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Promises and Expectations
Investigating Detective Mason
Annie Seale Finney
My Campbell Ancestors
Where is Billy?
Unexpected Information
The Life of Herbert Edward (Bert) Woods
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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 2 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Contents Articles Promises and Expectations: Harold Berrow, English Farm Student 4 Prue Mercer
Investigating Detective Mason 8 Thelma Ragas
4 Annie Seale Finney 1832-1905: my great grandmother 12 Glad Wishart
The World War One Australian- 8 Serbian Project 15 Bojan Pajic
My Campbell Ancestors – Truths, Half Truths and Untruths 16 Darryl Grant
12 Where is Billy? 19 Margaret Cooper OAM
Unexpected Information 22 Sue Blackwood
15 The Life of Herbert Edward (Bert) Woods, Wrestler, 1876-1923 24 Michael Woods
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Regular Features Editorial 1 19 Pen of the President 2 Getting it write 26 Additions to the Library 28 Research Corner 30 Members Queries and Brickwall Corner 32 Jottings … and library news 34 22 Genies on the Web 35 Around the Groups 36 Book Reviews 37 What’s On at our Member Societies 38 GSV Member Societies 39 30 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40 News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41 About the GSV 42 Research Services 43 News 44 35 What’s On at the GSV 45
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 3 Harold Berrow, English Farm Student at the Wagga Experiment Farm
by Prue Mercer
Harold: a name I discovered from a family tree Directly all was stir and bustle, a number of barges when I was researching the life of his younger came alongside with coal, 150 men and boys on brother, Norman Berrow, my step grandfather them. The barges were lighted with acetylene – ‘Harold Berrow, born in Bangalore, India in fl ares and it was quite a sight to see them at work; no shoes, scarcely any clothes. Each barge serves 1895.’ I wanted to fi nd out more. From shipping a diff erent hold in the side of the ship, and these records I learnt that Harold had sailed to fellows walk up planks with baskets of coal on their Australia from Antwerp on 12 July 1909 heads, and the rapidity of which they do this is on the Seydlitz. He was sixteen years old: marvelous, but the noise and dirt is indescribable, according to India birth records he was in each sentence they speak seems to end with a long Prue can be contacted at drawn out Yah. Boys pulled themselves up the sides [email protected] fact born on 4 October 1892. The Seydliz was a steamship built to carry freight and of the ship by ropes to sell postcards. There were steerage passengers on the New York, East 1,000 tonnes of coal put on, and we were told by Asia and Australia lines. It was part of a fl eet one of the foreman that the men were paid about 5 shillings and 10 pence each – they work from 6 of emigrant ships run by the Norddeutscher Lloyd o’clock in the evening till 2 in the morning.1 company. Its capacity varied but it usually carried about 200 passengers in fi rst and second class and Harold travelled in third class and was listed 1700 passengers in third class. as a farm student. Passengers travelling with him sharing the cramped accommodation were The Seydlitz took about six weeks to reach predominantly farmers, labourers and miners – Australia, travelling via the Suez Canal to other trades were engineer, shoemaker, locksmith, Fremantle and then on to the eastern Australian coachbuilder, joiner, carpenter, plumber. Most ports, making frequent stops to refuel. Henry were probably assisted migrants. Letters from and Emily Miller, a couple who travelled to the Wagga Experiment Farm archives show that Australia on the Seydlitz in late 1909, described Harold’s enrolment and his assisted passage the Seydlitz loading coal at Naples:
Image1: Students working in the orchard at the Wagga Experiment Farm 1909-1910. Kindly provided by Charles Sturt University Regional Archives RW1634/6
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 4 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Harold Berrow Harold
Image 2: Hay Carting, kindly provided by Charles Sturt University Regional Archives RW1634/5 to Australia were arranged through the Agent settlers of British and New Zealand background. General’s offi ce in London. On 16 August Harold 1912 was a boom year – over 92,000 migrants arrived in Fremantle. By 28 August he had arrived arrived.4 in Wagga Wagga. On 30 August he started work looking after poultry on the Farm. There was the diffi culty of promise and expectations and the resulting sense of ❋ ❋ ❋ disappointment and even betrayal when promises were not met: land settlers did not always get When Harold left England his family was living at the grants they expected; migrants unsuited to Bristol in army barracks. His father had joined the rural work moved to crowded urban areas and British Army at the age of 21, following his father unemployment; when World War One arrived into the 19th Hussars. There must have been it provided the opportunity for many to join up something about Harold that convinced his father for better wages. A report in The Age in 1922 that he could become a farmer, or that he could headed ‘Deluded Immigrants’ described the never be a soldier. Harold’s journey was part of dissatisfaction of a group of boys at the Glen Australia’s migrant surge pre-World War 1. After Innes Experiment Farm who had been attracted Federation there was a drive to bring more people by advertising which presented Australia ‘as a to Australia as the country’s leaders wanted land of health, wealth and success,’ only to fi nd to build the rural economy. This was the era of themselves ‘disillusioned and penniless’ at Glen the White Australia policy: they wanted British Innes.5 people to do this.2 This was the emerging environment when Harold Australia was not seen as an attractive destination made his journey. He and his father would have by the British unemployed and poor and those seen the promotions and exhibitions and read the wanting to leave. The United States and Canada articles and advertisements, such as in The Times: were closer and easier to reach. Immigration ‘New South Wales is one of the few countries remained a state responsibility up to 1914: the of the world where the intelligent, capable farm states (and later the Commonwealth government) labourer of to-day may be the landed proprietor advertised and promoted Australia in Britain. of to-morrow.’6 For Harold, Australia wasn’t the They organised with shipping agents for cheap destination. Farming wasn’t the destination. assisted passages and promoted to migrants His father had joined the regiment of his father, the opportunity to get land grants. Their eff orts had seen active service in India, and had been targeted young rural labourers and domestic wounded in battle in South Africa. A livelihood servants: a New South Wales advertisement in that was not in the army was the destination. The Times in 1908 off ered assisted passages for ‘farm hands’ and ‘domestics.’3 ❋ ❋ ❋
Assisted migrants made up half the total arrivals Squatters following explorers’ reports of good pre-World War 1: some were selected by state rivers and grazing country had settled the Wagga and voluntary organisations and some were region in the 1830s. Hot and dry in summer and nominated by friends and relatives already in cold and foggy in winter, the town developed Australia. It is estimated that between 1905 and along the Murrumbidgee River as a transport and 1914 there were approximately 390,000 new mixed farming centre. By 1913 the population
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 5 was about 11,000.7 The Wagga Experiment Championship race at the Farm games held on 20 Farm was established by the New South Wales September 1910. Harold was a ‘fair’ farm student: Department of Agriculture in 1892. It was a site for agricultural research and a farm school started Students from England teaching students in 1896; the site of the Farm is Berrow, H.J. now a campus of Charles Sturt University and 28/8/09
Harold Berrow Harold a Department of Primary Industries research centre.8 The entry age was fi fteen years old and A mere infant on arrival, who for a time almost needed a nurse. Progress in practical work after fees were low so that farmers’ sons would enrol. eighteen months only fair. In examinations The Agent General in London reserved places for unsatisfactory. Recently advised by his father that English students as part of the eff ort to attract he must obtain work. Goes to a situation at the end more farm workers to Australia. Harold was one of the month. of these. The Farm manager McKeown wrote to the Students lived at the Farm, which was fi ve miles Department of Agriculture that: from the town, near a railway station. The course was practical: each student worked on a diff erent It is unsatisfactory to us that students who are not area month by month, such as in the dairy, in the likely to do any good should be sent out to us under orchard, in the stables, on the plough and as the admission approvals and it would be rough on them foreman. The year started in February and there and the State to turn them adrift on arrival. This were vacation periods at Easter, in July and in unpleasant situation would be avoided if a higher December. Most good students found employment standard were observed in passing applicants in before the end of the two-year course. London.
When Harold was a student the Farm was under Again there was the diffi culty of promises and expectations not being met. When Harold the strict management of G. Maurice McKeown: there are accounts of students being fi ned for arrived at the Wagga Experiment Farm he must leaving gates open; of punishment for telling dirty have looked very young, like a ‘mere infant.’ stories; of students being expelled because they He had to learn everything – farm work, study, entered the Farm store and stole fruit. washing and mending. Harold had to fi nd work but hadn’t done well. Another McKeown letter proposes refunding part of Harold’s fees so he However one ex-student, Bell, later commented that the Wagga Farm had given him a varied could purchase clothing before going to a work 10 and practical experience of farming, including placement. dairying, animal husbandry and agriculture, which had contributed to his later success as a farmer.9 ❋ ❋ ❋
There would have been Harold was eighteen when he left the Farm to heat. There would have travel 400 miles north to work in the Manning been dust. There would River district in December 1910. It was quite have been land to clear, isolated until the North Coast Railway opened land to plough, cows to in early 1913: before then journeys were made by milk. The board and food coach and by boat. He went as a replacement farm would have been basic. worker. He probably worked for Mr S. A. Levick, a The staff would have been builder who owned a farm on the edge of Cundle, expecting more than a boy now Cundletown near Taree. Within three years like Harold could deliver. Harold was back in Wagga Wagga in the District But there would have been Hospital. He died there on 4 April 1914 after being community and friendship; ill for six months with sarcoma of the spine, a there were cricket and malignant tumour. Harold would have suff ered a rugby teams that played in lot of pain and he may have had surgery. local competitions. Harold’s funeral notice was published in a Wagga The December 1909 roll Wagga newspaper, the Daily Advertiser on 7 April book entry says Harold 1914. had a bad back and he did not work that month. Harold’s death certifi cate was witnessed by C.D. An H. Berrow (probably Eedy – Charles Davy Eedy. He was a pallbearer Image 3: Obituary for Harold, Daily Advertiser Harold) came fi rst in the at Harold’s funeral. Charles had gone to Cundle (Wagga Wagga), April 7 1914 p2 One Mile Handicap and from the Wagga Experiment Farm to work on Mr
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 6 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Levick’s farm in early 1910 and had stayed there He was a caring father who had wanted or in the Manning River district until about 1915. something diff erent for his son: Harold was better I would like to think that Charles had been in off not joining up and fi ghting. John Berrow Wagga visiting Harold before he had to sign the had followed his father into the cavalry. He was death certifi cate. Harold died on a Saturday and it shipped from India to South Africa into war with would have been diffi cult to travel 400 miles from his regiment in 1899; his two young children, the Manning River to Wagga Wagga in time for the Harold and Ivy, had returned to Britain with Berrow Harold funeral on Sunday. There is comfort in the thought their mother. Ivy had died in Ireland in 1901; now that Harold’s death may not have been lonely. Harold was dead. The promise and expectations John Berrow had had for his eldest son had come Harold’s father, John Berrow, wrote to Charles to an end. on 5 November 1914; his letter was published in the local newspaper as it contained news of World ❋ ❋ ❋ War One. In his letter John shared his grief: I have located the site of Harold’s grave. A small I often think if poor Harold had been alive he would red circle marks plot ANG-R-4-0011 on an online have trekked back here to be in it, so perhaps it is aerial view of the Wagga Wagga Monumental all for the best that he is now at rest … I suppose Cemetery. I cannot see Harold’s tombstone. Harold’s tombstone will soon be placed, and we shall be glad to get a photograph of it. I hope you are not grieving for the poor little chap, for I feel like you he is better off and his memory will ever be a pleasant one. I feel as if you were not a stranger in any way, but a chum that happened to be a long way off , that’s all.
Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Paul O’Donnell, Archivist, Charles Sturt University References 1. This was published in The Hertfordshire Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser – reproduced in A Seydlitz 1909 voyage to Australia. http://www.searlecanada.org/volturno/ volturno93.html. Accessed 7 March 2017 2. An article in The Times by the New South Wales Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1913 outlined the system of agricultural education in the state: it extended from the primary school classroom to farm schools to university education and to individual research. There were over 320 students in farm schools in New South Wales at that time: the Wagga Experiment Farm was one of these 3. The Times, 28 May 1908, p5 4. 390,000 fi gure from Australia, Department of Immigration, A history of the Department of Immigration - managing migration to Australia, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia: 2015; 1912 fi gure from Coldrey, Barry, Good British stock: child and youth migration to Australia. Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 1999. http://guides.naa.gov.au/good-british-stock/ index.aspx. Accessed 9 March 2017. In the 1911 census the population of Australia was just under 4.5 million. 5. The Age 14 February 1922, p8 6. The Times, 11 July 1908, p8 7. Figure from Robertson, J Edgar, The progress of Wagga Wagga and district: the commercial centre of the Riverina, Melbourne: J Edgar Robertson, 1914 8. During the Second World War the Farm ceased operating. The site became the Wagga Agricultural College in 1949; an Agricultural Research Institute was established there in 1954. When the College amalgamated with the Riverina College of Advanced Education in 1976 the farm was split administratively and the Research Institute remained with the Department. The Riverina College Wagga campus became one of the foundation campuses of what is now known as Charles Sturt University 9. Sutherland, June, From farm boys to PhDs: agricultural education at Wagga Wagga, Charles Sturt University, 1996 10. Charles Sturt University, Regional Archives, Correspondence from Wagga Experiment Farm – Admission of H.J.Berrow (09.I3780); Student Berrow’s fees (09.I8529); Student Berrow’s fees (M.10/2309); Student Berrow’s fees (M.10/7222); Students from England (N/10/12423); Student Berrow (Misc. 1/7222). Wagga Experiment Farm Roll Book 1909-10. Entries for Harold Berrow and Charles Eedy
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 7 Investigating Detective Mason
by Thelma Ragas
My great uncle Michael Mason was an Australian eight-hour day ruling of 1899 was confi ned to shearer who put aside the clippers to become a craftsmen and unionised workers. The conditions successful detective in the New Zealand Police for New Zealand police by today’s standards were Force during the early 20th Century. His business Dickensian: in the 1930s annual leave was still card, which was given to my father, his nephew, considered a privilege not a given. when he visited in the 1920s, was part of our Thelma can be contacted at family memorabilia. Of Dunedin’s staff it reported, ‘It has been [email protected] shown conclusively that the discipline and Enrolled on 1 July 1905, Michael Mason’s fi rst control and supervision, which are absolutely placement was to Dunedin North, moving on 7 necessary … have not been as they ought to be’.3 March 1906 to the main station at King Street. The Commission thought the issue of wages and Michael began early to build a reputation within conditions did not really come within the scope the force. In 1909 as a young constable at Dunedin of the enquiry. There could be a slight concession King Street Police Station he was selected to made for married constables. (Constable Mason represent fellow offi cers at the Royal Commission seems to have had some eff ect.) into the New Zealand Force. He had stated to the Commission he was At a meeting of members of the Force held at the intending to apply for a detective position. central police station on Friday last to discuss Because it was thought dangerous to allow force matters. I was appointed one of three delegates members to become too familiar with the local elected at the central police station to discuss population, Michael was transferred to Auckland matters, in connection with the service that were on 21 August 1909. The Commission had found causing dissatisfaction. Constables Butler and Fox ‘the system of supervision here was everything being the others – to bring these matters under the to be desired’.4 Michael would have eff ective notice of the Commission. 1 models to learn from. Ten months later he was transferred to Wellington. On 1 December 1912 He set out in detail the Force’s grievances with my great uncle had risen to the rank of Detective. their rate of pay and cost of living, identifying and comparing other departments who were on better New Zealand had a series of strikes between rates and conditions. With the current married October 1913 and mid January 1914, later men’s house allowance, Constable Mason detailed called The Great Strike. About 14,000 to 16,000 costs against the better situation of the Prison workers from various industries went on strike. Department. ‘We suggest’, he said, that ‘the pay be This had not been experienced before in the increased by 6d. a day and the house allowance by country. The strike began with the watersiders’ 6d. a day.’2 Mason highlighted diffi culties for the union and the miners’ union. Mounted special married men; living in the city they faced higher constables, mostly farmers and rural labourers, rents and needed a decent house. Michael and were organised and camped close to the action. wife Nellie (Ellen) had two young boys. Michael’s Their job was to open up the wharves in the main statement also covered uniforms, holidays and urban centres with Wellington one of the most annual leave or lack thereof. These issues aff ected important. the quality of their work. On Saturday afternoon of 30 October 1913 The Commission had been set up to investigate Detective Mason arrested a man on the charge the management and effi cacy of senior police of having used a revolver in Post Offi ce Square, offi cers throughout New Zealand in their roles. perhaps his fi rst experience of The Great Strike. The meeting at Dunedin, whilst discussing these Another man was later charged with having been matters, had obviously spent considerable time involved in a riot on the morning of the same day dissecting the work conditions for the force, on Waterloo Quay.5 particularly constables. In New Zealand the
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 8 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 1: Lambton Quay looking north, Wellington by Sydney Charles Smith, 1888-1972. Photographs of New Zealand, Ref: 1/1-019833-G, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The Quay has always been the heart of the central business area. The 1913-14 strikers targeted the city centre and the Quays.
