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VOLUME 33 ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2016 Winner 2016 $15.00 ISSN 0044-8222 GSV Writing Prize

Finding Mary Jane

From Portland to Victoria

Mary Barker Rae

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Family Tree

The Impact of Tuberculosis in my Father's Family

Sources to Add Flavours

GSV Annual Awards

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Bookings with payment essential Make payments at GSV reception or online www.gsv.org.au CORRESPONDENCE The Editor, Ancestor, The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level B1, 257 Collins Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc. Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 Phone: (03) 9662 4455 or email: [email protected] EDITORIAL TEAM Margaret Vines – chairperson This time of year brings two special announcements: the Awards of the GSV Bill Barlow and the winner of the GSV Writing Prize. Barbara Beaumont Sue Blackwood It is always heartening to realise the amount of time and eff ort that volunteers Martin Playne contribute to the smooth-running of our society, not only in the public eye, but Jenny Redman behind the scenes. Details of the awards are on page 22 . Congratulations to all Jeanette Wickham award winners. CREATIVE Jeanette Wickham Congratulations also to Emma Hegarty, the winner of the Writing Prize. Her research into the life of her ancestor Mary Jane Walshe has been undertaken PRINTER Blue Star Print Vic over more than twenty years. Persistence, and a lucky break, have brought Mary Jane’s interesting life story into the light. As Emma concludes, Mary Jane’s life CONTRIBUTIONS story has been traced mainly through the documentation of the males in her We welcome the submission of articles on family history topics for possible life. This is often the case with female ancestors, a topic that the Writers Circle publication. tackled recently. We look forward to bringing you some stories on this topic in The editors reserve the right to edit the next issue. or abridge articles to meet space constraints and editorial considerations. Now that the 2016 competition is over, why not start planning for your entry Submissions should be the work of the next year? If you are not sure of your writing skills, consider joining the Writers author submitting the article and should Circle, which can off er help and advice. There are also guidelines on the GSV not have been published elsewhere website under the Ancestor tab for would-be writers. unless agreed. All material should be submitted in electronic format to Two of our articles tell of lives changed by migration. Robert Flew brings us a [email protected] story of quarrymen from Portland, UK who took up this trade in the western Please submit text as Microsoft™ Word suburbs of Melbourne, while Elaine Story tells of the slave background of her doc or docx fi les. Printed papers will not be considered for publication. Images ancestor Mary Barker Rae and her later life in England. Two of our articles should not be embedded in the text fi le, focus on conditions that affl icted members of their family: Levane Abdoolcader but sent as separate email attachments has researched the prevalence of tuberculosis amongst her forebears while as high resolution JPG or TIFF fi les James McDonald writes about how post-traumatic stress disorder aff ected two (minimum 300 dpi). Provide captions for members of his family long before that term was coined. Dorothy Anderson and each image in the text fi le. Articles should not exceed 3000 words in length. Shorter Richard Shiell have given us an interesting account of some unusual sources of articles with images to illustrate the information that have contributed to their family research. article are preferred. Finally, be sure to read the President’s page as it contains some interesting For further information on style to follow in preparing your article, please see indications of possible future directions for the Society. gsv.org.au/ancestor-journal/ Barbara Beaumont guidelines-for-authors.html. If you have further questions, email: Editorial Team [email protected] ADVERTISING Advertising space is available. Our Media Kit is available at gsv.org.au/ancestor- journal/advertise.html

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Our cover: Melbourne from the southward c1850, by James Graham Boyd. State Library of Victoria photo collection No.H5505 Pen of the President David Down Pen of the President Pen Future Directions resolved. Discussions have commenced with other major The GSV, along with many societies, is facing diffi culties libraries in Victoria in an endeavour to ensure that our with a steady and sustained decline in membership which collection is preserved. However the Society must be severely impacts on our ability to operate in a fi nancially prepared for the circumstance where other institutions viable manner. Throughout Australia and overseas, clubs are unable to house our collection in its entirety or, and societies have generally suff ered a reduction in their indeed, in part. membership base. This would appear to be a general trait • We are examining systems and procedures that would of modern society and, in our circumstances, possibly a enable us to greatly extend the range of information that reaction to the growth in the popularity of the commercial is accessible from home. We are not in a position to fully databases. implement these systems in the immediate future but are working towards a solution. Our Society has suff ered a 40 per cent decline in membership over the last decade, Successive Councils The lease of our current premises will terminate at the have recognised the problem and have taken a number of end of November 2018. Our lessor has recently off ered actions in an endeavour to focus the Society’s direction and us the opportunity to exit our lease in the near future. As operations. A review of our operations and staffi ng levels has a consequence Council has agreed to vacate our current resulted in more focused programs and fewer staff . premises at a mutually agreed date most likely to be in the fi rst quarter of 2017. We will be seeking smaller premises in Our members, when responding to the survey conducted the Melbourne City Council area with ready access to public two years ago, advised us that they are seeking greater transport. At the time of writing this article we have just access to information at home and for personalised research commenced the search for alternative premises that would assistance when attending events in our library. We have suit our needs and restricted budget. responded in a number of ways including increasing the number of one day research workshops, instituting library Changes to our Society will occur quite rapidly now and I research days, increasing the records available on our online recognise the need to keep members appraised in a timely databases, converting our webcasts to a format more suitable manner. A full mail-out to members is very expensive so our for downloading and promoting our Discussion Circles. main methods of communication will be via our website, by email and through each edition of Ancestor. We have Over the course of recent years attendances at our library email addresses for approximately 80% of our members. If have decreased signifi cantly. Our extensive collection of you have not provided us with an up-to-date email address books and other written material are consulted infrequently. we would greatly appreciate it if you could do so as soon as Access would appear to be primarily by members of our possible. Our program of events as advertised on the ‘What’s Research Team in the course of providing paid research On at the GSV’ pages may be subject to change at short services to members and the general public or during the notice. The Events pages on our website will contain the conduct of Library Research Days. latest information and should be consulted frequently.

A number of issues are being considered: The Society is in a state of fl ux. Despite our declining • There are a number of family history societies in membership it is considered that a viable family history existence in Melbourne each of which are experiencing society can be created by combining our eff orts and similar reductions in their membership. As a resources with similar organisations. The new entity would consequence we have entered into discussions with the continue to provide the services that are currently available Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies (AIGS) but would have a stronger emphasis on easier access to and the Cornish Association of Victoria to explore the digital resources. Our move to smaller more aff ordable viability of establishing a new family history entity. premises will place us in a more stable and fl exible fi nancial position and assist with this process.  • The Society has built up its collections over the years and holds many specialised publications. The question of where and how to house the collection needs to be

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 2 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Contents Articles Finding Mary Jane 4 Emma Hegarty

From Portland to Victoria: a story of quarrymen and their culture 4 Robert J Flew 8 Mary Barker Rae 12 Elaine Story

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 4 in the Family Tree James McDonald 14 The Impact of Tuberculosis on my Father’s Family Levane Abdoolcader 17 8 Sources to Add Flavour Dorothy Anderson and Richard Shiell 20 GSV Annual Awards 22 12 Ancestor Competition 23 Spotlight: Shedding light on new facilities Geelong Heritage Centre 29

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Regular Features Editorial 1 22 Pen of the President 2 Getting it Write 24 Additions to the Library 27 Research Corner 30 Members Queries and Brickwall Corner 32 29 Jottings… and library news 34 Genies on the Web 35 Around the Groups 36 Book Reviews 37 What’s On at our Member Societies 38 40 GSV Member Societies 39 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40 News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41 Apology About the GSV 42 We apologise for the error in the review of the book First of its Research Services 43 Kind – Nurse Education and Training at the Northern District School of Nursing. The name of the School’s fi rst News 44 Dean was Miss Nancy Long, not Miss Emily Long. The error What’s On at the GSV 45 was the reviewer’s not the authors’. GSV Bookshop Back cover

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 3 Winner 2016 GSV Writing Prize Finding Mary Jane by Emma Hegarty

Displayed in the GSV library in the 1990s was Like so many others, I had very little to go a poster that said, ‘What happened to Mary on. Mary Jane Walshe, aged two, arrived in Jane?’ Daughters, sisters, aunts could simply Melbourne in August 1854 on the barque Geelong, disappear, undetectable in the plethora of accompanied by her parents and baby sister Kate. Emma can be contacted at [email protected] Mary Janes who lived in nineteenth century They lived in many towns in Victoria, where her Australia. I searched for one of them for 25 father worked mainly as a mounted constable years. This is the story I found. and then a detective. For three years, during Mary Jane’s teens, the family tried their luck in Queensland, living in and around Rockhampton. Then they returned to Melbourne, where her father became a publican. Mary Jane was 18 when her father was shot and killed because he intervened to stop an attempted murder (another story, what a story, for another day). The family was at his bedside, ‘and it was truly a heartrending sight to see them wringing their hands in a paroxysm of misery’ as he lay dying.1 At his funeral, ‘it was painful to see the grief evidenced by the daughters of the murdered man, and with the greatest diffi culty were they persuaded to forgo their intention of accompanying the remains of their parent to the grave’.2

Three years later, when her mother died after a brief illness, Mary Jane was already distant from her family.3 Within a month of their mother’s death, Kate, at 19, married her beau and took on the care of the younger children: Willie, Jim, Louisa and Ada. When the youngest, Ada, died of consumption in 1888, aged 24, her will mentioned all of her siblings except Mary Jane.

Among our family photographs is a picture of a middle-aged woman, labelled Aunt Mary R— followed by some loopy letters (Image 1). Rees, Reese, Reece, Reid, Reed, Read and Reade are all possible interpretations. Decades into the search I dug up a title deed to a property the siblings inherited, showing the same possible range of surnames for Mary Jane (Image 2).

On microfi che, and later in databases, I searched records throughout Australia and New Zealand. Using wildcards and various spellings, I looked for Mary Jane in marriage, death and cemetery indexes, electoral rolls and probate records; I Image 1: The photo of Aunt Mary with the illegible surname that turned out to searched for her as a mother in children’s birth be a valuable clue; author’s collection. and death records. Lots of Marys and Mary Janes,

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 4 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 2: The partly illegible surname on Aunt Mary’s photo; author’s collection. Finding Mary Jane Finding none of them, looking at their circumstances, was where his brothers had a plantation; we do not my Mary Jane. She’s not there, said my instincts, know whether Polly was there with him. In March look in Fiji and California. Fairly specifi c instinct, 1873, after about a year in Fiji, he took a job as given she had the whole world to run to, but I a draftsman with the NSW government. Polly didn’t know how to look in those far off places. and David were now living together, or in close proximity, in Sydney. I am descended from Mary Jane’s sister Kate. Over several generations, Kate’s descendants We assume his wife died (we have not been able to have stayed in touch with her sister Louisa’s identify her), because in 1878 he married a wealthy descendants. We knew that their siblings Willie widow, Mrs Mary Browne, nee Fitzgerald, of (a famous singer) and Ada had died childless. Singleton. The parvenu Browne family were Gradually the internet brought opportunities to the closest thing Singleton had to landed gentry, share information, and we made contact with dominating legal and business aff airs in the town, descendants of their brother Jim. At a young age and guarding their fortune against their various he had settled in Sydney (why did he go there?), lovers and illegitimate children. The new Mrs where he worked as a draftsman (where did he Reece lived in Sydney briefl y, but soon woke up to learn that?), had a family, and died in an infl uenza David’s game and took herself back to Singleton epidemic in 1895. within a year of the marriage. She later had two children who bore the name Reece, but were very Then along came Trove, and research in unlikely to have been David’s. Australian history was revolutionised. In Trove I noticed a descendant of Louisa Walshe researching the same topics as me, and we teamed up. One of Jim’s descendants in Sydney joined us life memories by following up leads in the NSW archives. From these hiding places, Mary Jane Walshe came VIDEO BIOGRAPHIES tumbling out to meet us. The extraordinary stories of ordinary people living ordinary lives First was the abduction trial. A man named James David Rees was arrested for abducting Mary Jane Walshe. He had been courting Mary Jane because she and her siblings stood to inherit property bought by the huge public fund set up when their father met his tragic and heroic end. (In this he was mistaken, for although the family had a trust fund, there was very little money to hand).4 Upon hearing a rumour that he was married, Mary Jane’s family and fi nancial trustees Today, more than ever before, people are taking a initiated legal action to protect her. The charge special interest in their family history. of abduction came to nothing, because she could rely on the Married Women’s Property Act. From In the tradition of fireside storytelling, a video biography the abduction trial alone we learnt that Mary Jane will entertain and bring joy to your loved ones... forever. was called Polly by her family, that her father’s We will produce a beautifully filmed biography featuring sister and her mother’s uncle (extended family interviews, photos, other memorabilia and your favourite we had not known of) were part of her protective music. circle, and that Polly and her mother were feisty.5 The legacy of your life... the passions, the trials, the triumphs.

David Reece (as he was usually called) had Special 20% Please contact us for an obligation free worked at the Melbourne Observatory, and had discount to quotation ‘Ancestor’ been part of the great Eclipse Expedition to the [email protected] Cape York Peninsula in 1871, in which he travelled subscribers www.lifememoriesvideo.com.au as an assistant to the photographer Beaufoy Limited time only Merlin. After the abduction trial he went to Fiji, see website for details

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 5 Image 3: Members and friends of the Corkhill family at a picnic at Sherringham, William Henry Corkhill (1894). Oliver Reece is on the right in the front row leaning on his elbow. National Library of Australia Tilba Tilba photograph

Finding Mary Jane Finding collection, Object 140308165.

David stayed in Sydney with Polly. Engulfed unregistered children, Garnet Roger, born in 1886, in a land speculation deal gone wrong, and the and Stella, born in 1891. In March 1887, David took Brownes’ fortune beyond his clutches, David a post as the only teacher at the newly established Reece fi led for bankruptcy in 1879. Documents school at Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station. His from the long, drawn out case tell us that David own children were educated there. His meagre was supporting an illegitimate child, among other salary was £96 per annum. In September 1890 he relatives, and that he was training Polly’s brother was appointed Superintendent of the station, with Jim to be a draftsman.6 an additional £30 per annum for the extra duties.

In 1880, Polly gave birth to her fi rst child, Oliver In May 1896 the Aborigines’ Protection Board David Reece. The birth was not registered, found that many of the people at Wallaga Lake but in many documents Oliver claimed to have were destitute, with no prospect of income been born in Sydney. In August that year, ‘Mrs until the next shearing season. ‘Authority was Rees’ and baby Oliver sailed from Melbourne to given for the purchase of clothing for 56 old and England. Polly’s family was Irish, but David had infi rm aborigines and 36 children… The board been born into a Welsh family in Bristol, England. directed the temporary issue of rations. Accounts In February 1881 David Reece resigned from the amounting to £338 for rations and medical Survey Offi ce, in his own words, ‘to visit my home attendance were passed for payment’.8 in England, but reached America only, where news awaited me, of my mother’s death’.7 He A thorough inspection in 1899 reported returned to Sydney, as did Polly. To earn a living, that, ‘whilst giving Mr Reece, the present David trained students in draftsmanship for the superintendent, every credit for the work done by Survey Offi ce examinations. David and Polly’s him in improving the condition of the aborigines, second child was born in 1883, and registered [we] considered that the time had arrived when as Angelo David Rees. As an adult he went by there should be some better supervision at the the name Arthur Angelo Reece, but seems to station by the appointment of a resident married have been called Angelo by the family. On the couple’.9 In David’s application for his original birth certifi cate, which I had missed in manual post at Wallaga Lake, Polly had been recorded as searches, his unmarried parents were listed as his wife.10 It may have been discovered that they James Rees and Mary Walsh. were not married. Nevertheless, the family seems to have been accepted in their community. Early in 1885, the young family moved to the rural district of Central Tilba, initially living on a farm. By this time David Reece had established Even now, Tilba is remote. It is on the south coast himself as a midwife and medic. In 1906 he of NSW, between Narooma and Bermagui, 364 km claimed to have attended over 400 births.11 He from Sydney. Here the family would live for more continued farming, and took a minor role in civic than 20 years, and David would take up two very and sporting events. A photograph, ‘Picnic at unlikely careers. He and Polly had two further Sherringham’, dated ‘about 1897’, shows local

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 6 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc families posing with their buggies; a charismatic Sydney Morning Herald.18 It was a public barb, to fi gure at the front of the group is Oliver Reece.12 undermine any pretence Polly and David might (Image 3). have made at being a married couple. Two years later she released him by dying. In 1907, with In 1900, at the age of 20, Oliver moved to Sydney Oliver apparently settled in San Francisco, the and found employment as a survey draftsman entire family decided to follow him. Polly and in the Attorney General’s Department.13 His David and their grown children, Angelo, Garnet father had trained him in draftsmanship, and his and Stella, migrated to the United States. But mother had tutored him in her family’s passion, before they left, Polly and David were married Mary Jane Finding music. Over the next few years he performed in quietly in Sydney. many concerts, and late in 1903 it was reported that ‘The Sydney admirers of Mr Oliver Reece, David died in 1912 and Polly in 1915. She was formerly of Tilba, are organising a farewell buried in San Francisco under the name Marie concert to the young baritone, prior to his J Reece. We have made contact with their departure for Europe. Mr Reece is nephew to Mr descendants, who say there was an older child, Willie Walshe the well-known Australian tenor’.14 Lizzie. We are yet to fi nd any trace of Lizzie in He also enjoyed the patronage of Willie’s friend Australian and American records, and I suspect and colleague Ada Crossley.15 More than rejoicing she might have been the illegitimate child that at Oliver’s plans to study music in London, I was David was supporting in the 1870s. thrilled to see the implied support of the Walshe family for Polly’s boy. Later young Stella, at only To a certain extent, one of the missing Mary 15, passed the London College of Music exams.16 Janes has been found. We can locate Polly Walshe in the well-documented lives of her But Oliver got distracted. Instead of London, father, partner and son. But her own life, and he set off for the Klondike goldfi elds.17 He then her own character, remain elusive. We’ll never found work in California, and in San Francisco know why she stayed with David Reece, in a in 1905, he married an American girl. He was society that would have judged his every step to spend the rest of his life divided between his as humiliating for her. Perhaps she loved him. passions for music and mining, and, for Australia Perhaps he was very persuasive. Her choices, and California. He worked as a mining engineer once she was a ‘fallen woman’, were limited. She in both countries, and continued to perform as a came from a family of distinctively determined noted amateur. and stubborn people, and though she left them, she was always one of them. In 1903, Mary, the woman who was still legally married to David Reece, observed their silver wedding anniversary by placing a notice in the

Acknowledgement I am indebted to my co-researchers, Mary Vanderfeen and Julie Stearman, who have shared this journey.

