire of Portland. Savill, Vanda. PLUS Index to “Tapestry: within the Shire of Municipality of Castlemaine, 1856. Portland.” History House, Portland. 994.57 POR

Pearson & Co.’s new map of Victoria, 1865. “Tha’ she blows! old ships, old salts and old days of sealing and whaling [Portland]. Savill, Vanda. 994.57 POR Plan of Ballarat municipalities (circuit 10 miles), 186? Plan of the township of Yea on the Muddy Creek, “That tuft of grass” [Portland and Edward Henty]. County of Anglesey, 1855. Savill, Vanda. 994.57 POR

Plan of the village of Bulla-Bulla, County of Bourke, 1847.

32 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 ENGLAND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BERKSHIRE Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire - 116 history Berkshire monumental inscriptions collection: Volume and parish register books: 2 - Beech Hill Baptist, Caversham Victoria Road/ Hemdean Road, Eddington St. Saviour, Goosey Northamptonshire Parish Registers for: All Saints, Lyford St. Mary, Midgham St. Matthew, Mortimer Baptist, Newbury St. Nicholas, Newbury Castor, URC and Oare St. Bartholomew. CD 4983 Croughton, Dodford, CORNWALL Everdon, The married widows of Cornwall: the true story of Farthingstone, the wives ‘left behind’ by emigration. Trotter, Lesley. Faxton, CORNWALL 929.39 TRO Glinton, Harpole, CUMBERLAND Heyford, Aikton, Biglands, Gamblesby, Wampool and Wiggonby Lamport, monumental inscriptions. CD 4989 Moulton, Maxey, A guide to Cumbrian historical sources. Winstanley, Rob Northampton St. Peter, and Winstanley David. CUMBERLAND 942.78 WIN Northborough, Peakirk, GLOUCESTERSHIRE Stoke Bruerne, Bristol Hearth Tax, 1662-1673. Edited by Stowe 9 Churches, Leech, Roger; Barry, Jonathon; Brown, Alison; Weston by Welland and Sutton Bassett, Ferguson, Catherine; Parkinson, Elizabeth. St. John Baptist, GLOUCESTERSHIRE 331.16 LEE Peterborough. HEREFORDSHIRE Worcestershire and Herefordshire - 146 history and parish register books. CD 4995

HUNTINGDONSHIRE see NORTHAMPTONSHIRE for full details of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire - 116 history and parish register books. CD 4991. LANCASHIRE A guide to Cumbrian historical sources. Winstanley, Rob and Winstanley David. CUMBERLAND 942.78 WIN

The making of Liverpool. Fletcher, Mike. LANCASHIRE 942.753 FLE

Wigan - 125 history and parish register books. CD 4994 LINCOLNSHIRE Lincolnshire Poor Law index: Horncastle Union Workhouse, extracts from the Minutes of the Board of Guardians. Part Seven, 1882-1888 and Part Eight, 1888-1892. LINCOLNSHIRE 365.3 LIN Continued over page >

