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The Rose Millions

Kate Considine: never a mother always a carer

Richard Jose: four times returned to England

Cornish Coincidence

Love Eternal

How to: Guide to Researching NSW Records – Part 1

Early English Discussion Circle

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Bookings in person, via website, email or phone ¢www.gsv.org.au ¢[email protected] J(03) 9662 4455 CORRESPONDENCE The Editor, Ancestor, The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Phone: (03) 9662 4455 or Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc. email: [email protected] Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 EDITORIAL TEAM Barbara Beaumont – chairperson Bill Barlow Sue Blackwood Margaret Vines As autumn turns to Winter, we hope you have somewhere nice and cosy to settle Martin Playne down and enjoy the off erings in the issue of Ancestor. Jenny Redman Jeanette Wickham To assist you with your research, we continue the series of Research Guides; CREATIVE this time it is Part One of New South Wales, written by Louise Wilson. In Jeanette Wickham Research Corner Meg gives some great tips about fi nding the signifi cant places in your Victorian ancestors’ lives. PRINTER Blue Star Print Vic As always, there are interesting stories submitted by our readers. Not many CONTRIBUTIONS nineteenth century migrants would have made the journey to Australia and We welcome the submission of articles back to England four times. Margaret Dimech tells us about how Richard on family history topics for possible publication. Jose did just that. On the third occasion he left behind his wife and children, then started a new relationship which resulted in a further fi ve children in The editors reserve the right to edit or abridge articles to meet space Australia. Nowadays we might dream of winning Tattslotto, but in the early constraints and editorial considerations. 1900s, members of the Rose family were dreaming of the millions of pounds Submissions should be the work of the they believed were hidden away in Chancery in England. Jenny Deslandes author submitting the article and should recounts their eff orts to access them. We know that women’s stories are often not have been published elsewhere harder to uncover that those of men, but Claire Dunlop has traced the life story unless agreed. All material should be submitted in electronic format to of her ancestor Kate Considine, whose selfl ess care made a big diff erence to [email protected] other members of her extended family. Again the First World War casts its long Please submit text as Microsoft™ Word shadow – John Barry’s story concerns the doomed love of two young people doc or docx fi les. Printed papers will not from that time. Rod Martin found a surprising coincidence relating to a tiny be considered for publication. Images Cornish village when tracing his and his wife’s family history. We have a short should not be embedded in the text fi le, article by David Andreassen on the development of the increasingly popular but sent as separate email attachments as high resolution JPG or TIFF fi les ancestral DNA testing, and one by Margaret Vines on her ancestor’s old van to (minimum 300 dpi). Provide captions for complete this issue. each image in the text fi le. Articles should not exceed 3000 words in length. Shorter The closing date for entries for the 2018 GSV Writing Prize is 31 August. Please articles with images to illustrate the remember to fi ll in the cover sheet and not to put your name on the actual article are preferred. article, as all entries are judges ‘blind’, i.e. without the judging panel knowing For further information on style to follow who wrote them. in preparing your article, please see gsv.org.au/ancestor-journal/ Ancestor editorial team guidelines-for-authors.html. If you have further questions, email: [email protected] DEADLINES Regular contributors must submit material by 1 January, 1 April, 1 July Our cover: View of the North Shore, Port and 1 October for publication in the of Melbourne by William Frederick Evelyn March, June, September and December Liardet , better known as WFE Liardet, issues respectively. However articles dated January 1862. After 150 years in a for consideration for publication are private collection, this painting was recently received at any time. Space constraints mean that edited articles have to acquired by the State of Library of Victoria. sometimes be held over until a later issue. Accession No. H2017.300

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Bridging the Past & Future, the 15th Lastly, a visiting American genealogist, Lisa Australasian Congress on Genealogy Louise Cooke spoke about using desktop and and Heraldry mobile device apps to assist you to share your family history research. She illustrated the use This congress was held in Sydney in March this of free apps for mobile devices that enable you to year. The four-day Congress was an immense easily make small video clips featuring a family success and the sponsor, the Australasian member or a family heirloom. Instead of talking Federation of Family History Organisations about your ancestors at the family gathering, and the organisers, the Society of Australian show them the video clips you have created. Genealogists, are to be congratulated for the Better still, ask the younger members of the family organisation and conduct of the event. to help create the videos as a way to foster their interest in their family history. All the speakers were excellent but I thought I would refer to three sessions that caught Lisa also demonstrated how to use Google Earth my attention. The fi rst was a presentation by Pro, now a free app, to create maps of the places Thom Reed, the Global Outreach Manager of occupied by your ancestors. She showed how easy FamilySearch International. You will be aware it is to fi nd period maps of an area and overlay that the GSV is now an accredited FamilySearch these on to the modern Google Earth maps. The library and that we are able to view at our Centre resultant maps have an opacity slider to enable digitised records that are normally only available you to move between the modern map and the at FamilySearch libraries. Thom outlined the older overlaid map. continuation of their massive digitisation project, provided an update to recently introduced You can read about Lisa’s techniques on her changes to their family history software program website www.lisalouisecooke.com and on her and demonstrated their recently released apps for blog Genealogy Gems. mobile devices. I recommend that you visit the www.familysearch.org website to read about these apps. RootsTech The RootsTech 2018 Congress, hosted by FamilySearch International, was held in Salt Secondly, three academic historians combined Lake City in early March this year. The Congress to deliver two sessions where they encouraged endeavours to highlight innovations in the fi eld of family historians to closely examine their family history research and attracts well-known ancestors to better place them in context of the speakers and many sponsors and exhibitors. The time and place in which they resided. Using the keynote addresses and many of the presentations bounty migration schemes as examples, they are recorded and posted to their website exhorted the audience to question why their www. . Presentations from previous ancestors migrated and why to Australia. Ask the rootstech.org years are also available. I would encourage you question: what were the reasons for emigration? to visit the website and watch these excellent Did they migrate for religious, economic, political, presentations. There is something on their familial or other reasons? Then ask why did they website for everyone, no matter your experience travel to Victoria and not the Americas, Africa, in family history or your skill level in technology. New Zealand or to other Australian colonies or  states? Their talks reinforced for me the need to seriously research the local and social history of my ancestors utilising the assistance and resources of the volunteers at, for example, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the local historical societies in Victoria.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 2 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Contents

Articles The Rose Millions 4 Jenny Deslandes

Kate Considine: never a mother, always a carer 8 4 Claire Dunlop Richard Jose: four times returned to England 13 Margaret Dimech

8 Cornish Coincidence 16 Rod Martin

Love Eternal: Bertie Hollands and Minnie Prince 18 John Barry

13 Early English Discussion Circle 21 Alan Fincher

How did the DNA craze begin? 22 David Andreassen 16 Joe’s Van 23 Margaret Vines

A Guide to Researching New South Wales Records – Part 1 26 Louise Wilson 18

22 Regular Features Editorial 1 Pen of the President 2 Additions to the Library 24 Members Queries 25 40 Getting it write 30 Research Corner 32 Jottings … and library news 34 Blogging with Meg 35 Around the Groups 36 41 Book Reviews 37 What’s On at our Member Societies 38 GSV Member Societies 39 Oops – we have a correction News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40 The image on page 13 in our last issue was erroneously labelled News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41 the Shepherd’s Arms Hotel. We have been informed that the facade shown is that of Ackman’s furniture works and shop. The About the GSV 42 Shepherd’s Arms Hotel of the 1860s would have been a smaller Research Services 43 building and, if on that site, replaced around the 1880s. News 44 What’s On at the GSV 45 Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 3 The Rose Millions by Jenny Deslandes

When I was young and curious about my paternal living with his grandparents William and Sarah ancestry, my father’s knowledge of his ancestors Clench in Poole, Dorset, England. However, before his grandparents was limited to the story of he was not an orphan as his mother, through the Rose millions which he found very amusing. whom he would later claim his right to a share of He remembered meetings held in the house of his the Rose Millions, was alive and living with his grandparents, Henry and Charlotte Lewis, in two younger sisters and infant brother in Poole Moonee Ponds, Victoria, when he was a small where she was receiving poor relief. By the 1871 child. The family believed that there was a England Census Mary Clench was living in the Jenny can be contacted at fortune worth millions of pounds in Chancery, Union Workhouse at Wareham, Dorset where [email protected] in England, waiting to be claimed by Rose she remained until her death in February 1900, descendants in Australia. Money was raised to apparently abandoned by her children. fund a trip to England of a delegate to claim the estate but the inheritance never materialised. Meanwhile her son Harry was leading a more comfortable life. In the 1861 England Census he Years later I discovered that we were descended was working as a bank clerk and living in Essex from Thomas Rose and his wife Jane Topp who, with his uncle Augustus Clench who was a bank with their children, were the fi rst free settler manager. By 1863 he was living in Sydney where family to emigrate to Australia, arriving in Sydney he married Susanna Cooper and records from on the Bellona on 16 January 1793. The topic of the the New South Wales Register of Births, Deaths Rose millions was briefl y covered in the book The and Marriages show that daughters Ida and Rose Family of the Bellona which was published Lillian were born in Sydney in 1864 and 1866. by The Thomas and Jane Rose Family Society Harry had returned to England by 1891 when the in 1990. The original information regarding an Census shows that he was living in Essex and unclaimed estate came from Mr Harry Clench his occupation was Accountant. He was living who was born in England in 1843, the son of in the same house in 1901 and was a Chartered George Clench and Mary Rose. He claimed that Accountant. The UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, he was orphaned young and brought up by an 1878-1960 show that Harry Clench arrived in uncle/guardian. Circa 1908 he visited Australia London on the Orubra from Sydney on 13 June and collected money from descendants of Thomas 1908, presumably with money collected from the Rose to be used to claim an inheritance held in Rose descendants in Australia to enable him to Chancery of which, as his cousins, they were fi nd the Rose millions. The money provided must entitled to a share. No inheritance resulted from have been suffi cient to allow him to give up his his investigations. One view was that the Rose job as an accountant because in the 1911 England millions was a scheme devised by Mr Clench Census Harry gave his occupation as Genealogist to extract money for his own benefi t, but an (retired). Although no inheritance was reclaimed, alternative view was that the fortune did exist and Harry produced copious pages of information that the British government refused to release the known as ‘The Clench Papers’, a sample of which I estate from Chancery.1 have seen. The purpose of his research appears to have been to link people with the surname Rose With access to church and census records made to the aristocracy, then record the genealogies of available on Ancestry, to newspaper articles each of these aristocratic families and include available on the National Library of Australia’s information from wills as evidence of wealth. Trove website and to copies of letters sent to Mr Tom Rose of Victoria, the cousin of my great While the Australian Roses may have become grandfather Henry Lewis, I have been able to disillusioned with Mr Clench, the allure of create a more comprehensive account of this a fortune waiting to be claimed in Chancery story, starting with research into the background remained. The quest for the inheritance was of Mr Harry Clench which shows him to be a revived when the following advertisement was person of poor character. It is true that his father placed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 April died when he was young in November 1850 and 1925: the 1851 England Census shows that Harry was

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 4 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc ROSE – The Descendants of THOMAS ROSE, who Lands and houses in the parish of Claremont, came out to Australia by the ship Bellona, in 1793, Dorset. are requested to attend a Special MEETING at Mr. And sums of monies Thomas Rose (1747) had up A. Bowles’, Slade-street, Naremburn, North Sydney, to that year advanced on lands and houses in Slape, on 9th May, at 2.30 p.m. sharp. Dorset. All those interested in the Estates of the late Clench also wrote that there was “something like a THOMAS ROSE, of Wilberforce, are respectfully quarter of a million pounds in Chancery” awaiting invited to attend. Inserted by William Rose, the rightful heirs of the Rose family.3 The Rose Millions 25-Merton-street, Rozelle 11.4.25. The descendants would also have been impressed Three hundred claimants attended the by Clench’s claims that female family members, meeting and a chairman, a secretary, and two including the sisters of Thomas Rose of the representatives of each of the branches of the Bellona had married into aristocratic families. family were elected to decide the best way to Miss Frances Theodore Rose, married George proceed to claim the Rose millions which were Sholto, 19th Earl Morton. believed to exceed £9,000,000.2 My branch Miss Frances Harriet Rose married the 6th Earl of the family is descended from Richard, the Fitzwilliam. third son of Thomas and Jane Rose and his Miss Helen Susan Rose married the Earl of eldest son Richard who moved to Victoria with Aberdeen. his family during the gold rushes in 1852. The Miss Alice Louisa Rose married the Bishop of Victorian descendants contributing funds were Argyle. all descendants of the second Richard and his Miss Gertrude Jane Rose married Baron Clinton.4 wife Jane Gardner, and it would be the meetings of this group that my father, who was born in The Rose millions claimants raised suffi cient 1921, would have remembered attending at his money to send a delegate, Mr Charles A. Stacey grandparents’ house. to England to claim the fortune on their behalf. Mr Stacey was the second husband of Catherine The story of the Rose millions was covered in newspapers around Australia but none covered it better than George G. Reeve, a journalist with the Windsor and Richmond Gazette, who followed the story until his death in 1933. The following excerpts from an article that he wrote provide some insight into why the descendants were persuaded to continue to try to claim the Australia’s inheritance. Clench claimed to have discovered the whereabouts largest online of the will of Mr. Thomas Rose (supposedly the father of Thomas Rose, the pioneer free settler that came by the “Bellona” to New South Wales, family history 1793). The will of Thomas Rose, father of “Bellona” Thomas Rose, was said to be dated 11th July, 1747. * In it the pioneer’s father, Thomas Rose, is stated to resource be of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset, whereby it was Researchearch and said to prove that he possessed at the time he made the will a large estate. buildd your familfamilyy Amongst the properties were:- The manor of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset. treee online The Advowson of the parish Church, of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset. Lands and houses in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, upon which he had advanced £4,000 on mortgage Lands in Kilmington, Devonshire. Lands at West Newton, North Petherton, Somersetshire. Lands at Whitechurch. Lands and houses in Frome-street, Quinton, Dorset. *comScore, 2011 Lands and houses at Sturthill, at Barton, and at Twine in Dorsetshire.

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Image 1: Lewis family members farewell Mr Stacey, Melbourne, July 1925

Rose. Why Mr Stacey was chosen for the task of England, and their expectations raised when is unclear. There is nothing in Mr Stacey’s told that he thought the Estates and money in employment history to suggest that he had the Chancery for the Roses amounted to something skill set required to deal with the complexities like £23,000,000, and included in the Estates were of the British legal system. He had worked in the the Tilbury Docks in England.7 British and American Navies, with the Vancouver Yacht Club as a rigger, for CSR as a diver in Fiji Interest in genealogy boomed as those around and for P & O at Pyrmont, Sydney as a rigger.5 Australia with a Rose ancestor tried to prove their However, he had been active in demonstrating his entitlement to a share of the Rose inheritance, credentials as a genealogist. In a letter that he sent either through claiming descent from Thomas to Mr and Mrs Rose in Victoria, dated 31 May Rose of the Bellona, or by proving that a diff erent 1925 he provided information about a Crest which Rose family was the true benefi ciary of the Rose had been given to him by Mrs Melba Lumley and fortune. Thomas Rose, the eldest son of Thomas which had been in her family for over fi fty years. Rose of the Bellona, was the cause of two of the He wrote: biggest disputes. He married Jane Jones at St Phillip’s Sydney on 25 May 1800. They had two Today I received a report from experts in Bond sons Thomas and William born in 1801 and 1802 St who told me, the Crest was that of the Earl and then Thomas returned to England with his of Marshmont and some other emblems denote brother Joshua for an unknown period of time. that we are descended from Royalty and that they However, when he did return to Australia he lived surmise that Thomas Rose who came out on the in a relationship with Ann Crew, with whom he Bellona was the son of the Earl of Marshmont.6 had fourteen children, but they could not marry because his wife was still alive.8 Mr Stacey was He accused Mr Clench of trying to throw the strongly opposed to including the descendants family off the scent with the will of Thomas Rose of the illegitimate children among the claimants, of Wootton Fitzpaine. using the argument that their inclusion would violate the Rose family motto ‘By Virtue in His On 12 July 1925 Mr Stacey addressed a meeting Honesty Known’.9 In fact he had a more selfi sh of descendants in Melbourne, probably during reason for excluding them. His wife Catherine a stop-over while he was en route to England. A was a descendant of William Rose, the only summary of this address is provided in a letter legitimate child of Thomas to have children, and that Henry Lewis wrote to his cousin dated 17 her share of the inheritance would have been July 1925. Mr Stacey spoke for two hours and greatly reduced if shared with the descendants of the audience must have been impressed when fourteen more off spring. The dispute was resolved told that he had obtained letters of introduction by including the descendants of the illegitimate from the Premier of NSW, the Lord Mayor of off spring as a seventh branch which meant that Sydney and the Prime Minister of Australia to the reduction in inheritance was shared by all. be used to introduce him to the Prime Minister

