Official magazine of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc. March 2016 Vol. XV No. 1 $9.00
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 1 Invitation AIGS Annual Luncheon 2016
Date: Sunday 29th May Venue: Box Hill Golf Club 202 Station Street, Box Hill Time: 12.00 noon for 12.30 pm Cost: $50 per head (drinks at own cost)
This year we are pleased to welcome a very special guest speaker, Dr Liz Rushen, a Senior Research Associate at Monash University and author of many books on Early Female Migration to Australia. Guests will also be there to hear the announcement of the winners of the 2015 Alexander Henderson Award for Family History and the Don Grant Award for Biography, whilst having the opportunity to meet the winners and browse their books. During the function you will have an opportunity to mix with other AIGS members and friends in picturesque surroundings with the cost of your ticket including a delicious sit-down luncheon. Booking forms can be found at the AIGS Library, on the web site www.aigs.org.au or requested by email from the Office Manager [email protected] or 9877 3789. Due to catering commitments, no payments can be accepted after the 15th May 2016. Please note bookings cannot be taken without payment.
2 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 The Chairman of Editorial Committee Carolann Thomson P.O. Box 21, Glen Iris, 3146 Vol. XV No. 1 March 2016 Email: [email protected] Graphic Design and Print Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc Katane Creative 1/41 Railway Road, Blackburn, Vic. 3130 34 Steels Creek Road, Yarra Glen 3775 PO Box 339 Blackburn, Vic. 3130 Email: [email protected] Phone 9877 3789 Distribution Fax 9877 9066 Burwood East SDS Senior Secondary Students [email protected] www.aigs.org.au Publisher Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc. [email protected]
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AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 3 President’s Report
These events happened at the end and Military Interest Group. James of last year, but it is important to became interested in genealogy in mention them, even at this late stage. 2003 when he took early retirement Two new councillors were co-opted at from Department of Defence. He is the November Council meeting and a Library Assistant and continues to they were warmly welcomed to help find new information every year and he participate in the running of the AIGS. hopes to complete his family tree in the The two new councillors are Carolyn future! Morrissey and James Bulbrook, both At the Volunteers lunch in December, volunteers for some years. Carolyn certificates of service were presented was born in Scotland and came out to Coral Powell and Mick McMillan to Australia in the late 1950s. She in recognition of their many years of has worked in libraries, most recently work for the AIGS. They both do a lot before retirement at the Matheson of work in the office, helping the Office Library at Monash University. She Manager with many tasks, and they has a long-standing interest in Scottish both also help in other areas as well. family history research, and more Thank you both for all your hard work recently in military research and this and time that you have happily put in year will be co-convenor of the Naval over the years.
Council for 2015-2016
Executive President Gail White Vice President Robin Stutchbury Vice President Rosemary Allen Treasurer David Karalapillai Assistant Secretary (Minutes) Pauline Turville Councillors Bev Greenway Volunteers Co-ordinator Do you have French Gail White Records manager names in your family? Gary Fitzgerald Network Administrator Perhaps you have Huguenot ancestors. Jenny Wyke Research Co-ordinator Do you want to know more about Huguenot history? Robin Stutchbury Property Maintenance The HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA Co-ordinator PO Box 184 Newtown NSW 2042 Rosemary Allen Groups Co-ordinator has meetings in 3 states, publishes a Russell Cooper Assistant Secretary newsletter and assists with family history. (Membership) To join or find out more contact Wendy Brown Promotions Co-ordinator www.huguenotsofaustralia.org.au email [email protected] Carolann Thomson
4 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 The AIGS Members Area is now up and running after a lot of work by our Network Administrator, Gary Fitzgerald. Sometimes I think he never leaves his computer to eat or sleep. We have a very stable network and computer system, thanks to his hard and the IT team’s contribution. Please read the article in the this magazine on using the new Members Area and then visit and explore it. The Council is very aware of members receiving value for their membership fee and we hope this is a valuable addition. We would welcome any ideas that members have to expand the Members Area.
Mick Powell and Carol McMillan Notice to AIGS Members of Annual General Meeting Time: 7.30pm Date: Wednesday 20 April 2016 Venue: AIGS Library, 1/14 Railway Rd., Blackburn Agenda: 1. Welcome 2. Attendance and apologies 3. Minutes of the AGM held on 15 April 2015 (approved by Council on 11 May 2015) 4. President’s Report for the year 16 April 2015 to 19 April 2016 5. Financial Report for the financial year 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 6. Appointment of Price Gibson Pty Ltd as Auditors for the financial year 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 7. Changes to Membership Fees 8. Guest speaker: Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO - ‘Genealogy and History: Rivals or Partners?’ 9. Election or announcement and introduction of Councillors for 2016/2017 10. Refreshments To assist with seating arrangements and refreshments, please notify the Office Manager, Tricia Parnell, of your attendance or apology, please phone 9877 3789 during office hours or email [email protected] by Friday 16 April 2016.
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 5 Cover Story
Small clues to history By Lori Henderson & Carolann Thomson
Have you ever seen a collection of old photographs in a second-hand shop and wondered how they got there? Had they been found in a discarded suitcase? In a house being cleaned out by strangers? Lost in transit as a family moved house? The genealogist in me hopes they were overlooked, and that somehow the rightful families can be found, but sometimes there is no-one left to claim them. Being a bibliophile as well as a genealogist, I like to look in old books to see where they come from; is there a name on the flyleaf… or perhaps a book plate?
Wallaroo Corps bookplate
Paisley family bookplates
A chance conversation between the authors produced the beginning of a collection of Award book plates, some of which appear on the cover of this magazine. Could we do a little research and find out something more about the owners of these books, mostly Sunday School prizes for attendance, lessons, and one for “sustained effort”. With the help of TROVE and a basic search engine to surf the ‘net, a few interesting snippets came to light. In 1931, Raymond THOMPSON received an award for lessons and attendance from the Wallaroo Corps, from Sgt. Shorwell School bookplate Major A THOMAS. The logo “Blood and Fire” indicated Salvation Army, with this note from the local paper putting May 1883, p. 2) A series of letters and articles in May and it into perspective. The advent of the Salvation Army in the June 1883 discussed and criticised the Army.1 Raymond district, as in other parts of the state, caused quite a furore. THOMPSON from Wallaroo, a minister in the Renmark ‘Judging from the noise, if strong lungs and earnestness in their Congregational Church, was ordained in 19542. Perhaps he work are recommendations they should succeed admirably.’ (2 was the same man?
6 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Shorwell School children c1905
In 1912, Margaret Marion RUSSELL received an award, Commercial Exams5. She is possibly related to, or named presumably for the completion of Standard V, the book plate after, an older Alma SCHOFIELD who wrote for the being signed by the headmaster, Albert R HART. A search newspapers 30 years previously6. for the school indicated it was on the Isle of Wight and Of the other bookplates in the collection, many churches email contact with their Family History Society3 produced and schools could not be found easily, some had closed and an instant reply from their Research Services co-ordinator, others had been replaced by other denominations. Steve PALMER “you have come to the right person!! Margaret Marion RUSSELL born in Chale Isle of Wight 1900 is closely related to my Shorwell born wife. Margaret would be the great aunt of a friend of mine (David John Seymour RUSSELL), his grandfather (Arthur James Seymour RUSSELL) appears on the 1911 census with his older sister Margaret. David now farms at Westcourt just west of Shorwell village. My wife’s grandparents went to Shorwell school and we have a few photos dated about 1905-10 which may have Margaret on them. I have MMR on my family tree on ancestry but no marriage found, I assume that she went to Australia. Best wishes”. A photograph soon followed. A search of databases on the Isle of Wight FHS website showed that an Albert Richard HART was b1880, Cowes. A search for St Peter’s Church in Townsville revealed Church of England premises on the corner of Leigh & Ralston Streets. Alma SCHOFIELD, a member of the 4th Seniors class in 1930, attended St Patrick’s College, winning a scholarship which gave her two years free tuition4. She studied shorthand, amongst other subjects, and in 1932 gained 100% for shorthand speed in the December St Peters bookplate Continued over >
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Small clues to history Continued from page 5
St Augustine’s in Moreland appears to be on the site of a We will continue to collect these Book Plates. Some plates former Salvation Army Citadel, St Paul’s in Quantong has are beautifully coloured, most are handwritten. There are been rebuilt, the Tungkillo school in South Australia closed generic ones with the name of the school or parish written or in December 1970. William NORMAN who had won stamped at the top and others with logos and finely detailed first prize in First Class at St Augustine’s in 1892 is possibly designs around the edges. Each has been photographed and William Gore NORMAN who was born in Coburg in 1881. the names, places and dates compiled into a small Index. Jeffry CREEK who won a Sunday School prize in 1915 at (Endnotes) the Woorak Rd Methodist church is probably part of the 1 The Kadina &Wallaroo Times, 11 October 1911 CREEK family who had lived around Woorak and Nhil 2 The Kadina and Wallaroo Times Thursday 27 May 1954 from 1895. Errol HOBBS who won a Tungkillo School 3 http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/ 4 The risbaneB Courier, Wednesday February 3, 1932 Committee Award for sustained effort in 1938 is probably 5 The atholicC Press, Thursday December 29, 1932 the same man who married Nancy SIMPSON in 1953, 6 The ethodist,M Saturday November 22, 1902 attended by his brothers Neville and John7. 7 The ewsN (Adelaide), Saturday August 22, 1953
Presented to Presented by Venue Date Owner ?? St Paul’s SS, Quantong 31 Dec 1911 LH ASH, Graham POWELL, Wm Glen Huntly Congregational Nov 1918 KC GIBSON, E SS BAMPTON, Judy Peterhead Baptist SS LH CAMERON, Jean McLARTY, CJ Heywood School 1937 LH THOMPSON, Annie (Presbyterian) CREEK, Jeffry Woorak Rd Methodist SS 15 Aug 1915 LH DOWDING, Francis G SMITH, Edward B Wells Blue School 24 Nov 1920 LH FLEMING, Mamie HIND Paddington Methodist SS 1924 LH DIGGLE, T HOBBS, Errol Tungkillo School 1938 LH HUTCHINSON, Nillie LUFF, E.M LH LARSON, Elvie HANCOCK, W St Andrew’s SS, Brighton 10 Nov, 1927 KC NORMAN, William ?? St Augustine’s SS, 3 Mar 1892 LH Moreland OWEN, Bronwyn Crossover Methodist SS 17 Feb 1952 LH PAISLEY, Selwyn MARSHALL, W St Paul’s Bunbury 20 Jun 1897 CT PAISLEY, TW PREBBEL, Dorothy Sister Clare St Lukes SS, Sth Melbourne 1930 LH YOUNG, Arthur ROSEWARNE, Frederick TAYLOR, William J Newport School 27 Mar 1960 LH (Presbyterian) RUSSELL, Margaret Marion HART, Albert R Shorwell School 19 Dec1912 LH SCHOFIELD, Alma WILLIAMS, TG St Peter’s SS, Townsville 1930 LH STANLEY, Nellie FISHER, H Sth Yarra Baptist SS LH THOMPSON, Raymond THOMAS, A Wallaroo Corps (Salvation 14 Dec 1931 LH Army) WEBSTER, Paula PIERSON, Barbara Ormond Methodist SS 11 May 1952 LH DALTON, Olive
8 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 The “Foundlings” Search is Over By Eric Panther
In the December 1991 issue of The GenealogistI wrote the prior to his “deserting” this apprenticeship in July 1852 and first chapter of my search for my two English foundling sailing to Australia, and with Jane now out of London and great-great grandparents, Benjamin SOUTHEY and Jane in the county of Hertfordshire, it is obvious they still kept in PATCH, both of whom had been admitted to The Thomas touch with other. I assume that Jane was still employed in Coram Foundling Hospital, London in the late 1820s and Yew House until she set off, aboard The Hope, for Australia early 1830s. Further research enabled me to add another in 1855. Twenty-two days after her arrival she and Benjamin chapter in the September 2002 issue and I ended that chapter were married at Melbourne’s St Johns Church of England, with the line “the search goes on” - “the search” being for a so undoubtedly there was correspondence between the photograph of Benjamin SOUTHEY. The December 2002 two between 1852 and 1855, while he was in Australia issue published a precious photograph of Jane SOUTHEY and she was still in England. As I wrote in Chapter One, (nee PATCH) but I needed an image of Benjamin “the fascinating part is that they spent virtually all their SOUTHEY to bring my search to fruition. lives together, even as mites in the foster home of Mary Rose in Chertsey. Also what a fine life they had after such Can you imagine my overwhelming joy when, in late 2014, lowly beginnings. This is a tribute to The Thomas Coram some twenty six years after I began my search in 1989, I Foundation for Children which was established in 1739 and googled the words, “Benjamin Southey”, and up popped is still caring for the less fortunate after 250 years.” a fantastic photograph of the entire SOUTHEY family. It featured Benjamin, Jane (nee PATCH) and children, I feel the genealogist’s creed should be “Patience and Benjamin Jnr, Amy, Janet and my grandmother, Mary. Persistence” (and a little bit of luck doesn’t hurt). Well I have Melissa CLISH, a previously unknown Queensland second been patient and persistent (and more than a little bit lucky) cousin, posted this fabulous photograph. Interestingly, the and I am very pleased that, for at least one line of research, image of Benjamin Jnr has had a black cross drawn across THE SEARCH IS OVER and here, for all to see, is the final his neck and in view of his unsavoury character (he was piece in the jigsaw, the SOUTHEY photograph. described in one document as “utterly depraved and a victim Acknowledgements: Sources: of the Inglewood Chinese camp
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National Library of Ireland – Catholic Parish Registers http://registers.nli.ie/
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) recently made their To return to the Home Page at any time click ‘Catholic Parish Catholic Parish Registers available online and you can go Registers at the NLI’ in the green bar at the top of the screen. directly to the website to view the microfilms of Baptisms, If you click the NLI (only) part of the header, you will go out Marriages & Burials for the chosen parish. NLI have included of the Parish Registers area to the library’s main home page. any available records starting from the 1740s (for example, When you choose a Parish Register film, filters are available at there is a 1748 register for St Mary’s Cork City) up to 1880’s the top left of the screen from which an event type, year and from over 1,000 Parishes including Northern Ireland. A few month can be chosen. Any or all of the filters can be selected parishes have records available for later periods, e.g., there are from the drop down lists or alternatively, you can start at the baptism records up to 1912 for Harrington St, Dublin City. first page and work through the film. Often different record types for different time periods appear At the very top of the film screen are the words ‘View register on the NLI website to those that are found on other sites. information’, used to display the complete information for Whilst the film entries are not indexed, the filtering system that film including the full dates. Click the ‘X’ to turn the allows you to focus on relevant dates and types of records. In information panel off again. some of the very early records, certain of the details may be in Latin including parts of dates. At the top of any page including the Home Page, you can type a Parish name. Some places have alternate names and they can be confusing, but the NLI search engine displays all variations of the name. When relevant filters are chosen and then Apply is pressed, the Note that you can alternatively use the map from the Home film will advance to that date and the thumbnails covering the Screen to reach your target place, see description below. period you chose will have blue borders around them. This If you typed a Parish name at the home screen, the Parish avoids mistakenly continuing beyond the target period. page will be displayed and on the left of the screen is the list Some pages of a film may seem unreadable, but other pages of available microfilmed registers for that Parish. To open of the same film might be more legible and quite clear. If a register, click the Microfilm Number or the relevant Film you see the words ‘A modern Transcript’, the transcriptions for Image. that particular film have been made in modern times and are This is the page for the parish of Gowran in County Kilkenny:
10 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 National Library of Ireland – Catholic Parish Registers http://registers.nli.ie/
much easier to read. At times, the screen or parts of it appear While you are working through a film, a progress symbol blurred, and it takes a short while for the screen to clear (little green arrow) appears at the top of the screen and moves before you can start reading it. along to show where you are up to in the whole of that film. The arrow displays the current page number when you hover Icons over it and you can also click and drag it to move to another The icons that appear on the top of the Microfilm pages are part of the film. from left to right:
The little blue teardrops labelled ‘Search Results’ indicate the number of pages within the range that you chose and you 1+2 Zoom in/Out - or double click the mouse to zoom in can click on any individual teardrop to move to that page. Both these sets of icons reset automatically each time you 3 Download - see below click Apply. 4 Print this Page - see below If you choose to work through a film from the beginning 5+6 Increase/Decrease Brightness without using the filters, the page number and the current date range are displayed at the top left of the film screen. 7+8 Increase/Decrease Contrast 9 Inverse the Image – becomes white on black like a Printing negative and is sometimes easier to read When a page of a film is displayed on the screen, you can 10 Reset the Image – the Undo sign resets any adjustments print that page. you made to the view 1. Click the Printing icon on the icon bar. 11 Thumbnail view - toggles between One Page view and The options are then displayed at top right of the page Multiple Thumbnails view 2. Select Print Page. 12 Show Full Screen/Revert to normal size – toggles between those views. This will take you to the printer settings page on your PC. The tiny red map-icon top right lets you view the Main Map You can only print the full page and regardless of orientation, at any time. the printed item will be the same size. Some films have records for only one type of event, e.g., Downloading baptisms, but sometimes all events are in the same register When a page of a film is displayed on the screen, you can and may appear on the same page of the film. Even event download that page to your PC. details of the same type were not always recorded in the same order. These variations mean that following one column 1. Click the Download icon on the icon bar down a page might cause items to be missed. The options are then displayed at top right of the page Single or double pages of the Registers may be displayed on 2. Select Download Page the one screen. 3. Then clickSave on the message bar at the bottom of the If the parish film page turns blue, click in the whitespace screen. The bar also includes the name of the file that will outside the border of the parish records, and the page will go be downloaded. back to the normal colour. A copy of that page will be saved in the Downloads folder on Moving through the film your PC. Move around in a screen or through a series of thumbnails by using the mouse wheel or by clicking and dragging. Alternatively, you can move to different pages by clicking on the Thumbnail View icon, then clicking on the relevant page. Continued over > The scroll bars can also be used for navigation.