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Domesday Book. The Portion Relating To Huntingdonshire: Northamptonshire; Visitations Of Northamptonshire 1564; Marriages for Bury, Little Ravely, Ramsey, Wistow; Admons And Inventories Of The Archdeaconry Of Owners Of Land Of One Acre And Upwards, 1873; Northampton, 1546-1676; Visitation Of The County Of Huntingdon 1613; Calendar Of Wills for Northampton And Rutland, Feet Of Fines 1194-1603; 1510-1652; Huntingdonshire Wills 1479-1652; Court Rolls Of Higham Ferrers; Early Lincoln Wills : An Abstract Of All The Wills & Quarter Sessions Records 1630, 1657, 1657-8); Administrations Recorded In The Episcopal Registers Of Owners Of Land Of One Acre And Upwards, 1873; The Old Diocese Of Lincoln, Comprising The Counties Victoria History Of The County Of Northampton; Of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntington, Records Of The Borough Of Northampton; Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester, And Hertford, History, Gazetteer And Directory Of 1280-1547; Northamptonshire; Voters at General Election, 1857; Post Office Directory Of Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Slater’s Directory Of The Counties Of Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, With Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, And Huntingdonshire 1854; Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk 1850; Kelly’s Directory Of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire Edwardian Inventories For Huntingdonshire; And Northamptonshire 1885; Village Nonconformity At Bluntisham; Melville And Co.’s Directory Of Northamptonshire; Ancient Records, Relating To The Borough Of Huntingdon; Polls for elections 1702, 1705, 1730, 1745, 1806, Ramsey Abbey; 1831, 1837; Parish Of Great Staughton; Dialect And Folk-Lore Of Northamptonshire; Godmanchester History; Northamptonshire Notes And Queries 1886-1896; Huntingdonshire With Maps; History Of Crowland Abbey; History Of Ailington, Aylton, Or Elton; Historical Collections Relating To Northamptonshire; Trinity Church, Huntingdon; Memorials Of Northampton; Records Of The Churches Of Christ, Gathered At Rockingham Castle; Fenstanton, Warboys, And Hexham; History And Antiquities Of Ecton, Wellingborough, Short History Of The Soke Of Spaldwick, (Spaldwick, Brackley; Stow Longa, Easton, Barham And Little Catworth); Parish And Manor Of Nassington-Cum-Yarwell; Huntingdon And The Great Ouse; Memorials Of The Independent Churches In Manors Of Ramsey Abbey; Northamptonshire; Church Bells Of Huntingdonshire; Independent Church At Rothwell; Depot For Prisoners Of War At Norman Cross, 1796 To History Of The Liberty Of Peterborough; 1816; Church Of St. Peter, Northampton; Agriculture Of The County 1813; Churches Of The Nene Valley; Huntingdonshire And The Spanish Armada; Church Of St. Giles, Northampton; Place-Names Of Huntingdonshire; Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton; Legends And Traditions Of Huntingdonshire; Peterborough Cathedral; Thirty-First, Or, The Huntingdonshire Regiment Of Stone Crosses; Foot To 1850.CD 4991 Church Bells; Memorials Of Holdenby; NORTHUMBERLAND Oundle’s Story; Northumberland County Histories: Buildings Of Northamptonshire; College Street Church, Northampton; History of Northumberland - Alnham, Chatton, Northamptonshire & Rutland Militia; Chillingham, Eglingham, Ilderton, Ingram, Glossary Of Northamptonshire Words And Phrases. Whittingham. Dodds, Madeleine Hope. CD 5010

34 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 History of Northumberland - Bamburgh and Belford. STAFFORDSHIRE Bateson, Edward. CD 5000 Staffordshire - 155 history and parish register books:

History of Northumberland - Bywell and Slaley. Parish register transcripts for Hodgson, John Crawford. CD 5004 Alstonfield, Barlaston; Barton Under Needwood; History of Northumberland - Carham, Branxton, Kirknewton, Wooler, Ford. Vickers, Kenneth H. CD 5007 Berkswich w. Walton; Betley; History of Northumberland - Corbridge Deanery: Bradley In The Moors; Alston, Bywell St Andrew, Chollerton, Corbridge, Brewood; Haltwhistle, Kirkhaugh, Knaresdale, Ovingham, Cum-Bagnall; Whitfield. Hodgson, John. CD 5002 Burslem; Castle Church; History of Northumberland - Edlingham, Felton, Croxden; Brinkburn. Hodgson, John Crawford. CD 5005 Eccleshall; History of Northumberland - Heddon, Newburn, Long Ellastone; Benton, Wallsend. Dodds, Madeleine Hope CD 5009 Gnosall; Hamstall Ridware; History of Northumberland - Hexham Borough. Haughton; Hinds, Allen B. CD 5001 Hints; Leek; History of Northumberland - Hexham, Allendale, Milwich; St John Lee, Chollerton, Kirkheaton, Thockrington. Mucklestone; Hodgson, John Crawford CD 5003 Newcastle Under Lyme; History of Northumberland - Ovingham, Norton In The Moors; Stamfordham, Ponteland. Dodds, Madeleine Hope Pattington; CD 5008 Penn; Pipe Ridware; History of Northumberland - Simonburn, Rothbury, Rocester; Alnwinton. Dodds, Madeleine Hope CD 5011 Rowley Regis; Rugely; History of Rushall; Northumberland - St. Chad’s; Tynemouth. Craster, H. H. E. CD 5006 St. Mary’s; Sedgley; OXFORDSHIRE Standon; Tracing your Oxfordshire Stoke-Upon-Trent; ancestors: a guide for family Tamworth; and local historians. Lisle, Tettenhall; Nicola OXFORDSHIRE Tipton; 929.3 LIS Trentham; SOMERSET Walsall; Somerset - 244 history West Bromich; and parish register books. Western Under Lizard; CD 4992 Wolstanton; Wolverhampton.

