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VOLUME 34 ISSUE 8 DECEMBER 2019 $15.00 ISSN 0044-8222 Winner 2019 GSV Writing Prize

Masters of the Road

Gunner GR Merrifi eld: return from the Middle East

A Lost Soldier Found: the story of Private Walter Allen Clarke

In Defence of Home and Family: Carl Keirnall and Louisa Phillips

How to: Researching Western Australian Records

Appointments and Awards at the GSV Annual General Meeting

Discover a world of family history GGSVSV launcheslaunches a newn ew FForumorum forfor membersmembers Early Melbourne Suburbs 1835 – 1880 members help members

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How do you get started? Writing Family History Login to our website as a Member. Click on 'FORUM' on the top menu bar. Select membershelpmembers. You can post your own new query or Topic or respond to an existing post. Check back to see any responses or if you wish to get an email notification of any new post you can subscribe (or unsubscribe) from this service. Much of the enjoyment and wonder of family history is through discovery and sharing. Now this forum membershelpmembers gives you a way to do that. CORRESPONDENCE The Editor, Ancestor, The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Phone: (03) 9662 4455 or Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc. email: [email protected] Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 EDITORIAL TEAM Barbara Beaumont – chairperson Bill Barlow There was a record number of twenty-four entries for this year’s writing Sue Blackwood Tina Hocking competition. Entries were of a high standard. The winning entry was ‘Masters Leonie Loveday of the Road’ by Louise Wilson and is published in this issue of Ancestor. It is a Martin Playne story about the role of the author’s ancestors in the initiation of the Royal Mail Margaret Vines Service coaches in Great Britain in the 1790s. Its an enjoyable, well-integrated, Jeanette Wickham yet instructive article. I hope you enjoy it. The runner-up was ‘Finding CREATIVE Johanna’ by Victoria Spicer. This story, which revolves around Geelong, was Jeanette Wickham built on the author’s change of mind about an Irish bounty emigrant step- PRINTER great-great-grandmother, who she had once scorned for being intermittently Blue Star Print Vic jailed for vagrancy and drunkenness. This article will be published next year in CONTRIBUTIONS the March issue of Ancestor. Both the winner and runner-up will receive prizes We welcome the submission of articles generously donated by Ancestry. The Judges’ Report on the entries is available on family history topics for possible on the GSV website. publication. The editors reserve the right to edit Other articles in this issue are by: Sue Reid who writes about the war diary of her or abridge articles to meet space father George R. Merrifi eld; Natalie Lonsdale, who investigated the story of her constraints and editorial considerations. great great-uncle who died alone, with relatives ‘untraceable’, after serving in the Submissions should be the work of the author submitting the article and should First World War, despite the fact that he had several siblings; John Barry, who not have been published elsewhere investigated the circumstances of the unusual gravestone of John Smith, which unless agreed. All material should carries the inscription that he was ‘murdered by a German’ in 1916. 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I am delighted to be able to announce the launch of at the Centre. She is always approachable and our GSV Forum. The Forum is for members who generous with her time and expertise. wish to ask genealogical questions online to which other members can respond. Only GSV members Certifi cates of Appreciation are awarded annually can see these questions and responses. It will be to members in recognition of their sustained and of particular value for our rural members and for valuable contribution as volunteers and I am those who fi nd it diffi cult to come into the Centre pleased to announce that this year’s recipients are to attend events such as classes and Discussion Kathleen Baker, Peter Collins, Mark Harry and Circles. It should be noted that the Forum is not a John Stanford. substitute for the research services available from the Society’s staff and trained volunteers but is a The winners of the GSV Writing Prize were also means for members to collaborate and help each announced at the AGM with congratulations going other using their own experience of family history to fi rst prize winner, Louise Wilson, for her entry research. Details for accessing this new service are ‘Masters of the Road’ (see page 4) and runner–up, given on the inside front cover. Victoria Spicer for ‘Finding Johanna’. The Society would also like to thank both Ancestry.com.au for As I noted in the Annual Report (available on our again providing the prizes for this competition and website), 2019 has seen us complete a number the judges for their sterling eff orts. of projects at the Centre especially in the area of computer resources and IT systems. All computers This year there were two retiring councillors, Lorna have been replaced, wireless network capacity and Elms and Simon Foster, and we thank them for data storage have been increased and members their contributions to Council. We also welcomed can connect all their devices when in the library. Jan Bayley who was elected as a Councillor. There Our social media presence has expanded and we are two Councillor positions still vacant and we are now have a very successful regular Blog where looking for members who feel they could contribute we can give members updated information about to the Society by serving on Council. If you feel that events and activities. The scanning of the many you would like to help in this regard please contact fi ling cabinets of papers we brought from Collins me directly. Street is complete and indexing of this digital data is well underway. We would like more volunteers The Society continues to explore opportunities to help with indexing however so that we can to hold joint activities with other like-minded provide members with access to even more digital organisations such as the RHSV and the resources. Indexing is a task that can be done in the Immigration Museum. Richard Broome, RHSV Centre or from home. President, gave a talk at the Centre in November and RHSV members were given an introduction to Each year we review our membership subscription the GSV and doing their family history in October. rates, as this is our primary source of income. As A joint seminar on Melbourne Suburbs will be held noted in the Annual Financial Report (available on early in February, see page 47 and inside back cover. our website) the Society continues to be impacted by declining membership numbers although the More broadly the Society supports the ‘Call rate of decline has reduced this year. Taking this to Action’ by the History Councils of various and increased premises lease costs into account, we Australian states and endorses their published have decided to increase the annual subscription statement on the value of history in all areas from 1 January 2020. Details are given on page 42. of contemporary life. Individuals as well as organisations can support this call with details The AGM was held on Saturday 5 October and I given at www.historycouncilvic.org.au. had the great pleasure of announcing that Claire Johnson was elected a Fellow of the Society, the As the summer holiday season approaches, I would highest honour the Society can bestow. Claire like to take the opportunity to wish our readers, excels in a number of areas, most particularly members, volunteers and staff a very safe and her impressive knowledge of the library and her enjoyable break. I would also like to thank members enthusiasm when assisting members and visitors for their feedback and support this year.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 2 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Contents

Articles Masters of the Road 4 Louise Wilson

Gunner GR Merrifield: return from the Middle East 9 Sue Reid

A Lost Soldier Found: the story of 4 Private Walter Allen Clarke 12 Natalie Lonsdale

In Defence of Home and Family: Carl Gottlieb Keirnall and Louisa Phillips 16 John Barry 4 DNA News & Notes 19 Ruthie Wirtz

Appointments and Awards at the GSV Annual General Meeting 20 9 A Guide to Researching Western Australian Records 26 Martin Playne

The Folly of Verbal Instructions Back cover Barry Chapple 9

Regular Features 12 Editorial 1 Pen of the President 2 Book Reviews 22 Additions to the Library 23 Brickwall Corner and Members Queries 24 Research Corner 30 Getting it write 32 16 Jottings … and library news 34 Blogging with Meg 35 Around the Groups 36 26 Around the Circles 37 What’s On at our Member Societies 38 GSV Member Societies 39 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40 News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41 About the GSV 42 Research Services 43 30 News 44 What’s On at the GSV 45

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 3 Winner 2019 GSV Writing Prize Masters of the Road

by Louise Wilson

Just as the internet has transformed lives and Coach scheme; the Post Masters-General and their economies today, giant leaps forward in other power struggles; Thomas Hasker, the Post Offi ce’s forms of communication have changed the Superintendent of the mail coach routes between course of nations in the past. More than two 1792 and 1817; and John Besant and John Vidler, Louise can be contacted at centuries ago it was the introduction of John who designed and maintained the specialised [email protected] Palmer’s Royal Mail Coaches in 1784 which gave coaches. Countless authors including Charles Britain the commercial edge in the industrial Dickens have immortalised the lifestyles of the revolution, facilitating the rapid and reliable mail guards, the coachmen, the passengers and exchange of letters, documents, small valuable the innkeepers. Even the men who walked their items and money to all parts of England, Scotland, measuring wheels over Britain’s road network Wales and Ireland. Its speed and convenience far to establish distances between places were part surpassed the existing postal system, but it also of this transformation in the delivery of mail, as off ered security, as each Royal Mail Coach carried contract prices for the Royal Mail Coaches were an armed guard employed by the Post Offi ce. ‘For based heavily on agreed mileages. many years after their introduction, not a single attempt was made in England to rob Palmer’s However, there is a yawning gap in this history mail-coaches’.1 The new service was expensive, – the contractors who paved the way and took but aff ordable for the gentry and those ‘in trade’ most of the fi nancial risk and responsibility prepared to pay for its advantages. in delivering the Royal Mail in the fi rst twenty years of the new service. The little which is The transformation of Britain’s postal service from known offi cially about the fi rst contractors has the 1780s produced some memorable characters: mostly been published in one book, which uses John Palmer, the brains behind the Royal Mail the surviving letters written by Thomas Hasker, covering a short four-year period in the 1790s.2 Since most of the offi cial records pertaining to this period have not survived, my own sleuthing as a family historian has usefully shed some light on this topic.3

Awareness of my family’s direct connection to these contractors came upon me gradually, and by surprise. My grandmother knew very little about her father Philip Boulton, who died in Brunswick, Melbourne in 1895 when she was fi ve months old. He’d been a bank manager at the Union Bank of Australasia … but what was his backstory?

It took some years to unravel the vital records identifying his father as Thomas Dawson Boulton, a gentleman of Paddington, London, who in turn was a son of Thomas Willson Boulton, a coachmaster of Clerkenwell, London and Canterbury, Kent. The latter’s parents were George Boulton Jnr, another coachmaster, and Sarah Willson, who were the children respectively 4 Image 1: Black Horse Inn, South Mimms, 2002. of George Boulton Snr and Thomas Willson. Author’s photograph

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 4 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 2: Strand/Charing Cross in 1752 by Canaletto, showing statue of Charles I (right), Northumberland House (centre) and Golden Cross Inn, with large signboard suspended outside (left). Source: Wikipedia, in Public Domain

With Philip’s Boulton ‘line’ clarifi ed, I sought outskirts of London. Virtually all traffi c the answer to another simple question. heading north passed this way. George What was a coachmaster? Pictures of obese was associated with the Black Horse Inn, a coachmen wearing layered capes and a top coaching inn near the old toll gate at South hat and driving a team of horses illustrated Mimms, and many family members were many books. Yet frequent mentions in the later buried in the churchyard of St Giles, press showed that my forebears were clearly South Mimms.10 a step up from coachmen. However his business focus always seemed Philip Boulton’s great grandfather George to be on managing the horses rather than Boulton Jnr was written up when he died the inns, ‘as the management of horses, and in 1814 as ‘formerly proprietor of the Golden Cross, Charing Cross; a man of a powerful understanding and considerable acquirements, and of a very friendly hospitable disposition’.5 Earlier, when his father George Boulton, Esq, of South Mimms, Hertfordshire died in 1790 ‘after a Australia’s long illness’, he was described as ‘formerly largely concerned in stage-coaches at the Gold Cross, Charing Cross’.6 George Jnr’s largest online father-in-law was long retired when, ‘in his 76th year, Thomas Willson, Esq. of Darkes Lodge, Herts’ died in 1817.7 family history

As coachmasters, they owned and operated * the coaches and were enterprising risk- resource takers. ‘None among the servants of the Researchearch and public earned their living more hardly, or took greater risks in the ordinary way of buildd youryour familyfamily business, than the coach proprietors’.8 The coach business was a test of management treee online expertise and, to succeed one needed practical and detailed knowledge of all aspects of buying, driving, feeding, watering and stabling horses. It required capital and attracted men of the ‘gentlemen’ class.

George Boulton Snr proved to be a non- landed member of a landed gentry family in Lincolnshire.9 Born in Horncastle in 1734, around 1750 he moved with family members to the busy coaching hub surrounding St *comScore, 2011 Albans, Hertfordshire, on the northern

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 5 Image 3: Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, by F Rosenberg after a painting by James Pollard. Published 1831. Source: Wikipedia, in Public Domain

particularly of horses in harness, has ever held a In that same year, Thomas Willson exhorted his conspicuous place in all civilised countries’, with existing clientele to follow him from an unidentifi ed such manly diversions holding great appeal to inn near Leicester Square, not far from the Golden the gentlemen class.11 The Boultons and Willsons Cross, to his new premises, the Swan with Two later leased farm land near South Mimms, where Necks.18 It was the fi rst indication of a connection they grew feed for their extensive horse holdings. between the two families. William Willson also played a role in his older brother’s business. Newspapers make the fi rst reference to George Boulton Snr in London in 1763, running ‘New Thomas Willson’s presence in London from Flying Machines’ (fast stage coaches) to Poole around 1770 was proved by the baptisms of in Dorset.12 They started from the Golden Cross, his older children at St James Westminster on Charing Cross. This famous coaching inn, Piccadilly. He did not start out in life as a London demolished in 1827, was once located where ‘gentleman’. Baptised in 1744, his father was Nelson’s Column stands today in Trafalgar a stockingmaker from Leicestershire.19 Here Square. Over the next few years George advertised Thomas learned ‘his Slouch and his Slang, and coach services to many parts of England. By 1769 his Blackguard’ skills and was later well able to his newly-married brother James Boulton also handle and bamboozle the Lords of the realm gave the Golden Cross as his address and later was running the British Post Offi ce.20 the offi cial innkeeper who lived-in.13 George ran the coach offi ce but lived at his private home in Thomas Willson built up useful business nearby Cockspur Street.14 connections because in August 1784 he was part of the trial run for the fi rst Royal Mail Coach.21 George Jnr, a ‘natural son’ and only child, seems to It left Bristol for London via Bath, travelling the have been the child baptised as George Augustus distance in 16 hours instead of the normal 38 Henry Boulton at Sunninghill, Berkshire in 1768, hours for a stage coach.22 The trial, involving near the Ascot race course and on the main fi ve contractors with Willson handling the last road used by travellers heading westwards from stage into London, was a success and the service London.15 He stated he was always known simply quickly expanded to other routes. as George Boulton. When he was a small boy his father married 17-year-old Sophia Morgan, in Keeping to a strict timetable was mandatory and 1772 at St George Hanover Square, but Sophia made possible by the frequent changes of teams of was never to have children of her own.16 pre-positioned horses. The teams were changed over at regular intervals along the route with As well as the Boulton coach services operating the precision of tyre changes at a Formula One from the Golden Cross, in 1775 London’s stage car race. The horses ‘were started at the rate of coaches and carriers included ‘Boulton co., six miles an hour. This offi cial rate of speed was Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane’.17 This famous subsequently increased to eight, then to nine, and coaching inn was located off Cheapside near the at length to ten miles an hour’.23 This speed shocked Guildhall, between St Paul’s Cathedral and the old the public: ‘This velocity was not attained without General Post Offi ce, which at that time was based considerable misgivings and distrust on the part in Lombard Street. of passengers’. Supposedly some passengers on

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 6 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc the Royal Mail Coaches ‘died suddenly of apoplexy foible, since Hasker was in close contact with from the rapidity of the motion’.24 that important contractor.32 Hasker knew the correct spelling because he was a witness at the Mail contractors always used their own horses 1794 society wedding of 24-year-old George and drivers and at fi rst used their own coaches Boulton Jnr to 17-year-old Sarah Willson.33 A wit too, but the latter were soon standardised and wrote in the press at the time ‘may the harness leased to the contractors for a specifi ed fee per of matrimony sit easy, and Mr. B. and his fair one mile. Competition for the Post Offi ce contracts travel the stages of life with felicity’.34 Another was fi erce as they provided a regular, guaranteed Willson daughter also married the son of one of

income plus status as trusted members of the her father’s business contacts, when Charlotte Masters of the Road community.25 An offi cially-regulated number of married George Moore Vidler in 1798.35 paying passengers boosted profi tability beyond the tight contract margins. Disappointingly for Willson his son Thomas Jnr, educated at Rugby School, chose to earn his living Willson quickly developed a reputation as the more easily than his father, as a brandy merchant.36 most successful, important and reliable of the By 1802 Thomas Willson Snr had handed over to London mail contractors, despite the onerous his assistant William Waterhouse.37 conditions applying to the contracts.26 So great was this confi dence in him that Willson’s company was given the responsibility of transporting the King’s despatches, King’s Messengers and mail when the Royal Family’s annual vacation was introduced in 1788.27 The holidays were recommended by King George’s doctors, who were puzzled by symptoms which rendered the King temporarily insane. The fi rst royal holiday was taken at Cheltenham and then annually at Weymouth.28

The Boulton men all died young and George Jnr was only twenty when he took over the coachmaster role from his ailing father in 1788.29 Regular advertisements in the press proved that young George managed an extensive coaching business catering to the general public. He also extended his father’s existing business by joining forces with Thomas Willson as a Royal Mail Image 4: Mail coaches pass at night, from Malet, Annals of the Road, p237. An Coach contractor. armed guard sits on top of the mail box They were not the only contractors, but by the 1790s Thomas Willson and his soon-to-be Compared with his father-in-law, George Boulton son-in-law George Boulton Jnr were the major Jnr had a more chequered career, in and out of contractors to the Post Offi ce, taking most of the partnerships with a range of other coachmasters. mail in and out of London each day.30 Willson He suff ered during the disruption caused by the now lived at Finsbury Square, leaving others to Napoleonic Wars and was sued by his stepmother look after the innkeeping side of his business. Sophia in 1802 because he was not maintaining Staff members of both inns appeared as witnesses the income stream she’d received from him since in various cases at the Old Bailey concerning his father’s death in 1790.38 He explained to the the stream of thefts and accidents surrounding court that he held Sophia in regard and truly the mass movement of people and goods. In one cared for her welfare but she did not understand case involving a fatal accident a barrister said to the fi nancial pressures he was under. George George Boulton Jnr ‘We all know you have a large was bankrupt by early 1805.39 He soon took up concern’ and to George’s brother-in-law Thomas his passion again.40 Later, in the summer of 1813, Willson Jnr ‘You and your father are proprietors he formed a partnership with the coachmaster of a great many of the Mail coaches?’ to which the William Horne.41 answer was ‘Yes’.31 It’s clear that the men were well-known in their day. George restored some of his fi nances and was said to be worth £10,000 when he died as a widower in The contractors and their time bills were 1814.42 His wife had died a few months earlier.43 closely supervised by Thomas Hasker, a senior He’d spent virtually the entirety of his 45 years employee of the Post Offi ce. One historian was connected to the Golden Cross at Charing Cross. mystifi ed why Hasker spelt Willson with two l’s He left behind two teenage sons, George Francis in his correspondence, regarding it as a curious Boulton, who purchased a commission in the

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 7 army but died in India in 1826, and younger son that point William Waterhouse still ran Willson’s Thomas Willson Boulton, my forebear. Young old business but William Chaplin took over in Thomas followed in the footsteps of his father and the 1820s. Boulton’s partner William Horne was grandfather, after whom he was named. training up his son Benjamin Worthy Horne. Chaplin and Horne Jnr established a commercial The Willsons and Boultons had blazed the partnership. Under these men, who became rich Royal Mail Coach trail, with others learning and and famous, the horse-drawn coaches delivered benefi ting from their networks and mistakes. their important service for decades, until the George Boulton Jnr, his young wife, his father railways usurped their role from the 1840s. and his parents-in-law were all dead by 1817. At