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 6 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc In addition to Thomas Rose of the Bellona, two on behalf of the collective families (seven in all by convicts named Thomas Rose were transported agreement), who paid up. It is understood that the to Sydney in the 1790s which led to confusion Victorian “Rose” descendants are not satisfi ed, more than a century later. Descendants of and intend to send an independent research Thomas Rose of Mt Gilead believed that he was investigator (not connected by marriage with any Thomas Rose, the eldest son of Thomas Rose members of the “Roses”), to England on their behalf of the Bellona. George G. Reeve investigated the about the end of April 1926. It is also stated to be matter thoroughly and concluded that Thomas desirable that an Australian born man, who is quite The Rose Millions Rose of Mt Gilead had arrived on the Barwell as unattached, shall be the person selected to do the a convict in 1798 and led a successful life after work on this occasion.12 he was emancipated.10 The matter was still being This is where my paper trail ends but if the disputed in 1934 when it was claimed that Dr Victorians did send their own delegate the matter C. A. , the Government Interpreter Monticone would have been easily resolved. A visit to St and handwriting expert, had confi rmed that the Mary’s Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, signatures of Thomas Rose on the record of Dorset would have found that Thomas Rose the marriage to Jane in 1800 and on the Jones of the Bellona was baptised in this church on record of marriage to Elizabeth , the Bartlett 24 November 1754 and his father’s name was wife of Thomas Rose of Mt Gilead, in 1806 were Christopher Rose.13 Almost seven years before signatures of the same person.11 the Rose family arrived in Sydney on the Bellona, Christopher Rose was buried on 16 February 1786 In the Windsor and Richmond Gazette on 20 in Sturminster Newton, a pauper.14 November 1925, George G. Reeve reported that the Victorian Rose descendants had received two The Rose family was not the only family duped letters from Mr in England in which he Stacey into believing that they were entitled to an claimed that he had so far met with marvellous unclaimed fortune in Chancery. In the same era success and that he had a great deal of work the Hobbs, Everingham, Bailey, Woodbury, ahead. He expected to be away for six months or Ladd, Chaseling and Page families were also perhaps longer. Then in March 1926 George G. trying to claim large inheritances. Over the wrote: Reeve century or more since forebears of these families The investigator, Mr. Charles Stacey, who was sent had arrived in Sydney, they had lost knowledge of to England last June (1925) returned to Sydney their origins in England and over the generations early in January, 1926, but whether his enquiries had produced a large number of descendants. This and researches into the Chancery Courts, of made it easy for unscrupulous ‘genealogists’ to England, relating to dormant estates and funds invent family histories, which usually included held in the court by the Crown, bore fruit or not, I Earls and Dukes, and claim a sizeable amount of do not know. But it has been told [to] the writer by money from the small contributions of the many members of the Victorian “Richard Roses,” who to supposedly carry out research on their behalf in contributed over £300, that the investigator met order to claim mythical estates. with no success in his mission to Great Britain

References 1. The Thomas and Jane Rose Family Society, The Rose Family of the Bellona, Southwood Press, Sydney, 1990, p74 2. ‘Fortune Sought’, Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 14 May 1925, p10 3. Reeve, Geo. G. ‘The Rose Millions’, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Friday 18 September 1925, p10 4. Ibid. 5. The Thomas and Jane Rose Family Society, op. cit., p94. 6. Stacey, C. Private correspondence (Copy), Sydney, 1925. 7. Lewis, Henry. Private correspondence (Copy), Moonee Ponds, 1925. 8. The Thomas and Jane Rose Family Society, op. cit. , p89, p104. 9. Stacey, C. op. cit. 10. Reeve, George G. ‘The Three Roses’, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Friday 14 August 1925, p12. 11. King G.A. ‘Rose Families: Old Theories Disputed’, Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 9 July 1934, p8 12. Reeve, George G. ‘The Rose Millions (?) Investigation’, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Friday 12 March 1926, p2 13. Dorset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry, viewed on 30 September 2017 14. Ibid.

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Prologue nine children in Bendigo, two of whom died as Research into family history usually uncovers babies. a small number of villains, who, owing to their crimes, generate a sizable amount of information Kate takes over the role of mother in the public record. Research also unearths When her mother died in 18805, eldest daughter heroes and heroines who rarely make the public Kate, aged 23, took on the role of mother to her record but whose lives make a considerable eight younger siblings, ranging in age from 21 to Claire can be contacted at contribution to the people around them. Kate fi ve. [email protected] Considine, the heroine of this story, wasn’t a saint, but her willingness to take responsibility Kate’s brothers were mostly tradesmen and by for her younger siblings and then her brother’s 1889 were independent of the family. In that year, four orphaned children, made an enormous Margaret, the youngest child, died aged fourteen diff erence to the lives of those people. of periostitis and pneumonia.6 Kate’s father, Thomas, also became unwell and was nursed by Who was Kate Considine? Kate for the three years preceding his death in Catherine (Kate) Considine was born in 1892. Melbourne in 1857, the fi rst child of Louisa (nee Seymour) and Thomas Albert Considine, who Immediately after her father’s death, Kate and her married in Hobart in 1853.1 Thomas worked as twin sisters were required to vacate the McCrae a sea captain on small sailing ships such as the Street home, so the newly appointed overseer Lady Leigh and Faith which travelled, mostly with could move in. Kate applied to the Bendigo cargo, and occasionally with a few passengers, Council for a gratuity based on her father’s 30 between Victoria, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, years’ service, and all the improvements he had Guam2 and Mauritius.3 made to the overseer’s residence in McCrae Street. She stated that one of her sisters was lame Thomas left the sea in the late 1850s. Initially and needed support from her two sisters.7 he tried his luck at gold prospecting but was unsuccessful. He then began work with the Kate’s request was refused because Thomas had Victorian Railways in Melbourne where their been unable to work for some time before he died, second child, Thomas Anthony, was born. He left and the Council had continued to pay him and the railways and by 1862, he, Louisa and their two allow him to occupy the residence. In addition, small children had settled in Bendigo. Thomas a council inspection of the house alleged it was was employed as the overseer of the Bendigo dilapidated. In support of its refusal, the Council Council.4 The family lived in a house in McCrae pointed out that Thomas’s children were all adults Street, which the Council owned and provided to and the family was not in such poverty as many the overseer. Thomas and Louisa had a further other ratepayers.8

Thomas Louisa Albert Seymour Considine 1837–1880 1825–1892

Catherine William Albert Charles Louisa Margaret (Kate) Joseph 1864–1928 1858–1897 1872–1933 1875–1889 1857–1932 Thomas 1862–1898 James Margaret James Marie Anthony Anthony Mary Thomas 1872–1934 1859–1925 1862–1863 1866–1868 1869–1947

Chart 1: Descendant Chart for Thomas Albert Considine

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 8 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc William Sarah Anne Joseph (Annie) Considine McCuskey 1862–1898 1859–1901

William John Percy Thomas Catherine Joseph

1889–1947 1891–1858 1893–1981 1895–1927 Considine Kate

Chart 2: Descendant Chart for William Joseph Considine

It’s not clear where Kate and her sisters resided Fire Brigade established the Council Benefi t after leaving the house in McCrae Street, but Committee and a benefi t concert was held on 13 it may have been a council-owned residence December 1898 to raise funds.17 attached to the swimming baths because in 1893, the Bendigo Council accepted Kate’s tender of The widow’s pension was not introduced into £9.5s to lease the ladies’ baths for one year.9 Later, Australia until 1942 so, after the funds raised Kate successfully tendered for running the baths by the fi re brigade ran out, William’s widow, for the next four years before they were closed in Sarah, applied to the Department of Neglected 1897 because of a leak. Kate was reimbursed £3 to Children to have her four children taken over by cover her loss of revenue for that year.10 Although the State and boarded out to her. The Governor her tender for 1898 was successful, the leak was in Council approved the arrangement for the two not fi xed, and the baths did not re-open.11 eldest children only.18 This was not unusual, as whilst the local police generally supported such The 1890s depression had less impact on Bendigo applications, the attitude of the Chief Secretary than it had on Melbourne and other major was that widowed, deserted and invalid women Victorian towns, because property speculation with children should be looked after by relatives had not been so popular, and signifi cant amounts and the local benevolent societies.19 Sarah had no of gold were still being mined.12 Shareholders and employees of Bendigo’s gold mining companies were still doing well. However, not Still here! everyone was prospering and a considerable … and pleased to return number of Bendigo people, particularly single to Ancestor men, joined the growing number of Victorians 21 Ronley Street moving to Western Australia hoping to make PPe e n F o l k BlackburnBl k Vic 3130

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Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 9 family in Bendigo and its benefi t societies were where Kate’s brother and sister, James and Louisa set up to provide emergency rather than ongoing were living with their families. assistance. In July 1903, Marie married James Archer a New Tragedy struck again, when Sarah, Kate’s sister- Zealander in Boulder, Western Australia.23 in-law, died of breast cancer in September 1901.

Kate Considine Kate Kate became the primary carer of Sarah and Kate also married in Boulder two years later when William’s four children: William, aged twelve; she was 48 (although she claimed to be 40 on the Percy, aged ten; Catherine, aged eight and Joseph, marriage certifi cate). The groom was Charles aged fi ve. Doran, a Canadian in his 40s, who in addition to prospecting, worked as a teamster managing Three weeks after Sarah’s death, Kate received horses.24 an order from the Court that, since both parents were dead, all four Considine children should be From 1905 to 1914, the Considine children lived taken over by the State but boarded out to her.20 with the Dorans in Kanowna, a gold mining town This meant that she received an allowance of 5 near Kalgoorlie. Kanowna had been a prosperous shillings per week each for the three youngest mining town in the mid-1890s but by 1905 the children. This allowance was only payable for gold was running out. William and Percy, the two children under twelve.21 older boys, obtained some work but continued living with their aunt and uncle. Charles, who was By 1901, other than the orphaned children, Kate at that time working as a carter on the mines,25 and Marie’s only relatives remaining in Bendigo would have struggled to earn enough money to were their brothers, Thomas and Albert, who keep Kate, her niece and youngest nephew. The were both blacksmiths with wives and families. following incident shows how desperate Kate was It appears that Kate and her brother, Thomas, did to provide for Catherine and Joseph. not have a harmonious relationship as in 1900,

Image 1: Water carriers, Kanowna, early 1900s. Courtesy of The Eastern Goldfi elds Historical Society.

she took him to court for not returning a piano In December 1909 Kate purchased a few items he had borrowed from her. The court ordered from a store in Kalgoorlie. After paying and Thomas to return the piano within seven days or leaving the shop, an employee followed her. He pay Kate £15.22 called the police from a public telephone and a policeman caught up with her and examined her The move to Western Australia bag. The policeman found a few items which Kate Kate received little or no assistance from her had purchased and paid for but also a pair of boy’s brothers in Bendigo, so she and Marie took short trousers (worth 3/6) which the employee the four Considine children from Bendigo to showed the policeman was not on the receipt. Melbourne, where they boarded the coastal Initially Kate gave a false name to the policeman steamship Coolgardie which arrived in Fremantle but then gave her right name. The policeman on 10 April 1902. They took the train to Kalgoorlie charged Kate with stealing the boy’s trousers.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 10 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 2: Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie in the 1920s. Courtesy of The Eastern Goldfi elds Historical Society. Kate Considine Kate

When she was charged, and when the case went After Joseph’s death, Kate, at age 71, went to live to court, Kate stated that she didn’t know how the with her niece, Catherine Kevan, and her family, extra item got into her bag. at the police residence at Moora, 170 km north of Perth. Archibald Kevan, Catherine’s son, said The Magistrate found her guilty and she had ‘his mother always spoke about being cared for by to pay a fi ne of £10, be of good behavior for six Kate whom they called “Auntie Dorrie”’. months and fi nd a surety for £10. In default of fi nding the surety, she would be imprisoned for After suff ering a stroke, Kate Doran, aged 76, fourteen days.26 I doubt Kate’s siblings, James, died in St John of God’s Hospital, Subiaco on 30 Louisa and Marie, would have let her go to prison August 1932. Her death notice read: and think they would have helped her pay the Doran – On 30 August 1932 at Subiaco, Catherine fi nes. wife of Charles Doran, sister of James Considine (Kalgoorlie), Mrs. J Archer (Napier NZ), Mrs. Quin After William left Western Australia in 1910, (Nedlands), aunt of Mrs. Kevan (Moora) and Mr. P Kate was concerned for his welfare. Even though Considine (6 Hobart Street, North Perth), aged 76. he was 21, she went to the police and had an At rest. 30 advertisement placed in ‘Missing Friends’ section of the New South Wales police gazette.28 Kate is buried with her nephew, Joseph Considine, at Karrakatta Cemetery. Apparently, By 1916, the Dorans had left Kanowna. Charles the rift with her brothers in Bendigo was never was working as a horse driver and they were living mended. The only siblings mentioned in Kate’s at Boundary Road, Kalgoorlie. Both Catherine death notice were those who had moved to WA - and Percy lived with the Dorans until they James, Marie and Louisa. Her nephew, William, married in 1916 and 1918 respectively. Joseph, was also not included but his siblings had the youngest, who was a bootmaker, continued to probably lost touch with him as it was more than live with his aunt and uncle until 1925 when he twenty years since he had left Western Australia moved and rented a house in North Perth. Kate and moved to New South Wales. came with him. She and Charles had separated permanently as Charles was now working as a What happened to Sarah and William woodcutter at the Burbidge Gold Mine, 350km east of Perth. Charles died at the Old Men’s Home, Considine’s other three children? After leaving Kanowna, William moved to New Claremont, in 1934 and is buried at the Karrakatta South Wales. He married in Wagga Wagga in Cemetery.28 January 1913 and had fi ve children. After a few years in country New South Wales, the family Kate nursed Joseph for the months preceding his settled in Granville, a suburb of Sydney. William death from tuberculosis aged 29 in 1927. Joseph’s died aged 58 in July 1947. death notice read:

CONSIDINE – On July 22, 1927 at Perth, Joseph, Percy lived with Kate and Charles until he loving nephew of Mrs. C Doran, 513 Beaufort married in Kalgoorlie on 3 June 1918. He and his St., Highgate Hill, beloved brother of Mrs. J wife relocated to Perth and had four children. Kevan (Moora) [Catherine Considine] and Percy Percy died aged 67 in North Perth in August 1958 Considine of Perth and W.J. Considine of Sydney, and is buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery. aged 29 years. RIP.29

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 11 Catherine lived with the Dorans until she to her younger siblings, then caring for her father married John Kevan, a policeman in Kalgoorlie in his last illness, Kate moved nearly 4,000 km on 5 January 1916. They had four children and to provide the best care possible to her orphaned lived in various towns in Western Australia before niece and nephews. William, Percy, Catherine and settling in Perth. Catherine died aged 88 in Perth Joseph Considine were most unfortunate to be on Christmas Day 1981. orphaned but they were lucky in the willingness

Kate Considine Kate of their aunt Kate to take them from Bendigo to Kate made a diff erence Kalgoorlie, where they could have a home with Family histories are dotted with childless sisters her and support from their aunts and uncle in and aunts who in many cases supported parents Western Australia. I doubt that their lives would and siblings and enhanced the lives of nephews have turned out as satisfactorily if they had been and nieces. After taking over the role of mother placed in a Bendigo orphanage.

Acknowledgment Thanks to the Eastern Goldfi elds Historical Society for sourcing, providing and giving permission to use photos of Kalgoorlie and Kanowna for the relevant periods.

References 1. Tasmanian names index via LINC Tasmanian 16. Bendigo Advertiser, Thursday 24 February Government 1898, p2 2. The Age, Wednesday, 24 October 1855, p4 17. Bendigo Advertiser, Wednesday 14 December 3. Hobart Mercury, Monday 16 April 1855, p2 1898, p3 4. Bendigo Advertiser, Tuesday 12 April 1892, p3 18. Bendigo Advertiser, Friday 18 October 1901, p2 5. Bendigo Advertiser, Tuesday 19 October 1880, 19. Ballarat Star, Friday 1 October 1909, p4 p2 20. Bendigo Advertiser, Friday 18 October 1901, p2 6. Death Certifi cate No. 19482/1889, 21. The Coburg Leader, Saturday 22 July 1895, p4 Department of Justice, Victoria 22. Bendigo Advertiser, Friday 30 March 1900, p2 7. Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday 4 June, 1892, p5 23. Evening Star, Boulder WA, Monday 13 July 8. Bendigo Independent, Saturday 25 June1892, 1903, p3 p2 24. Marriage Certifi cate No. 107/1905, Western 9. Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday 30 September Australian Registry of Births, Marriages and 1893, p3 Deaths 10. Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday 5 June 1897, p3 25. Electoral roll WA 1910 11. Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday 25 September 26. Kalgoorlie Western Argus, Tuesday 21 1897, p3 December 1909, p42 12. George Mackay, Annals of Bendigo Vol. 3, 27. NSW Police Gazette, 21 September 1910 1892-1909. Copy available at GSV 28. Death Certifi cate No. 100524V/1934, Western 13. Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday 10 April 1897, p4 Australian Registry of Births, Marriages and 14. Marriage Certifi cate No. 135/1898 Western Deaths Australian Registry of Births, Marriages and 29. Western Mail, Thursday 4 August 1927, p2 Deaths 30. West Australian, Friday 2 September 1932, p1 15. Bendigo Advertiser, Friday 26 February 1897, p1

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Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 12 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Richard Jose: four times returned toEngland by Margaret Dimech

Migration in the nineteenth century off ered 1901 at Antinomy Creek (now Costerfi eld) and opportunities to working class families in had married Charlotte Yendall in Cornwall when England who had never ventured beyond their he was 37. But it also included an intriguing hint own county. Our modern nation is founded of a path less travelled: ‘arrived in 1852, four times on their willingness to leave families behind returned to England’. 4 and start afresh. While we celebrate their adventurous spirit, it is important to remember The anomaly in the usual narrative was their the eff ects it caused on their families left behind. actual marriage thirty years after the birth of their fi rst child. Richard, 68, a widowed Richard Jose, my second great-grandfather, farmer from Heathcote, married Charlotte, epitomises this spirit. The tenth of eleven 61, an unmarried housekeeper from Margaret can be contacted at children, he was born to farmer John Jose and Costerfi eld, on 15 March 1889 at St Paul’s, [email protected] his wife Jennifer Ripper. Richard was baptised Sandhurst (now Bendigo), Victoria. with his sister, Elizabeth, in Mullion, Cornwall on Carefully diff erentiated residences in the 1 February 1825.1 His father John was originally a register avoided any hint of co-habitation weaver but was serving as a private soldier in the and the marriage took place well away from the Cornish Regiment of Militia at Mawgan when he eyes of their neighbours. Charlotte’s occupation married Jennifer at Breage in 1798.2 belied her role as a Richard’s partner and mother of his children for the preceding thirty years.4 Richard arrived in Victoria with his wife Charlotte on the Alice Walton in 1858.3 On the Richard’s eleven children on the marriage surface their lives appeared to be the typical certifi cate actually encompassed two unions. migrant story – leaving England to try their Three living and two deceased children were luck in the gold rush and settling as farmers in Charlotte’s; three living and three deceased Victoria. Richard’s death certifi cate included the children were from Richard’s earlier marriage. usual details, that he died aged 81 on 21 February

Image 1: Elaine Hardy, Little Trethvas Farm, 2006, reproduced with permission.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 13 Richard Jose Richard

Image 2: Margaret Dimech, Landewednack Church, 2006.