References 1. ‘Attempted assassination of Mr G Paton Smith’, The Age, 19 May 1870. 2. ‘Funeral of Mr Walshe’, The Age, 21 May 1870 3. ‘News of the day’, The Age, 13 May 1873 4. ‘Town News’, The Australasian, 28 December 1872 5. ‘Charge of abduction’, The Argus, 1 February 1872 and similar stories about the case in Victorian newspapers 6. State Records NSW, Insolvency, James David Reece [14779] 7. State Records NSW, Wallaga Lake Aboriginal School [5/17986.2] 8. ‘Meetings’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 1896 9. Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station’, Evening News, Sydney, 25 February 1899 10. State Records NSW, Wallaga Lake Aboriginal School [5/17986.2] 11. ‘Inquest’, Cobargo Chronicle, 2 November 1906 12. Corkhill, William Henry 1983, Taken at Tilba, National Library of Australia, Canberra. 13. ‘Public Service Gazette’, Evening News, Sydney, 23 April 1900 14. ‘From our correspondents’, Southern Star, Bega, 21 November 1903 15. ‘Mr Oliver Reece’, Evening News, Sydney, 11 December 1903 16. ‘London College of Music’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 1906 17. ‘Musical notes’, Chronicle, Adelaide, 4 June 1904 18. ‘Silver weddings’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 1903

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 7 Portland

From Portland to Victoria: a story of quarrymen and their culture

by Robert J. Flew

Portland is a peninsula jutting out from the famous buildings in England. Portland stone is southern Dorset coast of England. It has been today classifi ed as a Heritage stone. called an island for centuries, but is in fact joined to the mainland by Chesil Bank, a pebbled Whilst the business of quarrying limestone was bank abutting the sea. Until the 1830s the only the main stay of employment, the age-old custom access to the rest of Dorset was via boat, ferry of smuggling was also an accepted way of life. Robert can be or a diffi cult trek along Chesil Bank. A primitive The number of convictions in Portland in the 70 contacted by email on [email protected]. bridge was opened in 1839, giving the community years to 1850 was 114, very much higher than the a less dangerous means of access to the mainland, average of 10 for the other Dorset parishes. and in the 1850s further improvements were achieved by the opening of a new bridge. The context of being a community with limited contact with the rest of Dorset is important for it Portland has been, and still is, a royal manor infl uenced their culture and customs. The relative belonging to the current Royal Family, so the absence of outsiders meant that sustaining a community lived within the distant and isolated strong and vibrant community was an issue manor. In early times fi shing, sheep farming felt by all. It was important that the outcome of (Dorset horned sheep were found originally in marriage produced children to keep things going. Portland) and grain growing were the primary So, despite being a strongly religious minded occupations, along with quarrying for home group, or maybe because of the restrictions building. The rebuilding of London after the great around divorce, the custom of cohabitation before fi re in the second half of the 17th century was the marriage developed progressively from the late beginning of large scale quarrying and by the 18th 17th century through to the 19th century. Should a century the demand for the quality limestone pregnancy occur and looked like being successful, grew rapidly and quarrying consumed much of the a marriage resulted. However, if there was no agricultural land. Portland Stone thus provided pregnancy after a reasonable period, then the employment as quarrymen and stonemasons. The relationship would break off to enable each of the stone was of high quality and was used in many couple to try again with a new partner. Image 1: Map of Dorset showing Portland, adapted from Wikipedia

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Image 2: Yarraville Quarrymen, courtesy of Footscray Historical Society

Of course none of this was formalized in a legal sense, but it was a very pragmatic approach to ensuring a growing healthy community. But what of the inbreeding risk? In all the records that I have seen, both my own and other researchers, no fi rst cousin marriages have been seen. There were plenty of second, twice and three times removed cousin marriages, and there were suffi cient families on the island to ensure a healthy spread of genes. The population in the 1851 census was approximately 5,200 comprising 111 family names. Interestingly about half the represented Australia’s family names were among emigrants to Australia.

Another custom frequently adopted was for largest online children to carry the family name of the mother, and sometimes her mother as well. For example my great grandmother was a Mary White family history Carter Hansford, the Carter and White names * carrying down from prior generations. Other resource examples from my family tree are Susan Atwooll Flew, Susanna Stone Flew, and Eleanor Flew Researchearch and Dalgleish. This practice both simplifi es the genealogy research and complicates it with buildd your family similar names popping up all over. It also helped identifying close relatives and would have treee online assisted in ensuring close relative marriages did not occur.

Yet another common practice in the 19th century was to reuse the names of children who had died very young when a later child was born. In one family I noted four young deaths and all the names were repeated in later births.

Portlanders began migrating to Australia and New Zealand as early as 1835, and by 1855 there had *comScore, 2011 been a total of 48 people heading south.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 9 The next fi ve years to 1860 saw this jump by 84, disruption. This would undoubtedly be a major then a steady but smaller number until 1869, with reason for some Portlanders to migrate to the a burst of 74 in the 1870s and again in the 1880s, new colonies. Other reasons were the fl uctuating Portland with some 60 émigrés. Of these, Victoria received economy and its infl uence on demand for some 160 from Portland constituting 24 diff erent Portland stone. family names. My own male ancestor came in 1870 as a young man, and on the maternal side in Some of those who went were sponsored by early 1856 as a one-year-old child. emigrants, and received assistance from the colonies, whilst others were assisted by grants Speculation has it that the largest migrant from the Island trustees of the Royal Manor numbers were stimulated in the 1850s by Grant Fund. signifi cant new infrastructure works and the resultant infl ux of people to the area. The need Most of the Portland males settling in Victoria for the new bridge, and improved harbour safety and NSW were classifi ed as ‘quarrymen’, and came about after catastrophic gales that lashed quarrying was a logical choice of occupation and a the southern England coast in 1824, during which relatively easy segue into the new community. My signifi cant damage was done to the coast and great grandfather was quarrying at Williamstown villages. One village, Chiswell, lost 136 houses and for the fi rst two years of his time in Victoria, his the ferryman disappeared as did his house and details were noted in the Rate Books. ferries. However it took until 1835 for Parliament to pass enabling legislation for the required works, In Victoria, particularly around the Williamstown and even longer for things to get started. and greater Footscray and nearby country areas, the nature of the stone meant that quarrying was Controversially, Parliament also decided that quite a diff erent task than in Portland. Here, the prisoners should provide the labour for some material was hard and more diffi cult to handle. of the work, and so in 1848 the fi rst prison was Basalt was an early need as ballast for the sailing established on the island. The Government was ships returning empty to England and a healthy anxious to deal with a backlog of prisoners on the trade for basalt was developed in the early hulks, and made an arrangement that after one years. Three Portlanders, John White, Thomas year’s work at Portland, prisoners transported Comben and William Angel Stone are known to to the colonies would be granted a ticket of leave have been involved in this activity in the 1850s. on arrival. The prisoners took over much of the Bluestone, a very hard and durable stone was also quarrying and the locals and ‘free men’ from the in demand for buildings, bridges and roads. This mainland worked on the building aspects. contrasts with the limestone in Portland, which is a much easier material with which to work . The eff ect on Portland was a huge social and economic disruption with the population Quarrying was an arduous and at times dangerous increasing by 180 percent in twenty years. For occupation. The newspaper report below of an many it would have been a rude shock to their accident to my great grandfather would not have relatively ordered lifestyle and a huge social been an unusual occurrence.

Image 3: Source reference: Footscray Independent, 24 January 1903, reproduced in ‘Yarraville in 1901’.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 10 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc The establishment of a rail connection from Some of the social customs evident in Portland Melbourne to Williamstown in the 1850s have not carried over into Victoria. For example, resulted in new land developments between pre-marriage cohabitation does not seem to have Footscray and Williamstown, and the birth of moved with the Portlanders, for were there fewer Portland Yarraville itself. This coincided with the arrival examples of births taking place well within the of the fi rst large group from Portland. The nine months from marriage. Similarly the custom establishment of a railway station at Yarraville in of carrying the mother’s family name as part of the 1870s also coincided with the next big wave the child’s name which persisted in Portland of immigrants from Portland and added impetus into the 20th century, seems to have diminished to the settlement and a concentration of Portland over time in Victoria. For example Mary White origin people settling there. This was where Carter Hansford, my great grandmother and fi rst there were quarrying jobs to be had; some stayed born of Mary White Carter and John Samuel as employed workers whilst others tried their James Hansford held to this custom, being born hand at being quarry owners, both in the area in Portland. All her siblings born in Victoria and and in nearby country regions. Some would have her own children did not. It seems that the new drifted to the gold fi elds. At one time there were country was an opportunity to drop some of the some 50 quarries in greater Footscray and 20 in old customs. Yarraville itself. By the turn of the century, Portlander families Quarrying was the backbone of the contracting known to still live in Yarraville were Comben, class in the western suburbs, and quarrying Flew, Otter, Stone, Hooke and Hansford. families were a considerable social and political Relatives of these, and other Portland names are force. The Comben, Stone, Scriven, Hansford, known to have lived in nearby country and city Flew, Pearce and White names were linked areas, and the ‘family’ of Portlanders maintained by marriage, cementing ties that went back contact over the years. to Portland in Dorset. As a community, the Portlanders stayed as connected as they were in Commonality of origin and work skills led to this their homeland. This was also evident when, in relatively small but nonetheless signifi cant group 1881, two quarrymen, formerly from Portland, of migrants from Portland living and working Pearce and White, off ered to arrange the in relative closeness in their new country. The import of Portland stone for the construction of contribution of these Portlanders and other Victoria’s Parliament House. It was clear that quarrymen to the development of the state their bluestone was not being considered by the of Victoria in the form of stone for important Board set up to make such decisions, but they saw buildings and infrastructure was signifi cant. So an opportunity to help their relatives in Portland, too was their contribution and that of their wives and of course themselves. The ploy failed but a and families to the development of the social signifi cant quantity of bluestone was actually fabric of the communities in which they lived. used in the buildings, so their interest paid off in other ways.

Sources: • The Portlanders –An Australian History of three immigrants surnamed Flew, Eric Ross Flew, publisher Eric Ross Flew c1995 • Yarraville in 1901, Carmel Taig, publisher Carmel Taig 2004 • Winds of Change – A Study of Migration from the Royal Manor of Portland, County of Dorset, England to Australia and New Zealand 1820-1899, Rodney Stone, publisher Bassendean W.A Access Press, c2005 • A History of Footscray, John Lack Hargreen Publishing in conjunction with the City of Footscray 1991 Other sources of information : Susan Walter of Malmsbury Historical Society-information on bluestone quarrying and connections; Stephen Hansford family tree records; Ken Saunders – Portland historian; and Shirley Mitchell of Portland Heritage Centre (index of Winds of Change).

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 11 Mary Barker Rae: a new life in England by Elaine Story

My great-grandfather on my mother’s side, time, and whether ‘African’ or ‘Creole’. Under the Charles Vincent Joachim Eyre, had two wives. He column headed ‘Colour’, Margaret, of the Barker married the fi rst, Henrietta Elizabeth Bowyer, in Rae household, is listed as ‘quadroon’, meaning a 1834. Three sons of the marriage of Charles ‘quarter-caste’, i.e. having one black grandparent. and Henrietta emigrated to Melbourne Mary is a ‘mustee’, being the off spring of a Elaine can be contacted through during the 1860s: Fitzwilliam Henry, Francis ‘quadroon’ woman and a white man, as is Edward. her cousins Don or Neil at Edward Charles (my grandfather) and According to Edward Eyre, Mary was brought up [email protected] or [email protected] Augustine Lewis Slater. At the age of 39, in the convent of Caverswall, Staff ordshire; she Francis married my grandmother, Jessie is listed simply as ‘Mary Rae, pupil’ in the 1841 Pittard, aged 19 or 20, on 14 September 1882. census. The brother, Edward, died about ten years after arriving in England. There is no indication Following the death of Henrietta in 1848, that Edward Eyre knew of his mother’s slave Charles married Mary née Barker Rae in 1850, background. He states that, both parents being who thus became the stepmother of these dead, the children were brought to England by brothers. Mary Barker Rae was born in Jamaica. their ‘guardian’, Sir Edward Doughtyy (previously Information about her comes from three main Tichborne). sources: records of a convent at Caverswall in Staff ordshire where she grew up, having been From the 17th Century, investment in West Indies placed there as a small child; from Jamaican plantations, worked by slaves, was a profi table slave records; and from a copy in my cousin Don’s venture, as was the Atlantic trade with Africa possession of a manuscript written by one of which supplied them. Any children born of slave Mary’s sons, Edward Edmund Eyre (1864-1940). women were also slaves. They were the chattels of the mother’s owner and originally regarded as In fact, Mary Barker Rae was born into slavery. a liability as pregnancy, childbirth and caring for An 1826 census (or return) of the slaves on the them interfered with the mother’s capability for Hope plantation of the Duke of Buckingham work. Many did not survive birth or childhood. and Chandos lists Mary, aged nine months, her Their care and nourishment was an expense. It mother Margaret, aged 21, and a brother Edward.1 was more economical to buy replacement slaves The Jamaican Assembly required triennial from Africa. returns. The 1826 list was based on the 1823 return drawn up by Edward Tichborne, then However, in England during the later 18th plantation attorney or manager. Mary and Edward Century Quaker groups and abolitionists such have the surname ‘Tichborne’ on this return, as William Wilberforce and Hannah More began though the mother’s (Margaret’s) surname was to succeed in their eff orts to lobby Parliament to Barker Rae. All three have been ‘manumitted’ i.e. end slavery. The actual Atlantic traffi c was not freed. One assumes from the fact that they were abolished till 1808 and abolition of the institution, given his surname, and were brought to England on British soil, did not occur until the 1830s. and supported by Edward Tichborne, that he was their natural father. Edward Tichborne later As trade in replacement adult slaves from Africa became Sir Edward Doughty, by inheritance. He dwindled it became worthwhile to feed and care is recorded by Mary’s son Edward Eyre as the for the children, sometimes even educate them. In ‘guardian’ who brought the children to England. general, during the years of what was considered Others slaves listed on the return with the name ‘childhood’ they worked in ‘gangs’ according to Tichborne were presumably owned, but not age and ability. Girls became ‘breeding wenches’ fathered, by Edward Tichborne. during their teens – the age varied. This is the life that could possibly have been Mary’s had she not All slaves on the return were listed by ‘colour’, been freed. according to the classifi cation prevailing at the

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 12 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc RETURN of SLAVES in the Parish of Saint Andrews in the possession of William Jackson esqr as Attorney to his Grace Duke of Buckingham & Chandos on the 28th day of June in the year of our Lord 1826 Enrolled in 1823 by Edward Tichborne esqr as Attorney to his Grace the Duke of Buckinghamshire & Chandos

AFRICAN NAMES COLOUR AGE REMARKS INCREASE, and cause thereof DECREASE, and cause thereof OR CREOLE Edward Tichborne Mustee 2 - Creole Manumission Margaret Barker Rae Quadroon 21 - Creole Manumission Mary Tichborne Mustee -- 9 Creole Manumission

Table: Extract transcript of Return of Slaves in the parish of St Andrews, Jamaica, 23 June 1826; The National Archives of the UK, Collection: Offi ce of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission, Class: T 71, Piece Number: 132

The more ‘whiteness’ a child had, the less it was Sanditon deals with pre- valued as a worker. Increasingly, some white Victorian society with still, fathers chose to manumit (legally set free) slave possibly, an 18th Century and off spring. It seems not to have been easy – unless more matter-of-fact outlook. the father was also the owner. Otherwise he would Mary Tichborne/Barker be obliged to negotiate with the owner through Rae, born circa 1825, was his manager or attorney and pay a considerable married in 1850 by which amount for each child – sometimes also for time anti-slavery attitudes replacement slaves. prevailed. It is very likely that acknowledgement of The colonial government, the Jamaican Assembly, any connection to the slave enacted laws to regulate these procedures, trade would not have been covering matters such as under what conditions politically correct after the manumitted children were permitted to leave successful Wilberforce Jamaica. There was also a limit placed on the campaign put an end to it in amount of their inheritance from a white father.2 1833. I wonder just how unusual was the case of Mary Tichborne/Barker Rae. Obviously she had been Mary had nine children with provided for – presumably by her natural father, Charles. When she died at Sir Edward Doughty (Tichborne). Dover in March 1881, the UK census for that year shows Anyone who has read Jane Austen’s last that her stepson Fitzwilliam, (unfi nished) novel Sanditon will recall the on a visit to England, was character Miss Lambe, the seventeen-year-old lodging at Dover, as was his ‘half-mulatto’ heiress who was both ‘chilly and brother Albert. It seems likely tender’. Miss Lambe was being ‘fi nished’ for that they were visiting their Image1: Memorial Card, Mary Barker Eyre, entry into society at a small, private seminary at ailing stepmother. nee Rae, 4 March 1881 the seaside resort. She was the most important pupil (because the richest) and was ‘under the Did Mary have a relatively contented and cared- constant care of an experienced physician’. Being for life as a convent pupil and later as a wife and ‘half-mulatto’, she was very likely of a similar mother? I hope so.  background to our step-great-grandmother. Described in a quite matter-of-fact way, the important thing about her was her large fortune – not her background or even her appearance.

