AUTUMN 2019 EDITION

Joondalup Library, Local History Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm 102 Boas Avenue, , 6027 Saturday 9.30am – 12.30pm

The Story of Kingsley Useful The suburb of Kingsley is named In 1844 Reverend John Smithies after the village of Kingsley near established Mission Farm in Kingsley, Resources Winchester, Hampshire, England an experimental farm to teach the where George Shenton, the original Nyoongar people about agriculture. Trove – Use Trove to look at lessee of the area, was born. The name This venture was unsuccessful and photographs, advertisements, was then adopted for the area when it in 1860 Thomas Darch bought the newspaper articles and was subdivided for residential use in land on which Mission Farm stood. compare them with your the 1970s. Several generations of the Darch family photos. It will help you Prior to British settlement, land in family ran a market garden and dairy to establish a date or period the northern suburbs of that on the property until 1911 when the when the photo was taken. buildings burnt down. includes Kingsley was known as Western Australian Post Mooro country and was inhabited Henry Wrightson Gibbs, another Office Directories list by the aboriginal Nyoongar people pioneer of the Kingsley area, grew photographers and who walked through this area moving vegetables at the 10 Mile peg near photography studios located from Lake Joondalup south to Carine where Waldecks Nursery is now. and Lake Gwelup. throughout W.A. - Perth, (continued page 4) , Southern Cross, , Bunbury etc. Tracing your ancestors through family photographs: a complete guide for family and local historians by Jayne Shrimpton. Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs by Maureen A. Taylor. Dating old photographs, 1840-1950 by Robert Pols.

Darch family at Mission Farm, 1910 2 | Family and Local History

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When were the first banks save up those questions that have you Tuesday 30 April, 10.00am, opened, and more importantly, who stumped. Cost $3.00. Book online. Woodvale Library ran them? What did the first banknote Have you ever wondered where in the world your family comes from? Be introduced to the kinds of tests that What is Ephemera? you can take, what you can do with Ephemera are the minor, transient your results and how DNA fits in with documents of everyday life that are traditional family history research. You used or enjoyed for only a short time. may be surprised by what you might find. Cost: $3.00. Book online. Paper items, such as invitations, menus, posters, postcards, tickets or letters that I’m a Celebrity – What the Hell were originally meant to be discarded am I Doing Here? after use often become collectibles. Saturday 4 May, 10.00am, Ephemeral materials reflect the Joondalup Library Ephemera Collection. Historical customs and society at the time in invitations to events, souvenir Can you name celebrities who have which they were produced. They offer brochures of official openings and visited ? Join Steve a way to document and understand council notices providing Howell, formerly of the State Library popular culture and can provide a information for residents show how of Western Australia, as we discover trigger for nostalgic memories. the area has developed over time. when famous non-Western Australians The Local History From letters to the Road such as Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Library collects a wide range of Board about land developments in Herbert Hoover, Henry Lawson, Charles ephemera relating to our area. Flyers, the 1920s to flyers detailing current Darwin, D.H. Lawrence, Gordon of posters, programs, invitations, leaflets, City of Joondalup events, the Khartoum and Anthony Trollope visited brochures, newsletters and pamphlets ephemera collection is a valuable and WA. Cost: $3.00. Book online. are some of the items held in the interesting record of life in our City. Family and Local History | 3 Dating Photographs Dating Women’s a lot. Casual photos taken in ‘work’ clothes reveal something of a person’s Clothes social status. When dating women’s clothing, there The dating game. Whilst many are several key features that assign a people in formally posed photos time frame: often dressed in their newest and best Length of skirt: In the 20th century clothes, not everyone wore the latest the length of a woman’s skirt helps to fashion – whether by necessity or determine when the picture was taken. design. A certain style of dress or suit Neckline styles: The shape and size of may have been worn for quite a long collars present on a woman’s dress place period. For older people especially, an outfit within a particular time frame. fashion was less important, and the Accessories: The items a woman style of dress didn’t change very selected to wear with her outfit can much over the years. sometimes pinpoint an exact year. A flash of inspiration. Formal studio photographs are often stamped with

Antonio Crisafulli ca. 1911. the name and address of the photographer, which can help you to Many of us have photos that don’t date an old picture. Search in old have names or dates attached to them. trade directories to find when the Here are some tips to help you to studio was in business. The town identify your mystery ancestors. where the studio was situated might What are they wearing? The clothes be where your ancestor once lived, so worn in old photos can tell you quite it will be worth further investigation.

