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A Cornish Goldmine in our Library
Ben Gould: from Convict to Pioneer
Lola Russell's Ancestors
The Flying Doctor
John the Coachman
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EDITORIAL TEAM Margaret Vines – chairperson The Editorial Team is pleased to off er readers a wide range of articles in this issue Bill Barlow as you will read below. We continue to seek ideas on how to improve the magazine. Barbara Beaumont So please send your views to us ([email protected]). It’s your magazine. Sue Blackwood Martin Playne Cornish Goldmine is a comprehensive article on the resources available, most of Jenny Redman which are in our GSV Library. This is an excellent ‘how-to’ article on searching for Jeanette Wickham your Cornish ancestors – written by an expert – our own Stephen Hawke.
CREATIVE Ben Gould was an inmate of Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, before being Jeanette Wickham transported to Australia. He became an associate of Ned Kelly. The article is PRINTER by Tony Cocks of Hampshire, England, who has made a study of inmates of the Blue Star Print Vic Parkhurst Prison.
CONTRIBUTIONS Actress Lola Russell’s Ancestors is by Susan Pierotti, who has made a special study We welcome the submission of articles of Lola’s family diaries. The Flying Doctor describes the little known origin of the on family history topics for possible use of planes for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the short life of an Inverleigh publication. man, Cliff Peel. The article is by Jenny Kisler. John the Coachman by Margaret The editor reserves the right to edit/ Vines is a cautionary tale about newspaper articles, illustrating how events are abridge articles to meet space constraints and editorial considerations. By variously described by journalists, and showing how stories can change with time. submitting any written material to us for publication you agree that we may edit Meg Bate has written on how to search the British Parliamentary Papers. Many your writing to satisfy these objectives. do not realise that these online documents contain a wealth of information on Submissions should be the work of the early Australia. In Research Corner we have a special article from Linda Romeril, Author submitting the article and should Director of the Jersey Archive and Collections discussing the Australian not have been published elsewhere connections with the Channel Islands, and the materials available in Jersey for unless agreed. Although we endeavour to take care of all family historians. materials submitted for publication, we regret that we cannot be held responsible We have asked three volunteers at the GSV their views on volunteering. They for any loss or damage. have all emphasised how much they got from volunteering, as well as the time It is advisable to retain original items and they have spent on helping fellow members. Of course, this issue includes all of submit scanned images in high resolution our usual range of regular articles and detailed calendars of events. The Editorial JPG or TIFF fi le format. Team is always looking for new short articles for publication by members. It’s a really good way to record interesting parts of your family history. See our brand CLOSING DATES MARCH 1 JANUARY new website for details on how to submit your article to Ancestor. JUNE 1 APRIL SEPTEMBER 1 JULY Martin Playne DECEMBER 1 OCTOBER Editorial Team
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Pen of the President Pen Allan Lorraine, President of this Society between 1985 volunteer roles. and 1987, was recently awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the community, particularly to aged The events and services provided by the Society are care. Allan Lorraine is a current long-time member of the overwhelmingly provided by volunteers. Some 185 GSV having joined in April 1973. He has been a very active volunteers are now registered as assisting with a multitude member over the years serving as a Councillor from October of activities. A number of members have volunteered 1980 to October 1988. During this time he acted as Treasurer following my article in the last edition of Ancestor and between April 1987 and March 1988 and as President from this has helped the Society enormously. However we are October 1985 and October 1987. always looking for additional assistance with all aspects of the GSV and are currently seeking Web Content Editors, Allan’s accounting qualifi cations enabled him to provide Administration Assistants and Library Research Assistants. sterling service as Treasurer and his time as President is remembered as one of stability and careful management due The web content editors would assist with seeking largely to his business acumen and skills. information from the committees and departments of the Society to post to the website and to review work written Our Library holds fi ve publications authored by Allan. Four by others to ensure consistency of presentation. We have are multi-volume publications in which he records his volunteers who are familiar with the technical process of research of various branches of the Lorraine families in the creating and posting web pages so an understanding of this UK. The fi fth is a volume of transcriptions of the Baptismal process is not a requirement. Volunteers who are interested Registers of St David’s Anglican Church, Moorabbin, in the writing aspect of the role would be most welcome. Victoria for the period January 1889 to October 1983. Each day we endeavour to have administration assistants The Society congratulates Allan on his award. on duty in the reception and bookshop area and we are seeking more volunteers to help. Training will be provided in The Society’s motto: Genealogi semper vigiles all aspects of the role from answering telephone queries to The Society’s Coat of Arms appears on all our offi cial handling the membership and bookshop systems. This role publications including our stationary, our promotional would involve a commitment for a specifi c and regular half material and the cover of this journal. The design was or full day each week wherever possible. The role is to assist developed by the Court of the Lord Lyon of Scotland and the the on-duty staff member and so the volunteer is very much Grant of Arms was made in September 1986. That document part of the offi ce team. has been framed and hangs on the wall of our meeting room. A team of at least four Library Research Assistants are on The motto, Genealogi Semper Vigiles, resides in a scroll duty each day to assist members and non-members to fi nd above the Crest. The Latin translates to genealogists always appropriate resources to enable them to progress their watchful and is a play on the initials of the GSV. family history research. They also provide help in using the library's physical and digital resources. We are seeking It is timely to refl ect on the motto as a wealth of historical volunteers who would like to become Library Research data continues to be published online. Contiguous with Assistants after receiving training. this explosion has been the publication of a multitude of family trees of very dubious quality. As family historians it Should you like to volunteer for any of these roles please is encumbered upon us to be vigilant and watchful to ensure contact me or Eleanor Pugsley by ringing or emailing the that our research practices are of the highest standard. Too Society. often we see family trees populated by information taken verbatim from information posted to the web. Unverifi ed New website information abounds in many publications and confusion By the time that you read this edition of Ancestor our new over the American versus the English manner in which website and membership system will have been operational dates of events are recorded on the trees also compounds for three months. A team of dedicated volunteers and errors. As genealogists, our adherence to good research staff have been involved with the web project for quite principles and practices should be the primary focus to a long time. The website refl ects their hard work and I ensure the integrity of our family history records. wish, on behalf of the Council, to thank them all for their participation in the project. The website will form the Our Volunteers backbone of the Society in the future. This edition of Ancestor contains short articles by three of our long-term volunteers who write about the enjoyment
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 2 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Contents
Articles A Cornish Goldmine in our Library 4 Stephen Hawke
Ben Gould: from Convict to Pioneer 8 Tony Cocks 4 Lola Russell’s Ancestors 12 Susan Pierotti
The Flying Doctor Jenny Kisler 15 4 Volunteering at the GSV Colleen Arulappu, Tina Hocking, Jeanette Bakker 18 Parliamentary Papers Meg Bate 20 8 John the Coachman Margaret Vines 22
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15 Regular Features Editorial 1 Pen of the President 2 Getting it Write 24 18 Additions to the Library 27 Research Corner 30 Members Queries and Brickwall Corner 32 Jottings… and library news 34 20 Genies on the Web 35 Around the Groups 36 Book Reviews 37 What’s On at our Member Societies 38 GSV Member Societies 39 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40 22 News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41 About the GSV 42 Research Services 43 News 44 30 What’s On at the GSV 45 GSV Bookshop Back cover
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 3 A Cornish Goldmine in our Library by Stephen Hawke
The Cornish have a very long association with Prisoners in Cornwall County Gaol at Bodmin mining and it was new mining ventures that 1831-1899, and Bodmin Bridewell and its inmates attracted them to Australia in large numbers. The 1821-1848, both by S Pocock – Don’t assume fi rst infl ux came to Australia in the late 1840s, your ancestors were always on the right side with almost 5000 migrating to South Australia of the law; all sorts of petty off ences could fi nd Stephen Hawke, Convenor to work in the new Burra copper mines. The them spending periods in the County Gaol or the of the GSV’s South signifi cant gold discoveries in NSW and Victoria Bridewell at Bodmin.1 This extends all the way West England Research & Discussion Circle, in 1851 attracted many more, including many who down to children incarcerated for stealing apples, can be contacted at shifted from South Australia to the goldfi elds. apprentices feuding with their masters and [email protected] The vast majority stayed on, with the result that youngsters locked away with their mothers. many of us in Victoria have Cornish ancestors. Cornwall under threat of invasion 1803 – An Most researchers can achieve reasonable success interesting article in the Cornwall Family History in tracing their Cornish ancestors back through Society journal (refer 942.37005 COR, Sept 2010) the 19th century using the census records, parish which lists men in the militia in the parishes of registers, the civil registration records (from Mabe, Mylor, Penryn and St Gluvias and details 1837) and the British newspaper archives. The the role each individual was to take in the event of focus of this article is on helping you build a richer an invasion by Napoleon. Allocated roles include picture of your Cornish ancestors and their lives removal of horses, cattle and wagons. using a number of the less mainstream sources, some from the 19th century, but mostly from 18th century resources earlier periods. Other than the parish registers and documents held at the Cornwall Record Offi ce (CRO) the We are indeed fortunate that the GSV library other resources for 18th century research are has an incredible array, a virtual goldmine, of somewhat limited. resources to help you uncover your Cornish family’s history. Almost all the resources Court of Quarter Sessions records 1737-1800 discussed in this article are available in the – The CRO has transcribed records from over GSV library, with a few additional resources (as 100 sessions of the Court held in Cornwall identifi ed) available at the nearby State Library over this period. These provide incredible Victoria (SLV). insights into our ancestors’ lives, their disputes and misdemeanours. The transcriptions are 19th century resources available online through The National Archives Tithe maps 1841/42 –Very detailed maps of all (nationalarchives.gov.uk). the Cornish parishes were produced in 1841/42 and copies of these are available on the GSV 1710 Pollbook for Cornwall, by R Grylls – This computers through The Genealogist website. lists over 2100 voters and their parishes. It The maps are all cross-referenced to detailed also details which of the candidates each voter apportionment lists which show the land owners, supported, which may give you an indication of tenants, the location and descriptions of the your ancestor’s political views. The book has owners’/tenants’ allotments and the size, use and an introduction which provides details on the valuation of each of the allotments. This is an electoral system, the candidates and explains excellent resource which can pinpoint the home whether your ancestor voted for a Whig or Tory. of your ancestors in 1841/42. In addition, many of the listed fi elds still carried their original Cornish 17th century resources language names, which can help you trace your T L Stoate has published a number of books that ancestors and their landholdings back through old cover Cornish records from the 16th and 17th property indentures and wills over the centuries. centuries. All of these books have introductions
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 4 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc explaining the background to the taxes, lists and The Visitations of Cornwall 1530, 1573 & 1620, underlying records. by J Vivian – A useful resource if your ancestors included gentry or the well to do. Cornwall Hearth & Poll Taxes 1660-1664, by T Stoate – The hearth tax records are quite 16th century resources comprehensive for Cornwall and they show The Cornwall Muster Roll for 1569, by T Stoate – A where your ancestors stood in the social order in comprehensive listing by parish of men who were Cornish Mine terms of the number of hearths their home had, available for service in the militia. The book’s compared to their neighbours. The lists include excellent introduction explains the background quite a few ‘tightwads’ who were closing up some to the muster and details of the weapons and of their hearths to avoid paying the tax! armaments many of the men were listed as holding, ready for action. The Parliamentary Survey of the Duchy of Cornwall 1649 & 1650, by N Pounds (2 volumes, Cornwall Subsidies in the Reign of Henry VIII available at SLV) – This is an important resource 1524 & 1543 and the Benevolence of 1545, by T as it relates to the Commonwealth period and Stoate – These taxation records show whether fi lls the gap when many parish registers where your ancestors were liable for tax (a subsidy or either not kept or were lost in the civil wars. It benevolence). The tax threshold was set at a includes many details on the tenants of the Duchy, fairly low level in 1524, so there is quite extensive including the size of their rental holdings, the rent coverage of the population at that time. payable, whether they operated mills, and in some cases family relationship details are provided. Cornwall Military Survey of 1522 with the Loan Books & a Tinners Muster Roll of 1535, by T A Calendar of Inquisitiones post mortem for Stoate – A wealth of information in this book. Cornwall & Devon 1216-1649, by E Fry – This It identifi es the parishes of our ancestors and book provides a list of the inquisitions into whether they were working as tin miners in 1535. holdings of Crown lands in deceased estates, to The author has extracted lists (by parish) of ascertain what lands were held in each estate Cornwall’s wealthiest people in 1522, as well as and who was the rightful heir. The lists of names of the deceased provide the year of inquisition (by regnal year) and references as to where the underlying records are held. life memories The Cornwall Protestation Returns 1642, by T VIDEO BIOGRAPHIES Stoate – Quite comprehensive coverage of the The extraordinary stories men in the county, listed by parish, and in some of ordinary people living ordinary lives cases their occupations are provided. Your ancestors’ religious affi liations may also be revealed, with some men recorded as ‘papists who refused the oath’.
Cornwall Manorial Rentals and Surveys, by T Stoate – This is a grab bag of transcriptions of manorial documents over the period 1297 to 1631. It has a good index utilising the diverse range of spellings applied to our ancestors’ surnames. Today, more than ever before, people are taking a special interest in their family history. Early Stuart Mariners & Shipping: the Maritime Surveys of Cornwall & Devon 1619-1635, by T In the tradition of fireside storytelling, a video biography Gray (available at SLV) – The Government was will entertain and bring joy to your loved ones... forever. concerned by threats of war and took surveys We will produce a beautifully filmed biography featuring to ascertain who would be available for service interviews, photos, other memorabilia and your favourite in the navy, if required. It includes lists by music. parish of sailors, fi shermen, shipwrights, pilots, The legacy of your life... the passions, the trials, the triumphs. shipowners/masters and their servants, as well as bargemen located in the inland parishes (mostly Special 20% Please contact us for an obligation free men, but there are also some women listed). discount to quotation Many entries include the person’s age, and men ‘Ancestor’ identifi ed as fi shing off Newfoundland at the time subscribers [email protected] of the survey is another highlight. Limited time only www.lifememoriesvideo.com.au see website for details
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 5 Cornish Mine
Image 1: Map of St Austell Bay & Fowey, from Norden’s map of 1610. From the author’s collection.