Acknowledgements With many thanks to my cousins Don Eyre and Neil Powers for meticulous research, editing and typing. References 1. Return of Slaves in the parish of St Andrews, Jamaica, 23 June 1826. Viewed on ancestry.com 2. A full account of this background is given by Colleen A Vasconcellos: Slavery, Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia & London, 2015

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 13 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Family Tree

by James McDonald

One of the most confronting challenges for a shortly after the commencement of hostilities in family historian is to unearth a story of a family 1914. His infantry battalion, the 22nd, served in member who returned from war aff ected by what the last days of Gallipoli, before being deployed on James can be contacted at is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder the Western Front. [email protected] (PTSD). Reading through the repatriation fi les or coroner’s reports of family members is not easy. In late 1916, Jim Porter received a letter from the Department of Defence, advising him that his While PTSD is an illness that we are becoming son was returning on a hospital ship and would more familiar with and, hence, better equipped be ready for collection in Melbourne. His family to deal with, few of us have a solid understanding was to discover that Alf was suff ering from what of what is involved. For the ‘shell shocked’ was described as ‘dementia’. As was the normal victims of the Great War and even the suff erers practice at that time, being unable to follow of torture and trauma in the Second World War, ‘lawful orders’, Alf Porter was court-martialled it was something that many of the families of in the fi eld, confi ned for 60 days and ‘mentally the returned service men and women discharged’. diddid not cope withwith very well at all. ThisThis is certainlycertain the case with my No one in the family doubted his courage and own ffamily,amily, which struggled physical ability. But despite best eff orts to assist toto assist ttwow veterans, Alf him, Alf’s mental condition deteriorated upon PorterPorter aand Greg McDonald, his return to Australia. He was on a military whowho susuff ered from PTSD pension of 60 shillings a fortnight for a year or so in eacheac of those two after his return. conflconfl icts. This article is a personalper account of what As we know, WWI veterans rarely spoke about happenedha in the case of their experiences and tended to internalise mym family. We do not their anguish. Families, like mine, struggled claimc any expertise to understand and off er eff ective support. ini the illness, but by Baby Boomers, like myself, were not even told sharings our story their stories; perhaps to protect the children iti may help other in the family from such a painful subject, but researchers feel a perhaps also out of a sense of shame. In those little more confi dent days, ignorance concerning the nature of the in writing about mental illness affl icting their loved ones was victims of PTSD in commonplace. their own trees. Decades later, when the task of writing the family TheT Porters were history beckoned, it came as quite a shock for a Walhalla mining many members of the family to fi nd in the military family.fa Readers of records, the full extent of Alf’s suff ering and the AncestorAn may already be tragic conclusion to his story on the park benches familiarfam with Fred and of Melbourne. Nevertheless, I am fortunate in that JimJim Porter, who featured the ‘shame’ of PTSD is no longer a factor within in theth September 2015 the family, even though a recent study reports edition.editio Jim’s son, Alf, had that 81 per cent of today’s Australian veterans beenbeen workingw as a labourer experience shame or embarrassment about their nearnear YackandandahYac when he mental health problems. volunteeredvolunteere for active service

Image 1: Alfred James Porter, First AIF, 1915

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 14 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 2: McDonald-Porter group at Hoddle Street, Essendon, c.1919 Back row, L-R: Lin Porter, Fanny McDonald (nee Porter), Elizabeth (‘Tilly’) McDonald (nee Porter) Front row, L-R: Bert McDonald, Fred McDonald, Alf Porter PTSD in the family

In the case of Alf Porter, his court martial records really thinking or how cognitively compromised and repatriation fi les provide a very personal he may or may not have been. Nevertheless, insight into the man beneath the PTSD that his subsequent suff ering as a victim of PTSD younger members of the family never really knew. suggests that he was certainly in no fi t condition Of particular interest is that Alf used religious to continue fi ghting, irrespective of the veracity or grounds for his refusal to continue fi ghting. In his otherwise of his conscientious objection. court martial papers at Rue Marle, La Chapelle- d’Armentière in June 1916, he is recorded as Another factor in examining Alf’s case is the saying: mental illness suff ered by his sister, Maggie Porter. Sadly, according to family stories, she I am a conscientious objector being a Christian suff ered from a psychiatric disorder and died in and a follower of our Lord Jesus Christ and a nursing home in Ararat, around 1957. Perhaps it is my principle to love the enemy and not there was a genetic predisposition, which Alf bear arms against them. I object to fall in shared with his sister? If so, he may have suff ered and parade with the other men, as they are from an undiagnosed pre-existing ailment. But fi ghting men. When I left Australia I was a again, this is just speculation. non-Christian and remained so until about the middle of May. What is certain is that Alf’s condition overshadowed the last days of his parents’ lives. There is little empathy in what his commanding They did their best to take him in and off er as offi cer, Captain Aubrey Wiltshire, a decorated much support as they could, but they themselves professional soldier, wrote about my great-uncle’s only survived a few years after the Great War. His case in his fi eld diary: father, Jim, died of a mining-related lung disease in 1919 and his mother, Sarah (nee Sutherland), A man named Porter, ‘B’ Co, while apparently passed away in Essendon in 1921. Alf would quite normal in other respects has of late occasionally visit his siblings for support, but developed a craze that he is fi ghting against his mental health worsened and he sought the God and does not want to kill Germans. He says assistance of his family less and less. In the Jesus is on their side and he therefore refuses to electoral rolls he is described as ‘unemployed’. He go out on fatigue or to fi ght. He is being sent for was drinking heavily and periodically took to the a Court Martial. streets. The repatriation fi les relay a sorry history of periods of mental health treatment at Bundoora This came as a surprise to family members, and harrowing descriptions of his declining state who were not aware of Alf having such strong of health and well-being. Alf Porter eventually religious beliefs; nor was there any family died in 1968 in a nursing home from the eff ects of memory concerning his decision to take a stand alcoholism, mental illness and physical neglect. as a conscientious objector. It is clear that Alf did not have these convictions when he enlisted. Alf’s nephew, Greg McDonald, is another case in Certainly, his siblings and parents were not our family of a soldier having returned from the particularly devout, either before or after the war. battlefi eld with PTSD. His case was even more Nor was Alf. It leads to at least two conclusions: diffi cult for the family to deal with, as he took either that he formed these religious views his own life upon his return to Australia. The at the time and that they were genuine, albeit suicide had a tremendous impact on the older temporary; or he used them as an excuse to escape members of the family and, as such, it was rarely the pointless carnage of the war in which he found discussed, which made the task of rediscovering himself. It is never really possible to determine our uncle’s story all the more diffi cult. If our what an ancestor’s true beliefs were and, in family history had been written in the 1950s, I his case, with such extreme factors involved, am sure that Greg’s case would have been glossed it will never be fully understood what Alf was over. Some members of the family did not even

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 15 Images 3 & 4: Greg McDonald (left), and (right) with unidentifi ed friend aboard the troop train, both after enlistment 1941 PTSD in the family

know that Greg had taken his own life. When the family members and friends he always appeared McDonald family history was eventually written light-hearted and in good spirits. Few suspected up in 2010, our approach to cases like Greg had what distress he was suff ering internally. changed so that we could confront it directly and with a degree of frankness that would have been There are probably more members of the family, impossible in previous decades. who served in confl icts ranging from the Boer War through to the current confl ict in Afghanistan, Only a few stories survived in our family who may also have been aff ected by PTSD. My concerning Greg’s captivity after the fall of own father, Ian McDonald, (Greg’s brother), Singapore in 1942. He reported that his worst may well be a victim. We never took much notice experiences were not fi ghting the Japanese along when he used to disappear into a room in the the Malay Peninsular, or the horrors suff ered as centre of the house during thunderstorms. It is a a prisoner of war (POW) at Changi and Hellfi re likely reaction to the intense shelling and gunfi re Pass on the Thai-Burma railway, but during the he experienced in the 1940s in Darwin, Lae and voyage over to Zentsuji Camp in Japan in 1945. Bougainville, although he has never been willing Greg and other POWs were crammed into the to talk about it. bellies of old merchant vessels without food, water or toilets, where they lay in fi lth for several But, despite a family researcher’s diffi culty in days and resorted to eating maggots. Their convoy coming to grips with PTSD and its impact on was attacked by allied ships, unaware of its human his or her family’s veterans and loved ones, it is cargo, until the bodies of allied POWs emerged in probably true to say that we are, these days, better the water. Greg also reported to family members able to deal with it when we encounter cases that, while some guards were compassionate – amongst our ancestors. Bringing their stories one even gave him a piece of orange occasionally into the light at times may feel unnecessary and – most were sadistic. One Korean guard used to a little disrespectful, but, on the basis of my own beat him regularly with fencing wire. This man experience, I think it is more a means of bringing was later executed as a war criminal. honour to their memories. It some respects it may also be a little cathartic and may even help It was hard for his family to understand how increase the awareness of this debilitating illness, Greg, who had managed to survive these horrifi c affl icting some of our bravest sons and daughters. experiences and torture overseas, was not able to survive PTSD back at home. In 1947 he took his Information and comments were gratefully received own life at his parents’ house in Canberra, even from Yvonne Perkins, who is writing a book about though he had been laughing and joking with his the beliefs of Australian soldiers. The case of Alf sister, Heather, just a few minutes previously. To Porter is likely to be included in her study. 

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 16 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc The Impact of Tuberculosis on my Father’s Family

by Levane Abdoolcader

Who would have thought that in researching my Euphemisms such as ‘delicate health’ used above father’s family past I would end up becoming spared the families the embarrassment of interested in the disease of tuberculosis in publicly acknowledging having someone with Australian society of one hundred years ago? the disease. At the time of my grandmother’s Levane can be contacted at It came about as I discovered that a number of death my father would have been fourteen and [email protected] his ancestors, including his mother and his only his younger brother twelve. brother, and some aunts and uncles, had died of this disease. The next relative I researched was that younger brother, Andrew Alexander Wilson. I found that Tuberculosis, commonly referred to now as he died of tuberculosis at the age of 22 in Bendigo TB, and formerly as consumption, is a chronic in 1925, ten and a half years after his mother’s bacterial infection that has probably plagued death. Andrew, born in Romsey, worked for the humankind since antiquity. It can be transmitted New South Wales Postal Service, his fi rst posting by both humans and cattle and may aff ect almost being at Trundle in western NSW in 1919, then any tissue or organ of the body. In the early 20th Sydney in 1922 and in 1924 until he resigned from century TB still killed more people worldwide the service in 1925 at Walla Walla in southern than any other infection, particularly the urban NSW. Again the death certifi cate gives the poor living in crowded conditions. duration of the illness as two years, but again I wonder if he had it for longer than that. Perhaps But my father’s family weren’t city folk, living in in going to Trundle he was seeking a drier climate crowded suburban housing. They were country for his chest. Perhaps in the transfer to Sydney people who had grown up on farms around the in 1922 he was seeking medical help. In 1912 a Romsey and Lancefi eld districts in Victoria. Of dispensary providing outpatient service had been course, two of the sources of infection in those opened in Sydney after the establishment of the times, well before herd testing came in, were National Association for the Prevention and Cure milk and meat which farmers who milked dairy of Consumption. From 1915 in Sydney notifi cation herds and killed their own meat would have been of TB became mandatory, leading to classifi cation drinking and eating. into three levels of care, but that would only have happened if a suff erer actually went to a doctor My father, Donald Ian McRae Wilson, born of course. in Romsey in 1900, didn’t talk much about his family, but I knew his mother had died when he I have some photos of Andrew at Walla Walla was young and that he had one younger brother. taken at Christmas in 1924. They show him in His mother, Christina Wilson (nee McRae), was happy times, including with his arms around the fi rst relative I researched and I found that she a pretty girl, so it is sad to think of that young died in Sunbury in 1915 of tuberculosis. Her death man with a life ahead of him, dead from TB nine certifi cate says that the disease was of two years months later. His death certifi cate identifi es the duration prior to death, but I suspect that she cause of death as pulmonary tuberculosis for probably had it for longer than that and perhaps two years, haemoptysis (i.e. coughing up blood) only sought medical care in its later stages. In and heart failure. In the last stages of the disease those days it was not always openly acknowledged he was taken in by his stepmother’s family in that people had TB, and so Christina’s obituary Bendigo and buried there, with no reference in the from the Sunbury News in late May, 1915, reads in obituary in the Bendigo Advertiser for Monday, 28 part as follows: September, 1925, to the cause of death.

Mrs Wilson, wife of Mr Alex Wilson of Sunbury, My father and his father must have been fortunate died on Sunday 16th last. The deceased lady had not to contract the disease themselves, given that been in delicate health for some time and the sad other two members of their immediate family event was not unexpected. died of it.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 17 Then, in researching members of my father’s At the time of his enlistment in the army in family who served in World War One, I came 1917, George, by then a widower, was living across his Uncle George, a younger brother of in Melbourne with Rachel and her husband, my father’s father, who also died of tuberculosis. a Romsey man, and may have already been George Albert Wilson was nearly 34, and a infectious with tuberculosis. Or perhaps, both

The Impact of TB widower, when he enlisted in 1917. His war George and Rachel, and even other members of records from the National Archives of Australia the Wilson family that I don’t yet know about, show that he reached England, but never saw had contracted the disease while still on the active service. It is obvious from my research that family farm. It’s no wonder that I remember my George had been ill for much longer than the 13 father in my childhood years always being very months stated on his death certifi cate. In January worried about any signs of a weak chest or chest 1918, 20 months before he died, he had been put ailments of any kind, given his experience in his off the troop ship at Suez and spent six weeks own family with the disease of tuberculosis. in hospital with pleurisy, for which he had been treated in Melbourne prior to embarkation. In Alexander Wilson (snr), who was Rachel’s and May, 1918, he was admitted to No. 3 New Zealand George’s father, Christina’s and Eliza’s father- General Hospital in Codford, Wiltshire, England, in-law and Andrew’s grandfather, was a dairy after being ill for a month. An operation for farmer and breeder of dairy cows, a major supplier appendicitis revealed tubercular peritonitis, so in of milk to the local cheese factory in Romsey. June 1918 he was declared permanently unfi t for Therefore, presumably, as was the case on all military service to be returned to Australia, where farms that had their own cows, even if only a he was discharged and later died of pulmonary house cow, the families drank the milk produced tuberculosis and exhaustion in September 1919, in on the farm. This would have been unpasteurised the Heidelberg Military Hospital in Melbourne. milk of course, and many cows may have had TB. Pasteurisation and TB testing of dairy herds did Many World War One soldiers had, or contracted, not become compulsory until the 1930s, and to TB. If it developed during war service they were begin with the testing was only for supplies of raw entitled to a small pension of 60 shillings per milk to places such as hospitals and schools, and fortnight during treatment, so obviously it was in metropolitan areas. Before then, did farmers being better recognised and acknowledged by know if their cows had TB? If they did know, then. I don’t think George would have accessed did they do anything about it? There may have such a pension as his army records say that the been a lack of hygiene in milking sheds as well, infection had developed prior to enlistment, and for example with regard to washing the udders while possibly ‘aggravated’ by military service, it of cows or the milkers having clean hands. The was not ‘due’ to military service. historian Geoff rey Blainey in Black Kettle and Full Moon quotes the case of milkers washing their As with his sister-in-law, Christina, four years hands in the bucket of milk to clean them and previously, George’s obituary published in the says: Romsey Examiner, on 3 October, 1919, makes no reference to tuberculosis. Milk, hailed as the liquid of life and health, was also the carrier of disease. Many cows suff ered Further research into George’s family led me to from tuberculosis and other ailments, and the his wife, Eliza Jane Wilson (nee Brittain). She bacteria were carried in their milk. Typhoid was and George were married in 1912, but Eliza died also carried by milk.1 in 1915, of pulmonary tuberculosis, heart failure and exhaustion, according to her death certifi cate, This was evidently known in the early years of the but no duration of the illness is given. Had she twentieth century, as according to Blainey, some caught the disease from George, I wonder? She people did not touch fresh milk, preferring to use was several years older than George and they had condensed milk in tins. But I guess this would no children. have been more of a town practice, with people on farms still using the milk from their own cows, And lastly, I found that one of George’s older and also perhaps eating the meat of infected sisters, Rachel Lockwood (nee Wilson) also animals killed at home. Blainey reports that a vet died of tuberculosis, less than three months in Melbourne in the 1880s found one in four head after George’s death in 1919. The duration for her of cattle in suburban abattoirs had tuberculosis. illness is given on the death certifi cate as one year. And in 1924 in a survey in Melbourne of children Again, no mention of the disease is in her obituary with TB, 26% had TB that was bovine in origin, i.e. in the Romsey Examiner of 12 December, 1919. from cow’s milk.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 18 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc During the time of emigration to the colonies in a dissolute lifestyle, or had been inherited from a the nineteenth century, there would have been family of physical weaklings, and so people were people already infected embarking on the voyages. reluctant to admit they had it. In the early 1900s Indeed, the long sea voyage to Australia and its some patients were known to go into remission, warmer climate were thought to be benefi cial and so may have been able to keep quiet about and actually recommended to people with the disease. The Impact of TB consumption, thereby adding to the numbers with the disease already there! Treatment for people ill with TB was very limited. Patients with end-stage pulmonary tuberculosis In Australia in 1900, in a population of less than exposed those around them to infection with four million, nearly 4000 deaths were reported every breath. Air and secretions expelled from to be from TB. There may well have been more, consumptive lungs contained live bacteria. When unreported. In 1907, TB was the second most dying, the patient would experience night sweats, common cause of death after heart disease, over chills, paroxysmal coughing, spread of disease 8% of deaths being attributed to it. It was called to other parts of the body, and the wasting away the worst killer disease in the country and was that led to it being called consumption. Many often more prevalent among young adults. There suff erers would have just been cared for by family were no eff ective drugs against it until the late members, regardless of the risk, and died at home. 1940s with the advent of streptomycin. A vaccine had been developed in 1921 but was not widely We are very fortunate, one hundred years on, used until after World War Two. to live in a country where TB has been virtually eliminated with advances in scientifi c knowledge, An Act of Parliament in Australia in 1908 made in public health initiatives, in human and animal all private hospitals register patients, but it was medicine, and where there is access to modern not until 1935 that ‘rest homes’ came under the drugs and proper treatment. Act. In the 1890s, in Sydney at least, people with pulmonary diseases were not accepted into general hospitals for treatment. With segregation considered necessary, sanatoria began to be set up in more isolated areas or places where the air was believed to be benefi cial, such as the Blue Mountains in NSW. Presumably if you could not aff ord treatment there, you stayed at home, although some working class people were treated at general asylums for the poor.