Joyce Mackenzie and Thelma Austin in Murray Street, Perth ca. 1935

Identifying Young Boys in Old Photos

Sometimes it’s hard to identify young boys and girls in old family photos. One method of identifying children in family photos is to look at the way that the boys and girls wore their hair parted – boys on the side and girls down the centre – but there are always exceptions. Throughout the centuries, there have been mothers who couldn’t bear to cut the gorgeous curls from their little boys’ heads. In the early 20th century there was a trend – little boys with long hair and hair bows. They look just like their sisters. So, what’s a genealogist to do to tell them apart? Family traditions, oral histories and good old-fashioned genealogical research are the only ways to tell the boys from the girls in these cases. Don’t jump to conclusions when you see a bow in this period – you might be wrong. Add up the children in the family. Ask older relatives if they know who’s who and try to match up their ages to children in the photo using census returns and other documents. 4 | Family and Local History

The Story of Kingsley(continued from page 1) In the 1870s he built a stone and offered for sale. The development was timber house that was occupied by planned using a loop and cul-de-sac several families of Gibbs’s. When design with plenty of open space. the first school opened nearby in Anne Krokene recalls life as early 1874 Gibbs hosted a luncheon for resident of Kingsley: Governor Weld who had come to I originally bought the block of land as inspect the school and the area. an investment … all the blocks were In the 1920s and 1930s Kingsley was bush blocks. They had cleared a lot but remembered as the place for rounding left quite a lot of trees on the actual up the wild brumbies that roamed 01 Luisini Winery, ca. 1981 blocks and there were a few for sale along the area breaking down fences and In 1963, Willemien Duyker de Vries where I live … four or five houses were trampling the market gardens. Tony founded the Montessori School in here (in 1977). was the Martin recalls that the fenced block Kingsley. She recalls an area very main road into the area. We had to come alongside his Kingsley property was different to the suburb now known as through Greenwood through Karuah Way called the Stockade: Kingsley: … Hepburn Avenue was non-existent … It was a swamp then with paperbark I was looking for land and there were (Krokene, Oral History E00541) trees all round. When the horses came advertisements in the paper about South for water a gate was closed, trapping Wanneroo. It had five-acre properties at them inside. (Marwick (2003), Stories 800-1,000 pounds... so I went to have of Old Wanneroo, pp. 117) a look, and there was only one block still not sold. It was this one that we have now. Before I bought it, I wrote to the Wanneroo Shire and asked, ‘If I buy this land can I start a school?’ That Lake View Estate, Kingsley, ca. 1982 was in 1962 and they said, ‘Yes please.’ And they sealed the road as soon as we In 1981 a 680sqm block was priced bought the property … we built the first between $14,000 and $18,900. The classroom on weekends … it was called first school in Kingsley, Goollelal Darch and Perry families, 1924 Struan Heights, South Wanneroo. There Primary opened the same year followed by Creaney Primary in In 1929 Ezio Luisini, an Italian migrant, was only bush … it was beautiful, we 1982, Halidon Primary in 1986 and bought the land on which Mission Farm had bush-walks with the children and Dalmain Primary in 1990. and the Darch Dairy had stood. Luisini it was marvellous. (Dukyer de Vries, planted vineyards and established a Oral History E0399) By 1984 blocks in the new Lake View winery. Luisini Winery operated until Estate overlooking Lake Goollelal sold 1986 when the area was redeveloped for between $25,000 and $40,000. for housing. The remaining winery buildings are now heritage listed.

Joondalup Library, Local History Brumby roundup near Lake Goollelal, ca. 1923 Kingsley Drive looking T: 08 9400 4746 Burt and Shirley Whittle moved to south towards Hepburn Avenue, 1983 F: 08 9400 4743 Kingsley in 1969. Their property had Throughout the 1980s and 1990s E: [email protected] originally been a pig and chicken farm residential development continued 102 Boas Avenue, Joondalup, WA, 6027 and had two houses on it. The Whittle’s at a rapid pace and by June 2000 the PO Box 21, Joondalup, WA, 6919 lived in one house and developed the average price of a home in Kingsley joondalup.wa.gov.au second as the Hawkes Hill Gallery used was $171,000. for showcasing local artists. Today Kingsley is a popular and Residential development in Kingsley thriving suburb, home to 13,058 City This document is available in alternate formats upon request. began in 1977 when 124 lots were of Joondalup residents. (ABS, 2016). All historic photos supplied courtesy of Picture Joondalup.