References 23. Lewins, William, Her Majesty’s Mails: An 1. Malet, H E, Annals of the Road, or Notes on Mail Historical and Descriptive Account of the & Stage Coaching in Great Britain, (Longmans, British Post-Offi ce, (Sampson Low, London, Green & Co, 1876), p27 1864), p83 2. Vale, Edmund, Mail Coach Men of the Late 18th 24. Lewins, op cit, Footnotes p83 Century, (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1967) 25. ‘The Mail Coach Service’, Royal Mail Heritage 3. The author spent fi ve research days at the Information Sheet 6, Royal Mail Group, Postal Archives in London in 2002 and 2017. London, Nov 2002 4. Certifi ed records and parish records of births, 26. Vale, op cit, p17 deaths and marriages are held for all these people 27. Vale, op cit, p25 5. Gentleman’s Magazine, November 1814, p503 28. Vale, op cit, p27 6. Gentleman’s Magazine, November 1790, p1058 29. Wentworth, John, A Complete System of 7. Gentleman’s Magazine, November 1817, p473 Pleading …, (Robinson, London, 1797), Vol 3, 8. Harper, Charles George, Stage-Coach and Mail p432, online at Google Books in Days of Yore – A Picturesque History of the 30. For example, see advertisements in Lloyds Coaching Age, (Chapman Hall, London, 1903), Evening Post, London, 10-12 April 1797 p194 (Willson) and World, London, 17 December 9. The author spent three days at the 1793 (Boulton) Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln in November 31. ‘Old Bailey Proceedings Online’ www. 2017 oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 Jul 10. Author spent a day at South Mimms, 2019, September 1796, trial of William Clark Hertfordshire in July 2002. (t17960914-22) 11. Malet, op cit, p 373 32. Vale, op cit, p61 12. Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser, 33. Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1794, p277 26 October 1763 and St Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London, 13. St Martin in the Fields, 20 March 1769, Burial Marriages 1783-1807, p33, FHLF 585447 of a stillborn unbaptised Boulton child living at 34. Northampton Mercury, 8 March 1794 Golden Cross 35. Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1798, p353 14. Sun Fire Insurance Policy Records at London 36. He was listed as a wine and brandy merchant Metropolitan Archives (LMA), Ref 1786 SUN at 3 Suff olk Lane, Cannon Street, City of 1 342 08\10\79 ML, Policy No 524806, George London in Holden’s Triennial, 1802-4 Boulton, Cockspur Street, Insured value of 37. Holden’s Directory 1802 lists Willson and house £5,700 Waterhouse, mail contractors, Swan with Two 15. Berkshire, Sunninghill, Christenings, Burials, Necks, Lad Lane 1561-1812, Family History Library Film 38. ‘Boulton v Boulton’. Bill and answer, Plaintiff s: (FHLF) 88419 Sophia Boulton and another. Defendants: 16. Surrey Marriage Bonds and Allegations, MS George Boulton, 1802, Chancery C13/13/26, at 10091/127. 9 July 1772, LMA National Archives, Kew 17. Kent’s 1775 Directory of London 39. Bankruptcy notices give the date as 2 February 18. Daily Advertiser, London, 3 March 1775, p4 1805, when George was ‘late of Charing Cross’ , 19. City of London Freedom Records, Thomas London Gazette, Part 1, 1810, p297 Willson admitted to Innholders’ Livery 40. 15 April 1806, when The Times carried an Company by Redemption on 10 October 1775, advertisement on p1 Corporation of London Records Offi ce 41. Blew, William C A, Brighton and its Coaches, 20. Vale, op cit, p27, quoting a letter written by A History of the London and Brighton Road, John Palmer in 1788 (John C Nimmo, London, 1894), p91 21. Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 5 August 42. George Boulton, Admon granted 14 November 1784, p1 1814, PROB 6/190, at Family Records Centre, 22. Author’s visit to the Postal Museum in Bath, London May 2018 43. Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1814, p702 Surnames Besant, Boulton, Chaplin, Dickens, Hasker, Horne, Morgan, Palmer, Vidler, Waterhouse, Willson

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 8 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Gunner GR Merrifield: return from the Middle East

by Sue Reid

My father, George Robert Merrifi eld (Rob), served During January 1943, the men of 2/4 LAA in the 2nd/4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (2/4 returned their guns and tractors. The canteen LAA) in the Middle East during 1942.1 He would closed. The men realised that something was have been there manning his Bofors gun2 at the happening and guessed they were on their height of the battle of El Alamein. I did not know way back to Australia, though no formal Sue can be contacted at he was in this critical area of World War II until a announcement had been made. On Tuesday, 19 [email protected] few years before his death. January, they were told that they would be moving out on Friday. On Thursday, the weather turned When the 9th Division was recalled, following wet and cold, but they were directed to pull the defeat of the Axis forces in the Middle East, the tents down anyway: a massive convoy of ships, known as Operation It has been raining for twotwo days almost Pamphlet3, was set up to bring the men and continuously and the wholewhole joint is a women home. My father kept a diary on his quagmire. We were luckycky to get thethe tents homeward voyage. The words, after 76 years, down and packed into vvalisesalises – ddryry – make poignant reading.4 Rob died in 2003, and to during a lull. The batteryry spent llastast my knowledge, never mentioned the epic journey night in the mess tent, wwellell pacpackedked in on the troop carrier, Ile de France, though my too but dry. Just after wwee got moved in, mother noted his voyage in a short biography, they turned on a hut inspectionspection – so which she wrote. thoughtful! (Friday, 22 January 1943,43, p1p1)) Rob’s thoughts expressed in his diary, written on 36 fl imsy pages of Australian Comforts Fund The regiment travelled by truck paper, are focused on the present and the future. and train to Tewfi k.5 Despitespite the He only mentions the past once, and that is a embargo on informationn about reference to a remark he heard when boarding the the return of the 9th Divisionvision Ile de France: to Australia, he believedd the Remembered a funny remark was made when POWs knew what was goingoing we were embarking. The lighter had just pulled on: alongside and of course there were heads out of all When the train was passingssing the portholes of the I de F – all our blokes. Some the P.O.W. camps there bright specimen on the lighter called out – Put your was the usual exchangee head inside – they’ll think it’s a troopship! of remarks & gestures. (Tuesday, 2 February 1943, p17) The jerries & itis6 fromm their actions seem to By the time the 2/4 LAA was to leave the Middle think we are going to East, army life was wearing thin with Rob. The go down – so in spite 2/4 Ack Ack (as the unit was known) had been of all the hush hush withdrawn from El Alamein on 6 December 1942, even they seem to and was camped at El Bureij in Palestine. While know where we are they had had a chance to rest and enjoy some going. leave, those who were lucky enough to get passes (Tuesday, 26 to Cairo found the long train journey across the January 1943, p6) Gaza strip uncomfortable and the city full, mostly with Americans.

Image 1: Page 1 of GR Merrifi eld’s diary, courtesy Australian War Memorial

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The ship was crowded with 6,500 troops on board, but Rob was sanguine (most of the time) about the voyage: We are on B deck which is a good position. The ship is packed, even the promenade deck is occupied fully & same applies to the rest of the ship. She is pretty well stripped bare of all trimmings and cabins. The cabin space occupied by hammocks & mess tables. I have quite a good hammock. … There are only 70 odd sisters [of the Australian Army Nursing Service] on board so they don’t take up much room. Believe the offi cers are jammed in 6 & 8 to a cabin – sardines in a tin. We have more room than they do. (Saturday, 30 January 1943, p13)

The Ile de France proceeded to Massawa7, on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea, arriving on 1 February to join the Queen Mary and the Aquitania. This harbour was suffi ciently large for the convoy of fi ve big troop carriers to assemble before the long trip across the Indian Ocean. Massawa had been At Tewfi k, the men could see the large ships in the the home port for the Red Sea fl otilla of the Italian harbour, but had no idea which would transport Royal Navy, but had fallen to the allies in the East them home. Rob had come to the Middle East on African campaign. The convoy left Massawa on the Queen Mary, which was one of the ships of the 3 February, but the troops were unnerved when present convoy, along with the Ile de France, the the Ile de France initially went the wrong way. Aquitania and the Nieuw Amsterdam. He writes This together with the limitations on details of on Friday 29 January: the length of the voyage or projected arrival in Australia led some of the troops to believe the Well on the way down the harbor at 0740 – nice convoy did not know where it was going. On the 17 going and soon went around the stern of the Ile de February he wrote: France & on board, quick smart. Cabins for offi cers only. The battery, or most of it, sergeants included, Not far from land now. Still cool & blowy. Lose allotted hammocks in a space 24’ x 80’ – 200 odd. another hour again tonight – some of the lads are Very crowded – we eat, sleep, in fact do everything beginning to wonder if the convoy is lost – this here. (Friday, 29 January 1943, p10) morning when a plane came over there was a cry of – ok, they’ve found us at last. He was happy to be on his way: (Wednesday, 17 February 1943, p28) I fall for mess orderly which doesn’t appear to be For much of the trip, the ships had to observe much of a job. Everyone including the kitchen staff blackout and it appears the portholes could not at 6s & 7s and it takes a while to get a system going. be open at night. It was hot and stuff y below Quite a good meal, beautiful bread, but no butter or decks. Some men chose to sleep on the sundeck, tea which is rather hard but maleesh. which was tricky when it rained. At one stage, the (Friday, 29 January 1943, p10) offi cers tried to stop this practice and failed: ‘Maleesh’ is Egyptian-Arabic for no matter or Terribly hot between decks last night – in fact it’s never mind.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 10 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc like a continuous Turkish bath now and the ship is The convoy fi nally arrived in Sydney on Saturday eld rapidly developing into a hell ship. I doubt if anyone 27 February: will be sorry or broken hearted when the trip is Everyone keeping within close proximity of the rail over – barring the galahs who frame the orders. on deck & about 11-30 the cliff s around Bondi came The battery nearly jacked up yesterday, when after into view. The Mary went in straightaway and it boat drill R Os8 were read out to eff ect that except

was not until 2 o’clock after the Aqua went in, that GR Merrifi for the selected few every night, the rest were to the I de F went through the heads. Quite a crowd to sleep ‘tween decks in allotted space or else. – close greet us especially round the ‘loo10. Tied up, at 4-30. arrest! The mugs. Anyway the boys won, thanks to Sydney looks good! sergeants & the hospital offi cers and last night was (Saturday, 27 February 1943, p34) just the same as previously. Those who desired, slept where they liked & tattoo roll was wiped. Though Rob had enlisted in NSW, his family lived (Thursday, 11 February 1943, p24) in Malvern, a suburb of Melbourne. Once the Ile de France reached Sydney, he had to travel by On Thursday, 18 February, the convoy arrived at train to the Seymour Transit camp. From there, he Fremantle, where the Western Australian soldiers was fi nally able to take the train to Melbourne on disembarked from the Ile de France: Monday 1 March: About midday we had our fi rst glimpse of the Aust After lunch they don’t seem to think we are going Coast. Not much excitement – the boys took it to get away till Tuesday. However during the calmly. It must have been a great sight as the fi ve afternoon we get the drum to standby and suddenly transports & escorting vessels sailed past Perth’s at 4 o’clock there is a panic & it looks as if we’ll have seaside suburbs to come to anchor off Freemantle a rush. Piled the gear on, got our passes into trucks [sic]. I wonder how long it will be before we start down to the station. Into the train on headed for on the last lap before the trip across the Bight and Melbourne by 5. What a rush. Arrived at Spencer St [sailing] around to Sydney will be very tedious. It’s about 7-30. Only a little way to go now – the end of now three weeks since we came on board & the another journey & three weeks leave. novelty has worn off to some extent. We get no leave (Monday, 1 March 1943, p36) here but there should be some mail. The WXs9 are going ashore tonight. Lucky devils. Rob remained in the Army for another twelve (Thursday, 18 February 1943, p29) months, but had no further overseas posting. In March 1944, he was demobilised as it was considered essential that he return to his References employment in western NSW. 1. F West, From Alamein to Scarlet Beach: the history of 2/4 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Second A.I.F, Deakin University Press, 1989 2. Anti-aircraft auto cannon designed in the 1930s by Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofers 3. Operation Pamphlet, Wikipedia, https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ Pamphlet, viewed 9 July 2019 4. GR Merrifi eld, Diary travels, Middle East – Australia, Jan 1943 (Australian War Memorial collection) 5. Located on the Suez Canal, now known as 21 Ronley Street Suez Port Blackburn Vic 3130 [email protected] 6. Germans and Italians www.penfolk.com.au For all your publishing needs … 7. Masssawa, Wikipedia, https:// PenFolk produces high quality books for family historians en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massawa, »» Our service is adapted to suit your needs, and viewed 9 July 2019 may include design and production of books, papers and charts; reproducing and retouching 8. Regimental Orders photos and documents; advice and assistance with writing; designing and compiling family 9. WX prefi xed the service numbers of tree charts. We can take you through all stages of your project, or provide guidance and troops who enlisted in Western Australia assistance with specific elements. 10. Woolloomooloo, a harbourside, inner-city »» Our services include design and development; writing, editing and proof reading; illustration; eastern suburb of Sydney graphic and photographic reproduction; training and support; consultation and advice; printing Surname and delivery of the finished product. Merrifi eld We take pride in producing work of the highest possible quality, and provide a service that is personal, friendly, cooperative and confidential Call for appointment (03) 9878 9285

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 11 A Lost Soldier Found: the story of Private Walter Allen Clarke

by Natalie Lonsdale

While researching my biological father’s family My research began in early Melbourne. line, I came upon a great-great uncle named Walter was born Walter Alfred Allen Clarke in Walter Allen Clarke. His story fascinated me. His Collingwood, Victoria in 1889, the eighth child of WWI Service Record read ‘blood relatives Walter Clarke and Sarah Clarke, nee McGillivray.2 recorded as untraceable’ and the meagre Walter and Sarah had married in Kerang, where belongings in his kit bag had been sent on to Sarah gave birth to fi ve children. Following a Natalie can be contacted at [email protected] a male friend in Sydney. Case closed. Private move to Melbourne, three further children were Walter Allen Clarke had died alone, far from born, including my great-great uncle Walter home, in an Australian military hospital Allen Clarke. In 1892 Walter snr was working as in England. Two long years of fi ghting in a labourer in Collingwood, when tragedy struck. the French trenches on the western front had Dugald, the eldest son, contracted typhoid fever caused his body, weakened by two head wounds, and was nursed by Sarah for ten days. He died in infl uenza and scabies, to succumb to pneumonia the family home.3 Sadly, two months later, Sarah at midnight on 29 April 1919. He was 31 years old.1 also died in hospital of typhoid fever.4 Walter Allen was only three years old.

A Trying Season Life for the Clarke children would have been very diffi cult following the deaths of their mother and brother. Collingwood had always been a working- class community, but the 1890s brought a devastating depression to Melbourne.5 Walter snr, now a widow with six children to feed, four under ten years old, would have had his work cut out for him just keeping food on the table. We will never know how much, if any, support he received from his extended family. His elderly father was alive and there were aunts and uncles, but it is likely that the majority of care for Walter Allen and the three youngest siblings, Emily, eleven, Catherine, nine, and Beatrice, fi ve, would have fallen on the two eldest daughters, Margaret, fourteen, and Sarah, twelve. Records are hard to fi nd concerning Walter Allen’s childhood, but six years later in 1898, when he was ten years old, there is Image 1: Telegram sent to Next of Kin – Patrick O’Keefe. Image courtesy of a sentence in his grandfather’s obituary reported the National Archives of Australia. NAA: B2455, CLARKE WA. in the Fitzroy Press that may hold a clue. ‘… till last week when the strain of a very trying season proved too much for his burthern of 87 years.’6 I had many questions. Why were his family untraceable? Had there been a family No doubt that trying season was in part due estrangement? Did I have the correct Walter? I to his six motherless grandchildren, where, it endeavoured to fi nd out. Assuming he was the appears all was not well. On 8 December 1898 right Walter, my plan was to put a magnifying we fi nd Walter Allen’s older sister Sarah in glass on his life and extended family to see if there Sydney, marrying Italian chef Guido Angelo were clues as to why there was no reference to his Caletti.7 Sarah, now known by her middle name family on his war records. How had he come to die Henrietta, gave her age as 21 when she was in fact a lonely death so far from home? only eighteen. The marriage certifi cate records

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 12 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Walter Allen Clarke Walter

Image 2: Untraceable. Image courtesty of the National Archives NAA: B2455, CLARKE, WA

Sarah’s father, Walter, deceased, which is also were dropped from 5 feet 6 inches down to 5 feet false. The day after the wedding Sarah gave birth 2.15 Walter’s enlistment forms record him as 5 to a son, Duance Caletti, who sadly died a few feet 4.5 inches, and at 28 years and 11 months old, weeks later. The marriage ended three years later he is accepted into the Lighthorse Brigade on 13 in divorce, after Sarah Henrietta had given birth January 1917.16 Described as blue-eyed and brown- to a second son. The court transcript describes a haired, Walter Allen passed his physical and three very unhappy Sarah who could no longer stand days later he was at the Sydney Showgrounds being with her husband or looking after their son. Military Camp where he was reassigned to the She ‘wanted a life, to go out and enjoy herself’. She 19th Reinforcements of the 18th Battalion AIF.17 also worked as a barmaid, and according to her Unmarried, both parents deceased, and most of husband said, ‘She was not a slave to any man or his sisters married with families of their own, child, and if I did not like it I could lump it’. Walter Allen nominated fellow shearer and friend, Patrick O’Keefe as his next of kin. New Marriages, New Families In February 1900, Walter snr, now 51, married From Outback New South Wales to 26-year-old Rosanna Locke.8 Walter Allen was the Front eleven years old. I initially believed that young Walter Allen’s Battalion embarked on their Rosanna was about to become a fi rst-time mother voyage to the front from Sydney in February to fi ve but on reading her death certifi cate, it 1917 on the S.S. Wiltshire. Two months later they appears she may have already had a daughter, marched into the 5th Training Battalion camp Dorothy.9 I can fi nd no other records about at Rollestone in England, in what is described as Dorothy, and it is likely that she may have been one of the coldest winters on record. Memories illegitimate. Walter Allen was now living with a from a fellow soldier described the experience as: new step-mother and step-sister and four older ‘… alternatively given exercises that caused you siblings. A year later in 1901, seventeen-year-old to get overheated and then such drills has [sic] Catherine left home to marry 57-year-old English would let you freeze, that made sure that only the widower Edward James Harris,10 with seven fi ttest could survive it’.18 children of his own! I can’t even begin to imagine what justifi ed that marriage. A month later Walter Allen was admitted into the Fargo Military Hospital with infl uenza. Little 1902 saw Emily11 leave home to marry, and eldest consideration and forward planning seems to daughter Margaret’s whereabouts were unknown. have been given to these Australian men who had A year later when Walter Allen was fourteen come straight out of a hot Australian summer years old, the family welcomed my great-great- and were ill-equipped to handle the freezing grandmother Grace Violet into the world. The English conditions. Private Geoff rey Rose of the family was living in Groom Street, Clifton Hill, 30th Battalion noted that not only was there a and Walter snr was working as a labourer.12 lack of understanding by those in authority of the dangers the weather posed to the unaccustomed Enlisting Aussies, but also a lack of medical care. He writes: Fifteen years later, a year after Walter snr died,13 ‘These colds to my mind were mostly caused by Walter Allen was working on Mirabool station the hardening process to which we were subjected as a shearer in Moree, New South Wales.14 World … Men parading sick, many of them fi t to be in War One had been raging for three years and in hospital were told by the doctor (– of the north an eff ort to replace the dead, height requirements coast NSW) that they were malingering.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 13 Image 3(left):Walter Allen Clarke’s grave in Australian Military Cemetery, Harefi eld, England. Author’s photo Image 4(above): War Medals to Untraceables. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. NAA: B2455, CLARKE WA

