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57 August 1995 THE 1995 South-West Genealogist The Official Newsletter of The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ISSUE NUMBER: 57 AUGUST 1995 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER: The Warrnambool Branch of The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc. does not accept any responsibility for the opinions or the accuracy of the information contained in this newsletter. CORRESPONDENCE: All correspondence should be directed to: The Editor, The South West Genealogist, PO Box 607, Warrnambool, Victoria, 3280, Australia AREA ADMINISTRATOR: The Area Administrator may be contacted by writing to the address given for correspondence. MEETINGS: The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. meets on the second Thursday of the month in the Library of the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, 23 Merri Street, Warrnambool. The Branch Management Committee meets at 7:30pm, Monthly Meeting is at 8:00pm. Visitors most welcome. The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. staffs the library at LIBRARY: Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum on a volunteer roster, please enquire if the library will be open on (055) 64 7841 (9:30am to 4:30pm). OFFICEBEARERS: AREA ADMINISTRATOR Marie Boyce DEPUTY AREA ADMINISTRATOR Doug Holmes SECRETARY Vacant MINUTE SECRETARY Rosemary Archer TREASURER Robyn Gray RESEARCH OFFICER Gwen Edwards PUBLICATIONS OFFICER Lorraine Smith RESOURCES MANAGER Lucy Toohey FUNDRAISING Trudy Funston SUBSCRIPTIONS: A yearly subscription to The South West Genealogist maybe obtained by forwarding an annual subscription of $6.00/year to the above address. Subscription will be reviewed annually to take into account production costs and postage rates. PRODUCTION: Master copy prepared, edited and produced by Lorraine Smith. Photocopying courtesy of Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, 23 Merri Street, Warrnambool. CONTENTS Pages Editorial/Recent Acquisitions/Conference 2 Wangoom Common School Records/Help Wanted 3 Warrnambool & District Historicals - August 1920 4/5 Warrnambool & District Historicals - August 1895 5/6 Index to Pioneer Women of Victoria 7/8 Page 2 EDITORIAL Marie headed off with Jack to sunny Queensland a couple of weeks ago for a well deserved break; let's hope they bring the sun back with them. Therefore, there will be no Area Administrator's Report this month. Trudy will be taking some of the load off Marie's shoulders by indexing the Pioneer's Women from now on. Thanks, Trudy, for offering to help out in this way. There are still lots of jobs to be done within the group, if anyone feels like helping out, usually not much time or effort is involved, but it saves all the work landing on the same few people. In this month's newsletter, I have included a Surgeon's Report for a convict ship of 1834. These reports can be very informative. By consulting "Log of Logs", you may find a Surgeon's Report is available for your ancestor's voyage to Australia. An AJCP Reel number will be given. These reels are available for viewing at the State Library, Swanston st, Melbourne. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Recent Acquisitions Victorian Pioneer Index on CD (on loan) Mariposa - story of the Learmonths of Western Victoria and Mexico 1834 - 1930 By Anita McDonald Congregational Church Centenary 1862 - 1962 - copy of invitation In the Performance of Duty. The murder and assault of Victorian Police 1837 - 1988 By Gavin Brown, Gary Presland, Ralph Stavely City of Colac - community directory Living Stones - A Friendly Guide to some Tasmanian Graveyards Volumes 1,2 & 3. Written by Buck T Emberg & Joan D Emberg Coming South. Victorian Archives of Immigration 1839 - 1923 - a guide produced by the Public Record Office, Victoria * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Australia's Immigration & Family History Centre Presents an English Genealogy Conference At the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, on November 3,4 & 5, 1995. Sixteen lectures will be given, covering London, Army records, Royal Marines, East India, pre 1700 research, heraldry, Royalty., probates, census, land taxes, apprenticeships & much more. Also bookstalls & displays on English culture & genealogy. For further details, see leaflets in library or write to the address for correspondence. As part of the conference, Janet Reakes & Eileen Johnson are compiling a register of English research interests, similar to the GRD. Forms are available in the library to fill in the names & details of each English ancestor you have, whether or not they migrated to Australia & return the form to PO Box 937, Hervey Bay, Q, 4655, by October 20, 1995. Entry is free for all those attending the conference, or for those not attending the conference, they can register their interests for $10 for the first 15 entries