But there was in general a stigma and shame attached to having consumption, and patients discharged from sanatoria often kept secret where they had been. This sense of shame arose from the common belief that TB was the result of

Reference 1. G Blainey, Black Kettle and Full Moon – Daily Life in a vanished Australia Penguin Australia, 2003, pp 253/4. Sources • G Blainey, Black Kettle and Full Moon, Penguin, Australia, 2003. • G Silvey, The Healing Mountains, Blue Mountains Historical Society, 2009. • P J Tyler, No Charge – No Undressing, Sydney, 2003.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 19 Sources to Add Flavour

by Dorothy Anderson and Richard Shiell

Family historians know that only following the Prior to his appointment as Superintendent of conventional path of fact-fi nding via verbal Port Phillip District in 1839, Charles Joseph memories and offi cial records produces just a La Trobe was in the West Indies on behalf of Richard can be contacted at lean picture. One must have a good imagination the British Government to examine measures [email protected] and be alert to recognize a possible trail to necessary to permit the social and economic richer material. adjustment of the recently liberated slaves (1834). His diaries are in the Victorian State Library Readers may be interested in a few seemingly and six pages are devoted to Montserrat. They unlikely sources which helped us fi ll out the story are mainly about his visits to the schools but he of our Shiell family from the Caribbean island mentions a ‘Mr Steele’ twice. Firstly of his ‘fi ne of Montserrat.1 This region periodically suff ers singing’ and then ‘off with Mr Steele in a little from earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic schooner’. There was no Mr Steele on Montserrat eruptions as well as always fi ghting the mould so his escort was almost certainly our relative, of the tropics. Because of this, few records have William Shiell (1785-1853), who at the time was survived on the island. Some exist in London’s President of the Legislative Council. Public Record’s Offi ce (PRO), and from these we even obtained some personal information from London is far from Melbourne and research there letters sent by our relative, William Shiell, to is time consuming and expensive. However, the the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, State Library of Victoria was found to contain a the 2nd Earl Charles Gray. He was seeking an trove of material in the form of bound copies of Army Commission for his teenage son but was the British Parliamentary Papers (BPP). These are unsuccessful in his appeal. Earl Grey is more the equivalent of our Australian Senate Inquiry famous these days for the fl avour of tea named in Reports and contain details of proclamations his honour but was an important man in his day and petitions, annual reports, surveys and other and British Prime Minister from 1830-34. informative material, including personal details about individuals. Such a letter dated 1850 from Edward Baynes, the President of Montserrat to Mr Higginson the Administrator of the Leeward Islands described Council President William Shiell as ‘possibly the evil genius of the colony’ and warned that ‘it would be hazardous under any circumstances to allow him ever again to administer the government’. William’s reaction is unknown but he retired from Council due to bankruptcy soon after and died in 1853.

Over the years we have been contacted by some amazing individuals, all fans of the novelist M.P. Shiel (1865-1947), seeking further information about his origins. He was born ‘Matthew Phipps Shiell’ on Montserrat but wrote under a mildly disguised nom-de-plume. These scholars included the late Albert Reynolds Morse, of Florida, USA, a multi-millionaire industrialist and philanthropist; Harold Billings, for 25 years the Director of

Image 1: Caribbean Islands including Montserrat. Sketch map by JM Wickham

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 20 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc General Libraries for the University of Texas; and the late John D. Squires, lawyer and publisher of Dayton, Ohio. Harold Billings has just published Flavour the third and last volume of his M.P. Shiel biography.2 We were able to share information and unravel some of the Shiell connections with him. This was an engaging collaboration and a spur to continue searching.

An unusual source of information came via a bedridden 94-year-old aunt, the widow of William Shiell (1907-2002), the great grandson of the William mentioned above. She had always taken a keen interest in the unfolding of family history. While reading a book More Murders of the Black Museum, 1835-1909, she came across a chapter entitled ‘The Murder of Jane Jones’ at Putney Park Lane, near Richmond Park. The murder took place at a large country house called Granard Lodge where lived ‘an aged, retired East (sic) India merchant, Mr Queely Shiell’. The unusual name Queely, was that of the patriarch of the Montserrat Shiells and our 3x great grandfather. We had not known where Queely had lived at this period after his retirement and the story revealed that he was living outside London with his wife, daughter, a son and their families. The victim was the wife of Queely’s coachman, who was quickly rounded-up, tried and hanged for his crime within a brief six weeks. This 1842 event led us to the 1841 Putney census and further revelations regarding the family.

An exciting, unsolicited email arrived in April 2013 from Belgium with attachments showing a restored elaborate monument erected in Bruges in memory of Eleanor Shiell (1782-1863). Eleanor was the daughter of Queely, mentioned Image 2: Restored monument in memory of Eleanor Shiell (1782-1863). in the paragraph above. From the inscription we Author’s collection. were able to obtain her previously unknown date of birth and other information. We have had no further communication from the sender after this thoughtful act and do not know of his relationship to our family. References Good luck to all researchers into Family History and take heart. You never know when and from 1. The GSV Library has copies of Montserrat to Melbourne (1984) and The Shiell Family of the Caribbean Island of Montserrat where your next information may come. (2005). An updated version of the latter can be viewed via the internet 2. An Ossuary for M.P.Shiel, Harold Billings, Pub. L’Homme Recent, Bucharest, 2015

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 21 GSV Annual Awards Annual Awards The ongoing operations of our Society have become tired, take a break, and then resume always been enhanced by the contributions of our indexing for a second hour. Almost always he members who volunteer to undertake many and follows this routine six days per week and often varied tasks. Volunteers assist in many areas from seven days a week. The size of the task does not library services to research, projects, education, fuss him. It is diffi cult to quantify the number administration and accounts. The Society of index records Bruce has created but it is acknowledges these contributions in the form of estimated to be in the order of several hundred annual awards presented to those deserving of thousand. proper appropriate recognition. The results of Bruce’s work are to be found on our Medal for Meritorious Service online cemetery databases and in the Genealogical The Society’s medal is presented to recognise Index of Names (GIN). consistent, signifi cant or meritorious voluntary work over a reasonably long period of time. The Certifi cates of Appreciation medal bears on the obverse, our Coat of Arms The Society’s Certifi cate of Appreciation and the Society’s name, and on the reverse, the is awarded to recognise members who, as inscription ‘For service to the Society’ with the volunteers, have rendered continued and valuable badge of the Society surrounding the name of the service. This year we have awarded certifi cates recipient and the year of the award. to fi fteen volunteers who have made signifi cant contributions in many areas. This year we are pleased to present a medal to Bruce Cleave in recognition of service as an Library Research Assistants: These volunteers indexer. Bruce has been indexing for the Society assist members and visitors to access the since 1998. The majority of the material he has resources of our library and provide guidance to indexed has been cemetery related. In recent times resolve research queries. however he is indexing the Richmond Rate Books. • Rod Armstrong • Barbara Francis Bruce has been a prolifi c indexer working most days. For the past several years his routine has • Margaret Glen been to work for an hour by which time his eyes • Maureen Kent

Cemetery Indexers: The Society is methodically scanning and indexing our holdings of transcriptions of headstones from Victorian cemeteries. The resultant indexes are being added periodically to the online Genealogical Index of Names (GIN). • Lea Beranek (Project co-leader) • Stephen Boyd (Indexers working from home) • Rhonda Hudak • Susan Minetti • Christine Skinner • Arthur Wallington

Library Volunteers: A group of volunteers have been helping our librarians with cataloguing, indexing, checking and subscription ordering. • Janne Bonnett • Malcolm Carkeek • Lesley McDermid

Above: Bruce Cleave receiving his award from President David Down

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Above: Certifi cates of Appreciation were awarded to (from left) Barbara Francis, Maureen Kent, Stephen Boyd, Susan Minetti, Malcolm Carkeek, Lesley McDermid and Penny Mercer

Bookkeeper: The role of Bookkeeper is essential for the All volunteers are invited to our annual Volunteers' good governance of the Society’s fi nances. Christmas Party to be held on Monday 5 December in the • Janet Davis Haydon Raysmith meeting room on the 4th fl oor of Ross House 247 Flinders Lane commencing at 12 noon. The Writers’ Discussion Circle: Awarded for her role Society extends its thanks to all our volunteers and wishes in initiating the Circle in 2003. The Circle has grown everyone a safe and happy festive season. considerably in subsequent years. • Penny Mercer

Competition – Win a Book

Answer one or both of the following questions to enter the draw to win one of these books: Q.1: Which English philanthropist is credited with the scheme whereby convict women were supplied with sewing materials to keep them usefully occupied during imprisonment or transportation? Q.2: In 1840 a ship arrived in the Port Phillip Bay flying the fever flag. A quarantine station was set up at Point Ormond hill. What was the name of the ship? Answers by email* to [email protected] with ‘Competition’ in the subject line. Include your name, GSV number and phone number. The winners will need to pick up the books from the GSV offi ce. Don’t delay! Entries close at 4.00 pm on Friday 16 December. The GSV thanks the following for their kind donations: My Name is Lizzie Flynn – Black Dog Books, an imprint of Walker Books, and Walks in Port Phillip – Myer Eidelson *If you do not have the internet at home, your local public library will be able to help you send an email.

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Copyright – or not

When we have done enough research we need to For literary and artistic works published during write our family story and hopefully publish it. To the creator’s life, copyright exists for 70 years after illustrate our story and provide historical context, the creator’s death. If not published during the we often wish to include material that has been creator’s life, copyright lasts indefi nitely, or then created by others. This commonly includes for 70 years after the date of fi rst publication. There By Bill Barlow. Based on his talk quotations and images which in copyright law is no copyright in photographs taken before 1955. at the GSV Writers Circle in July are classed as ‘literary’ and ‘artistic works’. Government-owned copyright exists for 50 years. 2016. Bill can be contacted at [email protected] This article gives some guidance about copyright of such works. You will have infringed copyright if you exercise, without approval, one of the owner’s exclusive What is copyright and why is it rights for a ‘substantial’ part of a copyrighted relevant to us? works. This means a part that would be Copying, publishing, communicating (or considered ‘important, essential or distinctive’ broadcasting, e.g. online) and adapting original to the original work. It is not to do with the works are all rights that belong to the creator quantity of a work used. A small quotation from or copyright-owner. This bundle of intellectual a large work is usually not ‘substantial’ enough to property rights is protected by the Copyright Act warrant copyright protection, but it could be. You, 1968 (Cwlth) and by international agreements. or a court, has to make that assessment. There is no exemption if you alter the work, make only one In writing our story we are creating a literary copy or your use is non-commercial. work. We automatically enjoy copyright protection of our intellectual property, without Your use may be exempt for ‘fair dealing’. But this having to register it or attach the © symbol. We only covers copying up to 10 per cent for research should also respect the rights of other creators or criticism, parody or satire – not normally to their work. As well as supporting this family history modes. The 10 per cent rule for principle, we must comply with the laws covering research applies to copying, but not to publication. publication of third-party material and should minimise the commercial risks of damages, If you make a few copies of your family history rewriting or delays. containing work created by others and send them to your family, is that publishing? In the Copyright does not protect ideas or information. Act ‘publication’ requires that ‘reproductions of It is their expression that is protected. This the work have been supplied (whether by sale or expression must be original, and have required otherwise) to the public’. As writers of history you some human intellectual eff ort. Copyright is should proceed on the basis that your work can an intellectual property and not related to the or will be published, even if in a small run. So you ownership of its physical embodiment. A library should comply with all copyright obligations. or your cousin may own the physical object but another may own the copyright. Generally the Other permissions may be needed creator of the work is the copyright-owner. But Collecting organisations give access to their the owner may be someone who has inherited it material on condition that you comply with or to whom it has been assigned. The Government copyright and other laws, such as Moral Rights. owns the copyright in works created by or for it, They may assist in fi nding the copyright-owner unless otherwise agreed. Copyright-owners can or determining the status. The NLA online license others to exercise any of their rights. This catalogue uses an algorithm to give copyright licence is what you may need if you wish to use status but diff erent editions of the same book can the work. But copyright-owners do not have to be erroneously shown as ‘in’ and ‘out’ of copyright. issue a licence, and if they do, they can apply any You need to determine this yourself. Libraries conditions or charges they wish. usually require a separate Permission to publish.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 24 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Public domain and Creative Commons Maps Licences A map is an ‘artistic work’ under copyright if it is Material that does not qualify for copyright suffi ciently original. A map is usually a compilation protection or is out of copyright is in the ‘public of underlying data. It is the expression of that data domain’. Creative Commons is a non-profi t in a particular map that is in copyright. Information organisation established to promote the value of itself, such as the distance and geospatial the internet. Copyright-owners can use the free relationship between places is not protected by licences from Creative Commons to license the copyright. When using maps in family history it is use of their material or to waive all copyright. The probably best to create your own, drawing on a wide Commonwealth government is encouraging the use variety of sources, or to use an historical map that is of Creative Commons Licences for selected Public clearly in the public domain. Sector Information. Unpublished letters, diaries and Family histories often include reproductions of manuscripts life-event (BDM) certificates, old newspapers, Until such works are published copyright remains quotations, maps, photographs and pictures. with the creator, or benefi ciaries, indefi nitely. If What particular copyright considerations may unpublished materials have been inherited from the these involve? creator or copyright-holder, copyright ownership is usually taken to have also been inherited. The writer, BDM records not the recipient of a letter owns copyright but the The information contained in these records is not recipient may own the letter itself. Permission to subject to copyright, but the form of its expression use such material may need to be obtained from the (the certifi cate) is probably protected under Crown owner irrespective of copyright status. copyright. To publish a copy of a Government certifi cate you need to check whether a licence has Some common fallacies been given by that particular agency. In the UK There is no rule that permits publication of up to the National Archives has clearly authorised the 10 per cent of a work under copyright. reproduction of certifi cates in family history books, as long as the Crown is attributed and personal There is no exemption for not-for-profi t use, or for data of living persons is protected. In Victoria, the a small number copied or published. government website advises that, with the purchase and downloading of an uncertifi ed image of a BDM Infringement cannot be avoided by citing or record, ‘you can print it or save it to your computer acknowledging the source, or by including a ‘best for later use’. This may constitute an implied endeavours’ clause or an off er to amend. licence to publish. What should you do? Old newspapers Keep a record of all possible copyright material, We often wish to quote from or reproduce an its determined status and approvals sought and image of part of an historic newspaper. The Trove obtained. Decide whether you really need that website of digitised newspapers has made this easy, quotation. Can it be paraphrased? Take your own providing both PDF and text fi les. The National photos and make your own maps where possible. Library website advises that ‘It is OK to use images If you do need permissions, the ACC Information from digitised newspapers … on other websites and Sheets: ‘Permission: How to Get It’ and ‘Artworks: in publications. NLA does not own copyright on the Getting Permissions’ give helpful advice. Seek images or the original newspapers and has digitised permissions early to avoid delay or worse. You don’t newspapers prior to 1954 on the understanding that want to receive 100 copies of your pre-sold book they are out of copyright’. and the printer’s invoice, only to have copyright issues arise at that point. Pictures, paintings photographs These are ‘artistic works’ and in copyright for the The information in this article is for guidance periods outlined above. Possession or ownership only. It is not legal advice. For further information of a family photographs may not mean you have see the right to make a copy or publish it. Others in the Australian Copyright Council (ACC). ‘Information family may have inherited the copyright and it may Sheets’ at www.copyright.org.au still be current. Organisations that hold paintings Creative Commons Corporation at or photograph will normally require you to apply https://creativecommons.org for permission to publish. However, many images in public collections, such as NLA and Australian National Library Australia (NLA). ‘Trove: using War Memorial, have been placed on Flickr ‘The digitised newspapers FAQ’ at Commons’, with ‘no known copyright restrictions’. https://trove.nla.gov.au Flickr reminds users to make their own assessment. The National Archives. UK. ‘Reproduction of birth, The State Library Victoria has over 200,000 digital death and marriage certifi cates’, May 2014 at images available in the public domain free for use. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk 

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Compiled Additions by Linley Hooper to the Library

Please check the library catalogue for full water-powered mills, free selectors and Bourke, Bourke, South Bourke, Evelyn & descriptions. All listed LDS microfi lms Methodist evangelists. The Hewetts were Mornington, Gipps ward, Lonsdale ward,

