: Dear Ma do not worry yourself :WWI slang usage aabout me at all :Copyright—the elephant in the room : Medical Practice in East Gippsland: 1840 - 1990 Combined Journalofthe GippslandEast Family HistoryGroupInc. the and GippslandEast Historical Society OctoberInc. 2015 the Black Sheep No: 88 : EGFHG : Investigators Extraordinaire Contents No. 88 October 2015 bethink …. 3 Dear Ma, do not worry yourself about me at all 4 In this issue of BS we revisit the story of Agatha Beaumont first submitted 15 years ago WWI: Those confusing abbreviations 8 What should prove to be a useful guide to interpreting the abbreviations used in Attestation Papers and such. The Black Sheep is the official journal of the East Gippsland Family History 25 April 2015 : North Beach, Gallipoli Peninsula 10 Group Inc. and the East Gippsland Historical . one hundred years later Society Inc. , who are both EGFHG President Tony reports on his visit to Gallipoli and the placement of our gum leaves. members of the East Gippsland Heritage Network. It may be mailed EGFHG : Investigators Extraordinaire 12 to non-members anywhere EGFHG members find the family of a WW2 soldier to return his property. in Australia for receipt of $20 per annum. The opinions expressed in WWI: Those confusing abbreviations 13 this journal are not What should prove to be a useful guide to interpreting the abbreviations used in necessarily those of the Attestation Papers and such. respective committees, but of the author [of any article] only. Medical Practice in East Gippsland: 1840 - 1990 15 The contents of the Black EGHS volunteer Tansy Bradshaw looks at the present exhibition at the museum. Sheep are copyright. Copyright remains with the author, or where no author Copyright, Citing and Sources : is attributed, the EGFHG Inc. All enquiries regarding The elephant in the room 19 articles and information Editor Debbie Squires takes a look at the effect of the digital age on our abilities to cite to sources. should be directed to the editor at [email protected] ISSN 1035-6363 In Memorium 21 © EGHFG Inc. Joan Mawson Margaret Ah Sam Have you met WorldCat ? 21 Cover: A collection of World Accession Register 22 War 2 images relevant to the discovery of the owner of the two up tin shown. Bulletin Board 22 “Fergie” was Ian Ferguson Remember to use Vipre; Facebook pages, and the Lucknow School book who was a prisoner of war on Java during this time. t h e B l a c k S h e e p 8 8 . 2 bethink . What do you think your 1917, and the Dreier family results would be today if you collection. started your research all over again? This amazing collection of photographs, taken by Annie, Interesting thought. For Albert and Jack Dreier of Wy those who have been Yung dates from about 1916 researching for “as long as I and covers scenes and activities can remember” or “just a few around their farm plus the years” consider what changes local district. They also bought have taken place in that time. photographs from professional If you have been researching photographers and each had “forever” consider what NEW their own collection. When records have become available Albert died in 1956 his and what is now online compared to you may even look at an actual collection was left to the State when you started. (When I started - parish map. Library of Victoria. After Jack and shock horror - there were no Annie’s deaths, some photographs computers - (imagine that, no If we hit the restart button were sold but the executors donated Ancestry), card indexes were the what might we find. It is likely to those of local relevance to the East thing in libraries and maybe - if you be material that strengthens and Gippsland Historical Society. were lucky - some microfilm!) I will enriches our family histories ten All photographs have names, dates, bet that you are not aware of half of fold - if we just move out of our places and sometimes even the what has become available and if comfort zone and hit that restart weather in pencil in the back you haven't checked all these new button. making this a very valuable records as they have become collection. I think it would be worth available (in other words you have In the September 2015 issue a trip to Bairnsdale when they are been content with what you of The Genealogist published by being exhibited. Why not check out initially found out about your the AIGS our little newsletter was issue no. 80 when you are next in family) ….. imagine what might be most favourably reviewed by the library to see what I mean? waiting out there