The birth of their fi rst child Bessie in 1859 was The voyage to Australia took a tragic turn when registered by a friend who starkly revealed Elizabeth, 18 months, died on the voyage and the true state of aff airs: Richard Jose and Christian, 7, soon after arrival in New South Charlotte Yendell, NOT MARRIED.4 Despite her Wales.9 Just after they boarded the ship on 18 illiteracy, Charlotte was more adept at navigating April 1852, Matilda’s mother Mary Libby was bureaucracy when she registered the rest of her buried in Wendron, aged just 64 years.10 Who children’s births. A marriage date was provided knows when the news caught up with them on the on all subsequent occasions that conveniently other side of the world? The distress they suff ered preceded the birth of her children.4 It is important can only be imagined. Life in Australia was not to remember that illegitimacy was not just a social the paradise expected, with Stephen and Margaret stigma but could prevent children inheriting their returning home in October 1854 and the Jose father’s estate. family on the White Star leaving Melbourne on 30 August 1855.11 Richard and Charlotte’s other children were Ellen (b.1861), Richard (b. 1863), Annie (b.1865) and The White Star arrived in Liverpool on 27 Francis (b.1869). The two children to die before November 1855, a return journey of just 89 days. their parents’ marriage were Ellen, 17, from The family probably disembarked at Plymouth a typhoid in 1878 and Francis, 12, from rheumatic few days before this, coinciding with the birth of fever in 1882.4 their sixth child. But this son John, ‘returned from Australia’ was christened and buried on the same Richard’s peripatetic ways began soon after his day, 16 December 1855, at Landewednack Church, fi rst marriage in 1841 at Helston, Cornwall, to aged just three weeks. If Richard was trying to visit Matilda Jago Cocking (b. 1815) when the couple his mother in her fi nal illness, he was just too late departed for Quebec, Canada, where their fi rst as this was only six weeks after Jennifer Jose was child Jane (aka Mary Jane) was born in 1843.5 buried from the same church on 4 November 1855.7 Not much is known about their time in Canada and by 1851 they returned to a small farm at Little Despite all this overwhelming grief, Richard once Trethvas in Landewednack, Cornwall where again departed with Stephen, the following year further children Christian (bap. 1846) Emily (bap. on 17 February 1856 aboard the Kent, advertised 1848), James Henry (bap. 1849) and Elizabeth as being the fastest ship to make the journey to (b. c1851) were born.6,7 However, his expanding Australia and arrived in Victoria on 30 April family didn’t soothe Richard’s itchy feet and they 1856. Although Stephen’s wife Margaret and their sailed to Sydney as assisted immigrants on the children followed him in May 1857, Matilda was Neptune, leaving Falmouth on 22 October 1851 more reluctant. Even when Richard travelled and arriving in Botany Bay on 18 February 1852. back to Cornwall on the Norfolk in July 1857, she With them on the journey was Richard’s nephew would not leave her home again.3 But the desire Stephen Jasper Jose (later Stephen Jasper) and to emigrate persisted in Richard and he left again his newly married wife Margaret née Hocking. in December 1857, this time with Charlotte,

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 14 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc breaking his marriage vows and abandoning Jane and Emily stayed together in Landewednack his children. The constant journeys and the for the rest of their lives. Although Jane married costs to his bank balance raise questions about John Jones and had a son Albert, no husband Richard’s motivation. Surely just a quest for gold or father was ever recorded living with, or did not require such frequent and expensive supporting, their little family. Instead, Jane journeys? One hint is found in a 1967 letter from and Emily laboured as charwomen in meagre his grandson William Hill to his younger brother circumstances until Jane died aged 79, in 1921 and Cyril, where Richard is described as ‘a big large Emily, 82, in 1927. Richard’s son James cannot Richard Jose Richard man’ who came to Heathcote after following the be found after the 1861 census unless perhaps as gold rushes as a pro-wrestler.7 Perhaps there were James H Jose, 21, ‘born in Australia’ working as a wrestling competition dates to be met and extra servant in Grade, near Landewednack in 1871.16 cash from this sideline to fund his journeys. There is no correspondence surviving from this Whatever the reason, certainly Matilda suff ered time to indicate that Richard’s family in Australia from Richard’s desertion. Although keeping her knew anything about their half-siblings in respectability by describing herself in 1861 as Cornwall. After Richard’s death, Charlotte lived an ‘emigrant’s wife,’ she was unable to keep her with her daughter Bessie Hill in Rutherglen, close family together. Matilda was lodging in Mullion by Stephen Jasper’s family. In fact, Charlotte’s while her children were scattered as boarders death in 1905 is registered by a friend, Samuel elsewhere: Mary Jane, 17, at Ruan Major, Emily, Jasper.4 Therefore it seems likely that Richard’s 14, at Helston and James, 10, at Landewednack. past life would have been shared. So perhaps Richard may have provided some maintenance while being very proud of their father’s trips to because in 1871 Matilda was back at Little and from England, they kept the reason buried Trethvas with her daughters and all three were in their past to avoid their illegitimacy being in receipt of annuities.6 In October 1871, Richard revealed. No will of Richard’s has yet been found, sold a property in Lizard Town to William Oliver but again inheritance could be problematic if for £131, signing the ‘indenture’ while resident in Jane, Emily and James had the wherewithal to Heathcote.8 It is possible that social pressure was contest it. being applied or perhaps Richard recognised his obligations to support his wife and children. Despite Charlotte being my antecedent, for many years my sympathies have remained The funds did not last for long. Within two years, with Matilda, the abandoned fi rst wife, and the Matilda was admitted as a pauper patient to the fortunes of Richard’s children left behind in Bodmin Lunatic Asylum where she died a week Cornwall. Perhaps more research will give me later, aged only 57, on 26 December 1873.14,15 greater insight into his character. At the moment, Bodmin is 55 miles from Landewednack so it is pride in Richard’s migration story is tempered unlikely her children saw her in fi nal days and a by recognition of a heritage founded on another pauper’s funeral was her only farewell. family’s loss.

References 1. Mullion Parish Church Register, Cornwall, United Kingdom 2. Breage Parish Church Register, Cornwall, United Kingdom 3. Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, North Melbourne, Victoria: Public Record Offi ce of Victoria, VPRS 947 4. Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria. 5. Quebec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967, Gabriel Drouin, comp., Drouin Collection, Montreal, Quebec, Ancestry, Accessed 15 August 2017 6. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851-1911, Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Ancestry, Accessed 2 September 2017 7. Landewednack Parish Church Register, Cornwall, United Kingdom 8. Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896, State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Ancestry, Accessed 15 August 2017 9. Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, New South Wales 10. Helston Parish Church Register, Cornwall, United Kingdom 11. Outwards Passenger Lists, North Melbourne, Victoria: Public Record Offi ce of Victoria, VPRS 948. 12. Letter, William Hill to ‘Sid’ (Cyril) Hill, 2 January 1967, copy held by author 13. Deeds and Leases, St Agnes, Budock, Falmouth, Gwennap, Illogan and other parishes, Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom: Cornwall Record Offi ce 14. UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912, Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK, Ancestry, Accessed 2 September 2017 15. Bodmin Parish Church Register, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 15 Cornish Coincidence by Rod Martin

I was born in the east end of London in My family on my father’s side originated from 1946. My parents were both Cockneys, a small settlement in Cornwall called St. hailing from Poplar, the location of Call the Keverne, not far from Land’s End. Sometime Midwife. In 1960, we emigrated to Australia, in the 1800s, probably around 1850, Edward Rod can be contacted at settling in Myrtleford, Victoria. Later, I Martin (my second great-grandfather) and his [email protected] moved to Melbourne to attend university. My wife Elizabeth left St. Keverne and travelled to fi rst teaching post was at Yallourn in the London. He was an agricultural labourer and Latrobe Valley, where I met my future wife, had probably been displaced from the land as Merron. She had been born in Geelong and a result of the Agricultural Revolution. They had grown up in nearby Lara. settled in Poplar in the east end – where the factories and the cheap housing were located. As they were poor, the conditions they lived in must have been horrendous, as illustrated by the excellent Michael Mosley reconstruction The Victorian Slum on TV in 2017. In 1856, my great grandfather, also Edward, was born in Poplar. In 1878, he married Eliza, who hailed from Plymouth in Devon, and had probably come to London for work as well. Like many others in those terrible conditions, Edward’s and Eliza’s lives were short. Edward died in 1898 of a heart attack at age 42. After Edward died, Eliza had to place one of their younger children in the Poplar Workhouse School because she could not aff ord to care for him. When she died a short time later of a cerebral haemorrhage, at age 39, the remaining two younger children were also placed in the school by their older siblings.

My maternal great-grandmother, Nancy Ann Flack worked at the Bryant and May’s factory in Bow/Whitechapel in 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper. My mother recalled the story she told of what happened when the women left the factory in the dark at the end of the day. They would form a chain, holding hands as they walked along the streets, so none of them was isolated and thus vulnerable. A signifi cant Labour history event also occurred at the factory earlier in the year. The women went on strike for better pay and conditions and an agreement not to use white phosphorous on the matches as it had caused medical problems among them. They won – the fi rst strike by unorganised workers to gain national publicity. One analysis suggests that the infl uence it had upon the minds of the workers entitles it to be regarded as one of the most important events in the history of labour

Image 1: St Keverne’s Parish church, author’s collection

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 16 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc organisation in any country. My roots are well and truly in the Labour movement! So, while my paternal roots, both male and female, lay in the West Country, my recent heritage is decidedly Cockney.

When I had gathered and recorded all the information I could about my own family, I turned Cornish Coincidence to Merron’s family tree. I moved back in time as far as 1740 and her fi fth great-grandmother. When I checked the woman’s records, it indicated that she was born in … St. Keverne! I did a double take. I asked myself if I had inadvertently slipped back into my own family tree. But, no! Jane Trerise had been born in St. Keverne in 1740 and died there in 1805. Her son, John Pearce, had also been born and died there.

John Pearce’s son, John Lilley Pearce, married a woman named Elizabeth Cullen. She was the Image 2: Matchgirls participating in a daughter of James Bryan Cullen, a First Fleet strike against Bryant & May, London 1888. convict who was one of the fi rst sent to Norfolk Public domain. Island, in 1790. James had settled there after emancipation, taken up with an Irish convict by the name of Elizabeth Bartlett, had a family and taken a land grant. When the Norfolk Island colony was closed down in 1807, James and his family and all the other settlers on the island were transported to Tasmania and given land grants just outside Hobart. Because of their origin, the settlers’ new home was called New Norfolk. MELBOURNE TARTAN John Lilley’s and Elizabeth’s son, James, travelled ESTIVAL across to the Port Phillip District sometime F after 1847 and probably established a run in the Celebrating Scottish culture in Australia western part of the colony. He had married an Irish girl in Tasmania and they stayed in western Victoria for the rest of their days. Later, some of 19 – 22 July 2018 their descendants moved to the Geelong area – Revised Program hence Lara. Grand Ceilidh Dance I checked back in the St. Keverne parish records Abbotsford Convent (fortunately, online) and found that, between Gala Dinner and Entertainment 1750 and 1850, there were seven marriages in the village between people who had surnames Melbourne Town Hall associated with our family trees. So, Merron and I Genealogy Day at the GSV may actually be very distantly related. An introduction to family research with guidance I fi nd this coincidence incredible. A migrant from from experienced volunteer researchers the east end of London, whose paternal roots go Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service back to a village in distant Cornwall, emigrates to Australia, lives in Myrtleford, goes to work Pop-up cultural events around Melbourne CBD in Yallourn, meets an Australian girl from Lara throughout the Festival and marries her, not knowing, of course, that her maternal roots go back to that same distant For further information contact village. [email protected] What are the odds? Was there a preordained A joint venture of VSHCF and SVCG attraction? The mind boggles. www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 17 Love Eternal: Bertie Hollands and Minnie Prince

by John Barry

Every cemetery is a collection of tragedies. no other living relative. Minnie was the eldest However, their details are usually invisible. In daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Prince, a local Swan Hill cemetery, details of a tragedy from the dairy-farming family. Great War can be clearly discerned. John can be contacted at In August 1915, Robert Prince, their eldest son, [email protected] When the Great War broke out in August 1914, also enlisted. Known as Bert, he was six years Bertie Frank Hollands was working a farm in younger than Bertie. Robert was wounded three Tyntynder South, an irrigation district along the times by shrapnel during his service with 57th Murray River from Swan Hill. Born in 1889, he Battalion. His wounds were not life threatening. was twenty-four years old and unmarried. Bertie had arrived in Melbourne as a ‘new chum’ aboard He was also seconded to a training unit in Britain the SS Commonwealth in January 1912. He was for a time. There, Robert acted as an instructor the fi rst Englishman to come to Australia to take of newly commissioned offi cers in bombing up irrigated farming land from the Victorian (grenade throwing) techniques. Robert’s third Government in a closer settlement scheme in wound saw him invalided to Britain in mid Tyntynder South. 1918 for return to Australia. Before returning to Australia, Robert married Jemima Paton, The Australian Government later in the Great a draper’s assistant, in Edinburgh in 1919. She War requisitioned SS Commonwealth. It became followed him back to Tyntynder South. A73, a troopship. Bertie Hollands and Minnie Prince were never Bertie volunteered for the Army as soon as he had offi cially engaged. Perhaps they wanted to wait made arrangements for his farm. As an English until the War was over; perhaps Bertie wanted to volunteer in the First AIF, he was not unusual. get himself more established in his new country Around thirty percent of the First AIF were born – we shall never know. However, they had an in Great Britain. In his case, Bertie had been born understanding that was clear enough for Minnie in Brighton, a seaside resort on the English coast to refer to herself as his intended. in Sussex. The name of Bertie’s sister, Joan Hollands, His military papers show that Bertie fi rst appeared as Bertie’s next of kin on his enlistment. enlisted on 20 November 1914 and was given the Joan lived in Southwark in London. initial service number 1335. Christmas and the pending second embarkation of soldiers from Bertie underwent a short period of basic training the Broadmeadows Army Camp interfered with before being embarked on the troopship Clan his enlistment process. With an amended and MacGillivray bound for C Company of 5th fi nal service number of 1234, Bertie took the oath Battalion then in Egypt. In Egypt Bertie took part of service on 29 January 1915. Military service in long marches across the sandy desert around records show that his army service was to be Giza. The marches were designed to toughen dated from 21 November 1914. the Australian troops up while Imperial High Command worked out how to use these green and Physically, Bertie was slight, around fi ve feet nine not very welcome colonial soldiers. inches in height and weighed around 145 pounds. He had brown hair and brown eyes with a swarthy By early April, rumours that the Australians complexion. would soon see action were everywhere in the Mena camp. What was not clear was where the Although Bertie had a sweetheart in Tyntynder action would be. Most said France; some said South, the Army did not allow Miss Minnie Turkey. Prince to be listed as his next of kin unless he had

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 18 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc By 4 March 1915, the Australians began landing for a copy of Bertie’s Will so she could arrange for on Lemnos, a Greek island off the coast of the their disposition in accordance with his Will. The Dardanelles. With his battalion, Bertie joined Army replied that they were holding no Will for others in a vast tent city around the village of Bertie Hollands. Mudros. In the next weeks they practised beach landings. Meanwhile, on Gallipoli in the last days of 1915, Gunner Campbell of 3rd Field Company reported At dawn on 25 April 1915, 5th Battalion came that he had come across a body while building a ashore at Gallipoli as the southern part of the sap trench on ANZAC beach in the preliminaries second wave. The fi rst wave of the Landing had for the coming evacuation. The body’s uniform not come under heavy fi re as they scrambled contained a paybook in the name of Private up the beach in the dark. It was diff erent for the Hollands. The paybook was hard to read and the second wave. The Turks were awake and ready. body badly decomposed. At the time, there were At least four incoming boats were destroyed by three Hollands in the First AIF on Gallipoli. artillery fi re before they had reached the beach. The other two soldiers were serving with their Other Australians were killed as they reached the battalions. The body was Bertie. beach. The Army now had the information it needed for a After a tumultuous day fi ghting its way through court of inquiry. By the time it had resolved which rough and broken country, 5th Battalion held its Hollands’ body had been found, Bertie’s battalion daily roll call amid the scrubby hills below Baby was in France. It was there that the court of 700 that night. Bertie Holland did not answer to inquiry eventually took place on 3 November 1916. his name. Based on Gunner Campbell’s evidence, the court declared that Bertie Hollands had been killed in He was posted as missing in action. The Army action on 25 April 1915. sent a cable to that eff ect on 12 June to his sister in Southwark. On 11 December 1916, Bertie’s sister was notifi ed that he had been killed in action on the fi rst day This news quickly reached Minnie, Bertie’s of the Gallipoli Landing. His eff ects consisting of sweetheart. On 2 July 1915, Australian a diary and letters, no doubt from Minnie, were newspapers reported that a list of prisoners held forwarded to his sister. by the Turks had been received by the Australian Government from Sir George Reid, Australia’s Notice of Bertie Frank Hollands’ death at High Commissioner in London. Gallipoli appeared in the issue of the Swan Hill Guardian and Lake Boga Advocate dated 21 Minnie wrote that day to Senator Pearce, December 1916. Australian Minister for Defences and acting Prime Minister seeking information, by return of And there the story might have remained – another post, as to whether her Bertie was listed among tragedy of the Great War, a love lost far away on a these prisoners held by the Turks. Turkish shore for Bertie Hollands has no grave. His name is remembered, along with 4,982 others The Minister replied, saying that Bertie Hollands on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli. was not among those listed. Minnie Prince carried a dark secret. Minnie had For years, Minnie had been the organist at the chronic pulmonary tuberculosis. She had suff ered Tyntynder South Presbyterian Church. While from it since 1915. At that time, the death rate for she waited for news, Minnie now threw herself tuberculosis in Australia was falling slowly, but into war benefi t work and her work with the it was almost the same as the death rate for all Presbyterian Church. When the Presbyterian forms of cancer. Home Mission came to Tyntynder South in April 1916, she accompanied a lantern lecture and The worry and anxiety about Bertie’s singers for the Presbyterian Home Mission. disappearance, worsened by always receiving news secondhand, had quickened her disease. Waiting was hard. The Army received a diffi dent By mid 1917, Minnie was sinking. The eff orts of letter dated 29 January 1916 from Miss Minnie her doctor to stop the progress of the disease did Prince of Tyntynder South. Minnie appears to no good. At 2.00am on 12 November 1917, fi nal have given up hope that Bertie would be found exhaustion set in. Minnie’s heart failed. Minnie alive. She explained that she was Bertie Hollands’ Holly Prince died at home. She was just twenty- intended and so had all of his things. Minnie asked three years old.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 19 Love Eternal Love

Image 1: The grave of Minnie Prince in Swan Hill Cemetery; photo taken in October 2017 by the author

When the Prince family buried their Minnie Minnie Prince and Bertie Hollands had been in Swan Hill cemetery, they ensured that her parted in life but would be remembered together gravestone had a memorial to her Bertie on it. in death. ‘Parted on earth, united in heaven’.