and 50c for each entry thereafter. Similar to the above, is the Irish Contact Register Volume 2 (Volume 1 was released in March 1995). Forms are available in the library, with the cost the same as above. For anyone with Queensland connections, Janet Reakes & Eileen Johnson are also compiling a "Dictionary of Queenslanders", with details of you or your relatives who have either been born in Queensland or moved there from interstate and overseas. This publication will take the same format as the above, with the charge of $15 for the first 20 entries and $1 thereafter. Again, forms are available in the library for those interested. Page 3 WANGOOM COMMON SCHOOL (article compiled & submitted by Irene Sheppard) Date of Inspection: 17 August 1868 Christian Surname Age Christian Surname Age Elizabeth ADAMS 7.4 * Ann J LEGGATT 11.2 John W ADAMS 12 John LEGGATT 8.9 Margretta ADAMS 14 Rebecca LEGGATT 5.6 Martha ADAMS 11.2 Annie MACDONALD 13.1 Martha M ADAMS 12 Duncan MACDONALD 7.1 Ellen ANDERTON 10.9 Frank MACDONALD 5.4 John ANDERTON 18 George MACDONALD 11.8 Marcella BELL 9.6 * Kenneth MACDONALD 8.11 Margaret BELL 6.7 James McWIGAN 13.1 Mary BELL 14 William MITCHELL 7.1 Sarah BELL 8.5 * Mary OAKLEY 8.9 Fanny BURGESS 13 Elizabeth PARTRIDGE 14.7 Frank BURGESS 7.5 Martha PARTRIDGE 5.11 Mary BURGESS 5.4 Mary J PARTRIDGE 8.6 Jane CARUTH 8.7 * Rachel PARTRIDGE 7 Mary CARUTH 6.4 * William PARTRIDGE 10.1 Deborah DIXON 13.6 Henry PURDIE 14.2 Elizabeth DIXON 5.1 Frederick SCHERBU 11.4 John DIXON 6.9 # Isabel SCHERBU 7 Mary DIXON 11.1 Ann SMITH 9.7 Thomas DIXON 9.1 John SMITH 7.1 Ada EMERY 5.9 Joseph SMITH 10.6 Charlotte EMERY 9.3 Arthur STOCKS 9.5 Dinah EMERY 13.2 Edith STOCKS 3.8 Louisa EMERY 11.8 Emily STOCKS 10.7 William EMERY not given Ernest STOCKS 7.4 William GLASGOW 9.6 * Ernest STOCKS 7.4 Edward GRIFFITH not given * Joseph WHITTINGTON 6.5 Andrew GRIFFITHS 8 Edward WICKHAM 12.1 Ann GRIFFITHS 8.1 George WICKHAM 8.1 Jane GRIFFITHS 10.6 John WICKHAM 5.11 George HENDERSON 6.9 * Mary WICKHAM 10.4 John HENDERSON 8.11 * Mary WICKHAM 10.4 William HENDERSON 10.1 Mary J WILLIAMSON 11.2 Hannah HOES 10.1 Charles WRIGHT 12.8 Robert HOES 14.6 * Joseph WRIGHT 7.1 Malachi HOGAN 10.6 Joseph WRIGHT 7.1 Elizabeth IRVINE 12 * Stephen WRIGHT 7 John IRVINE not given Peter IRVINE not given Ellen JACKSON 7.8 * These entries were crossed out in the book. # b. 9.8.1861 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HELP WANTED We need items for the Help Wanted column! See Lorraine Smith on meeting nights or direct correspondence to the address given on the front page. For $1 per entry or send us 2 postage stamps in payment, you have the chance to make a new contact! Page 4 WARRNAMBOOL AND DISTRICT HISTORICALS (Compiled by Betty Beavis) AUGUST 75 YEARS AGO - 1920 (As reported in the "Warrnambool. Standard") MARRIAGES SILVER WEDDING MACLAREN, Lindsay of 15 August 1895 - Thomas Glasson Warrnambool., to Beatrice, WILLIAMS to Clara BULLOCK daughter of the late Mr & Mrs (both of Clunes). Now Geo STEWART of Bearsden, of 47 Park st, ParkvilLe. Glasgow, Scotland. TAYLOR, ALex of Purnim, to Jessie CLARKE of "Yarram Yea", Hopkins. PERSONAL, DEATHS, etc T.M. BOWE, manager of London Bank, promoted to Beaufort. Deaths of: Louis MURNANE raged 34, at Tweed Heads. Mrs Joseph WRIGHT, nee Dixon, of Wangoom. Mrs M LUMSDEN, nee Proudfoot, at Koroit. Mrs Samuel CARTER Gordon Forrest CUMMING T. DENSLEY, sen., 72 years. Good family information. Miss Rose OGLE, daughter of Joseph OGLE. John KELL, brother of late Major KELL. EVENTS OF INTEREST Accidents to A. C. BEGLEY at Allansford; Miss Mary BEAN at Cudgee; Mrs E. E. SMITH at Dennington. Fatal. accidents to CharLes E PORTER, contractor, aged 39; to lad, Michael KELLY near Koroit. KEILOR's cottage near race-course to be sold for removal. Miss S. LATTA organises Hospital. Ball. at Woolsthorpe. F. MORSE & CO. supply new motor van for J.M. ROSAN. F. BATTARBEE returns from health trip to Fiji. Nurse Dora MOORE on holiday from Tasmania. Walter DOWN, brilliant young electrician, engaged by Electric Power Co. in America. Sails per Sydney to New Zealand, America and later England. Sister Beatrice McGENNAN accepted by Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve. Nirranda Bush Nursing Hospital. obtains the services of Nurse CLEGG. Tribute to Miss MURRAY by John S. EGAN on behalf of the Aborigines of Victoria. Jas D. WALTERS patents machine for preparing sandstone for blocks on site. Page 5 WARRNAMBOOL AND DISTRICT HISTORICALS (cont.) AUGUST 75 YEARS AGO - 1920 (cont.) EVENTS OF INTEREST. cont. Article re Lieut-Commander F. W. EVANS, R.N.R., son of Mrs F. D. EVANS of "Garthowen", Lava st. Mr De ZOETE chairs meeting re Post Office at Dennington S. CARSON bequeaths 200 pounds to South Warrnambool Mission Church. John KIERCE and J. WILLLIAMS, both of Lava st, win 4,350 pound prize in Adelaide Grand National Hurdle race.
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