He has more than one life to answer for’. Men end to the German push. On 19 May a decision were threatened with reprimands if they dared was made to oust the Germans from a village parade sick. A frustrated local doctor sent the north of Villers-Bretonneux called Ville-Sur- Australian doctor a note saying, ‘it was no use Ancre. The attack was successful, albeit with sending up dead men to be cured. They preferred 418 casualties,24 of which Walter Allen was one, to have them earlier’19 receiving a shrapnel wound to the head. He was transported by fi eld ambulance to the Casualty Walter Allen was released fi ve days later from Clearing Station. It is unclear how long he stayed Fargo and returned to Rollestone. He endured in hospital, but by September he was back with three more months of training before being his battalion and in Boulogne, France. On 21 deployed to the Australian General Base Depot in September Walter Allen suff ered another head Le Havre, France.20 wound, this time an accidental laceration to the head.25 On arrival at hospital it was noted that The 19th Reinforcements then joined up with Walter Allan was also suff ering from scabies, their fellow 18th Battalion diggers in Belgium another nightmare that troops had to deal with in on 1 September 1917, just in time for two major the trenches, described by one volunteer medical battles, Menin Road (20-25 September) and orderly as ‘… a damnable infl iction tickling one to Poelcappelle (9-10 October). The battle of merriment, then irritating to the point of torture Poelcappelle was described as having ‘the most and fi nally, if unchecked, scabies will prevent diffi cult of waterlogged conditions, on the sleep, injure digestion, destroy temper and fi nally Passchendaele Ridge, centring on Poelcappelle land the victim in a lunatic asylum. Madness village. An exhausting and only partly successful indeed is the ultimate outcome of this disease’.26 operation for British and Dominion forces’.21 The 18th Battalion then spent the winter in the The War Ends trenches on the Somme22 until the spring of 1918 Two weeks later Walter Allen was sent to the when they were quickly redeployed to help repel No.10 Convalescent Depot in Ecault.27 By early a major German off ensive aimed at capturing October the Aussies had withdrawn from the the city of Amiens. The Germans planned to front to recuperate. They were preparing to take the village of Villers-Bretonneux, where return to the fi ghting when Germany signed the Amiens would then be within their reach.23 After Armistice on 11 November. At this time Walter a month-long battle, the Australians, along with Allen was still recovering from his accidental their British counterparts successfully put an head wound and battling scabies. He was admitted

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 14 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc for another stay at the No 25 General Hospital Military Cemetery, did so with such care and before being moved to the No 5 Rest Camp at St dignity. Walter Allen was given a full military Martins on 24 October 1918. Walter Allen fi nally burial, with an Australian fl ag draped over his re-joined his unit on 7 December 2018.26 coffi n. Local children and villagers were in attendance.29 I had the privilege of visiting Walter Because of the huge task of repatriating soldiers Allen’s grave in 2018, and it is such a beautiful and to Australia, many Aussie diggers remained in peaceful graveyard, cared for immaculately by France after peace was signed, including Walter the locals. Each Anzac Day local English school Allen. On 4 January 1919 he was deployed to the children still visit the war graves, learning about

15th Coy AASC, the Australian Army Service the sacrifi ce of the Anzacs. They place fl owers, Allen Clarke Walter Corps, where he spent the next three months notes of thanks and drawings on each grave. helping with transport and supplies before becoming seriously ill with pneumonia. On Anzac Untraceable Day 1919 Walter Allen was transferred to the 2nd In the years following Walter Allen’s death, Auxiliary Hospital in Southhall, England. Four many letters were sent to and from various days later he was dead. Army departments requesting the whereabouts of Walter Allen’s blood relations. There were Resting in Peace war medals to hand over and a war gratuity Could Walter Allen have survived if he had been that had been put in a trust fund. Walter Allen’s sent back to Australia sooner? Probably. The belongings had been sent on to Patrick O’Keefe, harsh conditions soldiers on both sides had to who was living in Sydney. But no response ever endure saw the lives of thousands of young men came. If Patrick knew of Walter Allen’s family cut short. Such waste, but what else were they to in Melbourne, there is no record that he ever do? They answered the call of their country and shared that information. I’m sure there is more the empire. It is certain that Walter Allen died to this story, and I will always wonder if Walter prematurely. It gives our family great comfort to Allen’s sisters ever thought about his whereabouts know that the people from the village of Harefi eld or suspected that he had enlisted. For now, at in England, who were given the responsibility least, Walter Allen Clarke has been found and of burying Australian soldiers at the Australian remembered.

References 19. Beckett, Roger. 2009. ‘The Australian soldier 1. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p13, in Britain, 1914–1918’, Australians in Britain: B2455, National Archives of Australia. The Twentieth-Century Experience, edited 2. BDM Victoria, Births 2416/1889 by Bridge, Carl; Crawford, Robert; Dunstan, 3. BDM Victoria, Deaths 5908/1892 David. Melbourne: Monash University 4. DM Victoria, Deaths 11556 /1892 ePress. pp 6.1 to 6.17 5. Carringbush Regional Library and City of 20. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p52 Collingwood, In Those Days, Collingwood 21. Australian War Memorial, ‘Poelcappelle’, Remembered, 3rd ed, Carringbush Regional www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84580, Library, 1994. p13 Accessed 12 December 2018 6. Fitzroy City Press, 17 February 1898 p2 22. Australian War Memorial, ‘18th Australian ‘Death of Mr. R.T. Clarke’ Infantry Battalion’, https://www.awm. 7. BDM NSW, Marriages 7149/1898 gov.au/collection/U51458, Accessed 12 8. BDM Victoria, Marriages 1355/1900 December 2018 9. BDM Victoria, Deaths 13204/1926 23. AWM London, ‘Villers Bretonneux The 10. BDM Victoria, Marriages 5742/1901 End of the German Advance, 1918’, www. 11. BDM Victoria, Marriages 4215/1902 awmlondon.gov.au/battles/villers- 12. ‘Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980’, bretonneux, Accessed 20 January 2019 Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010, 24. ‘2nd Division (Australia)’, Wikipedia, https:// Accessed 12 December 2018. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2nd_ 13. BDM Victoria, Deaths 3391/1916 Division_(Australia)&oldid=872656721, 14. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p1 Accessed 20 January 2019 15. State Library of Victoria, ‘The rush to 25. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p53 enlist’, http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- 26. Mental Floss, ‘A Second Christmas history/australia-wwi/home-wwi/rush- At War’, http://mentalfloss.com/ enlist, Accessed 12 December 2018 article/54324/25-things-look-while- 16. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p1 watching-24-hour-christmas-story- 17. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p1 marathon, Accessed 12 December 2018 18. FV Culverhouse Papers, John Oxley Library, 27. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p53 State Library of Queensland, Australia, 28. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p53 OM64-31/7 29. Service Record of Walter Allen Clarke, p38 Surnames Caletti, Clarke, Harris, Locke, McGillivray, O’Keefe, Rose

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 15 In Defence of Home and Family: Carl Gottlieb Keirnall and Louisa Phillips

by John Barry

Among the tourist attractions of Burra, a off ered in the form of a lighted candle. This time, nineteenth century copper mining town in South Keirnall warned Smith in English to go away and Australia, is a gravestone that reads: ‘Erected by not make a nuisance of himself. his brother seamen to the memory of John Smith John can be contacted at [email protected] of London aged 24 years who was murdered Drunks never receive such advice well. Smith by a German in the township of Kooringa on said that he would burn Keirnall’s house down. Christmas Eve 1849’. Infl ammatory though the To prove he was serious, he put the candle up to inscription is, a strange case underlies it. the roof. Phillips attempted to snatch the candle away and it fell to the ground. Keirnall demanded John Smith had given up the sea for copper Smith leave. Smith argued loudly, exclaiming that mining. However, he was fond of a drink. On he would tear his own liver out before he would go. Christmas Eve 1849, he was well buoyed up with Smith stood at the front door of the house arguing alcohol. At around 10.00pm, Smith went to the and yelling for half an hour. At last, Keirnall house of a German named Carl Gottlieb Keirnall emerged from the house with a stool and hit (also called Kiernall or Karrall in some newspaper Smith on the head. He then returned to his house reports) in Kooringa, one of the townships that and shut and bolted the door. made up Burra. From this distance in time, it is not possible to tell why Smith chose Keirnall to annoy. Smith broke the door open. He threw stones and the staves of a cask that was lying nearby into the Smith knocked on Keirnall’s door and asked for a house’s interior. One stave hit the pregnant Louisa light for his pipe. Keirnall and Louisa Phillips, his Phillips and knocked her down. She began to cry. common law wife, were in bed. However, they got Keirnall again tried to lock and bolt the door but up and gave Smith a lighted candle. According to Smith forced it open again. At this stage, Keirnall’s Phillips, he had been drinking but was not drunk patience ran out. This time, he emerged from his when he arrived at Keirnall’s house. Another house with an axe. Giving no warning, Keirnall witness said that Smith was more than half drunk hit Smith in the forehead with the blade of the on Christmas Eve. axe cleaving Smith’s skull and burying the blade deep in Smith’s brain. At that, a woman watching The door of the house had been broken open the fracas exclaimed: ‘Oh, he has got light enough before. Then, six weeks prior to Christmas, a now’. Doctor George Bull was called and arrived bundle of lime and stones had also been thrown within ten minutes but Smith was dying. He was through Keirnall’s window. Another house owned removed to the Burra Hotel and upon arrival, was by Keirnall had also been badly damaged. Phillips found to be dead. Keirnall handed himself into the lived in dread of these annoyances. She had lived authorities at Burra. with Keirnall for about ten months and was pregnant. According to Charles Augustus, a crew At the inquest, held on Boxing Day 1849, evidence member of the same ship as Smith, Smith had been was given by Charles Augustus that Smith had in Burra for just a fortnight before that Christmas. been sober and in good health between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm in the same evening. By 10.00pm, Lighting his pipe with the candle, Smith then he was dead. Later at the trial, Augustus would walked away, smoking. However, the pipe correct himself and place the time of death at apparently went out so he returned to the 11.00pm. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict same house and asked for another light. Smith against Keirnall for the wilful murder of John said if they gave him a light, he would pay the Smith. Accordingly, Carl Gottlieb Keirnall was householders for it. A light for his pipe was again committed for trial in the Supreme Court.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 16 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 1: Gravestone of John Smith, Burra. Author’s photo, 2017

At his trial in the Supreme Court beginning on 14 March 1850, Keirnall pleaded not guilty. He was represented by Mr. Parker. Because Keirnall was a German, an interpreter was sworn. The Advocate-General, the most senior barrister in colonial government service, acted as prosecutor. There is uncertainty in the trial evidence as to how many times Smith was hit by Keirnall’s axe and whereabouts in the head that Keirnall had hit Smith. Doctor Bell, who examined Smith, stated that Smith had received one large wound on the crown of his head. He had other minor abrasions about the face, probably from Keirnall’s hitting him with a stool. Police Sergeant Reid gave evidence that on Christmas eve after 10.00pm he went to Keirnall’s house on a report of foul play but could not fi nd the householder. An axe stood outside the door and two pools of blood nearby. Inside the house were a number of bucket staves with blood on them.

Mr. Parker for the defence raised the defence of provocation. One of the witnesses at the trial said that, prior to the events of Christmas Eve, Keirnall had been annoyed frequently by Smith. The judge gave a clear summary of what was needed for provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter. The jury deliberated for only twenty minutes and came back in with a verdict of manslaughter.

At Keirnall’s sentencing on 15 March 1850, several Germans in business in Adelaide gave character evidence in his favour. It was no use. The judge said that Smith’s death was an aggravated case of manslaughter and sentenced him to seven years transportation.

The South Australian Register of 25 March editorialised about Keirnall in terms that would have done credit to the lowest modern tabloid: ‘Keirnall convicted of manslaughter at the Burra, under circumstances which nearly amounted to murder.’ After changing the facts of the case to suit its argument, the paper stated Keirnall’s the time conveyed goods and passengers between sentence should have been death. He ‘was an Port Adelaide and Hobart taking about seven days undoubted and brutal assassin.’ This tone is to make the return journey. She had been built by repeated on Smith’s gravestone. convict labour at Port Arthur in 1847.

Although South Australia prides itself on being On 17 April 1850, Keirnall, along with eight other a free colony, it did transport convicts. From convicts, were secured below decks for the run its foundation, South Australia arranged with to Hobart. Captain Hammond and a twelve man the colonies of both New South Wales and crew worked the ship. There were sixteen paying Van Diemen’s Land to accept its transported passengers on board – two married couples, three felons. When New South Wales ceased taking women and nine men – and three policemen. transported convicts in 1840, all transported Initially, Sergeant McCulloch had been in charge convicts were sent to Van Diemen’s Land. Small of the prisoners on board the Lady Denison but coastal trading ships conveyed South Australia’s he was ordered on board the Government cutter convicts to Hobart. Yatala to pursue a wanted criminal. Sergeant Ward took over management of the prisoners This was now Keirnall’s fate. His transport was to in McCulloch’s place. Sergeant McCulloch had be the Lady Denison, a barque of 300 tons that at reason to be grateful.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 17 Less than a month later, rumour started to surface On 1 August 1850, the South Australian about the long passage of the Lady Denison. The Register reported that a sealer at Emu Bay Lady Denison had never arrived in Hobart. As had seen a longboat marked the Lady Denison the barque ran toward the Tasmanian coastline, upturned and broken on the Church Rock on the weather conditions had been extreme. Two other west coast of Van Diemen’s Land. Oars, part of a In Defence ships had been lost in Bass Strait around that cabin, one of the topmasts, the poop ladder and time. Hobart’s Colonial Times on 14 May 1850 a variety of other wreckage, including clothing, raised the possibility that the Lady Denison had were scattered along the beach for miles. ‘There been seized by its convicts or had been dismasted. is therefore no longer any reason to doubt that The newspaper did not believe an assumption the ill-fated barque met her untimely fate in one that the ship had foundered could be justifi ed at of the heavy gales which were noticed after her present. By 29 May 1850, the Sydney Morning departure’ the paper concluded. Herald was reporting that it was not improbable that the prisoners had mastered the crew and From then on, the Australasian Anti- taken control of the vessel. At the same time, it Transportation League and the anti- pointed out that this was mere conjecture. transportation press would use transported convicts’ supposed overthrow of the barque to Now rumours rolled out of control. For example, vilify convicts and the transportation system. in its edition of 30 May 1850, the South Australian The sad loss of life was used to further a political Gazette and Mining Journal stated: ‘We have only agenda. A letter in the Adelaide Times from John to hope the rumour of the Lady Denison having Haley, the South Australian agent of Van Diemen’s been carried off to California by the convicts who Land Company on 15 December 1850 sought to sailed in her from this port is false; but, at the discredit reports of wreckage being linked to the present moment, we must confess a reasonable Lady Denison. It was asserted that the convicts belief in the story so generally circulated’. had thrown the wreckage overboard to hide their crime of mutiny and massacre. No evidence for any of these stories existed. The Adelaide Times was more circumspect. ‘Nothing Later during the Victorian gold rushes there were had been heard of the Lady Denison when the Sea rumours that James Cayle, one of the convicts Queen left Launceston’. As the months passed, the aboard, had been seen on the goldfi elds. It was rumours took on the colouring of fact. The barque rumoured that another convict had sent letters to had been seen by a pilot off Cape Pillar and by a Australia from California. whaling master when passing by Recherche Bay. According to the Colonial Times issue dated 18 In my opinion, John Smith was a drunken oaf June 1850: ‘It would never be seen again outside who pestered and threatened Keirnall. He was California or some other port on the other side of memorialised on his gravestone as a wronged man. the Pacifi c’. Carl Gottlieb Keirnall had protected his home and family and lost everything, even his own life.

Sources Newspapers • South Australian, 4 January 1850 p2, 15 March 1850 p2 • South Australian Register, 29 December 1849 p3, 14 March 1850 p3, 16 March 1850 p3, 25 March 1850 p3, 18 April 1850 p2, 1 August 1850 p3 • South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal, 14 March 1850 p3, 30 May 1850 p2 • Adelaide Observer, 29 December 1849 p3 • Adelaide Times, 31 December 1849 p3, 4 March 1850 p2, 13 March 1850 p3, 30 May 1850 p2, 16 December 1850 p3 • Colonial Times, 10 May 1850 p2, 14 May 1850 p2, 18 June 1850 p2 • Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1850 p2 • The Britannic and Trades’ Advocate, 27 June 1850 p2 Websites • Lady Denison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Denison, searched 28 November 2017 • Conveyance of convicts to Tasmania www.jaunay.com/convicts.html, searched 29 November 2017

Surnames Augustus, Bell, Bull, Cayle, Haley, Keirnall, McCulloch, Parker, Phillips, Reid, Smith, Ward

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 18 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc DNA News and Notes

by Ruthie Wirtz DNA News DNA testing and genetic genealogical research has been making enormous inroads among genealogy enthusiasts over the last few years and is now recognized as an important tool in family history research. In many cases DNA data, together with traditional document research, can help break down those pesky brick walls we all have in our family trees. It’s important to note that DNA constitutes primary evidence in the same way as traditional genealogical research and therefore can form an important part of an evidence-based family tree.