On 12 November 1913 The Evening Post’s headline off ences. The charges against him are: (1) Taking was ‘Love of Order. Law Asserts Itself. Five part in unlawful assembly in Manners Street on Arrests by Detectives. Strike Offi cials Refused’. 6 November 18; (2) Assaulting a special constable This statement sets the tone for the strong action in Manners street the same date; (3) Assaulting by the Police Force in the city and on the wharf Captain Kitching, of the S.S. Defender on October fronts. 24; and (4) Taking part in a riot on Queen’s Wharf on the same day. This is the day early in the strike On 17 November the Dominion shows the when a mob rushed the ships at the wharfs.7 situation that Detective Mason and his fellow detectives were dealing with in Wellington and This article demonstrates how many of the around the wharves particularly ‘One Man on strikers were ready to take a dangerous route Three Charges’ on 20 November 1913. to infl uence the Government’s stance and the industries involved. This strike was considered Albert Anderson who was arrested yesterday by the most violent and disruptive in New Zealand’s Detective Sergeant Cassells and Detective Mason, history. Fortunately by mid-December most on a charge of taking part in the disturbance in workers and unions had decided to make some Manners Street on Tuesday, is considered to be sort of settlement. a man who is wanted respecting several other
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 9 Michael was made a Detective Sergeant after On 4 February 1920 Miles and Millanta came examinations on 1 March 1919. Michael’s greatest before Mr Justice Cooper and jury. It was noted challenge would come towards the end of his that police had given the accused every assistance career with the Police Force. By then he would be to trace the person who sold them the cans but well experienced and a seasoned performer in the without success. Five witnesses gave evidence courts. The catalyst would be the duo of Miles and were cross-examined. ‘His Honour, who and Millanta, hawkers who had thefts extending remarked upon the fair way in which Detective over six years. In the Magistrates Court they were Mason had given his evidence, summed up the Detective Mason Detective charged with the theft of sanitary pans owned by evidence favourably to the two accused’.9 the Petone Borough Council. These experienced peddlers had broken up the materials to sell on for Whatever undercurrents there were between profi t. Detective Sergeant Mason was in charge some members of staff at the Wellington of the case; Detective Sergeant Rawle, during Detective Force may have been exacerbated by the proceedings, had objected twice. Mason’s this decision. It was announced in the Evening response was, ‘I am put in a very awkward position Post on 16 February that Detective Mason had today, for the fi rst time during my police career’.8 tendered his resignation on 6 February due to the attitude adopted towards him by his superior The two persons charged were wavering from offi cers over the Petone case. Michael believed their previous statements particularly regarding he needed to resign to allow a proper enquiry the identity of the person, a council employee, to be made. He felt that he had been placed in a who had sold the pans to them, and how many. false position in this recent case. He had been The magistrate considered that the accused compelled to take a course of action that he were not in the clear; they were committed to the considered ‘unworthy of a fair-minded police Supreme Court for trial. offi cer … he was forced to the conclusion by what had happened in this case that under the existing conditionsc in Wellington an offi cer who showed fairnessf to persons accused was not regarded with favour’.f 10
PoliceP Procedure and Legal were not in tandem. HisH superiors suspended Detective Sergeant MasonM immediately, not waiting for the offio cial letter from the Commissioner of Police anda ‘preferred charges’. With advice from his solicitors Mr M Myers, Mason asked to be relieved.r He was not to submit to any department enquiriese in view of the administration of justice.j Mason’s solicitor had communicated withw the Minister for Justice informing him of thet detective’s long service and referred back to thet Supreme Court judge’s positive comments ono the Millanta and Miles case. On 10 July, the GovernmentG decided to grant an inquiry. On 6 OctoberO 1920 the Evening Post would publish the fi rst sitting: ‘Resignation & Reasons. Allegations againsta Police Administration.’11 ‘The Mason CCase’ as the Dominion called it, 12 had caught the publicp interest: it was an involved aff air with variousv members from the police department anda legal representatives present. (The Prime MinisterM William Massey had approved the questionsq being put to Michael Mason.)
TheT press and the public waited. This wouldw have been a diffi cult time for the Mason ffamily now with three older children.
Image 2: Photograph of Byko Corner Wellington c1905 by Muir & Moodie. Ref:PA7-19-42 Alexander Turnbull Library Wellington. Kings Chamber in the centre: site of Mason & Dickson Private Detective Agency from 1922.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 10 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Over the course of two days the Commissioners In 1922 Michael was advertising his Private dissected all facts; the charges made against two Detective Agency in the Dominion along with his senior offi cers Superintendent Norwood and partner: ‘Mason and Dickson, with many years Inspector McIlveney, were examined at length. of valuable New Zealand Police and Detective Both the Dominion and Evening Post dealt with experience to their credit’. Their offi ce was the results in detail. The Commissioners said in in 8 King Chambers, Wellington. This would part, ‘In conclusion, and to sum up our opinion, seem to prove my Great Uncle’s resilience and we desire to state as emphatically as we can: determination to keep working in a fi eld where, That there is not the slightest foundation for the for the most part, he had been successful. Mason Detective charges made by Detective Sergeant Mason, or on his behalf, against Superintendent Norwood His death in 1940, casts a cloud over the last and Inspector McIlveney, or either of them’.13 In weeks or days of his life. Michael Mason’s summary they stated, ‘That the charges emanated death certifi cate states he died from pulmonary from Detective Sergeant Mason because of his thrombosis. The cause of death was immediate. exaggerated estimate of the value of his own He also had broken ribs. What caused the latter Opinion’.14 and possibly the pulmonary thrombosis? Was his death an accident or was it linked to being Former D.S. Michael Mason had stepped a private detective? Our ‘family detective’ is outside the square: he had wavered, become too buried with his wife Nellie in Karori and Makara concentrated on the possibility of a miscarriage of Cemetery, Wellington. Ironically their son justice. The irony is that the two who were at the William John joined the force, became a detective crux of this convoluted lengthy legal aff air, Miles and had a long career. and Millanta, were found not guilty: Mason’s considered belief. My investigation is closed.
References 1, 2, 3, 4. Report: Police Force of New Zealand Report of the Royal Commission Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer 1905; Appendix to the Journals of House of Representatives New Zealand Vol.1V 6-H-16B; Michael Mason, Constable, examined on oath (No.20) p41-43 5. Dominion, ‘Two More Arrests Alleged Use Of Revolver’ 17 November 1913 p8 Australia’s 6. Evening Post Headline, 12 November 1913 7. Dominion, ‘One Man On 3 Charges’ 20 November 1913 p8 largest online 8. Evening Post, ‘A Very Strange Case’ 17 December 1918 p8 9. Evening Post, ‘The Pentone Case’ 16 February 1920 family history p4 10. Evening Post, ‘Detective Mason’s Resignation’ 16 * February 1920 p8 resource 11. Evening Post, ‘Resignations and Reasons Allegations Against Police Administration’ Researchearch and 6 October 1920 12, 13, 14 Dominion, ‘The Mason Case’ 21 October 1920 p4 buildd your family Sources • New Zealand Births Deaths & Marriage Certifi cates treee online copies Mason family • Victorian Birth Certifi cate copy Michael Mason. Map, Photographs of grave • New Zealand Electoral Rolls and Directories. • International Police Association New Zealand Section www.ipa.org.nz • A Touch of History periodical (no date) Brewer, Keith Early NZ Police conditions (article) • The 1913 Great Strike URL: https://nzhistory.govt. nz/politics/1913-great-strike, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage) *comScore, 2011 • Oral Family History
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 11 Annie Seale Finney 1832-1905: my great grandmother
by Jean Dart
‘Marriages are all very nice, assuming they are Annie Seale was born in 1832 and grew up in a happy marriages. But many are not, then heaven small settlement of English Protestant farming could indeed turn into hell.’ Queen Victoria.1 families whose ancestors had settled on or near the battle site.5 In 1752 John Wesley had stopped My father and his sister loved visiting their at Aughrim on his preaching tour of Ireland. Jean can be contacted at maternal grandmother. ‘Our happiest days Subsequently many of the local Protestant [email protected] were spent going to see Granny Finney at the families, who were members of the Church of children’s home in Aughrim. It took a good horse Ireland (Anglican), became Methodists, including to do it in one day,’ wrote my Aunt Richie in 1968 the Seale family. As a teenager in the 1840s Annie in a personal letter.2 They would have travelled would have been very aware of the tragedy of the south for about fi fteen miles along small sandy Great Famine. The Methodists tried to provide roads running parallel to the River Suck which food for local starving children but were suspected formed the border between the counties of of ulterior motives by local Catholic priests. Galway and Roscommon in the west of Ireland. The census of 1901 confi rms In January 1856 Annie, then aged 24, married that Annie Finney, aged 69, was Richard Finney of Grouse Lodge, a local farmer, indeed the matron of a dwelling in nearby Clonfert Cathedral.6 We can imagine with 27 students, 24 girls and their families, friends and neighbours shaking three boys, aged between hands with the new bride and groom outside the fi fteen and fi ve.3 12th century doorway.
Aughrim is a small Annie and Richard had three children, Richard, town on the main road born 1856, Charles, born in 1858 and Sarah, my from Dublin to Galway, grandmother, born nearly eight years later in just west of the River 1865.7 And so the story rested until a few months Shannon. It is chiefl y ago when a newspaper report was circulated remembered as the site of among the network of cousins, the descendants Ireland’s most bitter and of Richard, Charles and Sarah, which shocked us bloody battle fought in 1691 all. It was a report of a court case judged by the not long after the Battle of Master of the Rolls in Dublin in 1858.8 Further the Boyne. In England the information has subsequently come to light. removal of the Catholic King James II and his replacement Their prenuptial agreement stated that Annie by his Protestant daughter Queen and Richard would inherit the tenancy of Mary and her Dutch husband William Hemmingsville from Annie’s elderly aunt, Mrs of Orange in 1689 was hailed as the Glorious Pardy. In the meantime, Richard would take over Revolution.4 The defi ning battle was fought at management of the farm and pay a regular sum of Aughrim. The Battle of Aughrim was a crushing money to Mrs Pardy during her life time. defeat for King James and for Irish Catholics and is still remembered in Ireland with great sorrow However this arrangement did not work out and bitterness. Three hundred years after the happily. In April 1857, just over a year after they Battle of Aughrim in 1991 the local Catholic and were married, Richard put a notice in the local Protestant communities held a join service of papers ‘cautioning the public not to give credit reconciliation. The Irish remember their history: to his wife, Annie Finney, as he will not be it could have happened just yesterday. accountable for her debts as she is now living with
Image1: Annie Seale Finney, author’s collection
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Images 2 & 3: The Home for Protestant Orphans, Aughrim 1950s, author’s collection (above) and Clonfert Cathedral, courtesy of the Church Warden of Aughrim
her father, Mr William Seale’.9 In September After her separation from Richard, Annie 1857 Richard assaulted Annie with a farm spade went to work at The Home for Protestant knocking her down and causing her to bleed Orphans in Aughrim founded in the 1870s. The profusely.10 Their fi rst child was less than a year churchwarden of Aughrim and Clontuskert old when all this happened. writes:
In June 1858 Mrs Pardy went to court because It was originally built to accommodate 15 - 20 Richard had not fulfi lled his part of the agreement children, both boys and girls and they were and she wished it to be rescinded. Richard had not generally well treated. There was a tragedy in the paid the money and had removed all the contents 1880s when two children from the Home and two of the house and farm. Apparently Richard’s local children were drowned in a boating accident sisters gave affi davits in favour of Annie. Richard on one of the fi ve small lakes in Aughrim. There is and Annie may later have been temporarily a memorial to your great grandmother in the form reconciled as in 1865 Annie gave birth to my of a lectern here in Holy Trinity Church, which is grandmother, Sarah, at Grouse Lodge, Richard’s just up the lane from the old orphanage. I happen to family farm. But at a later stage in their marriage have [had] the honour of being at the last Christmas Annie took Richard to court again for violently party in 1952. The children of the parish were abusing her. This time she was awarded damages invited to join with the nine children who at that of £100 pounds, a large sum in those days, worth time were not orphans as they had both parents £11,000 in today’s values.11 alive but were poor in circumstances or wished their child to have a Church of Ireland education. 13 All this took place at a time when the issue of women’s right to paid work and divorce were Richard continued to live at Hemmingsville until being hotly debated in London. In 1857 (the year his death in 1901. In his will Annie was the main after the marriage of Annie and Richard) the benefi ciary inheriting £885 pounds sterling, while Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill passed the farm Hemmingsville was inherited by their Parliament, which allowed women to sue for son Richard. divorce but only in proven cases of rape, sodomy, bestiality or acts of extreme cruelty.12 Annie’s After her retirement Annie lived with her son court case took place after the 1857 Act became Charles and his family at Grouse Lodge. She died law when the rights of married women to be free at the home of her daughter Sarah in County of violence were perhaps more established. Roscommon. Her Finney descendants still live at Hemmingsville and Grouse Lodge.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 13 Image 4: Annie’s son Richard and his family in front of Hemmingsville c1910. All but one member of this family emigrated to Australia Annie Seale
Postscript himself. I was also puzzled because I had assumed My father once said to me. ‘Your great grandfather he meant that his paternal grandfather, James was an alcoholic, your grandfather was an Kilroe, was an alcoholic. I had not considered alcoholic and one of these days you will be one his maternal grandfather Richard Finney as a too if you don’t watch out!’ I was rather annoyed possible candidate until I learned the story of that he had conveniently forgotten to mention Annie’s later life.