of the Lords and Stewards of the manors. Other transfers. Several thousand names are included details in the lists include the occupations of in the index and contents. some men, some family relationships (e.g., father or son of), many details on the parish clergy and Other resources identifi cation of landowners, paupers and aliens. Looking beyond our resources at the GSV, the following sources provide further insights into Charter of Pardon 1508 – An article in the our ancestors’ lives: Cornwall Family History Society journal (942.37005 COR, Sept 2001) which lists the Cornwall OPC (Online Parish Clerks) – Use Cornish Stannary members (tin miners) who the free online ‘extra searches’ menu for were granted pardons following the rebellions of more unusual records such as apprenticeship 1497. Only 41 names listed, but what a coup to indentures (from 1696), bastardy bonds (from fi nd an ancestor listed there! 1703), institution inmates at the Bodmin gaol and Bridewell, land tax records (1799 and 1873), Early resources parish settlement records (from 1698), school These early resources are largely provided for admissions (from 1870s), voter lists (from 1834) historic interest; as they pre-date the devastation and some wills (from 1538). The ‘database search’ of the Black Death, the prospects of tracing menu includes non-conformist baptisms and ancestors back to these records are fairly limited. transcriptions of donated GRO birth, marriage and death certifi cates. The Caption of Seisin of the Duchy of Cornwall 1337, by P Hull (available online through Malcolm McCarthy document collection (www. FamilySearch, Family History Books) – This is a mccarthyindex.org) – This free online database transcription of the surveys that took place on the has a name search and full copies or transcriptions foundation of the Duchy of Cornwall by Edward of around 2000 18th and 19th century documents III in 1337 (his son, the Black Prince, was the fi rst rescued from Cornish law fi rms. Duke). The details include the names of hundreds of tenants and the size, location and rent payable Cornwall Record Offi ce – The CRO is running a for their tenancies in the new Duchy’s lands. project which is slowly transcribing poor law records (Guardians’ minute books) for the county, Cornwall Feet of Fines 1195-1377, by J Rowe – with transcriptions now online for some years Nothing to do with feet or fi nes! These records for Falmouth, Helston and Launceston poor law document the generally friendly settlement unions (search on the CRO site for The Poor of lawsuits for the possession/transfer of Law Project #2). The CRO also has an excellent property (usually tenements or landholdings). online search function which often provides quite The lawsuits were undertaken to ensure the detailed descriptions of the contents of their vast judgements provided legal imprimatur for the archive of documents. Their holdings of property
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Image 2: Mevagissey, by Max Garner. Used with permission. indentures are an outstanding resource for family Tudor Cornwall, by A Rowse; and, Tudor Cornwall, historians and document copies can be obtained by J Chynoweth. from the CRO for a reasonable cost. The CRO’s online Gazetteer of Cornish Manors should be Online, available free at archive.org – The consulted to identify which manors held land in parochial history of Cornwall (volumes I-IV), by parishes of interest, to then research manorial D Gilbert; The Circle, or historical survey of sixty records through the CRO, or the LDS fi lms parishes and towns in Cornwall (1819), by W catalogue. Penaluna; Excursions in the County of Cornwall (1824), by F Stockdale; and, best of all, Cornwall: Maps Its mines and miners (1855), by J Leifchild. 19th century – Ordnance Survey maps, available free online through the National Library of South West England Research & Scotland website. Discussion Circle (SWERD) The GSV’s SWERD discussion circle meets on a 1760 – The Gentleman’s Magazine maps of The monthly basis for presentations and discussion Road from London to Landsend and The Road from on topics of interest for members researching Exeter to Truro (available online, listed under their ancestors from Cornwall (and Devon and Cornwall on the Genmaps website). These maps Somerset). Meetings this year have focused on show in fi ne detail the routes our ancestors would the Cornish on the Victorian goldfi elds, disease have taken for long distance overland travel to or and epidemics in the south west counties, the from Cornwall. Court of Quarter Sessions records and helping breakthrough members’ research brickwalls. GSV 1610 – John Norden’s Manuscript maps of members with research interests in the south Cornwall and its nine hundreds (available at west counties are welcome to attend our meetings SLV), which is both a beautiful publication and and join in the discussion (refer to the GSV a wealth of information on Cornwall in the early website for meeting dates). 17th century. We look forward to hearing at future SWERD Books meetings of your success (or problems) in using Books from the GSV library and online can these resources to further your research and gain provide key background to the lives of our insights into your Cornish ancestors’ lives and ancestors over the centuries: stories. GSV library – Cornwall: a history, by P Payton;
Note 1. The Bridewell was a prison for women and those convicted of less serious off ences.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 7 Ben Gould: from Convict to Pioneer
by Tony Cocks
On 31 December 1846, in the Nottingham Town report stating he had been ‘Four times convicted and Country Quarter Sessions, Benjamin Gould, of Felony: Very bad: guilty of gross violence to aged only 16, was found guilty of ‘stealing from offi cers: ever ready to join in riot and disorder’.5 the person’. This was not his fi rst brush with the He fi nally arrived on 4 July 1851 at Norfolk Island law – he had previously been convicted four times as his designated Station of Gang where he was for felony and three times for vagrancy. He was to serve two years as a period of Gang Probation sentenced to transportation for seven years. before becoming eligible for a Ticket of Leave. His Conduct Record then charts his continuing Benjamin was born c1829 in the civil parish of behaviour: St. Mary, Nottingham, the son of Benjamin and • 14.07.1851: Norfolk Island: Disobedience: Tony can be contacted on Sarah Gould. At the time of his transportation [email protected] Two months hard labour in chains. he had three younger siblings, Thomas, Samuel • 09.12.1851: Norfolk Island: Disobedience: and Ann.1 Seven days hard labour in chains. As part of the standard interim holding • 29.12.1851: Norfolk Island: Disobedience: arrangements, he was fi rst received at Millbank One month hard labour in chains. Prison, London and on 31 May 1847 transferred • Same date: Norfolk Island: Disorderly: to Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight to undergo Fourteen days hard labour in chains. reformatory training before his actual • Same date: Norfolk Island: Disorderly: transportation. Apart from mentioning Fourteen days hard labour in chains. his previous convictions, his gaoler’s • 19.01.1852: Norfolk Island: Absent: notes stated that he was single and Fourteen days hard labour in chains. could read and write imperfectly.2 • 05.04.1852: Norfolk Island: Misconduct: Benjamin was discharged Two months hard labour in chains. from Parkhurst Prison on 23 • 12.07.1852: Norfolk Island: Misconduct: January 1851 in readiness for Seven days hard labour in chains.6 transportation.3 He sailed • Undated entry: Arrived per Seppings. from Portsmouth to Van 4 months original probation and 6 months 25 Diemen’s Land aboard the Lady days Norfolk Island time unexpired – conduct Kennaway on 5 February 1851 to be reported in 7 months. eventually reaching Hobart on • 29.09.1852: Port Arthur 28 May 1851.4 • 11.01.1853: Colonial Order: Merit conduct in However, on the advice of the extinguishing a fi re at Port Arthur ship’s superintendent surgeon, • 22.02.1853: Colonial Order: 1.3 Norfolk Island J. Caldwell, the authorities extensions of probation remitted. ordered that he should be sent on to • 08.03.1853: Port Arthur: Disobedience of orders Norfolk Island. Although no specifi c in having a leather strap improperly: reasons are given, the Surgeon had Existing sentence of hard labour extended two reported Benjamin Gould’s behaviour months: Approved 11.03.1853. aboard the ship as ‘Bad’, and this may have • 15.04.1853: Port Arthur: Disobedience of orders been accepted as suffi cient justifi cation for in having a pair of boots improperly: the amended instructions. This decision would Existing sentence of hard labour extended have been reinforced by the Parkhurst Prison three months: Approved 29.04.1853.
Image 1: Benjamin Gould, photograph reproduced with the kind permission of Gary J. Dean
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 8 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 2: The ‘Lady Kennaway’ off Margate homeward bound 1827. Artist W J Huggins. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, cat. no. PY8468 Ben Gould
• July 1853 Pass Holder: (This marks the end of Later that day, Ned and his uncle were gelding his period of probation.) calves. Ben wrapped up a pair of calf’s testicles • 31.12.1853: Campbell Town: Certifi cate of with a note which he asked Ned to deliver to Freedom. Mrs McCormack. Although Ned was not able to deliver the package to her in person, he got into a Benjamin Gould only remained in Van Diemen’s fi ght with Mr McCormack. The police became Land a further six months before he migrated to involved with the result that Ned received a six Melbourne, Victoria, aboard the Royal Shepherd months prison sentence, three months for the as a steerage passenger out of Launceston on assault, and three months for delivering the 13 July 1854.7 There is then an intervening gap parcel. of some 16 years before he re-appears in the records. This is not uncommon. Quite a few Benjamin Gould more or less vanishes for the of the Parkhurst Prison transportees became next eight years, presumably carrying on with shepherds or domestic servants on outback his hawking business, then reappears in a report properties or went gold prospecting. As there in The Sydney Morning Herald on 16 December were no prescriptive monitoring arrangements 1878: requiring record keeping, invariably marriage, birth of children or death certifi cates became A man named Ben Gould, a hawker, and a normal point of re-emergence for tracing sympathiser with the Kellys, was arrested on purposes. In Benjamin Gould’s case, however, it Saturday for complicity with the gang. He was occurred through a meeting at Benalla in Victoria, remanded for a week to Beechworth gaol.10 sometime in October 1870, with Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly, later to become Australia’s most notorious No further explanation is off ered by the and iconic bushranger, when Kelly was still newspaper as to the particulars of the complicity a youngster aged about 14. This meeting and charge, although the situation becomes a little subsequent events are ‘factionally’ described clearer from a report in The Argus fi ve days later: in Peter Carey’s The True Story of Ned Kelly.8 The incident was described on two occasions in It is not intended to proceed tomorrow with the dictations by Ned Kelly himself to Joe Byrne, case against the hawker, Ben Gould, who was a member of the Kelly Gang, in The Cameron arrested last Saturday at Euroa by Detective Letter written on 14 December 1878 to Mr Donald Ward, under the Outlawry Act on the charge Cameron, MLA in the Victorian Legislative of aiding and abetting the Kellys. In order to Assembly and The Jerilderie Letter probably save the trouble and expense of bringing him written in February 1879 and handed to Edwin from Beechworth Gaol to Euroa, he will be taken Living, accountant at the Bank of New South before the magistrates at Beechworth tomorrow, Wales, which the Kelly Gang robbed, to be passed and a further remand of one week applied for.11 to Samuel Gill, editor of the Jerilderie Gazette.9 On 23 December The Argus confi rmed that this According to these versions of the story, Ben had occurred: Gould was working as a hawker in Victoria. On one occasion, when his wagons became bogged At the police court today, Benjamin Gould, near the Kelly home, he stayed with the Kelly hawker, charged with aiding and abetting the family, awaiting drier conditions. In the morning Kelly gang under the Felons Apprehension Act he discovered that a horse belonging to another of 1878, was, on the application of detective 12 hawker, named McCormack, had wandered Ward, remanded for one week. on to the Kelly property. He sent his boy with the horse to return it. Later the McCormacks On 13 January 1879 he was remanded to Euroa came over and accused Ben Gould of using their where he was brought before the magistrate’s horse to pull his wagons out of the mud and Ned bench on 16 January: of having captured the horse for that purpose.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 9 again up the evidence shall be gone into, and a decision given one way or the other. A hawker named Ben Gould has been committed for trial from Euroa on a somewhat similar charge, the allegation being that at the time of the bank robbery at that township he was heard to say that he “would have £500 out of that bank”. At Ben Gould the time he thought he was speaking to the bank manager, but unfortunately for him they were two Government offi cials who heard him.14
ItI seems that Benjamin Gould did not have his dayd in court on 8 May for on the preceding 23 AprilA at Beechworth, Magistrate Foster refused tot continue remanding both Benjamin Gould and tthe others who were held on similar charges, and ddischarged them. Ironically, however, he would aappear at the Beechworth Assizes a year later on 5 MMay 1881 on a totally unrelated charge.
HHe was committed to the Beechworth Assize CCourt on 5 May 1881 accused of arson, found gguilty and sentenced to hard labour for one year.15 NoN specifi c details of the charge have been found, excepte that the off ence occurred at Shepparton.16 HeH was imprisoned at Beechworth Gaol and releasedr on 20 March 1882. Sadly, this was not tot be the fi nal chapter in Benjamin Gould’s Image 3: Ned Kelly the Bushranger by G Richards, historyh of re-off ending, for there were two more photographer, Pictures Collection, State Library of occasions in 1887 and 1889 respectively: on 12 Victoria, H2013.36/25 August 1887 he appeared at Violet Town Petty Sessions accused of ‘Non-compliance with an The hawker, Benjamin Gould, who was arrested order of court’ which resulted in a guilty verdict some time since at Euroa by Detective Ward, and an indefi nite sentence in default of sureties. under the provisions of the 5th section of the He was imprisoned in Beechworth Gaol, but there Outlawry Act, was, after a long detention in is no record of his release. Beechworth gaol, brought before Mr. Wyatt, P.M., and a bench of magistrates, at Euroa He reappeared at the Violet Town Petty on Thursday, to answer the charge preferred Sessions held on 23 January 1889 on a series against him. The evidence was the same as that of charges: assaulting police, obscene language given in The Argus at the time the prisoner and assault (unspecifi ed). He was sentenced was arrested, and although he attempted to to two months imprisonment for the fi rst, two show that he was at Violet Town on the day months imprisonment or fi ne for the second and he was said to be at Euroa, the testimony six months imprisonment cumulative in default was too conclusive against him, and he was of sureties for the third ‘to commence on the committed to take his trial at the Assize Court expiration of previous sentence of same date’.17 He in Beechworth on the 8th of May.13 was released from prison with remission on 23 November 1889. A week later The Argus continued the story: Domestically Benjamin Gould’s life seemingly The police have certainly taken one decided step was as complicated as the criminal counterpart. in arresting about 20 persons who are known He had met widow Elizabeth Rule, presumably to be friends, relatives or confederates of the sometime after 1875, following the death of Kellys. These men have been held in Beechworth her husband Joseph in that year. She had been Gaol during the past fortnight, and it is believed born Elizabeth Taylor c1847 in West Lydford, that by keeping them under close surveillance Somerset. It is certain that a child, Benjamin, was in this manner the supplies which are known born to the couple at Violet Town in 1877 who, to be forwarded to the outlaws will be stopped. according to most sources, died in Castlemaine, Twice have they been brought before a bench Victoria on 15 September 1959. However, other of magistrates at Beechworth and remanded sources suggest that this child died in 1877 and under the provisions of the fi fth section of the a further son called Benjamin was born in 1881 Outlawry Act, but a half promise has been and died in 1959 in Castlemaine, Victoria. The made by the magistrates that when they are couple were actually married at Euroa on 28 July
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 10 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 4: Parkhurst Prison, Illustrated London News, 13 March 1847, p.164 Ben Gould
1879 and raised fi ve children of their own, besides of his time in Victoria self-employed as a hawker. the six surviving children from Elizabeth’s fi rst He died at Benalla on 13 August 1920, aged 91, marriage. Benjamin and Elizabeth’s children cause of death unknown. Elizabeth outlived him were: Annie Selina born 1879 in Violet Town, by 11 years and died at Northcote on 20 August possibly out of wedlock; William Thomas born 1931, aged 85, of senility and heart failure.18 1881 in Violet Town (either a twin to Benjamin mentioned above or maybe evidence that In terms of the aims of the regime pioneered by Benjamin was indeed born in 1877); Walter Henry Parkhurst Prison to reform juvenile off enders, born 1883 in Violet Town; Arthur Alfred born Benjamin Gould can be regarded as an eventual 1885 in Violet Town and Frank Albert born 1890 success. He reformed his early tendency to serial in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. criminality for, despite the later re-off ending that must be classifi ed as of a reasonably minor nature, Little is known of Benjamin Gould’s ‘professional’ he seems to have ultimately been absorbed into life, other than he seems to have spent a large part colonial society as a free citizen.
References 1. 1841 England Census, The National Archives, HO107/869/8, p.8. 2. Parkhurst Prison Register, The National Archives, HO24/15, p.69. 3. Parkhurst Prison Register, The National Archives, HO24/15, p.69. 4. QSearch – Tasmanian Convict Records [CD-ROM]. Note: The website Convicts to Australia details the voyage of the Lady Kennaway at http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/park23. html 5. Conduct Record, Archives Offi ce of Tasmania, CON33-1-102, Image No: 96, viewed 24 April 2010. 6. The above details according to the Conduct Record were transcribed from his record completed on Norfolk Island. 7. Departures, Archives Offi ce of Tasmania, viewed 25 April 2010 http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au 8. Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 2001, pp. 156-160. 9. Letters either written or dictated by Ned Kelly during his lifetime, viewed 25 April 2010. www.nedkellysworld.com.au 10. The Sydney Morning Herald, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13426291. 11. The Argus, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5925647. 12. The Argus, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5925736 13. The Argus, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5928969 . 14. The Argus, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5929654 15. Prison Record No. 18747 (See Acknowledgement below) 16. The Argus, National Library of Australia, viewed 29 April 2010. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5980738 17. Prison Record No. 18747 (See Acknowledgement below) 18. The Birth, Death and Marriage details have been kindly supplied by Gary J. Dean and extracted from his series entitled The Dream of Ned Kelly, published from 1992-95 in the Wangaratta Chronicle, Victoria. See also IGI Individual Record on the website http://www.familysearch.org and Digger – Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888 (CD-ROM)
Acknowledgements My thanks are due to Gary J. Dean and Peter Carey. Gary J. Dean provided the photograph of Benjamin Gould and a copy of his Prison Record at Beechworth Gaol. While Peter Carey kindly gave permission to quote from his work The True History of the Kelly Gang, for reasons of length it has not been possible to include the passage on this occasion. Their help has been invaluable in completing this biography.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 11 Lola Russell’s Ancestors
by Susan Pierotti
Retired actress Lola Russell lives at 330 King into business with his elder brother, Angelo, Street, in the oldest house in Melbourne’s central who was also a lithographer. Together they business district, a pre-gold rush cottage built in worked as engravers and printers in their fi rm, 1850. Apart from eighteen months in the Great Azzopardi, Hildreth & Co.; they were instrumental Depression, she and her family have lived and in founding one of the fi rst publishing houses in served food from this house since 1899. Melbourne, printing librettos for the opera season and other theatrical events. She wrote her memoirs a hundred years later in 1989, which I had the privilege of editing In 1881, with a partner, Valetta submitted a design Susan Pierotti may be and bringing to publication last year. One of for a galvanometer, winning a silver medal at the contacted by email on [email protected]. the numerous things in her lengthy memoirs Royal Exhibition. His sister Claudina’s second that enthralled me was the amount of early husband was Mark Deschamps, a pioneer of the family history she could recount. She was an Yarra Valley wine district who established the only child but a sociable one, whose aunts fi rst wine-tasting tavern. Deschamps Road in and cousins formed a strong bond with her in Lilydale is named after him.3 her childhood. The family stories they told are recounted in her book, City Kid.1 At twenty, Valetta fell in love with a girl, also of Scottish descent, Jessie Todd. Mr and Mrs Lola’s memoirs begin in 1838 when a young Azzopardi senior were on the Government Maltese captain of a merchant vessel, Antonio House society invitation list and regularly played Azzopardi, disembarked at the new European host and hostess to members of the visiting opera settlement of Port Phillip.2 A few years later he companies. They were therefore not impressed wandered into an Elizabeth Street café where he with Valetta’s choice of a tailoress for a wife. met a charming waitress who had arrived with Nevertheless, Valetta and Jessie married – a her aunt and uncle from Perth in Scotland in 1842. disastrous decision.