Australia was recently presented with a series of world-class genetic genealogy conferences, DNA Down Under www.dnadownunder.com, Image: GSV Member and keen genetic genealogist Maureen staged by Alan Phillips from Unlock The Past, Trotter and guest speaker Blaine Bettinger at the DNA Down which were held to great success at various Under Conference in Sydney (Courtesy of M Trotter) venues across Australia in August 2019. Internationally renowned genetic genealogy We are very happy to report that Alan Phillips expert and keynote speaker Blaine B. Bettinger, is working towards a new Family History Down thegeneticgenealogist.com, along with a strong Under Conference in 2021. Alan is hoping to support group of Australian and New Zealand bring a number of internationally renowned genetic genealogy presenters, provided attendees speakers to Australia for a single city four-day at all venues with lectures on a wide range of super conference with the addition of workshops genetic genealogy topics. including a DNA stream, a British/Irish research track and a general genealogy track. So for those More than twenty GSV members attended who couldn’t make the conference this year, you the DNA Down Under conference held at the can now start planning for 2021. Jasper Hotel in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, where over 270 attendees enjoyed morning If you want to further your research using genetic presentations that included Blaine Bettinger’s genealogy and DNA, the GSV has a schedule of ‘Using Autosomal DNA for 18th & 19th Century lectures, tutorials, DNA Study Groups and a DNA Mysteries’ and Louise Coakley’s genie1.com.au Discussion Circle, which run throughout the year. important reminders in ‘Genetic Genealogy: Please check the GSV calendar for all upcoming Standards, Ethics, Risks, limitations’. Later in events or for changes in the DNA at the GSV the afternoon session, Blaine’s presentation on program. ‘Using Gedmatch & DNA Painter to analyse your autosomal DNA’ was very instructive in helping We are pleased to note that the library has recently participants understand one of the many tools acquired two new DNA books for our Reference available today to assist genetic genealogists make section. They are the new (2019) edition of The sense of their genetic matches by ordering them Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic into family groups. One important message from Genealogy, Blaine Bettinger’s very accessible the day, again from Blaine, concerned the dangers introduction to Genetic Genealogy and for more of relying on small segment (less than 7cM) advanced DNA researchers, Advanced Genetic matches when interpreting our results. Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies, edited by Debbie Parker Wayne (Wayne Research 2019). After this stimulating Melbourne conference, about ten GSV members fl ew to Sydney to Finally, websites of interest: attend the three-day conference DNA to the www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/ Max, The Ultimate DNA Experience. More than news/what-are-pros-and-cons-dna-tests- 750 Australian and New Zealand genealogists family-history and descended on the Castle Hill RSL where the http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/double- program provided a choice of three streams helix-history. allowing attendees a chance to delve even deeper  into genetic genealogy.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 19 Appointments and Awards at the GSV Awards GSV GSV Annual General Meeting

Held on 5 October 2019

Image 2: Claire Johnson FGSV receives her award from President Jenny Redman

Committee and Council, have rendered Image 1: New Councillor, Jan Bayley distinguished service to the Society in respect of pursuit of the Purposes of the Society, and service Following the retirement of Lorna Elms and the as a member of Council in the management resignation of Simon Foster, the other retiring of the Society. This year Claire Johnson was Councillors were re-elected and Janice Bayley elected to be a Fellow of the Genealogical Society was elected as a new Councillor. A full list of of Victoria. Her election was received with current Councillors is given on page 43. acclamation and the reading of her citation:

The ongoing operations of our Society have Claire has rendered distinguished service to the always been enhanced by the contributions of our Genealogical Society of Victoria and its purposes members who volunteer to undertake many and in respect of her work to facilitate, encourage and varied tasks. Volunteers assist in areas ranging promote genealogical research, and to educate and from library research assistance to research, assist members and others in the study of genealogy indexing projects, scanning, editing the journal, and family history. She joined the GSV in 1993 and education and administration. The Society has shared her talents in many areas of the Society’s acknowledges these contributions in the form of operations including serving on Council for fi ve annual awards presented to those deserving of years from 2012 to 2017. She joined the Volunteers appropriate recognition. Working Group for the Society’s 2009 Strategic Planning exercise and also served on the Family History Committee from 2008 to 2010 in addition Fellowship to the Marketing Committee and a working group A Fellowship of the Society is the highest honour to rewrite the Rules of the Society in 2013. She has the Society can bestow. Fellows are elected by the always been ready and able to assist in any capacity. members of the Society at a General Meeting and are consequently entitled to full membership of She began as a Library Research Assistant in the Society on an honorary basis and are entitled 2004 and excelled in both her knowledge and to use the post-nominal letters FGSV (Fellow of her enthusiastic, friendly attitude to individual the Genealogical Society of Victoria). Fellows enquirers. Apart from her regular duty as a Library are people who in the opinion of the Examining Research Assistant, for several years she assisted in

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 20 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc various librarian duties concentrating on ordering, GSV Writing Prize subscriptions, etc. She was particularly helpful in There were twenty-four entries this year, assisting with Library Assistants’ Training Sessions including entries from members of regional as part of the Library team, and continued with this family history societies. The judges were after becoming Volunteer Co-ordinator, where she impressed by the standard of research in all encouraged new volunteers to participate in the entries and by the diversity of the entries. The many facets of the Society. GSV writing prize was won by Louise Wilson for Asarrds GSV Her talent with computers was recognized and her story ‘Masters of the Road’ which is published she has been instrumental in developing our most in this issue of Ancestor (see page 4). She receives recent membership computer software. In addition a prize of a twelve-month subscription to she brought additional people to the technology and Ancestry’s worldwide database and an Ancestry accounting teams and has continued to play a major DNA test kit. role in our exploration of future models. Claire was part of the team that prepared for and moved the GSV from Collins Street to Queen Street in 2017 especially involved with the burden of decision-making about the Society’s vast collection. She has also provided talks to members and others on various topics which are always well presented and researched – passenger lists being one of her specialities. Claire is a credit to the Society and deserves to be recognized as a Fellow.

Certifi cates of Appreciation Image 4: GSV Writer’s prize winner, Louise Wilson The Society’s Certifi cate of Appreciation (right) with Victoria Spicer (runner-up, left) with is awarded to recognise members who, as Martin Playne volunteers, have rendered continued and valuable service. This year we have awarded certifi cates A Runner-Up prize was also presented to to four volunteers who have made signifi cant Victoria Spicer for her article titled ‘Finding contributions in a number of areas. Johanna’. This article will be published in the • Kathleen Baker (International Settlers Group) March 2020 issue of Ancestor. She will receive a • Peter Collins (Scanner) prize of a six-month subscription to Ancestry’s • Mark Harry (Library Research Assistant) worldwide database. • (Scanner and Scottish John Stanford The Society would like to thank Ancestry for their Ancestry Group) continuing and generous support in donating prizes. Especial thanks also to Dr Val Noone as our Guest Judge and Joy Roy FGSV who represented the President on the Judging Panel.

Image 3: John Stanford and his certifi cate (other awardees were not present) Volunteers Event All volunteers are invited to a ‘Thank You’ morning tea at 10.30am on Monday 2 December 2019 at Image 5: The Judges Panel (left to right): Margaret the Research and Education Centre. The Society Vines, Martin Playne, Joy Roy (by video from Bendigo), extends its thanks to all our volunteers and wishes Leonie Loveday and Val Noone everyone a safe and happy festive season.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 21 Book Reviews Reviews by Patsy Daly, Leonie Loveday, Margaret Vines

1 2 3 4 Book Reviews

1. A Shamrock beneath the Southern Cross: an History The contents are ordered into three parts, ‘1: Early Days’, ‘2: Four of the Shire of Belfast cousins come down under’, and ‘3: Then what happened?’ And Author: Pamela M Marriott 184 pp ISBN 0 7316 3930 8 it covers an impressive period from the 1700s to the 1990s. The Pub: Warrnambool Victoria P Marriott 1988 book is handsomely illustrated and designed. It has an impressive Available at the RHSV Library 10-page index, a 7-page bibliography and sources, and endnotes to each chapter. LL Pam Marriott has written three histories about Port Fairy in south-western Victoria through the prism of the Merrijig Inn. The 3. Tracing your Irish ancestors, 5th revised edition fi rst is this delightful history of the Shire of Belfast. Funded by Author: John Grenham 650pp ISBN 9780717174652 the Australian Bicentennial Authority, it is the essential starting Pub: Gill, Dublin, 2019 In GSV Library in Reference point for researching Port Fairy ancestors or those who lived in the hinterland as the newspapers of Port Fairy and nearby Koroit John Grenham has been a guru of Irish Family History research and Warrnambool have yet to be digitised for inclusion on Trove since his guide’s fi rst edition was published in 1992. This fi fth Newspapers. edition is updated to cover what he describes as the ‘revolution in access to Irish genealogical records in the last decade’, with both There are the obligatory inclusions of shire lists – shire presidents, Irish governments deciding the Irish diaspora should have easy councillors and offi cers. Also included is the fi rst list of the access to family records via the internet. preceding Road Board ratepayers. Most of these names come from areas that would not have been part of the Shire of Belfast in later The format is similar to previous editions but is expanded to years, following the formation of the Boroughs of Port Fairy and thirteen chapters. There is now a specifi c chapter on the Internet Koroit or the hinterland Shire of Minhamite. The map inside the – with research techniques, a discussion of each of the major sites, front cover shows how little of the original Road District remained comments on genetic genealogy and a checklist of online resources part of the Shire at the time the history was written. The map inside with the relevant URLs. Most usefully he advises on which major the back cover pinpoints some early landmarks such as Lookout websites are best for diff erent records and why. The chapters of Hill in the Rutledge Special Survey and Murray’s Farm. In addition previous editions have been updated also. For example the fi nal to chapters about the homesteads, industry, education, hotels and chapter has email addresses for all the local history societies. places of worship there are two special chapters on the smaller Irish research has become easier. This new Grenham edition would settlements such as Codrington and Yambuk. be invaluable for a beginner, and it gives experienced researchers The real gems in the book are the histories of Shire Families an update to the changing world of online research. Highly including descendants of those who arrived on one of the four recommended at a recent GSV Irish Group meeting. MV immigrant ships to come to Port Fairy and descendants of one of the 4. From Errol and Kilspendie to Hobson’s Bay: fi rst Road Board ratepayers. As with any of the bicentennial histories Alexander Beattie and Jane Anderson there are clues to further information to be found under reference sources generally or at the Port Fairy Historical Society under local Author: Catherine A Purcell sources. See www.historicalsociety.port-fairy.com PD Pub: 2018 pdf on CD [email protected] In GSV Library The Beattie, Anderson and Patullo families came from Scotland, 2. Guinness Down Under: the famous brew and the family from Errol and near Dundee, to settle north of Melbourne, in come to Australia and New Zealand Somerton, Wollert, and Kalkallo. They were infl uential early Author: Rod Smith ISBN 9780473408428 settlers there, on the School Board, the Whittlesea Show and Pub: Eyeglass Press, New Zealand (2018) In GSV Library the Darebin Shire Council. The next generation also moved to This book has the feel of a labour of love – perhaps it is Devenish near Benalla in 1880. coincidental that the author’s spouse is a member of the extended Catherine Purcell’s research is solid and extensive, using offi cial Guinness family. And it is hard to categorise this substantial and documents, wills, BDMs, censuses, newspapers and family bibles, and comprehensively referenced work of research. Is it a family history, she has consulted in the family to gain diff erent viewpoints. Alexander a corporate history, a colonial social history, or all of the above? Beattie was seen as both an alcoholic and a strict Methodist. However one approaches the book or categorises its contents, it is She begins in Scotland, with neat touches like a map of Errol at times a fascinating if not complicated read. Smith opens with complemented by an aerial photograph and both with red arrows background on the family of Richard and Elizabeth Guinness and showing the site of the family home. Her story continues in launches into the serious brewing generation of Arthur Guinness Australia with the migrants, their children and their grandchildren. (1725-1803) in Dublin. Arthur and Olivia Guinness had 21 children, At times it can be a little confusing, especially as there are no nine of whom reached adulthood. At other times it gets bogged down family trees, but there are tables of each generation, with dates and in too much detail or loses itself among too many generations and locations. There are 30 appendices but no index. Perhaps a further characters, despite it purporting to tell the “down under” story. For edition could include a surname index and eliminate a couple of example, the farming and land-owning exploits of Michael Burke in production errors like the missing bottom of page 11. New Zealand seem very far removed from the brewing story. This research was well worth publishing and using a pdf on a CD Nevertheless, the Guinness story in Australia and New Zealand is ensures minimal production and postage costs, making it available a worthy story to tell, and elucidating connections to the history of throughout the extended families and to local communities. MV  the famous business name provides many insights into a diverse and interesting family.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 22 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc See the library catalogue for full details, exact format, and location of material Additions to the Library within the library - available online at www.gsv.org.au or in the library.

Compiled by Linley Hooper

All listed LDS microfi lms are held in the LDS AUSTRALIA Foston; Grantham St Wulfram; Great Long Term Loans Cabinets. Request by fi lm Arrows of hope: selected convict stories v. 3. Gonerby; Harlaxton; Londonthorpe; Long number at the Information Desk. Thank you Descendants of Convicts’ Group. [GSV: Bennington; Sedgebrook; Stroxton; West

to all donors to the library collection. 364.3 ARR] Allington; Woolsthorpe; Wyville. Laff ord Additions to Library Deanery: Anwick; Asgarby by Sleaford; Abbreviation used: VICTORIA FHS = Family History Society Kilmore on the Sydney road. Tucker, Maya Ashby De La Launde; Aswarby; Aunsby; @ = Society Purchase V. (Page, Margaret & Reynolds G), [GSV: Billinghay; Bloxholme; Brauncewell;  (...) = Donor’s name, if not the author 994.53 KILM TUC] Burton Pedwardine; Cranwell; Dembleby; Seymour’s wooden wonder and other stories. Digby; Dorrington; Evedon; Ewerby; FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Jennings, John G. [GSV: 994.53 SEYM Folkingham; Great Hale; Haceby; The Joneses of Nunawading Shire : fl ower JEN] Heckington; Helpringham; Howell; growers to generations of Melburnians. Looking back at Willowmavin. Dodd, Stuart Kirkby; Laythorpe; Leasingham; Newton Jones, Roger K. The story of three families F. (Page, Margaret). [GSV: 994.53 WILL by Folkingham; Osbournby; Pickworth; of Joneses who grew plants, bulbs, and DOD] Quarrington; Rowston; Ruskington; Scot fl owers for the Melbourne market over Willoughby; Scredington; Silk Willoughby; EUROPE a period of about 70 years. It starts with Sleaford; South Kyme; Spanby; Swarby; The encyclopedia of Jewish life before and James Jones from Buckinghamshire Swaton; Threckingham; Walcot by during the Holocaust, vols 1-3.(ISG) [GSV: coming to the Victorian Goldfi elds in 1852. Folkingham. Loveden Deanery: Ancaster; 909.82 ENC] Crown land was fi rst released in 1854 Barkston; Beckingham; Belton; Brant Shores of hope; Wends go overseas. and after the Grant act of 1865, the area Broughton; Carlton Scroop; Caythorpe; Malinkowa, Trudla. The book explores of Nunawading Shire was developed. The Claypole; Fenton; Fulbeck; Heydour; the exodus of several thousand Wends to Joneses acquired various parcels of land Honington; Hough On The Hill; Hougham; overseas countries including Australia and eventually created Rosemont Flower Leadenham; Marston; Normanton; in the 19th century. Index of immigrants Farm. The book gives history of the period, Rauceby; Stragglethorpe; Stubton; Syston; to Australia, Canada, Texas, Iowa, South tells of the plants grown and lives of the Welbourn; Welby; Westborough; Wilsford. Africa (ISG). [GSV: 994.089431 MALI ] families who grew them. [GSV: 929.2 @.. [Digital copy @ GSV] JONE JON] ENGLAND SUFFOLK The Letters of George Spink & Thomas LANCASHIRE Suff olk baptism index 1650-1753 Colneis & Dunning Kay [1852-1856] Collection of The registers of the parish of Ashton under Samford Deaneries. Suff olk FHS. Belstead letters written by Thomas Kay and George Lyne 1720-1760. Lancashire Parish St Mary (to 1899), Bentley, St Mary (to Spink (butchers from Yorkshire) between Register Society. [GSV: 929.3342 LAN 1901), Brantham St Michael, Brightwell 1852 and 1856 as they made their way to LAN] St John the Baptist with Foxhall, Australia, became caught up in the gold Bucklesham St Mary (to 1899), Burstall rush, and eventually bought farmland LINCOLNSHIRE St Mary, Capel St Mary, Chattisham near Beechworth. (Page, Margaret). [GSV: Lincolnshire baptisms 1813-1837: v 2: All Saints & St Margaret (to 1902), 929.2 SPIN LET] [deaneries of] Aveland & Ness, Beltisloe, Chelmondiston St Andrew (to 1901), My fortunate life. Vanderfeen, Leo. The Grantham, Laff ord and Loveden. Copdock St Peter (to 1901), East Bergholt Vanderfeens lived at Mittyack West in Lincolnshire FHS. Indexes from baptisms St Mary, Erwarton St Mary (to 1901), the Mallee, Victoria. Covers 1927 - 1932. in Church of England parish registers Falkenham St Ethelbert, Felixstowe St (Sharp. Rilda). [GSV: 929.2 VAND VAN] where it has proved possible to access & John the Baptist (1895-1900), Felixstowe The Watsons of Kilconnor, County also Bishops transcripts (BTs). Aveland St Peter & St Paul, Freston St Peter, Carlow 1650 - present. Coutts, Peter. The & Ness Deanery: Aslackby; Barholme; Harkstead St Mary, Hemley All Saints Kilconnor Watsons; The Ballydarton Baston ;Billingborough; Bourne; (to 1902), Higham St Mary (to 1902), Watsons; The Australian Watsons; family Braceborough; Carlby; Deeping St James; Hintlesham St Nicholas, Holbrook All of George John Watson; Australian Dowsby; Dunsby; Edenham; Greatford Saints, Holton St Mary, (to 1901), Kirton branch; William Currie Watson; The (1755-1837); Greatford & Wilsthorpe St Mary & St Peter (to 1901), Levington Edenderry Watsons County Off aly; The (BTs 1700-1754); Hacconby ;Horbling; St Peter, Nacton St Martin, Raydon St Baltracey Watsons, County Kildare; The Kirkby Underwood; Langtoft; Market Mary (to 1903), Shelley All Saints (to Tipperary Watsons; Country houses Deeping; Morton by Bourne; Rippingale; 1901), Shotley St Mary, Sproughton All of the Watsons in County Tipperary; Sempringham; Stamford All Saints; Saints, Stratford St Mary, Stutton St The Lumcloon Watsons; The Altamont Stamford St George; Stamford St John; Peter, Tattingstone St Mary (to 1901), Watsons; The English Watsons; Waterford Stamford St Mary; Stamford St Martin; Trimley St Martin, Trimley St Mary, and beyond; The English Watsons; family Stamford St Michael; Tallington; Thurlby Waldringfi eld All Saints, Walton St Mary, of George Newenham Watson. [GSV: 929.2 By Bourne; Uffi ngton; West Deeping; Washbrook St Mary (to 1911), Wenham Gt WATS COU] Wilsthorpe (1755-1836); Witham On The St John, Wenham Lt All Saints (to 1902), Hill. Beltisloe Deanery: Bassingthorpe; Wherstead St Mary, Woolverstone St ASIA -BURMA Bitchfi eld; Boothby Pagnell; Braceby; Michael. [Digital copy @ GSV] The Exceptional Melbourne Cup Tuesday Burton Coggles; Careby; Castle Bytham; Suff olk baptism index 1813-1900 Dunwich November 3rd 1942: Tavoy, Burma, a Colsterworth; Corby Glen; Creeton; Great Deanery. Suff olk FHS. Includes story of Australian tradition, humour, Ponton; Gunby St Nicholas; Holywell; Aldringham cum Thorpe St Andrew, resourcefulness and courage. Lewis, Ingoldsby; Irnham; Lenton; Little Bytham; Benacre St Michael, Blyford, All Saints, Charles. Story of the POWs at Tavoy, Little Ponton; North Witham; Ropsley; Blythburgh Holy Trinity, Bramfi eld St holding a horse race in 1942. [GSV: 940.54 Sapperton; Skillington; Somerby; South Andrew, Brampton St Peter, Carlton,St LEW] Witham; Stainby; Stoke Rochford; Peter, Chediston St Mary, Cookley St Swayfi eld; Swinstead. Grantham Deanery: Michael, Covehithe St Andrew, Cratfi eld Barrowby; Denton; East Allington;