Library Additions Library (except European fi lms) are held in the LDS not famous or distinguished, but their La Trobe ward, Fitz Roy ward & List of Long Term Loans Cabinets. Request by fi lm story reveals much about the foundations claimants Gipps ward in one sequence. number at the Information Desk. Thank you of Australia. (Bate, M) [929.2 HEWE [LINX AUS & GIN] to all donors to the library collection. DAV] The fi rst of its kind: nurse education and Nethercote & Pell: the emigrants. training at the Northern district school Abbreviations used: Nethercote, Stephen J. 2nd ed. [929.2 of Nursing. Northern District School of @ = Society purchase NETH NET] Nursing Graduates Association. (Pata, J &  (...) = Donor’s name, if not the author Memorabilia of Stirling family: letter K) [610.7306 NOR]  = Donations via the “Wish list” from Shire of Tambo re Thomas Telfer Names to lives from World War II: the bapt = baptism, bir = birth, bur = burial, mar = marriage, dth = death Stirling, certifi cates from the Honorary Canterbury Baptist Church honour roll FHS = Family History Society Justices Association of Victoria to T T board. Wood, Janine. Life stories of 75 SAG = Scottish Ancestry Group Stirling, JP. Shire of Tambo letter signed local men and women leaving Canterbury ISG = International Settlers Group by D J Price, Chas B Irvine, H J Howlett, to serve in WWII. [994.51 CANT WOO] LDS = Microfi lm George A Ross, Thomas Serrill, Jerome Lake Boga region family names. Gillingham, LDS LTL Cab Z = LDS Long Term Loans R Sims, John Hopkins, James Duke, G H Pat. Family tree charts of families centred Cabinet Z Slocombe. about Lake Boga, Tresco and Tresco A genealogical history of Edward James & West. Some extend to Benjeroop, Mystic FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Sidney Herbert Waghorne. Waghorne, Park, Lake Charm, Swan Hill and Kerang. From snowdrifts to sunshine: v. 1. The Edward Peter. Rev 2. [929.2 WAGH WAG] Also includes maps, directories, Lake descendants of William Aspinall from Basil Watson: pioneer aviator. Winter, Boga Primary School centenary 1997, Halifax, Yorkshire and brother John Carole. [920 WATS WIN] {Copies photos, war cemetery names, book list. Aspinall and Thomas Aspinall, sons of available from Author @ $25.00} (Gillingham, P & Jobson, J). Computer 5 William in New South Wales, Australia; Webster: three generations of Webster: WESTERN AUSTRALIA v. 2. Descendants of Thomas Aspinall in from Scotland to the Port Phillip colony, Back to the goldfi elds: Coolgardie and England and of Joseph Aspinall, son of & a sense of Melbourne, Emerald Hill & Kalgoorlie 1892 to 1940. Bingley, A N. Thomas and of George Henry Cock(c)roft, elsewhere in Victoria for our early 1850s (Gulliver, J) [994.1 KALG BIN] grandson of Thomas in Victoria, Australia. immigrant ancestors - Joseph 1792-1872, Andrew, Phillipa A. [929.2 ASPI AND] Thomas Don 1821-1882, Jeannie 1851- EUROPE The Baggotts from Herbertstown. Vines, 1941. Fisher, Trevor James. [929.2 WEBS FRANCE Margaret. [929.2 BAGG VIN] FIS] First day of the Somme. Macdonald, Kin: a real people’s history of our nation. Our White family history: the descendants Andrew. A detailed description of the fi rst Brodie, Nicholas Dean. This is at heart the of Roger White of Broadhembury in the day of the Battle of the Somme, on 1 July story of European settlement in Australia, County of Devon & Elizabeth, his wife. 1916, during the First World War, viewing told through the stories of the real people Researched & compiled by A Lynne the events from the point of view of both who made Australia’s history what it is. Browning & Edward P Waghorne. the Allied and German forces. (Review) When author and historian Nick Brodie (Waghorne, E). [929.2 WHIT WAG] [940.4 MAC] traced his own family tree, he began to INDIA GERMANY see the pattern of European settlement Depot embarkation lists 1844-1855. India German census records 1816-1916: the when, in Australia. As he learnt about the Offi ce. Military Department. (LDS; where & how of a valuable genealogical generations of his family, Nick uncovered 1866705). Lists of men embarked on ships resource. Minert, Roger P. (ISG) [929.3643 the social and cultural contexts and for India - name, age, description, and MIN] historic circumstances that shaped his other information. (Gourley, M A) Freystadt (KrSt Freystadt) Kirchenbuch ancestors: the Irish, the convicts, the early Embarkation lists 1853-1861, 1833-1858 [parish register of bapt, mar & dth in settlers, Cobb & Co coachmen, the men [items 1-5]. Cadets and assistant-surgeons Freystadt, Schlesien, Germany, now from Snowy River, the Boer war, Gallipoli, whose appointments were cancelled Kozuchów (Nowa Sól), Zielona Góra, the Depression and the Second World 1833-1859 [item 6] India Offi ce. Military Poland] 1834-1889 [item 1]. Gaablau War. (Bate, M) [929.2 BROD BRO] Department. (LDS; 1835701). Lists of (Kr. Landeshut) Kirchenbuch [Parish Lost relations: fortunes of my family in men embarked on ships for India - name, register transcripts of bapt, mar & Australia’s Golden Age. Davison, Graeme. age, description, and other information. dth for Gaablau, Schlesien, Germany, A widow & her eight older children are (Gourley, M A) now Jablów (Walbrzych), Wroclaw, uprooted from their Hampshire farm in Poland. Includes Konradswaldau] 1850, & thrown together on an emigrant AUSTRALIA 1810-1852 [item 2]. Geibsdorf (Kr. ship with 38 distressed needlewomen Mud, sweat & snow: memories of Snowy Lauban) Kirchenbuchduplikat [Civil from London. How they came to be on the workers 1949-1959. Gough, Noel. [994.4 transcripts of parish register of bir, mar boat, & what happened on the high seas SNOW GOU] & dth of Geibsdorf, Schlesien, Preußen, & afterwards in Australia, is a vivid tale SOUTH AUSTRALIA Germany, now Siekierczyn, powiat Luban, of family ambitions & fears, successes Vineyard of the Empire: early Barossa województwo Wroclaw, Poland. Includes and catastrophes. In Lost Relations, vignerons 1842-1939. Annely Aeuckens, the surrounding area with the following historian Graeme Davison follows in Geoff rey Bishop, George Bell, Kate towns: Ladenau, Lichtenau, Löbenlust, his family’s footsteps, from the picture- McDougall & Gordon Young. [994.23 Neukretscham (Nowa Karczma), Puttlitz] postcard village of Newnham to a prison BARO AEU] 1856-1860 [items 3-5]. Gaulau (Kr. Ohlau) cell in Maitland, from a London slum to a VICTORIA Kirchenbuch [parish register of mar in miner’s tent in Castlemaine. He takes us Electoral roll 1851 Melbourne & surrounds. Gaulau, Schlesien, Germany, now Gulów back into worlds now largely forgotten, of GSV. (VPRS; 1189/3/51.19). Index to North (Olawa), Wroclaw, Poland] 1766-1863

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 26 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc [item 6] Evangelische Kirche [Evangelical bur 1645-1966, v. 2 index [items 3 & 4]. 1685-1809, mar 1754-1810, banns 1762- Church] (LDS; 889938). Contents: Parish register transcripts: Stratton- 1811, 1754-1761, mar 1811-1812, banns Freystadt: Taufen, Heiraten, Tote [bapt, Audley [Oxfordshire]; bapt 1696-1874, mar 1811-1893. Last will & testament of William mar, dths] 1834-1889 [item 1]. Gaablau: 1696-1841, bur 1697-1952, miscellaneous, John Lowthans 1742, bapt, bur 1810-1812, Taufen 1810-1816, Heiraten 1810-1852, list of incumbents & church offi cers, bapt 1813-1843 [items 25-30] Church of Tote 1810-1816 [item 2]. Geibsdorf: index locorum [item 5]. Parish register England. (LDS; 1472355). (Browning, D) Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1856-1860 [items transcripts: chapelry of Mollington [parish ESSEX 3-5]. Gaulau: Heiraten 1766-1863 [item 6] of Cropredy,Oxfordshire]; christenings Harlow St John the Baptist’s church: bapt (Kelly, G) [LDS LTL Cab. Z - Europe] 1570-1813, bur 1565-1799, mar 1565-1837 1841-1978, bur 1841-1976, mar 1860-1922, Niebusch (Kr. Freystadt) Kirchenbuch [item 6]. Transcripts some Essex registers: mar 1925-1959, mar 1962-1971, mar banns

[parish register of bapt, mar & dth in v. 1 Abberton 1813-1851; Aldham 1813-1851; 1872-1923, mar banns 1933-1943, 1954 Additions Library Niebusch, Schlesien, Germany, now Mount Bures 1813-1837; Downham 1754- [items 1-9]; St Mary Magdalene’s church: Niwiska (Zielona Góra), Zielona Góra, 1837; Gt. Easton 1813-1851; Elmstead 1813- bapt 1834-1957, mar 1865-1971, bur 1834- Poland] 1830-1843. Evangelische Kirche 1851; South Fambridge 1754-1837; Black 1958, mar banns 1865-1984 [items 10-28]. [Evangelical Church] (LDS; 896030). Notley 1813-1851; Stebbing 1813-1851, Hatfield-Peverel bapt, mar, bur 1614- Contents: Taufen, Heiraten, Tote [bapt, v. 2 Aveley 1813-1836; Lt. Bentley 1754- 1721, bapt, bur 1721-1812, mar 1721-1814, mar, dth] 1830, 1836-1843. (Kelly, G) [LDS 1836; Gt. Canfi eld 1813-1837; Chignal bapt 1813-1837, 1860-1951, mar 1813-1900, LTL Cab. Z - Europe] St. James 1813-1836; Layer-de-la-Haye bur 1813-1850 [items 29-39] Church of Glatz (KrSt Glatz) Kirchenbuch 1634-1766 1813-1836; Mayland 1754-1837; Pitsea England. (LDS; 1472364). (Fitzpatrick, J) [parish register of bapt, mar & dth in 1757-1840; Rayleigh 1754-1812; Thoydon HAMPSHIRE Glatz, Schlesien, Germany, now Klodzko Mount 1814-1851; Toppesfi eld 1813- 1851; St Mary’s church Southampton: list of (Klodzko), Wroclaw, Poland. Some records v. 3 Great Bardfi eld 1754-1837; East Ham registers & various documents 1675-1764; include surrounding villages] Katholische 1803-1851; Latton 1683-1837; Stow Maries General register (bapt, mar, bur) 1675- Kirche [Roman Catholic Church] (LDS; 1754-1836; Tilty 1814-1851; v. 4 Ardleigh 1779, bapt, bur 1780-1812, bapt 1813-1818. 1048580). Contents: Taufen [bapt] 1747- 1754-1851; Bulmer 1754-1837; Foulness Church of England. (LDS; 1041724). 1766 - Taufen, Heiraten, Tote [mar, dths] 1813-1836; Steeple 1755-1837; v. 5 Hockley (Bracegirdle, C) 1634-1650. (Miller, N) [LDS LTL Cab. Z 1754-1812; Maldon All Sts & St Peter 1754- St Mary’s church Southampton: mar 1868- - Europe] 1837; Norton Mandevill 1779-1836 [items 1876, bur 1813-1842. Church of England. Glatz (KrSt Glatz) Kirchenbuch [parish 7-11]. City of London Poor Law records: v. (LDS; 1041731). (Bracegirdle, C) register bapt in Glatz, Schlesien, Germany, 1 parishes of All Hallows the Great, Holy now Klodzko (Klodzko), Wroclaw, Poland. Trinity the Less, St. Ann Blackfriars, St. KENT Some records include surrounding villages] Ann & St. Agnes with St. John Zachary, Deptford parish chest material: Taufen [bapt] 1804-1814. Katholische St. Antholin Budge Row, St. Bartholomew churchwardens & overseers order book Kirche [Roman Catholic Church] (LDS; by the Exchange, St. Benet Fink, St. Benet 1819-1825, overseers accounts 1819-1823, 1048569). Contents: Taufen [bapt] Paul’s Wharf with St. Peter Paul’s Wharf, overseers settlements 1812-1823, bastard 1804-1814. (Miller, N) [LDS LTL Cab. Z - & St. Benet Sherehog; v. 2 parishes of St. book 1811-1831, bastard relief 1834, Europe] Ethelburga, St. Christopher le Stocks, St. overseers of the poor accounts 1833-1865. Niederschwedeldorf (Kr Glatz) Kirchenbuch Andrew Holborn, St. Edmund the King, St. Church of England. (LDS; 1752038). 1696-1893 [parish registers bapt, mar & Nicholas Acons, & St. Botolph Aldgate; v. (Gourley, M A) dth for Niederschwedeldorf, Schlesien, 3 parishes of All Hallows Lombard Street, Faversham Archdeacon’s transcripts: Germany; now Szalejów Dolny (Klodzko) St. Alphege London Wall, St. Andrew by bapt, mar & bur 1661-1812 (missing: Wroclaw, Poland] Katholische Kirche the Wardrobe, St. Andrew Holborn, St. 1681/2, 1724/5-1730/1, 1733/4, 1736/7 [Roman Catholic Church] (LDS; 1344024- Andrew Undershaft, St. Ann & St. Agnes 1741/2, 1755/6, 1805/6, 1806/7) [item 1]. 1344026, 1344028). Contents: Taufen Aldersgate & St. John Zachary, St. Anne Folkestone Archdeacon’s transcripts: bapt, [bapt] 1721-1750 - Heiraten, Tote [mar, Blackfriars, St. Benet Sherehog, St. Botolph mar & bur 1563-1812 (missing: 1565/6, dths] 1696-1750 - Taufen, Heiraten, Tote Aldgate, St. Bride Fleet Street, St. Clement 1570/1-1573/4, 1587/8, 1592/3 1606/7, 1751-1776 (LDS; 1344024). Taufen 1776- Eastcheap, St. Dionis Backchurch [item 12]. 1641/2-1660/1, 1681/2) [item 2] Church of 1848 (LDS; 1344025). Taufen 1849-1869 Parish register transcripts: St. Benedict’s England. (LDS; 1751866). (Clarke, D) Heiraten 1776-1877 (LDS; 1344026). Tote church Cambridge: bapt 1539-1851, mar LANCASHIRE 1846-1893 (LDS; 1344028) (Miller, N) 1539-1851, banns 1756-1823, bur 1539- The registers of Wigan (All Saints) 1785- [LDS LTL Cab. Z - Europe] 1851 [item 13] Church of England. (LDS; 1800, 1801-1812. Lancashire Parish 990406). (Hayward, J) Register Society. Computer 4 NEW ZEALAND BERKSHIRE LINCOLNSHIRE A pocket history of Rotorua. Staff ord, Don. Tilehurst bapt, bur 1559-1812, mar 1559- Horncastle cemetery: bur registers 1888- (Gulliver, J) [993.12 STA] 1775, 1754-1812, banns 1754-1812. Church 2006. Lincolnshire FHS. @ Computer 4 deanery: bapt & bur index UNITED KINGDOM of England. (LDS; 88445). (Jones, V) West Elloe CUMBERLAND 1754-1812. Lincolnshire FHS. Cowbit; ENGLAND Crowland; Gosberton; Moulton; Surrey non-conformist registers preserved Aspatria bapt, bur 1770-1812, collections 1804-1814, mar 1754-1812, banns 1782- Pinchbeck; Quadring; Spalding; at the Public Record Offi ce; includes Surfleet; Weston. @ Computer 4 registers from chapels in the ancient county 1815, bapt 1813-1889, mar 1813-1837, of Surrey & registers from chapels in the banns 1823-1899, bur 1813-1866 [items OXFORDSHIRE ancient county of Middlesex, but in the 1-11]. Kirk-Linton bapt (typescript) 1651- Banbury Bishop’s transcripts: bapt, mar & present administrative county of Surrey; 1662, 1681-1704, mar, bur (typescript) bur 1606-1817. Church of England. (LDS; registers in the ancient county of Surrey, & 1655-1704, churchwardens’ accounts 95208). Includes bapt, mar, bur, 1812- not in the London county council area, but (typescript) 1696, 1682-1684, bapt, mar, 1813 for Claydon, Mollington, Horley, transferred to the Greater London council bur 1687-1731, churchwardens accounts Hornton, Cropredy, Wardington & area 1965; & registers in the ancient county 1731-1756, bapt, bur 1731-1778, mar Kings-Sutton. Claydon, Mollington & of Surrey but transferred to the county 1731-1753, mar, banns 1754-1806, mar Wardington are chapelries in the parish of of London in 1888 [item 1]. Devonshire 1806-1812, banns 1806-1832, bapt, bur Cropredy. (Hayward, J) [Microfi lm] parish registers marriages v. 1, ed by 1778-1812, bapt 1813-1841, mar 1813-1932, Cropredy Bishops Transcripts: bapt, mar & W.P.W. Phillimore [item 2]. Parish register banns 1823-1960, bur 1813-1941 [items bur 1664-1812. Church of England. (LDS; transcripts: Mixbury [Oxfordshire]; v. 1 12-24]. Kirkoswald bapt, mar, bur 1580- 95235). Includes records for the chapelry christenings 1645-1876, mar 1657-1882, 1663, bapt 1667-1809, mar 1685-1754, bur of Great and Little Bourton. (Hayward, J)

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 27 Bishop’s transcripts for Little Milton: bapt, mar & bur 1845-1853 [item 1]; Minster- VALE - Rosamonde Combes Lovell bapt, mar & bur 1667-1865 [item 2]; Parish register transcripts for Mixbury We are saddened to hear that Rosamonde Catherine Combes, a 1721-1851 [item 3]; Bishop’s transcripts long-time member of the GSV, passed away recently. Rosamonde

Library Additions Library for Mollington: bapt, mar & bur 1696- 1826 [item 4]. Church of England. (LDS; had a long and very successful career in Early Childhood Education. 506452). (Hayward, J) In her retirement she was devoted to gardening and researching her SUSSEX family history. The logbook of Thomas Slatford, headmaster Littlehampton boys school 1871-1911. Sussex Record Society. Ed by Ruth M Brown. (Sussex Record Society; v. 95). [942.25 SUS] Buxted general register (bapt, mar, bur) 1568-1806, mar & banns 1754-1842, bapt Are you the owner of & bur 1807-1812. Copy of will relating to charities; parochial memoranda. Church of England. (LDS; 1067365). (Fitzpatrick, J) Falmer mar 1813-1880, bur 1813-1882 this photograph? [items 1-3]. Mayfield general register (bapt, mar, bur) 1570-1763, bapt & bur It is of Mr Hickford of Sharpe Street, Yarrawonga, age 79y 1764-1812, mar 1754-1812, bapt 1754-1763, according to the caption on the rear of the photo. It was found banns 1754-1790 [items 4-10] Church of in the GSV Library. The owner should contact Ancestor at England. (LDS; 1067249). (Fitzpatrick, J). to arrange collection. Framfield bapt, mar, bur 1538-1657, 1655- [email protected] 1686, bapt, bur 1687-1783, mar 1687-1753, mar, banns 1754-1787, bapt, bur 1783-1812, mar 1787-1812, bapt 1813-1895, mar 1813- 1897. Church of England. (LDS; 1886241). (Fitzpatrick, J) Mayfield bapt 1813-1881, mar 1813-1881. Church of England. (LDS; 1067250). (Fitzpatrick, J) YORKSHIRE Yorkshire East Riding hearth tax 1672-3. British Record Society. Ed by David Neave et al. (The Index library; 131) [942.83 BRI] SCOTLAND MORAY The parishes of Moray: parish of Alves poor register for 1845-1930 & Alves war memorial. Moray & Nairn FHS. (SAG) [941.233 MOR] The parishes of Moray: poor register for the parish of Bellie 1845-1897. Moray & Nairn FHS. (SAG) [941.233 MOR] The parishes of Moray: poor register for the parish of Elgin v. 1, 1845-1871, v. 2 1871- 1881, v. 3 1881-1891. Moray & Nairn FHS. (SAG) [941.233 MOR] NAIRNSHIRE Records relating to Nairn poorhouse, Nairn 1862-1914. Moray & Nairn FHS. (SAG) [941.195 MOR]

WEST INDIES – BARBADOS Barbados bapt, mar & bur v. 49, 1869 [Series B] Barbados. (LDS; 1157984). (Juriansz, C) Barbados bap, mar & bur v. 55-56, 1872 [Series B] Barbados. (LDS; 1157990). (Juriansz, C) 

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 28 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc SPOTLIGHT:

Shedding light on new facilities Spotlight

Geelong Heritage Centre Our thanks to Mark Beasley, Manager GHCC&S

The Geelong Heritage Centre, Victoria’s largest regional • Images – countless archive and resource centre, is housed in the Vault, Kim thousands of barne thaliyu – from the local Wadda Wurrung language photographs, meaning here yesterday – on level 3 of the new and iconic drawings and Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. The Centre is adjacent paintings depicting to Johnstone Park and in the heart of Geelong and its the life and times of cultural precinct. Geelong from the 1830s to present day. With the latest in digital technology and a team of specialist staff , the Geelong Heritage Centre brings the region’s past The deliberate to life. The archive collection is a unique recorded history of preservation of the Geelong and the Bellarine, the Shires of Golden Plains and region’s history started Surf Coast, and the Borough of Queenscliff e and beyond. when the Geelong The Heritage Centre is an offi cially accredited Place of Historical Records Deposit for the storage and provision of access to permanent Centre (GHRC) and temporary Public Records. In this capacity it manages was established as a a signifi cant collection of Public Records generated from memorial to two historic Geelong and the surrounding region, dating back to the early events of 1951: the 19th Century. Centenary of Separation of Victoria from NSW The Heritage Reading Room is a state-of-the-art and the 50th Jubilee environment boasting dramatic décor and advanced of Federation. The technologies that enrich the visitor’s experience. A Cruiser citizens of Geelong table – an interactive digital display – brings the archives to raised the funds which your fi ngertips. The latest in microfi lm scanning technology were ultimately directed and a range of visual display capabilities is also available. to the construction of the Centre with the The huge collection of objects, items and records housed express wish that it be on site in the Heritage Centre’s Repository held in 4.2km the repository for local of mobile and fi xed shelving. The Centre has extensive historical records. catalogues and indexes to assist researchers. The reading room off ers access to thousands of reference books on a vast The GHRC fi rst opened to the public in 1979 and became range of history subjects. The collection can also be searched the largest regional archive and historical resource centre in using the Geelong Regional Libraries online catalogue. Victoria. In 2003, the GHRC became the Geelong Heritage Centre and with the move to a new home in the Geelong Resources which can be accessed include: Library & Heritage Centre in 2015, it has entered a new • Genealogy – postal directories, rate books, church phase of its evolution. A spacious, modern environment and and cemetery registers, births, deaths and marriages, state-of- the-art technologies make the collections more immigration lists and biographical registers; accessible than ever. • Local history – public and private records produced by Geelong Library & Heritage Centre government, businesses, groups and individuals; Ç51 Little Malop Street Geelong • Reference works – Geelong and District historical J03 4201 0630 publications and general Victorian historical works; ¢[email protected] • Newspapers – Geelong Advertiser 1840 to date, other Geelong newspapers, incomplete runs of ephemeral Opening Hours: publications from 1850-1923; Tuesday: 9.00am – 8.00pm • Maps, plans & architectural drawings – subdivisional, Wednesday to Friday: 9.00am – 5.00pm dwelling and rural sales notices, parish plans covering Saturday: 10.00am – 1.00pm areas of Geelong and west to the South Australian border Sunday & Monday: Closed  in addition to architect drawings for houses/buildings/ structures throughout Victoria from 1850–1990s; Above: Images courtesy of Ferne Millen

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 29 Researc h Corner Meg Bate Searching for nurses and midwives in Victoria Research Corner Research

In the mid 19th century, Florence Nightingale The Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association infl uenced the status of nursing by raising it to a published a Register of Members, February in desirable and professional occupation for women. 1922, available online http://handle.slv.vic.gov. Nurses needed to have unblemished characters, au/10381/234114 . This lists names of nurses be cultured, refi ned and educated. They were on the general register of the Royal Victorian also required to undergo strict training. It was Trained Nurses’ Association to February 1922. To important for them to command respect and be listed a nurse required a minimum of 3 years obedience from subordinates.. in a recognised general training school. The list provides the name and address, date of During my research I found nine women in registration and where members were trained. my Corney & Tulloh families who joined this Although this list was published in 1922 some profession during the 19th and early 20th century. older trained nurses can be found here. The earliest example is Margaret Beryl Corney (1875-1970). My ancestors Margaret Beryl Corney and Rebecca Duigan (nee Corney) are listed in the The Victorian Trained Nurses Association Nurses Association Register of Members but they (VTNA) was formed in 1901 to self- regulate the are not in the Government registers. profession. The Association acquired the ‘Royal’ prefi x in 1904. Its role was to register nurses, The Government Gazette list of general nurses introduce a uniform, set a curriculum for training and midwives records nurses by name, date and conduct examinations. It was important to of registration, address, hospital or training distinguish these trained nurses from untrained establishment and section under which they and sometimes disreputable nurses of previous qualifi ed to register. For more detail about your times. ancestor’s registration you need to check the Nurses Registration Act 1923 or the Midwives In 1915 the Victorian government passed the Act 1915 which set out the requirements for Midwives Act and later, in 1923, the Nurses their qualifi cation and even age required for Registration Act. These Acts provided registration. Over the years there have been government authority in the registration numerous changes to these acts, so make sure and training of nurses. By 1929 the midwives when you check the Victorian Historical Acts registration was incorporated into the Nurses 1851-1995 (Austlii) http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Board and in 1950 the registration of Mental au/legis/vic/hist_act/ that you are checking Nurses commenced under the Nurses and the Act that relates to the registration date. It’s Midwives Act. also worth checking over a number of years as your nurse or midwife may have changed their These dates are important when you are trying to information with a name change, change of research a nurse or midwife, as these Government employment, address or qualifi cation. Acts required that the names of approved persons be published annually in the Victoria Government GSV’s Genealogical Name Index (GIN) has Gazette. The Victoria Government Gazette 1836- indexed nearly 12,000 names that appear in the 1997 is online at State Library of Victoria http:// following issues of the Victoria Government gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/ and at the Australasian Gazette: Register of General Nurses 1925 and the Legal Information Institute (Austlii) for 1843- Register of Midwives 1920, 1923, 1926 1929 and 1999 http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/ 1935. Over time the GSV hopes to index more of vic_gazette/. these registers.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 30 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 1: Margaret Beryl Corney trained 1901 at the Hamilton Hospital; suthor’s collection. Research Corner Research

A further source of information about your • Jean Robertson Tulloh 1916 – Nurse nursing ancestor is the Australian Electoral Gippsland Roll. Many are on ancestry.com.au. There • Thelma Beatrice Tulloh 1928 – Nurse are two ways that Ancestry has indexed these Armadale rolls, by transcribing (when occupation was • Freda Grace Tulloh 1925 – Nurse Armadale not included) and by using their new OCR (Optical Text Recognition) indexing method. • Kathleen Rebecca Corney 1912 – Nurse Though OCR indexing is far from perfect and Kyneton does not cover all years it means that in many Finally, there are other resources available to cases occupation has been indexed, hence you research your nursing ancestors. Use the GSV’s can search by keyword “nurse”. Years indexed catalogue using the terms nurse* Victoria or by OCR are 1901, 1912-13, 1915-1918, 1920-22, midwife* Victoria. Also search Trove (National 1925-28. Library of Australia) using the nursing organisation names mentioned above then A search in Ancestry of “All Australia”, Electoral check the results in zone or section ‘Journals, Rolls, 1903-1980 for my Tulloh & Corney articles and data sets’ to locate the Association’s ancestors produces the following: journal, zone ‘Diaries, letters, archives’ to locate • Katie May Tulloh 1910 – Nurse Austin the Association and Government’s Nursing Hospital, Heidelberg Board archives and the zones Newspapers and Gazettes using a personal or organisation name. • Winifred Gordon Tulloh 1910 – Nurse Good luck with your research. Portland 

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 31 Members Queries ¢Email Address ÇMailing Address JPhone ARMSTRONG, ARNOTT, BARKER, BASNETT, BOND, BOWEN, BROOKS, BURDON, CORCORAN, DOOLAN, DRAYTON, DUNKLEY, FAHY, FANKHAUSER, HANSEN, HARDING, HARRIS, HELLIAR, HINDHAUGH, HUNT, JEFFERY, JONES, JOYCE, KANNULUIK, LARKIN, McGRAW, McMURRAY, MACKINTOSH, MARTIN, MOHR, RAY, SULLIVAN, SWANTON, WEBBER, YOUNG

ARMSTRONG/McMURRAY 1925 UK d 1968 Brighton. Electoral HARRIS Seeking info/desc Robert Roll shows address in Brighton as Seeking info Solomon HARRIS b 10 ARMSTRONG b c1828 Haileybury Street (1954), Dendy Street March 1855 bap 9 April 1855 St Newtownbutler FER IRL d 3 April (1963), Clive St, East Brighton (1972). Andrews Carrick TAS (par: John 1863 Whittlesea VIC. John Unable to confi rm birth, marriage, HARRIS & Amelia LAING) m 6 April McMURRAY b c1826 Markethill ARM death. 1882 VIC d 15 April 1942. Death cert IRL d 18 November 1920 Melb VIC. D. Frost shows 79 yrs VIC so arr 1863 aged 8 ¢[email protected] L.McBride years. Need proof arr VIC & activity ¢[email protected] btw then and marriage. DOOLAN/FAHY/CORCORAN R. Welsford ¢[email protected] ARNOTT/YOUNG/BURDON/ Seeking info/desc Owen DOOLAN b BASNETT/LARKIN 1806 King’s County IRL (fa James DOOLAN mo CORCORAN) m Bridget HELLIAR/JEFFERY/BOND/ Seeking info Daniel ARNOTT b 6 Sept FAHY (fa Mark FAHY mo JILES). SWANTON 1805 MDX par: John & Margaret; Mary Owen & Biddy arr Melb Nov 1841 YOUNG b 30 March 1804 MDX par: Seeking info/desc Henry Richard Diamond. Isaac & Elizabeth; Elizabeth BURDON HELLIAR b 1857 Ashill SOM; John B. Chancellor m 6 June 1799 Darlington DUR Jeff ery HELLIAR b 1825 Sth ¢[email protected] Meriton SEDGWICK; John BASNETT Petherton SOM (par: Wm HELLIAR & m 20 May 1818 St Giles in the Fields Betsey JEFFERY) m 1855 Melb MDX Elizabeth WORLEDGE; John DUNKLEY/BOWEN/HINDHAUGH Martha BOND farm Littlefi elds Avoca, Smyth LARKIN bap 23 Dec 1798 Seeking info Harriet DUNKLEY b also his sis Mary Esther b 1829 m 1858 Faversham KEN m 17 Feb 1821 St John c1818 m 29 Sept 1840 St Leonards Melb Edward SWANTON. Hackney LND Elizabeth HARRIS. Shoreditch Joseph BOWEN, arr Melb M. Vines D. Clarke 20 Dec 1852 Hyderabad fr LND with ¢[email protected] ¢[email protected] six chn: Harriet; Joseph m 28 Feb 1868 Yambuk Mary Ann HINDHAUGH; HUNT/JOYCE James; John; Joshua; George. Seeking info my g-gf Edward David BARKER G. Weir JOYCE arr Melb 1851 or 1852 aged 10. Seeking info/desc Robert BARKER b ¢[email protected] 1827 DUR d 1895 arr 1852-3 VIC; wife Is it possible to tell who accompanied Ann and chn Thomas & Robert arr him, poss member of his family. 1856 lived Heathcote. Robert ran HANSEN/KANNULUIK/ S. & A. Hunt Drover’s Arms Hotel. Had eight more FANKHAUSER ¢[email protected] chn: Elizabeth; Eliza Ann; George; Seeking info/desc/photos Peter Nielsen Fuglsang HANSEN b 1862 Edward; Margaret; John; William; McGRAW/HARDING Annie. Ann d 1900. DEN d 1916 m 1892 Anna Marie W. Lowry FANKHAUSER b 1874 d 1963; Jaan Seeking par James McGRAW BRK UK ¢[email protected] KANNULUIK b 1858 Werro, RUS b 1789 d 1861 & Sarah HARDING BRK (now Estonia) d 1929 m 1891 Caroline UK b 1791 d 1860. Elizabeth FANKHAUSER b 1865 d M. Theile BROOKS/JONES 1948. ¢[email protected] Seeking info my aunt Dorothy Jean V. Shuttleworth BROOKS b 1928 Myrtleford VIC m bef ¢[email protected] 1954 Lionel Henry Barnard JONES b

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Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 32 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc MACKINTOSH/McINTOSH RAY WEBBER Mackintosh (any variation) families in Seeking info/desc Robert RAY m 1853 Seeking desc Sarah WEBBER fr DEV Australia; aim is to unite family Elizabeth BROAD. Chn: Ellen b 1854 ENG arr Melb December 1852 age 19 members, and assist in their research. (my anc); Henry b 1856; William Persian. It’s free but user account required. Robert b 1859; Elizabeth b 1860; J. Webber J. Wickham Emmeline b 1861; Horace b 1862; ¢[email protected] ¢[email protected] Robert Ernest b 1863; Annie Young b ¢www.mackintosh.org.au 1864; Elsie b 1866; Lilian b 1868; Lizzie b 1869; Mabel b 1870; Laura b MARTIN/DRAYTON/MOHR 1871-2; Ada b 1873. D. Ray Seeking info/desc Jean Mary ¢[email protected] MARTIN b 1914 Sandringham VIC (par: Sydney & Ida MARTIN) m 1933 SULLIVAN South Melbourne Henry Christopher DRAYTON b 1911 St Kilda VIC (par: Seeking info/desc Vernon SULLIVAN, Henry & Alice DRAYTON). Were Group Capt RAAF, & wife Kathleen. there any chn? Is this the same Jean Chn: Janice; Rodney (ex-RAAF). Bro who later partnered George MOHR in of Eileen MURPHY nee SULLIVAN. late 1930s having two chn with him. J. North H. Law ¢[email protected] ¢[email protected]

Abbreviations: anc ancestors d died gg-grandpar great-great- arr arrived dau/s daughter/daughters grandparents b&d born and died desc descendants m married b born fa father mo mother bap baptised fr from m1 fi rst marriage bro/s brother/brothers g-gf great-grandfather m2 second marriage bur buried g-gm great-grandmother par parents c1803 circa 1803 g-grandpar great-grandparents sis sister/sisters chn children unk unknown

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Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 33 Jottings... and library news Linley Hooper, FGSV Jottings

Avotaynu 32:1 (Spring 2016) provides ‘Eight unique Bute, Berwick, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, East Lothian, Fife, technologies for genealogical discoveries’, ‘Genetic Kincardine, Lanark, Midlothian, Perth, Renfrew, Roxburgh, genealogy tips’, and ‘Some things that you can do on archive. Stirling, Sutherland, West Lothian and Wigtown. org including the Wayback Machine’ [for users to see older, archived versions of web pages across time]. The rolls for the counties of Aberdeen, Banff , Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Moray, Nairn, Peebles and Selkirk give only Eve McLaughlin in her breezy writing style gives a wonderful the total number of hearths surveyed and money collected in overview of ‘Keeping the peace through the centuries’ in each parish or estate. The roll for Inverness-shire consists Bucks Ancestor 25:2 (Jun 2016). From the Wergild or mainly of a summary of a small number of parishes without Manprice (an ordinary freeman was worth 200 shillings, but listing inhabitants but includes a list of burgesses or a Welshman was only worth 80 shillings if you happened to inhabitants of the town of Inverness and a list of poor in the kill one) up to the 1870s, it’s a great introduction. parishes surveyed.

Kerry Farmer continues her answers to ‘Frequently Asked In this series of hearth tax rolls there are none for Orkney, Questions’ on DNA in Descent 46:2 (Jun 2016). This issue Shetland, Caithness, Ross and Cromarty. For information on also reports on the digitization of NSW Gaol photographic hearth tax rolls for Dumfriesshire, Fife, Edinburgh, Shetland description records. The September edition (46:3) has a and Ross-shire in private records in the NRS see the guide good plan for analysing the quality of your research in ‘How on tax records at www.nas.gov.uk/guides/taxation.asp. healthy is your family tree?’. ScotlandsPeople have revamped their website and added: The New Zealand Genealogist 47:360 (Aug 2016) includes • Divorce indexes a good article on Divorce in NZ and news about the Archives • Civil partnerships & dissolutions indexes NZ digitization of the WWI personal fi les. • Non-conformist Presbyterian denominations indexes Scotland and images – over 150,000 records added from the Professor Lesley Diack in the Aberdeen & NE Scotland following denominations: FHS Journal 139 (May 2016) reminds us that only 65% - The Reformed Presbyterian Church of the Scottish population is recorded in the Church of - The Original Secession (or First Secession) Church Scotland’s Old Parochial Registers, and among other traps - The Associate Synods (Burghers and Antiburghers, for the unwary that 367 of the 901 parishes have incomplete and the Auld Licht Burghers, New Licht Burghers, Auld records pre 1855, 51 parishes did not record the mother’s Licht Antiburghers and New Licht Antiburghers) name until after 1800 and 26 parishes never recorded it. We have books in our library which list the coverage of the - The Relief Church various parishes. This issue also discusses the 1691 hearth - The United Secession Church tax for Scotland using the parish of Banchory Ternan as an - The United Presbyterian Church example, to help you understand your parish’s coverage. - The Free Church ScotlandsPlaces now provides free access to its many Ireland tax records including the hearth tax rolls which list the Claire Santry in Irish Roots 99 (2016) writes about the people who were liable for tax on hearths (including kilns) new records available at Tipperary Studies – the County in Scotland in the 1690s. They provide clues about the size Library’s website for digitized records. Their latest addition of each building, place, estate or parish in the late 17th is the Lackagh Rate Book for Dec 1850 to add to their century. Heads of households of each building were liable collection of Cashel, Nenagh & Thurles Poor Law Union rate for a tax of 14 shillings, payable at Candlemas [Feb 2] 1691, books and Nenagh Poor Law Union burial rate books. and only hospitals and the poor were exempt. There were huge diffi culties in collecting the tax, particularly in the Best of all – the images of Irish civil registration certifi cates Highlands, and attempts to collect the tax in some parts of (births 1864-1915, deaths 1891-1965 & marriages 1882- Scotland went on until 1695. 1940) are now freely available at irishgenealogy.ie. The date range will increase to births over 100 years, marriages The surviving hearth tax rolls (National Records of Scotland over 75 years and deaths over 50 years ago. Although Irish reference E69) are generally arranged by county and then certifi cates follow the English pattern, it is really great parish or by landed estate. The rolls for the following counties to check out addresses, informants, occupations, etc. in contain lists of householders (some arranged by estate or our quest for our Irish ancestors with all those common place): Angus, Ayr, Argyll (but with some areas missing), names.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 34 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Genies on the web Irene Fullarton Genies

It is a long time since I have looked at the FamilySearch website. This year it has changed dramatically and it is worth learning about the new features. The FamilySearch Blog https://familysearch.org/blog/en/12- familysearch-2016 gives you an idea of what they planned to do in 2016. I really like existing feature ‘Browse all public collections’ https://familysearch.org/search/collection/ list You can further refi ne your search via the left-hand navigation box by Place, Date, Collections, etc.