Antonio Azzopardi, Lola’s great-grandfather, was They had little in common and fought constantly. the fi rst free Maltese settler in Melbourne. He Yet despite extended periods of separation, they married Margaret Sandeman, the young Scots somehow managed to produce eight children. All girl, and set up home and shop in Elizabeth Street, six girls and two boys survived. Their names are near where the GPO building is today. Their fi rst an endearing mix of Maltese and English: Violetta daughter died at seven years of age and was one Theresa, Jessica Melita, Antonio, Beatrice of the fi rst burials in the Melbourne General Patricia, Rosina Florence, Galileo Francis, Edith Cemetery in 1853. Angelo Lane, behind the Myers Margaretta and Olive Margherta. store, is named after their fi rst son. Their fourth child, Beatrice Patricia, was Lola’s Antonio’s hardware and scrap metal business did mother. Her mother, Jessie, delivered her at home well. He bought a dray and supplied fl our, blankets and was so ill afterwards that Lola’s mother’s and other necessities to the miners in Ballarat. He birth was never registered. She was christened did so well that his wife was able to take their four Beatrice Patricia after Adelina Patti, the famous children to Scotland to round off their educations. Italian opera singer who had recently visited The three boys went to the Perth Academy, one Melbourne. Perhaps because she was a ‘middle of Scotland’s leading public schools today; the child’ and overlooked, or because she had learning daughter was sent to Switzerland and Brussels to challenges (possibly dyslexia), Beattie (as she was a girls’ fi nishing school. called) remained nearly illiterate all her life. She barely managed to learn to write her name and Their second son, Valetta, Lola’s grandfather, was do simple arithmetic. However, in her sixties, she a fi ne lithographer, engraver and printer. On his developed a taste for gambling on the horses and return to Melbourne he joined the government was able to read the form guide with no help at all! as a stamp engraver, but later on resolved to go
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 12 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Image 1 (left): Antonio Azzopardi. All photographs from the author’s collection. Image 2 (below): City of Melbourne memorial plaque mounted on the Russell’s shop at 330 King Street. The name ‘Azzopardi’ is incorrectly spelt on the plaque. Lola Russell
In 1895 when she was fourteen, she was Melita, is rarely mentioned, yet all the other aunts apprenticed to a milliner and did so well that she are. This piqued my curiosity. had a counter of her own at Foy and Gibson’s for ten years before setting up her own millinery The other two girls later went to Sydney to live business in East St Kilda, and running the shop at with their mother. After a failed marriage to 330 King Street later on. Edward de Vere, an alcoholic, Edith married again, to Joe Freshwater, and lived a luxurious The eldest daughter, Lola’s Aunt Theresa, looked life in Double Bay. Olive’s husband, Richard Jago, after her father, Valetta, at the newly acquired died in 1913 when she was only twenty-four. premises on the corner of King and La Trobe Between them, Edith and Olive took turns to look Streets. With her mother, Jessie, having left for after one of her mother’s many properties, the Sydney, Theresa helped run the shop, and helped house in Donald Street, Prahran. Their father, bring up her younger sisters, Rose, Edith and Valetta, eventually died in the Prahran house, Olive, and her niece, Lola, in the tiny King Street looked after by Theresa who later died in it herself cottage. She married later in life to a Jewish man, in 1962 at the age of ninety. David Lewis, who worked on the railways. He didn’t live long after their marriage in 1919. Even Lola aff ectionate descriptions of her aunts were more upsetting was the debacle over the funeral scattered across numerous chapters. She was still arrangements – Jewish rabbis squabbling with in close contact with most of them into her forties Presbyterian ministers – leaving Theresa in and had poignant and aff ectionate memories of emotional turmoil for some time. each one – except for the second-eldest aunt, Melita, and her two uncles, Antonio and Giulio. Rose made a good marriage to Ernest Clarke, a The only references to them are these: wealthy New Zealander who bred race horses. She and her husband travelled extensively between The second daughter, Melita, was apprenticed their Melbourne and New Zealand properties, to the tailoring industry and the eldest boy, often taking relatives with them. One of these was Antonio, was employed on farms as shearer or Doris, Lola’s older cousin. She appears in Lola’s drover … Melita decided to marry a boy [Henry memoirs, usually sporting a chip on her shoulder. Bradford] she had met in Preston and the Doris’s older brother Joe also turns up, assisting youngest son, Giulio, ran away and got a job on Valetta to run the shop; he is described as a a farm near Melbourne. ‘battler’, down on his luck. Their mother, Jessica
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 13 Susan Pierotti is the founder of Creative Text Solutions, an editing and writing business, www.creativetext.com.au. She is the sole distributer of Lola Russell’s memoirs, City Kid, details of which may be Lola Russell found at www.citykid.com.au
As Giulio died in 1903 at the age of eighteen, there Early in my editing journey, I had decided that was no more written about him. But Antonio? readers of City Kid were going to need family trees Melita? I was still wondering about them when I to make sense of all the relatives’ connections to came across this obscure sentence: each other. One night as I was passing by the State Library of Victoria, of which I am a member, I Doris, my cousin … had been cared for by Olive had time to access their database of births, deaths and Rose since her mother’s illness … and marriages.4 Everything I wanted to fi nd was there. I was also hoping to fi nd more evidence of What illness? Why was it so devastating that she the ‘missing’ aunt and uncles. I felt strongly that couldn’t look after her daughter? Was this why her including them and their dates would somehow son Joe was a battler? regain an identity for them that had been denied them in Lola’s memoirs.
Sadly, the State Library archives did just that. Melita died at the age of 97 in Ararat, Antonio lived into his 80s and died in Beechworth.5 Why had they died so far from Melbourne, and where they had no connections? When I realised where they had died, I now had more than an inkling of why they weren’t talked about in Lola’s family: Australia’s the only reason I could think that anyone would die in Ararat or Beechworth is because that was largest online where the mental asylums were situated. Their lamentable fates and the reason why Melita and Antonio disappeared from Lola’s memoirs were family history now possibly revealed. * My supposition was confi rmed when I asked Lola resource why she hadn’t written about this particular aunt Researchearch and and uncle: “Oh, they were mad!” buildd your family
treee online References 1 Lola Russell, City Kid, Palmer Higgs, Melbourne, 2015 2 http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/ references/4814/ (last viewed 16 June 2016) 3 http://www.lilydalehistorical.com.au/ headstones_at_lilydale_cemetery_d.htm (last viewed 21 June 2016) 4 http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/ family+history/ (last viewed 18 June 2016) 5 https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/ *comScore, 2011 indexsearch (last viewed 18 June 2016)
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 14 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc The Flying Doctor by Jenny Kisler
John Cliff ord Peel was born on 17 April 1894 would be the solution to the transportation at Inverleigh,1 the eldest child of Susan (nee problems of the inland. ‘He pointed out the Everett) and Charles Herbert Peel. Coming service which could be given to outback from a farming family, he was able to fi nish settlers by basing aircraft at Oodnadatta, Jenny may be contacted at school and then went on to study medicine at Cloncurry or Katherine. The very real [email protected] the University of Melbourne.2 Cliff , as he was savings in time and hazards to sick or known, was a religious man with an interest in injured patients who otherwise faced the Australian Inland Mission. terribly long and uncomfortable journeys along what were little better than rough tracks In 1912 Reverend John Flynn had been also formed part of his pleadings.’6 Cliff also appointed as a Superintendent of the outlined the costs of adopting aircraft for the Australian Inland Mission, run by the Australian Inland Mission’s medical work, Presbyterian Church. Part of his work the speed and distances the early planes fl ew, had seen him establishing bush hospitals and the support facilities needed.7 Flynn in remote outback areas. The problems was immediately impressed by the idea associated with distance and communication and published Peel’s ideas in the Church’s were known, with many people dying Inlander magazine in 1918.8 when they were unable to obtain medical treatment. The best known story told by Cliff arrived in England on 24 January Flynn was of Jimmy Darcy, a stockman 1918 after travelling via the Suez Canal and hurt in a fall near Halls Creek in Western changing transports there. He joined the RFC Australia in August 1917. Despite the eff orts School of Aeronautics, preparing for training of his friends, in transporting him 30 miles as a Flying Offi cer (Pilot) on 1 March 1918.9 to Halls Creek, and the postmaster there (the Following lengthy training in England, Cliff only person who knew fi rst aid) obtaining was fi nally appointed Flying Offi cer (Pilot) assistance via telegraph and conducting two on 25 June 1918. He was posted to the 3rd long operations with a razor, Darcy died the squadron on 2 September 1918.10 day before the doctor arrived from Perth.3 This tragedy attracted nationwide attention However, he was not on active service for long. and even removed war news from the front of Cliff was reported missing in action, and was many newspapers. later listed as killed in action, after he failed to return from a photographic reconnaissance On 16 October 1917, Cliff enlisted for service fl ight on 19 September 1918. Given that the in World War I with his enlistment recording life expectancy for a pilot at this time was him as a medical student, single, Presbyterian approximately ten days, he survived longer and 23 years old from Inverleigh, Victoria. He than some of his peers. Some sources record was appointed 2nd Lieutenant and his next his date of death as 1 March 1919, however this of kin is recorded as his father Charles Peel appears to be the date on which his death was of Tower Hill, Inverleigh. His attestation offi cially recorded after a court of enquiry was paperwork describes him as 5 feet 6 inches in held at Neuve Chappelle to rule on his death. height, weighing 160 pounds and a member The following extract is taken from records of the Melbourne University Rifl es.4 Cliff in his Red Cross Missing Enquiry fi le, and is embarked at Melbourne on 21 November 1917 from a statement by Lieutenant L. P. Chase:11 on the HMAT Nestor with the Flying Corps, reinforcements and was with 1 and 2 special Peel was Pilot and Jeffers Observer, left the drafts in 1917.5 Aerodrome at Proyart with camera attached with the intention of photographing the On the day of his departure Cliff wrote to John Hindenburg Line E and SE of Bellicourt. Flynn. His letter suggested that aeroplanes Lieut. Sheen in another aeroplane was to
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 15 Image 1: Reverend John Flynn, National Library of Australia, Bib ID 2444705 Image 2: State School No 330, Inverleigh, J.T. Collins Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, H97.250/1084 The Flying Doctor
work in conjunction and were to have an escort airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal of formation of British Scouts (Camels). Very Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by cloudy day, large fl oating clouds down to 3000 attachment from other arms of the forces of the feet in places, this made it very diffi cult for Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who Sheen and Peel to keep in formation. Lieut. were killed on the whole Western Front and who Sheen on reaching the line fi red a red light have no known grave. which was the signal to the Scouts and to Peel that he was going to commence taking the Cliff left a will in which one tenth of any money photographs. Just at that moment Peel and from life assurance policies was to go to the Jeffers went the opposite side of a cloud to Australian Students Christian Movement, one Sheen and Sheen unable to catch sight of them tenth to the Australian Inland Mission, one again went on with the photos and did not see tenth to the Fellowship Union of Victoria to Peel and Jeffers again. The Scouts kept in provide salaries for the missionaries in Korea sight of Sheen but Peel and Jeffers, separated or elsewhere, one tenth to the Foreign Mission and out of sight in the unending clouds, were not Fund of the Presbyterian Church and the residue reported again as seen by anyone at all nor was of his estate to Marion Amiet of Murgheboluc.13 any machine reported or found to be crashed Marion was born at Murgheboluc in 1894, the our side. second child of Mary Anne (nee Begley) and Edward William Amiet.14 She also studied at the Conjecture: They lost direction in the clouds University of Melbourne. Cliff ’s father received and fl ew into Hunland. At this time there was four packages of his possessions from overseas – great confusion as the Hun was retreating. As in stark contrast to many who received only their Peel and Jeffers had not turned up as prisoners son’s paybooks and perhaps some photographs. of war one can only conclude that they crashed on the Hun side. They had suffi cient petrol to Despite his short life, and even shorter period as take them 200 miles in whatever direction they a pilot, Cliff Peel made a signifi cant contribution went. I intend calling to see Jeffers’ father. to the future of Australia, and particularly the Jeffers was my observer prior to this trip. ability of families to survive in the outback. Unfortunately, he did not live to see the enormous Cliff ’s observer was Lieutenant John Patrick impact his idea was to make, or to become Jeffers, of the 3rd Squadron.12 Cliff is involved himself. His contribution to what is commemorated on the Flying Services Memorial, now the Royal Flying Doctor Service is virtually in the Faubourg-d’Amiens Cemetery at Arras. unknown by most Australians.15 The memorial commemorates nearly 1,000
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Image 3: Royal Flying Doctor Service, Cloncurry 1927: Dr George Simpson (centre) with pilot Mr Evans (right) and an offi cial of the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
References 1. Victorian Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes, John Cliff ord Peel, Birth, 1894, #12911. 2. “Inverleigh”, Geelong Advertiser, 10 March 1914, p5. Cliff lived at Ormond College, where John Flynn had previously attended. 3. “Brothers’ Spartan Endurance Ride of 250 miles”, Kalgoorlie Miner, 7 August 1917, p3; “Remarkable Riding Feat”, Evening News (Sydney), 8 August 1917, p4; “West Australia”, Weekly Times (Vic), 11 August 1917, p24; “A Bush Operation”, “Brothers’ Spartan Endurance”, Western Argus (Kalgoorlie), 14 August 1917,p11; “Too Late”, The Daily News (Perth), 24 August 1917, p2. 4. Australian Imperial Force, Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial. 5. Australian Imperial Force, Embarkation Roll, Australian War Memorial. 6. Centenary celebrations this weekend – Flynn Primary School to honour founder of the Flying Doctor Service, Canberra Times (Canberra), 19 November 1980, p15. 7. The letter from Cliff ord Peel to John Flynn is held in the University of Melbourne Archives at the Bailleau Library. 8. Although the author has not been able to see a copy of this magazine, reports of it exist through the newspapers, e.g., “An Aerial Service for Inland Pioneers”, The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser (NSW), 2 November 1918, p1. “Around the Churches”, The Weekly Times (Vic), 9 November 1918, p52. 9. War service records of John Cliff ord Peel, National Archives of Australia. 10. War service records of John Cliff ord Peel, National Archives of Australia. 11. Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry bureau fi les, 1914-1918 war, 1DRL/0428, Australian War Memorial. 12. Lieutenant John Patrick Jeff ers was aged 26 and from East Brunswick, Victoria. He was the son of James Joseph Jeff ers and had departed Melbourne on 25 October 1916 (Australian Imperial Force, Embarkation Roll, Australian War Memorial). He had been hospitalised and his Red Cross fi le states that he had only been out of hospital for a month before undertaking this fl ight (Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry bureau fi les, 1914-1918 war, 1DRL/0428, Australian War Memorial). 13. War service records of John Cliff ord Peel, National Archives of Australia. 14. Victorian Birth Death and Marriage Indexes, Marion Amiet, Birth, 1894, #5678. Marion Amiet later married Leonard James Millar, had two sons (Bill and Ken), and died in 1951. 15. The website of the Royal Flying Doctor Service is one source of many that acknowledges the importance and signifi cance of Cliff Peel’s letter to John Flynn (5 May 2006 archived version,www. flyingdoctor.net, current version has removed this acknowledgement). “Churches get memorials”, The Argus (Melbourne), 14 June 1952, p7. “Flying Doctors”, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW), 5 July 1937, p6.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 17 Volunteering at the GSV
by Colleen Arulappu, Tina Hocking and Jeanette Bakker
Volunteering at GSV Volunteering The Society is dependent on our volunteers and is very grateful for the time and expertise they give so cheerfully. Three of our long serving volunteers have written describing the positions they have held and the subsequent benefi ts they enjoyed.
Colleen Arulappu WhenW I thought about what being a volunteer Compiled by Eleanor ata the Society meant to me I realized that I had Pugsley, GSV Volunteers Coordinator and David gainedg much more than what I had given. I have Down, President alwaysa enjoyed working with people who are at thet beginning of their research. It’s rewarding to sees the excitement of new fi nds and sometimes toot to be able to encourage members to continue withw their family search. Working as part of a teamt at the desk has enabled us to specialise in somes areas and help each other in the areas we area more familiar with and explore other material anda sites available.
ButB what I have gained in return is immense. I started to write my family history, a simple lookl at each ancestor who arrived in Australia anda why they came. But ideas kept coming anda other family books were written. But the interesti in history and the experience learnt as a volunteer opened new opportunities. After attendinga one of the Thursday talks I joined the FoundersF and Survivors research volunteer group anda also the Female convicts Research Centre (Hobart). I have transcribed many of the medical journalsj from the convict ships and transcribed Like the mists of time the reasons for my taking petitions from the Irish convicts and I have up genealogy are long forgotten. Perhaps a desire almost completed a series of stories based on the to learn more about my family after the warmth women from the convict ship, East London. All and excitement of growing up with the fun and are available on the Female Convict Research togetherness of living among many relatives Website. I feel I have forged a stronger link prompted the fi rst step. I decided to volunteer as between these groups by the sharing of resources a research assistant at the Genealogical Society and publishing of transcripts. of Victoria and a long relationship began and an absorbing hobby sprang to life. It is now over Tina Hocking twenty-fi ve years that I have been involved as a Saturday helper, with the exceptions of a couple of I fi rst joined the GSV in 1983 and became a breaks to be with ailing parents. volunteer soon afterwards. The library was housed in a couple of rooms in the Block Arcade, I have always been on duty on Saturdays and over with a small collection of books, microfi lm and the years have worked with lovely people who microfi che. Over the years there have been many have off ered more than their knowledge – they are changes: moves to new premises; technological valued workmates and friends. I remember too progress; and the increasing popularity of family some of the early faces, the laughs and knowhow history with the general public. Many GSV passed on. Some are gone but they all have left members have embraced technology, while others a legacy of shared interests and experience and prefer to stick with the tried and true books and sometimes how to answer quaint queries. Good microform, yet we must cater for everyone. The memories. introduction in recent years of regular training
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 18 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc bothb with fellow research assistants and with researchersr coming into the library. Many longer termt members of the GSV will remember Flo HaefnerH who came into the library on many SaturdaysS to sit and talk to myself and other volunteers.v She did sometimes seek help with her familyf history!
AfterA retiring, as well as increasing my time in thet library, I took on more roles. One was to join at GSV Volunteering thet Education Working Group of which I am still a member with the responsibility of organising seminars.s Another was to take Orientation three oro four times a year. Then I joined the council for a few years where I served as Secretary and as ViceV President at diff erent times. Finally when approacheda to learn some of the offi ce procedures I agreed and now help out there from time to time.
sessions for volunteers has put us on a more professional footing and encouraged us to explore resources and topics outside our own areas of interest. We try to keep up-to-date with ever changing resources and to attend the various GSV talks and classes if possible.
Some days you might be run off your feet, or thrown in at the deep end with a query you know nothing about, but we are fortunate to be part of a team of colleagues who are invariably able to help. Dealing with unrealistic expectations can present a challenge, but to be able to guide library users through the process of uncovering information themselves and sharing in their excitement, is immensely rewarding.