Sources: Military service record for Bertie Hollands No. 1234, National Archives of Australia Military service record for Pte Robert Prince No. 3228, National Archives of Australia Articles and books: • Patsy Adam-Smith, The ANZACS, 1981, p225 • Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, 2001, p116 • Peter Stanley, Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force, 2010, p24 • CEW Bean, The Offi cial History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, v1, p361, see also Chapters XII and XIII. Websites: • http://anzaccentenary.sa.gov.au/story/great-war-training-camps-in-egypt/ searched 20 November 2017; • T. S. Louch Memoirs, Part 1 Chapter 2 at http://11btn.wags.org.au/index.php/chronicles/ts- louch-memoirs/92-memoirs-ts-louch-part-1-chapter-2, searched 21 November 2017; • http://www.theleader.com.au/story/2947503/faces-of-anzac-island-paradise-of- lemnos-led-straight-to-gallipoli-hell/, searched 21 November 2017 • William Lycett’s Diary: Apr - May 1915; the entry for Saturday, 17 April 1915 and Sunday, 18 April 1915. From http://www.ozebook.com.au/william-lycetts-diary—apr---may-1915. html, searched 21 November 2017; • 5th Australian Infantry Battalion at the Australian War Memorial at https://www.awm.gov. au/collection/U51445, searched 21 November 2017; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_ Battalion_(Australia), searched 20 November 2017; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ George_Pearce, searched 20 November 2017. Newspapers: Swan Hill Guardian and Lake Boga Advocate issues dated 4 February 1915, p5; 22 January 1917, p3; and 12 November 1917, p2. Victoria registry of BDM, death certifi cate 3284, Minnie Holly Prince.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 20 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Early English Discussion Circle by Alan Fincher

The Early English Discussion Circle is for GSV • inform other members of breakthroughs in their members who are researching in England before research and the records that created them 1700. It is about 1700 that a number of early records • learn about new sources and websites relevant to ceased to exist or became uncommon, and the Circle their research focuses on these early records. They include a wide • gain an understanding of pre-1700 records and range of ingenious taxes, particularly the hearth tax how to access them (1662–1688) which serves as a census substitute as it may include those above and below the tax • access from home the Circle’s own database of threshold; court records, particularly chancery and websites, books and other sources relevant to exchequer equity proceedings; heraldic visitations pre-1700 English research. The database gives (1530–1688); and protestation returns (1641/2) sources by county (as county based records vary which survive for a third of the parishes. considerably) and under specifi c topics • learn more about how their English ancestors The further you research backwards the more lived before 1700, including in specifi c counties important land records become, including many and geographic regions, and during signifi cant land surveys, feet of fi nes (from 1182), inquisition time periods (e.g. Civil War and Commonwealth post-mortem (1235-1660), and particularly period). Religion also played an important role manorial records (from the 11th century) where in our ancestors’ lives, particularly after the you should fi nd your tenant ancestors, even if establishment of the Church of England by they are just subsistence farmers. Before 1700, Henry VIII. inventories often accompany wills, and these may show lists of personal possessions (with monetary • contribute to the discussion on the main topic at values) room by room, plus debts, crops and leases, each meeting (advised in advance). thus providing an amazing insight into how your ancestors lived. A guide to the multitude of early Who may join? English records was published in the September GSV members who are actively researching in 2013 Ancestor, and there are also webcasts on these England before 1700, having worked their way back, records on the Society’s website. generation by generation, to this period in at least one of their family lines. It is assumed, from their Hopefully the availability of such wonderful early research, that members are familiar with common records will provide an incentive for GSV members post-1700 English record types. There is no fee to to extend their research back to around 1700. Those become a member of the Circle. New members are having diffi culty researching in the 1700s should very welcome as the broader the collective research seek the assistance of our Research Assistants at experience of the Circle membership, the greater the Help Desk in the Society’s library. individual members will benefi t. Aim of the Discussion Circle Meetings We aim to actively assist Circle members in Fourth Wednesday each month except for their pre-1700 English research. The collective December at 12.30–2.00 pm in the GSV meeting knowledge of Circle members is enormous, and is room available to those members who are struggling with How to join their research. Email the convenor, Alan Fincher, at Monthly meetings provide the opportunity for ¢[email protected] members to: More information • discuss the ‘brick walls’ in their pre-1700 From the convenor, or GSV admin: research so that other members can provide J9662 4455 or¢[email protected]  helpful suggestions Image: Extract from a 1521 swanimote (forest court) roll of Feckenham Forest held at Crosstrench, Worcestershire, showing the court jurors. Image courtesy of The National Archives of the UK, ref. E 146/3/22B

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 21 How did the DNA craze start?

by David Andreassen

In 1997 a Canadian of Ashkenazi [Jewish] In 2005 National Geographic in partnership with parentage noticed that a Sephardic fellow IBM for a fi ve year research project launched congregant who was a Kohen like himself ‘The Genographic Project’. While the goals of the had completely diff erent physical features. project were to trace historic migrations around According to Jewish tradition all Kohanim are the globe some 225,000 test kits were sold as of David can be contacted at [email protected] descended from the priest Aaron who was the October 2007. The test was on 12 STR markers on brother of Moses. This fellow reasoned that if all the Y-DNA chromosome or on the HVR1 region of Kohanim were indeed the descendants of one mtDNA. However the project raised the visibility man they should have a common set of genetic of genetic genealogy. markers and should perhaps preserve some family resemblance to each other. In December 2012 National Geographic embarked on Geno 2.0 which tests 150,000 markers across Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona, a the whole genome including Y-DNA and mtDNA. researcher in molecular genetics and a pioneer in The laboratory testing is being done for them by Y- DNA chromosome research obtained samples FTDNA. and carried out tests and found that a particular marker was indeed more likely to be present in There are now a number of companies Jewish men from the priestly tradition than in the off ering DNA tests. Humans have 23 pairs general Jewish population. Michael Hammer is of chromosomes. The last pair is the sex still active in genetic genealogy. chromosomes. The other 22 pairs are called the autosomal chromosomes. Some companies only The fi rst person to test the new method in general off er tests for the autosomal chromosomes. Some surname research was Bryan Sykes, a molecular off er tests for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosomal. biologist at Oxford University. His study of the Some off er tests for paternity determination. Sykes surname obtained valid results by looking Some keep your samples for 25 years while others at four markers on the male chromosome. His don’t. Some have been known to sell your results. work pointed the way to genetics becoming a Some are poor value for money. valuable assistant in the service of genealogy and history. In 2001 Sykes’ book Seven Daughters If you test with one company you will only get a Of Eve was published, which has his work on match if someone who matches you has done a the origins of the Polynesians and other topics test with that company. There is then the problem including that of the women in Europe being of transferring your results to another company. descendants of seven ‘mothers’ who migrated They are not always compatible. You can post into Europe at diff erent points in time. The your test results on a number of internet sites that initials of the names he gave these women have are independent of the testing companies. been adopted as the names of seven mtDNA haplogroups. For example Helena became But please determine what you want to get from a haplogroup H the dominant group in Europe. DNA test before you pay for a test, which may not give you the correct result. In the wake of the book’s success genetic genealogy as a fi eld of research grew rapidly. By 2003 in an article in Nature Reviews Genetics by Jobling and Tyler-Smith declared that the fi eld of DNA testing of surname lines had offi cially ‘arrived’.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 22 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Joe's Van by Margaret Vines

Joe Dunn’s fi rst Dodge van, bought new in 1937, to Paradise at the back of Apollo Bay or the King with signage and detailing to order, was his pride Parrot Creek near Flowerdale and Joe would and joy. It was so versatile, did everything he make an agreement with the local farmer – to buy Margaret can be contacted at asked of it and it never broke down. fresh milk in the morning and to shoot as many [email protected] rabbits as he possibly could. By 1937 Joe had built up a diverse business. He was an express carrier. He delivered consignments like shoes from the Paragon factories in Collingwood to shops and to the railway or the port of Melbourne.

His specialty was pianos and pianolas. He delivered for all three Melbourne music shops – Brashes, Orchestrelle and Allans. He was a master of the removalists’ trolley, jiggling it with a piano on board through doorways, around corners and up and down stairs.

Pianolas were fashionable so he became the Melbourne agent for Mastertouch piano rolls, setting up a small city offi ce in Elizabeth Street, to complement his main offi ce at his home in Northcote.

These deliveries, together with furniture removals for people moving house, were his weekday business. At weekends he could use Joe was a good driver. He could back the van the van for picnics. Sports and church groups anywhere, hanging out the door as he did so. would hire the van to go to the beach at Aspendale, The only accident he ever mentioned was in the or the bush at Ferntree Gully or Warrandyte. Long railway goods yard, when the van was stationary, forms to sit on would be bolted along each side of idling in a queue. A shunting locomotive driver the van, with another row down the middle and misjudged the distance and caught the back in hot weather the canvas at the sides and back corner of the van, shunting it forward and tipping of the van could be tied up to allow a good breeze it on its side. Hanging onto the steering wheel as they bowled along. Community singing – the with one hand, Joe just managed to reach out and latest hits, or favourites like ‘She’ll be coming turn the ignition off with the other. This saved his round the mountain’ – enlivened the journey. van from the possibility of catching fi re.

Joe also used the van for camping. The Easter The Dodge van was the fi rst symbol of Joe’s weekend was popular with the local church group. business success. He had begun with a horse They would head down the Mornington Peninsula and cart. He went on to have three much larger and camp on the foreshore – girls chaperoned in vans, and a payroll of three or four drivers, being the van by Joe’s wife Alma, and the boys in tents. increasingly successful during and after WW2. In There was lots of spirited fun, especially from the the post war shortages he bought a Ford van, but boys who one night put an alarm clock set for 2am regretted it and went back to Dodge vans and even in a bucket under the van. a Dodge car. His 1937 Dodge van had never let him down. In the summer Joe would take a week or two off , when the factories were closed, and go camping in the van with his family. They would go down

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 23 See the library catalogue for full details, exact format, and location of material Additions to the Library within the library - available online at www.gsv.org.au or in the library.

Compiled by Linley Hooper

Please check the library catalogue for full AUSTRALIA Manchester 1798-1853. Lancashire Parish descriptions. All listed LDS microfi lms are Births, marriages and deaths in Australia. Register Society. Transcribed by Anthony held in the LDS Long Term Loans Cabinets. Farmer, Kerry. (Unlock the past handy M Berrell. (Lancashire Parish Register Request by fi lm number at the Information guide). (Purchase) [GSV 929.3394 FAR] Society; v. NC 11). Computer 4 Desk. Thank you to all donors to the library The Passage makers. Stammers, Michael K. Old ordnance survey maps: Hendon 1895. collection. (Brooks, H) [GSV 387.5 STA] Text by Pamela Taylor. Scale 1:4340 Abbreviation used: Whole histories: keeping the stories alive. Godfrey ed. (Middlesex sheet; 11. 7). [MAP  (...) = Donor’s name, if not the author Yass & District Historical Society. DRAWER GSV 912.42 OLD] (Purchase) [GSV 929 YAS FAMILY HISTORY SCOTLAND Beanland family connections: two NSW ARGYLLSHIRE Christophers & other Beanland families. Rookwood Columbarium walls and gardens: Altera Merces: the burial grounds of Beanland, Graham H. [GSV 929.2 BEAN vol. 1 1985-1999: 2280 photographs of Pennygown, Gruline, Knock, Cill an Alein BEA] plaques, fully indexed, links to military in North Mull, also the memorials of records and newspaper notices. Bruce & Crowe family tree. Wheatley, Terrance. Salen church and the tributes inscribed on Computer Betty Shepherd. Contents: Data from Macquarie’s mausoleum. The Cemetarii. Come to sunny Australia: a story of Rookwood Memorial gardens, Ryerson Introduction by Jo Currie. (Horwood, L) the Cumming and Bramald families. Index, National Archives, WW 1 records, [GSV 929.5411 ARL CEM] Cumming, Gordon. [GSV 929.2 CUMM World War 2 nominal roll. Liverpool us Am Bris An La: the burial grounds of CUM] Genealogy Society; www.lgs.org.au. Kilninian, Kilmore, Treshnish, Calgary, (Purchase) Computer 5 The Farrell family history. O’Grady, Tony. Ulva & Gometra in North Mull, with the [GSV 929.2 FARR OGR] VICTORIA memorials ofKilninian & Kilmore churches Of convicts and kings: ancestry of the Victoria Mercantile Marine Offi ce articles also Isolated memorials of N W Mull. The families Healand/von Heland & Healey. of agreement index. Logan, Noel. (VPRS; Cemetarii. Introduction by Iain Thornber. Healand-Kibilda, Jillian. [GSV 929.2 566/P0000/44). (Noel Logan) [LINX AUS (Horwood, L) [GSV 929.5411 ARL CEM] HEAL HEA] & GIN] The Isle of Luing: some things you should HUME FAMILY Hume family history. Preserving history is a grave responsibility know. Compiled by D Bannister. [GSV Family group record for Thomas Hume [Burwood cemetery] Computer 941.423 BAN] (1811-1881). Ancestors of Ronald Kenneth Pioneers of the Echuca Moama district book Tales of Lorne: an anthology of tales and Hume (1934-). Ancestor fan chart of 4: a history of some of the families who have stories from Luing, Seil and surrounding Ronald Kenneth Hume. Chronicle family resided in the Echuca-Moama district. area. Bannister, D. [GSV 941.423 BAN] Echuca-Moama Family History Group. history fi le. Includes family photos BERWICKSHIRE consisting of 93 media fi les. Computer 5 (Purchase). [GSV 994.54 ECHU PIO] Monumental inscriptions: Edrom. Borders Loch Alsh to Laen and Lygon Street: A history of Kew RSL. Torpey, John. Family History Society. (Berwickshire Alexander & Margaret Matheson. Includes a list of offi ce bearers. (Author) monumental inscriptions; v. 19). Fleming, Margaret E. [GSV 929.2 MATH [GSV 369.29451 TOR] Contents: Ministers of Edrom parish; FLE] What Kiddle forgot: a social history of Hearth tax 1694; List of pollable person The Millar family of Tokoiti: including the Mount Elephant district of Western 1695; Militia list 1801; Militia families Millar, Meharry/McHarry, Walding Victoria 1860-1888. Sturmfels, Michael vouchers 1809.1812,1813; Plan of Edrom and other ancestral lines. Elizabeth Cowie Sylvester. Computer 5 churchyard; Monumental inscriptions & Anne Brady. [GSV 929.2 MILL COW] Maldon Church of England marriages 1864- at Edrom; Post reformation symbolic The O’Grady family. O’Grady, Tony. [GSV 1946 [index] Roy, Joy. Computer [LINX stones; Edrom war memorials; Edrom 929.2 OGRA OGR] AUS & GIN] school admission records 1868-1901; The Searles: the descendents of James Index of surnames in the hearth tax 1694, Ginn Searle; descendents of Martha Searle; GERMANS & GERMANY Introduction to German family history pollable person 1695 and militia lists descendents of Samuel Brown Searle. research for Australians. Kopittke, Eric. 1801-1813; index of name on monumental Herring, Maureen. Computer 5 (Unlock the Past guide book). (Purchase) inscriptions and memorials ;index to The Sumpton family. O’Grady, Tony. Pt [GSV 929.143 KOP] surname in school admission register. 1: Its British origins - Pt 2: Its Victorian Mitteilungsblatt: 200 years of the German (Scottish Ancestry Group). Computer 4 history. [GSV 929.2 SUMP OGR] School in London 1708-1908. Translated ROSS & CROMARTY Poems of “Silky Oak” [Frank William by Amanda Price. (Occasional issue; no. 2 Monumental inscriptions Badenscallie, Singleton] 1940-1949 as published in (2016)). [GSV 943.005 MIT] parish of Coigagh. Highland Family the Swan Hill ‘Guardian’ . Gillingham, Mitteilungsblatt: Cologne to St Louis: History Society. Compiled by Stuart Pat. Pat Gillingham in collaboration with Anselm Ungar’s account of his Company’s Farrell, indexed by John & Beryl Durham. John Jobson. [GSV 994.59 SWAN GIL], 1852 voyage of escape from tyranny. (Scottish Ancestry Group) [GSV: 929.5411 Available from the author for $20 + $10 Translated & introduced by Eva ROC HIG] P&P, Pat Gillingham, 43 Nugget St, Lawrence. (Occasional issue; no. 3 (2017)). Monumental inscriptions Clachan, parish Kerang, Vic} [GSV 943.005 MIT] of Lochbroom. Highland Family History relationships. Watters, Robyn. Watters Society. Compiled by Stuart Farrell, Contents: Captain James Renton Watters UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND indexed by John & Beryl Durham. (1838-1919), and his chn: Eliza Ann Titter Births, marriages and deaths in Britain & (Scottish Ancestry Group) [GSV 929.5411 (1857-1926); Alice Maud (1875-1940); Ireland. Paton, Chris. (Unlock the past ROC HIG] William Augustus (1878-1880); James handy guide). (Purchase) [GSV 929.3341 Monumental inscriptions parish of Urray, Edward (1881-1926); Florence May (1882- PAT] old burial ground & churchyard. Highland 1918); Jane (1883-1966); Ethel Elizabeth Battle of Tewkesbury 1471: a roll of arms. Family History Society. Compiled by (1888-1941); Ruby Isabella (1890-1948); Wheeler, Geoff rey. (Anon) [GSV 942.04 Stuart Farrell, indexed by John & Beryl Robert Frederick (1892-1962) Computer 5 WHE] Durham. (Scottish Ancestry Group) [GSV Letters and sounds of British and Irish The Registers of Manchester St George, 929.5411 ROC HIG] surnames. Baxter, Carol. [GSV 929.4 BAX] also St George in the fi elds, Oldham Road