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National Library of Ireland – Catholic Parish Registers Continued from page 19
Click anywhere in the map in either view to show the Catholic parishes in that particular area. Alternatively use the Zoom button above the map to zoom in to the Parishes. The zoomed-in view of the maps and the ability to move around in them helps to locate neighbouring parishes. This example is zoomed in on the county of Kilkenny to show the Parish of Gowran in the centre of the map.
Navigating via the home page map From the Home Page, click the Search the Map icon or just scroll down to the map. The map will usually open showing The shading indicates different colours for different all the Counties. If it only shows the four Provinces, click Counties. If you are looking at a Diocese map, it is the once in the map to see the Counties. Dioceses that are identified by different colours. At top left of the main map screen you have the option of Click on the parish name in the map (Gowran in this toggling between views of the map showing Counties or example) and a Parish Information Message is displayed Dioceses. giving the Parish, Diocese, and County names. If there are variations of the parish name, they will be listed there. If you click on the bolded Parish name in the Information Message, you will be taken to the parish page in the same way as if you typed the parish name on the Home Page. The map on the right hand side of the parish page can be navigated in the same way as the main map. Help & Copyright Under Help on the Home Page, there are two short videos and a series of brief instructions for several actions, including how to locate Parishes or Dioceses when you do not know the details of the name. In the Help file, it states that “All images on the site can be shared and reproduced for non-commercial purposes”.
12 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 If you think recycling is a new idea, think again! British and Australian Salvage Operations of the Great War By Graham Caldwell
When William PARSONS wrote to the Australian Imperial Table “B” allowed for the establishment of each Salvage Force Base Records Office, Victoria Barracks Melbourne Company to be one officer, not higher than a Captain (soon on 31st October 1917, enquiring the whereabouts of his to be increased with a Subaltern as deputy) one Sergeant son, Private Herbert Stuart PARSONS, 34th Australian (who in 3rd Div. Salvage Co. was immediately promoted by Infantry Battalion somewhere on the Western Front, saying his CO to Acting Company Sergeant Major) three Corporals in part “we have not heard from him since 6th February 1917 and 61 Other Ranks. Additional specialists were allowed and he is a married man and left a wife and two children comprising two Cyclists (as Orderly’s) one Driver (for the when he volunteered..”, little did his family know that back horse drawn general service (GS) wagon and one artillery around that date Herbert had been transferred to the newly NCO, the latter to deal with handling and safe storage formed 3rd Divisional Salvage Company, one of several of returned bombs, shells and grenades. At Corps level a commissioned with the sole purpose to recycle battlefield Director of Salvage in the rank of Major was also appointed. scrap and discarded or damaged weaponry and equipment. The role of Australian Salvage Companies was to recover battlefield and generally discarded items which could be either directly returned to stores or repaired and then later reissued, thus saving considerable cost and lead times awaiting new kit, weapons and ordnance. This endeavour held no bounds and included instructions to recover personal equipment and usable items from long term wounded and the dead. By 1917 both sides of the conflict were desperately short of raw materials, particularly metals of all types, consequently priority was given to retrieving shell cases and spent cartridge cases, which were then returned to munitions factories in Britain to be refilled. A typical list of items recovered after a main attack, apart from metal cases, included, clothing, kit, blankets, horse shoes, cable, wire, gun magazines, saddles, wagon parts, plus weapons of all kinds, including those found belonging to the enemy.
Lance Corporal Herbert S Parsons, 3rd (Australian) Divisional Salvage Company
General Sir William BIRDWOOD issued ANZAC Order No- 452 from his Western Front headquarters on 10th January 1917 under the heading “Establishment (Provisional) for Divisional Salvage Companies”, which in part read... The Salvage Companies now provided in Divisions by detaching personnel from Battalions will be maintained as an integral portion of each division. The establishment (provisional) of a Divisional Salvage Company will be as shown in Table “B” issued herewith. Loading Ammunition Empties for England Continued on page 12 >
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 13 If you think recycling is a new idea, think again! Continued from page 11
During the first two months after introducing Divisional Divisional Salvage Officer, who worked closely with his Salvage Companies – January and February 1917 – Major Divisional AOC counterpart. A Salvage Section was set General Harold WALKER, commanding 1st ANZAC Corps, up for each divisional and Corps formation and extended issued an Appendix to his Orders 99/100 dated 8th March on an organised basis, utilising men from the Employment 1917 expressing his appreciation to all Salvage unit officers Companies formed from those unfit for the trenches; in early for the work done to date particularly stressing the savings in 1917 these Employment Companies became part of the cost to the Australian Government. General WALKER then newly formed Labour Corps. went to the trouble of listing the items and savings returned to stores, repaired or reissued during those inaugural nine weeks as follows: 20,058 rifles (a new rifle costs £5.10/-) 7.14 million unspent rifle rounds (1000 new rounds cost £5/3/3d) 1.01 million 18 pounder spent brass shell cases (valued at £600,000) 7,681 boxes of bombs and grenades (valued at £10,000) 10,689 rounds of field gun ammunition (valued at £50,000 pounds) 18,562 steel helmets (a steel helmet without lining costs 8/- and with lining costs 11/6) 1,822 sacks of equipment, 1,858 sacks of boots, 609 sacks of underclothing (sent to Corps baths for washing and reissue) and finally 3,421 sacks of other miscellaneous articles. The British Army Invented Salvage Battlefield Salvage Notice The British Army was terribly burdened with war debt from the beginning and the Army Ordnance Corps (AOC, later to become the Royal Army Ordnance Corps) was already Very soon a rivalry between units became so keen that one in France with the first drafts of the British Expeditionary Australia division, in its efforts to outdo their traditional Corps (BEF) setting up rear area repair shops for rifles, competition in all things with the New Zealanders, stole a pistols, heavy and light machine guns, bicycles, steel helmets, large quantity of copper pots and pans from a derelict French equipment and boot repair, but it was not until the Retreat brewery in order to acquire the ANZAC Corps prize for the to the Marne at the end of September 1914 that a party, most metal returned that month! including two AOC Sergeants, were sent out to scour the ground and collect anything to be found lying on the Ordnance Women battlefield abandoned by the troops. This resulted in the Whilst the Labour Corps looked after salvage collection, it recovery of a substantial quantity of goods, including 500 was the Army Ordnance Corps that had responsibility for great-coats discovered stored and left behind in a church in the Western Front ‘Returned Store Depots’ based at Graville the town of Coulommiers. (Le Havre) and Valdelièvre (Calais) which acted as clearing The full credit for British salvage operations beginning in houses to the AOC repair shops and tailoring shops, or to an organised manner belongs to the 4th Division, which at the AOC transit branch for return home, particularly scrap daybreak every morning during the Second Battle of Ypres metal to be melted down and reused for new weaponry. The in May 1915, sent out from its divisional headquarters a British press were given permission to visit the two AOC party under its Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Returned Store Depots to report on the good work being Services to collect anything it could get its hands on from made in recycling everything possible to encourage the ‘no man’s land’. By this arrangement over 10,000 rifles were Home front to do likewise, but were seemingly unprepared collected in just under five weeks and the concept caught to witness how much female French and Belgium labour was on throughout the BEF. Responsibility for battlefield employed, long before women replaced men in England or scavenging and collections was given to the newly appointed the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps appeared in France. The
14 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Daily Mail had an article headlined “Ordnance Women” which resulted in delighted cheers and a presentation dated 30th September 1915 which reported: “Progressively of flowers. Colonel KIDDIE of the Army Ordnance day by day women are being enrolled for war work of many Department was in charge of this major clothing repair sorts and their capacity and readiness are on the way to being factory, where uniforms, blankets and horse rugs were sent appreciated; but it is not, I think, yet known how very useful straight from the Front. Apparently the lady seamstresses their aid is proving in France and how many are being employed became very adept at remaking kilts for the Scottish by War Office departments. The Army Ordnance Corps were, it formations! seems to me, the first organisers to discover the value of women During the first ten months of 1916 136,000 tons of stores within the zone of the Armies; the Ordnance is indeed the most from the Front arrived at the Calais depot alone, including distinct advance in economy yet achieved.” 1.3 million pairs of boots and over a quarter of a million rifles. As an example, of the one million water bottles issued to the BEF during the same period, one third came from recycling salvaged bottles that had been previously discarded. The Danger of Salvaging Live Explosives As the war progressed derelict ammunition of both sides littered the frontal areas in ‘no man’s land’ of which much was in a very dangerous condition. To overcome this problem the AOC set up explosives laboratories at central points in forward areas for unexploded ordnance to be brought in for examination by their experts. Whilst idle soldiers were often “volunteered” for search and collection duty, the BEF eventually used Chinese labour companies French Employed Women Repairing Smoke Helmets for the work and later even German prisoners of war. It was not uncommon for shells to be manually carried that had set fuses or grenades picked up with detonators fixed! The Times also sent out their reporter to the Army Ordnance Corps repair and recycling depots in France and wrote under Of all salvage, the brass field gun cases were the most the heading “Salvaging Battlefield Wreckage: British Military important on account of the metallic value and usefulness to Thrift: Never, I think, has the practical genius of the English munitions factories, because they could be refilled over and revealed itself so strongly as in this war. We were taken to see over again. their activity at the rear of the Army where some thousands of French women whose fathers, husbands and brothers have gone to the war, earn a handsome living of which they could not dream in peace time. It is most marvellous to see the things that are done here. Take for instance boots. We saw sheds full of these old boots, plies of rubbish and I could not think what they were going to do with it all; but here we saw stage by stage, this rubbish turned again into splendid boots, soft and strong.” When the handsome Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII, then serving as a Major General on the Staff) was scheduled to make a morale boosting visit to the AOC dressmaker workrooms in Paris and learned that 2000 French women were employed there, he allowed them to crown Female Workers Re-filling Shell Cases at Woolwich Arsenal around him whilst he made a speech in their own language, Continued on page 15 >
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 15 What does it mean?
Unfamiliar occupations and abbreviations abound when we try to read old documents, making sense of times past, and deciphering the individual quirks of handwriting. Do any of these appear in your Scottish documents?