Open Days, when members of the public are able to use our facilities free of charge, give us the opportunity to introduce visitors to the range of resources and benefi ts available to society members. Recently I have assisted with special research days and one-on-one workshops, which Thus I have experienced a range of diff erent allow for a more in-depth approach. volunteering roles at the GSV. Some have presented no problems at all but others have For me this has been time well spent and I look caused me concerns at times. However, overall forward to learning and discovering more in the I have enjoyed my twenty-fi ve years helping future – perhaps allocating a little more time for both the society and its members. The personal my own research too. satisfaction is great when one assists a researcher move forward with their family history or when Jeanette Bakker members have enjoyed a successful seminar! When I fi rst started as a volunteer in the GSV library I had not been doing family history Thinking about research for very long. My decision to volunteer was made because I felt that I would learn more Volunteering at the GSV? about how to research and also learn about available resources to help that search. Happily Contact our Volunteers Coordinator and this turned out to be the case but I still have have a chat: more to learn! Another reward gained from J 9662 4455 ¢[email protected] volunteering was the making of friendships
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 19 UK Parliamentary Papers or House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
GSV ‘How to’ Series ‘How GSV for Genealogists
by Meg Bate
As more and more resources become well as treaties and international agreements, available on the Internet through Ancestry™, statistics and Command Papers which are Findmypast™and FamilySearch™, genealogists documents printed ‘by command of her majesty’ often overlook the wonderful resources that are from government ministries, etc.. available free from home from our State Libraries Meg may be contacted at [email protected] and National Library of Australia. One of these As with any government’s documents and reports, resources is the British Parliament papers they cover a vast range of subjects, focusing or House of Commons Parliamentary Papers on how establishments were administered (HCPP). and they often mention individuals and that’s what makes this collection interesting for What are they and why are they of use? genealogists. Examples of the types of reports A Parliamentary Paper is a document, which in this collection are: Inquiry into General has been formally presented or tabled to Treatment and Condition of Convicts in Hulks at Parliament. These papers contain the workings Woolwich 1847. (This provides information of of government and provide primary source how convicts where treated on the hulks and may material detailing the history of Britain and its mention individual name of convicts) and Return colonies describing and detailing the working, the of persons convicted of stealing sheep 1823-25 opinions, philosophy and ideas of the day. House (this lists person stealing sheep plus where and of Commons Parliamentary Papers contains over if transported or imprisoned and more) Other 200,000 papers from 1715 to the present, with topics includes Papers relative to emigration to supplementary material that goes back to 1688. Australian Colonies.
In this collection ‘parliamentary paper’ includes The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers public bills, sessional papers which are working are available on the recently updated ProQuest™ documents of each session of Parliament, Government Platform. This move has improved committees reports, Royal Commissions and searching and it easier to use than the old search government departments returns or reports, as interface.
Image 1: Home page of the Proquest™ website
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Images 2 and 3: ‘List of convicts determined as being insane’ (left) and ‘Death details of ticket of leave holders’, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Searching hints 1. Searches do not distinguish between plural and singular 1. Tried “John Hollingsworth” as a phrase = result forms of a word. For example, a search on ‘convict’ will 21. Some interesting results in the title list: Return return content containing either ‘convict’ or ‘convicts’. of Persons convicted of Stealing Sheep, 1823-25 (1826); Correspondence on Convict Discipline and 2. Search terms are not case-sensitive, so words may be Transportation (1862) entered in upper or lower case. 2. Tried “Hollingsworth nile convict” (the basic search that assumes an AND search and remembering 3. For phrase searching, place the words in inverted Hollingsworth was transported on the convict ship commas, e.g., “new south wales” Nile) = 30 results. Here I found the title Correspondence on Convict Discipline and Transportation (1860) and 4. Wildcards, ? replaces a single letter (either within the this was not in the fi rst search. word or at the end of a word, e.g., sm?th = smyth Do play around with your search terms, think of synonyms * replaces an any number of letters in a word, this or word that they may have used in the documents in that used at the beginning, the end or in the middle of time period. When searching for convicts consider words search term, e.g., ‘prison*’ fi nds ‘prisons’, ‘prisoner’ or such as prisoner, prison, penal, prisoners, off ender, felon or ‘prisoners’. even fugitive. 5. AND is the implied default in the keyword search, e.g., In the new search you also have the option to search within ‘Convict Nile’ searches as ‘Convict AND Nile’. a document in your search results. Use this search within the document using the most specifi c word from your search 6. The boolean operators – AND, OR, NOT – in the text and save yourself time. box will search as Boolean operators unless enclosed in quotation marks for a phrase search. How to get access The State Library of Victoria uses the title House of Commons 7. To fi nd a document with words NEAR each other use and subscribes to the 19th & 20th Century Collections (1801- ‘Hollingsworth NEAR/5 Nile’. This fi nds the words 2005). The National Library of Australia uses the title U.K. ‘Hollingsworth’ and ‘Nile’ within fi ve words of each Parliamentary Papers, and subscribes to the 19th & 20th plus other. I have placed ‘Hollingsworth’ NEAR ‘nile’ as the 18th Century materials, the full set. For these Libraries you Hollingsworth who I am looking for is a convict who will need to register and obtain a library card. was transported on the ship Nile. Many convicts are mentioned with the ship they were transported on and Google books – Some of the early 18th & 19th century often their given name is only an initial. The default volumes are available here in full text. Search using the NEAR value is 100 words. terms “House of Commons parliamentary” (without the inverted commas) then use the Search Tools to fi lter using When trying to fi nd information about the convict John the option ‘Any books’ for ‘Free Google Ebooks’. Hollingsworth who was transported on the convict ship Nile. I did the following searches:
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 21 John the Coachman by Margaret Vines
‘John the Coachman’ drove the regular public bushrangers held up his coach, with his wife being coach service between Hobart and Launceston off ered compensation by public subscription. in the 1830s. His real name was Thomas John The story in the Hobart newspapers was a little Ibbotson, and he had been convicted of cattle diff erent. stealing at York in 1831, and transported on the Elizabeth in 1832.1 His story illustrates the In the fi rst report in the Colonial Times of 7 July prosperity and status which able convicts could 1840, ‘John’ fell from the coach near Oatlands. Margaret can be contacted at attain in the Van Dieman’s Land colony. The Sudden Death [email protected] research into it emphasizes the importance of We regret to state that John, the driver of the consulting as many as documents as possible. Launceston coach, met with his death by falling off the coach on the road near Oatlands. The Thomas had been a saddler in Yorkshire. Skill with passengers fortunately were not much injured, horses was so important in the colony that when though the coach was overturned. The deceased John Henry Cox began the fi rst coach service was very much respected and his loss will be between Hobart and Launceston in 1832, Thomas severely felt by his employers. A subscription Ibbotson became one of his coachmen. Cox has been set on foot for his widow and four described him as ‘a faithful servant’, supporting children; and we have no doubt, from the him in a dispute with a passenger in 1835. estimation in which the deceased was held, that it will be most liberally fi lled up.3 In October 1834, Thomas had married free-born sixteen year old Elizabeth Barker in Hobart at A week later on 14 July the same newspaper Trinity Church. In the next few years she and recorded John Ibbotson had had a fi t of apoplexy. Thomas spent upwards of £300 building and improving their home in Melville Street in the A few days ago, John Ibbotson, a driver of one centre of Hobart. On her twenty-fi rst birthday, of our public coaches between Hobart Town and Elizabeth’s convict father deeded to her his land Launceston, in a fi t of apoplexy, fell from his grant on the corner of Melville Street and Murray seat, and was instantly killed, leaving a widow Street, Hobart, and this was approved in the and four children totally unprovided for.4 Land Court on 12 December 1838.2 Thomas and Elizabeth with their family of four children were A rival newspaper, Hobart Town Courier and prosperous, though they lived up to their income. Van Dieman’s Land Gazette, had a more lurid Their descendants still have a receipt for the £60 and graphic account, one which relied on Thomas paid for a horse in 1839. eyewitnesses. Coach Accident These descendants had family stories of Thomas A serious accident happened on the Launceston Ibbotson dying in tragic circumstances, when coach on its way to Hobart Town on Monday
ImageImage 11: Extract of HO 10/38 showing Thomas JohnJohn Ibbotson as ‘‘abscondedabsconded June 18451845’’
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 22 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc last, by which the driver Thomas Ibbotson, day, and as is supposed, was suddenly seized better known as “John the Coachman”, lost with a fi t of apoplexy, which was the immediate his life. It appears, from the testimony of the cause of death. The horses fi nding themselves passengers, that Ibbotson, who had been horse at liberty, galloped for about 150 yards down dealing had become excessively intoxicated the hill, and overturned the coach; fortunately and upon arriving at a place called Weedons none of the passengers sustained any serious Hill, about a mile and a half the other side of injury. The deceased was a valuable and faithful Oatlands, while making a desperate eff ort to servant to Mrs. Cox for many years, and by his stop the speed of the horses, was pulled off the general attention, carefulness, and civility, had 7
box; he fell upon his head between the wheelers rendered himself much respected. the Coachman John and hence to the ground, when the wheels of the coach passed in an oblique direction over his The brief offi cial verdict on his death certifi cate head and killed him on the spot.5 was ‘killed by the coach upsetting’.
Each newspaper report added to the story. The Thomas was a ticket-of-leave convict serving Launceston Advertiser on 9 July presented the a life sentence. The Home Offi ce far away in view of his employer Mrs Cox, now the coach London was keeping records on him. They service operator and the resident proprietor of the strangely recorded on HO 10/38 that he Cornwall Hotel in Launceston.6 absconded in June 1845. ACCIDENT. On Monday last, the driver of the Launceston coach, named John Ibbotson, It’s important to look at all the documents! In who has for many years safely and carefully HO 10/50 they added a note to the contrary: driven this vehicle, when about one mile on ‘accidentally killed on the 6th July 1840’.8 His this side of Oatlands, fell from the coach box, gravestone in St David’s Burial Ground, Hobart, and instantly expired. It appears, that the records Thomas John Ibbotson died on 6 July unfortunate man had been drinking during the 1840, aged thirty-three.
SACRED
To the Memory of THOMAS JOHN IBBOTSON
who Departed this life 6th July 1840 Aged 33 years Leaving a widow and 4 young children to lament his loss
Forgive blest shade the tributary tear Which mourns thy exit from a world like this Forgive the wish that would keep thee here And stayed thy progress to the realms of bliss
Image 2: Headstone of Thomas John Ibbotson. Photograph taken by Geoff Ritchie: used with permission.
Sources • England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892, and NSW and VDL Convict Musters • Hobart and Launceston newspapers on Trove • Australian Dictionary of Biography, Entry for Cox, John Edward (1791-1837)
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 23 writewrwwririterritriiititettee
Self Publishing a Book
This article gives some of the experiences of three members of the GSV Writers Circle, based on a panel discussion held at the GSV on 4 May 2016. By Louise Wilson, Martin Playne and Family historians may decide to preserve their For example, in 2007 Louise started off with Margaret Vines research findings in a number of different a Word document delivered on a CD to a large publishing formats. The choice of which format photocopying company, which saved the will depend on their particular circumstances. document as a PDF fi le before running off copies. Formats include: books (about 300 pp.), The binding and the cover was outsourced, using booklets including journals (less than 72 pp.), her cover design. It was an expensive exercise. limited run loosely-bound books in photocopy- format for family reunions, e-books and other Advances in personal computers and in word computer-based publications. These digital processing software, as well as the emergence and publications include photo-essays, captioned skills of small specialist companies set up to work photobooks, websites, blog sites, Powerpoint™ with self-publishing authors have considerably presentations, audiovisuals and videos. In this changed the scene. short article we will be concerned with the self- publication of a book. Most recently, for Brothers in Arms: The Great War Letters of Captain Nigel Boulton, R.A.M.C. When we sit down to read a book, most of us have & Lieut Stephen Boulton, A.I.F., a book with a no idea of the work behind that book. This is even complicated format, Louise handed over a Word more the case for a non-fi ction book – especially fi le which was amazingly-quickly converted a family history, possibly the most diffi cult form using publishing software into a very professional of writing. For a start, most people who decide to product which was then saved as a PDF fi le for write a family history don’t start off as writers. printing. She vowed never again to settle for less. And second, when they begin, they usually don’t The relatively small amount of extra money spent know what story they are going to tell. They fi nd on design was worth it. out as each new snippet is uncovered by diligent research. Those snippets can take the story Louise’s seventh book A Fragrant Memory, about anywhere. Keeping focused is a challenge. to be published by a commercial mainstream publisher located interstate, is the biography of But mostly, once it’s done, people who’ve botanical artist Margaret Flockton. Accordingly grappled with researching, writing, structuring it proved even more complicated because of its and producing a family history are glad they numerous high-resolution images. She emailed persevered. a Word fi le (text only), emailed a PDF fi le incorporating all the pictures, and posted various The research process usually takes years, with CDs containing all the high-resolution and low- a number of family lines jogging along together, resolution images. This book is being set up using before a book about a completed section of publishing software (Adobe InDesign™). Even research sees the light of day. For example, Louise at this late stage, the ability to consider the fi nal Wilson, who’s produced seven family histories, result (what the reader will see), and improve it started her research in 1999, with the fi rst book by tweaking the text and the layout is much easier not published until 2007. There’s been a gap of than one might imagine. at least a year between each book since, as the focus has turned to ‘wrapping up’ the story of a To produce a professional-looking book, study particular family or person. the layout, spacing and appearance of a similar book produced by a mainstream non-fi ction Turning a fi nished story into a book is a technical commercial publisher. Look at their use of colour, process, which changes as your skills develop. their use of white space, and the size of margins,
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 24 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc gutters, headers and footers particularly. Consider point of producing a family history book is their approach to page numbering. this: don’t rush. Try not to have a deadline. Any worthwhile book needs digestion time before Some of the choices you have to make include: the publication. cover (the image, the font, matt v gloss); the size of the book (A5, B5, C5, A4 and so on), the total Both Louise and Martin have published historical number of pages and weight of the book (500g is biographies of early settlers of Australia. Margaret equivalent to about 320 pp A5). You need to decide faced some diff erent challenges in writing about on images, photographs, other illustrations and her family. The Baggotts from Herbertstown maps. You add to the book’s appeal by including are a huge clan who now live in Ireland, USA, plenty of images, charts and maps. A well- England and Australia. The organisational chosen cover is very important – it may mean the challenge was the size of the book. At 526 pages diff erence of whether or not a potential purchaser and twenty-two chapters plus appendices it was a even considers buying your book. Choice of the mammoth undertaking, and postage charges will font for the body of your text is important. It has be high. Unfortunately, it had proved impossible an artistic and emotional impact. to split it into separate books geographically or chronologically – the various parts of the family A family history book is of little use to others wanted to know about all the others and also without an index. It’s best to index as you go wanted to know who was descended from whom! (it’s not diffi cult, using Word™) and then work through the whole book again at the end, fi nalising The initial version of Margaret’s Baggott book your indexing. The indexing mostly carries was only forty pages including charts– a summary across accurately to publishing software. Using for the fi rst-ever family reunion in Ireland in a professional indexer is hugely expensive as you 2001. The fi nal 526 page version was published are paying for someone’s time. in 2016. It proved very benefi cial to have started writing early, progressively adding further Editing is an important part of the process and research to a growing draft. The long gestation much better done by someone other than yourself. Editing can be done at two levels - an overview of content, looking for boring parts, repetition, contradictions and unnecessary information, as well as poor grammar. The other type of editing is proof-editing, looking for spelling errors, pagination problems and so on. Finally, you have to edit the printer’s proof copy, as surprisingly printers do create errors in the production process. Martin had four proofs from the printer before acceptance of his book Two Squatters. The printer will provide an ISBN, the international number which identifi es your book.
While it may be diffi cult to persuade a commercial bookshop to stock your family history, libraries could well be interested in books about local identities and books containing signifi cant local history. On the Imprint page, immediately after the Title page of an Australian book, you will notice the term Catalogue-in-Publication (CIP). This is issued by the National Library of Australia and tells other librarians where to fi le a book. It’s best if you obtain it before your book is published. If your book is published with just the invitation to contact the National Library for the CIP, most librarians won’t bother. They’ll pass over your title and go for a book where the CIP is already provided to them.
Most family historians struggle with most of the foregoing duties by themselves. No wonder we think it’s so hard, and why we often get a bad rap for the resulting ‘product’. The most important
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 25 period meant the overall story and themes could emerge clearly. Writing a blurb and fi xing on a title were useful focusing tools when producing the fi nal draft.
A book tends to gradually evolve, shaped by the subject matter. Writers need to be fl exible about this. Chapters become too long and cumbersome and need to be split or sections removed to an appendix, or discarded altogether,
Getting it Write Getting when insuffi ciently related to the core subject. With a large and complicated book, it may help to work in separate computer fi les for each chapter, using footnotes at the bottom of the page until the chapter is fi nalised, when they can be converted to endnotes. When all the chapters are complete they can be combined into a master document, moving all the endnotes to the back, and adding the headers and footers for title, chapters and pages. The book will probably be fi nalised into three sections, in three fi les: one with the contents, list of illustrations and preface and acknowledgments; a second Image 1: Brothers in Arms, Louise Wilson very large fi le with the chapters and appendices and a third fi le with the bibliography and index. The printer will put these together.
Writing about a large family with many living members has another challenge. Some living people may be mentioned, and many more will have memories of the people whose stories are told. Detailed endnotes, particularly those referring to offi cial documents, will help dissolve or resolve any disputes. So will giving key contributors an opportunity to comment on drafts of relevant sections. This can also be used to stimulate further contributions, including photographs. Maps, charts and lots of photographs are essential in a complex family history – people will pick up the book and fl ick through, buy the book and only later sit down to read.
Margaret enjoyed producing her entire book herself. It was of course a learning experience in both writing and in using Word, but handy hints were provided from time to time by GSV Writers Circle people like Louise Image 2: The Baggots from Herbertstown, and Martin. The fi nal stages of polishing, proof reading Margaret Vines and printing always take longer than expected and she learned from experience not to plan a book launch/ family reunion until she had the book ‘in her hot little hand’. It was exhilarating and rewarding to see the pleasure, emotion and interest from the family when they saw the book for the fi rst time.
We would encourage family historians to preserve all their hard work for future generations and self-publish a family history.