References 1. Quoted in S Schama, A History of Britain, Volume Three, 1776-2000, BBC, London, 2003, p154 2. RJ Kilroe, personal letter, 29 August 1968 3. National Archives, Census of Ireland, 1901 4. S Schama A History of Britain, Volume Two 1603-1776, pp252-264 5. T Sullivan, Glimpses into the Past, 2009, Chapter 5, History of the Church of Ireland Parish of Clontuskert and Aughrim 6. www.irishgenealogy.com.ie 7. www.irishgenealogy.com.ie 8. Saunders Newsletter and Daily Advertiser, 9 June 1858, accessed on www.findmypast.com.au 9. Kings County Chronicle, 29 April 1857, accessed on www.findmypast.com.au 10. Report, Petty Sessions Order Book, 5 September 1857, accessed on www.findmypast.com.au 11. E Ross, private correspondence, 2017 12. S Schama A History of Britain, Volume Three, 1776-2000, p159 13. R Cooke, Church Warden, Clontuskert and Aughrim C of I Parish, personal communication, March 2017
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 14 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc The World War One Australian- Serbian Project
Searching for descendants and relatives of Australians decorated by Serbian Project Serbia and who served in Serbia or the Salonika Front in World War One
information supplied by Bojan Pajic
The GSV has been assisting Bojan and his 4. Australian AIF troops on the Salonika Front. colleagues to fi nd information aimed at Men from the 6th Brigade, AIF, led by then identifying and contacting current descendants Lieutenant W. M. Trew and men from the 1st and relatives of Australian ancestors involved Australian Remount Unit led by Captain J. W. Bojan can be contacted at: [email protected] with Serbia in WW1. Boyes. 5. Other Australians decorated by Serbia for Bojan and his colleagues have now started the journalistic and humanitarian second phase of this project, which aims to: services (three have been identifi ed so far). • Identify and contact descendants and relatives 6. Australians who served on the of Australians who helped Serbia in WW1 Salonika Front with British Forces • To hold a ceremony of commemoration of the (91 individuals have been identifi ed services of these Australians in 2018 with the so far, with some decorated by Embassy of Serbia Serbia). • To provide descendants and relatives with 7. Volunteers from Australia, who information on the services, circumstances having been recruited, partially and decorations (if any) of their ancestors trained and escorted by the • To obtain any personal information on these Australian Army, joined the Serbian Australians for a book on Australians and Army (83 of about 88 involved have Serbs in WW1, which is planned to be released been identifi ed). in 2018. Bojan and his colleagues are seeking the The descendants and relatives that the research help of anyone who has information, team is looking for fall into seven groups of and who can assist with bringing ancestors: the project to a successful conclusion. He can be contacted 1. The medical volunteers (32 out of about by email at: [email protected]. 60 involved have been identifi ed). These volunteers worked with organisations such as A list has been developed of the the Red Cross, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, names of some 700 Australian Serbian Relief Fund hospitals, and were servicemen and medical subsequently not offi cially recognised because volunteers, whose descendants they had not served in the Australian or and relatives they would like to British armed services. However, some were contact The list is in alphabetical awarded by the allied Serbian, French, Russian order, by rank/position and unit/ and Greek governments for their bravery and organisation so that readers can services. easily determine whether one 2. Australian servicemen decorated by Serbia for of their ancestors is involved. A active service and actions. One hundred and pdf fi le of this list is available by twenty seven have been identifi ed so far. email from Bojan. We are also planning to provide a link to it on 3. Australian Army Nursing Services (we have Images 1 & 2: Serbian Gold Medal the GSV website. identifi ed 360 from about 390 Australian for Bravery (top), and below, Serbian nurses who served with the Serbian and other Order of the White Eagle and neck Bojan’s book Serbian Decorations armies at the Salonika (or Balkan) Front. medal. Novagem Publishers, used Through History and Serbian Medals Jessie White was their Principal Matron and with permission. Awarded to Australians (2006) is it is hoped that her existing relatives can be available in the GSV Library. traced.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 15 My Campbell Ancestors – Truths, Half Truths and Untruths
by Darryl Grant
Uncovering the story of my Campbell ancestors Alexander and his wife Ann, together with their has proven to be more than usually diffi cult, as youngest daughters Jane, Marjory and Mary, some of them had a frustrating tendency to alter migrated to Victoria on the clipper ship Red or hide the truth if it didn’t suit them. Jacket, arriving in Melbourne on 15 February 1866. At fi rst they lived near Tylden in central The basic story of my Campbell family Victoria, but after a few years they moved north to Darryl can be contacted at line appears to be quite simple and to be Nanneella near Rochester. [email protected] honest, not very interesting, and it can be easily summarised in a few paragraphs. It In the meantime, their daughter Marjory had met begins with my great great great grandfather John Ingram, a farmer from Hesket (near Mt. John Campbell, who married Margery Macedon), and married him at Kyneton on 26 (or Marjory) MacKilligan (also McKillican June 1871. Together they had nine children, the and MacKellican) in the Parish of Petty, near last of whom was my maternal grandfather James Inverness in Scotland, on 23 November 1804. Thomas Ingram (b. 1888). They had at least four children including a son named Alexander, who was baptised at Nairn on There we have, in brief, what would seem to be 12 September 1814. an uncomplicated, unexceptional family history. However, as more details are added to the story it ThisThis AlexanderAlexander CampbellCamp married becomes much less straightforward, thanks to an AnnAnn McBainMcBain (or(or McBeanM ) at assortment of omissions, deceptions and outright nearbynearby Forres inin Morayshire on lies that were perpetrated by various members of 31 January 1835.18 They had the family. seven chilchildren:d Christina (b.(b. 1835),1835), John (b. 1838), To begin with, there are questions about the true twins AAlexander and parentage of Alexander Campbell’s wife Ann Ann (b(b. 1842), Jane McBain. Initially it was not apparent that there (b.(b. 11844),8 Marjory was any problem, as the Victorian birth, death (b.(b. 11848) and and marriage records all tell the same story. Her MaryMa (b. 1851). death certifi cate states that her parents were Alexander’sAl John and Isabella McBain (nee Hay), that she occupationoc was was born in Nairnshire and that she was 71 sometimess years old when she died in 1882, which suggests recordedr as a that she was born around 1811. Her husband’s shoemakers and at death certifi cate also gives her maiden name as other times as a McBain, as do several of her children’s marriage gamekeeper, and and death certifi cates (although one of them did if a story that manage to misspell it as McVean). has been passed down through It was only when the relevant Scottish parish thet family is to registers were consulted to fi nd the baptismal beb believed, he details of Alexander and Ann’s children that it wasw employed became apparent that things were not as simple atat Brodie Castle, as they had appeared to be. While the entries nearne Forres. for their fi rst fi ve children all gave McBain (or variations thereof) as Ann’s maiden name, the
Image 1: Marjory Ingram (nee Campbell), daughter of Alexander and Ann Campbell and the author’s great grandmother. Photographs from the author’s collection.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 16 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc entry for her sixth child (Marjory) said that her maiden name was Clerk and for her last child (Mary) it was recorded as Clark. What had Ann learnt that made her say that Clerk/Clark was her maiden name and not McBain as before?
A verifi able record of Ann’s baptism might solve the mystery, but to my knowledge no such record Campbell Ancestors has ever been found. Neither has any record been found of a marriage between her reputed parents John McBain and Isabella Hay, nor any records of children born to them. The one credible piece of information that I have about Ann’s origins comes from the British 1851 census, in which Nairn is given as her place of birth.
A request for assistance sent to the Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society elicited a response that mostly confi rmed what was already known, but it also included one intriguing new piece of information. The registers of the Parish of Nairn record that an Ann McBain was baptised there on 21 January 1810. Born on the second day of that same month, she was the illegitimate daughter of one John McBain and a mother whose name was Image 2: Alexander and Ann Campbell’s grave, shared with not recorded. their daughter Mary, her husband Michael and their infant son John. This baptism immediately raises some questions that are probably unanswerable, the fi rst and most obvious one being, could this child have been to a farm at Nanneella in northern Victoria, where the Ann McBain who later married Alexander Ann died on 10 July 1882. Alexander died at nearby Campbell? Why was her mother not named, and Timmering on 15 August 1899 and was buried with could she have been the elusive Isabella Hay? Ann in the Rochester cemetery. Also, in view of Ann’s later use of Clerk/Clark as her maiden name, is there any signifi cance in In October 2012 I visited the Rochester cemetery the presence at this baptism of a witness named to take some photographs of the graves of my Alexander Clark? These questions have led to a Campbell and Ingram ancestors. While standing good deal of speculation, but nothing more. in front of Alexander and Ann Campbell’s grave I noticed another grave, very close by, upon which Next there is the matter of the Victorian shipping was inscribed the name John Campbell. Was the records, which state that when Alexander and Ann close proximity of these two Campbell graves just a Campbell and their daughters Jane, Marjory and coincidence, I wondered, or were they connected in Mary arrived in Melbourne on the Red Jacket in some way? I knew that Alexander and Ann had a son 1866 they were aged 39, 38, eighteen, sixteen and named John, but until that moment I had never had fourteen respectively. In reality their ages were 51, any reason to suppose that he might have come to about 55, 21, eighteen and fourteen; only Mary’s age Victoria. Clearly some more research was required. was correct. It did not take long for me to verify that the John I strongly suspect that these discrepancies were Campbell in this grave was indeed their son, not accidental and that Alexander and Ann baptised in the Parish of Dyke and Moy (near deliberately misled the authorities. They may have Forres) in Morayshire on 21 March 1838. He reasoned that their chances of fi nding employment married Jane Davidson at Ardclach, Nairn on in Victoria would be improved if they claimed to 1 April 1859, and it is almost certain that they be younger than they really were. Not having their were the John and Jane Campbell who arrived older children with them to give the game away in Melbourne on the ship Commodore Perry on 25 would have helped their ruse, if that is what it was. August 1859, some seven years before his parents.
After their arrival they settled somewhere near John and Jane settled on a farm in the Tylden Tylden in central Victoria, and there is a family district; the same area that his parents settled in a story that they lived on a farm at Fern Hill, between few years later. They had six children at Tylden, and Tylden and Trentham. Around 1871 they moved another two were born following their move to
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 17 a farm at Timmering tragically died at Tongala on 2 February 1890, as a sometime between result of injuries she suff ered while giving birth. 1871 and 1874. This appeared to be all that there was to learn John died suddenly about Jane’s life, until the day I discovered that of an embolism on 19 she had apparently given birth to two children August 1877, aged just prior to her marriage to Robert. At fi rst I was 39, and was buried inclined to dismiss this revelation as a mistake, in the Rochester as Jane and Robert’s marriage certifi cate made cemetery. Less than a no mention of them, while her death certifi cate year later his seventh also ignored them and listed only the children child Jane also died she had with Robert (who was the informant), and was buried with but subsequent research showed that Jane had him. His widow Jane indeed born two illegitimate children. Given that remarried in 1887; they were omitted from both her marriage and her new husband was death records it is little wonder that I had been Edward Steed. completely unaware of their existence.
I would not have Jane was twenty and still living in Scotland when learnt any of this if I she gave birth to her fi rst child, Jane Ann, at had not gone to the Dyke on 14 September 1865. The father’s name cemetery and found was not recorded. We know that Jane Ann came John’s grave. There is to Victoria (she married at Nanneella in 1890), an obvious lesson here: almost certainly with her mother on the Red Image 3: The surprise grave: John Campbell and his don’t rely on records Jacket when she was only a few months old, but daughter Jane. alone, do ‘ground work’ there is no mention of her in the shipping records. too. If you can, go and visit the places where your ancestors lived (and Two years later Jane had another daughter, Mary died). You might be surprised at what you fi nd. Campbell David, at Kyneton on 3 October 1867. Mary’s father was Noah David, a 33-year-old Another member of Alexander and Ann Campbell’s labourer from Glamorganshire in Wales, who family that sprang a surprise on me was their fi fth appears to have arrived in Victoria on the ship child Jane, who was baptised in the Parish of Dyke Royal Saxon in 1862. and Moy (as were all of their children apart from Christina) on 28 November 1844. There is another omission – or perhaps deception would be more accurate – on Jane and Robert’s On 15 March 1869, three years after she came marriage certifi cate. Robert described himself as to Melbourne with her parents and sisters on a bachelor when in fact he was a widower whose the Red Jacket, Jane married a farmer named fi rst wife had died in 1863, while their only child Robert Waites at Kyneton. Robert was born in had died during the voyage out on the Boanerges. Bridlington in Yorkshire in 1838 and had arrived Did he, I wonder, ever tell Jane about his fi rst in Victoria on the Boanerges in 1863. family, or did he decide that was a part of his life that she didn’t need to know about? Following their marriage, Jane and Robert settled at Emberton (now Barfold) but it wasn’t The history of my Campbell ancestors and their long before they too moved to the Tylden area. relatives is not straightforward at all, but is loaded Sometime between 1874 and 1877 they moved with mysteries and unanswered questions, laced again, this time to a farm near Tongala. They had with deceit and touched by tragedy. At least they ten children, the fi rst being born at Emberton, the cannot be accused of being boring. next two at Tylden and the others at Tongala. Jane
Acknowledgements Sources The information that led me to Jane Campbell’s fi rst two children was found some • Victorian BDM records years ago on a website that no longer appears • PRO Victoria Inward Passenger Lists to exist. The assistance of the Aberdeen and • https://familysearch.org North East Scotland Family History Society, in confi rming and adding to my own research • www.ancestry.com.au into Ann McBain’s origins, is most gratefully acknowledged
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 18 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Where is Billy?
by Margaret Cooper OAM
Billy, William Stanley Cooper, my grandfather, was moved to the 7th Battalion. He was reported went ‘missing’ in Belgium 1917. His wife’s uncle ‘wounded/missing’ at Lone Pine Gallipoli on 8 Allan Robert Barnett had been described as August 1915, leaving his family mystifi ed and Margaret can ‘missing’ at Gallipoli 1916. For years, their grieving. be contacted at families strove to fi nd the truth: what had [email protected] happened to them? The same year, his niece Irene and her husband Billy Cooper began buying a house in Albert Park. Billy was one of at least seven children born to Billy Cooper enlisted in the Australian Infantry Mary Gluyas Cooper nee Gluyas Pascoe and Forces in January 1916 along with his brother William Henry Cooper, Australian cricketer, Arthur Harry Cooper and Irene’s brother Edward lantern slide maker and stationer in Melbourne’s Alexander ‘Alex’ Stubbs.6 Block Arcade.1 They hailed respectively from Cornwall and Kent, met in Melbourne, married Billy, aged 28, embarked with his brother Arthur, in Carlton in 1872, and lived in South Melbourne. aged 35, on HMAT A7 Medic in April 1916. Irene’s William Henry was often away on photographic brother, Edward ‘Alex’ Stubbs, a tailor, aged 20, trips leaving Mary at home. She managed her had trained as a cadet and orderly for three years family strictly, according to Wesleyan Methodist before he enlisted, and embarked on the Wandilla upbringing and principles. in June 1916 destined to be a stretcher-bearer.7
Billy seems to have been an independent thinker. Six months after the ANZAC’s evacuation from He did play cricket like his father, but preferred Gallipoli, Irene Cooper’s uncle Allan Barnett was baseball and bowling. He was an accountant but declared, by a Court of Inquiry sitting on 5 June also drew very detailed pen and ink sketches 1916 in France, to have been ‘killed in action’ at and cartoons which covered topics from the Gallipoli on 8 August 1915. Doubts remained. His Federation drought to elegantly gowned women. body had not been found. His father Abraham Billy married 23 year old Irene Annie Stubbs at Barnett, died in August 1916, leaving his wife to the local Wesleyan Church on 11 September 1915.2 continue to enquire about their son.
Irene, Billy’s wife, also originated from British Meanwhile Billy Cooper was sent to the 23rd stock. Her maternal grandmother Janet Barnett Howitzer Brigade, 108th Battery. Billy rose nee Allan was born in Glasgow in 1852, marrying through the ranks to corporal, sergeant and Abraham Barnett in Melbourne in 1869.3 Irene’s lieutenant. When the 23rd Howitzers were paternal grandfather Edward Alexander Stubbs redistributed, he was posted as a lieutenant to the and his brother Francis, both born in Calais, 27th Battery, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, on 30 were lace makers when the French Revolution December 1916 in France. caused a widespread fi nancial crisis. Faced with destitution in England and France, the lace- His brother Arthur Cooper had also been makers met in St Pierre-les-Calais church and assigned as a gunner to 23rd Howitzer Brigade, signed a letter to Lord Palmerston, the British and was transferred to the 8th Field Artillery Foreign Secretary, for money to migrate to Brigade, in France. His brother-in-law, Alex Australia.4 Edward and his brother Francis sailed Stubbs, was assigned as a stretcher bearer and from London to Adelaide 1848 on the Tasmanian- medical orderly to the 3rd Australian Casualty built three masted Harpley. Clearing Station at Gezaincourt, France.