Frances Barrett and Lesley While you are looking at the for you to discover. Haldane. photographs you will also see the Now have a think about your quality of the articles. In issue The Black Sheep - research from the other direction. no 86 there are articles on A modest publication of fifteen abbreviations used in WW1 What if you didn’t have a pages is the official journal of the documents and another on the computer and online resources and East Gippsland Family History hidden meaning of tombstones. had to do everything “the old way” Group Inc. and the East Or what about the family history of by using those things made of Gippsland Historical Society Inc. William Campbell of Boggy Creek paper called books, and looking up in issue 81 which consists of five an index, and using obscure Do not let its size fool you. This pages of rhyme. This journal, while microfilm or microfiche or an actual journal would be worth looking at slightly irregular in its publication, old paper map? just for the wonderful black and is a little gem. I really enjoyed my white photographs alone, of which Maybe we are all due for a journey through its pages, and you most are from the East Gippsland “genealogy do-over” as those of us can find it at the end of the Historical Society’s collection. It’s who were satisfied with what we Victorian section of books. impossible to mention them all so had need to look at new resources I will just mention a few. There are Thank you ladies, on behalf and flesh out our trees. And class photographs from Nicholson of those involved, I am humbled, perhaps those of us who only know State School in the 1940s, a great and you will be pleased to know we the digital age need to consult with old stone house at Boggy Creek are endeavouring to be not quite so material that hasn’t been digitised. with a few of its owners since irregular! Pick up a book, consult an index, Debbie I wish I had realized that family history is a perishable commodity. It disappears with time, as memories fade, and as loved ones pass on. I wish I had known that the most important aspect of family history is preserving a record of the present for the future. Guy Black t h e B l a c k S h e e p 8 8 . 3 ‘Dear Ma do not worry yourself about me at all’ Fifteen years ago I published an article submitted by Betty Avery about the marriage of Agatha Burnett to Captain Frederick Beaumont (BS 56). In this issue we revisit it and look at some of the new material that has now come to light….. most courtesy of digitisation. Agatha Ellen Burnett, was born then about the value of keeping 22 September 1867, daughter of ephemera and the light and Thomas and Frances Burnett of shade that it gave to Agatha and Lindenow. In 1888 she married Fred’s life. the Captain of the “Dargo”, Frederick A. Beaumont. And light and shade it did Frederick was the son of John give the story when not many and Jessie Beaumont of other records were available but Aberdeen. She was 21 and he now, with “new eyes” there is so was 32. Their daughter Alice, much more that we know about known as Dolly, was born the the couple. following year. In 1891 Captain Beaumont was appointed pilot Agatha was the eldest at Lakes Entrance and daughter of Thomas and Frances subsequently transferred to Burnett of Lindenow. Thomas, a Snake Island c1897, Latrobe labourer and horse trainer, had Island c1899 and then to come to Australia from Portland. Agatha died here just Somersetshire and married four years later in 1904 when Frances Hall of Lindenow in she was 37 years old. Frederick 1866. Agatha, the first of four remarried in 1909, at the age of daughters and four sons, was 53, to 19 year old Rachel born the following year. Her Isabelle Lewis. In the six years siblings were William, Arthur, of their marriage they had two Lillian, Ida, Thomas, George and sons, Lennox and Fred. Captain Daisy. Thomas selected a 53 acre Beaumont died at Port Albert block on the corner of Scotts and on 31 December 1915, aged 59 Baudinets Lanes and at the first years. Rachel remarried to “Alexlea” subdivisional sale he Henry Day and had another Agatha, William and Arthur Burnett : Tom and purchased five adjacent half acre Frances’ first three children. (Linda Avery) son. allotments in Lindenow township that he built the family home on. At the time this was the basic information that Linton and Agatha and her siblings, Betty Avery had about Aunt including William and Arthur Agatha and Captain Beaumont and pictured left, went to school at it was fairly typical of the scant Lindenow.