More and more old postcards are being used to show how a place looked at a certain time period. Facebook is a popular place to share old postcards and it is a great place to start. An example is Vintage Postcards www.facebook.com/ vintagepostcardsandphotos1/ (It also includes photos). There are hundreds of football team photos available on the Web. This is the link to the collection of Boyles Football There are twenty pages of wonderful postcards on this photos held at the State Library of Victoria website www.janesoceania.com/australia_home/ www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/ postcards.htm Scroll down the page to fi nd the click SLV+Boyles+Collection Some players are unknown. through link to page 1, etc. (The last couple of pages are photos). The following examples are from page 9.

Above:Ab CCombinedbi d BBallaratll tT Team, CCityit OOval,l BBallarat,ll t 19431943. StStatet Library of Victoria accession no. H2008.122/51

The 28th of September was the 125th anniversary of the Women’s Suff rage Petition. The database is searchable and the PROV Wiki attached to each entry does, in some cases, have more information and a photo of the person. You can click on the PDF image and see the actual signature as shown below. www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/the- history-of-parliament/womens-suffrage-petition/ womens-petition 

Some postcards use earlier paintings. This next example, from the State Library of Victoria collection, is Collins Street Melbourne in the 1850s by artist S.T. Gill.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 35 Around the Groupsp Scottish Ancestry Group IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP

Around the Groups Around Next Meeting : Saturday 11 February 2017 Next quarterly meeting GSV Meeting Room Saturday 18 March 2017 Level B1 257 Collins St Melbourne Visitors welcome (bring your lunch and have a chat) Guest speaker: The Reverend Douglas Robertson from Scots Church

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Meeting: Saturday, 19 November 2016, 1pm Meetings : First Wednesday each month, (except January) Marie-Thérèse Jensen: European roots and GSV Meeting Room from 12.30 till 1.30pm Australian Branches. Telling the family story. This is a story of writing and producing two family history books, using photos, stories and facts from December 7 France, Ireland, Denmark, Scotland and Australia. Planning our program for 2017 Saturday, 18 February 2017, 1pm Come along with your suggestions Meeting: Problem solving (non-British)

February 1 Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) Review of Members’ submissions GSV Meeting Room 1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul All members of the GSV are welcome & Oct. “Non-British Research Starter Kits” for Denmark, See pages 24-25 for the GSV Writers Circle Norway, Sweden, Finland and Netherlands are for sale quarterly column from the ISG. $8.80 or $12.30 posted.

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Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 36 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Book Reviews Reviews by Margaret Vines 1 2 3 4 Book Reviews

1. James Neilson and Isabella Gibson: Gippsland Pioneers The stories are especially relevant to family historians because they concentrate on the lives, not of the heroes, but of the ordinary Author: Heather Sjoberg 176 pp ISBN 978 1 925167 28 3 people, men and women, caught up in the war, and are fascinating Pub: 2015, Heather Sjoberg, Darwin, NTAvailable in GSV Library and moving to read. Recognising ‘the Great War tore us apart’ James and Isabella Neilson were among the earliest settlers leaving a ‘shadow of grief’ and ‘a crippling legacy of trauma’ in Gippsland, arriving at Port Albert as part of the initial Laird they do not fl inch from the diffi cult stories. They tell them with of Glengarry settlement in 1841, only a year after Strzelecki’s diff ering viewpoints and styles – the nurse in a casualty station, exploration. Their twins were most likely the fi rst white children the father grieving for his son, the daughter who never knew her born there. father, the mother searching for her missing son, the soldier settler, The author gives a detailed and readable account of the early days the Aboriginal soldier, the Jewish soldier, and the blind returned of Port Albert, and of Tarraville, where Neilson built and operated soldier who married happily, contrasting with too many war- the Royal Hotel, before moving into land and property development damaged men who returned home to be confi ned to a hospital or to and building his home, the heritage listed Woodcot Park. The later take their own lives. The cumulative eff ect brings home to the early days of isolation in thick bush in fear of aboriginal attack, reader the tragedy of war. with the sea at Port Albert the principal point of contact with the These stories make ideal models for family historians, showing outside world were followed by population growth and prosperity how to blend the offi cial documents and the story remembered by as Tarraville became for a time the largest town in Gippsland. the family into a compelling narrative. The book contains notes, a When roads fi nally provided an adequate link between Gippsland select bibliography and a list of names. MV and Melbourne the district declined. The description of social life of Tarraville in the 1840s and 1850s and the growth of a Scots community in the district add to the interest of the book for anyone 4. Francis Ormond: a ruling passion who is researching family in the area. A name index, endnotes, and Author: Max Griffi ths 208pp Available in GSV Library bibliography are included. MV Pub: 2015, Rosenberg Publishing, PO Box 6125, Dural, Max Griffi ths has written a welcome study of an important fi gure 2. Against all Odds: the struggle and survival of the in the history of Victoria. Francis Ormond, son of a sea captain, Collins settlers: Balaklava to Beulah took over management of a small sheep station for his father when aged 19 in 1850. Surviving the 1851 bushfi res, he built a fortune Author: Glenda Hocking 255pp Available in GSV Library from the Western District wool industry. What distinguishes Pub: 2016, G Hocking, PO Box 1034, Blackwood SA 5051 Ormond is what he did with his fortune. Agricultural labourers from Somerset, looking for land, arrived in Philanthropy, and in particular for education, became his ‘ruling Adelaide and settled on the dry plains around Balaklava north of passion’. Not content with merely contributing funds, he sought Adelaide in the 1840s. The skills they developed there, for example out projects, studied relevant overseas institutions, and saw the ‘plug and pine’ cottage, helped their children in their turn to the projects through, injecting capital to encourage matching settle new land around Beulah in the southern Mallee in Victoria. fundraising and the involvement of others. Beginning with projects Glenda Hocking presents a large collection of original documents, like his local Presbyterian church and a school at Skipton, he photos, land maps, newspaper reports and family accounts, each then moved to Melbourne where he contributed so much to the neatly displayed in a text box, and leaves readers to draw their new Presbyterian college at Melbourne University it was named own conclusions. The families in the collection will be grateful Ormond College after him. His most important project became for this book. General readers may fi nd the lack of an explicit the Melbourne Working Men’s College, now RMIT University. narrative and occasional typos like Yoevil for Yeovil confusing, He was its fi rst president and had contributed the funds for its but for those with family in the Mid-north of S.A. and the Mallee fi rst building. Amongst his other contributions were the Ormond and Central Victoria, it is easy to fl ip through looking for people, Professorship of Music at Melbourne University, and Ormond Hall places and items of interest. The photographs and the land maps, at the Victorian Institute for the Blind. showing who held which land, are especially valuable. So are The only previous biography of Ormond was written in 1912: some social history gems from contemporary newspapers, like the Francis Ormond: Pioneer, Patriot, Philanthropist by C Stuart Skimmington incident in Somerset and the attempted rape trial in Ross, which is now available on the internet at archive.org. It Maryborough. A name index is included. MV was a ‘glowing eulogy’ according to this author, who has based his own study on it, updating it with some additional material. Max Griffi ths’ book is not an academic study – for example quotations 3. World War One: a history in 100 stories are not referenced – but it does give considerable detail on Authors: Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley, Laura James Ormond’s early life, and his various philanthropic endeavours. It is Pub: Penguin 2015 370pp ISBN 978 0 14 379998 6 a pity the author does not seem to have had access to Ted Stephen’s Available from your local library new book The Ormonds of Borriyalloak, which might have provided These individual and highly varied biographies from World War added family background. One were produced by historians at Monash University. They Ormond burnt his papers before he died, making the task of any combine thorough research at the archives, including war service biographer diffi cult, but hopefully this book will re-arouse interest and newly released repatriation fi les and soldier settler records, in one of Victoria’s great philanthropists. An index is included. with the memories and mementos of the families concerned. MV

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 37 What’s On at our Me mber Societies VicGUM Inc Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc VicGUM is pleased to announce their appointment as From humble beginnings in 1977, Mildura & District Australian Distributors for the Software MacKiev version of Genealogical Society now has one of the largest collections Family Tree Maker (FTM). of family history resources in regional Victoria. The Mildura Software MacKiev purchased FTM from Ancestry following (Sunraysia) District is expansive, encompassing Merbein, their decision to “retire” the product. Irymple, Nichols Point, Red Cliffs, Cardross, Sunny Cliffs, Koorlong and Werrimull and the nearby NSW towns of Versions 2014.1 (Win) and Mac 3.1 (Mac) are now available. Buronga, Gol Gol, Dareton and Wentworth. Both versions are on the same DVD. M&DGS provides a reasonable priced Research Service for To purchase visit our website: www.vicgum.asn.au those who cannot attend our centre and two hours of free Members receive a 10% discount when they purchase research per year for members residing more than 200km online. Also available: Legacy 8 and Reunion 11 away. Enquiries: See our website www.milduragenealogy.com.au ¢[email protected] for details and please follow our Facebook page: J03 9639 2005 www.facebook.com/milduragenealogy/ ÇB1, 257 Collins St., Melb. VIC 3000 PO Box 375 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

Mid Gippsland Family History Society Inc At the time of writing our society is in a state of flux. For more than 20 years our home has been a room in the Moe Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Library building. Plans for a new library in the town were Saturday: 25th February 2017, 2.00pm exciting and in its planning stage we were invited to detail Speaker: Marg Kaan our requirements so that the new building would cater for Topic: The Mantons our needs. Unfortunately our input was ignored, no space was suitable, and we remain temporarily in the otherwise Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2 empty former library building, awaiting the Council decision Afternoon Tea provided. as to its fate. Please check our website for futher details: In the meantime, we still provide research and hands on help www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au on Wednesday afternoons. Once we are on certain ground, we intend to put out the welcome mat. Keep an eye on http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs/.

Mansfield Family History Group Inc A warm welcome to our monthly meetings on the 4th Pioneers of the Echuca Moama District Thursday of each month, at 3.30pm. The venue is usually the Mansfield Library, Collopy Street, Mansfield. Book 4 During the past two years, we have undertaken the Gone But This book has the stories of 50 families who settled in the Not Forgotten Project, which involved our group placing Echuca Moama district. Some were in the area during the name plaques on the unmarked graves in the Mansfield very early days of settlement, while others came later. Each Cemetery. We have also undertaken a joint project with the one has their own special story. Mansfield RSL – a roving exhibition of posters depicting We also have copies of the first 3 books available. the lives of those with a Mansfield link who went to WW1 – Books are available for $15 each + postage from the Echuca Centenary of Anzac. Moama Family History Group (include your postcode for Enquiries: calculating postage): ¢[email protected] ÇPO Box 707 Echuca 3564 or J03 5775 1659 ¢[email protected]

Sale and District Family History Group NEED HELP WITH Sale and District Family History Group was formed in 1986 and is located in the historic Temperance Hall in Macalister St. Sale. YOUR RESEARCH? The group launched a new book in November 2016 about the history of old and interesting houses in Sale listed in 1994 Sale Heritage The GSV Research Team can assist with a variety of Study and dating from 1863 until the 1920’s. services to suit all research problems including: Rooms open to the public Tuesdays between 1pm and 4pm and • Free 30min eResearch requests for GSV members Fridays 10am till 4pm. Meetings are held on the second Monday of • Special Consultations each month. • Extended Research requests in hourly sessions Enquiries: ÇPO Box 773 Sale • Transcription and Translation Services J 0428 411 603 See p43 for further details of the Research Services ¢[email protected] available or visit our website www.gsv.org.au or find us on Facebook

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 38 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Further information on our Member Societies can be found on the GSV website at www.gsv.org.au/activities/member-societies-list GSV Member S ocieties ¢Website or email address ÇMailing Address JPhone

Anglesea & District History Society Inc Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 Ç Lwr Lvl, Richmond Library, ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121 J Ararat Genealogical Society Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc 03 9428 6231 ¢ Ç PO Box 361, Ararat VIC 3377 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs J ¢

Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs Sale & District Family History Group Inc Member Societies Ç Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc Kerang & District Family History Group Inc PO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 J Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 Heather Pocknall 0428 411 603 J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 Shepparton Family History Group Inc ¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632 J Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc Garry Wallden 03 5828 3236 ¢ Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 J Jennifer Cole 03 5852 2842 South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc ¢ Ç Benalla Family Research Group Inc [email protected] PO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc  J Bill Willett 03 5762 8803 ÇPO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909 Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc ¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org J03 5155 3843 ÇPO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939 J Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~lefhrc Jan Humphreys 03 5985 4363 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 Mansfield Family History Group Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~brgs Ç46 Malcolm Street, Mansfield VIC 3722 Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc Ç Clan MacMillan Society of Australia JSheena Daykin 03 5775 1659 PO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380 ¢ [email protected] ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.com ¢www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan Maryborough Family History Group Inc Sunbury Family History Society Inc Ç Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc ÇPO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 PO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429 Ç 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 JJudith Healey 03 5464 2601 JWilliam Wilson 03 9744 4478 J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 ¢www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au Cobram Genealogical Group Inc Melton Family History Group Inc Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 ÇPO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585 J JBarbara Coleman 03 5871 2505 JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 Lyn Cunningham 03 5032 2840 ¢ ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs Colac & District Family History Group Inc http://meltonfamilyhistory.org Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc Terang & District Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264 J Colac History Centre 5231 5736 ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840  J Joyce Holmes 03 5592 2264 ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs  ¢[email protected] Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc The Australian Heraldry Society Inc ÇPO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 ÇPO Box 107, Lawson NSW 2783 JVal Hardman 03 5881 3980 JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 JStephen Michael Szabo 0431 701 055 ¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg ¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au ¢ www.heraldryaustralia.org Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria Inc NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc Toora & District Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 Ç PO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805  ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962 ¢www.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc J Lynne Bradley 8787 5558  ¢http://toora.org/ East Gippsland Family History Group Inc ¢http://nwfhg.org.au ÇPO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 Victorian GUM Inc Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc ÇC/- B1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 Ç PO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 JOffice 03 9639 2005 ¢www.egfhg.org.au J Lyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 ¢www.vicgum.asn.au Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc ¢[email protected] ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 Wangaratta Family History Society Inc Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr Ç JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593 PO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676 ÇBox 131, Ouyen VIC 3490 J ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist Val Brennan 03 5727 6229 ¢http://ouyen.vic.au/history ¢www.wfhs.org.au Geelong Family History Group Inc Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220 West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc Ç PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922 Ç JJohn Stewart 03 5261 2259 PO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820 J Pat Bowen 0402 161 200 J ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist Meren Perry 0419 232 614 ¢ [email protected] ¢http://westgippslandgenealogy.com Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437 Port Fairy Genealogical Society Inc Wimmera Association for Genealogy Inc Ç ¢ www.ggg.org.au PO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284 ÇPO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402 JIan Perry 03 5561 4085 JKen Flack 03 5382 4453 Hamilton History Centre Inc ¢[email protected] ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg ÇPO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300 JHistory Centre 03 5572 4933 Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Wodonga Family History Society Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist ÇC/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 ÇPO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689 JMarilla James 03 9500 8118 JWendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220 Heyfield Family History Group ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au ¢http://wodongafamilyhistory.org ÇPO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858 J03 5148 2100 Portland Family History Group Inc Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc ¢ [email protected] Ç PO Box 409, Portland VIC 3305 Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995 J Anne Grant 03 5522 2266 J03 5672 3803 Hotham History Project Inc  ¢ [email protected] ¢[email protected] ÇC/- North Melbourne Library  66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc Ç JMary Kehoe 9329 5814 ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225 PO Box 52, Yarrawonga VIC 3730 J ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.au J Historical Museum 03 5258 2511 Jan Parker 03 5744 1460  ¢ ¢www.queenscliffe-history.org www.yarrawongafamilyhistorygroupinc.com

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 39 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria From Tara Oldfi eld For further information visit prov.vic.gov.au.

Visit our new exhibition and website!

Wild Colonial Boys now showing at Old Treasury Building If you thought you knew all about Victoria’s bushrangers, think again. There’s far more to it than the story of Ned Kelly.

Wild Colonial Boys is a new exhibition presented by the Old Treasury Building in partnership with Public Record Offi ce Victoria. It features records from our state’s archives and other intriguing artefacts, including Mad Dan Morgan’s death mask from the collection of the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne and Dan Kelly’s armour, on loan from the Police Museum.

And it asks us to think about how we see the bushrangers today. Were they indeed nineteenth century ‘Robin Hoods’ – or just common criminals? We’ll leave you to judge.

What: Wild Colonial Boys: Bushrangers in Victoria Image 1: Front page of the new PROV website Where: Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, Melbourne. When: From 19 September 2016 to August 2017. A new website for Public Record Offi ce Open Sunday through Friday 10am-4pm (closed Saturdays). Victoria Bookings: This is a FREE exhibition. Bookings not required. A new PROV website is now online to provide researchers with a faster search experience An exciting public program accompanies the exhibition, see and simpler navigation options, making fi nding what you’re otb.org.au for details. Visitors can also access additional looking for a lot easier. You’re also able to search directly digital content by downloading the ‘Layar’ app and scanning through topic pages making our most popular codes hidden throughout the displays. collections much easier to access.

The new website features include: 1. Searchable topic pages for our most popular collections 2. A handy list of common questions new and experienced researchers often ask us 3. A photographic page listing both our digitised and non- digitised collections 4. A page featuring online exhibitions about Victorian state history 5. Get a sense of what we hold using our data visualisation tool.

Visit prov.vic.gov.au and take a look!