Irene’s uncle Allan Robert Barnett, aged 29, In 1917 Billy was transferred to the 107th Battery, joined the AIF on 7 March 1915, was listed in 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, which was the 22nd Battalion and embarked on the HMAT involved in the appalling slaughter and desolation Wandilla on 17 June 1915.5 On 15 July 1915, he of the Third Battle of Ypres.8 By this time Billy
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Image 1: Billy Cooper is at the left, with Irene, and Alex Stubbs is with his fi ancee Gladys nee Trewerne. From the author’s collection.
knew he had a son William Francis Cooper born Road … about 5:40 AM when our barrage opened. in Melbourne in November 1916. He sent a little A stray shell from the enemies counter barrage beaten silver egg cup inscribed ‘Baby Cooper from struck … [killing and wounding 20 men] … Cooper Daddy.’ was wounded … behind the right lung and above the kidneys. He also had a … broke[n] thigh bone, Billy was badly wounded on 20 September and … a compound fracture of the shin bone … 1917 at Remy Siding near Poperinghe, and was Lieut. Cooper refused aid until all the others had carried to a dressing station then to the 2nd been taken away to the dressing station … a greater Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, where he exhibition of pluck and endurance would be hard was incorrectly registered as W. Cooper instead to fi nd … Some idea of his pluck may be gathered of W.S. Cooper. There were no antibiotics and from the facts that he put up with all the jars and nursing the men was a desperate, exhausting, jolts necessitated by a trip of 3 to 4000 yards often doomed struggle.9 His brother Arthur through mud without complaint and always with Cooper had been admitted a day earlier with a smile … His wounds had not bled excessively and deafness and bruising, so the brothers could have he was quite conscious and cheerful … Despite all been some comfort to each other. the doctors’ eff orts he died of septic wounds on September 23rd … buried Lyssenthoek Military There were 873 Coopers enlisted in the AIF, Cemetery.12 and some days lapsed before Bill was offi cially identifi ed correctly. The Casualty Lists printed in Both his wife Irene Cooper and his brother-in- The Argus newspaper didn’t contain Billy’s name. law Alex Stubbs were notifi ed in writing on 28 Very worried, and with the confusion over Uncle September 1917 that Billy had been wounded. Allan Barnett’s whereabouts in mind, Irene Billy was offi cially declared to have ‘died of contacted the Red Cross and Alex Stubbs.10 wounds’ and was ‘struck off strength’ on 2 October 1917, just one of 12,000 Australians who died on Witness statements were taken by the AIF to the Western Front. Family tributes were printed verify Billy’s identity. One soldier wrote: in The Argus the same day. Irene’s ended with a quotation from Maxwell Cornelius’ hymn: There was a big stunt on at the time the fi rst hop over at Menin Road. The battery was 3000 yards Some day with tearless eyes we’ll see; behind the line but Lt Cooper was on the front line Yes there, up there we’ll understand. itself observing. 11 Arthur Cooper and Alex Stubbs told Irene and An excerpt of a long report was graphic: later her son Bill that they saw Billy before he died peacefully of a lung haemorrhage caused Lieut. Cooper was in charge of the observation by a sniper’s bullet. Young Bill didn’t ever [pillbox] of our Artillery group on the morning of question this. Right to the end of young Bill’s 20 September, the start of the battle of the Menin long successful life, which included service as
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 20 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc a Surgeon-Lieutenant Royal Australian Navy during WWII, he often spoke of missing his father.
Struggling on a War Widow’s pension and part time work, Irene Cooper lost her house and moved back to her parents’ home. She received her husband’s kit in two parcels in February and March 1918. A tailor’s bill for his great coat arrived after the war, in 1919, and Billy’s service medals on 16 January 1920.
AIF offi cials continued to investigate the Allan Barnett case, even advertising in Victorian newspapers for information about his whereabouts. Eventually they found that while his enlistment papers were signed Allan Robert Barnett, they had been fi lled in and fi led as Robert Allan Barnett, service number 763. His embarkation roll and service record, for Allen Robert Barnett, service number 2229, had his fi rst name as Allen with an ‘e’. Janet Barnett, his mother, fi nally received his medals on 4 October 1921.
References 1. Australian Cricket Players, ESPN Cricinfo, www.espncricinfo.com/ australia/content/player/4626.html viewed 26June 2017 2. William Cooper, Birth Certifi cate, Victoria 8229/1916 3. Abraham Barnett, Marriage Certifi cate, Victoria, 2628/1869 4. The Lacemakers of Calais in South Australia, www.jaunay.com/ lacemakers.html viewed 26 June 2017 Image 1: Lieutenant W.S. (Billy) Cooper AIF. From the author’s collection. 5. NAA, War Service Record 2229 Allan Robert Barnett 6. NAA, War Service Record 22105 Lt WS Cooper and NAA, War Service Record 22120 Arthur H Cooper 7. NAA, War Service Record 14070 Edward Alex Stubbs 8. Reid, Richard, Ypres, Australians on the Western Front, Dept. Veterans Aff airs, Canberra, 2001-2012 http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/ sites/default/files/publication- attachments/1917%20-%20Ypres. pdf viewed 26 June 2017 9. M. Barker, Nightingales in the mud: the digger sisters of the Great War, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989 10. Australian War Memorial, Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files, 1DRL/0428 11. Australian War Memorial, Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files, 1DRL/0428 J. Murphy evidence 12. Australian War Memorial, Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files, 1DRL/0428 Gnr C.L. Morris evidence
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 21 Unexpected Information
by Sue Blackwood
My great great grandfather Benjamin Burford A further letter from the Curator in Insanity asked married Caroline Spurrier on 23 May 1865, for Benjamin’s children’s names, their ages and nearly eight months after the death of his fi rst addresses, as the Curator needed to ‘report to the wife Harriet.1 In an attempt to discover why court as to the next of kin’ and therefore required Caroline Burford was admitted just eight complete information. When this request was years later to the Goodna Asylum outside complied with, the matter of maintenance was Brisbane on 15 January 1873, I applied for an considered closed.8 However on 4 May 1888, Sue can be contacted at: Old Insanity fi le from the Queensland State a new Medical Superintendent claimed that [email protected] Archives.2 The thinking behind nineteenth Benjamin ‘makes plenty [of] money by sale of century asylums was ‘the principle of fruit, fl owers and has property besides. If he does separation’ so that families and the general not contribute … he should be made to do so.’ community would be protected. As a result, the It took the Curator in Insanity until 22 June to Goodna Asylum was initially in a pastoral setting send a request to the Inspector of Police at Roma some distance from the city of Brisbane.3 Street, Brisbane Police Station so that enquiries could be made to ascertain Benjamin’s income. What was in the Old Insanity fi le led me to Senior Constable Browne from Lutwyche was investigate the debate by the Queensland then asked for ‘quiet enquiries and a report’.9 Government concerning a new ‘Insanity Act’ which was eventually passed in 1884 and which Constable Browne’s report of 27 June was as in part tried to overcome the ‘diffi culty … to get the follows: relatives of patients … to pay for their support’.4 It was probably because of that Act that in 1885 Burford is down as owner on the Shire of Windsor the Medical Superintendent of Goodna Asylum rate books of 2 acres of a garden between informed the Curator in Insanity that Benjamin Gympie Road and Kedron Brook at Lutwyche – and Burford still lived in Lutwyche and that he should it is worth one Thousand pounds £1000 at the rate be applied to for his wife’s maintenance.5 In reply property is selling about Lutwyche, there is about to the Curator’s letter of demand dated 15 June one acre under fruit trees and he keeps a nursery 1885, Benjamin stated that he earned ‘about £50 by which he makes a good sum of money at certain per annum from gardening and other small pieces times of the year selling fl owers and plants, he also of work’ and that he had ‘one daughter, nearly works at his trade as Carpenter some times, and an invalid, 22 years of age’. He also noted that at has a house which he lets to a tenant for 8 shillings nearly sixty years of age and with his ‘uncertain per week besides the house he lives in, and he has a earnings’ he considered that he could not make married daughter and her husband living with him. any payment for his wife’s upkeep. This was His single daughter is well able to support her-self. confi rmed by his solicitor.6 Burford spends as much in the Hotels as would nearly pay for the support of his wife.10 However, Benjamin was asked to give more details concerning next of kin. The letter of 10 July 1885 The Curator concluded that Benjamin had the in reply was as follows: ‘ability to contribute to his wife’s maintenance’ and should therefore pay one shilling per day, Dear Sir, I know scarcely anything with regard payments to be made monthly. A copy of Section to the next of kin of Mrs Burford. Before our 159 of the Act was to be forwarded with mention marriage, at St John’s Brisbane on 23 May 1865, that the full rate of maintenance was 45 pounds she maintained a reticence concerning herself and per annum, but this had been ‘reduced to meet the her relations and beyond the copy of our marriage circumstances’. It was to be paid from 1 August certifi cate, I have no letters nor papers left by her 1888. On 30 July, the Rev. G.R.F. Nobbs personally to which to refer. The certifi cate gives name of went to the Curator’s offi ce to rectify the mistakes father Robert Spurrier – France; mother as Mary in the police report, and the following is written Rowland, Harrow, England. I have reason to believe on the underside corner of that report. that she (the patient at Goodna) was an illegitimate child and of some culture.7
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 22 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 1: Goodna Hospital for the Insane additions to No. 2 Female Ward, c1913, State Library of Queensland, Image No. APE-045-0001-0027
Image 2: Interior of the women’s ward of the Goodna Hospital for the Insane, c1913, State Library of Queensland, Image No. APE-045-0001-0029
Burford makes but a bare living and is quite unable Burford died in the Asylum on 2 January 1913, to pay anything for his wife’s maintenance. His the reason for the death is stated as Senility and income from the garden is trifl ing in the extreme – Syncope (loss of consciousness due to cerebral the land is supposed to belong to his children and it anaemia).12 Benjamin had predeceased her in does not stand in his name (was the property of his 1899 as had his invalid daughter Emma in 1891.13 fi rst wife who died some 25 years ago); the daughter I have not found the reasons Caroline Burford who is living at home is more or less an invalid and was committed to Goodna for forty years, as Burford himself is ailing from bad legs and is often there was no medical information in the fi le only unable to work. The liquor he gets he does not buy, correspondence. However, I have found out so but being well known folks in the neighbourhood much more about my great great grandfather ‘shout’ for him, and at times he takes more than is Benjamin. Information from this unexpected good for him. source is very welcome. The demands for maintenance were cancelled and no further action was taken.11 Caroline
References 1. Queensland Marriage Certifi cate, 1865, no. B1289 2. Queensland, Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Copyright State of Queensland 3. Queensland Historical Atlas, qhatlas.com.au/content/asylums-landscape [accessed 17 May 2017], www.ancestry.com.au 4. Queensland Historical Atlas, qhatlas.com.au/content/asylums-landscape [accessed 17 May 2017] 5. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Memorandum from Goodna Asylum for the Insane, no. 69, 7 June 1885. 6. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Letter 9 July 1885 7. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Letter 10 July 1885 8. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Letters 13 July and 18 July 1885 9. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Memorandum no. 106, 4 May 1888 10. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Letter 27 June 1888 11. Old Insanity fi le no. 23, Transcript of visit signed by G.R.F. Nobbs, 30 July 1888 12. Queensland Death Certifi cate, 1913/3275 6531 13. Queensland Death Certifi cates, 1899/2953 and 1891/24358.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 23 The Life of Herbert Edward (Bert) Woods, Wrestler, 1876 – 1923
by Michael Woods
Great Uncle Herbert Edward Woods was a very action was taken against him. The Police Gazette, diffi cult man to fi nd. There seemed to be no record which lists deserters, wasn’t available for that of him after the 1891 census. My family had a period. Michael can be contacted photo of him in a classic Edwardian strongman at: [email protected] pose, curly moustache and all, which I found very He next appears in 1904 named variously as Bert, amusing as a child. My father said Herbert was a ‘Slinger’ and ‘Sailor Woods’ on the wrestling wrestler and had accompanied a ‘Pole’ on a tour circuits of England, including Olympia Hall in of Australia, but when? There was no mention of London, where he and James ‘Gunner’ Moir were him in the 1901 census so it must have been before defeated by George Hackenschmidt. He actually then. I assumed. Lists of ships’ passengers didn’t fought the world heavyweight champion George have any likely candidates. Hackenschmidt at least three times during this period and was defeated on each occasion. Every once in a while I would try to fi nd him He wasn’t alone. The Russian (of German and without success. Then a website gave me the Swedish descent) was undefeated until his opportunity to research Australian newspapers. gruelling two-hour match with American Frank Entering his name produced several accounts of Gotch on 3 April 1908 in Chicago. a court case between ‘The Russian Lion’, George Hackenschmidt and ‘Champion of the British Hackenschmidt was booked to tour Australia, Navy’ Bert Woods in 1904. It seemed that every New Zealand and the USA in 1904–1905. Bert Australian newspaper was interested in this case and the former Indian Army soldier James of two well-known wrestlers having a very public Moir accompanied him under assumed names falling out. From that point I was able to follow because, according to evidence given in a court Bert’s trail, not only forward in time, but also back. case, Hackenschmidt did not want people to know they were under engagement to him. They The title ‘Champion of the British Navy’ was a sailed on the Barbarossa with Hackenschmidt good indicator of his occupation prior to being boarding in Genoa and travelling second class, his a wrestler. The UK Royal Navy Registers of profession listed as ‘Artist’. There was no sign of Seaman’s Services 1853–1928 showed he had his companions amongst the other 337 passengers enlisted in the Royal Navy as a ‘Boy’ on 6 August who made the journey. However, in third class 1891, four months after his fi fteenth birthday for there were two Englishmen travelling together, a period of twelve years. This service included who boarded at Antwerp - George Donald, aged nearly two years between November 1899 and 28, and Charles Thomas, 25. Both were listed as October 1901 on HMS Caesar a pre-Dreadnought ‘Boxers.’ Woods was 28 in 1904 and Moir 25. No battleship, which was based in Malta during the wonder I couldn’t fi nd him on any passenger list. period covering the 1901 census. As a personal touch, it also stated he had a mermaid tattooed on Bert Woods was engaged to make a tour for £4 his right arm. per week and fares paid. The partnership was not a happy one. He was asked to ‘allow a local man, Bert’s twelve years of service was due to end on 20 Weber, to throw him in order to create an interest April 1906, however, the last entry on his record in the match between Hackenschmidt and Weber.’ was ‘Run 21.8.02 Pembroke I’. This meant that He refused and later was struck on the jaw by he had ‘jumped ship’ or, as it was a land-based Hackenschmidt and dismissed. He claimed establishment in Chatham, Kent, he had deserted. £1000 in damages, made up of £250 for breach Perhaps he saw a promising new career in of contract, £250 for assault and £500 for false professional wrestling, which was just becoming imprisonment. ‘Defendant having locked plaintiff popular at that time. There was no clue as to what in a room’. The Judge found in Bert’s favour, but