Alewife: sells ale Grieve: farm overseer Annealer: processes metal or glass by heating it in a furnace, then immersing it into a chemical bath Annuitant: receives an annuity (guaranteed payment made yearly for an agreed term) Apothecary: pharmacist Heckler: prepares raw fibres for spinning App.: apprentice Hind: married farm servant Artisan: a skilled manual worker H.L.W.: handloom weaver Husbandman: tenant of a dwelling and land on an estate
Batcher: sorted bales of different qualities and colours of textiles Journeyman: between an apprentice and master of a trade Baxter: baker Beadman: a licensed beggar Besom maker: broom maker Bleacher: whitens cloth or paper pulp Laxfisher: salmon fisherman Blockcutter: makes the hand-carved blocks for printing Lengsthsman: responsible for the upkeep of a particular Bowman: sub-tenant who farms cows for a season stretch of road or railway Lockman: hangman Lorimer: makes metal harness parts for horses
Caddie: a person who runs errands Calenderer: person who passes woven cloth through rollers to give it a smooth pressed finish Mason: works with stone Chamberlain: senior indoor manservant Min.: Minister or miner Chandler: candles and candlestick maker or dealer M.S.: male servant; maiden surname; Merchant Cooper: cowper: a maker of barrels Service Coriner: cordwainer: shoemaker Cutler: makes or sells knives
Ostler: looks after horses at an inn Outworker: works outdoors in fields or away from the shop/factory Dagmaker: makes mittens for fishermen Dominie: schoolmaster or tutor Dyker: wall builder Piecer: employed to join broken threads in a spinning factory Pirn-winder: winds yarn onto bobbins for weaving Pitman: works in coal or saw pit, especially at sinking, Enumerator: issues & collects Census forms and collates repairing and inspecting shafts information Plate layer: lays and fixes the rails of a railway Pointsman: railway worker who operates railway points Precentor: leader of the singing of choir or congregation Farrier: horse doctor Provost: leader of town council Flesher: butcher Pump-boy: in mining, a child employed to pump water out of mine pit Fletcher: arrow-maker Pupil: child up to age 12 (girls) or 14 (boys) F.S.: female servant
16 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 If you think recycling is a new idea, think again! Continued from page 13
Initially the AOC field laboratories sent the empty field gun cases back to the AOC depots at Calais and Le Havre for filling to save delays using ammunition ships back to Britain, but this unsatisfactory arrangement was never liked and eventually a thirty three acre site was opened at Zeneghem, Queyn: young woman (NE Scotland) served by barge, to receive empties for direct return to Queynie: little girl (NE Scotland) England from the northern France railheads, the AOC rear depots being relieved of this specialised and dangerous work. Nevertheless after the war the frontal areas were still strewn with blind live German, French and British ammunition and Rtd.: retired as they became buried, the best that could be done was to post a notice board that said “DUD”, hoping that weather and time would render the explosive innocuous. The French authorities were not at all happy with this state of affairs and Scavenger: cleans the streets Scrivener: scribe employed to draw up contracts to this day corrosive live ammunition is still being found by Servitor: assistant; lawyers clerk; apprentice; assistant farmers tilling their fields. schoolmaster As for Private Herbert PARSONS of the 3rd Australian Settmaker: fashions blocks of stone (setts) for road paving Skinner: prepares hides Divisional Salvage Company, the officer at Base Records th Souter: cobbler; shoemaker Melbourne replied to his father five days later on 5 Staymaker: maker of corsets November 1917 that, because no record had been received Stevedore: loads/unloads ships cargo of him being a casualty, it must be assumed that he is fit Stravaiger: vagrant and well and his wife can write to him “c/o 3rd Divisional Surfaceman: keeps railway bed in good order; works above Salvage Company AIF - Abroad”, but added...the exact ground in mining location of troops cannot be disclosed. Herbert’s unit war diary for the 5th November shows that he was actually camped at Fauquembergues in the Pas-de-Calais area of France on salvage operations and in December 1918 Herbert was Tanner: cures hides to produce leather Tapsman: head servant promoted to Lance Corporal and survived the war, being th Tidesman: Customs Officer who boards ships to inspect discharged back in Sydney Australia on 15 August 1919. loads Todsman: employed to kill foxes (tods) on an estate Sources Consulted Charlton-Parsons Private Family Papers, Dennis Charlton, Frankston Victoria Australia.
rd Victualler: grocer 3 Australian Divisional Salvage Company war diaries, Australian National Memorial ref: AWM4/19/5 and digitised online. 5th Australian Divisional Salvage Company war diaries, Australian National Memorial ref: AWM4/19/7 and digitised online. Forbes, Major General Arthur, C.B., C.M.B (RAOC) A History of the Army Webster: weaver Ordnance Services, published August 1929 and reprinted by The Naval & Wright: carpenter Military Press, Uckfield, East Sussex, UK; pp 75 – 145. Writer: lawyer National Archives of Australia: Service Records – Army WW1: 1914-20 ref: B2455. Source: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 17 Letter from England Peter Bennett
We are probably all family historians who can now do a lot A new railway is being built under London, to connect east of our research from afar, so like you I am always looking out and west. On the face of it, that news does not belong in for new sources which will give my inquiries a boost, and this column, but in the course of the excavations, which hopefully those of my readers too. And just recently I came have been going on for years, they have uncovered the burial across an Israel-based organisation which certainly does that. ground of the Bethlam Hospital at what is now Liverpool Street station. It is reckoned that some 20,000 Londoners While you will all have used familysearch, findmypast were buried there during the 16th and 17th centuries, and and Ancestry to further your research, I venture that not many of these have been found during the digging of the many will have come across MyHeritage. They have a fairly railway tunnels. impressive range of material from all over the world which is available to subscribers, but they are clearly working hard at There was no single register kept to record those buried at digitising books on genealogy and general history. Recently Bethlam. Their fates are noted in the burial registers of the they released some 150,000 books, all word-searchable, and parishes in which they died. A team has been extracting they certainly bring up some results. these entries from the parish registers, and now there is a database of all those found which can been seen at I thought at first it was probably a collection for others, http://www.crossrail.co.uk/sustainability/archaeology/ most likely in the United States, but there is a lot of material bedlam-burial-ground-register. from the United Kingdom among much from America. A quick search brought up numerous references to some More burials have also been added to the deceasedonline of my own ancestors, at Newcastle on Tyne and in India. site, now with entries from the Southwark area of south east I had come across most of them before, but there has to London. The cemeteries included are Camberwell, Nunhead, be potential with a collection of this size. The search page Ladywell and Brockley, all of which buried many thousands is at www.myheritage.com/research/collection-90100/ of people, and not only from this part of London. You will compilation-of-published-sources The real beauty of it is find the dead from all over the capital in these and records that the search and viewing of results is free of charge. We from the other large cemeteries around the metropolis. are told that the material has not been simply imported from Among other additions are burials at Grimsby and sites such as familysearch or like places, but is just a lot of out Nottingham, so you can see that these people are spreading of copyright publications. It looks to be a very good place to their net widely. dip into. Anyone who had ancestors serving with the Irish Army Another site with not such wide appeal is The Genealogist should have a look at the Military Archives, at http://www. at http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk which I mentioned last militaryarchives.ie/home. There are several useful online time. They now have some Norfolk parish registers online, collections including pension records and a census of the with images of the original parish registers. More are to Irish Army for 1922. If your Irish family history can be come, so those with Norfolk ancestors will soon be able to traced down into the 20th century then you might find other make real progress with their research. relations among these records. Anyone with service personnel who died during 20th century Findmypast have added a collection of electoral rolls conflicts will have used the records of the Commonwealth from the British Library. The BL has a huge collection of War Graves Commission. The Commission has recently electoral rolls and coverage can be seen in ‘Parliamentary added some original documents to the record. These largely Constituencies and their Registers Since 1832’, searchable repeat the information which had already been given, but on the web site. Many have been filmed, and more are being some will be lucky to find new information. To my mind, done, but findmypast’s collection is only those which were any update is worth looking at. on film in 2011. From the use I have made of the records, I suspect this will be a small part of the whole, but it is a start and a useful one.
18 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 But the big release by findmypast recently has been the 1939 and I have had success tracking one of my Australian register. This gives names, addresses, occupations and dates Bennetts through them. He was a freemason in Sydney in of birth of everyone in England and Wales. The downside is the 1870s and this led me to more about his life. Entries that privacy requirements mean that only people born over from Canada, South Africa and New Zealand also appear 100 years ago, or whose deaths were noted in the register to so it could be a useful record for researchers everywhere. the 1990s, are shown. But it is without doubt a huge boon to I was looking for some freemen of the City of London those with ancestors who appear, especially the ones whose recently and came across a site set up by several of the City births have not been found, the proverbial ‘brick walls’. This guilds, www.londonroll.org/home. They have brought record will solve many problems. some of their records together to make a searchable The 1939 register is not part of the standard findmypast database so it is very useful for us family historians. There package, and units have to be purchased to see entries. The are records of only ten out of over 60 ancient companies, lucky ones over here can use the database free of charge at but it includes the drapers and the goldsmiths, two of the The National Archives, which is where I intend to spend largest. some time shortly. Anyone who can show that an individual Other records of the guilds can be found on Ancestry and in a closed record is now deceased can submit the proof to findmypast, but the above might add to someone’s records. findmypast and the record will be released. I hope that 2016 is proving to be a good year for your Findmypast have also released Diocese of Lichfield probate research. There are certainly interesting things coming records from 1521 to 1858, including the indexes and scans along which are going to add to the family records of many of wills and administrations. Lichfield was one of the larger of us. probate jurisdictions, and these records include Staffordshire and Derbyshire, with parts of Shropshire and Warwickshire. Editor’s Note: The Genealogist, findmypast and Ancestry are available free on all networks to computers in the AIGS Another important collection is the Suffolk baptism index, Library. which has entries from some 350 out of the 500 or so ancient parishes in the county. They have helpfully provided a list of the parishes included, with the dates, which is accessed from the ‘useful links and resources’ tab. For some years findmypast has had an index to the British Army in 1861, the names taken from the muster rolls or pay lists. Now they have added a similar index for 1841 which is going to help a lot of people. It is a transcript, but The National Archives’ reference to the muster roll is given. If you find people stationed in Australia of course, you should be able to see the muster roll via the Joint Copying Project films. Ancestry also has a new probate database for us, the index to Scottish probate records, called confirmations, from 1876 to 1936. But Ancestry’s biggest addition recently comprises records of freemasons. These come from the Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London but are not confined to the United Kingdom. There are entries from lodges all over the world,
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 19 Top Ten Tips for Writing a Family History By Gail White
Whether you are writing a book for your immediate family was written like this - ‘John came home from Bendigo High or a larger audience, please consider the following ten School and found that his mother, Ruth, had died during the tips I have compiled after being a judge of the Alexander time he was at school.’ Henderson and Don Grant Awards for several years. Perhaps I should have headed this article ‘The Ten Things That Lines justified: Annoy Me Most When Reading or Judging a Family This is perhaps a minor quibble but a book is easier to read if History Book.’ This is a personal list and is not to be the lines of text are ‘justified.’ This is easy in today’s world of considered an official report. whizz-bang technology. This is what it looks like in the tool bar of Microsoft Word. The boxes from left to right show Name of family/families left, centre, right, and fully justified. The title ‘My Family Story’ does not tell anyone who this book is about. If it is not possible in the main title then add a subtitle such as ‘My Family Story: the MacDonalds from Ayrshire to Van Diemen’s Land.’ Apostrophes Family trees Watch where and how you use them correctly e.g. in the There is a multitude of ways to produce family trees for your 1890’s is not correct – the 1890’s what? It should just be book. How many and how detailed and where you place 1890s ‘in the .’ However if you could mention ‘the 1930’s them is up to you, but please include an overall tree at the Depression’ which means ‘the Depression of the 1930s’, by all beginning of the book, so that when readers start at Chapter means do. 1 they will have an overall picture in their mind of the Abbreviations families they are going to be reading about. e.g. ANU, SLV, PROV. As the author, you may well know Index what these stand for but a reader of your book in England What can I say, except NEVER NEVER publish any book may have no idea. You can have a list of abbreviations at without an index. Everyone wants to look for a name or the beginning of the book or use the full name the first time a place or a subject in an index, whatever the book or the with the abbreviation in brackets next to it, which can then topic. You may know which page contains information be used in the next reference to the name e.g. Australian on Aunt Betty, or the ship Lightning or the school Ballarat National University10 (ANU). Primary or the place Cambrian Hill but your readers will List of Contents not! I know how painstaking it is to compile an index but it is essential. Look on it as a form of editing and checking Nearly all books have a list of contents at the front but not of your work. You can compile one index or you can have many have a list of the maps, family trees, illustrations, separate indexes for names, places and subjects – whatever etc. This may be time-consuming to prepare but it will be you decide – DO IT! time-saving for your readers! Maps Proof reading This needs to be done by several people. Try and find a These are essential, even in a family history. Again, you family member, another genealogist and someone entirely know where places are located as you have worked on unconnected with the above but who has a sharp eye and is this research for years and are intimately involved with pedantic (the more pedantic the better). It is surprising what it. However many readers may not have a clue as to where some people miss and others pick up. We all read and look at Manangatang or St Just-in-Roseland is situated (Victoria and Cornwall respectively). things differently. I recommend at least three proof-readers – and even then there something that will be missed or be Capitalisation incorrect. Do not overuse Capitals. They are correctly used for proper Good luck – and don’t let this put you off writing! It is still Names, Places and Organisations. It is annoying reading better to record something than nothing. sentences like this – ‘John came home from School to find that his Mother was Dead.’ Capitals could be used if the sentence
20 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Book Review
Lost Relations: fortunes of my as family history researchers, we must all admire anyone who manages to publish their family history at all – many never family in Australia’s Golden Age do, never moving beyond the stack of papers and files and by Graeme Davison. Melbourne, Allen & the names and facts in the family history program on their Unwin, 2015. 274 pp. ISBN 978 1 74331 946 8. computer. $32.99. Having said all that, I would consider Graeme’s book one of “I have had to reconstruct their story through the words the best family histories I have read. As an historian, he is of others, listen for clues to their thoughts in the voices of able to write a narrative that presents the facts, questions the people like them, and try to put myself in the situations background to the facts, ponders the quandaries that records they faced. This is a risky business. Some would say it is uncover and presents all this in an informative, entertaining too risky: if the evidence allows little to be said beyond the and humorous way. There are not many family history bare bones of genealogy, then silence, they say, is the only books that I have not been able to put down because it was alternative. Others, like some recent Australian novelists, so readable and thought provoking. take an even braver course, stretching conjecture into invention, filling the gaps in the evidence with fictions, the Graeme manages to draw the family lines together, from silence with imaginary conversations. Rather than silence their beginnings in Hampshire and London, emigration on or invention, I invite the reader to accompany me on my the Culloden, to the goldfields of Castlemaine in Victoria, journey, sharing my discoveries, disappointments and their journeys, successes and catastrophes. I learnt so much surprises”. interesting information along the way, and also many ideas about presenting my own family stories. His book does not So says the author in the introduction to his family history, have many charts or illustrations, instead it has an account of and who better to take us on this journey that Graeme a family and how Graeme approached his research. DAVISON, an eminent Australian historian, who is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University and the Lost Relations has been awarded the Judges Special Prize in author of several history books, including The Rise and Fall the 2015 Victorian Community History Awards presented of Marvellous Melbourne. by the Public Record Office of Victoria. Graeme also has written an interesting article published in the September/ As a judge of the Alexander Henderson and Don Grant October issue of Inside History magazine [available in the awards for several years, and also the cataloguer of over a AIGS Library] about writing ‘a family history everyone will thousand family histories, I am well acquainted with the love’. Well, I loved his family history! many forms and formats that family histories can take: some excellent, many good, some not-so-good. However, Gail White
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 21 Feature Story
New AIGS Members area on the web By Gail White
This is a step-by-step introduction to the information that can be found in the Members Area. 1. Go to the AIGS web site www.aigs.org.au and click on the link to the Members Area. This will take you to the secure AIGS Members Area. 2. The AIGS embersM Area looks like this:
3. Note the tabs across the top of the page – AIGS Indexes, Library Collection, Publications and Research Guides. We will take a look at each one of these tabs. 4. AIGS INDEXES – as you move your mouse over the tab you will see this list of useful indexes, which you can then search. 5. Whenever you try to access an index, or any of the other members-only features, a pop-up window will ask you to 6. LIBRARY COLLECTION – this tab lets you see the fill in your AIGS membership recent CDs added to the collection and also the main number and postcode and fill Library Catalogue of all books, CDs, magazines, maps, out an Authentication Code. Australian & New Zealand fiche and film. It is keyword Once you have done that, you searchable. will be able to search and look at anything in the Members Area. One example of the indexes available is the Early Electoral Rolls of Australia.
