THE 1995 South-West Genealogist The Official Newsletter of The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ISSUE NUMBER: 56 JULY 1995 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER: The Warrnambool Branch of The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc. does not accept any responsibility for the opinions or the accuracy of the information contained in this newsletter. CORRESPONDENCE: AIL correspondence should be directed to: The Editor, The South West Genealogist, PO Box 607, Warrnambool, Victoria, 3280, Australia AREA ADMINISTRATOR: The Area Administrator may be contacted by writing to the address given for correspondence. MEETINGS: The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. meets on the second Thursday of the month in the library of the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, 23 Merri Street, Warrnambool. The Branch Management Committee meets at 7:30pm, Monthly Meeting is at 8:OOpm. Visitors most welcome. LIBRARY: The Warrnambool Branch of the A.I.G.S. Inc. staffs the library at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum on a volunteer roster, please enquire if the library will be open on (055) 64 7841 (9:30am to 4:30pm). OFFICEBEARERS: AREA ADMINISTRATOR Marie Boyce DEPUTY AREA ADMINISTRATOR Doug Holmes SECRETARY Vacant MINUTE SECRETARY Rosemary Archer TREASURER Robyn Gray RESEARCH OFFICER Gwen Edwards PUBLICATIONS OFFICER Lorraine Smith RESOURCES MANAGER Helen Price FUNDRAISING Trudy Funston SUBSCRIPTIONS: A yearly subscription to The South West Genealogist may be obtained by forwarding an annual subscription of $6. a a/year to the above address. Subscription will be reviewed annually to take into account production costs and postage rates. PRODUCTION: Master copy prepared, edited and produced by Lorraine Smith. Photocopying courtesy of Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, 23 Merri Street, Warrnambool. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTENTS Pages Editorial/Area Administrator's Corner/Recent Acquisitions 2 Wangoom Common School Records/Help Wanted 3 Warrnambool & District Historicals - July 1920 4/5 Warrnambool & District Historicals - July 1895 5/6 Marie's Memorabilia 7 Mailors Flat State School Item of Correspondence 8 Page 2 EDITORIAL Welcome to the July edition of the South West Genealogist. Now that winter has well and truly set in, I can't think of any better way to spend the days than in a nice heated library doing family research, can you? It always amazes me, though, to see the time disappear so fast when doing research. On a recent trip to Laverton PRO, I ordered up the correspondence and building files for the Mailors Flat State School, hoping to find some pupil registers, pre 2900, but they don't appear to exist anymore. However, the correspondence files are interesting, with numerous letters being sent to Melbourne regarding such matters as closing the school due to outbreaks of scarlet fever, diptheria, etc; also applications for positions vacant at the school, such as sewing mistress, pupil-teachers, etc. I have reproduced an item of interest on the last page of this newsletter, taken from the correspondence files of Mailors Flat School. The parents at the school wrote complaining about the lack of discipline given to the pupils by their head teacher. We shouldn't assume that all teachers in "the olden days ruled the class with a rod of iron!", which seems to be the general belief these days. Don't forget to look at the Beattie & Phillips burial records in the Flagstaff Hill library. I was looking for the death date of one of mine, & decided to check out the B & P books before going through the chore of year-by- year through the death fische, and I found him there, with the exact date of death given. I could then go straight to the fische & get the registration number. For ancestors dying in the Warrnambool district, it is well worth a look. This particular fellow of mine was buried in the Port Campbell cemetery, so it is not just Warrnambool burials. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE AREA ADMINISTRATOR'S CORNER Dear Members and Friends, Recently we have had some very interesting visitors at the library - in particular one lady from Sydney and another from Hobart. You will hear of their news at our meeting. I am looking forward to holidaying, later this month, with Jack. We will be in Queensland for three weeks enjoying some warmer days. Good luck with your research. Sincerely, Marie Boyce, Area Administrator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Recent Acquisitions CD ROM drive for our Computer WA Pioneer Index on CD ROM Census of New South Wales 1 1828 Musters and Lists - NSW & Norfolk Island 1800 - 1802 Musters and Lists - NSW & Norfolk Island 1805 - 1806 General Muster of NSW, Norfolk Island & VDL 1811 General Muster, Land and Stock Muster of NSW 1822 General Muster