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Remembering Melbourne, 1850 - 1960

Image 1 (above): Cover of Remembering Melbourne, panoramic view of Melbourne looking north from the south end of Princes Bridge, Melbourne, c1900. Robert Vere Scott photographer. RHSV S-1336 At right three of the included photographs, from top: Lawson Brothers grocery, 61 Highfi eld Road, Canterbury, c1935, courtesy Canterbury History Group; Diving from the springboard, Coburg Lake, summer 1934, Wallace Landells, photographer, courtesy Coburg Historical Society; Milk carters in Mont Albert Road, Surrey Hills, c1900, courtesy Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre Heritage Collection

This new book is an imaginative collaboration by the Each street and suburb is introduced by a short essay Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Queensland catching the essence of that precinct. These authoritative Book Depot, and based on the voluntary eff orts of over 100 introductions, written by over thirty history practitioners people. It has established a new benchmark in recording the working pro bono, provide a context for the magnifi cent early history of one of the world’s most liveable cities. The photographs to follow. There are also introductory chapters photographs within this book will endure here, and in the on Aboriginal Melbourne, on how the city was shaped, on collections of Melbourne’s historical societies from which the city and suburbs as a whole, and on how Melbourne and they were drawn, long after many of the buildings pictured suburbs were captured by the camera, which was born at have been reduced to rubble. It is a priceless trove of a city’s the same time as the city. Every photograph is identifi ed and memory. explained in extended captions written by over 75 volunteers from twenty suburban historical societies and the Royal Melbourne has been reshaped since the 1950s, the Historical Society of Victoria. completion of ICI House in 1958 being symbolic of the glass tower revolution that changed the face of this magnifi cent The book was launched in early November. We invite you to 19th-century city. This book, Remembering Melbourne 1850– view the latest RHSV exhibition, which opened in History 1960, captures what has been lost and forgotten, concealed Week, 17 – 22 October and will run until April 2017. There and overlaid, demolished and reborn, in the transformation are 60 suburban images from Remembering Melbourne, of a city’s buildings and streetscapes. It is a unique book, three from each of the twenty suburbs represented in the for it reveals in over 700 photographs the face of fourteen book. of Melbourne’s fi nest streets, and also its lanes and little streets, its parks and gardens, and of course the Yarra. Besides this, it presents key buildings and streetscapes of twenty of Melbourne’s iconic suburbs.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 41 The Level B1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Genealogical Australia Society of Web www.gsv.org.au A bout the GSV Email [email protected] Membership Options A$ Phone 03 9662 4455 Victoria Inc Joining fee (Australia/international) 18.00/18.00

About the GSV About Annual Membership Why become a member of the GSV? One person (Australia/international) 96.00/114.00 Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular Two, same address (Australia/international) 145.00/163.00 pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a Three, same address(Australia/international) 194.00/212.00 leading Australian family history society for the study of Extra Member 48.00 genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their 18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 48.00 ancestors. Ancestor only We welcome you to join us and Australia (no joining fee) 70 .00 International (no joining fee) 90.00 discover a world of family history. Member Societies 119.00 We provide advice and expertise along with a reference library containing extensive records for Victoria, Australia, Day Visitor New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as many Full day with free Library access *20.00 collections from other countries. * Fee rebatable against membership fee, within 14 days. Courses, classes, discussion circles, presentations and seminars are held regularly. See pages 45 to 48 for all the upcoming events. Library Hours Monday 1.00pm — 4.00pm Our online members area features searchable databases and Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm an ever-increasing library catalogue. O ffi ce and Bookshop Hours Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pm Membership Benefi ts Saturday Closed • Access to a team of friendly volunteer research Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday assistants trained to help you with library resources • Access to our comprehensive library collection of indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources • F r e e library access to commercial databases including: Patron Ancestry, findmypast, TheGenealogist, and British The Honourable Linda Dessau, AM Newspaper Archive Governor of Victoria • Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor Honorary Offi ce Bearers and Councillors • publication in the ‘ ’ feature in F r e e Members Queries President David Down Ancestor (one per year) Vice President Tony Arthur • Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections, Treasurer Stephen Hawke including the library catalogue, the Genealogical Index of Names (GIN), cemeteries database, all of which usually Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV include additional information for members Council Janne Bonnett • Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, Erna Cameron New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting Lorna Elms point for newcomers to genealogy Robert Gribben • Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members, if you cannot visit Claire Johnson the library Peter Johnston •A free annual research query of up to two hours for Jenny Redman members residing more than 100km from Melbourne Penny Wolf • Discounts on our publications, services and events (not sale items) Staff • Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV societies (conditions apply) Assistant Library Manager Meg Bate • Ancestral Interest Groups and Discussion Circles Offi ce Administrator Linda Farrow • GSV Talks and Classes: (see pages 45 to 48)

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 42 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Research Services Self Help Guide Free Quick Lookup General Register Offi ce (GRO) There is a free eResearch service for a library lookup or certifi cates research advice taking up to 30 minutes for members who England and Wales birth, death and marriage certifi cates, cannot visit the library. Replies are by email but if prints are births and deaths at sea and events registered with UK Services Research required a cost estimate will be given. Members may send in Consuls and armed services personnel may be purchased one eResearch query at a time. Another may be submitted online: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate after receipt of results. To submit a request by email, see the Research & Resources Scottish birth, death and marriage page online at www.gsv.org.au/research/research- services.html . certifi cates To submit a request by mail, download and complete the Images of Statutory (civil) registrations may be purchased Postal Research Request Form located on the website, or online. Church registers, census records, divorce records collect one from the GSV. Submit with a SSAE. Prints are and wills are also available: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk $0.25 per A4 page – a quotation can be provided on request if To learn more you may like to attend the monthly class an additional SSAE is provided. on ScotlandsPeople. Check the ‘What’s On’ pages in this issue of Ancestor (pp 45-48). Extended Research The Research Team at the GSV can spend time researching England and Wales Wills and Probate a family or topic of your choice. Wills and probate may be searched and ordered for people Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 pre who died in or after 1858 to current times. A ‘grant of paid. Includes limited copying and postal charges. representation’ gives someone the legal right to deal with a Members residing more than 100 km from Melbourne are deceased person’s estate but not all grants of representation off ered one annual session of complimentary research contain a will: www.gov.uk/search-will-probate taking up to two hours. FamilySearch fi lm hire Getting Started Consultations The GSV is a designated centre to receive LDS microfi lms Members may book a free half hour ‘getting started’ for viewing in the Library: https://familysearch.org/ consultation on Monday afternoons between 1pm and films/. Long term loans remain at the GSV library 3pm. Please email Linley Hooper, our Library Manager, at [email protected] with a preferred time and date. If you have any queries or need some help in using these websites ask for some assistance in the library. Consultations Stuck with your research? Arrange a consultation in our library with a member of the research team. Consultations are for one hour. Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 Transcriptions and Latin Translations Early documents such as wills, deeds and marriage licences can be transcribed. Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 Victorian Probate Papers post 1925 Researchers will o btain copies from Public Records Offi ce Victoria (PROV). Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00 Other Public Records Researchers will obtain copies from Public Record Offi ce Victoria (PROV) where specifi c reference [VPRS/Unit etc] is provided. Per hour: Members: $60.00 / Non-members $85.00

Further information about our Research services will be found on our website www.gsv.org.au/research/ research-services.html. Contact [email protected] if you need specific guidance.

Volume 33 Issue 4 / December 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 43 News Whalebone Family Reunion A Reunion is to be held on Sunday, 5th March, 2017 at the home of Loris and David Beardsmore at 27 White Birch Close in Poowong for the descendants and associated families of William Thomas Whalebone and Mary Ann Collins. The gathering will commence at 9am and continue all day. Please bring a picnic lunch or food for a BBQ, drinks and a plate of food to share for morning and afternoon tea. It is desirable to BYO everything. Hot water, tea, coff ee, sugar and milk will be provided.

If you are interested in attending this family gathering, please contact: Loris Beardsmore at P.O. Box 160, Poowong, 3988, tel: 0418 334 369 or email at [email protected]. Alternatively, Eileen Dorning VALE - Pearl Collins by email at [email protected] , or Laraine Members of the Echuca Moama Family History Group Ramselaar on tel: 0351 273 804 or by email at are saddened by the passing of one of our esteemed [email protected] life members Pearl Collins on Thursday morning, 29 September 2016. Pearl was one of the earliest members of the group, she received her 30 years of service certifi cate An Alternative to Rootsweb for Geelong at last year’s AGM. Pearl made a signifi cant contribution and District Mailing List to the group over many years. She held many positions of Frustrated with the technical problems that RootsWeb are responsibility including President, Secretary and Research having with their Mailing Lists, Susie Zada has decided to Offi cer. She preserved a great number of local records and do something about it. People are missing the assistance created many indexes of various publications and taught they used to get from RootWeb’s Geelong and District others the art of family history research. Pearl was a Mailing List and the Bellarine Peninsula Mailing List. Susie member for life of The Genealogical Society of Victoria considered creating a new Yahoo Mailing List but she didn’t (GSV) and was also a member of the AIGS for many years. want to ‘replace’ the existing ones – just off er an alternative She attended many of the Member Society days at the GSV, until the Mailing Lists were fi xed. So she created a pseudo and used the GSV library quite often in the past. She will be Blog Mailing List. It’s called the Geelong and District sadly missed by all her friends and fellow family historians. Mailing List and although you can click on that link it’s Our thoughts are with Colin , Beverley, Helen, Jennifer and really easy to remember because you just need to type in: other members of her family. geelonganddistrictmailinglist.com. It also caters for the Bellarine Peninsula. Hill End & Tambaroora Gathering Group, Restoration of the Moonee Ponds NSW Courthouse Museum If you have gold-mining ancestors who lived at Hill End, The Essendon Historical Society (EHS) has taken on joining this group is a good way to source new information, the huge task of restoring this building following the fi re, and get guidance with your research. Hill End lies between which severely damaged it on 27 June last. This historic Bathurst and Mudgee. building was the headquarters of the Society. Fortunately EHS’s digital equipment, photograph collection and many A new improved and updated website is now available documents were stored in an adjoining room and were saved. to all group members and the public at large. If you have bookmarked the old site, then please delete that link and To help restore this old Courthouse, donations are sought. start again. The address is www.heatgg.org.au . This Donations may be sent to: Essendon Historical Society, PO group also issues a regular and informative newsletter to Box 557, Essendon, Vic 3040. For more detail, please contact subscribers. For further information, contact Lorraine EHS by email at: [email protected] . EHS will send you Purcell, tel: 0408 117 784.  details of direct bank transfer if this is your preferred option.

The President of EHS, Bob Chalmers has suggested that all similar societies occupying premises that are on Crown Land in government owned buildings be warned that they need to check their insurance status carefully. In their case, the government had not insured the building as they expected this coverage to be held by the Society – a salutary lesson.

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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Sun. 25 CLASSES Christmas Day Meeting Room, 1.30pm to 2.30pm Mon. 26 Boxing Day These small group classes are designed to enable you Tues. 27 to get the most out of the computer-based resources Christmas Day Holiday available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 1 FamilySearchTM online Tues. 6 The National Archives (UK) online Thur. 8 GSV library catalogue and databases

TALK TM Meeting Room Tues. 13 Australian BDMs including Digger Thur. 1 12.00pm – 1.00pm Bookings essential Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Trials of Convict Women in Ireland non-members $20.00 Stephen Lucas Between 1803 and 1853, 3,775 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen’s Land. They all had trials but there have always been doubts as to how fair they were. In this talk, Stephen Lucas, an experienced solicitor, will examine some of the Irish trials.

Bookings essential DISCUSSION CIRCLES Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Meeting Room non-members $20.00 Wed. 7 12.30pm – 1.30pm GSV Writers Circle Tues. 13 12.30pm – 1.30pm Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Discussion Circle CLASSES Meeting Room Wed. 14 10.30am – 12.00pm Wed. 7 10.30am – 12.00pm DNA Discussion Circle Starting Your Family History: Wed. 14 12.30pm – 2.00pm methodology and resources South West England Research & Discussion Circle Bookings essential - Members free, Members Only – Free AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00

CHANGE OF ACCESS Members and visitors are advised that, due to building renovations, access from Flinders Lane via Emirates Arcade will cease. Alternatives are either via Centreway/Centre Place opposite Degraves Street, or the less cluttered Manchester Lane to the north nearer Swanston Street.

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CLOSED Mon. 2 New Year’s Day Holiday COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLASSES Thurs. 26 Meeting Room, 1.30pm to 2.30pm Australia Day Holiday These small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. No Classes in January

TALKS Meeting Room Thur. 12 12.00pm – 1.00pm Devon Research Mark Harry & David Down Learn about the resources held at the GSV that can assist in your Devon research. This talk leads into the CLASSES Library Research Day on Saturday 28. Meeting Room – Bookings essential 10.30am – 12.30pm Bookings essential Sat. 21 Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Orientation: introduction to the Society non-members $20.00 and our resources Members Only – Free

LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY Library DISCUSSION CIRCLES Sat. 28 10.30am – 1.30pm Meeting Room Devon Research Wed. 25 12.30pm – 2.00pm Experienced research volunteers will assist you with Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle* your research. Members Only – Free Limited spaces – Bookings essential Members $10.00, AIGS/RHSV $30.00, non-members $40.00

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COURSE Meeting Room COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLASSES Australian Family History (four weeks) Meeting Room, 1.30pm to 2.30pm Presented by John Bugg These small group classes are designed to enable you Tues. 7 10.00am – 12.00pm to get the most out of the computer-based resources 1. Where do I start? How to gather and store available in the GSV library and at home. information Tues.14 10.00am – 12.00pm Tues. 14 Australian BDMs including DiggerTM 2. Getting here – Immigration, convicts, naturalisation Bookings essential. and wills Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Tues. 21 10.00am – 12.00pm non-members $20.00 3. Victorian Records – Private lives and public records Tues.28 10.00am – 12.00pm All other Computer Classes cancelled until 4. National Records – Finding families further notice. Please consult the Events Bookings essential - Members $100.00, AIGS/RHSV $150.00, non-members $200.00 pages on our website for latest news.

CLASSES Meeting Room Wed. 1 10.30am – 12.00pm Starting Your Family History: DISCUSSION CIRCLES methodology and resources Meeting Room Bookings essential - Members free, 12.30pm – 1.30pm AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Wed. 1 GSV Writers Circle Sat. 18 10.30am – 12.30pm Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm Orientation: introduction to the Society DNA Discussion Circle and our resources Wed. 8 12.30pm – 2.00pm Bookings essential - Members Only – Free South West England Research & Discussion Circle Tues. 14 12.30pm – 1.30pm Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Discussion Circle Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle Meeting Room Members Only – Free Sat. 11 1.00pm – 3.00pm Irish Ancestry Group Sat. 18 1.00pm – 3.00pm International Settlers Group

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CLOSED Mon. 13 COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Labour Day CLASSES Meeting Room, 1.30pm to 2.30pm

TALKS These small group classes are designed to enable you Meeting Room to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 9 12.00pm – 1.00pm German Research Tues. 14 Australian BDMs including DiggerTM Michael Rumpff Bookings essential This talk leads into the Library Research Day on , AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Saturday 25 Members Free non-members $20.00 Thur. 23 12.00pm – 1.00pm All other Computer Classes cancelled until Non-Conformity in British History further notice. Please consult the Events Robert Gribben pages on our website for latest news. Bookings essential Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 DISCUSSION CIRCLES CLASSES Meeting Room Meeting Room Wed. 1 12.30pm – 1.30pm Wed. 1 10.30am – 12.00pm GSV Writers Circle Starting Your Family History: Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm methodology and resources DNA Discussion Circle Members free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Wed. 8 12.30pm – 2.00pm non-members $20.00 South West England Research & Discussion Circle Sat. 18 10.30am – 12.30pm Tues. 14 12.30pm – 1.30pm Orientation: introduction to the Society Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland and our resources Discussion Circle Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle Members Only – Free POSTPONED LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY Library Sat. 25 10.30am – 1.30pm POSTPONED RESEARCH WORKSHOP German Research Meeting Room Experienced research volunteers will assist you with your research. Sat. 4 10.00am – 4.00pm Limited spaces – Bookings essential One-on-one assistance with your research from a Members $10.00, AIGS/RHSV $30.00, member of the GSV Research Team non-members $40.00 Limited Spaces – Bookings essential Members $90.00, AIGS/RHSV $135.00, non-members $180.00 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Meeting Room Sat. 18 1.00pm – 3.00pm Bookings in person, via website, email or phone Scottish Ancestry Group ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.

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The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Talk and Course NNonconformityonconformity inin BBritishritish HistoryHistory Presented by Robert Gribben Thursday 23 March 2017 12.00pm – 1.00pm GSV Meeting Room

Who were the Nonconformists? What did they refuse to conform to and why, and what did it cost them to 'dissent'? Chief among them were Presbyterians and Congregationalists (Independents), and later the Methodists; many smaller sects; special legislation was made for Roman Catholics, Quakers and Jews. And where to look for your nonconforming ancestors. GSV Members $5.00 – AIGS/RHSV $15.00 – Non-members $20.00 AAustralianustralian FFamilyamily HHistoryistory Presented by John Bugg Topics covered over four weeks: 1. Where do I start? How to gather and Tuesdays 7,14,21,28 February 2017 store information 10.00am – 12.00pm 2. Getting here – Immigration, convicts, naturalisation and wills GSV Meeting Room 3. Victorian records – Private lives and public records GSV Members $100.00 – 4. National records – Finding families AIGS/RHSV $150.00 – Non-members $200.00

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Footscray Cemetery Register and Memorial Transcriptions Author: Genealogical Society of Victoria DVD ISBN: 9780949672650 Publisher: Genealogical Society of Victoria $30.00/Members $27.00 This DVD (for computer) is an index of names in the Footscray burial register covering 1860 to 1970, and of all names transcribed from memorials in the cemetery to 1997. Each name in the index is hyperlinked to its source – an image of the relevant burial register page, or an image of the relevant page of transcriptions. In easy to navigate Adobe format the DVD is compatible with both PC and Mac with Adobe Reader 7 and higher.

My Ancestor was a Mormon Author: Ian Waller FSG 282pp ISBN: 9781907199110 Publisher: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd WAS $30.00/NOW $20.00 Most of the early Mormon pioneers who emigrated to the USA were of British origin and this books seeks to guide researchers in fi nding Mormon ancestors in the UK and Europe. As well as an overview of the history and growth of the LDS church, the book contains a comprehensive guide to Mormon records in both Britain and The United States.

Tracing Your Police Ancestors Author: Stephen Wade ISBN: 9781844158782 Publisher: Pen & Sword 146pp WAS $35.00/NOW $28.00 Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research offi cers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. It explains and describes the various archives, records and sources, using case studies to show how an individual offi cer's career may be traced, understood and placed in the context of the history of the British police forces. Stephen Wade is a freelance writer specializing in the history of crime and the law in Britain and Ireland. He has written fourteen true crime and crime history books and teaches crime history at the University of Hull.

Creating Family Newsletters Author: Elaine Floyd 122pp ISBN: 9780963022271 Publisher: Newsletter Resources WAS $40.00/NOW $25.00 Spread "mailbox cheer" to family and friends with a newsletter! From hand-crafted to computer-generated, Creating Family Newsletters gives more than 123 ideas for sharing memorable moments with family and friends through paper and electronic newsletters. Includes how to: • make newsletters for holidays, births, weddings, reunions • create a newsletter without writing a word • write an effective poetry letter • make a scrapbook newsletter • get organized and collect stories and involve family • fi nd free templates and clip art online • create your newsletter in minutes using copy-ready templates

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