22 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 New CDs
6. RESEARCH GUIDES – here you will discover a collection of useful and information guides and information to help you with your family history research. Click on VIEW and you will see a list like this in a pop-up This list will be constantly updated and expanded. window
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AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 23 News from the
Personal Victorian histories revealed in newly opened archives Hundreds of records relating to Victoria’s history have been made public from January 1, as part of Public Record Office Victoria’s annual opening of officially closed records. The records are of particular interest to family historians waiting on files that mention members of their family tree. Under Section 9 of the Public Records Act 1973, files of a personal or private nature are closed from between 75 to 99 years to prevent the violation of personal privacy. Director and Keeper of Public Records, Justine HEAZLEWOOD, said this year’s openings provide an insight into parts of Victorian history which have been obscured for many years. “These newly opened records provide a snapshot into our history previously unseen. From 1915 Children’s Court and ward registers to 1940 asylum records, criminal trial briefs and capital case files - through these annual openings we peek into that particular year and re-discover our past.” Among this year’s openings are three capital case files and hundreds of criminal cases. The Head Nurse’s Daily Report Book from Kew Mental Hospital’s Female Wards is also an interesting record detailing activities within the mental Bound Circulated Photographs and Criminal Offences of Convicted Persons PROV VPRS 07856 hospital from the year 1940. Her daily report included notes P1 Unit 41 of who was injured, ill, violent, out on trial, with further remarks about patient conditions. See below for a full list of opened records. A broad guide to time periods for closure under Section 9 is as follows: • Records primarily concerning adults may be closed for 75 years from the year in which the records were created. • Records concerning children as the primary subject of the record may be closed for 99 years from the year in which the records were created. • Records such as staff records where the individuals concerned may still be in the workforce may be closed for a lesser period such as 30, 40, or 50 years as appropriate.
Contact PROV’s Communications Manager, Kate Follington, for more information: 0418 698 364 or at [email protected] Head Nurses Daily Report Book Kew Asylum Female Wards PROV VPRS P1_Unit 21_12-13 Jan 1940
24 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 2016 RECORD OPENINGS Record Title Agency Date range Criminal Trial Briefs Office of Public Prosecutions 1940 Criminal Record Books Supreme Court of Victoria 1929 - 1940 Inward Registered Correspondence Attorney-General’s Department 1939 - 1940 Divorce Case Files, Melbourne Supreme Court of Victoria 1939 - 1940 Secretary’s Inward Registered Correspondence, Victorian Railways 1979 - 1983 Annual Single Number System Central Register of Male Prisoners Penal & Gaols Branch 1939 - 1940 Register of Names, Particulars and Personal Pentridge Gaol 1939 - 1940 Descriptions of Prisoners Received Index To Register Of Prisoners Received Pentridge Gaol 1937 - 1940 Divorce Case Files Ballarat Courts 1940 Examination Registers (Technical Subjects) Education Department 1970 - 1985 Capital Sentence Files Governor 1940 Children’s Court Register Richmond Courts Jan 1915 - Feb 1916 Criminal Trial Brief Register II Office of Public Prosecutions 1940 Criminal Trial Brief Register II Office of Public Prosecutions 1940 Children’s Court Registers Ballarat East Courts July 1914 - July 1916 Master Patient Index Cards Alfred Hospital 1938 - 1940 Children’s Court Registers Fitzroy Courts July 1915 - Feb 1916 Post Mortem Registers Royal Park Mental Hospital 1937 - April 1940 Head Attendant’s Daily Report Books - Male Kew Mental Hospital Sept 1939 - Oct 1940 Department Trial Leave Registers Mont Park Mental Hospital June 1920 - Dec 1940 Asylum Records St Helen’s/Pleasant View Licensed House Feb 1938 - June 1940 Head Nurse’s Daily Report Book - Female Wards Kew Mental Hospital Nov 1939 - Nov 1940 Patient Clinical Notes Kew Mental Hospital 1939 - 1940 Bound Circulated Photographs and Criminal Offences South Australia Police Department Sept 1939 - Dec 1940 of Convicted Persons Register of Appeals to County Court, Melbourne Office of Public Prosecutions 1936 - 1940 Discharge Register Sunbury Mental Hospital April 1937 - Aug 1940 Nursing Report Books - Female - Mental Hospital Sunbury Mental Hospital Sept 1939 - Oct 1940 Melbourne And Metropolitan Board Of May 1935 - January Historical Records Collection Works 1940 Children’s Court Registers Brighton Courts Nov 1911 - Oct 1916 Children’s Court Registers Caulfield Courts Nov 1912 -April 1916 Presentments Supreme Court of Victoria 1939 - 1940 Children’s Court Registers Northcote Courts July 1913 - Feb 1916 Children’s Court Registers Williamstown Courts Dec 1913 - May 1916 Children’s Court Registers Wangaratta Courts 1907 - May 1916 Children’s Court Registers Wahgunyah Courts 1908 - 1916 General Correspondence Files, Multiple Number Public Transport Corporation 1985 - 1987 System Melbourne And Metropolitan Tramways Tramway Employees Record Cards from 1959 - 1960 Board Correspondence Australian Railway Union regarding Victorian Railways 1959 - 1960 industrial issues, Transportation Division Accident Compensation Claim Register, Claims Victorian Railways 1959 - 1960 Branch Education Of Migrants Teacher Record Book Education Department 1952 - 1965 Technical Staffing Old Books Education Department 1920 - 1965 Board Minutes Medical Board Of Victoria 1960 - 1965 Criminal Presentments and Final Orders, Melbourne Court of General Sessions Nov 1939 - Nov 1940
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 25 Bigamy cases contained in criminal trial brief files [PROV, VPRS 30 Criminal Trial Briefs: Unit 212 NCR 2153; Unit 12 No. 1-112-10; Unit 60 No. 2-211-15.] By Lucille Andel
shown on the Victorian Indexes]. Among the extraordinary number of records filed in the Criminal Trial Briefs at the Public John DARGAN of Omeo, Gold Digger, was charged with unlawfully taking Bridget DILLON out of the possession Record Office Victoria, are several bigamy of her father, John DILLON, of Stratford on 18 August cases. Other cases reveal marriages of girls 1856. Bridget DILLON was an unmarried girl under the under age, while some nuptials were never age of fifteen, to wit of the age of fourteen years and three registered. In case any are relevant to our months. After finding that his daughter was missing, and having heard that DARGAN was in the area, John DILLON readers, a few of these cases are detailed sent his son Patrick on horseback to try and locate or rescue hereunder. Bridget. Although he could not identify his sister in the dark, Patrick DILLON found John DARGAN, and when questioned, the latter threatened to cut DILLON’s throat. Mrs DARGAN secreted Bridget DILLON away from her John DAVY, bachelor, born Cornwall, England, married family. John DILLON and his son Patrick reported the Mary FEENEY (sometimes spelled Feeny) of Melbourne matter to Mr SLADE, the local Superintendent of Police. at St. Francis’ Roman Catholic Church on 18 February 1852. Within fourteen months he bigamously married It is not known what action the Police took but John again Amelia SMITH, born London, a widow at St. James’ DARGAN and Bridget DILLON were married by the Church of England on 4 April 1854. Amelia SMITH was District Registrar, Henry KESTERTON at Bombala, on 3 aged 34 with four of her seven children still alive. John September 1856. John FLAVELLE and A. G. FLAVELLE DAVY was aged 22 years. Amelia had been widowed on 15 acted as the two witnesses. John DARGAN’S mother, Tamar May 1853 according to the documents. Sub Inspector of DARGAN, Laundress, was apprehended and charged with Police, Peter Henry SMITH, deposed that he had evidence facilitating the unlawful abduction of Bridget DILLON. DAVY married SMITH whilst his former wife Mary was [This marriage does not appear on the Victorian Indexes.] still alive, and he was charged with bigamy. [Both marriages are recorded on the Victorian Indexes under the name of DAVEY]. Bendigo News James CHAMBERS, aged 24 year, a Dealer/Shopkeeper, of Wellington Street, Launceston married Bridget WINDSOR, March 2016 Spinster, a Minor aged fifteen years on 24 November 1845. They were wed by the Baptist Minister, Henry DOWLING at Pattersons Plains. Bridget’s father William WINDSOR, Bendigo Family History Group General Meeting will a Wheelwright, witnessed the ceremony and stated that his be held at 1.30 pm on the 20th March 2016 in the daughter was a Roman Catholic while CHAMBERS was a Victorian Railway Institute, Mitchell Street, Bendigo Protestant. William WINDSOR stated that CHAMBERS Guest Speaker will be John Tully. John has researched remained only a very short time with Bridget in Tasmania, and written about and will speak on “ the history of left her there and soon moved to Port Phillip. On visiting local Aboriginal Tribes and their languages”. Melbourne, WINDSOR was told that CHAMBERS was living in Little Bourke Street and had been married again to Bendigo Family History Groups monthly Elizabeth WALKER on 19 May 1851 by the Rev Augustus meeting: STRONG at St James’ Church. This proved to be correct Now at VRI Hall [Victorian Railway Institute] next to and CHAMBERS was charged with bigamy. [The first the railway station in Bendigo near the road bridge in marriage to Bridget WINDSOR is shown on the Tasmanian Mitchell St. Time still 1.30 pm start and refreshments Indexes; the second marriage to Elizabeth WALKER is will be available.
26 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 News from the AIGS Research & Look Up Services
There are over 3,000 different newspapers in the State Library of Victoria’s newspaper collection including Melbourne’s Herald Sun and The Age. There are also hundreds of newspapers accessible through the Library’s e-resources page. An online guide will help you find newspapers using the Library catalogue, e-resources and selected websites. It will also show you how to use the online catalogue to search by newspaper title, search for all newspapers published in a particular place, by type of newspaper, eg sporting or business newspapers, and to find current or historical newspapers. As we start the New Year, now is the time to think Newspapers can be found across a variety of formats such about what you want to find out about your family as print, microfilm, online, or a combination of all of history. If you would like the research team to assist these. The guide has grouped newspapers into time periods you, and join the list of our satisfied clients, please regardless of format: go to the AIGS website www.aigs.org.au, then select • Current newspapers, no more than 3 months old Research for full information and application forms. • Newspapers, 2000-2011 Alternately contact the AIGS office on 98773789 to • Historical newspapers, 1700s-1990s post you a form. This may just give you a lead to re- invigorate your research or assist in finding your elusive The guide also looks at online, specialists and foreign ancestors. Our Researchers are very experienced language newspapers. people who know where to look, and they ensure that You can purchase copies from newspapers in our collection they keep up to date with the changing availability of through our online copy ordering service. If you would like resources. to buy an original newspaper, you can ask second-hand or antiquarian bookstores or contact PaperWorld which sells Research Fees: original newspapers. Register with the State Library to Members $25, Non-Members $40 per hour. (The access some resources at home. minimum initial charge is two hours per person). http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/newspapers. This guide to the State Library of Victoria Newspaper Collection can Look-Up Fees: also be found on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/ Members: $12, Non Members $20 per look up (Please watch?v=8vaE5_siRdw. note that all the monies received go directly to AIGS).
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Northern Counties were shown the range and diversity Convenor: Rosemary Allen of newspaper sources from around [email protected] Eastern Counties Meetings: 3rd Friday of the month at the world and how these can be used. 2.00 pm Members were encouraged to obtain Eastern Counties library cards from SLV and NLA, Convenor: Barbara Alderton which can greatly expand the amount [email protected] of information accessible. Trove Editor: Judith Cooke judithvc@ database of Australian newspapers primus.com.au is also worth investigating, as many Meetings: 3rd Monday of the month at 1.00 pm overseas reports were reprinted here. London & South East England Members were invited to contribute (London, Middelesex, Hertfordshire, examples from their own research. Surrey, Kent, Sussex) These ranged from personal to military Convenor: Anne Major The Eastern Counties Interest Group to the strange and outlandish. Ways [email protected] of incorporating the information into Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of the month is a small but enthusiastic group of at 2.00 pm members researching their roots in family histories were also discussed. The presentation summarised the value North West Midlands Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Convenor: Jane Davies Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. of newspapers as being an integral part [email protected] Some members were born in the of family research, giving insights into Meetings: 4th Tuesday of the month Eastern Counties and have personal both mundane and significant events. at 1.30 pm experience of the region while others They bring colour to dry facts. Naval & Military Convenor: Carolyn Morrisey are searching for their ancestors going The presentation entitled ‘Tracing [email protected] back several generations. Everyone Merchant Seamen in the mid-19th Editor: Ann Collins is prepared to share their experience century, Successes and Failures’ [email protected] and contribute to the programme, introduced us to the mysterious st Monday of the month Meetings: 1 even some who are not able to attend at 7.30 pm world of marine records that possess meetings. their own distinctive character and Scotland Co-Convenors: Alex Glennie Recently, the Group has investigated limitations. Virtually no records [email protected]. and two very interesting topics. exist prior to 1835. Those available Suzanne Stancombe from 1835 on include the Registers [email protected] The first presentation, ‘Newspapers of Seamen series and the Central Meetings: 2nd Sunday of the month for Genealogy’ introduced us to (Feb-Nov) at 2 pm Register of Seamen as well as the wealth of newspaper resources Crew Lists, Crew Agreements and South West England available and described how they may newspaper reports. Paperwork from (Including Hampshire & The Isle of be accessed. A good starting point for Wight) Contact: Jill Davies all ports pertaining to ship movements [email protected] UK research was the collections held was sent to the Registrar-General Meetings: 2nd Friday of the month in the AIGS Library. These include of Shipping and Seamen (RGSS) (Feb-Nov) at 2.00 pm the British Newspaper Archive, and the overwhelming volume of Ireland which is available free on the library’s documentation made the system Convenor: Ian Burrowes computers. The Times digital archive unwieldy and impractical, resulting [email protected] dates back to the late 18th century and Editor: Lesley Haldane in many errors and omissions. These [email protected] is rich in detail. Other databases, such documents present a real challenge to Meetings: 2nd Wednesday of the as Ancestry and Find My Past are also genealogists as the vital information month at 2.00 pm available as well as fiche, film, and CD such as ships’ names and destinations Early Victoria & Tasmania records. With the aid of a real-time are often recorded using a numerical Convenor: Marion Taylor demonstration covering a variety of code. The numbering system differs [email protected] websites and the AIGS catalogue, we Meetings: 1st Saturday of the month between “Home Trade” and “Foreign at 10.30 am.