of Convicts in NSW 1837 Crimes of the Lady Juliana Convicts 1790 by Cobley Escape from Port Arthur by Ian Brand Story of a Port, Portland Vic by Noel F Learmonth A Brief Guide to the IGI by Wendy Baker Newport State School 1856 - 2982. Written by Ada Ackerley Page 3 WANGOOM COMMON SCHOOL (article compiled & submitted by Irene Sheppard) Date of Inspection: 29 November 1867 Christian Surname Age Christian Surname Age John W ADAMS 11.5 John LECOUTER 4.5 Margretta ADAMS 13.5 Joseph LECOUTER 6.5 * Martha ADAMS 10.7 William LECOUTER 10.5 Martha Mat ADAMS 11.5 MACDONALD 12.6 Marcella BELL 8.11 Annie George MACDONALD 11.1 Margaret BELL 5.5 Kenneth MACDONALD 8.4 Mary BELL 13.5 McLEOD 9.5 * Sarah BELL 7.1 Allan John McLEOD 12.11 Tom BELL 12.11 McLEOD 12 Ann BURGESS 10.5 Sandy McWIGAN 12.6 Frank BURGESS 6.1 * William MITCHELL 6.6 Mary BURGESS 4.9 * Elizabeth PARTRIDGE 14 Deborah DIXON 12.11 * Mary J PARTRIDGE 7.11 John DIXON 6.2 * Rachel PARTRIDGE 6.5 Mary DIXON 11.3 * William PARTRIDGE 10.3 Tom DIXON 8.6 PURDIE * Frederick ELLIOTT 8.9 Henry Alexander ROBINSON 5.8 * Ada EMERY 5.2 Jane ROBINSON 3.11 Charlotte EMERY 8.8 Frederick SCHERBU 10.9 Dinah EMERY 12.7 Isabel SCHERBU 6.3 Louisa EMERY 11.1 Paulina SCHERBU 9.5 William EMERY 6.9 Ann SMITH 9 * William GLASGOW 8.4 Catherine SMITH 11.6 Andrew GRIFFITHS 7.5 John SMITH 7.3 Ann GRIFFITHS 8.3 Joseph SMITH 9.11 Jane GRIFFITHS 9.11 Mary SMITH 11.5 John GRIFFITHS 11. Arthur STOCKS 8.1 George HENDERSON 6.2 STOCKS 3.1 John HENDERSON 8.4 Edith STOCKS 10 William HENDERSON 7.3 Emily Ernest STOCKS 6.9 Elizabeth HILL 15.5 * WATKINS 5.4 * George HILL 12.5 Clara WATKINS 13 Hannah HOES 9.6 *Dorah WATKINS 6.5 Robert HOES 13.11 * Lillian WATKINS 12.4 Malic HOGAN 9.11 Joseph WHITTINGTON 5.1 * Elizabeth IRVINE 11.5 * Edward WICKHAM 11.6 * Isabella IRVINE 10.5 * George WICKHAM 8.3 * John IRVINE 5.2 Mary WILLIAMSON 10.7 * Peter IRVINE 6.7 Charles WRIGHT 12.1 * Rachel IRVINE 7.4 * WRIGHT 10.9 Ellen JACKSON 7 *Ellis Joseph WRIGHT 6.6 Eliza KEILOR 8.5 * Stephen WRIGHT 6.5 * These entries were crossed out in the book * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HELP WANTED Does anyone have any information on Heinrich Storm (a German national) who married Catherine Jane Cathcart (a single mother with a 2 year old daughter, Hannah Robina) at Mailors Flat in 1888. Heinrich disappeared after the birth of their son Henry in 1889. Catherine Jane was a daughter of John and Margaret Cathcart nee Owens, who owned the general store at Mailors Flat at the time. Catherine Jane Storm died in Warrnambool in 1916. I would love to hear from anyone with knowledge of the above families. Replies to Lorraine Smith, 200 Merri, W'bool, 3280. Page 4 WARRNAMBOOL AND DISTRICT HISTORICALS (Compiled by Betty Beavis) JULY 75 YEARS AGO - 1920 (As reported in the "Warrnambool Standard") MARRIAGES SOLDIERS WELCOMED AND/OR RETURNED DAVIDSON, William, of Woolsthorpe, Pte F McCONNELL, Grasmere to Grace McLEOD of Noorat. Pte R H WALSH McKENZIE, William, Warrnambool, to Lilian Marion KILEY, Caulfield DECORATION (late of Warrnambool). Sgt A E ANDERSON, "Rosemoun", STAHEL, Percy J, assistant manager Southern Cross, awarded D.C.M. at Nestles to Rosamund WILSON of "Farnham Park". PERSONAL, DEATHS, ETC. WATTERS, Gibson T, Caldermeade, Presentation to Miss Jessie BANT, Gippsland, to Bertha PATON, "Trefnant", Yangery. Death of Mrs E BENSLEY. FAREWELLS & PRESENTATIONS Death of Mrs R J JONES. Mr & Mrs E A HARVEY by members of Deathof Mrs JamesMcLEOD, Bayswater the Citizens' Band. Death of F FAULKNER at Malvern. Mr & Mrs P MEADE at Illowa. Death Mrs Margaret PHIN, aged 71, Mr & Mrs GRAHAM at Cudgee. 65 years colonist. Presentation to C H KROSCHEL and M Death Mrs Annie BALLIS,widow of Robert GILLIN, both recently married. Members of the City Band. Death of Mrs Thomas MURRELL, dtr of William Fletcher REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY Death of Mrs Margaret GLEESON. James GUTHRIE, 347 Lava st. Death of Mrs Harry DOWN. Leslie Alfred PALMER Death C O'MAHONEY,solicitor, W'bool Daniel THOMPSON, Daisy Hill, W'bool Death of James FAHEY, 92 years, William CUNNINGHAM, meat inspector late of Garvoc. Albert DAVIS, Tech School teacher Death of Miss Mary WARRELL,aged 80, Of Brunswick. & sister, Mrs Sarah BLAIR, aged 83, Sisters of George WARRELL of DUIRS (2 daughters of H GRAY of local & WARRELL. Died at Port Fairy. post office and 2 gentleman visitors saved from drowning). TRANSFERS & PROMOTIONS J DUNN, divisional returning officer, transferred from Warrnambool to Melbourne after 12 years. John RUSSELL, railway department, promoted to Jolimont after 30 years in Warrnambool. Family details given. Max LANDMANN (son of Frank) promoted in National Bank. Page 5 WARRNAMBOOL .AND DISTRICT HISTORICALS (cont.) JULY 75 YEARS AGO - 1920 (cont.) ACCIDENTS To returned soldier, Ray FISHER; Len McCONNELL, Fairy st; E BOWMAN and Mrs WORLAND of West Reserve.