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 23 St Mary, Darsham All Saints, Dunwich Deanery includes: Buxhall St Mary, Lt, All Saints - Chedburgh, All Saints - All Saints, Frostenden All Saints, Chilton (see Stowmarket), Combs, St Clare, St Peter & St Paul - Cowlinge, St Halesworth St Mary, Henstead St Mary, Mary, Creeting All Saints, All Saints with Margaret - Dalham, St Mary Denham (nr Heveningham St Margaret, Holton St St Olave, Creeting St Peter, Dagworth Bury), St Mary - Denston, St Nicholas Peter, Huntingfi eld St Mary, Kelsale St (see Old Newton), Gt Finborough, St - Depden, St Mary - Gazeley, All Saints - Mary & St Peter, Knodishall St Lawrence, Andrew, Little Finborough, St Mary, Haverhill, St Mary - Hawkedon, St Mary Leiston St Margaret with Sizewell, Harleston, St Augustine, Haughley, St - Hundon, All Saints - Kedington, St Peter Linstead Magna St Peter, Linstead Parva Mary, Old Newton, St Mary, Onehouse, & St Paul - Kentford, St Mary - Lidgate, St Margaret, Middleton cum Fordley Holy St John the Baptist, Shelland, King St Mary - Moulton, St Peter - Ousden, St Trinity, Peasenhall St Michael, Reydon Charles the Martyr, Stowmarket, St Peter - Poslingford, St Mary - Stansfi eld, St Margaret, Rumburgh St Michael, Peter & St Paul, Stowupland, Holy All Saints - Stoke by Clare, St John

Additions to Library Sibton St Peter, Sotherton St Andrew Trinity, Wetherden, St Mary Thedwastre the Baptist - Stradishall, St Margaret South Cove St Lawrence Southwold St Deanery includes : Ampton, St Peter, - Thurlow Gt, All Saints - Thurlow Lt, Edmund, Spexhall St Peter, Stoven St Barton Gt, Holy Innocents, Beyton, All St Peter - Wickhambrook, All Saints - Margaret Theberton St Peter, Thorington Saints, Bradfi eld Combust, All Saints, Withersfi eld, St Mary the Virgin - Wixoe, St Peter, Ubbeston St Peter, Uggeshall St Bradfi eld St Clare, St Clare, Bradfi eld St St Leonard - Wratting Gt, St Mary - Mary Walberswick St Andrew, Walpole St George, St George, Drinkstone, All Saints, Wratting Lt, St Mary. @.. [Digital copy @ Mary, Wangford (nr Southwold) St Peter, Felsham, St Peter, Fornham St Genevieve, GSV] Wenhaston St Peter, Westhall St Andrew, St Genevieve, Fornham St Martin, St Suff olk marriage index: Fordham Deanery Westleton St Peter, Wissett, St Andrew Martin, Gedding, St Mary, Hesset, St 1650-1753. Suff olk FHS. Includes: Barton Wrentham St Nicholas, Yoxford, St Peter Ethelbert 1538, Livermere Gt, St Peter, Mills, St Mary 1663-1753; Brandon, St (Indexed by bride and groom @. [Digital Pakenham, St Mary, Rattlesden, St Peter 1653-1753; Cavenham, St Andrew; copy @ GSV] Nicholas, Rougham, St Mary, Rushbrooke, Elveden, St Andrew & St Patrick 1650- Suff olk marriage index 1754-1812: St Nicholas, Stanningfi eld, St Nicholas 1753; Eriswell, St Peter (BTs) 1663-1676; Blackbourn, Stow, Thedwastre & Thingoe 1561, Thurston, St Peter, Timworth, Eriswell, St Peter 1678-1753; Exning, [Deaneries] Suff olk FHS. St Andrew 1558, Tostock, St Andrew, St Martin 1650-1753; Freckenham, St Blackbourn Deanery includes: Badwell Whelnetham Gt, St Thomas a Becket, Andrew; Herringswell, St Ethelbert (BTs) Ash, St Mary, Bardwell, St Peter & St Whelnetham Lt, St Mary Magdalene, 1665-1750; Herringswell, St Ethelbert Paul, Barnham, St Gregory, Barningham, Woolpit, St Mary Thingoe Deanery 1749-1753; Icklingham, All Saints St Andrew, Chimney Mills (see West includes: Barrow, All Saints, Brockley, 1662-1753; Icklingham, St James (BTs) Stow), Coney Weston, St Mary, Culford, St Andrew, Bury St Edmunds, St James, 1663-1753; Lakenheath, St Mary (BTs) St Mary, Elmswell, St John the Divine, St John, Bury St Edmunds, Chevington, 1663-1711; Lakenheath, St Mary 1711- Euston, St Genevieve, Fakenham Magna, All Saints, Flempton, St Catherine with 1753; Mildenhall, St Mary 1650-1754; St Peter, Hepworth, St Peter, Hinderclay, Hengrave, Fornham All Saints, All Saints, Newmarket, All Saints; Newmarket, St St Peter, Honington, All Saints, Hopton Hardwick (see Hawstead), Hargrave, St Mary; Santon Downham, St Mary 1650; (nr Thetford), All Saints, Hunston, St Edmund, Hawstead, All Saints, Hengrave Worlington, All Saints (BTs) 1663-1719; Michael, Ingham, St Bartholomew, (see Flempton), Horningsheath (see Worlington, All Saints 1719-1753. @. Ixworth Thorpe, All Saints, Ixworth, St Horringer), Horringer, St Leonard, [Digital copy @ GSV] Mary, Knettishall, All Saints, Langham, Horsecroft (see Horringer), Ickworth, St SCOTLAND St Mary, Lt Livermere, St Peter & St Mary, Lackford, St Lawrence, Nowton, Kiwi kith & kin: Scottish Interest Group Paul, Market Weston, St Mary, Norton, St Peter, Rede, All Saints, Risby, St Giles, NZSG, inlcuding Nova Scotian Scottish. St Andrew, Rickinghall Inferior, St Mary, Saxham Gt, St Andrew, Saxham Lt, St No. 110 (Spring 2017) to date. Sapiston, St Andrew, Stanton, All Saints, Nicholas, South Park or Southwood (see [Digital copy @ GSV] Stanton, St John the Baptist, Stowlangtoft, Hargrave), Westley, St Mary, Whepstead, St George, Thelnetham, St Nicholas, St Petronilla. @. [Digital copy @ GSV] MORAY Troston, St Mary, Walsham Le Willows, Suff olk marriage index: Clare deanery 1650- Moray past and present: a collection of St Mary, Wattisfi eld, St Margaret, West 1753. Suff olk FHS. Includes Barnardiston, photographs old and new. (McKenzie. Stow, St Mary, Wordwell All Saints Stow All Saints - Bradley Gt, St Mary - Bradley Mary). [GSV: 941.223 MOR] Members Queries

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FRAWLEY, JACKA, MARSHALL FRAWLEY MARSHALL/JACKA Seeking to identify photo (below) of my g-gf James Seeking info/desc Elias MARSHALL b 21 September 1845 FRAWLEY b 1857 Bendigo (par: John FRAWLEY & Mary Winterbourne Earls, WILT d 1876 Melb m 1872 Melb, Ellen CONNORS). Written on back of photo by my fa William Louisa JACKA. Chn: Louisa Emily b 1874 d 1875; John John FRAWLEY are the words ‘Friends of Grandfather, George b 1875 d 1926; William b 1878? Ellen Louisa m2 James FRAWLEY – Early Days at Jindivic Victoria’. 1879 Charles STEMP, cert states 3 chn, 2 living, 1 dec. M. Pardon D. Stemp ¢[email protected] ¢[email protected]

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Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 25 A Guide to Researching Western Australian Records

by Martin J Playne

History GSV Records Western Australia (WA) has been occupied by The GSV Research and Education Centre and Aboriginal people for over 40,000 years. the GSV website are good places to start your • 1826 – Albany in King George Sound was the WA research. Online commercial databases, Martin can be contacted at fi rst European settlement in WA, when Major such as Ancestry and fi ndmypast, include quite a [email protected] Edmund Lockyer arrived with convicts from number of digitised WA records. These databases NSW on 26 December 1826. It was then that the are available free for members to search at the British crown claimed the western third of the GSV. There are over 550 catalogue entries and continent 580 GIN/LINX records available for WA. Always •1829 – Swan River Colony check your family name on GIN/LINX. The established – the site of the Research Centre carries the WA Blue Book (1871- present day Perth. Harsh 1905), WA Post Offi ce Directories (1905-1942), conditions faced the settlers, WA Year Book, WA Biographical Index (WABI), anda growth of the European now online with 85,403 entries, the Dictionary populationp was slow of Western Australians multiple volumes, now largely replaced by WABI , and the Western •1850• – WA’s population Ancestor magazine from 2015 with earlier wasw only 5886. It was volumes digitally indexed. initiallyi a ‘free settlement’, butb economic problems for State Records Offi ce (SRO) of WA settlersse led them to seek the James Street West Entrance, Perth Cultural transportationtr of British Centre, Perth WA 6000. The Search Room is on convicts,co so a penal colony the ground fl oor. Tel: 08 9427 3600 wasw established www.sro.wa.gov.au • ByB 1868, over 9000 convicts hadha arrived on 43 convict The SRO is the Western Australian public records voyagesvo authority responsible for managing, preserving •1880s• 1 – Discovery of gold and providing access to the State’s records. It • 18901 – WA gained the right of contains numerous records that are of great value self-governmentsel to those undertaking family history research, such as passenger lists, convict records, court case fi les •1901• 19 – WA was reluctant to and wills. The SRO search room is located on the joinjoin the federation of States ground fl oor of the Alexander Library Building. to fform the Commonwealth of Researchers thus have easy access to other Australia,Aus until a railway line important family history resources available in waswas off ered between the west the State Library in the same building. andand the east coast Image 1: WA Pastoral Land Tenure Map. • 1903 – Goldfi elds Water Supply State Library of WA (SLWA) Courtesy of Department of Agriculture Scheme was completed. This 25 Francis Street, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth and Food, WA. (2019) provided a pipeline between WA 6000 Tel: 08 9427 3111 Mundaring Weir and the Email: [email protected] Eastern Goldfi elds, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie The State Library has many services to off er family history researchers. For more information, see: Historical encyclopedia of Western Australia edited by Jenny Gregory : & Jan Gothard which can be downloaded at: Useful SLWA Publications https://ap01.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/ • Dead Reckoning: How to Find Your Way delivery/61UWA_INST/12334498990002101 Through the Genealogical Jungle of Western

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 26 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Australia by Steve Howell, (1997) an excellent Aboriginal Records guide to the collections of the State Records Information on Aboriginal family history is held Offi ce and the Battye Library. Available online in the SRO Archives. They hold a database of and updated. 11,000 names of indigenous people in WA. An • Our Military Ancestors: A Guide to Sources index to the Chief Protector of Aborigines fi les in the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian 1898 - 1908 is also available. In WA, successive History and the State Archives of Western State Government agencies controlled the lives Australia by Glenda Oakley, (1991). This guide of Aboriginal people. The offi cial records that covers military service in WA and by Western document this control are of vital signifi cance,

Australians from the establishment of the particularly for those people who were removed to’ Series ‘How GSV colony in 1829 to post WW2. from their families and settled elsewhere in the State. The SRO holds departmental fi les SLWA Genealogy Centre relating to Aboriginal aff airs dating back as https://slwa.wa.gov.au/explore-discover/ far as the 1880s. Before this period records family-history/genealogy-centre relating to Aboriginal people can be found in the correspondence of the Colonial Secretary’s Offi ce Western Australian material is housed in the – also held by the SRO. The Aboriginal History J S Battye Library of West Australian History Research Services, Level 2, SLWA manage and (Alexander Library Building) on the 3rd fl oor. The coordinate enquiries for Aboriginal family history. Genealogy Centre, also on the 3rd fl oor, includes an extensive collection of resources, which can be Almanacs, Year Books, Gazettes and used to trace ancestors from around the world. Directories Almanacs predate the WA government Year Western Australia Genealogical Books and Post Offi ce Directories, and served Society Inc. (WAGS) operating as a similar purpose in detailing the activities of the colony of Western Australia. The SLWA ‘FamilyHistoryWA’ has digitised a series of almanacs covering the 6/48 May Street, Bayswater, WA 6053 period 1849-1889. The library blogsite describes Tel: 08 9271 4311 the collection: https://slwa.wordpress. https://membership.wags.org.au com/2015/12/10/early-almanacs-digitised The Society is the largest society of its type in WA Government Gazettes (1836- 2018) indexed and and was formed in 1979. They have a large family available online at the Department of Premier history lending library, which enables members and Cabinet. See: www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/ to borrow books on their areas of interest and gazette.nsf or research. The Society produces an excellent quarterly magazine, the Western Ancestor. Note: Post Office Directories: These cover the period The GSV has reciprocal membership rights with 1893 to 1949, and provide information by place, WAGS. surname, government service, and by trade or profession. The diff erent sections enable readers Their version of the WA Biographical Index is to see at a glance the householders or businesses more user friendly. Just key in the surname and in any one town; the address of any householder all the entries showing are retrieved. http:// or business in the State. They are available online membership.wags.org.au/members-data/ as PDFs – http://slwa.wa.gov.au/explore- public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index discover/wa-heritage/post-office-directories

The Royal Western Australian Police Gazettes (1876- 1900) include a mass Historical Society Inc. (RWAHS) of information, not only police appointments, 49 Broadway, cnr Clark Street, Nedlands WA dismissals, discharges, promotions, resignations 6009 Tel. 08 9386 3841 and transfers, but also: apprehensions; tickets www.histwest.org.au of leave, certifi cates of freedom, and conditional pardons issued to convicts; deserters from The Society was formed in 1926. It has about 800 military service; escaped prisoners; inquests; members and organisations, including a network licences for pubs and clubs and boarding houses; of Affi liated Societies interested in preserving the missing friends; prisoners discharged; special history of WA. The Society houses a museum with inquiries; stealing in dwellings; and warrants a unique art collection, an extensive reference issued. They are available to download as PDFs library, a photograph archive and a bookshop. – http://slwa.wa.gov.au/explore-discover/wa- heritage/police-gazettes FamilySearch For Western Australia online genealogy records, Schools Records Index 1891- 2005 This index see: www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Western_ comprising 2687 names, compiled by Dr Neville Australia Green, is available on the WAGS website (https://

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 27 membership.wags.org.au) and enables users to The Outback Family History website has much determine the archival material the SRO holds for information on the people, places, and history of government schools in the period covered. the town. It includes maps, listing of hotels, early BDMs 1891-1898 and cemetery records and more. Western Australian Year Books: Published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. See www. Australian Cemeteries: www. abs.gov.au. This is an annual publication fi rst australiancemeteries.com.au/wa/index.htm released in 1883. The older versions have a mixture of names between Year Book Western Outback Grave Markers group have recently

GSV ‘How to’ Series ‘How GSV Australia and Statistical Register of Western launched their website (www.outbackgraves. Australia. org) giving information on over 500 previously unmarked or poorly marked graves. Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Lonely Graves defi ned as ‘a lonely grave is a Department of the Justice, Level 10, single or small group of graves outside recognised 141 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 or currently used cemeteries’. This site shows Tel. 1300 305 021 2714 graves with names, burial sites and https://bdm.justice.wa.gov.au/_apps/ photographs. Useful for that elusive search. See: pioneersindex/default.aspx www.lonelygraves.wags.org.au

The Registrar has free online searching from Lorraine’s Cemetery Record Pages has pioneer 1841 for their historical records. It’s only an index and regional cemeteries, including Albany and does not contain all the information on a Memorial Park, Rockingham Memorial Park, Certifi cate. Years covered are: Births 1841-1932, Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery, Bunbury Pioneer Deaths 1841-1971, and Marriages 1841- 1936. Cemetery and many more. Uncertifi ed copy of a registration – $20 (Births www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/waus.htm 100 years or more, Marriages 75 years or more and Deaths up to 1983). Convicts The majority of the convict establishment records Reverse marriage lookup 1906-1965 are available for viewing on microfi lm at SRO. www.wamarriage.info See: www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/ This index, by the Perth Dead Person’s Society, collection/convict-records off ers searches beyond 1936 and identifi es both husband and wife. There is also a county Gillian O’Mara and The Friends of Battye Library marriages index available 1951-1965. have recently released a free 106 page online book Convict Records of Western Australia. WA Birth Index (1906-1941) is compiled by The book was fi rst published in 1990; this is an volunteers of FamilyHistoryWA from family updated improved version published in 2016. It notices in WA newspapers. is available as a downloaded pdf fi le from: www. See: www.fhwa.org.au friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au

Cemeteries See also Fremantle Prison convict records – The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board (MCB) https://fremantleprison.com.au/history- records date back to 1899, and cover Karrakatta, heritage/history/convict-database Fremantle, Pinnaroo, Midland, Guildford and and Rockingham cemeteries. The MCB took over http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/ administration of Guildford and Midland convicts/con-wa.html cemeteries from the Shire of Swan in 1989, and these records have been included in the system. Online convict records for WA are also available See www.mcb.wa.gov.au/research through Ancestry and FamilySearch

East Perth Cemeteries Images, Historical Records from 1829 - 1896 Images of Western Australian History is a www.eastperthcemeteries.com.au collaborative project with the aim of highlighting East Perth Cemeteries is a now disused complex the local history collections held by various of seven independently administered cemeteries institutions, notably libraries, local museums in East Perth, Western Australia. It is estimated and historical societies that exist across WA. that as many as 10,000 people were buried there See: https://imageswesternaustralianhistory. between 1830 and 1919; however, only around 800 weebly.com or email: gravesites have been identifi ed. [email protected]

Western Australia’s Central Goldfields The Royal WA Historical Society holds a www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au large and excellent photographic collection. Low

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 28 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc resolution copies are shown online, but usually high resolution copies are available for purchase ($25.00 per digital image). See: www.histwest.org.au

SLWA Images Over 17,375 images are held and 6228 of these are available online. Conditions of use vary. See: http://slwa.wa.gov.au

The State Library of Victoria has a large collection of WA images with many of them out of copyright.