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Trade” records. These complexities make it essential for the researcher Naval and Military Interest Group to proceed in an organised and methodical fashion. Setting up a spreadsheet to record a seaman’s details and career is strongly recommended. The book ‘My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman’, C. Watts and M. J. Watts (Society of Genealogists, 1998) 930.233.1 (422.1) held in the AIGS Library will cover most of what a researcher in this field needs to know. In summary, “while it is not possible At our May meeting we are delighted to have as our guest speaker, to trace a seaman forwards in time, Melbourne author John HOWELL, who will talk about his fascinating it is usually possible to trace him book, The Only Woman at Gallipoli. backwards, ship by ship, assuming that In November 1915, a woman appeared amid the fighting at Gallipoli. the information is recorded correctly, She laid a wreath on a grave and then disappeared. that where there were multiple ships with the same name (quite common) John’s meticulous research into this extraordinary event has extended over you can determine the correct one, five years and has taken him from Australia to Turkey, London and the and that the crew lists survived to north of England. the time they were filmed and were correctly filed and nothing was missed in the filming.” This makes for “a rewarding, but very hit-and-miss process.” A graphic description of the conditions that prevailed around the docks revealed an environment where “crime stalked unmolested”, where there “were dens of infamy beyond the power of description”. “The head-quarters of unbridled vice and drunken violence - of all that is dirty, disorderly and debased.” Clearly, anyone involved in the occupation at the time must have had strong instincts for survival. Please join us as John finally reveals the identity of this mysterious woman. This fascinating and challenging A light supper will follow. topic will continue to exercise our The talk will be held at the AIGS Library 1/41 Railway Road, Blackburn 3130 genealogical skills. A follow-up on Monday 2nd May 2016 commencing at 7.30pm. presentation is planned in the future. Admission is free and all are welcome. Judith Cooke To book please phone Carolyn on: 9803 8220 or email: [email protected]
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the name, regiment or ship and rank of each child. (In the process of being Naval and Military of the father as well as his date and indexed by the NMIG) place of death. It also has the name The Parliamentary Papers are keyword of the child’s mother and her place searchable so there can be some of abode, the child’s age and details surprising information if you enter a of the support provided. (Indexed by surname you are interested in. members of the NMIG) It is hoped that over time the 2. The names of the wives of Army NMIG will be able to compile a Reservists and of the Militia who comprehensive collection of military received assistance from various Poor sources that would be of use and Law Unions in England and Wales interest to the wider family-history during a national emergency in 1878. It’s not all battles and community. Each woman’s name and the number bayonets For further information contact of dependent children are shown, One of the aims of the NMIG is to Carolyn – [email protected] together with her income. The record Ann Collins and Carolyn Morrisey locate military sources that would states whether she was placed in a Co-Convenors be helpful in broader family history workhouse or received Out Relief, research. the amount and type of relief she was The major commercial genealogical granted and the period for which she companies all hold very useful material received it. The list is arranged by – service records, war diaries, medal Union. Northern Counties rolls, casualty lists etc. 3. The names of widows of Crimean However there are many other more War veterans who were refused obscure sources from which equally assistance by the Royal Patriotic Fund interesting information can be between1866 to1871 and again from obtained. Much of this is free and 1893 to1895. on-line, two words that are music to These documents contain the name of the ears of most researchers. the widow and her date of marriage One such source is the House of together with the name, rank and Commons Parliamentary Papers which regiment or ship of the husband, can be accessed from home through details of his military service and his New Year Across The the State Library by anyone holding a cause of death. The grounds for the Border – In both the SLV library card. refusal of assistance are also provided. North and in Scotland (1866-1871has been indexed by Some of the more interesting My early memories of New Year were NMIG) records to be found amongst the eating goose not turkey on New Year’s Parliamentary Papers are those relating 4. The names of widows, children or Day, that the Day itself was just as to soldiers’ families, a few of which are other dependents of men of the British important as Christmas Day and described below: or Colonial Forces who died in the in the North, as in Scotland, it was Boer War and who received payment a public holiday. The First Footer 1. The names of children whose fathers from the Transvaal War Fund. (1900) (usually my father) arrived with the died during the Crimean War, and piece of coal - I don’t recall that he who were maintained by the Royal This very extensive record of several brought any other gifts but I thought Patriotic Fund up to 1860. thousand families contains not only the names of the widows and children, the ‘jumping across the threshold’ This very useful record set of but also the names and ranks of the quite exciting! approximately 600 families, shows men who died and the dates of birth
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Reading up on ‘First Footing’ (thanks A really strange custom is the Friday Education to Google and a wonderful book, Allendale Tar Barrel Procession ‘The English Year’ bySteve Roud, which takes place on 31st December Program Penguin UK, 2008) it seems there in the Northumberland village of Friday Insite Talks were many variations of this custom Allendale Town. Tar Barle, a unique Presenter Lesle Berry in both Scotland and Northern New Year celebration. Whilst it is England. Symbolic gifts could be described as a Pagan festival in some Second Friday in the month, bread, coal, coins, red herrings, fruit accounts, it appears to ‘only date back February to November cake and whiskey and whilst First to 1858’! Revellers called ‘guisers’, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm Footers were generally men (a relative with blackened or painted faces, carry Maximum number of or family friend) the story of the tall whisky barrels filled with blazing tar bookings 30 dark stranger was very common but on their heads. They dress in strange Free to members in a few places blondes were preferred. colourful costumes, worn once a year, Advertised in monthly News & Sometimes a married man was and march through the town to empty Events e-newsletter ‘required’, in other places a bachelor. their barrels into the Baal Fire, a I was surprised to read that the ‘First ceremonial bonfire in the town centre. Contact Lesle Berry Footer’ must not speak until his piece In this youtube clip they are marching 9801 6814 of coal was placed on the fire. In 17th to ‘The Keel Row’ (traditional 0429 164 880 century East Yorkshire, a boy called Tyneside folk song) and finish with [email protected] the ‘lucky bird’ used to come at dawn ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – as you do on New Equipment – Education laptop on Christmas morning as well as on Year’s Eve. https://www.youtube.com/ with wireless access to internet New Year’s Day and bring a sprig of watch?v=JGMadFTBuKc evergreen. DATE TOPIC Recent Addition to the March 11 Parish Hogmanay, the standard Scottish Library: Records UK word for New Year’s Eve, was also in use in Northumberland, Cumberland, Cumbria DVD - Cumberland And April 8 Info found on Westmorland and Yorkshire. The Westmorland 142 History PDF Books certificates word itself has been a puzzle for as recommended in the November May 13 iPad for many years and other forms were 2015 Cumbria FHS magazine. research ‘Hagmena, Hogmena. The OED http://www.flatcapsandbonnets. June 10 PROV & SLV gives the modern spelling and ‘declares com/Cumbria---Cumberland-And- – what can I that it is from an Old French Word’ Westmorland-142-History-PDF- find there? and the earliest citation is 1680 Books/645.htm. . July 8 British India (see The English Year, above). A For Durham Researchers – a Reminder Records Northumberland writer (in 1909) that we have a similar DVD on the August 12 FamilySearch remarked that ‘five and twenty years AIGS network already (see Durham, Basic ago, the custom of Hogmanay existed then ‘History’) and the home page of September 9 FamilySearch in our village’ and the children used the Flatcapsandbonnets website lists Advanced to come to the front door, singing and many Historical PDF Discs for other asking for their ‘hogmanay’ – any gift October 14 Immigration English Counties as well as Wales, received at the New Year or Christmas and Scotland and Ireland. and would leave with an ‘orange, a Passenger records coin and a kind word’. In the South Rosemary Allen, of England these gifts were known as [email protected] November 11 Scotland’s Christmas boxes. People
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 31 Can you help?...
The Three “Small” Graces I am trying to identify the four young women in these photos. One is a Christmas card with “The three (Small) Graces” written on the back. The other “With Much love” was taken by GS MCCLELLAND, a photographer in Australia between 1841 and 1900. My great, great-grandfather was William PARKER born in Oxfordshire in 1792, he came to Tasmania about 1829 and was the Superintendent of Carpenters in the Royal Engineers first in Hobart and then Launceston. His father John (b1765) was the son of William PARKER (b1733)and Mary WINTER (b1733). They had a clandestine marriage in London and were married in Old Woodstock, Oxfordshire on 25 June 1759. They had 10 children. The eldest Mary, born in London on 26 May 1758, was a convict on the First Fleet. She married John SMALL on 12 October 1788 in N.S.W. The photo was in an old family album which came from my grandmother, Viola Maud PARKER and the co-incidence of these photos being in this album makes me think that there must be a connection between the descendants of Mary SMALL and my grandmother’s family. It would also help to confirm the 2 marriages of William PARKER and Mary WINTER were the same couple and the Mary PARKER was a sibling of by 2xgreat grandfather John PARKER. Maybe William came to Australia after learning that Mary had made a success of her life here? Maybe the girls in the photo are granddaughters of Mary SMALL. Any information would be appreciated. Jane Dubsky ([email protected])
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32 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Web Wanderings
Websites collated by Noeleen Ridgway and extracted from the AIGS Volunteer’s Newsletter. All sites were valid at the time of printing.
Tracing London Roots Online http://www.rbhistory.org.uk - the Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Local History Group includes Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, the http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk – the National Archives surrounding area, Docklands and also the River Thames. catalogue has ten million descriptions of documents from central government, courts of law and other UK national http://www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk – the West Middlesex bodies which include records on family history, medieval FHS includes Acton, Ashford, East Bedfont, Chelsea, tax, criminal trials and much more. Once you have found a Chiswick, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Ealing with reference, you can view the records free of charge. old Brentford, Feltham, Fulham, Hampton, Hanwell with New Brentford, Hanworth, Harlington, Harmondsworth, http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/ - the Manuscripts Section of Hayes with Norwood, Hammersmith, Heston, Hillingdon, the Guildhall Library is the local record office for the City Hounslow, Isleworth, Kensington, Laleham, Littleton, of London. The holdings date from the 11th century, and Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, consist mainly of records associated with London’s local and Twickenham and Uxbridge. taxation authorities, livery companies, courts of law, churches, charities, schools and businesses. If you are lucky, someone else will have found your ancestors already and a good place to look for them is in a forum like Most Family History Societies require a paid subscription GenForum’s London section at http://www.genealogy.com/ before you can take full advantage of what they offer, but you forum/surname/topics/london/ - you can also join an online can usually look at their wares first via their web pages and mailing list like RootsWeb’s London Mailing List at http:// decide whether they are relevant to your own area of research. lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/ENG/LONDON.html The following may be of use: GENUKI has a section of particular relevance to London http://www.eolfhs.org.uk – the East of London FHS includes starting at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LND the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Hackney, Havering, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge. FamilySearch at http://www.familysearch.org has accumulated world-wide genealogical information which is freely available http://eastsurreyfhs.org.uk – the East Surrey FHS includes the including the IGI but this may have been contributed to by modern London boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Lambeth, church members and should be treated with caution. Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth. FreeBMD at http://freebmd.org.uk has information http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engfhs/index.html – the transcribed from the original records and is more accurate. Hillingdon FHS includes nine ancient parishes - Cowley, Harefield, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hillingdon, FreeCEN at http://freecen.org.uk and FreeREG at http:// Ickenham, Ruislip, West Drayton – once part of the County freereg.org.uk give free access to census 1841-1891 and parish of Middlesex and now the London borough of Hillingdon. register records although neither site is complete as yet. http://www.lwmfhs.org.uk – the London Westminster & Middlesex FHS includes City of London, City of Westminster, London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow and Islington, together with parts of Ealing and Hillingdon.
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Abbreviations: Readers are asked to check the catalogue on our B: Burials C: Christenings/Baptisms & Births website www.aigs.org.au or in hardcopy at the D: Deaths M: Marriages library for full details.