For details of Louise Wilson’s books, see www.louisewilson.com.au
For detailed comments on selecting and using images, on making your own maps for publication, and on various aspects of self-publishing in much greater detail, see Martin Playne Publishing’s blog https://mplayne. wordpress.com
Margaret Vines can be contacted at Image 3: Two Squatters, Martin Playne [email protected]
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Please check the library catalogue for full Jacgung & Horneck decsendants [sic]. their descendants 1802- 1970: a tribute descriptions. All listed LDS microfi lms Booth, Gwenda Y. to our pioneering forefathers, 132 years (except European fi lms) are held in the LDS Johnston family history: ancestors of Dr in Australia. Munchenberg, Reginald
Long Term Loans Cabinets. Request by fi lm Herbert Oswald Johnston 1903-1976. Bk 1. Schilling. (Lane, R) Additions Library number at the Information Desk. Thank you Johnston, Ken. 2nd ed. Serpell family of Victoria their origins: the to all donors to the library collection. Diary kept on voyage out from England on Serpells of Duloe, Cornwall, the Trembaths the “Belgic” 1912 to Fremantle & during of St Just, Cornwall, the Bottomleys Abbreviations used: her fi rst year in the Meckering district & of Bradford, Yorkshire, the Youngs of @ = Society purchase settling at Yerapin. Written by Mrs Jones. Auchinblae, Aberdeenshire. Serpell, (...) = Donor’s name, if not the author Transcript available to disembarkation Jonathan. (Serpell, H) 9 = Webcast in Fremantle. Film covers a return trip to Dr John 1808-1891: Christian, FHS = Family History Society Singleton Wales in 1930. (Lewis, D) [Microfilm SEA doctor, philanthropist. Otzen, Roslyn. SAG = Scottish Ancestry Group ISG = International Settlers Group & computer 5] (Moss, K) SW ERD = South Western England Kerr family: descendant chart 1827. Liberty borne of fi re: Gypsey Smith 1815- Research & Discussion Circle Includes: Swan, Durie, Creelman, Blabey, 1879; a convict bushranger on the Victorian LDS LTL Cab = LDS Long Term Loans Millar, Piening, Sullivan, Dean, McRory. goldfi elds. Moore, Laurie. (Ararat Cabinet [Scroll K] Genealogical Society). {Available from the LDS LTL Cab Z = LDS Long Term Loans Genealogical tree from W Lindsay who Ararat Society $35 + pp). Cabinet Z migrated from Scotland to Ireland, late in Registrar General’s Offi ce Perth, Western 17th or early 18th century. Names: Gregg, Australia 1841-1991: 150 years of service FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Magee, Wallace, Coultro, Shepherd, to the public. Western Australia. Registrar The house of Arnott, Australian branch Stuart, Champion, Holden, Wilberth, General’s Office. 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Kenneally, Christine. (Arthur, T) The family of Mills of Shrewton & gold. Beck, Max C S. Writing your family history: a guide Orcheston, Wiltshire. Beyond their wildest dreams: the for family historians. Blanchard, Gill. Mull to Mitiamo: the Morrison family family behind Fleming’s nurseries. (Montgomery, V) story. Compiled by Robert Morrison & Mountstephen, Jenny. Family history web directory: the Helen Stevens. An old & respected colonist: a biography genealogical websites you can’t do without. John Neilson poet & songwriter: an of James Sandle Ford. Darroch, Carol. Scott, Jonathan. (Montgomery, V) anthology of poems. Ed. by Andrew G {Copies available from Author} Recording your family history. Meg Bate & Peake. Descendants of John Neilson at Descendant chart for Stewart Murray Linley Hooper. 9 rear. (Peake, A. G) Fullarton, FRS, FRSE. Strauss, Peter. 500 best genealogy & family history tips. James Neilson & Isabella Gibson: [Scroll F] MacEntee, Thomas. @ Gippsland pioneers. 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Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 27 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Many Ward Books have not survived. Varapodio nati 1907-1910, matrimoni Hahndorf: a German village under the Computer [LINX AUS & GIN] 1866-1910, morti 1866-1894. Italy. Ufficio Southern Cross: coincidence or providence. The Mornington peninsula. Compiled & dello stato civile. Reggio di Calabria. (Zito, Compiled by Hans Renner. drawn by Hunter Rogers. Map recounts L) [LDS LTL Cab Z - Europe] St Michael’s Lutheran congregation major shipping exploration of Port Phillip Varapolio nati 1826-1865 [items 1-3]. Villa Hahndorf 1839-1979. and shows settlements on the Mornington San Giovanni nati 1810-1832. Italy. Ufficio Concordia 100 years Murtoa - Adelaide: Peninsula. [Map Drawer 912.9452 MOR] dello stato civile. Reggio di Calabria. (Zito, a history of Concordia College Adelaide. The Pakenham Upper Community L) [LDS LTL Cab Z - Europe] Leske, Elmore. Church Hall 1879-1992. Ed. Joy INDIA Town life in pioneer South Australia. Brown, Carberry. Contents: Recollections of The golden calm: an English lady’s life in
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(SAG) The Cornish on the Victorian goldfi elds Flynn) The plantation of Ulster: the British [presentation]. Cornish newspapers: Tylden cemetery [register] Comp by colonisation of the North of Ireland in the reporting on the Victorian goldrush, 1851– Henderson, Raymond WM (Estate of seventeenth century. Bardon, Jonathan. 1853. Meeting notes 10 February 2016. Ray Flynn) (SAG) (SWERD) Hawke, Stephen. Computer 5 Waterloo: the true story, a social history NEW ZEALAND The Port Phillip settlement: early records of Waterloo and Chute, Victorian gold A pictorial history of Hokitika 1865-1885: and illustrations of important events era settlements. Carroll, Hugh Patrick. the town that inspired “The Luminaries” by leading to the development of the area. (McErvale, R) Eleanor Catton. (Ryan, P) [Map Drawer 912.945 POR] WESTERN AUSTRALIA Map of Victoria showing counties, parishes UK Street smart 1990 Perth street directory. 31. and railways. Victoria. Superintending British town maps: a history. Roger J P Kain (Lane, R) Surveyor. Contents: South East Counties & Richard R Oliver. (Montgomery, V) of Delatite; Tambo; Croajingolong; EUROPE ENGLAND Dargo; Tanjil; Buln Buln; Wonnangatta: The family tree – Polish, Czech and Slovak Epidemics to 1875: focus on South West North East Counties of Moira; Bogong; genealogy guide: how to trace your family England. Meeting notes 2: 9 March Benambra. [Map drawer 912.945 VIC] tree in Eastern Europe. Alzo, Lisa A. 2016. Meeting notes 3: 8 & 13 April 2016. World War One history: Victoria’s story. (Uber, C) (SWERD) Comp by Stephen Hawke. Includes Aboriginal Australians; Women GERMANY Computer 4 in the War; Nurses & Doctors. Cöln (Rheinland) Auswanderungsgesuche Meeting notes 11 May 2016. Breaking down Victoria’s World War One legacy: recipients [Emigration application of the city of Cöln] your brickwalls. (SWERD) Comp by of the Victoria Cross. Victoria. 1853-1859. Contents: Bd. V. 108-112 Rath- Stephen Hawke. Computer 4 Remembering the call: Ararat and district Langer 1853-1859. (Baker, K) [LDS LTL A history of adoption in England and Wales war memorials and those who served 1914- Cab Z - Europe] 1850-1961. Rossini, Gill. (Montgomery, V) 1918. Ed by Marion McAdie. Hamburg Reisepaß-Protokolle [Passport Tracing your ancestors through local history Chewton’s halls and lodges. James, Ken. applications recorded by police information records: a guide for family historians. (Review) offi ce in Hamburg] 1854-1855. Contents: Oates, Jonathan. (Montgomery, V) Eaglehawk’s Welsh churches. James, Ken. 1854-1855. 2 films (Baker, K) [LDS LTL Index of nuns. Catholic FHS. (Review) {Copies available from Author @ Cab Z - Europe] Approximately 94% of the over 14,200 $20.00 + 3.50 p&p} Map guide to German parish registers, records in the current CFHS database Eaglehawk’s private schools 1868-1916. Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Silesia: relate to nuns who professed later than James, Ken. {Copies available from Ken 1 Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz; full index 1795, & thus the Index of Nuns usefully James @20.00} of included towns; 2 Regierungsbezirk complements, rather than duplicates, the The Gipps Land & Wood’s Point yearly Breslau; full index of included towns; 3 detailed study by Dr Caroline Bowden et advertiser, 1866. [Chart 994.56 GIP] Regierungsbezirk Oppeln; full index of al of the families of nuns of the English A history of Green Hill. Ken James & Noel included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map convents in exile 1600-1800, the Who Davis. {Copies available from Author @ guide to German parish registers; v. 53- were the nuns? project, which can be $30.00 + 14.00 p&p} 55). (GSV ISG) referenced at wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk. Heathcote cemetery register: v.1 Mar 1853 Note also that members of the English – Dec 1887; v.2 1 Jan 1888 – 25 Aug 1912; HUNGARY Benedictine Congregation (both monks v.3 22 Aug1911 – Mar 2001. Copied by Ray Kereszteltek, házasultak, halottak and nuns) can be searched for at www. Flynn. (Estate of Ray Flynn) 1861-1895 [Roman Catholic register plantata.org.uk/people.php. It should be Back to Kew. Dannock. Includes names of of births, marriages and deaths for noted that some orders did not contribute early landowners. (Cole, K) [Map Drawer Bodrogkeresztur] Római Katólikus data. In preparing this index the CFHS 912.945 DAN] Egyház, Bodrogkeresztur; Magyar has included those nuns whose records A history of Langley. Ken James & Noel Országos Levéltár. (LDS). (Bodnar, indicate their having died and if not show Davis. Steven) their having: been born before 1915, or, Patients in Melbourne Hospital 1856-1908 if no birthdate is given; having entered [incomplete]: an index of 85,119 names ITALY morti 1874-1910 [item 1]. a community before 1934, or if neither from medical records, each hyperlinked to Molochio Oppido Mamertina nati 1866-1871 [item having professed before 1936. Computer 4 a set of details extracted from the patient’s 2] Italy. Ufficio dello stato civile. Reggio CORNWALL medical record. GSV. Index is of patients di Calabria. (Zito, L) [LDS LTL Cab Z - in the extant ‘Ward Books’ up to 1908. The parish church of St Martin Liskeard. Europe] Paynter, William H.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 28 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc DEVON Westminster to the Tower” 1749. Engraved bur 1744, 1745, 1753, 1782, 1791, bapt, 1797 Bideford, N Devon bapt 1679-1791, mar by S & N Buck. (Victoria & Albert [item 13]. Uckfield mar 1813-1837 [item 1751-1758, bur 1726-1791; mar 1754-1812, Museum 24257). [Charts 942.1 CIT] 14], mar 1530-1837, bapt 1813-1838, bur bapt, bur 1792-1812. Church of England. London Bridge: enlarged detail from 1813-1837 [item 15]. Udimore bapt 1560- Copied by John Ingle Dredge. (Rook, T) the “panoramic view of London from 1840, mar 1560-1837, banns 1764-1812, bur [LDS LTL Cab.] Westminster to the Tower” 1749 [drawing] 1566-1840, monumental inscriptions 1702- Engraved by S & N Buck. (Victoria & 1892, bapt (Bishop’s transcripts) 1813-1893 HERTFORDSHIRE Albert Museum 24257). [item 16]. Wadhurst mar 1604-1837, bapt Rickmansworth (Hertfordshire) bapt [Charts 942.1 LON] 1698-1747, 1653-1812, bur 1791-1812 [item 1832-1886, mar 1813-1837, bur 1813-1885. 17] Burchall, Michael John. Burchall, M J. Church of England. (Martin, A) [LDS LTL SUFFOLK
(Fitzpatrick, J) [LDS LTL Cab.] Additions Library Cab.] Suff olk bapt index 1813-1900 Blackbourn Deanery. Suffolk FHS. The deanery HUNTINGDONSHIRE SCOTLAND includes parishes of Gt Ashfield, Badwell A history of the church of All Saints’ in Ash, Bardwell, Barnham, Barningham, BANFFSHIRE the borough of Huntingdon in the same Coney Weston, Culford, Elmswell, Old parochial registers Banff shire: Marnoch county. (Gulliver, J) Euston, Fakenham Magna, Hepworth (to v. 1. bapt 1676-1819, mar 1672-1686, 1773- LANCASHIRE 1813), Hinderclay, Honington, Hopton 1819, bur 1713-1818, v. 2. bapt 1820-1854, The registers of Dalton 1813-1837; Walney nr Thetford, Hunston, Ingham, Ixworth, mar 1820-1854, bur 1822-1832. Church of 1744-1858; Broughton 1634-1720, 1813- Ixworth Thorpe (to 1815) Knettishall Scotland. (Wheelahan, J) [LDS LTL Cab.] 1837. Lancashire Parish Register Society. (from 1772), Langham, Lt Livermere, DUMFRIESSHIRE Trans by Glenn S Dunn, Shirley & Eric Market Weston (to 1813), Norton, Keir parish death records. Dumfries Smith, & Susan Benson. (Lancashire Rickinghall Inferior, Sapiston, Stanton & Galloway FHS. OPR burials: Old Parish Register Society; v. 185). Contents: All Saints & St Johns, Stowlangtoft, Keir memorial inscriptions: New Keir St Mary, Dalton in Furness; St Mary the Thelneham, Thorpe by Ixworth, Troston, memorial inscriptions. (Blackwood, J) Virgin, Walney; St Mary Magdalene, Walsham le Willows, Wattisfield, West Brought in Furness. (Subs) Stow and Wordwell. @ Computer 4 FIFE Fire, foe and fi nance: Dunfermline 1600- SUSSEX LEICESTERSHIRE 1700. Mowat, Sue. (SAG) Loughborough information map with street Parish register transcripts: Sullington index. Leicestershire County Council bapt, mar & bur 1584-1640 [item 1]. LANARKSHIRE Libraries & Information Service. Also Tangmere bapt 1538-1776, mar 1530- The origin and history of Glasgow streets. featuring Sileby, Quorndon, Mountsorrel, 1774, bur 1538-1776, bapt 1777-1812, mar Macintosh, Hugh. (Estate of John Barth) East Goscote, Barrow Upon Soar. (Anon) 1779-1797, bur 1777-1812, mar, 1803-1812 WALES [Map drawer 912.4254 LEI] [item 2]. Tarring-Nevile mar 1571-1837, bur (Bishop’s transcripts) 1813-1894, mar Tracing your Welsh ancestors: a guide LINCOLNSHIRE 1814-1835 [item 3]. West-Tarring bapt, for family historians. Evans, Beryl. Welbourn mar 1837-1918, bur 1813-1883 mar & bur 1540-1742 [item 4]. Telscombe (Montgomery, V) [item 1]. Welby bapt 1569-1697, mar bapt, mar & bur (Bishop’s transcripts) 1570-1697, bur 1568-1697, bapt 1695-1744, 1606-1698, bapt 1684-1840, mar 1701- USA alien residents 1825-1848. mar 1696-1744, bur 1695-1743, bapt, bur 1840, bur 1697-1840 [item 5]. Terwick New York 1743-1812, mar 1744-1753, bapt 1813-1949, bapt, mar & bur (Bishop’s transcripts Compiled by Kenneth Scott & Rosanne Conway. (Ryan, P) mar 1755-1836, bur 1813-1913 [item 2]. )1590-1756 [item 6]. Thakeham mar 1558- Westborough bapt, mar, bur 1564-1734, 1617, bapt, mar & bur, (Bishop’s transcripts) Erie county, New York obituaries: as found in the fi les of the Buff alo and Erie county bapt, bur 1735-1808, mar 1735-1753, bapt, 1584-1641 [item 7]. Ticehurst mar 1559- bur 1809-1812, mar 1754-1812, bapt 1813- 1812, banns 1754-1812, bapt 1559-1837 historical society. Comp by Martha & Bill Reamy. (Ryan, P) 1872, mar 1813-1957, bur 1813-1947 [item [items 8-9]. Tillington bapt, mar & bur Genealogical Society quarterly. Vol. 51 3] Church of England. (Miller, P) 1571-1641 [item 10]. Tortington bapt, mar Ohio [LDS LTL Cab.] & bur (Bishop’s transcripts) 1611-1754 no. 1-4 (Spring -Winter 2011) (Jones, A C) The Report: The Ohio Genealogical Society. [item 11]. Treyford bapt, mar & bur 1584- LONDON & MIDDLESEX Vol 39-41 (1999-2001) (Jones, A C) The City of London: enlarged detail from 1729 [item 12]. Twineham bapt, mar & the “panoramic view of London from burials (Bishop’s transcripts) 1606-1718,
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Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 29 Researc h Corner Linda Romeril, Archives and Collections Director, Jersey [email protected] What’s Your Island Story?
Research Corner Research Australian Connections to Jersey, Channel Islands
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, In the 1850s a number of advertisements for which are located in the English Channel just ships leaving for Australia appear in the local 30 kilometres from the French coast. Jersey is a newspapers. These include an advertisement small island, just 118 square kilometres; however from Esnouf and Mauger ship owners who wish descendants of the sea-faring islanders can to let readers know that the brig Charles from be found all around the world. Jersey men and Jersey is leaving the Island on 2 April and sailing women, travelled from the Island in search of new for Melbourne and the gold regions of Australia. lives, land to farm and opportunities to bring back trade and goods to their families. The cost of passage was 25 guineas for second class and 30 guineas for fi rst class. The During the 19th century we know that thousands advertisement also noted that they are selling of Jersey men and women, such as the Mauger, equipment suitable for gold prospectors. Noel, Amy, Renouf, Le Cornu, Nicolle, Cabot, Hamon, de la Haye, Romeril, de Gruchy and Le Those who left the Island during this period Quesne families, left the Island to start a new life included George Romeril and his wife Ann in Australia. Pallot both of whom were in their early 20s and looking to make a new life together. In the Jersey A small number were convicts transported from census of 1851 George is listed as a 21 year old Jersey, however the vast majority were looking printer, living with his mother Magdalen and for opportunities to settle and own their own land his siblings in Jersey’s main town of St Helier. as a result of an economic downturn in the Island Magdalen is a widow of 55 and is supporting two in the 1870s and 1880s. unmarried daughters both in their 20s.