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Collections For A History Of Staffordshire. Staffordshire Castle Church, With Some Account Of Its Parish Pedigrees Based On The Visitation 1663-1664. And Manor.

Visitacion Of Staffordschire 1583. Calendars Of Wills A History Of The Manor Of Beresford. & Administrations In The Consistory Court Of The Bishop Of Lichfield And Coventry, 1516 To 1652 : History Of The Castle, Priory, And Town Of Tutbury.

Those In The “Peculiars” Now Deposited In The A History Of The Parish Of Tatenhill. Probate Registries At Lichfield, Birmingham And Derby, 1529-1652, 1675-1790, 1753-1790. History Of The Manor And Parish Of Weston-Under-Lizard.

The Staffordshire quarter sessions rolls, Vol. I 1581- Wolstanton (Wolstan’s Town): A Brief History Of The 1589, Vol. II 1590-1593, Vol. III 1594-1597, Vol. IV Ancient Church, Parish, and Village. 1598-1602 & Vol. V 1603-1606. Church Bells Of The County Of Stafford. Parish Of Aldridge. Includes Monumental Inscriptions In The Church & Churchyard & With Copious The History And Antiquities Of The Church And City Extracts From The Parish Registers - 1660-1883. Of Lichfield.

A History Of Bilston. The Melancholy Occurrences At History Of The Staffordshire Potteries. Bilston, During The Awful Visitation In That Town By Cholera, In The Months Of August And September, 1832; Staffordshire Pots & Potters.

To Which Are Added, The Proceedings Of The Local The History And Antiquities Of The Collegiate Church Board Of Health, A List Of Contributors For The Relief Of Tamworth. Of The Inhabitants, Together With The Application Of The Money, And Other Interesting Particulars. The History Of The Town And Castle Of Tamworth.

Domesday Studies: An Analysis And Digest Of The History Of Stafford. Staffordshire Survey. Olden Wednesbury. Diocesan Histories: Litchfield. Historic Staffordshire. Mansions And Country Seats Of Staffordshire And History Of Standon : Parish, Manour And Church, Warwickshire. With Two Hundred Years Of Registers. Wednesbury Ancient And Modern. The Borough Of Stoke-Upon-Trent 1883. A History Of The Parish Of Tettenhall. Colton And Of The De Wasteney’s Family. The Free Schools And Endowments Of Staffordshire. A History Of Penkridge. Burton-On-Trent : Its History, Its Waters, And Its The Cathedral Church Of Lichfield. Breweries.

The Dissolution Of The Monasteries As Illustrated By The A History Of Walsall And Its Neighbourhood. Suppression Of The Religious Houses Of Staffordshire. Calendar Of The Deeds And Documents Belonging To Stafford In Olden Times. The Corporation Of Walsall.

A History Of The Ancient Parish Of Leek, Including A History Of Wednesbury. Horton, Cheddleton, And Ipstones. Notes On Staffordshire Place Names.