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 24 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc only awarded ‘trifl ing damages’ of £7 15s for the William born 1916. It was probably breach of contract and £5 damages for the assault William who, according to what my and costs. This decision left Bert with very little father was told, lost an eye when money and stranded in Australia hit with a stone thrown on a beach. Nellie (Nelly) Elizabeth Woods Bert Woods Here is my personal take on the problem Bert had died of tubercular meningitis with George Hackenschmidt. Bert wrestled in on 9 November 1918 aged 38. the Navy as an amateur and as such would have She was buried in Coburg Pine gone into each match intending to win, especially Ridge Cemetery, Melbourne on 11 if the honour of his ship or the Navy was at stake. November 1918. There would have been no reason to throw a fi ght. George was so strong and agile he was able to win Apart from reports on his wrestling a match easily in few minutes. He was advised he made the newspapers twice that audiences expected to be entertained and more. He was accused of stealing a get their monies worth. He clearly didn’t get this watch from a dealer in 1908 and was idea across to Bert. The sum of money Bert was acquitted. On Friday 23 February claiming and the scenario that was read out in 1923 this item appeared: court had all the hallmarks of a lawyer demanding excessive amounts in the expectation of getting A Wrestler’s Death – Melbourne, a lot less. This obviously off ended the Judge who February 22 awarded Bert the equivalent of the four weeks The excessive heat of the weather wages he had earned. Image 1: Bert Woods Cocks his Tail is thought to have been responsible from Sydney Sportsman, 10 May for the death of Mr. Herbert Edward I don’t know the cost of his fare home, but it would 1905, p6 (NLA Trove news-article Woods (46) a well-known wrestler have taken him a long time to earn it. He probably 167207987, accessed 22 Jun 2017) who was found dead in his home decided to stay after he met Nellie Walton. in Collingwood today. He had been suff ering from heart trouble for George Hackenschmidt and ‘Gunner’ Moir some time. Woods was at one time left Australia and continued their tour. Bert professional wrestling partner of the stayed and earned a living by teaching ‘physical celebrated Hackenschmidt. culture’, working in a foundry, as a fi reman for the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade and of He was buried with Nellie on 24 course by wrestling. One match, which took place February 1923. A local newspaper on 10 May 1905, was particularly worthy of note, The Age published his Estate as £26 see image 1. 13s 11d. The following year, 1906, he married Nellie Bert Woods had ‘Cocked his Tail’ for the last Elizabeth Walton. They had three children – time. Rose Daphne born 1912, Nellie born 1914 and
Sources • Family source, Woods family bible – Herbert Edward Woods’ date of birth. • Trove, nla.gov.au/newspaper – Australian wrestling. • UK Royal Navy Registers of Seaman’s Services, 1853-1928 Herbert Edward Woods • Service No. 162328 (Ancestry.co.uk) • HMS Caesar (1896-) Wikipedia.org Malta 1901. • The Home of Historical Wrestling George Hackenschmidt UK 1900-1904 • Incoming passenger list Barbarossa arrived 31 October 1904. • Victoria Births – 1836-1913 (Findmypast.co.uk) • Victoria Marriages – 1836-1942 (Findmypast.co.uk) • Victoria Deaths – 1836-1942 (Findmypast.co.uk) Herbert Edward Woods misspelled ‘Wood’. • ‘Charge Of Larceny Fails’ Thu 7 January 1909 The Argus (Melbourne, Vic 1848-1957) • ‘A Wrestler’s Death’ Fri 23 February 1923 The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931) • Victoria Wills and Probates (Findmypast.co.uk)
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Reviewing Family Histories
‘I loved every page of this book’ said our member • Utopian Man, by Lisa Lang, a novel based on Jean Dart about a biography of John Aubrey. How the author’s non-fi ction biography of Edward many people would so enthuse about our writing William Cole, of Cole's Book Arcade fame. eff orts? • The Birdman’s Wife, by Melissa Ashley, a novel based on the author’s PhD thesis about All successful books (including non-fi ction Elizabeth Gould, wife of ornithologist John By Louise Wilson, based on books like family histories) somehow need to Gould. her presentation at the GSV engage the reader’s imagination, regardless Writers Circle on • A Woman of Importance: Emily Childers in of any technical fl aws in the writing. Writing 1 March 2017. Louise can be Melbourne 1850–1856, by Jean Uhl, a fi rst-hand contacted via a book takes a long time and reading a book account of life for women at this time, based on www.louisewilson.com.au can take many hours. It has to be worth our diaries. investment of time. As family history detectives and writers, we’d like our readers to enjoy the • Sir William Garrow, His Life, Times and Fight fruits of our time-consuming research journey for Justice, by John Hostettler and Richard and our struggles with getting the right words Braby, a story about how the English judicial onto the page. Yet the umpteen books and courses system was changed by a lawyer born in 1760. on how to make family histories ‘non-boring’ • The Sea Captain’s Wife, by Martha Hodes, the remind us that family history is possibly the most biography of an American woman born in 1831 diffi cult writing genre to tackle. who lived through the Civil War and other major historical events. It’s even harder to write family histories if we • The Strangest Family: The Private Lives don’t read them. of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians, by Janice Hadlow, the story of So, members of the Writers’ Circle were asked ‘mad’ King George and his family. to nominate a family history or biography which • Victoria, The Queen, by Julia Baird, presenting had successfully engaged their interest. Why did a diff erent, more intimate view of the personal they remember this book ahead of others? Why life of Queen Victoria as a daughter, wife and had they kept turning the page? What writing mother. techniques were used by the author to create interest? As readers, had they gained useful ideas for their writing endeavours? Personal Family Histories: • A tale of two women, by Christina Slade, a short The following books were selected: family history or memoir spanning the period from 1850–2000, illustrating the infl uence of Memoir: the grandmother’s narratives and ideas on her • When I was a Child, by Charles Shaw, a memoir grand-daughter. of the author’s life as a child worker in the • The Leaving of Loughrea, An Irish Family in the North Staff ordshire Potteries in the 1840s. Great Famine, by Stephen Lally, a story about the author’s great great great grandfather and Biographies: the latter’s son in a specifi c period from 1818 to • John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, a 1848 in County Galway. biography based on the writings of John Aubrey • Boots, shoes and seeds: the Life of Peter Field, (1626–1697), the inventor of biographical by John Field, a biography of the author’s gr- writing. grandfather, which won the 2015 Don Grant Award of the AIGS.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 26 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • W.H. Blakeley – Pioneer saw maker, farmer & Here Barbara makes an important point. Problems trade unionist, by Helen L. Blakeley, a biography with the writing can be ignored if the story is good. of the author’s grandfather Story is the magic ingredient, even in the non- • A diff erent earth: Cornish pioneer miners to fi ction books we are trying to write. Australia, by Max C.S. Beck, the story of the author’s gr-gr-grandmother And every story needs a hook – a problem to solve, a question to answer, a memorable character, a The convenor of the session also selected two fascinating place! Jean Dart said of the Aubrey additional titles for discussion purposes: book that the author ordered a mass of disjointed battered scraps of information into chronological • Kings in Grass Castles, by Mary Durack, an order and ‘a most loveable character emerges, the Australian classic family history, never out of helpful unassuming friend we all wish we had’. print, a story of the life and times of the author’s Penny Mercer says Cole’s story retained a mystery famous pioneering pastoralist grandfather. at its core, only revealed towards the end of the • Lost Relations, by Graeme Davison, a recognised story. The hook for Queen Victoria’s book was the historian, a recent multi-generational story cover, showing the image of a young Queen, not the which worked downwards from the author’s familiar images of an older woman. great great grandmother. Since we family history writers usually don’t know What and who we choose to write about is the story or the likely hook when we begin, we need important. It was immediately obvious that this to let the results of our research percolate in our specialist reading group, although very familiar minds. We need to truly absorb our story. We need with the traditional family history format covering to be sure about the story we are trying to tell and multiple generations, preferred the books which shouldn’t rush into publication. focus on one person’s story. Member Jenny Scammell said ‘Concentrating on one person or a Structuring that story is important too. Lang deals small period of time, rather than the whole family with the passage of time by writing each chapter as history, seems to make for more enjoyable reading’. a snapshot at key points in Cole’s life, a potentially useful way to deal with the gaps we all have. Martin The books nominated prove that success is not Playne believes the structure of the Field book is dependent on a well-known identity. Though the an exemplar for all family history writers: the fi rst subjects of the eight biographies were mostly people 160 pages are free of footnotes, endnotes and the with names or connections we might instantly excessive detail which can ‘bog down’ a family recognise, there was also interest in fi ve personal history; an 80-page table follows, giving a timeline family histories and a memoir, all having no and sources for each chapter. connection to our members’ families. The authors of these successful books had identifi ed an interesting Authors generally appreciate readers taking forebear, often three or four generations back. the time to write thoughtful, well-constructed reviews of their work. Yet published reviews of Members described their chosen books in ways personal family histories are scarce unless that we might expect, as well-researched, easy to read, family happens to be royal. When Toni Glasson fl owing well, with a logical order and meaningful discovered the book on ‘mad’ King George and historical context, providing insight into conditions his family, she also found a website promo ‘full of at the time while preserving historical accuracy. superlatives’ which she compared with several In the Gould book, Tina Hocking says the author's published reviews. One was very complimentary attention to detail has the reader imagining they but perhaps with a little too much recounting of the are actually watching the processes described. narrative. Another review took an entirely diff erent On the odd occasion it deviates from documented perspective of the same book. fact, the author makes it clear that she has done so. Barbara Beaumont said of The Sea Captain’s Wife: Toni concluded that ‘a review is never truly ‘Rereading this book for my review made me look objective - the reviewer brings to it his/her own more closely at the author’s technique, rather than interests, prejudices, views and values’. This is just reading for the story. Some may not like the true, but reader reviews of family histories remain number of times ‘maybe’ and ‘perhaps’ are used essential if we are to improve as writers and raise but I did not even notice it the fi rst time I read it. I our genre’s level of credibility. would rather that, than something presented as a fact that is just a good bet or a supposition.’
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(Review) [GSV 994.51 MELB 1808-1875 [Items 1-2]. Köppern Victoria. Poynter. Keith. (Rev ed). WAR] (Obertaunuskreis) Kirchenbuch [Parish We’ve come so far: profi les of forty-three Who is she? The lives & trails of the women register bapt, mars, dth & confi rmations immigrant ancestors. Primmer, Gloria. & children who shared their lives with of Koppern. Includes Holzhausen], 1628- Contents: Primmer, Hatten, Carmody, the Chinese men living & working on the 1807 [Items 3-4] Evangelische Kirche McArthur, Cornell, Olvany, Burkitt, Upper Ovens Goldfi elds in north east [Evangelical Church] (LDS; 1272410). Freshwater, Duncan, Kell, Shearer, Victoria. Talbot, Diann. [GSV 994.55 Contents: Langenhain Heiraten, Tote Cowan, Nicol, Burcombe, Kingston, TAL] [mar, dth] 1808-1875 [Items 1-2]. Köppern Dick, Edgar, McKenzie, Ingram, Early Prahran 1850-1863. Malone, Betty. Taufen [bapt] 1676-1749 Konfi rmationen Liverton, Howard, Cockerel, Jones, (Shennan, R). [confi rmations], Heiraten 1684-1749 Tote Lambert, Morgan, Wells, Underwood, A history of Redesdale. Ken James & Noel 1683-1749 mit [with] Holzhausen: Taufen Ferri, Walker, Tapsell, Swift nee Davis. List of servicemen in the Boer War, 1628-1690 Heiraten 1628-1676 Taufen