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 24 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Members Queries ¢Email Address ÇMailing Address JPhone

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COCKRAM/COCHRANE DELAN(E)Y/MAGUIRE/CODY Seeking info Jane GLEESON m1 1874 Co CLA James Seeking info Catherine DELANY m 1868 Melb Thomas McNAMARA arr SA 1876 Trevelyan m2 Frederick MAGUIRE. Ellen DELANEY m 1905 Gordon VIC Thomas COCKRAM d 1901. He m1 unk; m2 1875 CHI Susan CODY. GOUGH nee AMY d 1889. Frederick, Susan & fi ve chn L. Loveday (three fr Susan’s fi rst marr) arr SA 1878 Scottish Lassie. ¢[email protected] Older chn known as GOUGH, younger chn, Frederick James & William Henry known as COCHRANE. After LONG/LYNCHEY Susan died Frederick m3 Jane McNAMARA nee Seeking info/desc Henry LONG b 1859 poss IRL m 1882 GLEESON. Jane living Adelaide 1904. IOM Jane LYNCHEY b 1858 IOM arr Melb August 1886 T. Hocking Iberia. Dau Lilian b at sea August 1886 d October 1886 ¢[email protected] Carlton. Jane g-dau of my convict ggg-gmo Sarah LYNCHEY. CUSACK/OAKLEY P. Strauss Seeking info/desc Lance CUSACK b c1923 Ascot Vale VIC; ¢[email protected] Edna CUSACK b c1926. Fa: Francis Mo: Florence H PATTISON. R. Oakley J(03) 9379 5169

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Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 25 A Guide to Researching New South Wales Records – Part 1

by Louise Wilson

Australia’s oldest colony, settled in 1788, has Wales, which I will refer to as SRNSW. It’s located generated a massive amount of archival material at Kingswood, in Sydney’s far western suburbs covering convicts, marines, soldiers of the near Penrith, and is most easily accessed by car NSW Corps and free settlers of many varieties – or online, at www.records.nsw.gov.au (The from many countries. Accordingly, this article Mitchell Library’s holdings are mentioned later.) Louise can be contacted at: necessarily adopts a broad brush approach to [email protected] guiding your research and much of it can be done SRNSW’s online site needs to be your best friend without travelling interstate. as a researcher. Take a minute to familiarise yourself with its structure. On the right-hand New South Wales was run from England for side of the profi le picture at the top of the some time and extensive fi les accumulated in SRNSW Home page you will see News and England. Most have been microfi lmed as part of Quick Links. Clicking on the Online Indexes and the Public Records Offi ce/Australian Joint Copying Key Name Search takes you to a vast array of Project (PRO/AJCP) and copies of these reels online indexed data, which can mostly but not were distributed to major reference libraries in always be searched. An entry in an online index Australia including the State Library of Victoria is just the start, telling you where to look next. (SLV). They provide invaluable and underutilized Clicking on Research A-Z takes you to a long list primary resource material. Other resources held of research topics, for which there are ‘Guides’ at the SLV are the volumes known as Historical (superseding the former collection of helpful Records of Australia (HRA) and Historical Records ‘Archives in Brief’ documents) and cross-links of New South Wales (HRNSW), a selection of to relevant online indexes. Remember that much signifi cant pieces of correspondence, both series of the potential information about an individual edited by F.M. Bladen. is contained within documents which have not been indexed or digitised. Whenever you fi nd The bulk of the other offi cial paper, microfi lm and material you wish to use and cite, make sure you microfi che records for NSW is held at the State record its NRS number. Archives and Records Authority of New South Other preliminary family history research for NSW can also be conducted online and in Victoria, especially tracing genealogical details, passenger names, land records and many of the convict details. Some of this is published on Ancestry and fi ndmypast and whenever these resources are mentioned, remember they are viewable at the GSV offi ces at 85 Queen St, Melbourne. Facebook groups relevant to your family surname or district of residence can also be helpful as a guide for researchers. It remains necessary to visit NSW, or pay for research services, to access most of the State Records collection, the Mitchell Library collection

Image 1: Memorial stone at Camp Cove, Sydney where Governor Arthur Phillip fi rst landed in ‘the fi nest harbour in the world’ on 21 January 1788. All photos from the author’s collection

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Image 2: Reading Room, Mitchell Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney and local history hubs such as the Hawkesbury Ancestry. So many settlers in NSW had the Library. same names and so many people want to claim a convict – or not – that many of these charts, often 1. Births, Marriages & Deaths, Burials, compiled by inexperienced people, are just plain Inquests and Wills wrong. Some quality information developed by Correct principles of family history research experienced researchers has been uploaded onto involve working backwards from the present, so individual websites. the fi rst records to investigate are the NSW BDM records. These are indexed online www.bdm. Don’t forget the Ryerson Index, https://www. nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/family- ryersonindex.org which is particularly helpful history.aspx and, because births, deaths and for NSW death notices even up to the present day. marriages are indexed separately with infl exible Copies of the newspapers cited in the Index are data entry fi elds, they are quite cumbersome to held at the SLV. use compared with the equivalent Victorian site. NSW indices are a guide only, as they contain NSW death certifi cates usually indicate the burial many gaps and errors. In NSW there is no details. Funeral announcements in newspapers substitute for sighting original sources. and accessible via Trove can be helpful. Most cemeteries are maintained by churches, trusts Index entries with a V prefi x come from and local government authorities and many have a parish records up to 1856 and these are freely website with an online index and a link for making available on microfi lms … somewhere! Try enquiries. Many groups have published the GM 8 at SLV, SRNSW Reels 5001-5048 and headstone transcripts from their local cemetery. the Mitchell Library for the original images. The GSV holds some of these cemetery records, as View transcriptions on Ancestry. Purchasing does the SLV. Check the SRNSW website for more certifi cates for this period might off er details of cemeteries www.records.nsw.gov.au/ convenience but provides no details additional to archives/collections-and-research/guides- the limitations of parish records. and-indexes/cemeteries-burials-guide. Some NSW records are on www.findagrave.com and Beyond this, members of the GSV can type ‘NSW’ searching by surname and New South Wales, into the top search line of the GSV Catalogue Australia (or just Australia) will bring up some and ‘Register’ into the bottom line and see options for your consideration. what’s available. The catalogue contains over 4000 relevant entries. Some local family history Death certifi cates often show if an inquest was groups have produced ‘Pioneer Registers’ which held, but newspaper reports (found by searching are usually properly checked against BMD Trove) are also a good indicator. The SRNSW certifi cates and often helpful. Many parish website provides a guide to accessing Inquest records and cemetery records have also been Reports www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/ transcribed by community groups. The GSV has collections-and-research/guides-and- an excellent collection of these off erings. So does indexes/inquests-coronial-records-guide. the SLV. To access the main set of Probate records held I do NOT recommend using family trees by State Records, type your ancestor’s name downloaded from the internet, especially from followed by the word death into the search space

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 27 immediately under the profi le picture on the 1820-1825 (NRS 1264) www.records.nsw.gov. SRNSW home page. If a Probate Packet exists, au/series/1264 and the Magistrates’ Land & the reference will come up in response. The fi rst Stock Books, 1822-1825 (NRS 1270). page of a relevant will can be viewed on New South Wales Will Books 1800-1952 on fi ndmypast. An Butlin, Cromwell & Suthern’s General Return of additional three SRNSW indexes are searchable Convicts in New South Wales, 1837 was restricted online, categorised as Deceased Estates Index to convicts but provided employer names and 1880-1923, Intestate Estates Index, 1821-1913, and locations. Probate Records Supplementary Index 1790-1875.

GSV ‘How to’ Series ‘How GSV These fi les are only accessible at the Western The 1841 Census of NSW is based on Sydney Reading Room. The Supreme Court of householders and, except for the head of the NSW holds records from 1976 onwards. You may household, does not list family members by name. fi nd your forebear in SRNSW’s Stamp Duties Images and transcripts for 1841 are online at Offi ce Index to Deceased Estate Files, 1859-1958, fi ndmypast. Likewise for the census taken in 1891 online at Ancestry. and 1901, with images and transcripts also online at fi ndmypast. 2. Census Records If your subject was an early settler of NSW, the 3. Shipping Passengers published books containing census and muster There is a jumble of information for free settlers records are indispensable. They cite the original arriving in NSW after 1828. (For convicts, see sources, should you wish to check the data. The next section.) The primary resources listed by publications are held at the SLV. Some of the SRNSW are listed below. original handwritten data is online at Ancestry. • SRNSW Online Indexes to assisted immigrants Check the Census of New South Wales November arriving at Port Phillip 1839-1851 1828 records fi rst, compiled by Keith Johnson & Malcolm Sainty, as these will steer you in the • SRNSW Online Indexes to assisted immigrants right direction as to district of residence, year and arriving at Sydney & Newcastle 1844-1859 ship of arrival, free or convict status. Then work • SRNSW Online Indexes to assisted immigrants through the various musters for earlier years, arriving at Sydney 1860-1879, 1880-1896 publications all edited by Carol J Baxter. • Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants 1828-1843, • Musters and Lists, New South Wales and SRNSW Online Index Norfolk Island, 1800-1802 (Not on Ancestry.) • Index to Unassisted Passengers Arriving • Muster of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1826-1853, SRNSW Reels 1358-1372 (Free 1805-1806. (The main source was HO 10/37, Passengers to NSW 1826-1837 is online at the viewable on Ancestry.) GSV) • General Muster of New South Wales, Norfolk • Index to Unassisted Passenger & Crew Arrivals Island and Van Diemen’s Land, 1811. (The main 1854-1922, online at Mariners and Ships in source was HO 10/5, viewable on Ancestry.) Australian Waters marinersandships.com.au • General Muster of New South Wales, 1814 (Not • Index to ship’s musters, 1816-1825. Passengers on Ancestry.) & crew departing Sydney, on microfi lm at GSV • General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of • Bounty Immigration NSW 1828-1842, on New South Wales, 1822. (The main source was microfi lm at GSV HO 10/36, viewable on Ancestry.) • Misc Assisted Immigrants, 1828-43, SRNSW • General Muster List of New South Wales 1823, Online Index 1824, 1825. (The main source was HO 10/19, • Free Passengers & crew on convict ships into viewable on Ancestry.) Sydney 1830-40, on Microfi che at GSV • SRNSW, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853- For arrivals after 1828, check the Convict Records 1900, NRS 5264 and the Shipping Passenger lists. Some of the SRNSW data is available online, Take care with interpreting the indexed data via Ancestry (Unassisted Immigrant Passenger for the Musters on Ancestry. For example, Paul Lists, 1826-1922) and fi ndmypast, but their Bushell who arrived as a convict in 1790 had a 2½ sources are not necessarily precisely defi ned. An year old son in 1825 and the computer has applied Advanced Search for your family name on the that son’s age to the fi rst date given for Paul, 1790, Trove newspaper website, using the key words of stating Paul’s birth date as c1787. It was 1766. ‘shipping’ and ‘passengers’, often yields results. Some arrivals in NSW are picked up in offi cial Additional helpful information may be found in statistics as they pass through other Australian the Convict Musters, 1816 to 1821, on PRO/AJCP ports, especially Melbourne. Usually a mix of Reels 60-65, the Magistrates’ Population Books every approach will eventually uncover the

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 28 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc date and ship when your forebear arrived. For 5. Military arrivals from 1923, by ship and later by air, see the Researching the military who served in the guidelines published on the National Archives penal colony of NSW is more diffi cult than for website www.naa.gov.au/collection/a-z/ NSW convicts, as serving military were mostly passenger-records.aspx excluded from the musters. Sources include the Colonial Secretary’s Papers, online at Ancestry, 4. Convicts the HRA & HRNSW volumes mentioned earlier, ‘Convicts’ were the men and women transported and Pamela Stratham’s book A Colonial Regiment to Australia. For people facing court within (published Canberra, c1992). Biographical Australia, check the Court records. Database of Australia www.bda-online.org. to’ Series ‘How GSV au, a non-profi t organisation run by genealogical Access to the convict records at the GSV is via researchers in NSW, lists the regiments which Ancestry. Convicts can be included within any of Ancestry’s regular categories. To fi nd the convict databases specifi cally, start from Ancestry’s Home page. In the top menu bar press Search, then select Card Catalog from the drop down menu. By next typing into the keywords ‘Australian Convict Collection’, 34 sources will be picked up (some of which apply to Tasmania and Western Australia). You can read a description of each source by clicking on its link.

For the fi ndmypast holdings, search the A_Z of record sets.

You are lucky if you have a convict, in a sense, as the convict records maintained by the government are so extensive that they were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2007. Successful interpretation of the records requires a great deal of cross- checking. Records cover every aspect of the Image 3: The sandstone inscriptions at the Quarantine Station, North Head system, but not necessarily for every individual tell many stories convict, from the trial to the hulk, the transport ship, the assignment on arrival, through to the ticket-of-leave, pardon, certifi cate of freedom served in Australia. Numerous British Army and the convict’s family. A good summary of Muster Books & Pay Lists are on PRO/AJCP the framework of convict records is on www. reels held at the SLV and some are on Ancestry, records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and- such as British Army Muster Books and Pay research/guides-and-indexes/convicts-guide List, 1812-1817. For the military up to 1810 it’s worth joining NSW Corps, a Closed Group of If the trial was listed as London or Middlesex, researchers on Facebook – www.facebook.com/ a transcript of proceedings can usually be groups/1604046423237215/ found on the Old Bailey Online website www. oldbaileyonline.org. Also search the Family The Australian War Memorial website www. History catalogue of the London Metropolitan awm.gov.au is the best source of information Archives www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things- from the 1860s onwards, and the National to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/ Archives of Australia contains service records for default.aspx for Old Bailey material such as WW1 and WW2 www.naa.gov.au/collection/ Sessions Rolls. For trials held in other places, a-z/researching-war-service.aspx . search the National Archives website www. nationalarchives.gov.uk for criminal trials in This article will be continued in the September the assize courts. British Newspapers sometimes issue of our journal. carried details of trials. Those Irish trials which survive are indexed on the National Archives The article does not deal with researching settlers of Ireland website www.nationalarchives. of NSW who ended up on Norfolk Island from ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/ireland- 1788, in Tasmania from 1803, in Queensland from australia-transportation-records-1791-1853/ 1824 or in Victoria from 1851, all to be covered by others in separate articles. Queensland sources For convicts held on Hulks, check the AJCP were summarised in the December 2017 issue of guides which cover Admiralty Papers and Home Ancestor and Northern Territory sources in the Offi ce No 3 (HO 3). March 2018 issue.