36 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 A Survey Of Staffordshire. Yorkshire North Riding - 82 history and parish register books, plus 51 books of Yorkshire in general and the A Topographical History Of Staffordshire. City and Ainsty of York. CD 4996

A Topographical And Historical Description Of The FAMILY HISTORIES Parish Of Tixal. George Abbott and Adelaide Charlotte Crutchfield and families. Burns, Dulcie. ABBOTT History And Antiquities Of The Town And Neighbourhood Of Uttoxeter. John Ball and Sarah Slater and family, including the Smiley family. Burns, Dulcie. BALL Legends Of The Moorlands And Forest In North Staffordshire. The Turvey book: a history of the descendants of John and Sarah Wyton Turvey of Buckingham, England, and The Siege Of Lichfield 1811. Strangways, Victoria. McNaught, Alan M. TURVEY

Historical Records Of The King’s Own Stafford Rifles. IRELAND GENERAL Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of prelates History Of The 8th North Staffords. and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland, supplement. Cotton, Henry. IRELAND 922.3 COT The History Of The 7th (Ser.) Bn. 1914-1919.CD 4993 ANTRIM WESTMORLAND On the shining Bann, a record of an Irish manor A guide to Cumbrian historical sources. Winstanley, [Cashel]]. Sibbett, R. M. CD 4985 Rob and Winstanley David CUMBERLAND 942.78 WIN DONEGAL County Donegal Burials from 1670: WILTSHIRE Great Bedwyn baptisms 1553-1837: parish register Assaroe RC Abbey Ballyshannon; and Bishop’s Transcript transcriptions. WILTSHIRE Teightunny; Christ C of I Burt; 929.31 GRE Culdaff C of I; Kilmacrenan Old Protestant Church & Franciscan Great Bedwyn burials 1538-1837: parish register Friary; and Bishop’s Transcript transcriptions. WILTSHIRE Finner Bundoran; 929.32 GRE St Finian’s C of I Greencastle; St Columb & Clomany Churches of Ireland Moville; Lacock burials 1559-1837: parish register and Bishop’s Greenbank Presbyterian Quigley’s Point; Transcript transcriptions. WILTSHIRE 929.32 LAC St Anne’s C of I Ballyshannon; Donagh C of I Cardonagh; WORCESTERSHIRE Kilmonaster Castlefin; Cloncha Co of I Malin; Worcestershire and Herefordshire - 146 history and Balleighan Manorcunningham; parish register books. CD 4995 St Paul’s C of I Ramelton; Donaghmore C of I Castlefinn; YORKSHIRE Gartan Churchtown; A history of Penistone and district. Hey, David Creeslough RC; YORKSHIRE 942.81 HEY St Catherine’s & St Colomb’s Killybegs; Aughanishin Letterkenny; Round About Bradforth and Histories of Manningham, Leck and Raymoghy Letterkenny; Allerton and Heaton: plus maps of Yorkshire Clonleigh Lifford; wapentakes, parish borders and a county map. St John’s C of I Ballymore; Cudworth, William CD 4987 St Peter’s C of I Killaghtee Dunkineely; St Lugadius Clonleigh C of I Lifford; Tyneside pottery Bell, R. C. YORKSHIRE 338 BEL