Land Records Landgate, PO Box 2222, Midland, WA, 6936 Tel. 08 9273 7373 Image 2: An aerial view of Albany,WA, photographer Allan C Green, State Library https://www0.landgate.wa.gov.au/titles-and- of Victoria Pictures Collection, Accession no. H91.325/2060 surveys/historical-records not all) include lists of passengers. See: http:// Landgate is one of the oldest State Government members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/ agencies. It was originally known as The Survey mig-wa.htm Offi ce of Western Australia and created as early as 1829. They hold historic titles, maps, charts, Passenger Arrivals in Western survey plans and an array of other historic records Australia 1896-1966 that date back to the fi rst colonisation of the Swan The Passenger Arrivals index is an online River Settlement. Fees are charged for these database that includes the names from passenger services. Perth Rate Books (1880-1946) are lists in the National Archives of Australia series available online at www.ancestry.com.au K269 Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport Maps and out-ports, chronological series, 1898-1978 The SRO holds a large number of historic maps and series A1197 Incoming passenger cards. The that can be viewed online. They include: townsites index now includes the names of over 5.5 million (early tracings and original plans), exploration passengers arriving: plans, historic survey plans, group settlement • by ship between 1898 and 1966 (arriving in plans, geological survey maps and many others. or travelling through the port of Fremantle or Index plans for 1900 and 1949 help you locate the other WA ports) map or plan of interest. See: www.sro.wa.gov.au/ • by aircraft from 1944 to 1966 to Perth Airport archive-collection/collection/maps-online (or travelling through), and Motor Vehicles Registrations • by ship or aircraft from 1965 to 1967. 1917-1928 See: www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/ Over 80,000 records from data held by the RAC fs220.aspx WA have been transcribed and made available WA Passenger and Crew Lists 1852-1930 and online by the Carnamah Historical Society and Fremantle WA Passenger Lists 1897-1963 are Museum. Records include name and address of available online at www.ancestry.com.au the person as well as vehicle details. See: www. carnamah.com.au/car-registrations Wills Will indexes and probate papers are held at the Newspapers SRO. Files less than 75 years old may be obtained Trove (accessed via National Library of Australia from: The Supreme Court, Probate Registry, Level website: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper) 14, 111 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000

Their WA section has been expanded and Acknowledgments improved over the past eighteen months. State My thanks to ‘Lone Tester’ at www.lonetester. Library of Victoria also has many papers available com/2017/04/discovering-links-25-free- on microfi lm. links-for-western-australian-genealogy- research for bringing my attention to a number Passenger Ships arriving in Fremantle of useful sites. I thank Dr Lesley Silvester and 1829-1889 Mike Murray of WAGS, Christine Playne, A chronological list of ships that arrived in WA Tina Hocking, and particularly Pat Miller for (Fremantle) from 1829, stating the date the ship suggestions, useful additions and comments on arrived, and where it came from. Many (but the manuscript.

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What is a Parliamentary Paper? Queensland Parliament. Registers of Legislative A Parliamentary Paper is a document from the Assembly tabled papers prior to October 2017 is a working of the executive government and which has comprehensive list of tabled papers with full text been formally presented or tabled to a Parliament. papers online from January 1990.: This means that it is available to the public usually www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/ in printed form. tabled-papers/previous-tabled-papers

Each Australian Parliament (Commonwealth, State South Australia Parliament. Proceedings of the SA and Territory) publishes Parliamentary Papers. parliament 1888 and 1900 – the full text is available on Ancestry. What sort of information do Parliamentary Papers contain? Early records of the Tasmanian Parliament A wide range of subjects are covered in www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/earlyrecords/ parliamentary papers, for example: earlyrecords.htm. Browse through these early • Royal Commission reports such as penal and hand written records from 1826-1848; 1860-1919 prison discipline (industrial and reformatory schools) 1872 or employees in shops (1884) Parliament of Tasmania. Publication search. www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ParliamentSearch • Statistics of the colony of Victoria (often In the search drop-down box select the referred to as blue books) this can include ‘Parliamentary Papers Index’ to search the names or people employed by Government, for publications from 1892. example the blue book for 1873 contains names of members of parliament, foreign consuls, Government pensioners, land forces volunteers What is a Government Gazette? and offi cers. The blue books were published A government gazette is an offi cial publication annually for the purpose of notifying the actions and/ or decisions of the government. All Australian • Annual reports of departments and agencies. governments (Commonwealth, State and Territory) publish offi cial gazettes. Where are they? Parliament of Victoria. Parliamentary papers database contains many full text papers from 1851: What sort of information do www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Search Government Gazettes contain? A wide range of subjects are covered in Government Strehlow, T J. Index to Victorian Parliamentary Gazettes and include for example: papers. (Parkville, Vic), Baillieu Library, 1996. • Public Service vacancies, appointments and location: RHSV: 328.945 STR. This is a great promotions, and government tenders starting place to fi nd out what else is available. • Land notices of acquisition, disposal and transfers of property, leases granted In the GSV’s GIN index we have indexed the • Lists of awards, honours, medals names of individuals appearing in a selection of parliamentary papers. Covering the topics • Government orders of various kinds, private education, agriculture and land, petitions, police, notices of a legal nature e.g. bankruptcies, public service, railways, University of Melbourne, company registrations and windings-up, probate, and more to come. by-laws of companies under royal charter • Local government matters such as licensing New South Wales Parliament. Comprehensive index of auctioneers, public houses, depasturing and to all parliamentary documents available online grazing 1824: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/hansard/ • Registers of nurses and medical professionals pages/first-council.aspx

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 30 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Where are they? South Australian Government Gazette 1839–1999 http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_ gazette

Government Gazette (Hobart) 1816-1925, former title Hobart Gazette 1903-1906 Corner Research www.familysearch.org/search/ collection/2170647

The Hobart Town Gazette (Tas: 1825-1827; 1830), Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter (Tas: 1816-1821), Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser (Tas: 1821-1825) are available Image 1: Victoria. Royal Commission on Penal and Prison in Trove Newspapers https://trove.nla.gov.au/ Discipline. Industrial and reformatory schools: report (no. newspaper 3) of the Royal Commission on Penal and Prison Discipline. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1872 Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW: 1901-2001), New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW: 1832-1900) https://trove.nla.gov.au/gazette

Queensland Government Gazette 1859-1900: www.textqueensland.com.au/gazette

The Western Australian Government Gazette from 1836 is found online at the Department of the Premier and Cabinet website. Browse and search facilities are available. Access to individual notices is from 1st January 2002. Indexes are available online from 1836. www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gazette.nsf

Victoria Government Gazette (VGG).The fi rst issue was published on 9 July 1851. Before that date material about Victoria was published in Image 2: Victorian Government Gazette for January 1863 the New South Wales Government Gazette, the Port Phillip Government Notices and the Port Phillip Government Gazette. http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au

The Victoria Government Gazette is also available Further reading and searching: in Australasian Legal Information Institute State Library of Victoria Research Guides. Check under (Austlii) http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/other/ the subject tab ‘government & politics’ at https:// vic_gazette guides.slv.vic.gov.au The Internet search for the VGG uses OCR (Optical Sharpe, Kathleen E. ‘Gold! Gold! Victorian Character Recognition) and this is not reliable for parliamentary papers as a family history source’ in the early publications. Ancestor, 21(7) Spring 1993 p21. The article lists all the collections of parliamentary papers held in the GSV. Don’t forget to search in the GSV’s GIN index as Our indexing team is working hard so that the names we have indexed many names from the Victoria are added to our GIN index. Government Gazette.  Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies, Parliamentary Papers for the Colony of Victoria: an index of the ‘Ordinary People’ they uncover: v. 1 1852- 1859/60, v. 2 1860-1869/70; v. 3 1870-1879; v. 4 1880- 1889; v. 5 1890-1899. 4 CDs. Digital copy @ GSV

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Not Everyone Wants to Publish a Book Some ideas for writing and sharing your family history

Some people are daunted by the idea of writing these facts when we come to write our stories. and publishing a book: the time it may take, However, if we are too heavy-handed with facts, By Jenny Scammell, the cost of doing it and all the technical issues we may well bore our readers. Now this statement based on a talk she gave to the GSV Writers involved. Whilst we often talk about writing can often spark a debate on what should be Circle on 3 July 2019. books at our monthly GSV Writers Circle, this included. My view is there is room for both types, Jenny can be contacted at is not the primary objective. First and foremost heavy-handed on facts or not, but primarily the [email protected] it is to improve writing skills and make stories way you write depends on the audience you are interesting and appealing to our families and writing for. A history book needs all the facts, but others so they will want to read them. To publish for your family, the story you have learnt from a book is often considered the pinnacle of these these facts is often more attractive. aspirations and there are several published authors in our group, but this is not for everyone. Try to write small stories or vignettes as often It is important to fi nd a method of circulating your as you can, especially when the information is stories that suits you. In this article I describe fresh in your mind. Stories can be edited later, but some ideas I have found helpful when writing you don’t always remember all the details later. family stories and explore some alternatives to a Planning your story before you start writing can book that may be useful to present your stories. also be useful, whether it be formally on paper or stewing it over in your head for a while before Tips for Writing you write. Do whatever suits you. I fi nd having a Putting pen to paper, or in this day and age fi ngers timeline of events before I write helps me, but I to the keyboard, is probably the hardest part of rarely have a formal plan. writing. You don’t have to start at the beginning, wherever that might be! The topic that you choose How do I Share my Family Stories? to write about could be an event, a person, an In this age of technology, there are many ways to occupation or a village, but to start with it has to share our stories other than publishing a book, be something that most interests you. Writing will especially if we want to engage the younger fl ow much more easily if you are really interested generation. Whilst some methods are easier to use in the topic you are writing about. A useful hint I than others, it is important to choose a method have always remembered from a writing course you are comfortable with and one which will was to write like you are telling a story to one appeal to the audience you are trying to reach. person, as only one person will be reading it at There are many simple and, what I like most, cost- one time. You know yourself when reading, if the eff ective means to share your stories. Following writer doesn’t engage you early on in their story, are some examples I have used or seen, for you to you feel less inclined to read further. Try to have a consider. I’m sure this is only the tip of the iceberg. ‘hook’ in the fi rst line or paragraph so your reader will want to continue. Facebook is an online networking website I have used for many years. On Anzac Day I posted a As family historians, we invest so much time and framed photo of my grandfather in uniform, with a money in fi nding all the facts about our ancestors, collection of his medals beneath. This stimulated that we often fi nd it diffi cult to let go of a lot of discussion with my sister and nephews about my

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 32 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc grandfather’s war service, a lot of which they were I have touched on some of the manyy unaware of. On Mother’s Day I posted photos of choices open to you, but you need my grandmother, her mother and grandmother to fi nd the one that works for that also stimulated talk and my aunt shared you. The three most important Getting it write Getting several memories of her grandmother. Whilst aspects to consider in making travelling overseas last year I used Facebook to your choice are your intended share photos and write details about the places readership, the format you we visited which were connected to my ancestors are most comfortable with and that created much family interest. Facebook is and any budget constraints. a way of spreading small snippets of your family There are other factors you stories with the possibility of relatives wanting to may like to consider, such as read longer stories in the future. images, referencing, distribution andnd longevity, but all are dependent on Sharing bite-sized stories more often is a good the fi rst three choices. Importantly,, way to spark people’s interest. A blog is one way of no matter how little you write or doing this, as well as preserving your stories and what form your writing takes, you reaching out to a wider audience. A blog can be set are leaving a legacy. Start writing up by anyone easily and at no cost. You will fi nd today about the things that my blog Making Ancestors Interesting at https:// interest you the most in your interestingancestors.blogspot.com. It is hard family history journey. to maintain a commitment to writing a blog and I must admit that after an initial splurge on writing pieces, I haven’t written anything lately. I intend to return to it, as it is an excellent way of writing and distributing stories that your family can Images: Screenshots from Jenny’s blog access easily and it costs you nothing.

Websites are another means of spreading facts and stories about your family, but require more expertise. One example, among many is Simon’s Family History at www.simonpg.com. This is a website created by a descendant connected to one of my children’s paternal lines. It has a wealth of information and importantly is well sourced too. Help Wanted: Another possibility is to use a video presentation to tell your family stories. I have seen several Blog Editor presentations by genealogist, Lisa Louise The GSV is seeking one or more Cooke, GenealogyGems.com, telling her family volunteers for the role of Editor of its story this way. An example, ‘Cooke: England to blog ‘Family History Matters’ in 2020. Canada’, can be found at http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=K3bVXz1xJyY (accessed 2 The blog has been successfully established for three years and Oct 2019). She used Animoto video-creation the Editor is fully supported by GSV’s Digital Media Team and IT software to do this and Lisa has many YouTube videos available where she takes you through the people. No social media or IT knowledge is needed. process step by step. This is a great opportunity to prepare content and contribute to an established family history blog. You can work with the current There are also plenty of print-based possibilities, other than a book, to explore. Be creative with Blog Editor to become familiar with the role and it can scrapbooks, photobooks or calendars. Write an be undertaken fully from home in your own time. article for a journal such as Ancestor, upload a PDF of your family story to the GSV or just If you would like to register your interest or fi nd out more, email it to family and friends. You might simply please contact Janne Bonnett, Chair Digital Media Team photocopy or print your own booklets to give to by email [email protected] or your family. phone the GSV Offi ce (Linda) on (03) 9662 4455.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 33 Jottings... and library news Linley Hooper, FGSV Jottings

Although civil divorce (enabling parties to remarry) in the Sydney Catholic Cemeteries website: https:// only began in England and Wales in 1858 (without an catholiccemeteries.com.au and click on the red tab Act of Parliament), church courts were able to deal with ‘Doing an ancestry search?’ marital breakdown. See ‘True, public and notorious: a case of Georgian abuse and Victorian divorce’ by Susan The Cornwall Family History Society 172 (Jun Swalwell in the Cleveland FHS journal 14:3 (Jul 2019). 2019) publishes the story of ‘The Grays: Redruth to the Her example came from the ‘Bawdy Courts’ among Goldfi elds’ by Margaret English. the Yorkshire Cause Papers which are now online as a searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cases heard ‘The children of mothers in the convict system of between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the Van Diemens Land’ by Professor Lucy Frost in The Diocese of York. For more information on marriage, I Genealogist 16:1 (Mar 2019) is most interesting. highly recommend Rebecca Probert’s Marriage Law for Genealogists and Mark Herber’s Ancestral Trails, both Irish Roots 111 (2019:3) has a good article on ‘Rentals available in our library. as a family history resource’ and the focus of this issue is County Longford. Another interesting article is on ‘DNA ‘Checking the enumerator’ in the Lincolnshire testing: how to optimize your anonymity and privacy’. FHS journal 29:4 (Nov 2018) analyses the listing of householders in the 1851 census compared with the rate Register images for Irish marriages between 1864 and 1943 lists of the same period, showing evidence for several can now be viewed for free online at www.irishgenealogy. householders missed in the census and also in 1861. ie along with births between 1864 and 1918, and deaths from 1878 to 1968. Keep in mind that this includes The Scottish Genealogist 66:1 (Mar 2019) has an article Northern Ireland before 1922. on ‘William McDouall 1809-1883’ which explains the relationships for members of this family in Australia and We have resumed our subscription to North Irish Roots, NZ including the explorer John McDouall Stuart. the excellent journal of the North of Ireland Family History Society thanks to the funds of our Irish Ancestry Group. The Huddersfield & District FHS journal 32:3 (Apr 2019) Like almost all our journals it is indexed for names, places reminds us of ‘Early problems with civil registration in and topics, so always check our library catalogue. Yorkshire’. Audrey Collins had discovered some registration districts have no birth or death entries in the fi rst one or two The Irish Genealogist 15 (2018) has a detailed article quarters of 1837. Nearly half of these are in Yorkshire. on ‘Thomas Wise and family: Cork distillers’ by Barry Crockett and another on ‘The Vesey family: three Guy Fawkes Day has largely died out in Australia and generations in Ireland’. more often will be remembered as cracker night, but the Shropshire Family History Society journal 40:3 (Sep Remember that if you fi nd a promising article in our 2019) relates a connection between the Deakin family and catalogue or from Jottings and you cannot visit our library, Sir Everard Digby who was hung, drawn and quartered in GSV members can use our free ‘Quick Look-Up’ service 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. If your ancestors to provide a digital copy of the relevant pages. See our were on their ‘side’, you may be interested in ‘Tracing your website: www.gsv.org.au/research/quick-look-up. Roman Catholic ancestors’ by Sylvia Dibbs in the Dorset Family History Society journal 32:4 (Sep 2019). At this stage few of our electronic journals are indexed, but as they are in pdf format, each issue may be searched. ‘What’s in a name? A family excavation’ in Descent 9:3 For example, if you access an electronic journal via our (Sep 2019) tells the story of the founder of the St Leon catalogue and ‘Click to view’, any listed issue may be circus family in Australia which led back to the convict searched using Control+F on your keyboard. A search box John Connelly/Conley who was transported to Tasmania appears which allows you to enter a word or term to search in 1843. They also announce a new Online Search Facility through the journal issue. Note: Records searched with the for Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney – however it doesn’t location ‘Digital Copy @ GSV’ are only accessible from the cover the Roman Catholic section which is included GSV library.

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MyHeritage LIVE 2019 Lectures Now Online! 35 Google Drive Tips You Can’t Afford to Miss by Esther by Eric Griffi th http://blog.myheritage.com/2019/09/myheritage- https://blog.eogn.com/2019/08/27/35-google-drive- live-2019-lectures-now-online tips-you-cant-afford-to-miss MyHeritage recently held its second user conference This is not genealogy but it is a useful tool for collaborating in Amsterdam. This blog post provides access to all the or sharing documents and information. Google drive presentations. It lists the presenters, describes the sessions provides a fi le management and storage service as well as the and by clicking the link ‘watch now’ you can view the various web-based and mobile apps. These include: a word presentations. Topics include search tips, MyHeritage processor (Docs or Writely, all grown up), a spreadsheet DNA testing and resources, family trees collaboration, (Sheets), presentations (Slides), drawing and forms. European research, and more. Crime and Punishment Queensland State Archives: finding teacher by Leonieh by Lorraine Digney https://slwa.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/crime-and- https://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2019/06/11/finding- punishment teacher Here ‘Leonieh’ provides information on the variety of Lorraine, who describes herself as a ‘new kid on the block’ digitized resources held at the State Library of Western walks us through the steps she took to locate a teacher Australia relating to convicts, police and the early criminal in the Queensland archives. She describes the detailed justice system. It looks at Police Gazettes, diaries, letters, information in these records such as date of arrival in books and a thesis by Cherry Gertzel on ‘The Convict Australia, date of birth, salary, employment information etc. system in Western Australia 1850-1870’.