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The Minutiae of Past Lives: the little things that matter

When we start to write our family history we well as sights. By incorporating descriptions of write down ‘the facts’ we have found. These, after their things and places you will create a better all, are the bald truths of our ancestors’ lives. They picture of them. The article ‘Writing about family may be the truth, and we will have made sure they objects’ (Ancestor vol. 31, no.6, June 2013, pp. 38- are ‘nothing but the truth’, but are they the ‘whole 39) may be helpful. truth’? We write partly in an eff ort to understand By Bill Barlow based and appreciate past lives but the bald facts are You can discover local events which you on discussion at the GSV Writers Circle usually not enough. To convey more about the justifi ably believe they experienced. The price of on 7 March 2018. Bill truth of their existence we need to add more of goods, coach fares, the details of a fl ash-fl ood or can be contacted via: the context and this includes the minutiae of their house fi re that occurred in their street, and even [email protected] day-to-day lives. It is not necessary to go to great what the weather was like may be gleaned from length, but describing their belongings, the street newspapers (via Trove). Ray Watson in Castle in which they lived or local events they would have 259 (2016) used two ‘Queen Carnival’ events as experienced will help us get at their truth. As well the central hooks of the story. It is a ‘fact’ that as increasing our understanding, this approach my g-g-grandfather Edward Needham Barlow can enrich our story, making it more interesting arrived in Sydney on 18 November 1840 but using and accessible to readers. This article is about the contemporary Meteorological Reports in the integrating minutiae – small, trivial details – with Sydney Herald I could write: the bare facts of their lives. The days coming up the coast towards the entrance to Port Jackson harbour had been bright with You may have inherited some signifi cant objects scattered wisps of white cloud, blown along in the from your ancestors. A way into their lives could blue sky by a pleasant breeze from the north. The be found by writing about these items. The water smacked against the hull as The Eden beat up supreme example of this approach is probably the coast. As they neared the heads of the harbour Edmund de Waals’ The Hare with Amber Eyes it had become hot and sultry with the temperature (Vintage 2011). He inherited 264 netsuke – small rising to 82 in the early evening. At night the light Japanese carvings – and traced their journey from from Macquarie’s lighthouse near South Head could 1870s Paris through occupied Europe to Tokyo, be seen fl ashing at minute intervals. A terrifi c squall then London in 1995 telling the story of his family blew in from the south and violently rocked the ship and the turbulent times along the way. till past midnight. But having crossed the desolate What sort of details Southern ocean and now, with their destination in sight for the morrow, this was of little concern. There are two sources of minutiae that you should consider: objects and places, and local and Another GSV writer’s ancestor gave evidence in contemporary events. the Old Bailey that, on the night of the 3 November 1792 he was ‘… going through the Piazza one The small objects you have, or which appear evening going to the play’. Her Google inquiry in photographs, formed part of your ancestors’ revealed that on that evening, Covent Garden physical surroundings; things such as a dinner set, presented William Pearce’s Hartford Bridge. an item of furniture or clothing. When facing up to Researching the music, theatre or dance of the era his netsuke, De Waal said he wanted ‘to know what can provide many clues as to the mood of the times. the relationship has been between this wooden object – hard and tricky and Japanese … whose Writing of the details observed in family hands it has been in and what they felt about it … photographs is often better than just reproducing and what it had witnessed.’ A tall order! Details the photograph. about places may include sounds and smells as

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 30 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc General research of everyday processes of Similarly, extra details can be placed in longer the times can illustrate our ancestors’ lives. captions to photographs, often placed in margin it write Getting Medical matters, horses and modes of transport, columns. This is a good way to highlight the ‘facts’ occupations, bushfi res, and local crop successes in the image, without interrupting the main text. and failures can all yield telling details of their existence. Incidentally to his larger research, Quotations - long or short - may be used to add Geoff rey Blainey collected facts about everyday minutiae, or an image of the original newspaper things and domestic processes in Australia 1850s text can be included, as long as it is readable. to 1914. He later collated and published these in Black Kettle and Full Moon (Penguin, 2003). Books Interesting peripheral details may simply such as Ruth Goodman’s How to be a Victorian be added as footnotes – or less accessibly, (Viking, 2013) and Round about a Pound a Week, as endnotes, but only if you think it is very about working class families in Lambeth, 1909- interesting and relevant. Test this by trying to put 1913, by Maud Pember Reeves (Persephone, 2008) it in the main text where the reference occurs. provide useful material. Farming manuals are full Longer supporting detail may best be added as of detail, as are guides for intending emigrants. an appendix, but limitations of book length often Diaries and contemporary writing can convey determine that this material should be integrated the shared mood at the time; famine in Ireland, or rejected. incarceration in prison hulks. Max Beck, in A Diff erent Earth researched the minutiae of lives Considerations when adding minutiae and described his process in ‘Getting it Write’ in First we must decide on the truthfulness of the Ancestor vol. 32, no. 3, Sept 2014, pp. 38-39. minutiae. Not so much in themselves, but whether these details are truthful to our particular Ways to incorporate minutiae subjects. Be careful not to impute general There are many ways minutiae can be used situations to our individual ancestors, who may in your writing. As in Hare with Amber Eyes, not have shared the experiences of others around minutiae can be the driving force of the narrative, them. Assess the balance of probabilities and but generally details support the family story. allow for exceptions. Weaving them into the telling is the best way of incorporating minutiae. This forces you to assess Are the supporting details worked into the the relevance of this information to your subject. narrative in an organic way? The story should fl ow Everything is interesting, but it cannot all go in and not hit an abrupt block of ‘interesting’ facts. your story. Do the asides swamp the story? We can be Alternatively you could place supporting detail sidetracked by the fascinating details we have in a box – an aside to the main text. Sometimes discovered, so a balance is needed. minutiae are sub-stories, free-standing verbal descriptions of events, processes or objects. Boxed information that forces the reader to fi nd ‘Boxing’ is used to fence off sub-stories, allowing the main text a page or more further on is too the reader to choose whether to read it or follow intrusive. Edit it or relocate to an appendix. the main storyline. In this way background information can be included without interrupting There are very few family history researchers the fl ow of the story. Martin Playne’s Two who have not been seduced or sidetracked by Squatters (2013) provides many examples of this interesting minutiae. Reading newspapers in technique. Trove has elevated this to an everyday pastime. As writers we should remind ourselves that ‘less is more’, but it is just as true, and more fascinating, that ‘the devil is in the detail’. And anyway, as Minutia Pl. -iae 1751. {L. minutia smallness, a researcher and writer, minutiae are fun. Just pl. minutiae, trifl es, f. minutus MINUTE a.} make sure they are for the reader also. A precise detail; a trivial matter or object. Usu. pl. OED.

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Finding Places in Victoria

Understanding the social context and physical • Zada, Susie. Place Names in Vic BDM Indexes. environment in which your ancestors lived plays Here Susie demonstrates how to take some a pivotal part in your family history. So let’s look of the guesswork out of the abbreviated place at what’s around to assist you fi nd that place in names used in Victorian BDM indexes. This Victoria. process works best with entries prior to c1964 zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/thisthat/ Town abbreviations in Victoria’s Birth, vicbdmind Death & Marriage Indexes Vital records are where you start looking for • Parker, Steve. Victorian BDM place name ancestors as this provides not only birth, death abbreviations list. This website provides a and marriage information but it’s the fi rst step detailed list of abbreviation so at least you can towards locating their residence. As the index see all the possibilities abbreviates place names, working out these bdmabbreviations.steveparker.id.au abbreviations requires caution, as it is so easy to be misled. For instance in Ancestry’s collection Locating the street address Australia, Birth Index 1788-1922, they have made Electoral Rolls include addresses of adult family an eff ort to replace the abbreviations with the full members. Ancestry has an excellent collection place name. However errors can occur with this in their Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980 and procedure because this collection is an index of this includes the 1856 roll for Victoria (limited, an index and it has not been derived from original land owners & no women). Be aware that some records. Here are a number of examples of errors of these records have been manually indexed made by Ancestry in the records of the Corney and some have been derived using OCR (Optical family: Character Recognition). Do check their ‘Browse this collection’ so you know the exact coverage Robert Nicholson Corney – Birth Warracknabeal, as there are gaps. Findmypast for Victoria covers Victoria 1870 1939 & 1946 (these years are not on Ancestry) Elizabeth Mary E Corney – Birth Warracknabeal, while the GSV’s Genealogical Index of Names Victoria Abt 1849 (GIN) has some very early rolls eg.1876 & 1851, Eliza Anna Maria Corney – Birth Warracknabeal, plus some local government rolls and will be Victoria Abt 1849 adding more soon. The State Library of Victoria has a very helpful guide to the electoral rolls at On viewing the original birth certifi cates for the guides.slv.vic.gov.au/victorianancestors/ above people, it is apparent that they were all born electoral in Warrnambool. Directories provide addresses of when and M Corney – Birth Castlemaine, Casterton, where a person lived or operated a business. The Victoria 1865 – At least this one provides you with GSV has a good collection of directories ranging two options. The original record has Casterton. from 1839 to about 1930. Check our catalogue as their format varies – it includes microfi che, paper, There are a couple of sources on the internet internet and digital records. Some of these have that may provide you with a clue to these been indexed in GSV’s GIN. abbreviations. They are often the fi rst four letters of the place name.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 32 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Sands & McDougall directories are a great • Blake, Leslie J. Place names of Victoria. Corner Research resource publishing from 1857 to 1903 covering Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. Melbourne and suburbs, and then from 1904 • Billis, R.V. and A.S. Kenyon. Pastoral pioneers of to 1974 covering the whole of Victoria. Many Port Phillip. Lists pastoral licensees of the Port digitized copies are available here at the GSV. Phillip district and runs occupied from 1834- The State Library has digitized copies on the 1951. internet from 1900 to 1945 (one every 5 years). • Watson, Angus B. Lost & almost forgotten towns The University of Melbourne has digitized of colonial Victoria: a comprehensive analysis of these directories from 1857 to 1880. Ancestry is census results for Victoria 1841-1901. [Vic]: A B using OCR to make available their collection of Watson and A MacMillan, 2003. directories ranging from 1860 to 1942 including Wise’s and Sands & MacDougall. These are A word of warning, your ancestor’s address in available in the card catalogue collection these rolls may still need further investigation. Australia: City Directories 1845-1948. Again, This is illustrated in the following example. use the ‘Browse this Collection’ to see what’s available. Findmypast also has a collection of 1. Commonwealth electoral roll for Victoria 1924 directories.

Rate books usually contain the names of the property owner, the occupier including their occupation, address, date, description of property and rate assessed. The GSV has some very early rate books and a number have been indexed in GIN including the City of Richmond rate ledgers 1857-1981 and Seymour rate ledger. Ancestry has a large collection in their Victoria, Australia, Rate Books, 1855-1963 including Camberwell and Waverley, Australia, Rate Books 1857-1927. Use the browse facility to see the details.

Maps & Gazetteers 2. Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne and suburban Gazetteers are another useful resource; they directory. 1925. Melbourne: Sands & McDougal. contain an index of names of places, usually with some extra information. Search in GSV’s catalogue using the terms Vic* Gazetteer*.

Some recommendations: • Alphabetical lists of townships proclaimed under the land acts showing the parish, the land district and the municipality in the State of Victoria. Melbourne, Vic.: Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey 1955 • Bailliere’s Victorian gazetteer and road guide 1865, 1870 & 1879. These publications can provide information about unusual and forgotten places.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 33 Jottings... and library news Linley Hooper, FGSV Jottings Cate Pearce completes her excellent introductory series on If your ancestor was a British prisoner in the 19th century, DNA testing with ‘Who’s your ancient Mama? Exploring you should read ‘Derby Gaol in 1812’ which describes the mitochondrial tests’ in the Western Ancestor 14:1 (Mar conditions at that time and compares it with Dorchester 2018). – see Derbyshire FHS 163 (Dec 2017). For full details you can view James Neald’s State of the Prisons in England, New releases from PROV include capital sentence and Scotland & Wales via www.archive.org. This issue criminal fi les, male prison registers, divorce case fi les and of Derbyshire FHS also has an interesting article on cause books from 1942 as well as children’s court registers ‘Alehouses’ with applications for licences in the 17th and from 1917 and birth registers from 1911-1918 among others. early 18th century.

Descent: the journal of the Society of Australian The Cleveland FHS Journal 13:9 (Jan 2018) includes Genealogists has a new look and the March 2018 issue a good article on English marriage banns, licences and (46:1) contains a useful article ‘3 tips for FamilySearch’ and allegations. a reminder about the free webinars provided by the NSW State Archives & Records. It’s good to see Dorset has been added to our South West England discussion circle (SWERD), so remember that The South Australian Genealogist 45:1 (Feb 2018) has there are two Societies publishing family history journals a well-researched story about Sir Walter Watson Hughes covering Dorset. The Greenwood Tree from the Somerset (the developer of the Copper Triangle and benefactor to the & Dorset FHS, runs an excellent series which spotlights Adelaide University), proving published stories about him a parish from each county every issue. The Dec 2017 are incorrect. magazine features Burrington in Somerset and Stalbridge in Dorset. Irish news The IGRS newsletter reports that the Dublin Evening David T Hawkins writes in The Greenwood Tree 42:4 Telegraph for 1871-1924 has been added to the British (Dec 2017) about Letters of Administration (for intestate Newspaper Archive (free in the GSV library). Irish Roots estates) for Devon & Somerset. He has persuaded the 105 (2018) features ‘Tracing your Off aly/Laois ancestors.’ National Archives (TNA) to add the details of the records lost in WWII from the Internal Revenue records, but it will The West Cork graveyards database now contains 17 be at least a year before they are available online. burial registers online skibbheritage.com/graveyards. It includes Caheragh, Drimoleague, Drinagh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Herefordienses 13: 6 (Jul 2017) has an excellent Aughadown as well as Abbeymahon and Chapel Lane ‘Introduction to Post Medieval Deeds’ by Clare O’Grady. Graveyards in Skibbereen. Root & Branch 44:3 (Dec 2017) in ‘a note re the baptisms Photographs from county Cavan graveyards: St Mogue’s of St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey’ reminds us to not Island, Gallon Killinkere, Drumgoon Hill & Castlerahan, assume birth and baptism dates are necessarily close. are now online at www.historicgraves.com. Shane There are lots of misconceptions about Commons and Wilson’s website provides many useful tools for Irish Enclosures, read ‘A Common Existence’ in the Berkshire research including his census image browse and BDM Family Historian 41 (Sep 2017). registers tools to allow you to browse the images on the offi cial websites. See www.swilson.info. The Sussex Family Historian 23:1 (Mar 218) in ‘500 years of secret lives’ tells the story of a house built c1473 Scotland and its residents. Glamorgan FHS journal 129 (Mar Ecclegen (ecclegen.com/general-index-introduction) 2018) features ‘The Old Poor Law in Wales’. ‘Keelhauling’ now provides an index to all known Scottish Presbyterian in The Banyan Tree 153 (Feb 2018) describes the barbaric ministers (about 24,000) taken from Fasti Ecclesiae procedure which was still in use in 1882. Scoticanae v. 1-8, and the various annals, etc., of the Free and United Church clergy. The Flowing Stream 39:1 (Spring 2018) reports on the London Group of Yorkshire Family History Societies’ ‘Inverness cholera epidemics’ makes interesting reading in meeting where John Hanson provided a concise answer to the Highland FHS Journal 36:2 (Feb 2018) all your questions about English wills.

England & UK ‘Dating dress in old family photographs’ by Jayne The New Zealand Genealogist 359 (Feb 2018) provides a Shrimpton in The Essex Family Historian 164 (Mar useful chart on the English & Welsh GRO indexes: ‘How to 2018) provides an overview of this popular topic. We also … use birth, death and marriage databases: a comparison’. have more detailed books in our library.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 34 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Blogging with Meg Meg Bate Blogging FindMyPast smuggles out birth and marriage Influence of Scotland on the world emigration records by John Grenham by Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online Service https://www.johngrenham.com/blog/2018/03/26/ http://statacc.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2018/02/06/ findmypast-smuggles-out-birth-and-marriage- influence-of-scotland-on-the-world-emigration/ records. An interesting article refl ecting on the reasons and John’s blog always has useful information for those eff ects of Scottish emigration, using as illustrations of us who have Irish ancestors. Here he clarifi es ‘the quotes from the ‘The “old” and “new” Statistical great mosaic of online transcripts of what purport Accounts of Scotland.’ to be the same records’. So what are the diff erences between National Library microfi lms transcriptions on How Hashtags Can Help Your Genealogy IrishGenealogy.ie, Ancestry.com and FindMyPast.ie ? by Amy Johnson Crow https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/how- IGRS adds 11,000 entries to its Early Irish BMD hashtags-can-help-your-genealogy/ by Claire Santry https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2018/03/ You may have some knowledge of the hashtag but if igrs-adds-11000-entries-to-its-early.html you are a social media user then I recommend you to read this blog to see how this simple tag can make your Here the Irish Genealogical Society’s Early Irish Birth, content more meaningful. Marriage and Death Indexes latest update is described. This update includes death entries from newspapers Managed vs. Referenced Files: Which is Better? published between 1740 and 1810 and it is a valuable by Caroline Guntur addition when you consider that civil registration of https://www.organizingphotos.net/managed-vs- deaths didn’t begin in Ireland until 1864. It is also referenced-files/ worth remembering the work that Genealogical Societies do producing indexes. Such indexes should Most of us have lots of digitized photos and here not be overlooked by researchers. Caroline is reviewing how best to organize them. One way is using ‘reference’ fi les. These are fi les that Dutch Genealogy News for March 2018 stand on their own. They live independently of any by Yvette Hoitink software in your operating system and you can easily https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/dutch-genealogy- access them either through your Finder (Mac), your news-for-february-2018/ File Explorer (Windows). Alternatively you can use a managed fi le, that is a fi le that’s being controlled by a If you are into Dutch genealogy you will fi nd this blog software program. interesting. In fact each month Yvette reviews the new Dutch resources from projects, and archives. Also if Evernote for Digitizing Genealogy Records you are struggling with working out the gender of a by Jennnfer.Dondero Dutch name then you may also fi nd her Quick Tip – Is http://www.theoccasionalgenealogist. that Dutch Name Male or Female? interesting. See com/2017/12/evernote-smartphone-genealogy. https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/is-that-dutch- html name-male-or-female Jennifer explains how a genealogist can use the Three branch tree: Genetic Genealogy with Evernote camera. This camera is available within the Misattributed Paternity Evernote app. So when the repository doesn’t give by Laurie Pratt you an easy way to obtain a digital copy then use this https://threebranchtree.com/2017/02/26/ Evernote option. Once imaged you can fi le them and working_william/ fi nd them again.

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GSV Writers Circle

Around the Groups Around International Settlers Group (non-British research) Meetings : First Wednesday each month, (except January) 12.30 till 1.30pm – GSV Research & Education Centre Meeting: Saturday, 18 August 2018, 1pm 6 June Annual General Meeting Review of Members’ submissions Carole Czermak, Truth Records – Philatelic 4 July Genealogy, Government and Private Records, Discussion: Dealing with the Confl ict Global Records, Immigration Records, True Data between creating a complete record and and Fake Data writing a non-boring family history 1 August Review of Members’ submissions Meeting Room, GSV Research & Education Centre 5 September Discussion: Integrating local and national history into the story of our family Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) 1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct.