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County Donegal Burials continued: Irvinestown Old Graveyard, Malin Presbyterian; Irvinestown RC Church, Magheragallon Tullagobegley; Keenaghan RC Abbey nr Belleek, St Conal & St Joseph RC Bruckless; Killadeas Church of Ireland, Inver; Kinawley Church of Ireland Derrylin, St John the Evangelist C of I; Leiter Presbyterian & St Finnian & St Mark’s C Lisbellaw Church of Ireland, of I Kilmacrenan; Lisbellaw Presbyterian Church, Carne & Templecarne C of I & St John’s C of I Lisnarick Burial Ground, (Muckross) Pettigo; Lough Navan, Tullyaughnish Ramelton; Methodist Church Knockninny, St Eunan’s Cathedral Church Raphoe; Magheracross Old Graveyard Ballinamallard, Christ the Redeemer C of I Rossnakill; Ardara; Magheracross Church of Ireland Ballinamallard, Ardmore BG; Mullaghdun Church of Ireland, Lag Cloncha; Mullaghdun RC Church, Taughboyne Churchyard. Nockagor Bog, Hewson, Eileen. CD 4982 Old Rossory Graveyard Enniskillen, FERMANAGH Pubble Churchyard Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, burial records, 1462-1945: RC Church of the Immaculate Conception Monea, RC Church of Immaculate Conception Tempo, Aghalurcher Old Graveyard Lisnaskea, St Comgall’s Church of Ireland Newtownbutler, Aghavea Church of Ireland, St John’s Church of Ireland Killesher, Boho Church of Ireland, St Mary’s Church of Ireland Ardess, St Mary’s RC Boho RC Church, Abbey Devinish Island Lough Erne, Christ Church of Ireland Maguiresbridge, St Mary’s RC Church Brookeborough, Carrick Graveyard Derrygonnelly, St Michael’s Church of Ireland Troy, Cleenish Church of Ireland Bellanleck, St Molaise’s RC Church Devinish Island Lough Erne, Cleenish RC Church Bellanaleck, St Molaise Church of Ireland Monea, Derrybrusk Old Churchyard, St Naile’s RC Church Kinawley, Derrygonnelly Old Graveyard, St Patrick’s RC Church Belleek, Derryvullan Old Churchyard Irvinestown. St Tierney’s RC Church Rosslea, Derryvullan New Churchyard Irvinestown, Lough Erne, Derryvullan North Church of Ireland, Slavin Church of Ireland, Donagh Old Graveyard, Slavin Old Graveyard, Druminiskill Chapel of Ease Killesher, Templenaffrin Churchyard Lough Macnean, Drumkeeran Church of Ireland Tubrid, Tempo Church of Ireland. Galloon Old Graveyard Galloon Island, Hewson, Eileen. CD 4981 Holy Trinity Church of Ireland Clogh, Holywell RC Church Belcoo, KILKENNY Inishkeen RC Churchyard, Halfway between Dublin and Cork: a history of the Parish Urlingford and Graine. Hayes, Margaret. Inishkeen Island Lough Erne, IRELAND / KILKENNY 941.89 HAY

38 FHC | The Genealogist | June 2019 TIPPERARY Under Crimblin Hill, Volume 1, 2018: Historical 46 men dead: the Royal Irish Constabulary in County Journal of Dunkerrin Parish History Society. Tipperary, 1919-22. Reynolds, John. IRELAND / IRELAND / TIPPERARY 941.92 DUN TIPPERARY 363.2 REY NEW ZEALAND High noon for coaches. Millar, J. Halket. NEW ZEALAND 993 MIL

If you had ancestors who emigrated to Nelson in New Zealand and then travelled further afield in the South Island, this book will be of interest. It follows the coaches and road-making that became necessary to connect Nelson with Blenheim in the east and Westport in the south. If you have ever driven in that area, as I did recently, you will have an idea of the difficulties involved for both industries.

Industries of New Zealand 1898, descriptive and biographical, for Ashburton, Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymouth, Hokitika, Kumara, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Reefton, Ross, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington, Westland, Westport. CD 4999

Otago Settlement Jubilee 1898, published by the Otago Daily Times and Witness. CD 4998 SRI LANKA Sri Lanka, Gampola St Andrew’s Church, births, marriages and burials from 1864. Hewson, Eileen. CD 4990 SCOTLAND GENERAL Farewell to the heather: an account of the Government assisted emigrants from the highlands and islands of Scotland to New South Wales, 1837-1840. Donaldson, James. SCOTLAND 929.39 DON Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal, Volume 20, 2017. IRELAND / TIPPERARY 941.92 BOH MIDLOTHIAN Newhaven funeral books, 1830-1839. Stevenson, John A history of Cloneyharp National School, 1837- and Tubb, Ramsay. SCOTLAND / MIDLOTHIAN 1979. Ryan, Con and Carroll, Tom. IRELAND / 929.32 NEW TIPPERARY 372 RYA ROSS & CROMARTY Mining the past: the history, people and places of Applecross Poor Register, 1845-1917. Farrell, Stuart. Silvermines District. IRELAND / TIPPERARY SCOTLAND / ROSS & CROMARTY 929.31 APP 941.92 SIL

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