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Tasmanian Family History Society Inc TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. Volume 38 Number 4—March 2018 TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Society Secretary: [email protected] Journal Editor: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Dr Neil Chick and Mr David Harris Executive: President Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Vice President Maurice Appleyard (03) 6248 4229 Society Secretary Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Society Treasurer Ross Warren 0487 330 707 Committee: Gary Bryant Judith Cocker Peter Cocker Robyn Gibson John Gillham Libby Gillham Sue-Ellen McCregan Louise Rainbow Eddy Steenbergen Helen Stuart By-laws Coordinator Eddy Steenbergen 0418 129 154 Web Manager Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Journal Editor Rosemary Davidson 0408 445 532 LWFHA Coordinator Leonie Mickleborough (03) 6223 7948 Members’ Interests Compiler John Gillham (03) 6239 6823 Membership Registrar Lyndal Ayers (03) 6243 9190 Publications Convenor Beverley Richardson (03) 6225 3292 Public Officer Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Society Sales Officer Maurice Appleyard (03) 6245 9351 Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Hobart: PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 [email protected] Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected] Mersey: PO Box 267 Latrobe Tasmania 7307 [email protected] Volume 38 Number 4 March 2018 ISSN 0159 0677 Contents From the editor .......................................................................................................... 190 President’s Report ..................................................................................................... 191 Branch Reports ...................................................................................................................... 192 Launching Betty’s Book, Patron, Alison Alexander .................................................. 196 Voices from the Orphan Schools: Mary Ann Sarsfield: ‘a convict woman’s offspring’, Dianne Snowden ................................................ 199 In-service Training for Teachers, Model Small Schools, 1910–1950, Betty Jones ....... 205 Lost in the Bush, Our Gloomy Fascination with a Terrifying Aspect of Life in the Australian Colonies, Don Bradmore .................................................. 211 German-Australian Genealogy and History Alliance, Michael Watt ....................... 216 New Members ........................................................................................................... 217 New Members’ Interests ........................................................................................... 218 Centrefold—38th Conference and Annual General Meeting 2018, Ross ................... i–iv Book Review and Help Wanted ......................................................................................... 219 Are the Ancestors Hanging from your Family Tree really your own?, Kimberly Powell ................................................................................................. 220 A Conundrum of Kings, Bugg and King Families at Wynyard Tasmania, Lyn Hookway and Jeff Ward .............................................................................. 221 Richard Usher: Family Man, Convict and Petty Constable, Jennifer Wood .............. 229 The Case of the Town Clerk who Absconded, Roger Jennans ................................... 233 Smallpox Epidemic, Launceston 1887, Jennifer Jacobs ............................................ 241 What is that Publication About?, Maurice Appleyard .............................................. 245 Library Acquisitions ................................................................................................. 246 Society Sales ............................................................................................................. 248 Deadline dates for contributions by 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October From the editor Journal address PO Box 326 Rosny Park TAS 7018 email [email protected] I was lucky to be in Hobart at the Articles are welcomed in any format— beginning of December to attend the handwritten, word processed, on disk or by launch of School Days, School Days … email. Please ensure images are of good the land of youth and dream, the book by quality. Betty Jones. It was lovely to see Bev and Beryl after spending most of the year Deadline dates are: emailing and talking on the phone and to 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October be able to introduce them to Betty. I had only met Betty personally for the first If you wish to contact the author of an time the previous week when I attended article in Tasmanian Ancestry please email the launch at Burnie Branch. the editor, or write care of the editor, enclosing a stamped envelope and your You can read the paper Alison Alexander correspondence will be forwarded. presented at the Hobart launch on page 196. The opinions expressed in this journal are Some students who attended the Univer- not necessarily those of the journal sity of Tasmania Family History Course committee, nor of the Tasmanian Family last year have taken up a suggestion to History Society Inc. Responsibility rests submit articles they had researched as with the author of a submitted article, we do part of their course to Tasmanian not intentionally print inaccurate inform- Ancestry. These have been gratefully ation. The society cannot vouch for the received and I look forward to being able accuracy of offers for services or goods that to accept more. appear in the journal, or be responsible for the outcome of any contract entered into Many readers will be familiar with the with an advertiser. The editor reserves the name of Faye Gardam a resident in the right to edit, abridge or reject material. Devonport district. Her latest book, Discovering Devonport Tasmania, was © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are also released recently and having spent subject to the provisions of the Copyright most of my schooldays in Devonport I Act and may not be reproduced without have been browsing my way through its written permission of the editor and author. more than 500 pages and looking forward to delving into it more deeply. Cover: Inside Cooee Observation School, Rosemary Davidson 1915. Courtesy of Jessie Whitsitt in Kerry Pink, Campsite to City, Burnie City Council, 2000, p. 235. 190 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY March 2018 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE OST of us now use a computer user that the first or second drive needs to record our family history replacing. For the technically minded, M research. How well do you this is purposely a rather simplified back it up? There is a saying among com- explanation of RAID (redundant array of puter professionals, ‘It’s not a question of independent disks). But of course this IF your hard drive dies, it is a question of would not be much help in the event of WHEN your hard drive dies, that you theft or fire. So every Tuesday and Thurs- need to have a good backup.’ day the system is backed up to one of two There are many ways to back up your plug-in hard drives which are then kept at data and the simplest is to always keep a the homes of two different committee second copy on your computer. Then if members. Not everyone will want to go you accidentally delete something you that far, but I cannot state strongly can just copy the back up and keep going. enough how important it is to do a regular But this is not a very good way to do it back up! because you will lose both copies when Here is a web site on this subject, which your hard drive dies, or if the computer is may further convince you of the stolen, or if, heaven forbid, you have a importance of backing up. fire. So you are better served by storing a https://www.backblaze.com/backup- copy on a plug in hard drive. You could your-computer.html use a USB thumb drive, but they don’t hold as much data as a plug-in hard drive Robert Tanner, President which these days can provide one tera- byte of storage for less than $100. But if you keep it beside your computer you will still lose everything if you are subjected to theft or fire. It is better to REMINDER have at least two copies so that you can Annual membership leave one with a friend or relative, then regularly swap them over. These days subscriptions are due by the you can even back up to a cloud system 1 April 2018 which means your data is stored on a server somewhere else away from your Tasmanian Ancestry, is part of your own set-up. You can back up regularly by subscription, so to ensure your next just copying your data, or there are many copy arrives on time see the back programs which can be set to do this for cover for a listing of amount due if you. you haven’t already renewed. The ‘office computer’ at the Hobart Thank you to all who regularly Branch Library is a good example of contribute. backing up. It uses a RAID system which New material always welcomed. means it has four hard drives and all data is automatically copied to the second one. If either breaks down, the third drive automatically takes over and informs the TASMANIAN ANCESTRY March 2018 191 BRANCH REPORTS Burnie topics that you would like to see covered please let either Peter or Judy know. http://www.clients.tas.webnet.com.au/ It is pleasing to advise we have had four geneal/burnbranch.htm microfilm readers donated to the branch. President: Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Secretary: Ann Bailey (03) 6431 5058 They are only small manual machines but PO
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