AUSTRALIA From Dry Tank to Winston: a history of 100 years of worship at Winston. 994.59 WIN. Australian family histories: a From Hirta to Port Phillip: the story of the ill-fated emigration bibliography and index. 6th edition. Reid, from St Kilda to Australia in 1852. Richards, Eric. 387 RIC. Ralph. CD 4235. The Great Ocean Road. Cecil, K. L. 994.52 CEC. Guide to convict transportation lists: Liber Melburniensis: Melbourne Church of England Grammar Part 1, 1787-1800. Baxter, Carol. School, centenary edition. 373.222 MEL. CONVICTS 365 BAX. Looking at Loch: centenary of Loch and district, 1876-1976. Guide to convict transportation lists: Part 2, 1801-1812. White, Joseph. 994.56 LOC. Baxter, Carol. CONVICTS 365 BAX. Maryknoll: history of a Catholic rural settlement. 994.51 NEW SOUTH WALES MAR. Milton Church of England Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, The mustard seed: Catholic history of watches, Birchip, 1859-1903. Dunn, Cathy. CD 4181. Karyrie, Curyo and Watchupga, 1891-1991. 994.59 BIR. Pioneer profiles: some brief stories outlining a selection of our NORFOLK ISLAND early Port Phillip pioneers, Volume six. Posthuma, Maree A. Culprits on Norfolk Island: Golden Grove October 1788. 920.0945 PIO. Dunn, Cathy. 929.39 DUN. Souvenir book of “Back-to-Carlisle River” 1967. 994.57 CAR. HM Supply, Norfolk Island, March 1790. Dunn, Cathy. CD “They can carry me out”: memories of Port Melbourne. 4191. Vintage Port: Worth Preserving Project. 994.51 VIN. QUEENSLAND Ultima cenetenary, 1892-1992: a story of the settlement, development and people of Ultima and surrounding areas. Alex Gow funeral directors index, 1913-1975. CD 4193. Edited by Watson, Eileen L. 994.59 ULT. Cannon and Cripps funeral directors index, 1897-1967. CD Victoria police gazettes 1921-1930. CD 4201. 4192. With mud on their boots: Toora 1888-1988. Vale, Jane and Cannon and Cripps funeral directors index, 1967-1990. CD Everett, Neil. 994.56 VIC 4195. John Hislop funeral directors index, 1969-1991. CD 4194. ENGLAND SOUTH AUSTRALIA Golden Grove Cemetery, Old and New Sections. CD 1799. BERKSHIRE History trail of the Renmark Cemetery: history concerning Abingdon Union miscellany. Bartlett, Eileen marked graves throughout the Old Cemetery grounds. 929.32 and Bartlett, John. 365.3 ABI. REN. Berkshire inns and taverns, 1854. Bartlett, Eileen and Bartlett, John. 647 BER. VICTORIA Apsley Cemetery burial records, 1868-2009. CD 4207. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Carwarp. Beaton, Florence. 994.59 CAR. Aylesbury Union miscellany: Volume One, 1879. Bartlett, The Caulfield railway disaster, carnage and courage: a Eileen and Bartlett, John. 365.3 AYL. biographical register of those associated with the Caulfield Bedlow Charity School accounts, extracted from the Bedlow railway disaster of 26 May 1926 ... plus the story. Sellers, Charity Books: 1826-1831. Transcribed by Quick, Barbara Travis. CD 4176. and Quick, Peter. 362 BLE. The centenary history of State School No. 1731 - Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Eight 1841-1854. Transcribed Baddaginnie, 1876-1976. Rogers, A. M. 372.9945 BAD. by Quick, Barbara and Quick, Peter. 362 BLE. The changing years: a history of the Hill End, Willow Grove Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Seven 1837-1841. Transcribed and Fumina South districts, published to coincide with the by Quick, Barbara and Quick, Peter. 362 BLE. celebrations held in march 1972 to commemorate the first Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Six 1824-1829. Transcribed by hundred years of permanent settlement in the area. Centenary Quick, Barbara and Quick, Peter. 362 BLE. Committee. 994.56 CEN. Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Five 1835-1836. Transcribed Ferries on the Yarra. Jones, Colin. 387.5 JON. by Quick, Barbara. 362 BLE. Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Four 1816-1823. Transcribed
34 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 by Quick, Barbara and Quick, Peter. 362 BLE. 1882-1938, March Calvanistic Baptist Chapel Registrations Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Three, Beneficiaries 1800- 1825-1837, March Congregational Church Baptisms 1931- 1816. Transcribed by Quick, Barbara and Quick, Peter. 362 1950 & Marriages 1935-1950, March General Baptist BLE. Church Births 1798-1837, March Independent Chapel Bedlow Charity Book: Volume Two 1831-1834. Transcribed Marriages 1899-1934, Mildenhall Beck Row Wesleyan by Quick, Barbara. 362 BLE. Church Burials 1830-1837, Mildenhall Division of Thetford Bedlow Charity Book: Volume One 1720-1830. Transcribed Circuit Methodists Baptisms 1831-1837, Mildenhall Circuit by Quick, Barbara. 362 BLE. Wesleyan Methodist Church Baptisms 1840-1901, Mildenhall Buckinghamshire driving licences, numbers 1-500, 1 January West Row Baptist Church Baptisms 1815-1837, Newmarket 1904 to 9 July 1904. Hillier, Angela. 629.2 BUC. Independent Chapel Baptisms 1787- 1836, Royston New High Wycombe All Saints Parish Church: marriages 1782- Meeting House Baptisms 1830-1837 & Burials 1795-1837, 1812. Bartlett, Eileen, Bartlett, John and Hillier, Angela. Royston Old Meeting House Baptisms 1759-1786, Sawston 929.31 HIG. Congregational Church Marriages 1900-1945, Sawston High Wycombe All Saints Parish Church: marriages 1749- Independent Chapel Baptisms 1812-1837, Shelford, Lt. 1781. Bartlett, Eileen, Bartlett, John and Hillier, Angela. Independent Meeting Baptisms 1828-1837, Shepreth New 929.31 HIG. Chapel Baptisms 1871-1950 & Marriages 1923-1950, High Wycombe All Saints Parish Church: marriages 1673- Soham Independent Chapel Baptisms 1801-1837 & Burials 1748. Bartlett, Eileen, Bartlett, John and Hillier, Angela. 1830-1834, Spaldwick Baptist Church Baptisms 1793-1837, 929.31 HIG. St Neots Wesleyan Church Baptisms 1853-1915, Sutton The people of Wendover: Volume Two. Bartlett, Eileen, Wesleyan Methodist Church Baptisms 1872-1903, Thorney Bartlett, John and Hillier, Angela. 929.36 WEN. Methodist Church Baptisms 1872-1950, Toft Methodist Church Baptisms 1943-1950, Whittlesey Independent CAMBRIDGESHIRE Church Members 1815-1836 & Baptisms 1814-1837, Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 1: Ashwell Whittlesford Congregational Church Baptisms 1853-1950, Independent Chapel Baptisms 1797-1837 & Burials 1798- Marriages , 1930-1950 & Members 1872-1899, Wisbech 1836, Barrington Independent Chapel Baptisms 1799-1837, Dissenting Protestants Baptisms 1819-1837, Wisbech Ely Bassingbourn Independent Meeting House 1826-1837, Place Baptist Church Burials 1818-1837, Wisbech Ship Lane Bottisham Lode Baptist Church Births 1809-1837, Burwell Baptist Church Births 1790-1836, Burials 1804-1837 & , High Town Independent Chapel Baptisms 1747-1836, Marriages 1715-1838, Wisbech Unitarian Baptist Church Cambridge Barnwell Wesleyan Church Baptisms 1816-1837, Baptisms 1788-1837. CD 4248. Cambridge Castle Street Methodist Church Baptisms 1824- Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 9: Cambridge 1903, Cambridge Church of John Conder Baptisms 1739- Eden Chapel Finance Book 1860-1886, Cambridge 1780, Cambridge Downing Street Independent Baptisms Eden Chapel Finance Book 1945-1954, Cambridge 1688-1837, Chatteris Congregational Church Baptisms Eden Chapel Members 1845, Cambridge Eden Chapel 1856-1921, Burials 1918-1921 & , Marriages 1918-1920, Members 1873, Cambridge Eden Chapel Members 1901, Chatteris Methodist Connection Baptisms 1830-1837, Cambridge Eden Chapel Members 1916, Cambridge Chatteris New Chapel Baptisms 1778-1821 & one Marriage Eden Chapel Members 1946, Cambridge Eden Chapel 1804, Cottenham Methodist Church Baptisms 1870-1901, Minute Book 1868-1876, Cambridge Eden Chapel Minute Cottenham Old Meeting House Baptisms 1789-1803, Book 1872-1906, Cambridge Eden Chapel Minute Book Chishill, Lt. Independent Chapel Baptisms 1806-1835, 1907-1913, Cambridge Eden Chapel Minute Book 1913- Duxford Independent Chapel Baptisms 1788-1837 & List of 1938, Cambridge Eden Chapel Minute Book 1939-1950, Subscribers, Ely Countess of Huntingdon Chapel Baptisms Cambridge St Andrew’s St Baptist BMD, Cambridge St 1787 - 1837 & Burials 1787 - , 1815, Ely Primitive Methodist Andrew’s St Baptist Church Books, Cambridge St Andrew’s Church Baptisms1826-1901, Ely Wesleyan Methodist St Baptist Church Manuals, Cambridge St Andrew’s St Church Baptisms 1837-1901, Great Eversden Independent Baptist Deacon’s Minutes, Cambridge St Andrew’s St Baptist Meeting Members & Baptisms 1689 - 1837, Fordham Miscellaneous, Cambridge St Andrew’s St Baptist Subscribers, Mill Lane Independent Chapel Births & Baptisms 1819 Cambridge Zion Baptist Associate Roll 1933, Cambridge -1835, Fowlmere Independent Chapel Baptisms 1812-1837, Zion Baptist Church Manuals etc, Cambridge Zion Baptist Fowlmere United Reform Church Baptisms 1942-1946, Dedication of Children 1931-1946, Cambridge Zion Burials 1847-1946 & , Marriages 1843-1946, Fulbourn Baptist Membership & Transfers, Cambridge Zion Baptist Dissenting Congregation Baptisms 1816-1817 & 1831-1836, Membership 1838-1950, Cambridge Zion Baptist Minute Gamlingay Baptist Chapel Baptisms 1815-1837, Haddenham Book 1848-1860, Cambridge Zion Baptist Minute Book Wesleyan Methodist Church Baptisms 1838-1901, Haverhill 1860-1882, Cambridge Zion Baptist Minute Book 1890- Dissenting Protestants Baptisms 1709-1839 & Burials 1790- 1902, Cambridge Zion Baptist Minute Book 1903-1915, 1821, Holcroft’s List 1675, Isleham Protestant Dissenters Cambridge Zion Baptist Missionary Minutes 1917-1935. CD Baptisms 1821-1837, Linton Independent Chapel Baptisms 4178. 1787-1921, Burials 1798-1921 & , Marriages 1879-1908, Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 10: Littleport Independent Chapel Baptisms 1818-1840 & Cambridge and County Baptist Quarterly Jan 1914, Oct Marriages 1818-1832, Littleport Wesleyan Methodist Church 1902, Oct 1912; Cottenham Circuit Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1873-1900, Manea Methodist Church Baptisms
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 35 Chapel Baptisms 1901-1916, Cottenham Methodist Baptisms 1903-1936, Melbourn Zion Baptist Marriages 1906-1948, 1870 -1901, Cottenham Old Meeting Baptisms 1789-1803, Melbourn Zion Plaques in the Chapel, Melbourn Zion Girton Baptist Chapel Book 1913-1931, Girton Baptist Register of members 1903-1950, Melbourn Zion sunday Church Sunday School Report Book 1936-1950, Girton School Attendance Register 1923-1935, Orwel Wesleyan Baptist Women’s Own Cuttings etc, History of Girton Baptist Methodist Baptisms 1915-1951, Redhill and Sandon Chapel, Histon Baptist Church Members List 1858-1891, Independent Baptisms 1814-1835, Royston New Meeting Histon Baptist Church Minutes 1858-1952, Histon Baptist Baptisms 1830-1837, Royston New Meeting Burials 1797- Church Miscellaneous, Histon Baptist Members List 1925- 1837, Royston Old Meeting House Baptisms 1759-1786, 1943, Histon Baptist Members List 1943-1950, Histon Royston Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Baptisms 1888-1950. Baptist Sunday School Accounts 1872-1922, Histon Baptist CD 4217. Sunday School Admissions 1858-1902, Histon Baptist Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 12: Wisbech Sunday School Admissions 1876-1931, Histon Baptist and North Cambs districts - Christchurch United Methodist Sunday School Members 1895-1909, Histon Baptist Sunday Baptisms 1925-1938, Friday Bridge Methodist Baptisms School Minutes 1877-1948, Histon Baptist Sunday School 1871-1936, Guyhirn Wesleyan Methodidt Chapel Baptisms Roll Book 1872-1877, Histon Baptist Sunday School Minute 1869-1923 - Copy, Long Sutton free Methodist Baptism Book 1858-1905, Histon Baptist Sunday School Scholars 1904-1914, Northern Cambs Primitive Methodist Baptisms 1890-1950, Histon Baptist Sunday School Teachers 1858- 1902-1934, Oundle United Reform Church Baptisms 1938- 1902, Histon Baptist Sunday School Union Minutes 1906- 1950, Oundle United Reform Church Marriages 1903-1950, 1910, Histon Baptist Visitors Book 1934-1950, A Review Outwell Primitive Methodist Chapel Baptisms 1910-1938, of the Work of the Cambridge Village Preachers Association, Outwell United Methodist Church Baptisms 1912-1938, Cambridge Village Preachers Association Preachers 1880- Peterborough Reformed Episcopal Marriages 1882-1914, 1928, Cambridge Village Preachers Association Magazines Peterborough Westgate Street Independent Baptisms 1726- Oct 1917, Sep 1922, Sep 1924, Dec 1928, Mar 1929, Jan 1837, Peterborough Westgate Street IndependentBaptisms 1930, Jun and Sep 1931, Mar, Jun and Sep 1932. CD 4179. 1810-1837, Spaldwick Baptist Church Baptisms 1937-1837, Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 11: Thorney Methodist Church Baptisms 1872-1950, Tydd Bassingbourn, Gamlingay and Royston districts - Barkway St Giles Primitive methodist Chapel Baptisms 1910-1931, Independent Baptisms 1812-1837, Barrington Independent Upwell and Manea Methodist Circuit Baptisms 1938-1950, Chapel Baptisms 1799-1837, Barrington Meeting Church Upwell Baptist Church Attendance Records 1840-1888, Book 1832-1950, Barrington Meeting House Baptisms, Upwell Baptist Church Attendance Records 1888-1950, Burials and Members 1797-1896, Bassingbourn and Upwell Baptist Church Minutes 1840-1908, Upwell Baptist Litlington Independent Minutes 1826-1872, Bassingbourn Church Minutes 1909-1926, Upwell Baptist Church Minutes Congregational Baptisms 1872-1926, Bassingbourn 1927-1949, Upwell Baptist Church papers 1898-1940, Congregational Burials 1873-1919, Bassingbourn Upwell Primitive Methodist Chapel Baptisms 1904-1938, Congregational Collections 1872-1912, Bassingbourn Whittlesey Baptist Births 1810-1837, Whittlesey Independent Congregational Historical Account 1872-1950. Bassingbourn Church Members 1815-1836, Whittlesey Independent Congregational Marriages 1872-1919, Bassingbourn Church Baptisms 1814-1837, Wisbech Circuit Wesleyan Congregational Minutes 1872-1921, Bassingbourn Methodist Baptisms 1810--1837, Wisbech Circuit Wesleyan Congregational Rollof Church members 1849-1936, Methodist Baptisms 1839-1852, Wisbech Circuit Wesleyan Bassingbourn Congregational Roll of Members 1826- Methodist Baptisms 1852-1885, Wisbech Circuit Wesleyan 1901, Bassingbourn Congregational Visitors, Bassingbourn Methodist Baptisms 1885-1920, Wisbech Dissenting Independent Baptisms 1826-1837, Bassingbourn Protestants Baptisms 1819-1837, Wisbech Ely Place Baptist Independent Chapel Baptisms 1826-1872, Bassingbourn Church Burials 1818-1837, Wisbech Free Methodist Baptisms Independent Chapel Burials 1850-1872, Bassingbourn 1897-1937, Wisbech General Baptist Register Baptisms Independent Chapel Marriages 1837-1872, Bassingbourn 1700-1837, Wisbech General Baptist Burials 1706-1830, United Reform Baptisms 1881-1906, Biggleswade Wesleyan Wisbech General Baptist marriages 1715-1838, Wisbech methodist Circuit Baptisms 1842-1891, Gamlingay Little Church Street United Methodist Marriages 1908-1937, Baptist Bunyan Book, Gamlingay Baptist Chapel Baptisms Wisbech Methodist Circuit 1 Baptisms 1920-1950, Wisbech 18-15-1837,Gamlingay Baptist Minutes 1777-1836, Methodist Circuit 2 Baptisms 1946-1950, Wisbech Methodist Gamlingay Baptist Minutes 1821-1851, Gamlingay Baptist Circuit 1 Baptisms 1832-1863, Wisbech Methodist Circuit 1 Minutes 1851-1896, Gamlingay Baptist Notes and Meetings Baptisms 1866-1889, Wisbech Methodist Circuit 1 Baptisms 1711-1792, Great Eversden Congregational Baptisms 1838- 1890-1949, Wisbech Methodist Circuit 2 Baptisms 1851- 1845, Great Eversden Congregational Baptisms 1857-1918, 1866, Wisbech Methodist Circuit 2 Baptisms 1903-1920, Great Eversden Congregational Church Members 1838, Wisbech Primitive Methodist Marriages 1907-1950, Wisbech Great Eversden Congregational Marriages 1902-1937, Great Ship Lane Baptist Church Births 1790-1836, Wisbech Ship Eversden Independent Meeting 1689-1837, Holcroft’s Lane Baptist Church Burials 1804-1837, Wisbech Ship Lane List 1675, Melbourn Independent Baptisms and Burials Baptist Church Marriages 1715-1838, Wisbech Unitarian 1800-1837, Melbourn Independent Baptisms 1800-1841, Baptist Church baptisms 1788-1837, Wisbech united Melbourn Independent Burials 1810-1916, Melbourn Methodist Baptisms 1906-1949, Wisbech Upper Hill Street Independent Chapel Notes, Melbourn Zion Baptist Burials Baptist Births and Baptisms 1790-1836, Wisbech Upper