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Scottish Ancestry Group IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP

Quarterly meeting Saturday 16 June 2018 Next Meeting : Saturday 11 August 2018 Topic: More Scottish Internet Resources GSV Research & Education Centre Six fi fteen minute segments by multiple speakers covering: 1.00pm — Discussion topic: Co. Westmeath County Archives – Perth, Dundee and Haddington ScotlandsPlaces web site 2.00pm — Speaker: Jill Blee, St Andrews University Archives author & researcher Scottish photographers – dating photographs Jill will discuss her research for her books The National Archives of the United Kingdom Bridget and The Liberator’s Birthday Scottish Architects Saturday 15 September 2018 Visitors welcome Annual General Meeting Bring your lunch and have a chat. Also bring Speaker: Joy Roy your mobile phone to gain access to the building Ordinary Lives – Scottish History – How history has (9662 4455) impacted on the lives of our Scottish ancestors. General meetings held on second Saturday of February, May, August and November in GSV meeting room. Quarterly Meetings Yearly subscription due on 1 Sept each year is $11.00. 1.00pm to 3.00pm, 3rd Sat. of March, June, September Newsletter Blarney published quarterly. and fourth Sat. of November Beginners’ Kits and Griffi ths Valuation Kits available GSV Research & Education Centre at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact ¢ Enquiries: www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag [email protected]

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 36 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Book Reviews Reviews by Martin Playne, Jenny Redmond, Sue Blackwood, Margaret Vines

1 2 3 4 5 Book Reviews

1. Up came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839-1880 Catholic schools. Her devotion to family extended to the next Author: Maggie Black 318pp ISBN: 9781742235066 generation, nurturing them emotionally and intellectually while Publ.: New South Publishing and State Library of Victoria, 2016 sharing with them her love of literature. Aggie was clearly a private somewhat stoic person. She is recognizable to many of us in that Raised in Argyllshire in Scotland, Niel Black came to Australia her family was her fi rst priority at all times and her impact has at the age of 35. He had been a stock-breeder. He arrived with lasted through generations. She loved the ‘sound of the sea’ but access to capital and staff with the express purpose of fi nding chose to live inland in order to support her family. new land and setting up a grazing empire in Western Victoria. He was attracted by Major Mitchell’s descriptions of ‘Australia Felix’. In this biography Niall describes the lives of women of a ‘certain This book is a full account of his life based largely on the extensive class’ in late 19th and early 20th century Australia. Women correspondence and diaries donated by his family to the SLV. who were intelligent, independent and educated but who were Maggie Black writes in a leisurely style, which suits the subject constrained by pressures of family and prevailing views on what matter well, giving the reader a wonderful idea of this man – his constituted appropriate interests and activities. Niall’s personal persistence, patience and discipline. She describes his exhaustive story of her grandmother is very moving, and enjoyable reading. It search for suitable land, his struggle fi rst to obtain grazing rights, is also thought provoking both in content and also in style, where to establish boundaries, and then later to face the frustration the motifs of Aggie’s wooden box and the sound of the sea give it of purchasing Crown Land with strong competition. This gives unity. I would recommend it to all those aspiring to write a history readers a realistic feel for the land battles that occurred and of their family and especially of grandmothers. JR which are described in much detail. The author suggests that he 4. Unlock the Past Handy Guides became obsessive in his desire to consolidate a large holding, build a substantial house and a residence in Melbourne. He eventually A new series. All Pub: St Agnes SA 2017 as A4 foldout cards 4pp. achieved his goal to become leading member of Victorian society. Also available as ebooks. In GSV library He was nearly brought down by a protracted dispute with his GEDmatch business partners and fi nanciers in Scotland. I enjoyed the book. Author: Farmer, Kerry ISBN/ISSN: 9781925323832 Rarely does one read such a detailed account of how life was for the This is described as a tool in genealogical research. This website early land-holders. MJP describes how to add raw data to a large database that provides 2. Men of Yesterday: a Social History of the Western District further analysis of DNA. This provides location information for of Victoria, 1834-1890 DNA inherited from particular ancestors. Instructions for fi le uploads and a glossary are included. SB Author: Margaret Kiddle 573 pp ISBN: 0522842089 Publ.: Melbourne University Press, 1961 Civil registration in Germany Author: Kopittke, Eric ISBN/ISSN: 9781925323795 Back in the 1950s, Margaret Kiddle wrote this marvellous comprehensive history of the western district of Victoria from the Civil registration was fi rst introduced into German speaking States earliest times of white settlement. Her history of early explorers, in 1792, but it took the next one hundred years for registration the fi rst white settlers, and of the factors aff ecting their behaviour to spread throughout the German Empire. Births and deaths towards Aboriginal people and towards government actions are required to be registered within a few days of the event, but and offi cialdom is superb. She also gives a detailed account of marriages require a two-step procedure. All records are kept the gradual but unpredictable process of land settlement in the within a local registry. The guide has images of certifi cates as well 1800s. Maggie Black in her recent book on Niel Black would have as advice on obtaining them, and suggests search engines for the depended heavily on this classic tome. With a wider canvas than websites for the Civil Registry Offi ces. SB Maggie Black, Kiddle adds a dimension, allowing readers to better 5. Idle thoughts of Silky Oak: poems of Frank William understand the motivations that made men like Niel Black behave Singleton of Swan Hill as they did. Kiddle is certainly still compulsory reading for anyone interested in the early history of the colony of Victoria. Readers Author: Pat Gillingham et al 172 pp In GSV library might also like to read a Master’s thesis by Michael Sturmfels Pub: Elliottprint, Kerang Vic., 2017 held in the GSV Library [What Kiddle forgot: a social history of the This book is a collection of poems published in newspapers – Mount Elephant District of Western Victoria, 1860-1888]. This principally the Swan Hill Guardian between 1940 and 1949, with deals with the workers rather than the squatters. MJP additional items from 1912 and others ‘Date unknown’. 3. Can you hear the Sea? It is an interesting and appropriate memorial to an ancestor who wrote to appear in print, but did so anonymously under the pen Author: Brenda Niall 276pp ISBN 9781925498790 name of ‘Silky Oak’ and is a combination of family history and local Pub: Text Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, 2017 Swan Hill history. Subtitled ‘My Grandmother’s Story’, the celebrated biographer The structure of the poems echoes popular poets like Lawson, Brenda Niall has written the story of her Irish but Liverpool born, Patterson and CJ Denis and occasionally popular songs. The topics grandmother, Agnes Jane (‘Aggie’) Maguire. Niall traces Aggie’s range from local aff airs like football, fi shing, garbage cans and stray life in Australia, fi rst as a young country schoolteacher then as dogs, to WW2, following in detail the Australian troops in combat the wife of a Riverina grazier (Richard Gorman) and mother of and acknowledging the home front with its rationing and blackout. four children. Following the unexpected and quite shocking death It is an interesting insight into the mind of a country man in his 60s of Richard, Aggie moved to Melbourne where she continued to throughout WW2 – patriotic, highly conservative, religious, and provide for her family as a single parent. Life may have been ‘British Still’.MV somewhat austere but the children were educated at the best

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Geelong Family History Group Inc. The Scots are Coming to Leongatha Our monthly meetings are held on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 pm. They are in the superbly equipped The South Gippsland Genealogical Society in meeting room at the Belmont Library, High Street, conjunction with Scottish Ancestry Group of the Member Societies Belmont in Geelong, and there is plenty of free off- Genealogical Society of Victoria are pleased to present street parking beside the library. We have a terrific program of speakers through to at The Scottish Roadshow 2018 least the middle of 2019. When: Saturday 23 June 2018 Visitors are always welcome, but bookings are Time: 9.30am for 10.00am start essential for our meeting this July – a live webinar Where: Uniting Church Hall, Peart Street, featuring Louise Coakley and Heather Cox – DNA Leongatha 3953 Testing for Family History: Basics & Examples. Topics: Further details: 1. Beginning Scottish Family History ¢geelongfhg.com or 2. Scotlands People ¢[email protected] 3. Statistical Accounts of Scotland 4. Scottish Land and Inheritance. Please put this date in your diary and join us for a wonderful day. Cost: $35.00. Includes lunch, morning and Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc afternoon tea. Saturday: 14 July, 2.00pm For further information contact: Topic: The Mysterious Henry Elgar and his ¢[email protected] Crown Special survey. JAlison: 56681860 Speaker: Bob Kerr Saturday: 8 Sept, 2.00pm Topic: The Reverend Adam Compton Thomson, Minister of St James during the 1840s. Speaker: Professor Peter Sherlock Venue: Wesley Hall, St Andrew’s Uniting Church Cnr Burke and Malven Rds, Gardiner Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2 Wodonga Family History Society Inc. Afternoon Tea provided. Meetings held 3rd Tuesday each month, Enquiries: 11.00am Wodonga Library. JClare 03 9578 3654 Jun Denise Osborne: Jindera 150yr anniversary ¢ www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au Jul Suzie Zada: Australian Wills & Probate Indexes Aug Jenny Higgins, HAGSOC. Digging into Trove. Sep Member: Find a grave website. Members brick walls For further information: Sale and District Family History Group ¢www.wodongafamilyhistory.org ¢[email protected] Sale and District Family History Group was formed in J 1986 and is located in the historic Temperance Hall in 02 6056 3220 Macalister St. Sale. Rooms open to the public Tuesdays between 1pm and 4pm and Fridays 10am till 4pm. Meetings are held on the second Monday of each month. Contacts: Ç PO Box 773 Sale VIC 3850 J0428 411 603 ¢email [email protected] or NEED HELP WITH ¢ find us on Facebook YOUR RESEARCH?

The GSV Research Team can assist with a variety of services to suit all research problems including: Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc • Free 30min eResearch requests for GSV members Talk: Aspects of Land Records • Special Consultations Speakers: Dr Joan Hunt and Susie Zada • Extended Research requests in hourly sessions Saturday August 25, 10am-4pm • Transcription and Translation Services Contact: Secretary Tricia McLay See p43 for further details of the Research Services J 0408 054 537 available or visit our website www.gsv.org.au

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 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) Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 JHistorical Museum 03 5258 2511 ¢ Ararat Genealogical Society Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc www.queenscliffe-history.org Ç PO Box 361, Ararat VIC 3377 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs Ç Lwr Lvl, Richmond Library, ¢ [email protected] ¢ [email protected] 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121

J Member Societies Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc Kerang & District Family History Group Inc 03 9428 6231 Ç ¢ PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 Sale & District Family History Group Inc ¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh ÇPO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group J Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc Heather Pocknall 0428 411 603 Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 Shepparton Family History Group Inc J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 J Jennifer Cole 03 5852 2842 ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632 Benalla Family Research Group Inc ¢ [email protected] JGarry Wallden 03 5828 3236 Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh J Bill Willett 03 5762 8803 Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc ¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org ÇPO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909 South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc J 03 5155 3843 ÇPO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953 Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc  ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 Mansfield Family History Group Inc ¢ https://brgsbendigo.weebly.com JSheena Daykin 03 5775 1659 Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc Ç PO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939 The Clan Grant Society (Australia) ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.com  JAnnette Buckland 0402 858 878 Ç351 High Street, Templestowe Lower 3107 Maryborough Family History Group Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs JBrian Noble 0410 485 821 (9am–6pm) ÇPO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 ¢ [email protected] JJudith Healey 03 5464 2601 Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc Clan MacMillan Society of Australia ¢www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 ÇPO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380 ¢ ¢www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au [email protected] Melton Family History Group Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 Sunbury Family History Society Inc Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 ÇPO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429 Ç 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 ¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org JWilliam Wilson 03 9744 4478 J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc Cobram Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840 Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 Ç PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585 ¢[email protected]  J Barbara Coleman 03 5872 1729 J Lyn Cunningham 03 5032 2840  ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs  Colac & District Family History Group Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 Terang & District Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 J Colac History Centre 03 5231 5736 ÇPO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264 JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au JJoyce Holmes 03 5592 2264 ¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc ¢[email protected] Ç PO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc Toora & District Family History Group Inc J Ç PO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805 Val Hardman 03 5881 3980  ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962 ¢ J Lynne Bradley 03 8787 5558 http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg  ¢http://toora.org/ Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria Inc ¢http://nwfhg.org.au Victorian GUM Inc ÇPO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 397, Collins Street West ¢www.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc ÇPO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 Melbourne VIC 8007 J East Gippsland Family History Group Inc Lyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 JOffice 03 9078 4738 Ç ¢ PO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 [email protected] ¢www.vicgum.asn.au JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr ¢www.egfhg.org.au Wangaratta Family History Society Inc ÇBox 131, Ouyen VIC 3490 ÇPO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676 Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc ¢http://ouyen.vic.au/history JVal Brennan 03 5727 6229 ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 ¢www.wfhs.org.au JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593 Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society Inc Ç PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc J Bob Hayes 0419 582 175 Ç Geelong Family History Group Inc PO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820 ¢ [email protected] J Barbara Clayton 03 5611 3871 ÇPO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220  ¢ http://westgippslandgenealogy.com JJohn Stewart 03 5261 2259 Port Fairy Genealogical Society Inc  ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist ÇPO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284 Wimmera Association for Genealogy Inc Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc JIan Perry 0447 265 759 ÇPO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402 ¢ ÇPO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437 [email protected] JKen Flack 03 5382 4453 ¢ JTricia McLay 0408 054 537 Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg ¢ www.ggg.org.au ÇC/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 Wodonga Family History Society Inc Hamilton History Centre Inc JMarilla James 03 9500 8118 ÇPO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689 ÇPO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300 ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au JWendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220 J History Centre 03 5572 4933 ¢http://wodongafamilyhistory.org  Portland Family History Society Inc ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist ÇPO Box 409 Portland VIC 3350 Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc Heyfield Family History Group JAnne Grant 03 5522 2266 Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995 Ç PO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858 ¢[email protected] J03 5672 3803 J03 5148 2100 ¢[email protected] ¢ [email protected] Prahan Mechanics Institute Ç 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran VIC 3181 Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc Hotham History Project Inc Ç J03 9510 3393 PO Box 52, Yarrawonga VIC 3730 ÇC/- North Melbourne Library J ¢www.pmi.net.au Jan Parker 03 5744 1460 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 ¢www.yarrawongafamilyhistorygroupinc.com JMary Kehoe 03 9329 5814 ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.au Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © 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 We are now accepting entries for the 2018 Victorian exhibition on display at the Victorian Archives Community History Awards. Run in partnership Centre gallery until September. The exhibition with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the features a selection of photographs from the Awards celebrate people and groups dedicated State’s archival collection of major capital to telling the stories of Victoria’s varied history. projects that have pushed our city’s architectural Categories include: boundaries. From the metro city loop to those • Victorian Premier’s History Award infamous housing commission fl ats, fi nd out more about these important projects which are now • Collaborative Community History Project taken for granted. Complementing these historic • Local History Project photographs are stunning shots of contemporary • History Publication urban design submitted by some of Melbourne’s top • Local History – Small Publication street photographers. • Cultural Diversity Project This exhibition was launched as part of Melbourne • Multimedia History Project Design Week 2018, an initiative by Creative • Historical Interpretation Victoria in partnership with NGV. • Centenary of WW1 • History Article (Peer-Reviewed) Open House Open House Melbourne runs a program of talks, Download the entry form via prov.vic.gov.au or tours, workshops, interviews, and special programs historyvictoria.org.au. Entries close 2pm Friday exploring the issues, challenges, and success stories 20 July 2018. of Victoria’s built environment. At the heart of the annual program is the Open House weekend where people visit signifi cant buildings and sites across the city to learn how the built environment and urban planning initiatives and issues infl uence our culture and shape our future. We will again be running pre-booked archive tours at the Victorian Archives Centre as part of the Weekend on Saturday 28 July. For bookings and further info visit openhousemelbourne.org.

Ballarat maps and plans Do you use Ballarat maps and plans for your research? We have good news for researchers. Ballarat physical maps and plans are scheduled for digitisation commencing early May 2018 at the Victorian Archive Centre in North Melbourne. While the maps and plans are being digitised we are also undertaking some much-needed archival documentation work supporting the collection. While these records are being digitised they will be unavailable to order, so if you require a map or plan Image 1: A tour of the archives as part of last year’s Open House. from the collection during this time, please speak to our Ballarat reading room staff .

Beyond Bluestone photographic PROV blog exhibition For more news from the archives be sure to keep Beyond Bluestone: Bending Melbourne’s your eye on our blog: prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/ Architectural Boundaries is a new photographic our-blog. 