Jersey residents also took advantage of the Living only a short distance away, Ann is also 21 Australian gold rush of the 1850s and it is at the time of the 1851 census and is working as a estimated that as many as 6000 people may have live-in servant. George and Ann married in 1852 left the Channel Islands for Australia between and decided to leave the Island. 1852 and 1855. George and Ann’s fi rst child, Anna Magdalen is recorded as being born in Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria in 1855 with siblings arriving a regular intervals until the couple’s last and tenth child, Dolbel Romeril was born in 1872, also in Prahran. Interestingly Ann’s mother’s maiden name was Dolbel.
Australian Electoral Rolls show that the family lived at 14 Lang Street, South Yarra in 1906 with Dolbel, the youngest child being listed as a coachbuilder.
With ten children, George and Ann, in common with many of those who left Jersey for Australia in the 19th Century,
Image 1: Channel Islands Family History Society Transcription of Marriages in St Helier showing the marriage of Charles Romeril and Madeleine Babot in 1818
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Image 2: Record of the burial of Magdalen Babot, widow of Charles Romeril from collection of Philippe Picot, Undertaker, 1848 must have descendants still alive in Australia who are keen to discover more about their Jersey roots.
In March 2015 Jersey Heritage, the organisation responsible for the Island’s National Record Offi ce, Jersey Archive, re-launched its online catalogue to enable people to view or download a vast array of documents. These documents were previously only available when visiting Jersey and can now be accessed online for a small annual subscription fee or on a pay-per-view basis.
The new catalogue includes over 200,000 images from collections such as the Superintendent Registrar’s indexes for Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1842, copies of the Channel Islands Image 3: The North Part of France, by H. Mall (including the Family History Society’s transcriptions of Channel Islands), courtesy of Jersey Archive and Collections. Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from the 1540s to 1842, Wills and Testaments from 1660 – 1948 and Undertakers’ records from the 19th and 20th Island from the 1540s to 1842 are now available Centuries. to search through the Channel Islands Family History Society transcriptions. Searching the online catalogue allows us to fi nd out more about George and Ann’s ancestors. These types of records can help you to fi nd out George’s mother Magdalen Romeril is included more about your ancestors who, like George and in our funeral director’s records collection and Ann, left Jersey and made the long voyage to by searching on the online catalogue we can Australia. download her entry from the register. To view the online catalogue visit: This tells us that Magdalen’s maiden name is www.jerseyheritage.org/aco Babot and that she died in 1868 at the age of 74. Archives and Collections Online: The entry tells us Magdalen’s place of burial and that she is buried with her husband Charles who http://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org Contact details are as follows: was a master ironmonger. Ç Jersey Archive, Clarence Road, Through the online catalogue we can also fi nd a St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands record of the marriage of Magdalen and Charles J +44 (0) 1534 833300 in 1818. All marriages, baptisms and burials in the ¢ [email protected]
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ABERCROMBIE Fitzroy VIC. Henry WARREN, HARVEY/MASTERSON Seeking info/desc Alexander blacksmith, b 1833 Holborn MDX UK d Seeking info/desc Thomas HARVEY b ABERCROMBIE b/d unk m Annie 1903 Preston VIC m Eliz BRIGHT b c1859 & Elizabeth HARVEY b c1861 FRASER b 1854 d 1910 Melb. Chn: Ada 1835 Exeter DEV (par: John BRIGHT, Sandhurst VIC. Missing both birth Annie b 1884 m John WELSH; John tailor, & Eliz PENNEY) d 1907 Nth regn. Par: Thomas HARVEY & Mary Alexander b 1886 m Lillian PREISER; Fitzroy, arr SA 1856 VIC 1859. MASTERSON. Family lived McCrae Jessie b 1889 m Harry YOUNG; Cecil M. Farmer St Sandhurst 1860s-1870s. James b 1892 m1 Elsie CORNEILLE; ¢[email protected] H. Neill (nee Fenwick) m2 Alice MOULYNOX; m3 Christina J03 5777 0580 FISH; Alexander b 1894 d 1895; Christina m Walter DOW. Last known BUSH/CHAMBERS address 677 Station St, North Carlton. Seeking info/desc Anna CHAMBERS HEWSON A. Price m 1641 Warton, LAN ENG Seeking info my mo who was one of ¢[email protected] Christopher BUSH. Is this the same three chn orphaned in 1906. Cannot J(03) 9803 5628 Anna b Kendal 1619? trace her until 1919. Are there avenues G. Porter I could explore to trace her in the ¢[email protected] intervening years? BINDON/MORTON/CRANITCH/ L. Preston SHEPPARD ¢[email protected] Seeking info/desc/photos Susanne CARMODY/DUNN(E)/DE(E) MASSEY d 1896 St Kilda m Samuel NIHAN – Family Gathering BINDON; Mary Ann MASSEY d 1926 Seeking desc Thomas DUNN & HOLLAND Grafton m James MORTON; Margaret Margaret ROACH b IRL of CALLAGHAN d 1926 Woollhara m Researching owners Seven Creeks Bullengarook. Family Gathering for estate Euroa. Phillip HOLLAND & Matthew CRANITCH; Annie NASH d CARMODY/DUNN(E) families 1944 Murrumbeena m William Henry Charles BARNES held the property fr November 4th - 6th at Bullengarook 1843-1851. HOLLAND claimed to arr SHEPPARD, also her mo Jane Tate Hall VIC. Contact for details: NASH d 1932 Murrumbeena age 101. AUS 1840-41. No other info but a Kath Addicoat Phillip HOLLAND was aboard SS G. Finn ¢[email protected] Clonmel which was wrecked off Ninety ¢gayfi [email protected] J 0427 946 595 Mile Beach Jan 1841 on way to Melb. Also there was chemist named Phillip HOLLAND 1847, was this same person BOLGER/STRANG/BRIGHT/ who owned Seven Creeks? CONNOR/LARMER WARREN/GRACE/PENNEY Seeking info/desc Catherine CONNOR T. Grigg Seeking info/desc Thos BOLGER, b c1821 d aft 1874 m Samuel LARMER ¢[email protected] tailor, b c1841 Thomastown KIL IRL b 1843 d 1873 b IRL transp Waverley (par: James BOLGER m 1840 1842. Resided Yan Yean/Morang 1869- Thomastown IRLMargaret GRACE) d 1874. 1909 Casino NSW m 26 January 1863 Fitzroy Margaret Ann STRANG b V. Duggan c1842 Perth SCT (fa: John STRANG b ¢[email protected] 1811 Perth SCT d 1859 Melb) d 1919
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Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 32 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc HUNTER/WILLOUGHBY/ Madras INDIA still in Bengal 1907, McGRATH/SCANNELL/ cannot fi nd more records. Abbreviations: O’FARRELL E. Wilson anc ancestors Seeking info/desc Frederick ¢[email protected] arr arrived Willoughby/James/Frederick Jas/ b&d born and died Milo Willougby HUNTER (may have been known as WILLOUGHBY) b b born TUDDENHAM/TAYLOR/ 1854 Manchester ENG (par: Robert bap baptised DURHAM/BENNETT/FOOTE/ HUNTER & Mary CLANCY) need bro/s brother/brothers McALROY death date/place m 1888 Walgett NSW Seeking info Eveline TUDDENHAM b bur buried Frances McGRATH b c1855 Mudgee 1887 par: Dennis TUDDENHAM & c1803 circa 1803 NSW or Coowa VIC d 1888 West Mary Jane TAYLOR; grandpar: chn children Bogan NSW (par Thomas McGRATH Thomas TUDDENHAM & Rebecca & Emma Lovinia BOLAND). Also d died BENNETT; James TAYLOR & Timothy SCANNELL b 1859 dau/s daughter/daughters Catherine McALROY. Eveline m 1910 Dromulton KER IRL (par: Michael/ desc descendants Ernest Arthur TAYLOR par: James Thomas SCANNELL & Margaret TAYLOR & Mary Ann DURHAM; fa father MOYNHAN) d 1909 Longreach QLD grandpar: James TAYLOR & Jean fr from m 1884 Port Curtis, Rockhampton LINAY; Robert DURHAM & Kezia QLD Katherine O’FARRELL b c1862 g-gf great-grandfather FOOTE. Shanballybaun ROS IRL (par: James/ g-gm great-grandmother C. Taylor John O’FARRELL & Sarah/Maria g-grandpar great-grandparents ¢ ROGERS) d 1926 Longreach QLD. [email protected] gg-grandpar great-great- J. Guley grandparents ¢[email protected] m married TUTHILL mo mother Seeking info John TUTHILL LRCSI m1 fi rst marriage LM LRCPI (1881) b 6 Sept 1855 Dublin NEIL(L)/STEWART/GENT & origins of family IRL (Anglo-Irish?) m2 second marriage Seeking anc my g-gm Matilda also meaning of medical qualifi cations par parents NEIL(L) b 30 March 1843 Co ANT indicated above. sis sister/sisters IRL (par: poss John NEIL(L) & Ann STEWART) d 21 November 1925 W. Borton unk unknown Ballarat m 29 May 1865 prob Ballarat ¢ [email protected] Robert GENT. R. Oppenheim ¢[email protected] WATSON/HEDDERWICK/ BARRY/LYNCH Seeking info my g-gf Thomas Morgan Allan WATSON & arr AUS c1852 poss PERGER/BROWN Geelong with mo Elizabeth, widow, & Seeking info arr AUS/NZ Hans bros/sis: John Allan; Elizabeth; Christian PERGER. Was on Otago Alexander; William; David. Went to goldfi elds NZ at Lawrence 1863. Was Ballarat goldfi elds. he in VIC/NSW bef this. Also Thomas M. & P. Beck William Beaumont BROWN m 1861 ¢[email protected] BRICKWAll Corner
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Kerry Farmer explains ‘Autosomal DNA’ in Descent 46:1 Nick Reddan in Ancestral Searcher 39:1 (March 2016) (March 2016) gives a timely reminder that even prestigious sources such as the Dictionary of Irish Biography can’t be relied upon and Graham Jaunay off ers advice on ‘Writing a family history’ in the importance of confi rming all sources. The South Australian Genealogist 43:2 (May 2016). Indexed transcriptions of the surviving registers and other The Ancestral Searcher 39:2 (June 2016) has a good church records for Galway’s Church of Ireland parishes article ‘Beyond the WWI service records – fi lling the gaps’ of Killinane and Kilconicky have been released as the by Mary Stutters. Representative Church Body Library’s ‘Archive of the Month’ at http://ireland.anglican.org/about/128. Tasmanian Ancestry 37:1 (June 2016) has an interesting article on rural Tasmanian teachers ‘Revolting to girls with The Irish Genealogical Research Society ebulletin any refi nement: fi nding board and lodging for teachers’. reports that a new organization, Fermanagh Genealogy, Diane Snowden continues her excellent articles ‘Voices has been formed as a delivery partner for genealogical from the Orphan Schools’ following the ship North Star services at Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, based volunteers of 1845. This issue also includes ‘The Settlement at Fermanagh Visitor Information Centre at Enniskillen patterns of immigrants from Germany: a case study of the Castle. They off er a free half-hour consultation service Procida immigrants of 1885. to help fi nd your family roots in Fermanagh. Overseas membership costs 20 Euro and includes their annual journal The North West Kent FHS Journal 14:1 (April 2016) Fermanagh Roots. If you’re planning a trip, go to contains an interesting article on writing masters using www.enniskillencastle.co.uk to book an appointment ‘John Scottowe (c 1545-1607), writing master of Norwich’ at the Centre. They are open on Monday and Thursday as an example. afternoons. Our GSV Irish Ancestry Group has kindly agreed to purchase a subscription for the Library. Bucks Ancestor 25:1 (March 2016) has a good article on ‘Juvenile delinquents & reformers’ by Kathy Chater; a County Clare Library’s Local Studies Department has depressing story on poverty in the 18th century in ‘Hungry updated its excellent website and the following Roman children’ and a detailed account including inventories and Catholic parish records are now included. Clondagad/ wills in ‘The past glories of Colnbrook town’ along with Kilchreest baptisms – some 1,776 transcriptions, dating ‘Some interesting Penn deaths’ – if only more ministers from 1846 to 1860, can be searched chronologically as in recorded such detail in their registers. the register, but do read the Transcribers Notes about gaps in records and possible priestly errors. Marriage Records The Doncaster Ancestor 26:1 (Spring 2016) provides some for Kilmurry Ibrickan include transcripts from 1839 to 1862 background material on ‘Finding your twentieth century (with a gap from August 1852 to September 1855). ancestors: using the 1939 register’. Gallus is always full of interesting information – not ‘The Pew wars at Pentridge 1819’ in Derbyshire FHS 157 just for the Glasgow area. No. 105 (March 2016) contains (June 2016) shows how and why the 48 pews in the village articles on the ‘West Dunbartonshire Council Archives’; church had been allocated – good social background for us all. the website ScotlandsPlaces where the taxation records are particularly useful (and do remember that the GSV has a Metropolitan 2:3 /150 (June 2016) has an article on ‘Enfi eld subscription to view the images from this site); ‘What’s new brickfi elds’, of particular interest if your ancestor was a at ScotlandsPeople’; ‘Magdelene institutions’ in Scotland and Greater London brickmaker. ‘Making good use of the Valuation Rolls’.
‘Pocahontas’ rings bells when we think of the early American Borders FHS Magazine 91 (June 2016) reports on the settlements and ‘The four hundred year anniversary events ‘Minute Book of the Cordiners of Selkirk 1785 to 1835’. of 2016’ in the North West Kent FHS Journal 14:2 (June 2016) tells the story of the native ‘princess’ who died in Don’t forget to keep checking our library catalogue where we England as Rebecca, wife of John Rolfe in 1617. index the myriad family stories written in the family history society journals. The article you need is not necessarily in The New Zealand Genealogist 47 (June 2016) off ers tips the magazine you expect it to be. Somebody may have done about searching NZ BDM records on fi ndmypast, which all the hard work for you! point out the benefi ts over the government site – the Registrar General having granted permission for their use.
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In this edition of Genies on the Web, I am looking at hotels is given as the location and not the actual address. For Genies and the people, often families, who owned and ran them. example, the Walsh hotel is listed as the Bunkers Hill Hotel at Many women ran hotels so you have a good chance of fi nding Cardigan, the Cardigan Hotel at Haddon and at Trunk Lead. more information about your female ancestors. Meetings It was actually located at Bunkers Hill. Check a map of the and business deals were conducted in hotels. Sometimes area if you are unsure it is the same hotel. even inquests and elections were held there. People lived in hotels and letters were sent there for workers in the Sunday trading was very popular and probably very area to pick up. Perhaps your ancestor lived at a hotel like profi table as many were fi ned for this off ence so don’t be Thomas McSweeney who was probably living at Thurles surprised if your ancestor is listed. Castle Hotel when he enlisted for WW1, ‘From Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A33 Ayrshire on 3 July 1916 5739 John Walsh next owned the Rising Sun Hotel in South McSweeney, Thomas Thurles Castle Hotel, King Street, Melbourne (originally listed as in Emerald Hill) and it is still Melbourne, Victoria’. a functioning hotel today. He died there in 1882 but the hotel was run by his wife and various members of her family and With all the development at present many of these one of his sons well into the 1940s. old buildings are vanishing completely or the facade is all that is preserved. Fortunately, many have been At http://vuir.vu.edu.au/884/1/CTEE.LVA.pdf you photographed. Facebook has a group called Pubs Your will fi nd an index of committee members (including hotel Dad And Gramps Drank In www.facebook.com/ names) from 1841 to 1920 of the Committee of the Licensed groups/1723817961185364/ which is full of old and Victuallers’ Association of Victoria. current hotel photos. Trove Digitised Newspapers http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ has lots of details Nineteenth century Publicans of Victoria can also be found and information about them. PROV has an online Index to at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry. Defunct Hotel Licences (1857 to 1932). Access is via com/~pobjoyoneill/publicans/publicans.htm http://prov.vic.gov.au/provguide-23 There are lists of hotel licenses granted and lots more at Thanks to this list I know my family’s hotel, the Cardigan, janilye on Family Tree Circles www.familytreecircles. was built in 1862 and was delicensed in 1912, so it was run by com/u/janilye/ You need to scroll down the page and there my family for 50 years. are 39 pages of information (not all for pubs). There are also a few photos of hotels.
Before I go any further it should be noted that there are ‘The Hunt Club at Ballarat and Grenville Hotel c1890, Prop. many, many mistakes made with hotel names. Also not all L.H. Kopke in the saddle on the right’ is from defunct hotels are included in the PROV list. For example, http://drifegenealogy.com/kopkephoto.htm This hotel from other sources I discovered that the Thurles Castle Hotel was in the same area as the Cardigan Hotel. There are also (run by my ancestor’s brother, John Walsh) started as the other photos of interest from the area. Remember if there Alma Boarding House which then became the Alma Hotel are no photos available of your family’s hotel, you might get and it was then re-named Thurles Castle by a Mr Ryan who a general idea of where they lived and worked from other added a ball court. John Walsh continued to advertise the photos of nearby areas. ball court and an 1875 a newspaper article included the players’ names: “There was a large attendance at Walsh’s, Apparently, in 1869 there were 477 hotels listed in the Thurles Castle ball court on Saturday, to witness the several Ballarat area and it will be very similar for other large places handball matches there contested by … ” e.g., Bendigo, which is why you might need to check sources other than online ones for the complete picture. I also used Unfortunately, newspaper articles often have the wrong the Cole-Tetlow Index at the State Library of Victoria hotel name or, in country areas, the nearest railway station www.slv.vic.gov.au/cole-tetlow-index.