36 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Hill Street Baptist Burials 1802-1837, Wisbech Upper Hill Chudleigh, Combeinteignhead, Dawlish, Dunchideock, Street Baptist Notes 1804-1827, Wisbech URC Baptisms East Ogwell, East Teignmouth, Exminster, Haccombe, Ide, 1819-1866 1892-1923, Wisbech URC Marriages 1890-1923, Kenn, Kenton, Mamhead, Powderham, Shaldon, Shillingford Wisbech URC Constitution, Wisbech URC List of Members St. George, Starcross, Stokeinteignhead, St. Thomas the 1940-1950, Wisbech URC Marriages 1889-1923, Wisbech Apostle (by Exeter), Trusham, West Ogwell and West URC Minutes 1899-1928, Wisbech Wesleyan Chapel Teignmouth. Includes Chudleigh United Reformed Church Marriages 1853-1855, Wisbech Wesleyan Marriages 1904- and East Teignmouth Zion Independent Chapel Burials. 1950. CD 4218. With photographs of the churches and extracts from White’s Cambridgeshire non-conformists - Compilation 13: Directory (1850) and Kelly’s Directory of Devonshire (1902). Cambridge City - British Lying in Hospital, Cambridge CD 4231. Barnwell Wesleyan Baptisms 1816-1837, Cambridge Church Torquay burials: Torquay Cemetery burial index; Tormoham of John Conder Baptisms 1739-1780, Cambridge Castle Upton St Mary Magdalene and St Marychurch burials; Street Methodist Baptisms 1824-1903, Cambridge Castle Cockington burial register. CD 4232. Street Methodist Marriages 1927-1950, Cambridge Circuit Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1851-1950, Cambridge GLOUCESTERSHIRE Downing Street Independent Baptisms 1688-1837, Bristol burgesses, 1525-1557: calendared from the Cambridge Downing Street Meeting House Marriages 1839- Corporation’s Great Audit Books. Price, Roger. CD 4208. 1850, Cambridge Emmanuel Street Baptisms 1819-1846, Bristol marriage licence bonds 1701-1710: chronological Cambridge Emmanuel Street Members List etc 1892-1961, index and name index. Price, Roger. CD 4209. Cambridge Emmanuel Street Minute Book 1734-1892, Bristol St Joseph Roman Catholic Church, baptisms 1835- Cambridge Hills Road Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1870- 1837. CD 4214. 1950, Cambridge Hills Road Wesleyan Methodist Marriages Five hundred ‘missing’ Bristol burgesses, 1599-1607: 1908-1950, Cambridge Institution Burials 1930-1932, calendared from the Corporation’s Great Audit Books. Price, Cambridge Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic Pound Hill Roger. CD 4213. Baptisms 1834-1840, Cambridge Newmarket Road Primitive Gloucestershire inns and taverns, 1868. Bartlett, Eileen and Methodist Tabernacle Marriages 1928-1941, Cambridge Bartlett, John. 647 GLO. Our Lady and English Martyrs Confirmations 1873-1927, Marriages at St James’s Church, Bristol, 1559-1753: Cambridge Our Lady and English Martyrs Baptisms 1856- chronological index and name index. Price, Roger. CD 4210. 1900, Cambridge Our Lady and English Martyrs Burials Marriages at Temple Church, Bristol, 1558-1753: including 1881-1908, Cambridge Our Lady and English Martyrs transcripts of the Register 1558-1719, Bishop’s Transcripts Marriages 1849-1918, Cambridge Primitive Methodist 2nd 1671-1753 and marriage licence bonds 1637-1753. Price, Circuit Baptisms 1872-1926, Cambridge Romsey Town Roger. CD 4211. Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1906-1950, Cambridge Stroud Union Workhouse deaths 1836-1866. Bartlett, Eileen Union Register of Births 1914-1935, Cambridge Wesleyan and Bartlett, John. 365.3 STR. Methodist Circuit Baptisms 1836-1851, Cambridge Wesleyan HAMPSHIRE Registry Baptisms 1818-1837, Cambridge Victoria Road Andover Division, Thorngate Hundred. Andover Regiment. Congregational Baptisms 1911-1949, Cambridge Victoria Broughton Company 1626-1638. Barnes, Michael. 355.3 Road Congregational Burials 1918-1949, Cambridge BAR. Victoria Road Congregational Church Records 1877-1892, Andover Division, Wherwell Hundred. Andover Regiment. Cambridge Victoria Road Congregational Marriages 1917- Wherwell Company 1626-1638. Barnes, Michael. 355.3 1948, Cambridge Victoria Road Congregational Members BAR. 1877-1950, Dr Williams Library Births 1768-1837, Primitive Andover and Fawley Divisions, Barton Stacey and North Part Methodist Circuit Ministers, Wesleyan Registry Baptisms of Buddlesgate Hundreds. Andover Regiment. Barton Stacey 1818-1837. CD 4219. Company 1626-1638. Barnes, Michael. 355.3 BAR. Cambridgeshire Petty Session Records: Whittlesey Division Andover Division, Andover Infra and Andover Extra 1915-1949; Wisbech 1946-1949 and Wisbech Town 1915- Hundreds. Kingsclere Regiment. Andover Infra Company 1949. . CD 4212. 1626-1638 and Andover Extra Company 1626-1640. Barnes, CHESHIRE Michael. 355.3 BAR. Ashton-under-Lyne Poorhouse and Union Workhouse census Fawley Division, South Part of Buddlesgate Hundred. 1841-1901; Macclesfield Union Workhouse and West Park Andover Regiment. Hurley (1) Company 1626-1638. Barnes, Hospital Death Register 1848-1949. CD 4177. Michael. 355.3 BAR. Cheshire Forest Eyre Roll 1357: Part One - the Forest of Hampshire burial index 1838-1865: for all of Hampshire Wirral. Edited by Hill, Phyllis; Heery. J and members of the excluding the Isle of Wight. CD 4227. Ranulf Hidden Society. 364 HIL. Hartley Wintney Union: workhouse births and deaths 1868- DEVON 1914. Bartlett, Eileen and Bartlett, John. 365.3 HAR. Deanery of Kenn: an index of baptisms, marriages and burials KENT in the parishes of Alphington, Ashcombe, Bishopsteignton, Kent parish registers, 1537-2000: Volume 15 - Bilsington, Brabourne, Burmarsh, Frittenden, Shadoxhurst, Shepherdswell, St Lawrence, Thanet, St Peters, Thanet,
AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 37 Thurnham, Westwell. CD 4233. William and Pritchett, James Pigott. 280 ELL. The parish registers and records in the Diocese of Rochester: Hull Eastern Cemetery, monumental inscriptions, parts one a summary of information collected by the Ecclesiastical and two. 929.32 HUL. Records Committee. CD 4215. Hull General Cemetery (Spring Bank Cemetery) including The registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester, 1657- the Quaker Burial Ground, monumental inscriptions. 929.32 1837, with lists of the prebendaries, head masters of the HUL. Grammar School, minor canons and organists. Shindler, Hull General Cemetery (Spring Bank Cemetery) monumental Thomas. CD 4216. inscriptions, part two (descriptions from stones which have since been removed). 929.32 HUL. LANCASHIRE Index to place names in the Yorkshire Ridings (1821). Norris, Crown pleas of the Lancashire Eyre 1292. Volume 2 - text Christopher. YORKSHIREK 914.28 NOR. with translation, parts 1 and 2 and indexes. Edited by Lynch, Linthwaite Wesleyan Methodist burials, 1838-2003 (arranged Margaret E. and members of the Ranulf Hidden Society. 364 alphabetically). 929.32 LIN. LYN. Pateley Bridge St Mary and St Cuthbert burials 1700-1940; St Early records of Oldham: including Oldham Poor Lay 1681- Mary monumental inscriptions. CD 4228. 1685 and 1688-1708; inhabitants of the Parish of Oldham The records of Guilsborough, Nortoft and Hollowell, 1682, 1707, 1733; index to Oldham Townships Settlement Northamptonshire. Renton, Ethel L. and renton, Eleanor L. Certificates 1697-1741; Oldham Constables’ Lay 1773-1777; 929.31 REN. Oldham Land Tax 1788; Oldham Militia List 1781 and 1788; Dunn’s Survey of Oldham 1829. CD 4234. Ripon Market Place: the evolution of the centre of a historic NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Yorkshire market town. Edited by Younge, Mike. CD 4229. Oundle Wesleyan Methodist Circuit: baptisms 1840-1914 Swinton St Margaret: baptisms 1800-1939, burials 1817- and marriages 1899-1914. Bartlett, Eileen and Bartlett, John. 1900, Dade Register 1785-1815, plus monumental 929.31 OUN. inscriptions, war memorials and photographs, historical notes with early church photograph, along with early censuses for OXFORDSHIRE 1801 to 1831 and directory. CD 4064. Bicester Blue Coats School: boys admitted 1745-1788 and 1860-1909. Bartlett, Eileen and Bartlett, John. 372 BIC. EUROPE Oxfordshire monumental inscriptions. Wod, Anthony, The Family Tree historical maps book of Europe: a country- Hulton, Dr. and Hinton, Mr. Edited by Phillips, Sir T. 929.32 by-country atlas of European history, 1700s-1900s. Dolan, WOO. Allison. 912 DOL. The people of Bicester. Bartlett, Eileen and Bartlett, John. 929.36 BIC. FAMILY HISTORIES STAFFORDSHIRE Clan Lamont. McNie, Alan. Tracing your Birmingham ancestors: a guide for family and LAMONT. local historians. Sharpe, Michael. 929.1 SHA. Whelan family history- the family of WILTSHIRE Adam Whelan and Mary Mcinnerney: a genealogical outline of the descendants of Adam Whelan, Miscellany of bastardy records for Wiltshire: Volume 9, born Tipperary, who migrated to Australia in 1855. Whelan, Marlborough and Ramsbury Petty Session Division, Justices’ Tony. CD 4225. Minute Books including other cases of interest, 1874-1884. Edited by Cole, Jean A. 929.31 COL. Miscellany of bastardy records for Wiltshire: Volume 10, IRELAND Swindon and District Petty Session Division, 1869-1878 and The Ulster suffragettes. Hogg, Elaine. CD 1880-1886. Edited by Church, Rosemary 929.31 COL. 4180. Poor Law in Wiltshire: removal orders, settlement certificates CORK and settlement examinations, 1670-1890. Wiltshire Family Registers of Fermoy Garrison Church held History Society 929.31 WIL. at the Public Record Office: baptisms 1920- Salisbury City Coroners’ inquests of the late 19th and early 1922, transcribed and indexed. CD 4220. 20th centuries: Volume Three, 1899-1901. Edited by Cole, Jean A. 347 COL. DUBLIN YORKSHIRE Bully’s Acre and Royal Hospital, Kilmainham graveyards - history and inscriptions. Edited by Murphy, Sean. CD 4073. The Company of Merchant Taylors in the City of York: The Kingstown directory, or local guide, containing a register of admissions 1560-1835. Smith, David M. 929.61 complete and correct list of the residents, streets, terraces, SMI. avenues, parks, etc., May 1867. CD 4077. Filey, St Oswald’s monumental inscriptions, part one. 929.32 Memorial inscriptions from St Catherine’s Church and FIL. graveyard, Dublin. Edited by Murphy, Sean. CD 4074. A history of the nonconformist churches of York. Ellerby,
38 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 Memorial inscriptions from St James Graveyard, Dublin. CD MIDLOTHIAN 4076. Canongate Parish, Edinburgh, burials 1820-1851. CD 4153. Memorial inscriptions from the Moravian Cemetery, Burial indexes for Fala and Soutra 1829-1854; Heriot 1691- Whitchurch, County Dublin. Edited by Murphy, Sean. CD 1819, 1845-1854; Stow 1722-1854. CD 4087. 4075. St Cuthbert’s Parochial Board, Edinburgh, index to paupers’ KERRY claims 1850-1852. CD 4054. Parish of Holyroodhouse or Canongate, register of marriages A guide to finding your ancestors in Kerry. Caball, Kerry. 1564-1800. CD 4156. 929.1 CAB. Burial indexes for Lasswade 1634-1641, 1820-1854; SLIGO Newbattle 1696-1819,1838-1854; Newton 1730-1805,1823- Sligo Independent county directory, almanac and guide 1889. 1854. CD 4088. CD 4170. Burial indexes for Borthwick 1784-1854; Carrington 1698- 1815,1820-1854; Cockpen 1747-1813,1839-1854; Cranston SRI LANKA 1738-1746, 1853-1857; Crichton 1679-1818,1843-1854; Temple 1697-1815. CD 4086. Kegalla, Sri Lanka, St John the Baptist Church, births and Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh, monumental inscriptions. baptisms from 1925. Hewson, Eileen. CD 4223. Gerard, Caroline. CD 4048. Kopay Jaffna, Sri Lanka, St Mary’s Church, burials from 1854. Burial index for Inveresk 1750-1763 and 1783-1854. CD Hewson, Eileen. CD 4222. 4085. The people of Calton Hill. Mitchell, Anne. SCOTLAND / SCOTLAND MIDLOTHIAN 941.34 MIT. Highland Jacobites 1745. McDonnell, Frances. 355.3 McD. NAIRNSHIRE ANGUS St Ninian Press & Nairnshire Advertiser and Nairn County Birkhill Cemetery, Dundee, monumental inscriptions and Press & Advertiser: deaths and obituaries 1892-1899. Farrell, photographs, 1891-2010. CD 4243. Stuart. SCOTLAND / NAIRN 929.38 FAR. ARGYLL Dunvegan St Mary’s Church, Isle of Skye, monumental WALES inscriptions and photographs, 1787-2012. CD 4236. BRECONSHIRE Broadford Cemetery, Isle of Skye, monumental inscriptions Llangamarch St Cadmarch Parish Church, Salem & Nazereth and photographs, 1907-2015. CD 4238. Chapels monumental inscriptions. CD 4175. Carbost Burial Ground, Isle of Skye, monumental inscriptions Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn, St. Michael Parish Church and photographs, 1717-2015. CD 4237. monumental inscriptions. CD 4174. Hawkhill Cemetery, Stevenston, North Ayrshire, monumental inscriptions and photographs, 1899-2011, Part 2. CD 4245. MONMOUTHSHIRE AYRSHIRE Argoen Infants School admissions register 1899-1920. Lewis, D. CD 4199. Hawkhill Cemetery, Stevenston, North Ayrshire, monumental Ynysddu Infants School log book 1910-1911 and admissions inscriptions and photographs, 1899-2011, Part 1. CD 4244. 1904-1919. Lewis, D. CD 4196. FIFE Abercairn Girls School admissions register, 1886-1912. Lewis, Loyal Tay Fencibles. Thomson, David. CD 4183. D. CD 4200. East Neuk memorial stones. CD 4184. Trinant, Horeb Congregational Church, a photographic and East Neuk tragedies: the real cost of fish. CD 4185. transcribed record of the graveyard from 1844. CD 4197. East Neuk tragedies: the real cost of fish - further details. CD Islwyn Methodist Circuit baptisms and marriages for Bedwas, 4186. Blackwood, Newbridge, Pontllanfraith and Trinant. Lewis, D. CD 4198. INVERNESS-SHIRE Brachlich-Gollanfield Cemetery, monumental inscriptions and photographs, 1725-1992. CD 4240. Ardersier Cemetery, monumental inscriptions and photographs, 1862-2014. CD 4241. Alvie Parish Church, monumental inscriptions and photographs, 1785-2012. CD 4242. KINCARDINESHIRE Kinneff Churchyard, monumental inscriptions and photographs, 1907-2015. CD 4239.