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 28 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc 1744-1807 Konfi rmationen 1818-1820, LANCASHIRE Recorded by Patrick W Scott with 1744-1807 Heiraten, Tote 1744-1807 The registers of St Luke Farnworth: baps, additional comments. (SAG). [GSV [Items 3-4] (Mitchell, D) [Microfi lm] bur 1743-1812, mar 1698-1812. Lancashire 929.5411 ABD SCO] IRELAND Parish Register Society. Transcribed by Memorial inscriptions: Peterhead cemetery, Presbyterianism in Buckna 1756-1992. Robert Dickinson, Vivien & Neil Hudson, Constitution street. FHS of Buchan. (SAG) Millar, Margaret E. Contents: List Ken T Taylor. (Lancashire Parish Register Computer 3 Society; v. 186). [GSV 929.3342 LAN of visitors kept by Rev. Samuel BANFF Hamilton, 1850 - 1870. Alphabetical LAN] St Mary’s kirkyard Banff v. 1: transcript of list of communicants. Communicants The registers of St James Church Kirk all the monumental inscriptions within 1846 - 1992. Emigrants from Buckna 1747-1812. Lancashire Parish Register the churchyard of Banff ; v. 2: descriptions congregation as recorded in the Society. Transcribed by Jack & Kathleen of tombstones with index & map. Banff communion rolls. (Warnock, P). [RHSV Broderick, Jackie Roberts. (Lancashire Preservation & Heritage Society. (SAG). 941.61 MIL] Parish Register Society; v. 187). [GSV [GSV 929.5411 BAN BAN] Fermanagh roots. Fermanagh Genealogy. 929.3342 LAN LAN] Banff shire the people and the lands: some No 1 (2016) to date. [GSV 941.96005 FER] LINCOLNSHIRE notes on the history and people of the Bourne cemetery bur registers 1855-2005. baronies, estates & lands of Banff shire prior UNITED KINGDOM Lincolnshire FHS. Computer 4 to 1850: pt 15; the parish of Grange prior to Genealogists’ magazine: journal of the Westwold deanery: bapt & bur index 1725; pt 16 the parish of Grange 1725-1850. Society of Genealogists. Vol. 1-28 (1925- 1754-1812; Lincolnshire FHS. Contents: Bishop, Bruce B. (SAG). [GSV 941.225 2006) [Computer 4] Buslingthorpe; Cabourne; Caistor; Claxby BIS] ENGLAND by Normanby; Croxby; Cuxwold; East MORAY Phillimore’s parish registers: Leicestershire Barkwith; East Torrington; Faldingworth; The epitaphs of Dunbennan kirkyard in the mar: Burton Lazars 1762-1778; Freeby Friesthorpe; Grasby; Hainton; Holton parish of Huntly. Scott, Patrick W. (SAG). 1601-17775; Great Dalby 1581-1812; cum Beckering; ; Kingerby; Kirkby cum [GSV 929.5411 ABD SCO] Little Dalby 1559-1812; Melton Mowbray Osgodby; Kirmond le Mire; Legsby; Monumental inscriptions Elgin cemetery 1546-1812 [item 1]. Lincolnshire mar; Linwood; Lissington; Market Rasen; (East), parish of Elgin, Moray. Moray Cowbit 1561-1837; Moulton 1558-1837; Middle Rasen; Tupholme & Drax; Burial Ground Research Group. Ed. by St. Mary’s Church (Weston) 1562-1837 Nettleton; Newton by Toft; Normanby Helen Mitchell, Keith L Mitchell, Bruce [item 2]. Norfolk mar: Castleacre 1853- le Wold; North Willingham; Owersby; B Bishop. (SAG). [GSV 929.5411 MOR 1913; Cringleford 1561-1837; Ditchingham Rothwell, Searby; Sixhills; Snarford; MOR] 1559-1812; Fring 1700-1812; Holme-next- Snelland; South Kelsey St Mary and St the-Sea 1853-1913; Holme-Hale 1853-1913; Nicholas; South Willingham; Stainton NAIRNSHIRE Mautby 1853-1913; Runham 1853-1913; le Vale; Tealby; Thoresway; Thornton le The parishes of Nairnshire: monumental Stokesby 1853-1913; Thrigby 1853-1913; Moor; Toft by Newton; Usselby; Walesby; inscriptions Auldearn. Moray & Nairn Thwaite-St. Mary 1853-1913; Topcroft West Rasen; West Barkwith; West FHS. (SAG). [GSV 929.5411 NAI MOR] 1853-1913; West Newton 1853-1913; Torrington; Wickenby; note that Clixby Woodton 1853-1913 [item 3]. Wiltshire: and Holton le Moor events are included in INDIA Embarkation lists 1810-1816, 1825-1853. St. Martin’s Church Salisbury 1559- the Caistor registers.Computer 4 1812 [item 4]. Kent: Halstead 1561-1837; Sleaford union workhouse: admissions & India Offi ce. Military Department. (LDS; Newington 1559-1812; Staplehurst 1538- discharges 1896-1914. Lincolnshire FHS. 1835691). [Microfi lm] Embarkation lists 1816-1824 [item 1] 1812; West Farleigh 1558-1812; Witchling Computer 4 1577-1837; Willesborough 1538-1837 Annual lists of cadets and assistant- SUSSEX [item 5]. Huntingdonshire: Bury 1561- surgeons and their ranks Madras, 1829- The letters of John Collier of Hastings. 1837; Little Raveley 1577-1839; Ramsey 1862, annual lists of cadets and assistant- Sussex Record Society. Ed. by Richard 1559-1837; Wistow 1604-1837 [item surgeons and their ranks Bombay, 1796- Saville. (Sussex Record Soc; v. 96). 6]. Cambridgeshire: All Saints Church 1854 [items 2-6] India Offi ce. Military Contents: Lists of renters of the estate of Cambridge 1539-1837; Croxton 1538-1837; Department. (LDS; 1866880). [Microfi lm] Thomas Pelham of Stanmer 1745; Election Elsworth 1538-1837; Eltisley 1599-1837; Monthly numerical returns of recruits list of freeholders in Hastings 1734; Graveley 1599-1837; Papworth-St. Everard received at the depot 1859-1861, monthly Information on smugglers; List of Collier’s 1565-1837; Papworth-St. Agnes 1558-1837 numerical returns of recruits stationed family connections. Index of names. [item 7] Phillimore, W P W. (Phillimore’s at the depot 1858-1861, alphabetical lists [RHSV 942.25 SUS] parish register series) (Bracegirdle, C) of recruits who deserted before arriving [Microfi lm - LDS 496697]. at the depot 1834-1860 [items 1-2]. Depot SCOTLAND embarkation lists vols. 19-21, 1824-1843 DEVON ABERDEENSHIRE [item 3] [fi lm 1835455]. Depot embarkation Church of St John the Baptist Witheridge Nellfi eld cemetery Aberdeen: vol 1, lists 1819-1849, 1856-1861, embarkation with Creacombe: a short history & tour introduction, index & plan, inscriptions; lists 1753-1763, 1767-1769 [fi lm 1835456]. of the building. Ed by Yvonne & Michael v. 2, section A; v.3, section B; v. 4, section Embarkation lists 1769-1789 [fi lm Childs. Lists clergy & memorials. (Walton, C. Aberdeen & North East Scotland FHS. 1835457]. Embarkation lists 1789-1809 G). [RHSV 942.35 CHU] Contents: Sections A, B, C & Introduction, [fi lm 1835458] India Offi ce. Military KENT index & plan. (SAG). [GSV 929.5411 ABD Department. (LDS; 1835455-1835458). Bishop’s transcripts Rolvenden; bapt 1813- ABE] (all from Gourley, MA “Wish List”) 1894, 1900-1902, mar 1813-1837, bur Kemnay parish and its people pt 1-3. [Microfi lm] 1813-1894 [item 1]. New Romney bapt Downie, Duncan A. [GSV 929.5411 1813-1874, 1876-1890, mar 1813-1837, ABD DOW] bur 1813-1874, 1876-1889 [item 2] C of E. The epitaphs of Kinnoir kirkyard in the (LDS; 1835590). (Jackson, G) [Microfi lm] parish of Huntly. Scott, Patrick W.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 29 Research Corner Linley Hooper, FGSV Pre 1841 census in the UK
The British decennial census records began in • 1831 Marylebone, Middlesex (London): Research Corner Research 1801 but it was not until 1841 that personal names Robert Hooper, Bentinck St, listed as a were included in the offi cial documents. To compile wholesale merchant, banker, professional or the statistics required by the government, the other educated man and the females were enumerator usually made his own lists, which described as servants. have occasionally survived and sometimes been • In 1821, Hackney, Middlesex (London): John published. Two excellent books on the subject are Dempster, school, 28 males and 5 females. held in our library (at Queen Street!). John Wafford, music master, with 2 males and 7 females in the household. • Gibson, Jeremy Local census listings 1522- • 1811 Workshop, Notts: J Stancer at Bridge 1930: holdings in the British Isles St, 5 persons – 2 male and 3 female; John • Chapman, Colin Pre-1841 censuses & Stancer at Lead Hill, just 1 male and 1 female; population listings in the British Isles George Stancer, Bridge St, 5 persons – 2 male and 3 female. Samples in my own family research from our library • 1801 Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: holdings include: Peter Dunbar, of Ronheads (Roanheads), 1 male and 2 females, 1 employed in trade. • 1831 Blyth, Notts: Joseph Rich, headed one family in one house showing 1 While we only hold a few, it might be the key to your person employed in trade, manufacture research problem. Initially it may seem too vague, or handicraft; four males and 3 females, but combined with other information, your research including 2 males over 20 employed as will progress. It is also illuminating to view the carpenters. statistics on the growth or decline of a parish.
Image: Nottinghamshire FHS records series v. 95 Nottinghamshire pre 1841 censuses Nottinghamshire Archives Ref: DC/MI/18/1.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 30 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Also note that named entries for Ireland began start of the WWII who have subsequently died. in 1821 compared with 1841 in England, Wales Many entries are presumed living but if you can & Scotland. I was lucky enough to fi nd a very prove they are now deceased, the redaction will be informative entry for my Mayo families in the removed. fi ndmypast has been comparing entries Public Record Offi ce of Northern Ireland (PRONI), with the GRO death indexes and more entries are which has not been included in the pre-1851 now available. I can’t repeat often enough the need Corner Research fragments on the National Archives of Ireland to constantly re-do your searches of the commercial website. I believe it is because it is not the original databases – they are regularly adding, updating entry, just a transcript. Similarly Josephine and correcting. Few of us can aff ord to subscribe Masterton’s index to 1851 census of county Cork is to them all, but utilize your GSV membership for not included on that site – again because her work access to Ancestry, fi ndmypast, TheGenealogist, was taken from an earlier copy, not the original MyHeritage, the British Newspaper Archive along documents. with the publications of local family history societies who seek out obscure records relating to And don’t forget the excellent 1939 register on their area. fi ndmypast which can be used as a substitute for post 1911 events. It will show the exact birthdate and residence of those living in England at the
Image: 1939 register TNA reference RG 101, see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/1939- register for more information
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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 31 Members Queries ¢ Ç J Email Address Mailing Address Phone
BRACEGIRDLE, BRIDE, CHAPMAN, CRUMP, DANIEL, DEVERELL, FAULL, GIOVANETTI, HAYES, JONES, KELLY, McEWIN, NEIL, O’SHANNASSY, STREETS, THATCHER, TURNER, WILSON
BRACEGIRDLE HAYES/KELLY NEIL/STREETS Seeking one male from each family Seeking info John David HAYES alias Seeking info Thomas NEIL b c1839 tree to participate in YDNA project to Thomas Patrick KELLY/HAYES b Windsor Cumberland NSW (par: identify origin/connections. Info as 1890 NZ. Chn: Thomas Patrick b 16 George NEIL m Elizabeth STREETS) below: Jan 1920 at sea SS Themistocles, m1 1862 Warialda NSW Elizabeth Norma Margaret b 17 March 1925 VIC, SMITH m2 1870 Rockhampton QLD M.A. Gourley Reginald James b 13 Jan 1923 VIC m Ann GREGORY. Left Ann 1873 lived ¢[email protected] Margaret Letitia O’SULLIVAN b 30 Claremont area QLD Sept 1919 ENG. A. Lewis M. Hayes ¢[email protected] CHAPMAN/O’SHANNASSY/ ¢[email protected] J03 9748 6794 GIOVANETTI/FAULL Seeking info/desc my g-gm Annie CHAPMAN b c1861 Melb d 1931 DEVERELL/JONES/TURNER WILSON/BRIDE/THATCHER Yapeen (par: John & Ann nee DONEVAN) son: John Seeking info/death Henry Frederick Seeking info John WILSON at Pt O’SHANNASSY (aka GIOVANETTI/ DEVERELL, hairdresser, b 1898 Philip by June 1841 when m St James MILLER) b 1878 Boundary Gully d Williamstown VIC (Par: Alfred James Church Isabella ROBINSON. Chn: 1929. Annie m1 1882 Castlemaine DEVERELL & Dora MEYER) m Mabel Margaret b c1843/4; Ann Jane b 1848; Constantino GIOVANETTI, fi ve chn, Annie Mary JONES b 1900 Isabella b 1849; Caroline Mary b 1852; eldest my gm Rita b 1883 Yandoit d Williamstown. 1980 Electoral Roll James b c1855; William b c1857. 1962, m2 1888 Castlemaine Thomas shows him as Director in Airlie Beach Unable to fi nd death of John WILSON FAULL, six chn. QLD living with Ruby TURNER. as there are so many, perhaps c1862 when wife and three chn admitted to M.Pekin R. Oakley Princes Bridge Immigrants Home. ¢[email protected] J03 9379 5169 Isabella shown as widow. Also looking for Benjamine BRIDE; John THATCHER. CRUMP McEWIN/DANIEL M. Nugent Seeking info/shipping Alfred Joseph Seeking info Family Bible of John J02 6026 8215 CRUMP b 11 March 1843 St Luke LND McEWIN m Margaret Hester DANIEL d 1917. 1861 UK Census lived arr Melb fr SCT 1839 David Clark. Last Clerkenwell as lodger, shopman/metal known to be with family of gg-dau worker. 13 May–7 July 1865 Christina MAWDESLEY nee hospitalised in Melb m 1869 McASKELL c1950. May also have been Independent Parsonage Prahran VIC in possession of Agnes HARRISON Margaretta PERRING b 1841 nee McEWIN g-dau of John & Clerkenwell d 1891, seven chn. Margaret c1914. Checked Pass lists VIC only, perhaps T. Collis crew as uncle John Thomas CRUMP a ¢[email protected] merchant seaman. J. Ryan ¢[email protected]
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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 32 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Abbreviations: anc ancestors d died gg-grandpar great-great- arr arrived dau/s daughter/daughters grandparents b&d born and died desc descendants m married b born fa father mo mother bap baptised fr from m1 fi rst marriage bro/s brother/brothers g-gf great-grandfather m2 second marriage bur buried g-gm great-grandmother par parents c1803 circa 1803 g-grandpar great-grandparents sis sister/sisters chn children unk unknown
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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 33 Jottings... and library news Linley Hooper, FGSV Jottings
The day I sat down to write ‘Research Corner’ covering Another useful article outlines the benefi ts of joining a Y the online microfi lms of the Irish Registry of Deeds via DNA project to establish paternal ancestry. Unfortunately the FamilySearch website, I received Irish Roots 102 we females have to track down a male descendant of the (Jun 2017) which has excellent articles covering all that male ancestor of interest. Despite a typical large Catholic I was planning to say and then some. These records will Irish family, I only have two male options – one (illegitimate) open doors for your middle and upper class ancestors. who doesn’t want anything to do with his paternal line and Unfortunately the original indexes only cover the grantors another who has ‘disappeared’ since last contact about and place names (usually townland), but Nick Reddan’s fi fteen years ago. (So contact your male relatives and off er to wonderful website http://irishdeedsindex.net indexes pay for the tests while you can!) other names mentioned. It is by no means complete, but now that the fi lms are online, perhaps more will contribute to the Also discussed is the ‘Project to connect with descendants index, providing names of others mentioned in the deeds of Mountbellew orphan girls that sailed on the Palestine ship rather than just the Grantors. for [Western] Australia in 1853’.