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Scottish Ancestry Group International Settlers Group (non-British research) Saturday 17 September 2016
Around the Groups Around Guest speaker: Susan McLean Crime & Punishment in Scotland
Meeting: Saturday, 19 November 2016, 1pm Saturday 26 November 2016 Marie-Thérèse Jensen: European roots and Guest speaker: John Bird Australian Branches. Telling the family story. The Bakers Will This is a story of writing and producing two family history books, using photos, stories and facts from Quarterly Meetings 1.00pm to 3.00pm GSV Meeting Room France, Ireland, Denmark, Scotland and Australia. Enquiries: ¢ http://gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag
Meeting: Saturday, 18 February 2017, 1pm Problem solving (non-British) Sunday 23 October 2016 In conjunction with the Geelong Family History Group we are hosting a Scottish Ancestry Road Show. Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) (Venue to be advised). GSV Meeting Room 1.00pm. Annual subscription This all day seminar will include: $11 and includes the quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct. • John Blackwood: ScotlandsPeople Website • Malcolm Horsburgh: Statistical Account of Scotland Enquiries & membership form: • Dr Ben Wilkie: Scots Influence in Western Victoria J Yvonne Izatt 03 9899 8136 Ç [email protected] • Susan McLean: Highlands & Islands Emigration Scheme ¢ http://www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/isg
IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP GSV Writers Circle
Next Meeting : Saturday 12 November 2016 Meetings : First Wednesday each month, GSV Meeting Room (except January) Level B1 257 Collins St Melbourne GSV Meeting Room from 12.30 till 1.30pm Visitors welcome (bring your lunch and have a chat) September 7 Writing exercise: a female family member from history (750 words) 1.00pm — Final episodes of a 4 part series October 5 as seen in the UK on TG4 Review of Members’ submissions Mna Dibeartha (Banished Women) Produced by Ned Kelly Pictures November 2 Approaches to writing about a family death or experience with famines, plagues or epidemics General meetings held on second Saturday of February, May, August and November in GSV meeting room. December 7 Yearly subscription due on 1st Sept each year is $11.00. Our program for 2017 Newsletter ‘Blarney’ published quarterly. Beginners’ Kits and Griffi ths Valuation Kits available All members of the GSV are welcome at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact See pages 24-25 for the GSV Writers Circle [email protected] quarterly column
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 36 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Book Reviews Reviews by Barbara Beaumont and Margaret Vines
1 2 3 Book Reviews
1. The fi rst day of the Somme A new suburb with such literary pretensions also valued education. Author: Andrew Macdonald 462 pp ISBN 978 1 7755 4040 3 In Surrey Hills Non-Government Schools Ken shows these were Pub: Harper Collins 2016 Available in GSV Library many and varied: primary schools, prep schools, establishments The fi rst day of the Somme on 1 July 1916 was the worst-ever for ‘young ladies’ and high schools for both boys and girls as well British military disaster. The author has used almost 600 accounts as the school attached to the St Joseph’s Home orphanage. Though from both British and German participants of all ranks, plus offi cial strongest in its accounts of the teachers, this book also contains documents, to reconstruct the story. Military history buff s will descriptions of school activities and some pupils’ names. love this book. The general reader will fi nd its concentration on the Ken describes the six friendly societies in the district in Surrey people involved ensures its interest. For example, there are short Hills Friendly Societies, and includes useful lists of their offi ce biographies of the principal commanders, British and German, and holders. In Surrey Hills Progress Associations 1889-2015, he covers the numerous quotations from writings of the men in the fi eld are the local improvement societies, which operated intermittently, accompanied by a brief account of their fate in the war. arising in response to perceived community issues, and For a family historian tracing the fate of a soldier, the Index and an disappearing again some years later. These four Surrey Hills books Index of Military Units provide short cuts to their participation. will enable anyone researching a family there to reconstruct the life To see the battle in context, the early chapters on the British plan of the community in which they lived. and the German anticipation and preparation for it are necessary All Ken James’ books are self-published in 2015-6 and all have reading. So is the chapter on life in the trenches, seen from the surname indexes. MV writings of the soldiers themselves. The author describes the fi ve day bombardment of German front 3. The First of its Kind: Nurse Education and Training at lines which did little to damage the deep German dugouts or their the Northern District School of Nursing shell-proof machine gun nests strategically placed to command the Compiler & publisher: The Northern District School of Nursing British forward trenches and no-man’s-land. This sets the scene for Graduates Association Inc. 351 pp ISBN 978-0-646-93407-5 his sector by sector coverage of the battle, from north to south, in the The Northern Regional School of Nursing, which operated from next six chapters. The Germans had ample warning of the coming 1950 to 1989, off ered an innovation in nursing education. Nurses attack. Particularly in the north, few British reached the German training at the Bendigo and Mildura base hospitals, as well as lines, cut down in no-man’s-land or in their own forward trenches. the smaller hospitals in Swan Hill, Echuca, St Arnaud, Dunolly, Small gains made, in the middle and south sectors, were often not Castlemaine and Kyneton, were enrolled at the School and came consolidated by the generals, and often lost again. The amount of together for a residential study block prior to commencement detail in Andrew Macdonald’s account, reassuringly thorough for of their hospital-based practical training and for a further block those looking at a particular army unit, can be overwhelming. during each of the three years of their training. This system was Only units from Britain, Newfoundland, New Zealand, France, and a forerunner of the current system of University based education of course Germany, were involved in the fi rst day of the Somme. for nurses. Australians came to France later, for Fromelles, Flers and Pozieres. The Committee of the School’s Graduates Association has The fi rst day of the Somme gives a graphic account of the start of commissioned this book as a lasting record of all who worked or the battle they were entering, setting it in the context of the overall studied there. Editors Jenny and Ken Pata have collated a large military tactics of both sides: a war of attrition which the author amount of material including memoir, photos, both formal and sees as ‘morally bankrupt’. The Somme lasted for 141 days, and the informal, as well as sections of historical information on nurse fi rst day set the pattern. MV training before and during the times of the School. One of the 2. Books on local and social history in Victoria: Chewton avowed aims, to include as much as possible of the memoirs, and Surrey Hills photographs and other material submitted to the Committee, is possibly a problem as it leads to a certain amount of repetition. The Author: Ken James Available in GSV Library organisation is more or less chronological, commencing with a brief Self published, copies available from the author. outline of the factors that led to the formation of the School, then Chewton’s Halls and Lodges continues Ken James’ interest in describing its operation and development from its inception to its the social history of this goldfi elds town. Chewton’s eight halls, closure. Some more thematic chapters are interspersed, covering including the Town Hall, are featured. Fifteen groups are covered, topics such as the School’s fi rst Dean, Miss Emily Long, exams, including six Lodges, ranging from the Orange Lodge to the uniforms and nurses’ pranks. Each chapter includes excerpts from friendly societies like the Rechabites, the Hibernians and the Sons the memoirs of the nurses who trained there, which build up a and Daughters of Temperance. The lists of their members are picture of the lives and experiences of the young women, and later especially valuable for family historians. young men, who trained there. The changes from the formality With The Surrey Hills Literary Institute, Ken moves from the of the fi fties to the more free-wheeling seventies and eighties are country to eastern suburban Melbourne. This Literary Institute fascinating! Formal group photos of every ‘school’ (intake group) was part of the movement for self-education and improvement are included, annotated with fi rst and surname wherever possible, characteristic of the late 19th century. It was exemplifi ed in as well as many informal snaps including some of staff and of the Mechanics Institutes, about which Ken has also written in reunions. Appendices list all the teaching, offi ce and domestic staff collaboration with Pam Baraganwath. The story of the Surrey Hills and visiting lecturers as well as all the nurses listed by ‘school’. An Literary Institute with its library, its debates, and its concerts, and alphabetical index referring to photos of individuals and excerpts the biographies of its chief movers and shakers, indicates that, from their memoirs would have been a useful addition. in the late 19th century, these relatively new suburbs clustered Available in the GSV library or from Jenny Pata, Assistant around the train station, possessed a growing intellectual, cultural Secretary, NDSNGA Inc., PO Box 509, Bendigo, 3552, Cost $40, or and social life. $55 including postage. BB
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 37 What’s On at our Me mber Societies
Victoria Gum Inc. Sunbury Family History Society Meeting Day Change Sunbury Family History Society welcomes visitors to When our meetings were relocated to the Masonic Hall its monthly meetings held on the third Wednesday of and changed from Tuesday night to Sunday afternoons, each month at 8.00pm. the second Sunday of each month was selected. Guest speakers share a range of stories, mainly It has been decided to change our regular meeting connected with family history. In past months we have day to the 4th Sunday of each month. This change heard stories about the Will Will Rook Cemetery, of will take effect from October this year and into Batman and his Treaty with the Aborigines and several November; the November meeting will be the final family history stories. One of the latter has been able to for the year. trace his forebears to the Battle of Hastings. Meetings in 2017 will commence on the 4th Sunday in Check our website for details on the Society including January 2017. Full details of the dates can be found on our address for meetings: www.sunburyfhs.org.au our web site: www.vicgum.asn.au.
Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 5pm, and Saturdays 10am to 1pm. Geelong Family History Group The Geelong Family History Group will host the GSV Enquiries: ¢ Scottish Ancestry Group’s Road Show Exploring [email protected] your Scottish Ancestry. J03 5672 3803 Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995 A highlight will be Scottish Influence in Western ¢ wonthaggigenealogy.org.au Victoria, by Dr. Ben Wilkie, Deakin University, Warrnambool. The date: Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 10.00 am to 3.00 pm The Venue: Waurn Ponds Library meeting room, in Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc. Pioneer Rd. near the corner of the Princes Highway (Melways Map 465, C5) opposite the Waurn Ponds Saturday 10th September 2016, 2.00 pm Shopping Centre. Speaker: Dr. Madonna Grehan Cost: $25, GSV & GFHG members $20, covers am & Topic: Charles Joseph La Trobe and the regulation of pm tea. Lunch: BYO or in the Shopping Centre. everyday life implementation of the Victorian Births, Contact: deaths and Marriages. ¢[email protected] Saturday 12 November 2016, 2.00 pm Speaker and topic to be advised. Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church. Cnr. Burke and Malvern Rds, Gardiner. Visitors are very welcome, Entry $2 Afternoon Tea provided. Huguenot Society of Australia Enquiries: Victorian Chapter JClare 03 9578 3654 Friday 28th October 2016 at 12noon Annual lunch at the Malvernvale Hotel 1321 Malvern Road, Malvern. NEED HELP WITH Saturday 29th October 2016 at 12.30pm GSV meeting room YOUR RESEARCH? Talk by the Society’s Secretary Robert Nash on The Huguenots in the Channel Islands. The GSV Research Team can assist with a variety of Meetings are held at the GSV rooms services to suit all research problems including: Emirates Building, Level B1, 257 Collins Street, • Free 30min eResearch requests for GSV members Melbourne; access to the ground floor from Collins St. • Special Consultations Refreshments follow all meetings. • Extended Research requests in hourly sessions Entrance: $5 Everyone is welcome. • Transcription and Translation Services Enquiries: Sue a’Beckett J See p43 for further details of the Research Services 04208 201 422 or ¢[email protected] available or visit our website www.gsv.org.au
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 38 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Further information on our Member Societies can be found on the GSV website at www.gsv.org.au/activities/member-societies-list GSV Member S ocieties ¢ Ç J Website or email address Mailing Address Phone
Anglesea & District History Society Inc Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 Ç Lwr Lvl, Richmond Library, ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121 J Ararat Genealogical Society Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc 03 9428 6231 ¢ Ç PO Box 361, Ararat VIC 3377 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs
Sale & District Family History Group Inc Member Societies Ç Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc Kerang & District Family History Group Inc PO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 J Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 Heather Pocknall 0428 411 603 J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 Shepparton Family History Group Inc ¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632 J Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc Garry Wallden 03 5828 3236 ¢ Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 J Jennifer Cole 03 5852 2842 South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc ¢ Ç Benalla Family Research Group Inc [email protected] PO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc J Bill Willett 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J ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 Melton Family History Group Inc Cobram Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc Ç PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585 Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 J JBarbara Coleman 03 5871 2505 ¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org Lyn Cunningham 03 5032 2840 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs Colac & District Family History Group Inc Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc Terang & District Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840 ÇPO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264 J Colac History Centre 5231 5736 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au JJoyce Holmes 03 5592 2264 Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc ¢[email protected] Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 Ç The Australian Heraldry Society Inc PO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 J ÇPO Box 107, Lawson NSW 2783 Val Hardman 03 5881 3980 ¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au ¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg JStephen Michael Szabo 0431 701 055 NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc ¢ www.heraldryaustralia.org Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria Inc Ç PO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805 Toora & District Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 J Lynne Bradley 8787 5558 ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962 ¢www.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc ¢ http://nwfhg.org.au ¢http://toora.org/ East Gippsland Family History Group Inc Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 Victorian GUM Inc ÇPO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 Ç JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 C/- B1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 JLyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 J ¢www.egfhg.org.au Office 03 9639 2005 ¢[email protected] ¢www.vicgum.asn.au Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr Wangaratta Family History Society Inc Ç Ç JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 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Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 39 News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria From Tara Oldfi eld For further information visit prov.vic.gov.au.
Adoption and Wardship records at PROV
The Public Record Offi ce Victoria, holds a variety of records Court registers related to adoption and wardship. The order to place a child into care was made through a court. Prior to 1907, children either found ‘neglected’ by Adoption was not formally regulated by the State of Victoria police or put on trial for criminal off ences were brought until 1928. Before then, children were put up for adoption before the Petty Sessions courts. You may fi nd details of the through the churches and sometimes through the courts. court order by searching the court registers for the date and Frequently they spent some time in the care or custody of the location of the person you are researching. State or a private institution before being adopted. We are most likely to have records for that period in the child’s life. After 1907 a dedicated Children’s Court was established in Melbourne specifi cally for children accused of criminal Ward registers off ences. A small portion of the register for this court is open If the child was adopted by the State (became a Ward of to public access. State) you can do a name search on our website. Note that registers between 1900 and 1915 are open to the public but Visit our website for more detailed information on our are not digitised, so you’ll need to visit our North Melbourne adoption and wardship records: prov.vic.gov.au Reading Room to see those. In Ward Registers you might fi nd: Name, Sex, Date of birth, ‘Native place’, Religion, Ability If you are a former State Ward, here are some other to read or write, Date of commitment to State custody, organisations you can contact for advice and help in your Committing bench, Date of Admission to the institution, research. Term, Cause, Whether parents are living, Vaccination details, Previous history, Where stationed (‘neglected’ Family Information Networks and Discovery (FIND) children were sent to children’s homes, placed with families FIND is a service by the Department of Health and Human or apprenticed to trades), Licensing out details (children Service that provides support and advice to former Wards were ‘licensed’ to work). of State looking for their records or contacting ‘lost’ family Later adoptions might have with them more extensive case members. http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/for-individuals/ fi les, but you will need to provide an appropriate reason to applying-for-documents-and-records/adoption-and- access these records through the Freedom of Information family-records/victorian-state-wards-forgotten- process, as the records are closed to protect the privacy of australians people who are in many cases still living. Koorie Records Unit Our Koorie Records Unit provides advice on accessing records to people of the Stolen Generations. You can fi nd information about the Koorie Records Unit on our website: prov.vic.gov.au
Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN) CLAN is a support and advocacy group for people brought up in care away from family. CLAN also provides support for anyone who has a close family member who was placed in care. http://www.clan.org.au
Open Place Open Place is a support service for Forgotten Australians http://www.openplace.org.au
Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help (VANISH) VANISH is a self-help organisation for people separated by adoption or as Wards of the State. VANISH provides search Image 1: Ward register entry for William Coe Ackerman, advice, assistance and general support to people aff ected by 1866, VPRS 4527, P2, Book 1. wardship. http://www.vanish.org.au
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 40 • © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Royal Historical Society of Victoria From Lenore Frost For more information, visit http://www.historyvictoria.org.au Soldier Settlement in Victoria
Many and varied items are donated the Collection of the RHSV and some of these touch on the lives and struggles of the First World War soldier settlers. The Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act of 1917 enacted the scheme, and over 11,500 Victorian returned servicemen were allocated blocks under the scheme.
A document called Pioneering in the Mallee district from 1923-1956 by Muriel Carter describes her life on a Soldier Settlement block in the Mallee district of Victoria in the Parish of Patchewollock. Her husband Bombardier Joseph Bertram Carter had served in the AIF from 1915 to 1919 with the 12th Field Artillery Brigade. He was wounded in ImageI 1: PROV’sPROV’ BattleB l to FarmF WWIWWI websiteb action in 1917 but later returned to duty in France.
In her writing, Muriel Carter described the pioneering of the Patchewollock district from clearing the scrub, fencing, building a wattle-and-daub dwelling, enduring the heat, dust-storms, lack of water, plagues of mice and ants, loneliness and diffi cult living conditions to the gradual establishment of a township. This collection of material is available under Manuscript numbers MS 001601 and 001603. Search our Manuscripts collection here: http://collections.historyvictoria.com.au/ rhsvdatabases/manuscripts.htm.
Part of Joseph Carter’s Soldier Settlement record is included in an online project at Public Record Offi ce Victoria called Battle to Farm WWI: Soldier Settlement records in Victoria. You can fi nd many of the records at http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au/, though not all have been located. There is not one single series of soldier settlement records, they have to be extracted from other land records. If you have a relative who was a soldier settler, but whose records are not included in Battle to Farm, Image 2: Typical soldier settler’s house in the Redcliff ’s dried fruit contact the PROV with as many details as you know to help area, showing pruning operations and the method of drying fruit, them locate them. c1926. State Library of Victoria H2011.134/13
In his application Joseph mentions being familiar with the by our affi liated societies. http://www.historyvictoria. land in the Mallee Country for which he applied, and that org.au/societies/victorian-local-history-database. his father had 640 acres and his mother 513. He had farming The Bendigo Historical Society, for instance holds some equipment and a horse team, and deferred pay of £155. Discharged Soldier Settlement Grazing Licences. Joseph was given his fi rst preference of block 39, and 39A. A recent lecture at the RHSV by Professor Marilyn Lake can The RHSV book collection has an increasing number of be accessed via podcast on our website: Simply because I was histories and memories of soldier settlements in various an 18 year old hero: the Victorian Land Settlement Scheme, parts of Victoria, including A Blockie’s wife by Mary Aldridge http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/whats-on/podcasts. from the Murray Valley area; From battlefi eld to block by the Merbein District Historical Society; “Moranghurk” Soldier The fi rst time Soldier Settlement was mentioned in the Settlement at Meredith by Margaret Cooper; and Settlers of Victorian Historical Journal appears to have been in 1950, Skipton by Barry Nitschke. The library also holds reports of though it was a lone entry. In the 1970s, however a growing the Closer Settlement Board in the 1920. interest is evident, which continued over the next few decades. You can check the index from here: Don’t forget to have a look at the Victorian Local History http://collections.historyvictoria.com.au/ Database which includes items contributed to a database rhsvdatabases/journal.htm.