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44 AIGS The Genealogist March 2016 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC. ABN: 97 600 455 890
Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2015
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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC.
ABN: 97 600 455 890
Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2015
CONTENTS Page
Annual Report of the Council 3
Statement by Council 4
Independent Audit Report 6
Appendix to the Audit Report 7
Asset and Liabilities Statement 8
Income and Expenditure Statement 9
Statement of Cash Flow 10
Notes to the Financial Statements 11
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Councilors’ appointments and resignations for the period February 2015 to February 2016:
Name Elected/Appointed Retired/Resigned David Karalapillai 13 July 2015 Peter Enlund 10 August 2015 Carolyn Morrisey 9 November 2015 James Bulbrook 9 November 2015
STATEMENT BY COUNCIL
Eligible to Attend Attended Gail White 11 9 Pauline Turville 11 10 David Karalapillai 6 6 Russell Cooper 11 10 Robin Stutchbury 11 11 Rosemary Allen 11 9 Jenny Wyke 11 9 Gary Fitzgerald 11 8 Bev Greenway 11 11 Wendy Brown 11 9 Carolann Thomson 11 7 Peter Enlund 5 5 Carolyn Morrisey 2 2 James Bulbrook 2 2
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APPENDIX TO THE AUDIT REPORT
We provide the following information with regard to our audit report:
Name of auditor: Graeme D. Price
Address of auditor: Level 2, 19 Shierlaw Avenue, Canterbury
Name of auditing firm: Price Gibson Pty Ltd
Professional Association: Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Auditor Registration #: 10498
Name of Association: The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc
ABN of Association: 97 600 455 890
Address of Association: 1/41 Railway Road, Blackburn
Year of income being audited: 2015
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7 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC. REGISTRATION NO. A0027436X, ABN 97 600 455 890 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES STATEMENT AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2015
NOTE 2015 2014 $ $ CURRENT ASSETS
Cash 3 367,812 348,070 Receivables 4 3,400 2,000 Prepayments 5 4,651 4,114 Inventories 5,414 4,330 ------TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $381,277 $358,514 ------NON -CURRENT ASSETS
Propert y, Plant and Equipment 6 1,462,848 1,496,512 ------TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS 1,462,848 1,496,512 ------TOTAL ASSETS $1,844,125 $1,855,026 ------CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors and Borrowings 7 18,440 6,587 Accrued Expenses 8 - - Other 9 69,114 75,498 ------TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES $87,554 $82,085 ------
NON -CURRENT LIABILITIES ------TOTAL LIABILITIES $87,554 $82,085 ------NET ASSETS $1,756,571 $1,772,941 ======
REPRESENTED BY:
MEMBERS' FUNDS
General Fund 10 1,664,033 1,660,403 Life Members' Fund 11 40,509 40,509 Asset Revaluation Reserve 12 52,029 72,029 ------TOTAL MEMBERS' FUNDS $1,756,571 $1,772,941 ======
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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC. REGISTRATION NO. A0027436X, ABN 97 600 455 890 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2015
Note 2015 2014 $ $ INCOME Membership 128,500 126,804 Sale of Books and Merchandise 14 2,572 7,874 Interest Received 10,730 10,473 Fund Raising 5,294 5,599 Certificate, Sterling Cheque and Other Services 3,979 7,539 Research/Education/Seminars 8,711 9,401 Library Facilities 5,409 4,142 Advertising 2,363 2,942 Donations 13 3,373 5,134 Sundry Income 485 525 Bendigo Income 8,621 9,261 Gain (Loss) on Exchange Rate (80) 8 Grants - 1,818 ------TOTAL INCOME $179,958 $189,234 ======EXPENSES Magazine Production and Distribution 31,262 34,294 Accommodation 16,119 18,051 Staff Costs 49,382 45,358 Administration 21,427 15,257 Library Expenses 10,905 23,140 Cost of Book Sales and Merchandise 14 2,527 4,069 Certificate, Sterling Cheque and Other Services 3,334 5,542 2014 Audit Fee 4,500 3,891 Bank Fees 2,139 2,335 Publicity and Advertising Expenses 1,294 682 Research/Education/Seminar Costs 203 384 Bendigo Expenses 5,105 5,760 ------TOTAL EXPENSES $148,197 $157,641 ------NET CASH SURPLUS FOR YEAR 31,761 31,593 ------Less Depreciation 6 22,759 22,995 Less Amortisation–Warrnambool Assets Loaned 5,372 5,372 ------NET SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR $3,630 $3,226 ======TRANSFER OF NET SURPLUS General Fund 3,630 3,226 ------TOTAL SURPLUS DISTRIBUTED $3,630 $3,226 ======
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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC. REGISTRATION NO. A0027436X, ABN 97 600 455 890 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2015
2015 2014 $ $ Cash Flow from Operating Activities Subscriptions, Joining Fees and Gift Vouchers 128,500 126,804 Sales Receipts 2,572 7,874 Interest Received 10,730 10,473 Other Operating Income 38,155 44,083 Payments to Suppliers and Employees (144,825) (155,811) ------Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 34,212 33,423 Cash Flows from Investing Activities Payments for Buildings - - Payments for Library Collection (9,967) (14,816) Payments for Plant and Equipment (4,503) (18,494) ------Net Cash Used in Investing Activities (14,470) (33,310) Cash Flows from Financing Activities (Decrease)/Increase in Loan - - Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities - - Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash Held 19,742 113 Cash at the beginning of the Financial Year 348,070 347,957 ------Cash at the end of reporting period $367,812 $348,070 ======
Reconciliation of Cash Cash on Hand $367,812 $348,070 ======
RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO OPERATING RESULT
Operating Surplus 3,630 3,226 NON CASH ITEMS: Amortisation and Depreciation 28,131 28,367 ------NET CASH SURPLUS FOR YEAR 31,761 31,593 Changes in asset & liabilities Decrease (Increase) in Current Inventories (1,084) (70) Decrease (Increase) in Current Receivables (1,400) (2,000) Decrease (Increase) in Prepayments (536) 1,590 Increase (Decrease) in Trade Creditors 11,854 (7,294) Increase (Decrease) in Other Current Liabilities (6,383) 12,804 Increase (Decrease) in Accruals ------NET CASH PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES $34,212 $33,423 ======
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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GENEALOGICAL STUDIES INC. REGISTRATION NO. A0027436X, ABN 97 600 455 890 NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2015
NOTE 1 – STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
This financial report is a special purpose financial report prepared in order to satisfy the financial reporting requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act (Victoria). The Council has determined that the Association is not a reporting entity.
The financial report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act (Victoria) and the following Australian Accounting Standards:
AASB 101: Presentation of Financial Statements AASB 1031: Materiality AASB 110: Events after the Balance Sheet Date
No other Accounting Standards, Urgent Issues Group Interpretations or other authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board have been applied.
The financial report has been prepared on an accruals basis and is based on historical costs and does not take into account changing money values, or except where specifically stated, current valuations of non-current assets.
The following material accounting policies, which are consistent with the previous period, unless otherwise stated, have been adopted in the preparation of this financial report.
Depreciation
Depreciation of office and library equipment, Library Collection, Microfiche/ Microfilm and CD Roms has been calculated on a prime cost basis so as to write off the net cost of each item equally over its effective working life.
Depreciation of the Institute’s Library building has been calculated on the diminishing value basis.
NOTE 2 – TAXATION
The Institute is exempt from the liability to pay income tax, as it is a non-profit organisation under Section 23 of the Income Tax Assessment Act.
NOTE 3 – CASH 2015 2014 $ $ Cash Held in Australia 117,503 136,245 Term Deposits in Australia 248,249 210,000 Cash Held Overseas (Yorkshire Account) 2,338 1,825 ------368,090 348,070 ======
Included in the Cash Held in Australia is the AIGS Library Fund, which is maintained in compliance with the Australian Taxation Office legislation for Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Donations to the Library Collection (including Donate-A-Fiche). The balance of this account as at 31 December 2015 was $21,731.
The Yorkshire Bank Account is operated to assist in easier payment of accounts in British Pound Sterling £. During the year the exchange rate fluctuated, resulting in an expense of $80. This gain is due principally to a currency fluctuation as at 31 December 2015.
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NOTE 4 – RECEIVABLES 2015 2014 $ $
Sundry Debtors 3,400 - Trade Debtors - 2,000
------$3,400 $2,000 ======
NOTE 5 – PREPAYMENTS
Insurance 4,651 4,114 ------$4,651 $4,114 ======NOTE 6 – PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT
Land and Building – at Cost 290,930 290,930 Land – Market Value Increase at 2012 438,320 438,320 Less Provision for Depreciation – Building (111,657) (107,179) ------617,593 622,071
Office & Library Equipment – at Cost 287,580 283,076 Less Provision for Depreciation (253,858) (247,121) ------33,722 35,995 Genealogical Library Collection – at Valuation Library Books – at Valuation 188,875 184,867 Microfiche/film – at Valuation 641,161 641,161 CD Rom – at Valuation 100,782 96,141 ------Total Genealogical Library Collection 930,818 922,169 Less Provision – for Amortisation (120,621) (83,683) ------811,533 838,486 ------Total Property Plant and Equipment $1,462,848 $1,496,512 ======
NOTE 7 – CREDITORS AND BORROWINGS
Trade Creditors 17,406 5,779 Credit Card – Visa 1,034 808 ------$ 18,440 $ 6,587
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NOTE 8 – ACCRUED EXPENSES
Accounting - - Audit ------======
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NOTE 9 – OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES 2015 2014 $ $ Magazine Subscriptions in Advance 2,055 2,290 Members’ Subscriptions in Advance 47,423 57,129 Funds in Advance 263 298 GST Liability 2,409 3,020 Payroll Liabilities 1,302 1,302 Provision for Annual Leave 6,054 4,375 Provision for Salary Sacrifice 882 336 Provision for Superannuation 988 988 Provision for Long Service Leave 7,738 5,760 ------$ 69,114 $ 75,498 ======
NOTE 10 – GENERAL FUND
Balance as at 1 January 2015 1,660,403 1,657,197 Add Surplus for Year 3,630 3,226 Adjustment – Assets Depreciation Schedule - (20) ------Balance as at 31 December 2015 $ 1,664,033 $ 1,660,403
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NOTE 11 – LIFE MEMBERS’ FUND
Balance as at 1 January 2015 40,509 40,509 Subscriptions - - Life Members Provided For ------Balance as at 31 December 2015 $ 40,509 $ 40,509 ======
The subscriptions from Life Members are invested when received and the income from the investment(s) is brought to account when received.
NOTE 12 – ASSET REVALUATION RESERVE
Balance as at 1 January 2015 72,029 92,029
Decline in Value – Microfiche/Microfilm (20,000) (20,000) ------Balance as at 31 December 2015 $ 52,029 $ 72,029 ======
As agreed in 2012, $20,000 of the decline in value of Microfiche/Microfilm has been adjusted against the Asset Revaluation Reserve.
NOTE 13 – LIBRARY FUND DONATIONS
Total donations received in 2015 were $3,373. The Library Fund bank account is maintained in compliance with the Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) legislation.
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NOTE 14 – GROSS PROFIT FROM SALE OF BOOKS AND OTHER MERCHANDISE
2015 2014 $ $
Sales – Books and Other Merchandise 2,572 7,874 ------Less Cost of Sales Stock on Hand as at 1 January 2015 4,330 4,261 Purchases 3,611 4,138 ------
7,941 8,399 Less Stock on Hand 31 December 2015 5,414 4,330 ------Cost of Sales 2,527 4,069 ------Gross Profit 45 3,805 ======% Gross Profit/Sales 2% 48%
NOTE 15 – MEMBERSHIP
At 31 December 2015 the number of members was 1,836 (2014 – 1,915). The number of members excludes magazine subscribers.
2015 2014
Financial Members at start of year 1,915 2,018 Plus New Members 159 162 Less Members lost through non-renewal, death etc ( 238) (265) ------Net growth in Membership (79) (103) ------Financial Members at end of year 1,836 1,915 ======
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