This issue of Irish Roots also has an interesting article on The Highland FHS 35:3 (May 2017) lists the ‘Roll of the Irish Reproductive Loan Funds. Many of these records Caithness militiamen in 1825’. from the National Archives (UK) are found on fi ndmypast as Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874. The Irish Reproductive The Devon Family Historian 162 (May 2107) tells the Loan Fund was a micro-credit scheme set up in 1824 story of ‘The Martin family of Devon, Bristol and Sydney’. to provide small loans to the ‘industrious poor.’ Local associations and committees administered the scheme, Genealogists’ Magazine 32:6 (Jun 2107) has an interesting most often from a small town in a rural area. The records of story on ‘Tracing descendants of midshipman George the local associations and the county committees overseeing Stewart of HMAV Bounty’. Problems with European them, are in TNA with reference T91. The majority of the calendar changes continue are discussed in ‘Confusion records cover the years 1824 to 1846 across ten counties in and myth in the Gregorian calendar reform’ by Peter Munster and Connacht. To assist with further study of the Maggs. Another useful article gives ‘Some reactions to the records, fi ndmypast provided Poverty Relief Loans 1821- introduction of civil registration’ by Gwyneth Wilkie. 1874, which allows you to browse through chosen volumes of papers. The fund was created in 1822 as the Irish Relief ‘Passports: a potted history’ by Helen Livingston in the Committee with surplus relief funds from the famine of South Australian Genealogist 44:1 (Feb 2017) answers 1822, £55,000 in total. The money was reinvested into a questions we are often asked regarding overseas travel to microfi nance institution, which gave short term loans for and from Australia. capital or ‘reproductive purposes’, such as purchasing fi shing equipment, repairing sheds for curing fi sh or purchasing Cleveland FHS journal 13:6 (Apr 2017) which covers seeds for farming. The loans were never to exceed twelve South Durham and North Yorkshire provides a good article months and the borrower was charged a modest interest on Northallerton wills in their branch reports. rate. The whole system was centrally controlled in London; funds were distributed across the ten county boards For those with Somerset & Dorset family history, the and then further distributed to local associations. The Greenwood Tree always provides a ‘spotlight on’ committee became a corporation in June 1844, known as the various parishes highlighting the history and available Irish Reproductive Loan-Fund Institution. The minimum age records. The March 2017 issue features Burcombe and to borrow was 21 years old and the minimum amount was Radipole. £1. Lending for most of the local associations ended by 1848 and eventually all records were returned to London. Further follow up details about the borrowers can be found within the Returns to the Clerk of the Peace, which recorded whether they still resided in the townland where the loan was applied for. They also recorded family circumstances, if the person emigrated and to where or whether the borrower died.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 34 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Genies on the web Irene Fullarton Genies
Family history, stories, and other lies! There seem to be two This example is an aerial view of Footscray looking along totally opposing views about family stories being publicized Barkly Street with Footscray Railway Station in the right on the Web at present. The fi rst is if you can’t prove it, it background and St. Monica’s Catholic Church just visible in is probably made up and thus is of no value so disregard it the upper left background (about 1954). completely. The second is how valuable family stories are when you have no other documentation. I believe the stories On 26 June this year Charles Pratt featured on the State should be considered as they may be based on fact even if Library of Victoria’s blog http://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/arts/ you can’t prove them. One such story, that my grandfather photography/aerial-views-of-melbourne-by-charles- had walked all over New South Wales as a young man, daniel-pratt/ sounded improbable to me as there is no family connection to New South Wales. However, a recent match for his name A long time ago I wrote about the importance of railway in Trove Newspapers http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ lines as a means of travel within Victoria. The website says he spent some time in Hay gaol. At the time he would containing the detailed railway maps has gone, however I have been 21 years of age. Trove Newspapers is updated recently found another www.vrhistory.com/VRMaps/ often and should be checked regularly by researchers. with maps (1860 to 2000). The information and maps are in pdf so you can download them. It is well worth reading the Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet www. history section. cyndislist.com/australia has recently been fully checked for broken links by author Cyndi Ingle and it is well worth Trello whiteboard in the cloud is becoming very popular consulting. A recent addition is a new sub-category for for family history use particularly in the USA and it might users of Scrivener in writing your family history. be helpful for you. There is a good explanation of why you might want to use it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_ With so much ‘renewal’ happening in the property market jAZUyLkk at present the chances of fi nding an original family house are becoming nearly impossible. There are many photos One True Media has been around for a long time and it could available on the Web and you may be lucky. However, I be a way of showing your family photos. This link explains recently used the online Melbourne Metropolitan Board how to do so https://turbofuture.com/internet/One- of Works (MMBW) plans, dating back to the 1890s at True-Media-A-Free-Site-to-Make-Your-Own-Photo- the State Library of Victoria to get an idea of the size or-Video-Montage. of a family house now long gone www.slv.vic.gov.au/ search-discover/explore-collections-format/maps/ maps-melbourne-city-suburbs/ mmbw-plans. The MMBW plans held at the State Library of Victoria often do not include an accompanying key to abbreviations and symbols. A guide is available at http://guides.slv.vic.gov. au/c.php?g=245242&p=1633301
The Airspy series by photographer Charles Daniel Pratt and other aerial photos taken in the period from the 1920s to the 1950s might give you an idea of what an area looked like and it might even show your family house. These photos are also online at the State Library of Victoria www.slv.vic.gov.au.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 35 Around the Groups
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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 36 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Book Reviews Reviews by Margaret Vines, Barbara Beaumont and Martin Playne
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1. We’ve come so far, Profi les of 43 Immigrant Ancestors The items were often substantial – on 4 February 1897 a highly Author: Gloria Primmer successful sale disposed of 8600 sheep, 100 head of cattle and 40 Pub: Author, Box 932, Cobram, Vic. Illust. horses as well as household furniture. The listings of furniture in the auction notices give us an idea of what the interior of homes Each of the 43 ancestors in this book arrived in Australia as an would have been like. The fl avour of social life is given through the immigrant, almost all in the 19th century, and generally from accounts of clubs and societies being formed – the cricket club and England and Scotland, with a few from Ireland, and one Swiss the brass band among others – and of the various benefi ts that took Italian, an early 20th Century arrival. They are a varied lot, place to help those in unfortunate circumstances. One farewell convicts and free settlers, literate and illiterate, successes and social for mother and daughter schoolteachers who were leaving battlers. They settled in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the area continued the festivities until ‘nearly daylight’. There is an NSW, but there are concentrations, for example in the Port Fairy amusing poem on the 1894 loss of the Pyramid Hill Draughts Club district. Each is given a one page profi le, accompanied by portrait to the Durham Ox team. photos when available, and followed by family trees of their descendants, often of over fi ve pages. The book will be a valuable Fire was an ever present threat. Although the area was irrigated, resource for all their descendants. there was no piped water so fi re fi ghters had to rely on tanks to put out blazes. Several businesses were lost to fi re. Because so many stories are being told, readers are left to supply their own historical and geographical context, googling settlements There is an index of names which will be very helpful to those with like Austins Ferry and Mallors Flat. At times the ‘born, married, ancestors in this area. This is followed by a number of pictorial immigrated, had children and died’ narrative is repetitive especially advertisements for the farm equipment of the type that was being as many of the immigrants are married couples. However the off ered for auction. Finally there is a section of maps showing the author has often included diff erent information in the profi les of sub-divisions of land, often with the name of the landholder, and diff erent family members, so it is good to read them together. some with hand-written later annotations. There are some intriguing gems: for example, the lad transported The book will be useful to those who have ancestors from around for beating up the haughty local minister, and Andrew Cowan Pyramid Hill and is of general interest as if off ers an interesting Kell’s recorded impression of the Mahogany Ship as ‘a blubber- and detailed picture of life in small Victorian rural communities in saturated punt’ left behind by the early whalers. the later nineteenth century.BB The author has supplied considerable surname lists, but there are 3. Manuscript to Market, The Lifecycle Of Getting Your no maps, no page numbers, and the list of sources is sometimes Book Into Print very general eg Obituaries – without giving any indications where Author: Susan Pierotti 155 pp ISBN 9780995358515 these appeared. The writing is often very condensed as the writer Publisher: Creative Text Solutions, Box Hill North, 3129, 2017 was determined to fi t each profi le into one page. She is to be congratulated on the successful completion of her project.MV This small book provides a useful introduction on writing your fi rst book, publishing it and then marketing and promoting it. To 2. Sale 0, Hooroo & Sundries 1800-1899; they came they make the book more readable, easier to understand and simple, went and what they did in between the author has made extensive use of analogies from human life Compiled by Margaret Williamson ISBN 978 0 9808144 4 6 experiences. This certainly makes it a ‘light read’. Perhaps the Pub: Pyramid Hill, Victoria: Pyramid Hill and District Historical author has overdone the use of analogies and diffi cult chapter Society, 2016. 218 pp headings, which tend to distract the reader, making it harder to grasp the factual side of this book and to gain from the author’s The Sale of the title is nothing to do with the town of Sale; ‘Sale O’ knowledge. is the cry of the auctioneer when items are about to go under the hammer. This book is a fascinating collection of advertisements, The fi rst four chapters (76pp) are taken up with encouraging auction notices, business notices and news reports from the the reader to write their own book, then with writing techniques Pyramid Hill Advertiser, covering that town and the surrounding and common problems encountered while writing, emanating district in the years 1890 to 1899. It has been put together by from her own extensive experience as an editor. Chapter 5 covers Margaret Williamson, the archivist of the Pyramid Hill & District setting up of a book if self-publishing and on readying a book for Historical Society. It is a companion volume to several other books the publishers. Setting up a book is rather scantily covered and covering this area. deserves a full chapter or chapters on its own. For example, there is no information on end-notes, which are essential for any non- The items are arranged chronologically and are clearly listed in fi ction work. Chapter 6 covers your diff erent publishing options. the Contents. There are a few images scattered throughout the Chapters 7 and 8 cover marketing and promotion. These are well book, but these are not noted in the Contents. The greater part done, and indeed Chapter 8 is probably the most useful in the book. of the book is taken up with the excerpts from the newspaper. The book has no index. Its a worthwhile book for a fi rst-time author Many of them are advertisements for auctions of land, stock, farm but would benefi t from more detailed lists such as those on pages equipment and household items from people who, for various 120 and 133. MP reasons, were leaving the area (hence the ‘Hooroo’ of the title).
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 37 What’s On at our Me mber Societies
Wodonga Family History Society Inc Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Friday 6th October Next Meeting: Saturday 9th September, 2.00pm Speaker: David Langdon of the Richmond & Burnley Shake your Tree and Expose your Ancestry Historical Society. A free Expo at the Seniors Citizens Hall, Havelock Topic: Richmond in the 1840s. St, Wodonga, featuring local family history and Venue: Wesley Hall, St Andrew’s Uniting Church historical organisations as well as local businesses Cnr Burke and Malven Rds, Gardiner who will enhance your family history hobby. Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2. Listen to our experienced speakers throughout the Afternoon Tea provided. afternoon offering helpful advice. Enquiries: Tuesday 17th October J Clare 03 9578 3654 ¢ www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au Family Tree Maker workshop with Doug Elms and John Donaldson. Time: 9am to 2.30pm Venue: Birralee Tavern, Melrose Drive, Wodonga Cost: $30 or $25 for Wodonga Family History or VicGUM members Lunch available on premises. Bookings essential. Colac & District Family History Group Inc. Enquiries: ¢[email protected] Colac’s Weekend of Family History JWendy 0447 035 725 or Friday 20 October JNorma 0260 241 591 Learn how to write a ‘non-boring’ family history and find out how to have it printed and published. Saturday 21 October Come to the VAFHO Family History Expo, and talk to the exhibitors for tips and tricks on family history Victorian Gum Inc research, enjoy guest speakers and entertainment Getting the Best out of Family Tree Maker workshops throughout the day. Register the surnames you are Sessions: researching and meet up with others researching Ballarat – 24 September the same family. Deniliquin – 15 October Sunday 22 October Wodonga – 17 October Join the cemetery walks or history tours Canberra – 29 October Enquiries: Norma Full details at www.vicgum.asn.au ¢[email protected] ¢www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au
Hugenot Society of Australia Victorian Chapter Friday 27 October 2017 at 12noon West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc. Annual lunch at the Malvernvale Hotel Our resources include a wide collection of old school 1321 Malvern Road, Malvern. records, Rate records for Buln Buln Shire and some Level access from the street. Warragul Shire – we are working on more Warragul and Saturday 28 October 2017 at 12.30pm Narracan Shire records. Local cemetery records and newspapers are also available. Talk by the Society’s Secretary Robert Nash: The Huguenots of Spitalfields Enquiries: ¢westgippslandgenealogy.com The Genealogical Research & Education Centre ÇPO Box 225 Warragul Refreshments follow all meetings. Entrance: $5.00 Everyone is welcome. Enquiries: JSue a’Beckett 0408 201 422 ¢[email protected]
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc. Home Front Ballarat WWI Narre Warren & District Family History Group Victorian Community History Awards 2016 Winner – Centenary of World War 1 judged by RHSV and PROV. Our Research Room has moved to the Cranbourne Please visit our free online project consisting of a Library, 65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road, Cranbourne. database of 2600 cross-section of Home Front workers Check our website for the latest details on meeting and and a multimedia gallery with images, video and song: workshop venues and our opening times: www.ballaratww1.org.au nwfhg.org.au
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 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 Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 Ç Lwr Lvl, Richmond Library, ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121 J Ararat Genealogical Society Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc 03 9428 6231 ¢ Ç PO Box 361, Ararat VIC 3377 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs Sale & District Family History Group Inc
¢ Ç Member Societies [email protected] Kerang & District Family History Group Inc PO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 J Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 Heather Pocknall 0428 411 603 Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 Shepparton Family History Group Inc J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632 ¢ J www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc Garry Wallden 03 5828 3236 ¢ Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 J Jennifer Cole 03 5852 2842 South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 ¢ [email protected] ÇPO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs Benalla Family Research Group Inc Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 ÇPO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909 Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc J Bill Willett 03 5762 8803 J03 5155 3843 ÇPO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939 ¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~lefhrc JJan Humphreys 03 5985 4363 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc Mansfield Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 Ç46 Malcolm Street, Mansfield VIC 3722 Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~brgs JSheena Daykin 03 5775 1659 ÇPO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380 ¢ Clan MacMillan Society of Australia ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.com www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au ¢ [email protected] Maryborough Family History Group Inc Sunbury Family History Society Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan ÇPO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 ÇPO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429 J Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc JJudith Healey 03 5464 2601 William Wilson 03 9744 4478 Ç 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 ¢www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 Melton Family History Group Inc Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc Ç Cobram Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585 Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 JLyn Cunningham 03 5032 2840 ¢ JBarbara Coleman 03 5871 2505 ¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs Colac & District Family History Group Inc Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc Terang & District Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264 Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840 J Joyce Holmes 03 5592 2264 J Colac History Centre 5231 5736 ¢[email protected] ¢ [email protected] ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs The Australian Heraldry Society Inc Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 107, Lawson NSW 2783 ÇPO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 JStephen Michael Szabo 0431 701 055 JVal Hardman 03 5881 3980 JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 ¢ www.heraldryaustralia.org ¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg ¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au Toora & District Family History Group Inc Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria Inc NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc Ç ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962 PO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 ÇPO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805 ¢ ¢http://toora.org/ www.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc JLynne Bradley 8787 5558 East Gippsland Family History Group Inc ¢http://nwfhg.org.au Victorian GUM Inc Ç ÇPO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 PO Box 397, Collins Street West Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc Melbourne VIC 8007 JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 Ç PO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 JOffice 03 9078 4738 ¢www.egfhg.org.au J Lyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 ¢www.vicgum.asn.au Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc ¢[email protected] ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 Wangaratta Family History Society Inc Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr Ç JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593 PO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676 ÇBox 131, Ouyen VIC 3490 J ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist Val Brennan 03 5727 6229 ¢http://ouyen.vic.au/history ¢www.wfhs.org.au Geelong Family History Group Inc Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220 West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc Ç PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922 Ç JJohn Stewart 03 5261 2259 PO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820 J Susan Lilley 0438 733 766 J ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist Barbara Clayton 03 5611 3871 ¢ [email protected] ¢http://westgippslandgenealogy.com Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc PO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437 Port Fairy Genealogical Society Inc Wimmera Association for Genealogy Inc Ç ¢ www.ggg.org.au PO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284 ÇPO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402 JIan Perry 03 5561 4085 JKen Flack 03 5382 4453 Hamilton History Centre Inc ¢[email protected] ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg ÇPO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300 JHistory Centre 03 5572 4933 Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Wodonga Family History Society Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist ÇC/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 ÇPO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689 JMarilla James 03 9500 8118 JWendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220 Heyfield Family History Group ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au ¢http://wodongafamilyhistory.org ÇPO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858 J03 5148 2100 Prahan Mechanics Institute Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc ¢ [email protected] Ç 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran VIC 3181 Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995 J 03 9510 3393 J03 5672 3803 Hotham History Project Inc ¢ www.pmi.net.au ¢[email protected] ÇC/- North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc Ç JMary Kehoe 9329 5814 ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225 PO Box 52, Yarrawonga VIC 3730 J ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.au JHistorical Museum 03 5258 2511 Jan Parker 03 5744 1460 ¢ ¢www.queenscliffe-history.org 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Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 © 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.
Victorian Community History Awards Established in 1999, the Victorian Community History can be interpreted and shared in a variety History Awards (VCHA) are held annually to of ways. Last year we presented 11 awards for a recognise the contributions made by Victorians in range of exciting projects including the books the preservation of the state’s fascinating history, ‘These Walls Speak Volumes’ by Ken James published during the previous year. and Pam Baragwanath and Magda Szubanski’s ‘Reckoning A Memoir’, website ‘Home Front Presented by Public Record Offi ce Victoria in Ballarat’ by the Ballarat & District Genealogical partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Society and documentary fi lms by Duldig Studios. Victoria, the awards celebrate the people involved in community history projects who are dedicated This year’s awards are again being held at the Arts to telling local stories which help all Victorians to Centre in Melbourne during History Week. To better understand their past. see the list of winners, visit prov.vic.gov.au after Monday 16 October.
Image 1: Melbourne Street Style in the archives
Spring Fashion at the Archives We host regular photographic exhibitions at our of last century. Some of our favourites from the Archives Gallery at the Victorian Archives Centre. collection are being displayed alongside present- day street photography from around Melbourne. The current exhibition is timed to coincide with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week and is The exhibition is on display until December 2017. titled ‘Catwalk to Sidewalk – Melbourne’s Street Visit the What’s on section of our website for Fashion’. Our archival collection contains historic more information on this and other upcoming images of Melbourne styles dating back to the turn events.