State Library Victoria to open its doors on 5 December Thirteen Good Reasons to Test Your Mitochondrial DNA by ‘News Editor’ by Roberta Estes https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/news/state-library- https://dna-explained.com/2019/04/22/thirteen- victoria-to-open-its-doors-on-5-december good-reasons-to-test-your-mitochondrial-dna The State Library of Victoria announces the opening of Mitochondrial DNA follows the matrilineal line for their transformed library. This has taken almost fi ve years one specifi c line of your genealogy and provides refi ned to complete and includes an updated Swanston Street information that autosomal tests simply can’t provide. entrance, a refurbished Ian Potter Queen’s Hall, and Roberta explains what it is and the information you receive more. You may also enjoy the article on their new-look when you test. She looks at matching, your full haplogroup, catalogue: ‘News articles search’ by Marcus Ferguson at identifying origins, projects and more. https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/tips-and-tricks/new-look- catalogue-news-articles-search. This search provides Writing about your life: are you stuck? access to popular Australian newspapers mainly post 1991. by Alison Taylor www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/9/23/ The world of library cards: How many are in your writing-about-your-life-are-you-stuck wallet? by Sue Chan One thing genealogists often neglect is writing about www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/behind-the- oneself. Here Alison presents us with some clear and scenes/2019/10/02/the-world-of-library-cards actionable steps to get started, for example, make a time As a Librarian, I particularly relate to this story as it line, or pick ‘low hanging fruit’ of the most memorable describes the development of the Library’s borrowing events, talk to someone, and think of your life story writing or access card. Today’s National Library ‘library card’ as a lifestyle rather than a task. provides you with access to a select range of licensed electronic resources from home, so check it out if you don’t already have one.

Hyderabad Residency Cemetery by Families in British India Society (FIBIS) www.fibis.org/hyderabad-residency-cemetery The British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) is looking to trace the descendants of 45 people buried in the Hyderabad cemetery. So check the names listed here as it may by one of your ancestors.

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Scottish Ancestry Group

Around the Groups Around International Settlers Group (non-British research) Quarterly meetings

Meeting: Saturday, 15 February 2020, 1pm Saturday, 21 March 2020 1.00pm – 3.00pm Annual Problem Solving Workshop Speaker Joy Roy: Scottish Customs Please bring your brick wall along and fi nd out if a round table discussion can provide a new direction. Please note venue: GSV Research & Education Centre All GSV members, SAG subscribers and visitors welcome Meeting: Saturday, 16 May 2020, 1pm Diana Johnston, Bonegilla Migrant Experience Visitor Services Offi cer: A Presentation on the Bonegilla Migrant Centre Venue: GSV Research & Education Centre

Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) 1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct. Quarterly Meetings 1.00pm to 3.00pm, 3rd Sat. of March, June, Enquiries & membership form: September and fourth Sat. of November J Yvonne Izatt 03 9899 8136 Ç [email protected] GSV Research & Education Centre ¢ www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/isg Enquiries: ¢ www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag

IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP GSV Writers Circle

Next Meeting : Saturday, 8 February 2020 GSV Research & Education Centre Meetings : First Wednesday each month, (except January) 1.00pm — Discussion topic: Kilkenny 12.30 till 1.30pm – GSV Research & Education Centre

2.00pm — Maureen Doyle 4 December Some Notable Irish Folk in Early Melbourne Planning for 2020 program 3.00pm — Afternoon Tea No Meeting January

Visitors welcome. Bring your lunch and have 5 February a chat. Also bring your mobile phone to gain Re4view of members’ submissions access to the building (9662 4455) 4 March To be advised General meetings held on second Saturday of February, May, August and November in GSV meeting room. We alternate each month between Members’ submissions for Yearly subscription due on 1 Sept each year is $11.00. review and topics relating to Family History writing. Newsletter Blarney published quarterly. Beginners’ Kits and Griffi ths Valuation Kits available All members of the GSV are welcome at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact See pages 32–33 for the GSV Writers Circle [email protected] quarterly column

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 36 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Early English Discussion Circle Around the Circles Meetings fourth Wednesday of each month except December at the GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pm Next meetings: No meeting Dec, 22 Jan, 26 Feb, 25 Mar This Discussion Circle is to assist GSV members London Discussion Circle researching in England before 1700. Many records either cease to exist or become uncommon by 1700, and the Circle Meetings fourth Thursday each month except will assist your understanding of these records and how December at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 11.30am they can be accessed. It also provides relevant new sources the Circles Around Next meetings: No meeting Dec, 23 Jan, 27 Feb, 25 Mar and websites, and encourages members to present on their With 2000 years of history, London is likely to fi gure in the families and contribute to discussions. New members are family history of many people, it was a magnet for internal welcome. and foreign immigration. We aim to share information Convenor: Alan Fincher about research resources, learn about our ancestors’ [email protected] lives in London and perhaps even break down some brick walls. Discussion topics can include local occupations and businesses, migration, maps and gazetteers, electoral rolls, taxes, land records, military, criminals, DNA Discussion Circle civil and ecclesiastical courts, poor laws, school records, Meetings second Wednesday of each month newspapers, apprentices, guilds and freemen and much at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 12pm more. New members very welcome. Next meetings: 11 Dec, 8 Jan, 12 Feb, 11 Mar Convener: Vicki Montgomery Mailing list: [email protected] If you are interested in joining the group please read the description, on the GSV website, of the topics we cover in our discussions. If that appeals to you email the Convenor and get an application form to join. If you have not had a Counties of Northern England DNA test done, email the Convenor for advice on what to do. Discussion Circle Convenor: David Andreassen Meetings second Tuesday of each month except January [email protected] at the GSV Centre – 12.00pm to 1.30pm Next Meetings: 10 Dec, no meeting Jan, 11 Feb, 10 Mar We are an enthusiastic group who meet to discuss research and share interests in the North of England, covering the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Lancashire. For anyone who has British India Discussion Circle ancestors in this region, whether you are just starting out or Meetings every three months on the third Tuesday in have been researching for a number of years, we can help. February, May, August and November. Key topics are advised by email prior to the meetings. Recent Next meeting: 18 Feb at the GSV Centre – 12pm to 1pm discussions have centred around transportation systems, the pottery industry and members’ research experiences. All GSV This Circle is for members with the common interest members welcome of British Ancestors in India from the 17th to the 20th Convenor: David Down centuries. Next meeting: Q&A and Brick Wall session. All [email protected] GSV members welcome. Convenor: Mary Anne Gourley [email protected]

South West England Research and Discussion Circle Next Meetings: 11 Dec, no meeting Jan, 12 Feb, 11 Mar Victoria and Tasmania at GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pm Discussion Circle GSV members with research interests in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset are welcome. Meetings fourth Friday of each month Copies of meeting notes and presentations are provided at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 11.30am to members who join the SWERD email list (free for GSV Next meetings: No meeting Dec, 24 Jan, 28 Feb, 27 Mar members). Key discussion topics advised by email to SWERD members, the GSV blog and Facebook page prior Members researching their Family History to meetings. Recent meeting topics included researching in in these two states are invited to join Devon and Somerset, using the county family history society this new circle journals and resolving members’ research brickwalls. Convenor: Stephen Hawke [email protected] Convenor: Ruthie Wirtz [email protected]

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Descendents of Convicts Group Heyfield Family History Group No Meetings January or February Our room is located in the Heyfield Community Resource Centre, open to the public Friday’s between Next meeting March – Date to be advised 10am to 3pm or by appointment. Member Societies Contact: JYvonne Bethell 03 9739 1427 Extensive records and information available. ¢www.docs.org.au Visitors are always welcome. Contact: ÇP.O. Box 201, Heyfield 3858 J03 5148 2100 ¢[email protected] The Clan MacMillan Society of Australia Events we will be attending, 2020 Australia Day March: 26 January Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria The Ballarat and District Genealogical Society Inc Meet behind the Scots of Victoria group to march. Relocation of Collection and Bendigo Scots Day Out: 29 February Rosalind Park Bendigo Meeting Room Pipe bands, Celtic folk music, Scottish and Highland The BDGS Inc., wishes to announce that its resource dancing plus everything you would expect from a collection has now been relocated to highland festival. The Eureka Centre, Stawell Street, Ballarat Koo Wee Rup: Scots on the Swamp: 22 March Open Monday to Thursday Harewood House, 3310 South Gippsland Highway. PROV hours 10.00 am to 4.30 am. We will be there with our information table. Meetings in 2020, will be held from February to Come and enjoy the Pipe band, Scottish and Highland November, on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the dancing, Vintage cars, etc. new location of: Ballarat North Community Centre Check our web site for further information: Walker Street Ballarat North, 7.30pm ¢ www.clanmacmillanaustralia.com.au Inquiries: ¢[email protected] J0467 241 352

Sale and District Family History Group Sale and District Family History Group is located in the Huguenot Society of Australia historic Temperance Hall in Macalister Street, Sale (Victorian Chapter) Rooms are open to the public on Tuesdays between 1pm Saturday 21 March and 4pm and Fridays from 10am till 4pm and meetings 2pm Dr Marcia Cameron: Charles La Trobe: are held on the second Monday of each month. First Lt-Governor of Victoria Contact: Venue: Church of St John the Beloved, ÇPO Box 773, Sale 3850 91 Carroll Crescent, Glen Iris J0428 411 603 All welcome. Entry including Afternoon Tea $5. ¢[email protected] Enquiries: or find us on Facebook JSue 0408 201 422

Port Phillip Pioneers Group West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc Saturday, 29 February 2020, 2.00 pm Saturday, 28 March 2020 A casual forum to report on questions and answers, Rob Hamilton will be presenting Genealogy and the brick walls discoveries and disappointments. Freemason, Historical Records of the Mason Show and tell of historical items. Location- Nilma North & Lillico Memorial Hall, Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church 488 Bloomfield Road, Nilma North Cnr. Burke and Malvern Roads, Gardiner Starting time - 12.30pm (3-4 hour presentation) Cost - $10 which includes a delicious afternoon tea. Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2 Afternoon Tea provided. Enquires & bookings: Enquiries: JMargaret 0456 230 100 J ¢ Clare 03 9578 3654 [email protected] ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 38 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Further information on our Member Societies can be found on the GSV website at GSV Member S ocieties www.gsv.org.au/activities/member-societies-list ¢Website or email address ÇMailing Address JPhone

Anglesea & District History Society Inc Hotham History Project Inc Prahan Mechanics Institute Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 ÇC/- North Melbourne Library Ç 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran VIC 3181 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 J03 9510 3393 Ararat Genealogical Society JMary Kehoe 03 9329 5814 ¢www.pmi.net.au Ç PO Box 103, Ararat VIC 3377 ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.au Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225 ¢ [email protected] Ç2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 JHistorical Museum 03 5258 2511 J Member Societies Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc Sue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 ¢www.queenscliffe-history.org Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 Ç 3/415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121 ¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs J 03 9427 1800 ¢ Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group [email protected] ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 Kerang & District Family History Group Inc Sale & District Family History Group Inc J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 ÇPO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 J Benalla Family Research Group Inc Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 JHeather Pocknall 0428 411 603 ¢ Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh Shepparton Family History Group Inc J Wendy Webster 0427 664 271 Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632 ¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 JGarry Wallden 03 5828 3236 J Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc Jennifer Cole 03 5860 6694 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh ¢ Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 [email protected] South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc ¢ https://brgsbendigo.weebly.com Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc ÇPO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953 Ç Clan MacMillan Society of Australia PO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs J ¢ [email protected] 03 5155 3843 Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc ¢ www.clanmacmillanaustralia.com.au Mansfield Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939 J Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc Sheena Daykin 03 5775 1659 JAnnette Buckland 0402 858 878 Ç PO Box 386, Fairfield VIC 3078 ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory [email protected] ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs J Beth Bell 03 9497 2934 Maryborough Family History Group Inc Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc Ç Cobram Genealogical Group Inc PO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 ÇPO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380 Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 JHelen Ritchie 0409 611 170 ¢www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au ¢ JLiz Diamond 0438 652 201 www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 Sunbury Family History Society Inc Colac & District Family History Group Inc Melton Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429 Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 JCecil Clark 03 9744 1957 J Colac History Centre 03 5231 5736 JDeb Slattery 0409 306 640 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au ¢ ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au http://meltonfamilyhistory.org Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc Ç PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585 Ç ÇPO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 PO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840 J Steve Pentreath 0428 584 325 ¢ JVal Hardman 03 5881 3980 [email protected] ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs ¢ ¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs Terang & District Family History Group Inc Descendants of Convicts Group Inc Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264 Ç ÇPO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 PO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 JBev Fleming 03 5595 4384 J JYvonne Bethell 03 9739 1427 Kaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 ¢[email protected] ¢ ¢www.docs.org.au www.milduragenealogy.com.au Toora & District Family History Group Inc East Gippsland Family History Group Inc NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962 Ç ÇPO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 1/65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road, ¢http://toora.org/ JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 Cranbourne VIC 3977 Victorian GUM Inc J ¢www.egfhg.org.au Eileen Durdin 0439 720 557 ÇPO Box 397, Collins Street West ¢www.nwfhg.org.au Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc Melbourne VIC 8007 ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc JOffice 03 9078 4738 Ç JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593 PO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 ¢www.vicgum.asn.au J ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist Lyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 Wangaratta Family History Society Inc ¢[email protected] Footscray Historical Society Inc ÇPO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676 Ç66 Napier Street, Footscray VIC 3011 Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr JVal Brennan 03 5727 6229 Ç J03 9689 3820 Box 131, Ouyen VIC 3490 ¢www.wfhs.org.au ¢ ¢[email protected] http://ouyen.vic.au/history West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc Geelong Family History Group Inc Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820 Ç ÇPO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220 PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922 JBarbara Clayton 03 5611 3871 J JSusie Zada 0414 666 017 Bob Hayes 0419 582 175 ¢www.westgippslandgenealogy.com ¢ ¢www.geelongfhg.com [email protected] Wimmera Association for Genealogy Inc Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc Port Fairy Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402 Ç ÇPO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437 PO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284 JIan Rees 0429 953 054 J JTricia McLay 0408 054 537 Ian Perry 0447 265 759 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg ¢ ¢ www.ggg.org.au [email protected] Wodonga Family History Society Inc Hamilton History Centre Inc Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc ÇPO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689 Ç ÇPO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300 C/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 JWendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220 J JHistory Centre 03 5572 4933 Marilla James 03 9500 8118 ¢http://wodongafamilyhistory.org ¢ ¢ www.hamiltonhistorycentre.org.au www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc Heyfield Family History Group Portland Family History Society Inc Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995 Ç ÇPO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858 PO Box 409 Portland VIC 3350 J03 5672 3803 J J03 5148 2100 Anne Grant 03 5522 2266 ¢[email protected] ¢ ¢ [email protected] [email protected] Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 7, Yarrawonga VIC 3730 JJan Parker 03 5744 1460 ¢www.yarrawongafamilyhistorygroupinc.com

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © 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.

Congratulations to our Victorian Community History Award winners

The winners of the 2019 Victorian Community Oral History Award History Awards and Victorian Premier’s History Black Saturday: Not the End of the Story Award were announced by PROV and the Royal Peg Fraser, published by Monash University Historical Society of Victoria on the 14 October Publishing 2019. Congratulations to: Visit our website to learn more about the winning Victorian Premier’s History Award and shortlisted projects: prov.vic.gov.au Avenue of Memories Phil Roberts, published by the Arch of Victory- Local history grants Avenue of Honour Committee A new round of local history grants is now open for Judges’ Special Prizes applications. The last round saw 49 projects funded The Arsonist: A Mind On Fire including: Chloe Hooper, published by Hamish Hamilton/ • Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative to Penguin collate an online history marking the group’s 40 Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West years of work Melbourne Swamp • Carlton Community History Group for David Sornig, published by Scribe electronic preservation of oral histories that tell the story of the suburb’s diverse past. Collaborative Community History Award Mont Park to Springthorpe Heritage Project • Melbourne Legacy to digitise fi lms dating to the Springthorpe Heritage Group 1930s documenting their work.

Local History Project Award Other successful projects range from innovative When Roads Were Tracks: A History of the Roads walking tour apps, newspaper digitisation and of Monbulk, Kallista, The Patch and Sherbrooke practical storage solutions. Applications for this Jill A’Vard and Armin Richter, published by the round of funding close Wednesday 8 January 2020. Monbulk Historical Society History Publication Award In the Shadows The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambition A new exhibition entitled In The Shadows is Carolyn Rasmussen, published by Melbourne now on display in the Victorian Archives Centre University Press Gallery. Featuring archival photographs opposite Local History – Small Publication Award present-day street photography, the exhibition More Than Just Housing: The South Port takes a creative look at the ‘shadows’ cast around Community Housing Group Story 1983-2018 Melbourne. Intrigued? Visit the exhibition Beris Campbell, Janet Goodwin, Heather McKee weekdays 10am to 4.30pm and every second and and editor Helen Penrose, published by the South last Saturday of the month (take note of Christmas Port Community Housing Group closures below). Cultural Diversity Award Christmas closures La Nostra Storia: The Story of Italians in Ballarat Researchers please take note of our upcoming Jan McGuiness, published by the Ballarat Italian closures when planning your summer research. Association Upcoming closures include: Multimedia History Award • An early closure on Friday 6 December, 12 noon If These Walls Could Talk: Ballarat Town Hall • Closed for Christmas holidays from 4.30pm Audio Tour Monday 23 December to 10am Thursday 2 City of Ballarat and Way Back When January 2020 Historical Interpretation Award • And all public holidays including Australia Day, Carlo Catani: Visionary, Creator, Genius Labour Day and Easter. Exhibition by the CO.AS. IT Italian Historical Society

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Exploring the RHSV online

I’ve been exploring my family history since the early 1980s and at fi rst I was mostly interested in adding names, dates and facts to my rather sparse family tree, but it was not long before I was spending hours talking to relatives, noting down their stories and visiting the places where family members once lived. Very soon that wasn’t enough either and I began to investigate the lives of my ancestors in the context of their times. This is the task that still thrills me and as more resources become available online there is always something more to discover. Bearbrass and writing history, or Richard Broome on Aboriginal activism and the The RHSV is ideally placed to help with this Aborigines Advancement League, or Annamaria task. If your family lived in Victoria, then we can Davine on the Walhalla goldfi elds. And there is help. There is so much to explore and so much to so much more to listen to – there’s something for discover. And there is plenty to keep you busy over everyone interested in history. the summer when so many places close for a few weeks. Just by going to the RHSV website, you can History News: www.historyvictoria.org.au/ continue your research whether our building is publications/history-news open or not. Six issues of our newsletter History News are published every year and now you can read them Here are a few of the RHSV resources that are going back to 2005. available to you all day, every day: Victorian Historical Journal: www. Facebook: www.facebook.com/historyvictoria historyvictoria.org.au/publications/ Here you will fi nd out about our latest news and victorian-historical-journal fi nd links to useful events and information. This wonderful journal was fi rst published in 1911. There is an index available online via our The Collections Lounge: www.historyvictoria. catalogue and back issues from 2013 to 2019 are org.au/collections-lounge available for download from our website. There Do not miss the Collections Lounge. It is made is much to interest the family, local and social up of a growing number of articles written by historian here. our volunteers and based for the most part on material in our manuscripts and images Writing and Publishing Local History: www. collections. For example, in the Collections historyvictoria.org.au/publications/writing- Lounge you can read the reminiscences of John and-publishing-local-history Waugh, an Irishman who arrived in Melbourne This guide to writing local history by Rosalie in April 1839 as a seven year old. You can also Triolo, Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson has read about the failed Rosstown Junction Railway been updated recently and is well worth a place in Melbourne’s southern suburbs, the brainchild in the library of every aspiring author of history. of 19th century entrepreneur and industrialist You can buy your own print copy through RHSV’s William Murray Ross. Or get an overview of the online Bookshop (www.historyvictoria.org.au/ scrapbooks of Colin Ferguson Macdonald (1895- bookshop) or you can download it free as a pdf. 1969), a Melbourne radiologist with an interest in history. And now, through our eHive catalogue, So, make the most of the summer break, enjoy you can view some of this material online. the RHSV’s online resources, and be ready for a fantastic line-up from us in 2020, starting with our Lecture podcasts: www.historyvictoria.org.au/ ‘Melbourne Swamp’ exhibition. It’s bound to be a resources/lecture-podcasts drawcard, so stay tuned for more information on This wide-ranging collection of podcasts goes that closer to the time – or follow us on Facebook! back almost a decade. Here you can download and listen to Robyn Annear speaking on Image: Screenshots of RHSV website.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 41 The Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 A bout the GSV Genealogical Australia Society of Web www.gsv.org.au Email [email protected] Fees effective 1 January 2020 Phone 03 9662 4455 Victoria Inc Membership Options A$