Volume 33 Issue 3 / September 2016 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc • 41 The Level B1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 A bout the GSV Genealogical Australia Society of Web www.gsv.org.au Email [email protected] Membership Options A$ Phone 03 9662 4455 Victoria Inc Joining fee (Australia/international) 18.00/18.00
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• F r e e library access to commercial databases including: Patron Ancestry, findmypast, TheGenealogist, and British The Honourable Linda Dessau, AM Newspaper Archive Governor of Victoria • Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor Honorary Offi ce Bearers and Councillors • F r e e publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in Ancestor (one per year) President David Down Vice Presidents Tony Arthur • Online access to our enhanced library catalogue and databases including Genealogical Index of Names Eleanor Pugsley FGSV (GIN) containing nearly four million entries Treasurer Stephen Hawke • Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – the best Council Alison Boundy starting point for newcomers to genealogy Erna Cameron • Free eResearch service for short research requests if Cecil Clark you cannot visit the library Lorna Elms • A free annual research query of up to two hours for Claire Johnson members residing more than 100kms from Melbourne Peter Johnston • Discounts on our extensive range of family history Jenny Redman publications and services (not sale items) Staff • Reciprocal rights with other major societies (conditions apply) Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV Assistant Library Manager Meg Bate • Special Interest Groups, Discussion Circles and Computer Classes Administration Staff Alison Carter Kim Johnstone • GSV Talks: (see pages 45 to 48)
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eResearch General Register Offi ce (GRO) There is a free eResearch service for a library lookup or certifi cates research advice taking up to 30 minutes for members who England and Wales birth, death and marriage certifi cates, cannot visit the library. Replies are by email but if prints are births and deaths at sea and events registered with UK Services Research required a cost estimate will be given. Members may send in Consuls and armed services personnel may be purchased one eResearch query at a time. Another may be submitted online: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate after receipt of results.
To submit a request by email, see the Research & Resources Scottish birth, death and marriage page online at www.gsv.org.au. certifi cates Images of Statutory (civil) registrations may be purchased To submit a request by mail, download and complete the online. Old parochial registers, census records and wills Postal Research Request Form located on the website, or are also available: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk collect one from the GSV. Submit with a SSAE. Prints are To learn more you may like to attend the monthly class $0.25 per A4 page – a quotation can be provided on request if on ScotlandsPeople. Check the ‘What’s On’ pages in this an additional SSAE is provided. issue of Ancestor (pp 45-48).
Extended Research England and Wales Wills and Probate The Research Team at the GSV can spend time researching Wills and probate may be searched for people who died in or a family or topic of your choice. after 1858 to current times. A ‘grant of representation’ gives Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 pre someone the legal right to deal with a deceased person’s paid. Includes limited copying and postal charges. estate but not all grants of representation contain a will: www.gov.uk/search-will-probate Members residing more than 100 km from Melbourne are off ered one annual session of complimentary research FamilySearch fi lm hire taking up to two hours. The GSV is a designated centre to receive LDS microfi lms for viewing in the Library: Consultations https://familysearch.org/films/ Stuck with your research? Arrange a consultation in our library with a member of the research team. If you have any queries or need some help in using these Consultations are for one hour. websites ask for some assistance in the library. Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00
Transcriptions and Latin Translations Early documents such as wills, deeds and marriage licences can be transcribed. Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 Victorian Probate Papers post 1925 Victorian Inquest Papers 1840–1985 Obtain copies from Public Records Offi ce Victoria (PROV). Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00 Other Public Records Obtain copies from Public Record Offi ce Victoria (PROV) where specifi c reference [VPRS/Unit etc] is provided. Per hour: Members: $60.00 / Non-members $85.00
Further information about our Research services will be found on our website www.gsv.org.au under the Research tab. Contact [email protected] if you need specific guidance.
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Great Talk by Professor Graeme Davison On July 9, a capacity audience at GSV was treated to an insightful talk by Professor Graeme Davison, Emeritus Professor at Monash University. Although Graeme is a leading Australian historian, and has written about the family history movement, he had never investigated the history of his own family until recently. His talk related to the lessons learned of that inquiry and which resulted in his recent book Lost Relations – Fortunes of my family. He addressed questions of building up context, developing characters, maintaining narrative fl ow, and thinking about the author’s voice and audience. His style left no doubt, that Image 1: GSV’s events director, Erna Cameron presenting he was accustomed to involving the audience, with frequent Professor Davison with a certifi cate pauses for questions and explanations. A very enjoyable morning indeed. Macedonian) Front in WW1 is not well known and we hope to publish an article on the topic in a future issue of Ancestor. If you have any information that might help with this research, please contact our Research Manager, Linley Hooper, [email protected]
New Website At the start of July, the GSV’s new website was launched. The new site (www.gsv.org.au) is a vast improvement on the previous website, so if you haven’t done so, take the time to explore the new site. The many volunteers and staff who have managed this transformation over the last three years are to be congratulated.
Request for Articles Images 2 and 3: Serbia Order of St Sava (left) and Serbia The Ancestor Editorial Team are always on the lookout for Cross of Mercy awarded to Australian medical volunteers interesting short articles on all aspects of family history - by Serbia in WW1. Images courtesy of Bojan Pajic. be it a description of your research, an unusual story, or a ‘how to’ article on some aspect of research. So get writing Are you a Descendant of an Australian Doctor, and record your history for posterity! Short articles (one to Nurse, Orderly or Driver who served in Serbia two pages) are preferred, but articles up to four pages (3000 or Salonika during WW1? words) are considered for publication by the editors A GSV member interested in contacting descendants of Australian doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers who Annual Member Societies Day volunteered to serve with the Serbs during WW1. In On 28 May, GSV hosted the annual meeting of its Member particular, he would be interested in those who were Societies in Melbourne. awarded Serbian medals in recognition of their service. Examples include: Ethel Gillingham (from Geelong) Representatives from 18 groups attended, including Benalla, Florence Macdowell (Melbourne), Dr Lilian Cooper Bendigo, Clan Macmillan, Cobram, Colac, Descendants of (Brisbane), Katherine Mary Coleman (Hay), Mary Bedford Convicts, Gisborne, Narre Warren, Phillip Island, Port Fairy, (Brisbane), Jessie White (Healesville), Edith Jane Mackay Port Phillip Pioneers, Surf Coast, VicGUM, West Gippsland, and Alice Mary Stirling (Adelaide), Stella Maria Miles Wodonga and Yarrawonga, and the Scottish Ancestry and Franklin (Talbingo), Olive May King and Jean Morton International Settlers Groups. All Societies are facing similar (Sydney), Dr Thomas Alendar Benbow (Ararat), Dr Agnes issues with pressure on membership, volunteer resources Bennett (Sydney and Wellington), Dr Mary Clementina and premises. But some groups are growing, as new avenues de Garis (Geelong), Cecil Hope Robson (Brisbane), Drs have been explored : for example, history of the ‘50s and 60s Charles Henry and Laura Margaret Hope (Adelaide), Elsie at Benalla; Shepparton have a radio program; and Colac have Jean Dalyell (Sydney), Edith Amy Trebilcock (Ballarat and increased networking with other community groups. GSV Melbourne), Lucy Ryan (Hobart) and Leonora Millicent raised the discussion of joint eff orts and benefi ts that may Allender (presumed from Melbourne). be facilitated with the new GSV website and social media initiatives. It was proposed that GSV would explore these The story of Australian volunteers for service in Serbia or possibilities with a number of the Societies to better provide in support of the Allied Serbian Army on the Salonika (or benefi ts to members who are distant from Melbourne.
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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Fri. 30 On What’s CLASSES AFL Grand Final Public Holiday Meeting Room, 1.30 pm to 2.30pm These small group classes are designed to enable you TALKS to get the most out of the computer-based resources Meeting Room available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 8 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 1 FamilySearchTM online Western Australia Research Tues. 6 The National Archives (UK) online Vicki Montgomery FGSV This talk leads into the Library Research Day on 24 Thur. 8 GSV library catalogue & databases – tips September Tues. 13 Australian BDM Indexes via DiggerTM & online Thur. 15 12.00pm – 1.00pm The Queen of King Street. Early life in Thur. 15 Internet for genealogy: an introduction Melbourne as seen through Lola Russell’s Tues. 20 AncestryTM online Memoirs Susan Pierotti Wed. 21 National Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Lola Russell was born over 90 years ago in a little cottage on the corner of King and La Trobe streets. She Thur. 22 National Archives Australia & State and her family have been running a restaurant out of archives online the house for over 115 years. Tues. 27 findmypastTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM, Bookings essential Scotland PlacesTM & TheGenealogistTM online
Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, TM non-members $20.00 Thur. 29 ScotlandsPeople online Bookings essential Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY non-members $20.00 Library Sat. 24 10.30am – 1.30pm Western Australia Research Experienced research volunteers will assist you with your research. MEETINGS Limited spaces – Bookings essential Meeting Room Members $10.00, AIGS/RHSV $30.00, non-members $40.00 Wed. 7 12.30pm GSV Writers Circle* Tues. 13 12.30pm CLASSES Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Meeting Room – Bookings essential Discussion Circle* Wed. 7 10.30am – 12.30pm Wed. 14 10.30am Starting Your Family History: DNA Discussion Circle* methodology and resources Wed. 14 12.30pm Members free, AIGS/RHSV $11.50, South West England Research & Discussion Circle* non-members $15.00 Sat. 17 1.00pm Sat. 17 10.30am – 12.30pm Scottish Ancestry Group Orientation: introduction to the Society, Wed. 28 12.30pm its resources and programs Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle* Members Only – Free *Members Only Thur. 22 10.00am – 12.00pm Starting Scottish Family History Speaker: John Blackwood Members $30.00, AIGS/RHSV $45.00, Bookings in person, via website, email or phone non-members $60.00 ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.
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Victorian Seniors’ Festival Month What’s On What’s TALKS Meeting Room COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE CLASSES Thur. 6 12.00pm – 1.00pm Queensland Research Meeting Room, 1.30 pm to 2.30pm Vicki Montgomery FGSV Free for Seniors this month This talk leads into the Library Research Day on October 29. These small group classes are designed to enable you Free for Seniors Week. Visitors Welcome. to get the most out of the computer-based resources Bookings essential available in the GSV library and at home. Tues. 4 The National Archives (UK) online Thur. 20 12.00pm – 1.00pm Great Britain’s Exiles sent to Port Phillip Thur. 6 FamilySearchTM online 1844-1849 – Lord Stanley’s experiment. Tues. 11 Australian BDM Indexes via DiggerTM Speaker: Dr Colleen Wood & online Bookings essential - Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Thur. 13 GSV library catalogue & databases – tips Tues. 18 AncestryTM online Wed. 19 National Archives of Scotland, Ireland & CLASSES Wales online Meeting Room Wed. 5 10.30am – 12.30pm Thur. 20 Internet for genealogy: an introduction Starting Your Family History: Tues. 25 findmypastTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM, methodology and resources Scotland PlacesTM & TheGenealogistTM online Bookings essential - Members free, National Archives Australia & State AIGS/RHSV $11.50, non-members $15.00 Thur. 27 archives online 10.30am – 12.30pm Sat. 15 Bookings essential. Orientation: introduction to the Society, Members & Seniors Free, its resources and programs AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Bookings essential - Members Only – Free
SEMINAR Meeting Room MEETINGS Thur. 22 10.00am – 3.00pm Meeting Room More Early Melbourne Suburbs Wed. 5 12.30pm 1835-1880. GSV Writers Circle* Hotham (North Melbourne), Collingwood, Fri. 7 12.30pm Fitzroy and North Fitzroy, St Kilda. South West England Research & Discussion Circle* See inside front cover for details Bookings essential - Members $50.00, Tues. 11 12.30pm AIGS/RHSV $75.00, non-members $100.00 Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Discussion Circle* Wed. 12 10.30am DNA Discussion Circle* LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY Library Wed. 26 12.30pm Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle* Sat. 29 10.30am – 1.30pm Queensland Research *Members Only Experienced research volunteers will assist you with your research. Limited spaces – Bookings essential Members $10.00, AIGS/RHSV $30.00, Bookings in person, via website, email or phone non-members $40.00 ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.
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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Tues. 1 CLASSES Cup Day Public Holiday Meeting Room, 1.30 pm to 2.30pm These small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home. Thur. 3 FamilySearchTM online TALKS Tues. 8 Australian BDM Indexes via DiggerTM Meeting Room & online Thur. 24 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 10 GSV library catalogue & databases – tips The Scholarly Scoundrel – the man Tues. 15 AncestryTM online behind the scams Jan Worthington Wed. 16 National Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online Laurence Hynes Halloran 1765-1831. An imposter, bogus clergyman, bigamist, adulterer, liar and Thur. 17 Internet for genealogy: an introduction murderer long before he was convicted and transported TM TM for forgery from England to NSW 1819. Considered Tues. 22 findmypast , British Newspaper Archive , TM TM the most educated man in the Colony at the time. The Scotland Places & TheGenealogist online founding Master of Sydney Grammar School Thur. 24 National Archives Australia & State archives online Bookings essential Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Bookings essential non-members $20.00 Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, non-members $20.00
MEETINGS CLASSES Meeting Room Meeting Room Wed. 2 12.30pm Wed. 2 10.30am – 12.30pm GSV Writers Circle* Starting Your Family History: Tues. 8 12.30pm methodology and resources Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Members free, AIGS/RHSV $11.50, Discussion Circle* non-members $15.00 Wed. 9 12.30pm Thur. 10 10.30am – 12.30pm South West England Research & Discussion Circle* Family Tree Maker Explained Wed. 9 10.30am DNA Discussion Circle* Speaker: Doug Elms, President VicGUM GSV and GUM Members Free, Sat. 12 1.00pm AIGS/RHSV $22.50, non-members $30.00 Irish Ancestry Group Sat. 12 10.00am – 12.00pm Sat. 19 1.00pm Starting Irish Family History International Settlers Group Speakers: Maureen Doyle and Beryl O’Gorman Wed. 23 12.30pm Members $30.00, AIGS/RHSV $45.00, Early English Genealogy Discussion Circle* non-members $60.00 Sat. 26 1.00pm Scottish Ancestry Group Sat. 19 10.30am – 12.30pm Orientation: introduction to the Society, *Members Only its resources and programs Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Bookings in person, via website, email or phone ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455 New members welcome.
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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE Sun. 25 CLASSES Christmas Day Meeting Room, 1.30 pm to 2.30pm Mon. 26 These small group classes are designed to enable you Boxing Day to get the most out of the computer-based resources Tues. 27 available in the GSV library and at home. Christmas Day Holiday Thur. 1 FamilySearchTM online Tues. 6 The National Archives (UK) online Thur. 8 GSV library catalogue & databases – tips Tues. 13 Australian BDM Indexes via DiggerTM ALK T & online Meeting Room Thur. 1 12.00pm – 1.00pm Bookings essential Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Trials of Convict Women in Ireland non-members $20.00 Stephen Lucas Between 1803 and 1853, 3,775 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen’s Land. They all had trials but there have always been doubts as to how fair they were. In this talk, Stephen Lucas, an experienced solicitor, will examine some of the Irish trials. MEETINGS Meeting Room Bookings essential Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV $15.00, Wed. 7 12.30pm non-members $20.00 GSV Writers Circle* Tues. 13 12.30pm Durham, Northumberland & Cumberland Discussion Circle* Wed. 14 10.30am CLASSES DNA Discussion Circle Meeting Room Wed. 14 12.30pm Wed. 7 10.30am – 12.30pm South West England Research & Discussion Circle* Starting Your Family History: *Members Only methodology and resources Bookings essential - Members free, AIGS/RHSV $11.50, non-members $15.00
COMING UP IN JANUARY Thur. 12 Talk: Devon Research Sat. 28 Devon Library Research Day
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING In accordance with the Rules of the Society and the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012, members are advised that the Annual General Meeting of The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incorporated will be held in the GSV premises, Level B1, 257 Collins Street at 2.00pm Saturday, 8 October 2016
The Rules of the Society provide for a Council consisting of no more than sixteen (16) members, comprising Office Bearers and Councillors, to be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, save that any casual vacancy occurring may be filled by the Council and the members so appointed to such vacancy shall hold the position until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting. All nominations close at 4.00pm Friday 2 September 2016, when nomination forms must be lodged with the Secretary The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Level B1 257 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000. All nominations must be made on the appropriate form which can be • downloaded by logging into the Members’ area of our web site at www.gsv.org.au, • collected from the GSV offi ce, or • requested by phoning the GSV on (03) 9662 4455.
Nominations are called for the following: President One position Two-year term Vice-President One position Two-year term Secretary One position Two-year term Treasurer One position Two-year term Councillors Four two-year positions and four one-year positions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • AUSTRALASIAN CONGRESS 2018 CALL FOR CONGRESS PAPERS The Society of Australian Genealogists will host the 15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry at the International Convention Centre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia on 9-12 March 2018. The theme of the Congress is Bridging the Past and Future. Four days of lectures, workshops and exhibitions.
The Call for Speakers has been issued and closes on 31 October 2016. http://www.congress2018.org.au and www.facebook.com/Congress2018 At the GSV Bookshop
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