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 40 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Royal Historical Society of Victoria From Richard Barnden and Lenore Frost For more information, visit http://www.historyvictoria.org.au
Standing on the Corner: Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960 Exhibition 12 July - 20 December 2017
The Hoddle Grid, a symbol of Melbourne, created a city These are corners of Melbourne as they were – so many of corners and intersections. No rounded edges, but sharp of them now lost to us. Thus, to assist visitors to navigate angles. Discounting Melbourne’s numerous and exciting themselves and identify sites, a variety of descriptive maps laneways, and concentrating on the meeting of the Great and of Melbourne over this period will also be displayed. Little Streets, the Melbourne of today has over 80 corners – each easily identifi ed by their relationship to the compass Standing on the Corner: Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960 points. opens on Wednesday, 12 July. It will close on 20 December 2017. Corners off er opportunities to exhibit prominence and presence and to advertise products and services. ‘Location, View the exhibition from Monday to Thursday from 10am location, location’ is the oft-repeated truism. Location to 4pm, and on Fridays from 10pm to 3pm at 239 A’Beckett matters. So, on corners we fi nd banks, churches and other Street, Melbourne 3000. places of assembly, entertainment houses, educational establishments, welfare and community service institutions, accommodation for all classes, trade and service agencies, public and government offi ces, commercial organisations, markets, shops and department stores and, of course, hotels.
Corners, besides their strong position for service and sales, sometimes off er the monumental to Melburnians. In other cases, they off er the prosaic – a meeting place, a spot to watch the world go by and to a catch a tram, bus or train; a place to post a letter, to buy a newspaper or magazine or to use a public toilet.
Corners are vantage points for artists and photographers – often providing a dramatic or unusual angle. The perspective is generally at ground level, but sometimes elevated as from a tower, parapet, portico or roof. Street intersections are a favoured position, where a building’s design is accentuated and there is the street theatre of traffi c versus pedestrians. Corners can also book-end architectural styles and precincts – another favoured subject of the artist and photographer.
These two photographs, selected from our collection, illustrate the opposite ends of the business spectrum, with the pawnbroker’s shop in the prominent corner position displaying the trademark three balls (even apparently suspended from the wires above the roof) on the corner of Lonsdale and Russell Streets, to the opulent seven storey Prell’s building on the corner of Queen St and Flinders Lane. The Prell building was a hive of activity. The Sands & McDougall directory of 1892 listed a variety of service businesses, including merchants, fi nanciers, importers, solicitors, typists, brokers of various kinds, and the alarmingly named Detonator Burglar and Thief Alarm Co on the 3rd fl oor.
Standing on the Corner illustrates through over 100 images drawn from the RHSV’s extensive collection how Images 1 andd 2 (from top): top) Pawnbroker BL075BL075-0028 0028 and Prells Melbourne’s corners have been used between 1850 and 1960. Building 470.002. Both from RHSV photo collection.
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Deniliquin Genealogy Expo History, with her book Southwark Luck. Our congratulations Friday 13 to Sunday 15 October 2017. to both GSV members on these achievements. This event provides a great meeting place for societies from many States to meet and catch up on family history Red Cross Cards happenings Australia wide. In 2016 Red Cross Australia donated their historical • The opportunity to research ancestors with help from collection to the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) professional Genealogists as a ‘Gift to the Nation’. Part of this collection included the Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry • 37 Exhibitors including Ancestry, VicGUM, and Gould Cards dating from World War Two to 1973. Since the Genealogy. transfer, UMA has been working to make all of the cards • Ten guest speakers throughout two days for the little cost relating to World War Two available online. There are of $10 per day. Various Demonstrations information on now over 58,000 cards available through UMA’s online FTM 2017 plus lots more. catalogue. To fi nd a card, just type the surname into the • Lucky door prizes, Exhibitor prizes to be won, Raffl es. search box. For further enquiries, please contact UMA Come and join us for this wonderful weekend of Family at [email protected] or on tel 9035 History & more! 4337. For more information about the series, see the wonderful article on the UMA blog, ‘A Humane and Intimate 15th October 2017: there will be a seminar Getting the Best Administration: The Red Cross, World War Two Wounded, Out of Family Tree Maker with the renowned presenters on Missing and Prisoner of War Cards’ by Senior Archivist FTM Doug Elms and John Donaldson. The presentation will Fiona Ross. include information about places, media, sources, reporting, charts and book preparation. The best link to search is in the digitised items at: http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu. For more information about the ten guest speakers and their php?request=search talks, and for registering for these meetings, see: www.members.bordernet.com.au You can search by (surname) only, (surname, initials) or (service number). When the list (or single item) comes Thresher and Marfell Families up, just click on the name (underlined) and it will give you We recently received a request from Gordon and Ann Lewis another image, with an Acrobat icon on the left. Click on of Southampton, UK ([email protected]) to help that to see the digitised card(s). Note: You need to be them reunite photographs with their original families. The aware that the copyright to the Red Cross documents is images were inherited from Ann Lewis’ godfather. There are owned by the University of Melbourne and can only be just over 100 diff erent images in total. Some photographs published with permission. [from information supplied by have been identifi ed with names and dates of birth as well as Katie Wood (Archivist, University of Melbourne Archives) photographer’s name. and from Pauleen Cass’ blog site]
Portraits exist for a Henry A Thresher, Mrs Henry Vatican Secret Archives Thresher and John Thresher – all taken by a Melbourne These archives hold records of the Vatican’s interaction photographer between 1856 and 1900. A Warrnambool with World War II Prisoners of War, their families, and the photographer in the period 1876 to 1888 took photographs camps. They hold some three million cards. But they are only of May Maud Marfell (b.1880), Peter John Marfell accessible to postgraduate students or academics. The link (b.1882), and Henry George Marfell (b. 1883). There is to the archive is: http://www.archiviosegretovaticano. also an image of Edith Meyrick taken in London in 1878. If va/content/archiviosegretovaticano/en/consultazione/ related to these families, please contact the Lewis’ directly accesso-e-consultazione.html by email. Further details are also available from us at [email protected] Unfortunately, they cannot be accessed online by genealogists. Further information may be found in the book AIGS Prize Winners Pope Pius XII and World War 2:The Documented Truth by On 25 May, Louise Wilson’s book, Margaret Flockton: A Gary Krupp (p296). Fragrant Memory (Wakefi eld Press, 2016), won the 2016 AIGS Don Grant Award for the best submitted biography Family Holy Bible with an Australian history focus. And another GSV writer, The magnifi cent 1876 bible found during our move has not Margaret Vines, came second in this year’s AIGS Alexander found an owner yet (see our June issue page 44 for details). Henderson Award with her book The Baggotts from Family names found in the bible were: Burton, Nelson, and Herbertstown (2016). Alford. These names may be a clue to fi nding the owner. Please contact the GSV Offi ce if you can help. In 2013 Louise also won the AIGS Alexander Henderson Award 2012 for the best submitted Australian Family
Volume 33 Issue 7 / September 2017 44 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc What’s On at the GSV – September What’s On What’s COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLOSED CLASSES Fri. 29 1.30pm to 2.30pm Friday before AFL Grand Final 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. 5 The National Archive (UK) online Thur. 7 FamilySearchTM online TALK Tues. 12 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 14 12.00pm – 1.00pm The Black Country: the story of the West Thur. 14 GSV library catalogue & databases Midlands and the industrial revolution Tues. 19 AncestryTM online by Vicki Montgomery Wed. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online The Black Country gained its name in the mid nineteenth century due to the smoke from the many Thur. 21 Internet for Genealogy thousands of ironworking foundries and forges and the findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British working of the shallow and 30ft thick coal seams. Tues. 26 Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM Bookings essential online Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Thur. 28 National and State Archives in Australia non-members $20.00 Bookings essential. Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00
CLASSES Wed. 6 10.30am – 12.00pm DISCUSSION CIRCLES Starting Your Family history: Wed. 6 12.30pm – 1.30pm methodology and resources GSV Writers Bookings essential Tues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pm Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland non-members $20.00 Wed. 13 10.30am – 12.00pm Sat. 16 10.30am – 12.30pm DNA Orientation: introduction to the Society Wed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm and our resources South West England Research & Discussion Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Wed. 27 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy Members Only – Free
FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Focus your research with experienced MEETINGS helpers in the Library Sat. 16 1.00pm Scottish Ancestry Group Mon. 11 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland Wed. 27 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Bookings in person, via website, email or phone ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.
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MEETINGS COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Sat. 14 2.00pm CLASSES GSV Annual General Meeting 1.30pm to 2.30pm The meeting will include reports on the activities and financial position of the Society together with the These small group classes are designed to enable you election of Councillors. All members welcome to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Tues. 3 The National Archive (UK) online – Seniors welcome SEMINAR Thur. 5 FamilySearchTM online – Seniors welcome Fri. 20 10.00am – 4.00pm British Migrants: Instant Australians? Tues. 10 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Joint seminar with The Immigration Museum, and Thur. 12 GSV library catalogue & databases The Public Record Office of Victoria. Topics will Tues. 17 AncestryTM online include the context and history of the scheme, some personal stories and the family history research Wed. 18 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online resources available at the organising societies. Thur. 19 Internet for Genealogy GSV Members free Venue: Immigration Museum meeting room Tues. 24 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM Bookings essential via ¢[email protected] online or J03 9927 2726 Thur. 26 National and State Archives in Australia Tues. 31 ScotlandsPeopleTM online TALK Bookings essential. Members & Seniors Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Thur. 19 12.00pm – 1.00pm non-members $20.00 Home Civil Servants of the East India Company and the India Office by Mary Anne Gourley DISCUSSION CIRCLES Mary Anne will talk about the resources available Wed. 4 12.30pm – 1.30pm to research the men who worked for the East India GSV Writers Company and the India Office in the UK between 1600 and 1947. She has extensive experience researching the Tues. 10 12.30pm – 1.30pm history of British India and the people who worked for Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland its institutions and has spoken about the subject many 10.30am – 12.00pm times at the Society. Wed. 11 DNA Bookings essential Free for all as part of Seniors Festival Wed. 11 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion Wed. 25 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy CLASSES Members Only – Free Wed. 4 10.30am – 12.00pm Starting Your Family History: methodology and resources FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Bookings essential – Seniors welcome Members & Seniors free, Focus your research with experienced AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 helpers in the Library Sat. 21 10.30am – 12.30pm Mon. 9 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland Orientation: introduction to the Society Wed. 25 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland and our resources Members Free, Bookings essential – Members Only – Free AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00
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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Tues. 7 CLASSES Melbourne Cup 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. SEMINAR Thur. 2 FamilySearchTM online Sat. 11 9.00am – 12.00pm DNA for family historians Thur. 9 GSV library catalogue & databases by Patsy Daly Tues. 14 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online A basic introduction to the use of DNA for family history purposes. An explanation of DNA will be Wed. 15 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online provided and information about the available tests Internet for Genealogy and the companies that offer them will be discussed. Thur. 16 Case studies to help you in conducting your own DNA Tues. 21 AncestryTM online research will be provided. National and State Archives in Australia Bookings essential – Members $30.00, Thur. 23 AIGS/RHSV $45.00, non-members $60.00 Tues. 28 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM online Bookings essential. CLASS Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Sat. 18 10.30am – 12.30pm non-members $20.00 Orientation: introduction to the Society and our resources Bookings essential – Members Only – Free DISCUSSION CIRCLES Wed. 1 12.30pm – 1.30pm GSV Writers MEETINGS Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm Sat. 11 1.00pm DNA Irish Ancestry Group Fri.10 12.30pm – 2.00pm Sat. 18 1.00pm South West England Research & Discussion International Settlers Group Tues. 14 12.30pm – 1.30pm Sat. 25 1.00pm Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Scottish Ancestry Group Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy Members Only – Free FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Focus your research with experienced helpers in the Library RESEARCH WORKSHOP Mon. 13 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland 10.00am – 4.00pm Wed. 22 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Fri. 17 One-on-one assistance with your Members Free, research from a member of the GSV AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Research Team Limited Spaces – Bookings essential Bookings in person, via website, email or phone Members $90.00, ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 AIGS/RHSV $135.00, non-members $180.00 New members welcome.
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What’s On What’s CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLASSES Mon. 25 Christmas Day 1.30pm to 2.30pm Tues. 26 These small group classes are designed to enable you Boxing Day to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Tues. 5 The National Archives (UK) online
TM RESEARCH WORKSHOP Thur. 7 FamilySearch online Sat. 2 10.00am – 3.00pm Tues. 12 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Scottish Ancestry Group members ONLY Thur. 14 GSV library catalogue and databases See Around the Groups (p36) for details Bookings essential Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 CLASS Wed. 6 10.30am – 12.00pm Starting Your Family History: DISCUSSION CIRCLES methodology and resources Wed. 6 12.30pm – 1.30pm Bookings essential - Members free, GSV Writers AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Tues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pm Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Wed. 13 10.30am – 12.00pm DNA FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Focus your research with experienced Wed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm helpers in the Library South West England Research & Discussion Members Only – Free Mon. 11 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland
Members Free, Bookings in person, via website, email or phone AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.
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Have you been unable to attend an event at our new Centre? If so remember that we have recorded quite a number of our talks and these are available as Webcasts. You can find a listing of all Webcasts through the link in the Members Area’s ‘Library Catalogue & Databases’ or through a catalogue search. Download a file and listen to the talk at your leisure. If there was a handout at the talk this is also available as a downloadable pdf file. Our new fibre-optic internet connection means that these files now download quite quickly. There is a wealth of information available on an extremely wide range of topics for your enjoyment and edification.
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The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Seminar
DDNANA forfor familyfamily historianshistorians Presented by Patsy Daly
Saturday 11 November 9.00am – 12.00pm
Patsy is an experienced researcher and volunteers for the GSV and VicGUM. Research undertaken by Patsy and other members of her family has resulted in almost 300 Ancestry Trees which have now been used by current researchers to create an Ancestry DNA Circle of almost 20 members for each of Patsy's third great grandparents. Curious about the value of DNA as a family history resource? This seminar will provide a basic introduction to the use of DNA for family history purposes. An explanation of DNA will be provided and information about the available tests and the companies that off er them will be discussed. Case studies to help you in conducting your own DNA research will be provided.
Bookings essential – GSV Members $30.00 AIGS/RHSV $45.00 – Non-members $60.00
GSV Members $5.00 – AIGS/RHSV $15.00 – Non-members $20.00 At the GSV Bookshop New GSV Product
Melbourne Hospital Patients CompiledC by GSV volunteers $35.00 plus $4.00 postage/ Publisher:P GSV Members $31.50 plus $4.00 postage TheT index is of 87,298 names of patients who were in the Melbourne Hospital (now( The Royal Melbourne Hospital) Ward Books which could be called ‘Case Histories’.H An estimated 2,000 Ward Books are extant but many more have disappeared.d 824 Ward Books in the period 1855–1909 have been indexed forf this product, which include the Books indexed in the earlier edition. These booksb are held at the Public Records Offi ce Victoria (PROV). EveryE indexed name is hyperlinked to a set of details extracted from that patient’sp medical record in the Ward Book. The index is extensive with only thet patient’s disease or complaint omitted in accordance with an agreement betweenb the GSV and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. A patient’s disease or complaintc can be ascertained by personally viewing the book at PROV, or by usingu a Search Agent. See PROV Guide 15 at https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/ private-search-agentsp TThese details contain the patient’s name, age, and admission date together withw some or all of the following: the patient’s biography, birth place, the ship ono which the person travelled to Australia and its arrival date, whether married, wwidowed or single, occupation, religion, residence and the result of treatment. EachE set of details includes the full reference to the relevant Ward Book’s locationl at PROV. TheT index is provided on a USB memory stick and may be used on a PC or Mac withw a USB socket and Adobe Reader (free to download) or Adobe Acrobat.
No Members discount on reduced books. GSV bookshop or online at www.gsv.org.au We welcome personal shopping at the GSV Bookshop with a wide range of titles on special. Pricing does not include postage.