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 40 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Royal Historical Society of Victoria For more information, visit http://www.historyvictoria.org.au From Selina Heeps, RHSV volunteer

RHSV Family Histories Collection

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria has a has tales ranging from substantial Family Histories Collection with over great immigration from 500 books and even more items in the vertical places of crisis and fi ling cabinets. My role has been to go through countries from the other the libraries section of the family histories and to side of the world, to update the records to the improved description humble little beginnings policy of the RHSV. in small towns that turn into success stories The RHSV is doing amazing work with Family which still are a pride Histories Collection, and I have had a fi rst-hand to the families to which look at the secret gems that are hiding in it. The they belong. collaboration between Christine Worthington (Collection Manager) and the volunteers working One of the families on the collection has been instrumental in the who has shared their development of the new policies and procedure. story with us is the Pett family. James Pett (the The new policies make the online records more youngest son) and his user friendly for the public and make it easier to family immigrated from fi nd specifi c resources online and on the shelves. England. James’ story is told by his great- great grand-daughter, Implementing standardised subject headings, Jeanette Felini, in ensuring accurate physical descriptions, updating response to a call by the card catalogue abbreviations, and implementing the RHSV in 1956 for a barcode system for new acquisitions. The students to put onto revamping does not stop at the online catalogue. paper their knowledge How we organise the family history books on the about an ancestor in shelves in the library has been reimagined and is their life. Jeanette currently being implemented. The new system writes: Image 1: James Pett in his uniform in St Kilda is to protect delicate resources and to have a RHSV reference P-668.001 standardised spine label system emphasising “My great great the individual family and not the location. These grandfather whose updates are going to allow our patrons to access the name was James Pett arrived at Geelong in 1848, they family histories collection with ease and allow the had to bring a bag of fl our from England to start them diamonds in the rough to shine. with food. They had a store there where they took gold for payment of goods they sold, often a couple of years they went to St Kilda and chartered a boat out In other news, the RHSV has started a new from England with goods and building materials from initiative called the Cabinet of Curiosities. This which they built their home and store in St Kilda. attractive glass cabinet, situated in the library, My great grandfather went to a boy’s schools, named highlight parts of the RHSV’s collection that might ‘Dicks Commercial School’…” (Quoted from object go unseen by the general public. Recent exhibitions number: MS 001381) have featured items relating to Christmas, postcards and menus. For National Family History We also have photographs of James and his family in Month, the Family Histories Collection will be the collection which enrich the Pett family’s story. taking over the cabinet. Putting the spotlight on family histories will be a great way to show some of what the RHSV has in the shelves and cabinets, I feel honoured to have been able to work so and the stories of the families who document their intimately with the Family Histories Collection at personal history. As I have been going through the RHSV. I hope that you will be able to pop by and each book of the collection I have been noting see the Cabinet of Curiosities and other exhibitions, down extraordinary stories to remember to put and to take advantage of GSV members’ free access them in the upcoming exhibition. Our collection to RHSV library and manuscripts collections.

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 41 The Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 A bout the GSV Genealogical Australia Society of Web www.gsv.org.au Email [email protected] Membership Options A$ Phone 03 9662 4455 Victoria Inc Joining fee (Australia/international) 18.00/18.00

About the GSV About Annual Membership Why become a member of the GSV? One person (Australia/international) 96.00/114.00 Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular Two, same address (Australia/international) 145.00/163.00 pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a Three, same address(Australia/international) 194.00/212.00 leading Australian family history society for the study of Extra Member 48.00 genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their 18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 48.00 ancestors. Ancestor only We welcome you to join us and Australia (no joining fee) 70 .00 International (no joining fee) 90.00 discover a world of family history. Member Societies 121.00 We provide advice and expertise along with a reference library containing extensive records for Victoria, Australia, Day Visitor New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as many Full day with free Library access *20.00 collections from other countries. * Fee rebatable against membership fee, within 14 days. Courses, classes, discussion circles, presentations and seminars are held regularly. See pages 45 to 48 for all the upcoming events. Library Hours Monday 1.00pm — 4.00pm Our online members area features searchable databases and Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm an ever-increasing library catalogue. O ffi ce Hours Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pm Membership Benefi ts Saturday Closed • Access to a team of friendly volunteer research Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday assistants trained to help you with library resources • Access to our comprehensive library collection of indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources Patron • F r e e library access to commercial databases including: The Honourable Linda Dessau, AC Ancestry, findmypast, TheGenealogist, and British Governor of Victoria Newspaper Archive • Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor Honorary Offi ce Bearers and Councillors President David Down • F r e e publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in Ancestor (one per year) Treasurer Stephen Hawke Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV • Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections, including the library catalogue, the Genealogical Index of Council Janne Bonnett Names (GIN), cemeteries database, all of which usually Erna Cameron include additional information for members Lorna Elms • Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, Robert Gribben New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting point for newcomers to genealogy Peter Johnston Leonie Loveday • Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members, if you cannot visit the library Margaret McLaren Jenny Redman •A of up to two hours for free annual research query Michael Rumpff members residing more than 100km from Melbourne Penny Wolf • Discounts on our publications, services and events (not sale items) Staff • Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV societies (conditions apply) Assistant Library Manager Meg Bate • Ancestral Interest Groups and Discussion Circles Offi ce Administrator Linda Farrow • GSV Talks and Classes: (see pages 45 to 48)

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

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

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Our sister organisation in Melbourne, the AIGS, has re- History Week Victoria badged itself as Family History Connections. It has a new The 11th Annual History Week Victoria will be held from website - www.familyhistoryconnections.org.au 7 to 14 October 2018. See www.historyweek.org.au to register an event you are holding and to view the program as Our new Discussion Circles within the GSV are attracting it develops. great interest with their inaugural meetings fully booked. The new circles are: London and British India. Further Coober Pedy Historical Society circles are in the process of formation. The CPHS actively exhibits collection materials with a permanent display at the Council Visitor Information The NSW & ACT Association of Family History Centre and temporary exhibitions throughout the year. A Societies holds an annual conference at various locations display about Minnie Berrington (a woman opal miner throughout NSW and the next one will be held at Bateman’s in Coober Pedy) was held at the Gem Trade Show during Bay Soldier’s Club from 14 to 16 September 2018. All the Easter and other displays will be held at the Opal Festival in details, including a comprehensive program will be found on June and the Coober Pedy races later in the year. The Society their website http://www.sailingintohistory.org.au/ further promotes the appreciation of history through history outings presented free of charge to locals and visitors The State Library of Victoria has recently purchased a throughout the year. Trips have included the underground stunning 1862 watercolour by WFE Liardet entitled: View churches, old dugouts, water holes, pastoral stations, mining from the north shore, Port of Melbourne. It shows Hobsons fi elds, the cemeteries and the solar distillation plant with Bay crowded with vessels of all types. The image has been about 30 to 40 people attending these outings. digitised and can be seen online in both JPEG and TIFF formats in SLV’s Picture Collection. You can see part of it on Collection on eHive: https://ehive.com/ our cover. collections/7823/coober-pedy-historical-society Ç [email protected] The old Holy Bible, which was found in the GSV premises J(08) 8672 3714 at Emirates House, has found a home, many months after [source: FAHS eBulletin No 176] we fi rst reported it in this News page. It has gone to a person associated with the names found in the bible – a pleasing Exhibitions at the Old Treasury Building, Melbourne result. Current exhibitions on display are: • A Nation Divided: the Great War and Conscription (runs Tasmanian Family History Society’s Lilian Watson until December 2018) Family History Award 2018 • Melbourne as National Capital (ongoing) The Award is for a book, however produced or published, printed on paper, dealing with family history and must • Melbourne: Foundations of a City (ongoing) have a signifi cant Tasmanian content. In the context of • Victorian Archival Treasures (ongoing) this Award, a family history should be a work carefully and • Growing up in Old Treasury (ongoing) accurately researched on a single family, group of related families or a biographical history. Entries close 1 December More details on the temporary exhibition on the divisive 2018. For more details, see www.tasfhs.org debate on conscription in a Nation Divided can be found here: http://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/whatson/ Saving of the FAHS exhibitions/conscription/ The Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS) in recent months has been in danger of closing down due to British India Discussion Circle the cessation by the Federal Government of its core funding Meetings are held from 12 noon till 1.00pm at the GSV, and of $80,000. Following a plethora of petitions and online are planned for 19 June, 17 July and 21 August. All GSV lobbying, Minister Josh Frydenburg has now found funding. Members are welcome. Beginners welcome. Enquiries: It appears that this important linking organisation will now [email protected]  be able to continue functioning.

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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Mon. 11 CLASSES Queen’s Birthday 1.30pm to 2.30pm These small group classes are designed to enable you TALKS to get the most out of the computer-based resources Tues. 19 10.00am – 11.30am available in the GSV library and at home. DNA and Family History – Tues.5 The National Archives (UK) online DNA test, should I do it? Thur. 7 FamilySearchTM online by Jenny Redman An introductory presentation for people considering Tues. 12 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online doing a DNA test to help you decide whether to or not, Thur. 14 GSV library catalogue & databases and the appropriate test to take. TM Bookings essential – Members $7.50, Tues. 19 Ancestry online RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00 Wed. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Thur. 21 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 21 Internet for Genealogy

The Methodist Contribution: Historical TM TM background for genealogists Tues. 26 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM by Robert Gribben online The life and times of the founders, John and Charles Thur. 28 National and State Archives in Australia Wesley. Methodism’s unique characteristics, practices and institutions Bookings essential Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Members Free, RHSV/FHC $15.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 non-members $20.00 Tues. 26 12.00pm – 1.00pm Researching the Counties of Northern England CLASSES Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Sat. 2 10.00am – 11.00am RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Orientation: introduction to the Society and our resources Bookings essential – Members Only – Free DISCUSSION CIRCLES Sat. 2 11.15am – 12.30pm Wed. 6 12.30pm – 1.30pm GSV Writers Starting Your Family history: methodology and resources Tues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pm Counties of Northern England Bookings essential Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 13 10.30am – 11.30am non-members $20.00 DNA Tue. 12 10.00am – 12.00pm Wed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion An Introduction to Family History Software by VicGum Tues. 19 12.00pm – 1.00pm British India Bookings essential Members & VicGum Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 27 12.30pm – 2.00pm non-members $20.00 Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Thur. 28 10.30am – 11.30am London Research Members Only – Free FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Focus your research with experienced helpers in the Library MEETINGS Wed. 27 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Sat. 16 1.00pm Scottish Ancestry Group Members Free, non-members $20.00

Volume 34 Issue 2 / June 2018 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 45 What’s On at the GSV – July What’s On What’s TALKS COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Tues. 3 12.00pm – 1.00pm CLASSES Preservation of books, photographs and 1.30pm to 2.30pm paper-based items These small group classes are designed to enable you by Debra Parry to get the most out of the computer-based resources Conservator Debra Parry will provide information on available in the GSV library and at home. how to handle, store and display items to preserve them Tues. 3 The National Archive (UK) online for the future. TM Bookings essential – Free for Rare Book Week Thur. 5 FamilySearch online Thur. 5 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 10 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Guests of the Unspeakable; letters and Thur. 12 GSV library catalogue & databases diary of Warrant Officer1. William Scott Tues. 17 AncestryTM online Heywood. POW Thai Burma Railway and Japan Wed. 18 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online by Douglas Heywood Thur. 19 Internet for Genealogy His letters and diaries before, during and after Tues. 24 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British imprisonment Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM Bookings essential – Free for Rare Book Week online Tues. 17 10.00am – 11.30am Thur. 26 National and State Archives in Australia DNA and Family History – using Tues. 31 ScotlandsPeopleTM online your Ancestry DNA tests by Alan Rhodes Bookings essential. Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, A presentation for beginners to help you understand non-members $20.00 your Ancestry DNA results and how to use them in your family history research. Bookings essential – Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00 DISCUSSION CIRCLES Wed. 4 12.30pm – 1.30pm Fri. 20 10.00am – 11.30am GSV Writers Introduction to Scottish Family Research for details see Tues. 10 12.30pm – 1.30pm www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au Counties of Northern England Wed. 11 10.30am – 12.00pm DNA CLASSES Fri. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion Sat. 7 10.00am – 11.00am Orientation: introduction to the Society Tues. 17 12.00pm – 1.00pm and our resources British India Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Wed. 25 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Sat. 7 11.15am – 12.30pm Starting Your Family history: Thur. 26 10.30am – 11.30am methodology and resources London Research Bookings essential Members Only – Free Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Tue. 10 10.00am – 12.00pm Using Family Tree Maker – Assistance Focus your research with experienced by VicGum – Limit of 4 people helpers in the Library Bookings essential Mon. 9 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland Members & VicGum Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 25 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Ireland non-members $20.00 Members Free, non-members $20.00

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TALKS COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Thur. 2 12.00pm – 1.00pm CLASSES Military Genealogy at Royal United 1.30pm to 2.30pm Service Institute of Victoria These small group classes are designed to enable you by Mike O’Brien to get the most out of the computer-based resources This talk covers the extensive collection held at available in the GSV library and at home. Victoria Barracks, St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Thur. 2 FamilySearchTM online Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Tues. 7 The National Archives (UK) online RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Fri. 24 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 9 GSV library catalogue & databases Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife Tues. 14 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online by John Blackwood Wed. 15 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Bookings essential – Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Thur. 16 Internet for Genealogy Tues. 21 AncestryTM online Thur. 23 National and State Archives in Australia CLASSES Tues. 28 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Sat. 4 10.00am – 11.00am Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM Orientation: introduction to the Society online

and our resources TM Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Thur. 30 ScotlandsPeople online Bookings essential. Sat. 4 11.15am – 12.30pm Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Starting Your Family history: non-members $20.00 methodology and resources Bookings essential Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Tue. 14 10.00am – 12.00pm DISCUSSION CIRCLES Introduction to Family History Software Wed. 1 12.30pm – 1.30pm by VicGum GSV Writers Bookings essential Members & VicGum Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm non-members $20.00 DNA Wed. 8 12.30pm – 2.00pm South West England Research & Discussion 12.30pm – 1.30pm FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Tues. 14 Counties of Northern England Focus your research with experienced helpers in the Library Tues. 21 12.00pm – 1.00pm British India Mon. 13 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland Wed. 22 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Members Free, non-members $20.00 Thur. 23 10.30am – 11.30am London Research Members Only – Free MEETINGS Sat. 11 1.00pm Irish Ancestry Group AGM Sat. 18 1.00pm Bookings in person, via website, email or phone International Settlers Group ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.

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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Fri. 28 CLASSES AFL Grand Final Friday 1.30pm to 2.30pm These small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources TALK available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 27 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 4 The National Archive (UK) online Resources in Ballarat Thur. 6 FamilySearchTM online by Joan Hunt Joan is an experienced researcher and a past president Tues. 11 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online of the Ballarat Historial Society Thur. 13 GSV library catalogue & databases Bookings essential Tues. 18 AncestryTM online Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Wed. 19 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Thur. 20 Internet for Genealogy Tues. 25 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British CLASSES Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM online Sat. 1 10.00am – 11.00am Orientation: introduction to the Society Thur. 27 National and State Archives in Australia and our resources Bookings essential. Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Sat. 1 11.15am – 12.30pm Starting Your Family history: methodology and resources Bookings essential DISCUSSION CIRCLES Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Wed. 5 12.30pm – 1.30pm non-members $20.00 GSV Writers Tues. 11 10.00am – 12.00pm Tues. 11 12.30pm – 1.30pm Using Family Tree Maker – Assistance Counties of Northern England by VicGum – Limit of 4 people Wed. 12 10.30am – 12.00pm Bookings essential DNA Members & VicGum Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, Wed. 12 12.30pm – 2.00pm non-members $20.00 South West England Research & Discussion Tues. 18 12.00pm – 1.00pm British India LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY Wed. 26 12.30pm – 2.00pm Fri. 7 10.30am – 1.30pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700 Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife Thur. 27 10.30am – 11.30am Bookings essential – Members $10 London Research RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00 Members Only – Free FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Mon. 10 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland Wed. 26 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland EETINGS Members Free, non-members $20.00 M Sat. 15 1.00pm RESEARCH WORKSHOP Scottish Ancestry Group Fri. 14 10.30am – 4.00pm Bookings essential Bookings in person, via website, email or phone Members $90, non-members $180.00 ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.

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Talks FREE for Rare Book Week but bookings essential GGuestsuests ooff tthehe UUnspeakable:nspeakable: llettersetters aandnd ddiaryiary ooff WarrantWarrant OOfficerfficer 11.. WWilliamilliam ScottScott HHeywoodeywood PPOWOW TThaihai BurmaBurma RailwayRailway andand JapanJapan by Douglas Heywood Thursday 3 July 12.00pm – 1.00pm

The Prelude: his letters to his wife before his departure to Singapore The Journey: his letters while stationed at Malacca prior to the fall of Singapore A Prisoner: his diary as a POW in Burma from July 1942 – March 1944 At home: correspondence to his wife from the Defence Force and friends. PPreservationreservation ofof books,books, photographsphotographs aandnd ppaper-basedaper-based iitemstems

Many people have precious items such as documents, by Debra Parry photographs, memorabilia, artwork, or other items that they would like to preserve and pass down to Tuesday 3 July 12.00pm – 1.00pm descendants. Such items are often in poor condition due to improper storage, display or handling. Conservator, Debra Parry will talk about “Preservation of your Collection”. This presentation will provide information on how materials deteriorate and how to properly handle, store and display items to preserve them for the future.

Bookings in person, via website, email or phone ¢www.gsv.org.au ¢[email protected] J(03) 9662 4455 Loch Leven by June Torcasio

In 2008 I travelled to Loch Leven in the Western Highlands of Archibald hoped for better opportunities in Australia. Gold had just Scotland, following ancestral footprints. This loch is a gem, reflecting been discovered. As an unassisted passenger on the John Knox long cold winters and brief sparkling summers. On a warm day the he arrived in Melbourne on 29 April 1853. He brought a wooden water smiles and the mountains invite carefree strolls through the box holding his carpentry tools and carried two references, dated heather. February 1841. One was from Dugald Campbell, the clergyman of My carpenter great-grandfather, Archibald McAlpin, at 34, left the Lawers and the other from his former employer, John McCallum village of Onich on the shores of Loch Leven for Australia in 1852. of Stronfernan. Archibald had served an apprenticeship with He was the only family member to migrate at that time. Together with McCallum during 1835-1839 in cabinet making and general his brother Donald and growing family and their widowed mother carpentry. McCallum was actually a relation, for in 1830 he had Ann, he had been living on the family croft in the Parish of Kilmallie, married Janet, an older sister of Archibald. where they were born. Scottish family lore has it that Archibald brought wood to Australia to build a church. This is unlikely since wood was plentiful in Victoria and to import it would have been expensive. Twenty years after his arrival in Melbourne in 1873 Archibald did supervise the construction of a granite Presbyterian church at Emu Flat near Tooborac in north-eastern Victoria. No record of the construction of any other church by him has so far emerged.

Images: Above, Loch Leven, looking towards Ardgour, 2008 by the author, and left, Emu Flat United (formerly Presbyterian) Church, photographed by Phillip Don, used with permission.