About the GSV About Joining fee (Australia/international) 20 .00/20.00 Why become a member of the GSV? Annual Membership Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular One person (Australia/international) 105.00/125.00 pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a Two, same address (Australia/international) 150.00/180.00 leading Australian family history society for the study of Three, same address(Australia/international) 210.00/230.00 genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their 18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 50.00 ancestors. Ancestor only We welcome you to join us and Australia (no joining fee) 70.00 discover a world of family history. International (no joining fee) 90.00 We provide advice and expertise along with a reference Member Societies 130.00 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 *30.00 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 Library Hours upcoming events. Monday Closed Our online members area features searchable databases and Tuesday 10.00am — 7.00pm an ever-increasing library catalogue. Wednesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm Membership Benefi ts O ffi ce Hours Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pm • Access to a team of friendly volunteer research Saturday Closed assistants trained to help you with library resources Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday • Access to our comprehensive library collection of indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources

• F r e e library access to commercial databases including: Patron , , , and Ancestry findmypast TheGenealogist British The Honourable Linda Dessau, AC Newspaper Archive Governor of Victoria • Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor Honorary Offi ce Bearers and Councillors • F r e e publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in President Jenny Redman Ancestor (one per year) Vice Presidents Penny Wolf • Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections, Peter Johnston 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 Treasurer Stephen Hawke • Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, Council Janice Bayley New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting Janne Bonnett point for newcomers to genealogy Erna Cameron • Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members, if you cannot visit David Down the library Robert Gribben •A free annual research query of up to two hours for Leonie Loveday members residing more than 100km from Melbourne Margaret McLaren • Discounts on our publications, services and events Michael Rumpff (not sale items) Staff • Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major societies (conditions apply) Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV 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)

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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. If you have any queries or need some help in using these Getting Started Consultations websites ask for some assistance in the library. Members may book a free half hour ‘getting started’ consultation. Please email Linley Hooper, our Library Manager, at [email protected] with a preferred time and date. 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 Give a Victorian Probate Papers post 1925 Researchers will o btain copies from Public Records Offi ce Victoria (PROV). GSV MEMBERSHIP Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00 Other Public Records for Christmas Researchers will obtain copies from Public Record Offi ce Victoria (PROV) where specifi c reference [VPRS/Unit etc] is provided. Just phone the GSV offi ce 9662 4455 Per hour: Members: $60.00 / Non-members $85.00 to arrange Further information about our Research services will be found on our website www.gsv.org.au/research/ research-services. Contact [email protected] if you need specific guidance.

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News Congratulations Shirley Davies OAM Shirley Davies is a Life Member of the GSV who earlier this year was awarded an OAM, the Order of Australia Medal, for her community work in the Hastings, Frankston and Mornington areas, serving for many years as President of the Hastings-Western Port Historical Society, and on many other community groups such as a Life Governor of Menzies Incorporated, supporting young people in the Frankston- Mornington area with their education and housing needs. Amazingly she also found time to research her Scottish ancestors.

Victorian Community History Awards Announced A full list of winners can be found at: https://prov.vic. gov.au/community/grants-and-awards/community- history-awards. Eleven award-winning publications and Image: GSV Life Member, Shirley Davies OAM projects have been honoured. For more details, see the PROV page 40 in this issue. Police Gazettes now on Papers Past (NZ) see: https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/black-sheep-in- Quaker Family History Research Grants Open the-family The Quaker Family History Society (QFHS) invites applications for a Margaret Bennett Research Award ‘The Value of History’ to support research into any aspect of Quaker family This statement was adopted on 3 July 2019 by the History history in the British Isles. Grants, to a maximum of Councils of New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and £1500, may relate to the costs of travel, reproduction of Western Australia. They have adopted a ‘Value of History’ materials, and/or publication. For further details and an statement for Australians to use for study of the past and the application form, please contact the QFHS Secretary at telling of its stories. They consider that this is critical to our [email protected]. The closing date for applications is sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared 31 December 2019. future. They state: ‘… history shapes our identities, engages us as citizens, creates inclusive communities, is part of Free Guide to Writing our economic well-being, teaches us to think critically and Writing and Publishing Local History: A Guide for First- creatively, inspires leaders and is the foundation of our time Authors and Historical Societies provides essential future generations.’ A great justifi cation for so many of us advice from preliminary planning to fi nal publication in an spending so much time on family history research! attractive and accessible guise. This guide will be valuable for any individuals and groups committed to preserving Four Hundred Years Ago and sharing their historical knowledge and passion. Devon FHS is hosting a Mayfl ower International Authors: Rosalie Triolo, Helen Doyle and Katya Johanson. Genealogical Conference in Plymouth on 29 August 2020. The 85-page guide is available from the RHSV free as a In September 1620, the Mayfl ower fi nally left England from download, or as a book for purchase. Plymouth, Devon, with most of those on board intending to settle in the New World. There were 102 passengers The New PROV Map Warper onboard, including 37 members of the Separatist Leiden Interested in old maps? Have you tried ‘Map Warper’ yet? congregation, who would go on to be known as the Pilgrims, The Public Record Offi ce Victoria (PROV) launched their together with the non-separatist passengers. 74 were men new ‘Map Warper’ recently, and it was described on page and 28 were women – 18 were listed as servants, 13 of whom 40 of the September 2019 issue of Ancestor. PROV has were attached to Separatist families. 31 children were on the an impressive collection of historic maps and plans. One Mayfl ower. See: www.mayflower400uk.org/education/ part of this collection, the Regional Land Offi ce Parish and mayflower-passengers-list-an-interactive-guide Township Plans is a particularly rich source of information on Victoria in the nineteenth century, spanning Melbourne’s National Library of Victoria (NLA) Webinars suburban plots through to lonely country roads in the If you found NLA’s recent Newspapers for Family History mountains. ‘Map Warper’ is removing barriers by placing webinar of value, you might like to explore their collection maps in a contemporary context, making it possible to of past webinar recordings, including: Copyright for search for old plans using current place names. The site to Genealogists, Trove Government Gazettes, and Tracing visit is: https://mapwarper.prov.vic.gov.au and for some the History of a House. The NLA also issues useful family step by step instructions, see PROV’s blog https://prov.vic. history blogs by librarian Alison Massy from time to time - gov.au/about-us/our-blog/how-find-parish-plans. well worth reading.

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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE

Sat. 21 Dec to Wed. 1 Jan 2020 inclusive CLASSES On What’s Christmas and New Year break 1.30pm to 2.30pm These small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources TALKS available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 12 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 3 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Ten ways to use Video for Genealogy Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke online , Bookings essential – Members $5.00 Thur. 5 National and State Archives in Australia RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Tues. 10 The National Archives (UK) online Thur. 12 FamilySearchTM online CLASSES Bookings essential Wed. 4 9.30am – 10.30am Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Orientation: introduction to the Society and our resources Bookings essential – Members Only – Free DISCUSSION CIRCLES Wed. 4 10.45am – 12.00pm Tues. 3 10.00am – 12.00pm Starting Your Family History: DNA Genetic Genealogy Study Group (New - booking methodology and resources required, experienced users only, see website) Bookings essential 12.30pm – 2.30pm Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 4 GSV Writers non-members $20.00 Tues. 10 12.30pm – 1.30pm Counties of Northern England FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Wed. 11 10.30am – 12.00pm Focus your research with experienced DNA helpers in the Library Wed. 11 12.30pm – 2.00pm Thur. 19 11.00am – 4.00pm – Scotland South West England Research & Discussion Members Free, non-members $30.00 Members Only – Free

We wish all our members and readers a very happy and safe holiday season

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What’s On What’s CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Wed. 1 CLASSES New Years Day 1.30pm to 2.30pm Mon. 27 These small group classes are designed to enable you Australia Day to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Wed. 15 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 16 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online TALKS Tues. 21 The National Archives (UK) online Thur. 16 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 23 FamilySearchTM online Evernote for Genealogy (Beginners) Tues. 28 AncestryTM online Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke Thur. 30 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (11am to 12pm) Bookings essential Bookings essential Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, , AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Members Free non-members $20.00

DISCUSSION CIRCLES FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm DNA Focus your research with experienced helpers in the Library Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Thur. 16 11.00am – 4.00pm – Scotland Wed. 22 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Thur. 23 10.30am – 11.30am Members Free, non-members $30.00 London Research Fri. 24 10.30am – 11.30am Victoria and Tasmania Bookings in person, via website, email or phone Members Only – Free ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J 03 9662 4455 New members welcome. Coming in April 2020

Researching your Ancestors who fought in the British armed services during the First World War Simon Fowler is one of Britain’s most experienced family history teachers, writers and researchers. He worked for The National Archives on and off for over thirty years. Wed. 1 April At present he is a professional researcher mainly on military topics 10.30am – 12.00pm and the records of central government. This presentation looks at research of service records from the Great Bookings essential War. The vast majority are online, including service records, medal cards and casualty records. Simon will also consider some of the less Members $7.50 familiar sources and resources that are usually ignored but can supply RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50 many answers. He will also suggest ways of overcoming brick walls. Many of the records are identical or very similar to those used by the non-members $30.00 Australian forces during the War, so the talk may also be of interest to the descendants of the Diggers.

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TALKS COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE On What’s Tues. 18 10.00am – 11.30am CLASSES DNA Module: To be advised 1.30pm to 2.30pm Bookings essential – Members $7.50, These small group classes are designed to enable you RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00 to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 20 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 4 GSV library catalogue & databases Five ways to use old maps for Genealogy Thur. 6 Internet for Genealogy Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke Tues. 11 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Bookings essential TM TM , RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage Members $5.00 non-members $20.00 online Thur. 13 National and State Archives in Australia Tues. 25 10.00am – 12.00pm DNA Tutorial - To be advised Tues. 18 The National Archives (UK) online Bookings essential – Members $10.00, Wed. 19 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00 Thur. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Tues. 25 AncestryTM online COURSE Thur. 27 FamilySearchTM online Fri. 7, 14 and 21 10.30am – 12.30pm Bookings essential Writers Course – see inside back cover Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, Bookings essential non-members $20.00 Members $90, RHSV/CAV/FHC $135.00, non-members $180.00

DISCUSSION CIRCLES SEMINAR Tues. 4 10.00am – 12.00pm Sat. 1 10.00am – 4.00pm DNA Genetic Genealogy Study Group Early Melbourne Suburbs – Footscray, Wed. 5 12.30pm – 2.30pm Prahran, Heidelberg, Brunswick and Coburg GSV Writers Speakers: Carmel Taig, Steven Haby and Judith Buckrich, Graham Thorley, Cheryl Griffin and Gary Presland Tues. 11 12.00pm – 1.30pm Venue: RHSV 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne Counties of Northern England Bookings essential – Members $45.00, Wed. 12 10.30am – 12.00pm non-members $60.00 DNA Wed. 12 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion CLASSES Tues. 18 12.00pm – 1.00pm Wed. 5 9.30am – 10.30am British India Orientation: introduction to the Society Wed. 26 12.30pm – 2.00pm and our resources Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Thur. 27 10.30am – 11.30am Wed. 5 10.45am – 12.00pm London Research Starting Your Family History: Fri. 28 10.30am – 11.30am methodology and resources Victoria and Tasmania Bookings essential Members Only – Free Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00

FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE MEETINGS Focus your research with experienced Sat. 8 1.00pm helpers in the Library Irish Ancestry Group Thur. 20 11.00am – 4.00pm – Scotland Sat. 15 1.00pm Wed. 26 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland International Settlers Group Members Free, non-members $30.00

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 47 What’s On at the GSV – March What’s On What’s COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLOSED Mon. 9 CLASSES Labour Day 1.30pm to 2.30pm 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. Tues. 3 GSV library catalogue & databases TALKS Thur. 5 Internet for Genealogy TM TM Thur. 12 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 10 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British TM TM Google Search Strategies Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage online Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke Thur. 12 National and State Archives in Australia Bookings essential Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Tues. 17 The National Archive (UK) online non-members $20.00 Wed. 18 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 19 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Tues. 17 10.00am – 11.30am DNA Module – To be advised Tues. 24 AncestryTM online Bookings essential Thur. 26 FamilySearchTM online Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, Thur. 31 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (11am to 12pm) non-members $30.00 Bookings essential Thur. 19 10.30am – 12.30pm Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, English Research, Nineteenth and non-members $20.00 Twentieth Centuries by Alan Fincher Bookings essential DISCUSSION CIRCLES Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, Tues. 3 10.00am – 12.00pm non-members $40.00 DNA Genetic Genealogy Study Group 12.30pm – 2.30pm Tues. 24 10.00am – 12.00pm Wed. 4 GSV Writers DNA Tutorial – To be advised Tues. 10 12.00pm – 1.30pm Bookings essential Counties of Northern England Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00 Wed. 11 10.30am – 12.00pm DNA Wed. 11 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion Wed. 25 12.30pm – 2.00pm CLASSES Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Wed. 4 9.30am – 10.30am Thur. 26 10.30am – 11.30am Orientation: introduction to the Society London Research and our resources Fri. 27 10.30am – 11.30am Victoria and Tasmania Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Members Only – Free Wed. 4 10.45am – 12.00pm Starting Your Family History: methodology and resources FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Bookings essential Focus your research with experienced Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, helpers in the Library non-members $20.00 Thur. 19 11.00am – 4.00pm – Scotland Members Free, non-members $30.00 Wed. 25 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Members Free, non-members $30.00 MEETING Sat. 21 1.00pm Bookings in person, via website, email or phone Scottish Ancestry Group ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J 03 9662 4455 New members welcome.

Volume 34 Issue 8 / December 2019 48 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Seminar and Course EEarlyarly MelbourneMelbourne SSuburbsuburbs 11835835 – 11880880 Joint GSV and RHSV Seminar Saturday 1 February 10.00am – 4.00pm An overview of the growth of some early Melbourne RHSV building suburbs Footscray, Prahran, Heidelberg and Brunswick/ Coburg. With an introduction by Gary Presland on how 239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne's geography shaped its development. Melbourne 3000 Light lunch and refreshments provided. Booking with payment is essential. RHSV and GSV members please book through your respective websites or office. GSV/RHSV Members $45.00 Images: State Library of Victoria image collection items Acc. Nos. H84.233/188 Non-members $60.00 and H2000.39/6

WWritingriting FFamilyamily HHistoryistory Presenter: Margaret Vines

Three sessions: Friday 7, 14, 21 February 10.30am – 12.30pm

Contents of the course will include: • Writing process - getting started, especially drafting and editing • Basic writing skills • Historical skills, including documenting your writing Participants will be expected to be writing both in class and between classes. Maximum 10 people. Members $90.00 – AIGS/RHSV/CAV $135.00 – Non-members $180.00

Bookings Essential in person, via website, email or phone ¢www.gsv.org.au ¢[email protected] J03 9662 4455 The Folly ofof Verbal InstructionsInstructions

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The Journal of the South Australian Genealogical and Heraldry SSociety,ociety, TThehe SSouthouth AustraliaAustraliann Genealogistt, Volume 44 Number 1 of February 22017,017, included a fascinatinfascinatingg article on papagesges 26-26- 2277 entitled ‘Are Headstones AlwaAlwaysys Correct?’ The article broubroughtght to mind a gglaringlaring example of this problem which had babaffledffled our familiesfamilies forfor decades. Located in the Wallaroo CemeterCemetery,y, South Australia, 141400 kilkilometresometres nnorthwestorthwest ffromrom AAdelaidedelaide oonn ththee west coast ooff the Yorke PeninsulaPeninsula,, lies a headstone. The pprimaryrimary inscriinscriptionption is to Arthur William Burton ((dieddied 7 June 18921892),), whilst a subsidiary inscription reads ‘also Gent Brown who died 16 April 1882 aagedged 66’. This ‘Gent’‘Gent’ was always an enigmaenigma to us.

MMoreore recent ffamilyamily history research has now unravelled the ‘enigma’‘enigma’ of ‘Gent‘Gent Brown’. The pproblemroblem obviouslyobviously revolves around misunderstood or misinterpreted verbal instructions to the sstonemason.tonemason. ‘‘GentGent BrBrown’own’ oonn ththee hheadstoneeadstone sshouldhould have read ‘Janet Brown’, and refersrefers to Janet Brown ((neenee Stewart),Stewart), wife of John Brown and mother-in-law manamanagedged hotels in Wallaroo, South Australia, over of the above Arthur William Burton. This is obviouslobviouslyy the years 1889-1905, including the Cornucopia a pphonetichonetic error, proprobablybably not helpedhelped byby strong HHotel,otel, 49 Owen Terrace, Wallaroo, and the Globe ScoScottishttish acceaccents.nts. JaJanetnet BrBrownown ddiedied in WWallarooallaroo oonn HHotel,otel, prevpreviouslyiously thethe WeeroonaWeeroona Hotel,Hotel, 6 JohnJohn 16 AAprilpril 1883, aagedged 68, accordingaccording to a recentrecentlyly TTerrace,errace, WWallaroo.allaroo. AArthurrthur anandd MMagdaleneagdalene are thethe llocatedocated familyfamily bible entry, not 1882 aged 66 as paternal greatgreat grandparentsgrandparents ofof the writer’s wifewife iinscribednscribed on tthehe severaseveral-years-laterl-years-later headstone.headstone. JJillianillian Stewart Chapple nee Gitsham throuthroughgh their ddaughteraughter Ethel Stewart Gitsham nee Burton and JJanet’sanet’s ddaughter,aughter, MMagdaleneagdalene YoungYoung BurtonBurton (nee(nee ggrandsonrandson Donald Burton Gitsham. Brown) and her husband Arthur William Burton, the PreviouslyPreviously published in The South Australian Genealogist Vol 45 No3, anandd son of John Burton and MarMaryy Grant, owned and/or WesternWestern Ancestory Vol14 No7

Image: Gravestone of Arthur William Burton and ‘Gent’ Brown.’ Author’s photo BarryBarry can be contacted at [email protected]@iinet.net.au SSurnames:urnames: Brown, Burton, CChapple,happle, Gitsham,Gitsham, Grant,Grant, StewartStewart