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How I Found my Namesake
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Barbara Beaumont – chairperson
A new year, a new volume of Ancestor, and some new initiatives at the GSV. Not
Bill Barlow
Sue Blackwood only some new Discussion Circles, but plans for some DNA modules too.
Margaret Vines
Martin Playne If you’re a bit doubtful about DNA, you will be surprised to learn how DNA
Jenny Redman testing helped Robyn Sharman Hawking to solve the long-standing problem
Jeanette Wickham of who were the parents of her great grandfather Charles William Sharman. It
set her on a course that she would never have been able to follow without the
CREATIVE
Jeanette Wickham test results. If you would like to know more about DNA and its usefulness in
genealogy, you might like to attend one or more of the modules that are being
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CONTRIBUTIONS In our other articles, Kaye Cole has researched her nineteenth century relative
We welcome the submission of articles
Dr John Fishbourne, and his lifelong passion to improve the treatment and
on family history topics for possible
education of people with a range of conditions including intellectual disability
publication.
and epilepsy. While searching for her namesake of three generations back,
The editors reserve the right to edit
or abridge articles to meet space Elizabeth Kelly traced the McCallion family to Sydney and uncovered their
constraints and editorial considerations. mostly sad story. Louise Wilson takes us on a rather different journey, that of
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unless agreed. All material should good ideas on where to look if you have Northern Territory ancestors. I had no
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The GSV Centre for Research and An evaluation of the session showed that there is
Education – One Year On a diverse mix of experience and knowledge in the
area of DNA and family history. In order to cater
As you read this edition of our journal we will
for this variation, the GSV will be presenting a
have occupied our premises at 85 Queen Street
series of sequential modules designed for people
for one year. The area is well lit and comfortable
at their particular stage of involvement in genetic
and we have learned to live in the smaller space.
genealogy. Topics covered will range from basic
A large team of volunteers has been scanning
understanding of DNA results to more advanced
miscellaneous paper and file card records,
research strategies and analysis of challenging
enabling us to dramatically reduce our physical
research questions. It is anticipated that initial
holdings. The resultant indexes and images are
modules will be presented in late March or April.
being loading periodically to our online databases.
We have also managed to clear out the additional
The program of sessions will be published in
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future editions of this journal, on our website
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and through our Facebook pages and Blog. All
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sessions will seek feedback to ensure we are
cost to house our archives and those records we
meeting participants’ needs. Our DNA Discussion
are legally required to retain.
Circle will still continue to meet on the second
Wednesday of the month commencing at 10.30
Unfortunately the building we occupy is locked
am at the Centre. The Society also off ers one-
after business hours and across the weekend. The
on-one consultations for members seeking help
air-conditioning system is also shut down. We
with understanding and interpreting their DNA
have arrangements in place for after-hours access
results. Details of these consultations may be
on Saturdays and these have been operating with
found on our website or by phoning the offi ce.
minimal problems. During the summer period on
days of extreme heat we decided, at short notice,
to close the Centre on certain Saturdays. Notices Discussion Circles
I have written previously of the growing interest
about any proposed closures are posted on the
in our Discussion Circles and the desire to
front page of our website. If you are intending to
commence new Circles to cater for members
visit on a Saturday please check our website prior
with interests not yet covered. The Society has
to commencing your journey to the Centre.
recently started a Circle for those interested in
DNA and family history researching ancestors who lived in London and
the surrounding areas and another for those with
The huge increase in articles in family history
ancestors who lived in British India. I wish to
journals, online forums and blogs are testament
thank the volunteers who have initiated these
to the growing interest in DNA as a research tool
Circles and I hope that they grow and consolidate
for family historians. I am sure that many of you
over the year. We currently lack a Circle for those
reading this edition of the Society’s journal will
interested in researching ancestors who lived
have received a Christmas gift in the form of a
in Victoria or the other colonies and/or states
voucher for a DNA test from one of the many
of Australia and I hope that one will be initiated
commercial companies who have entered this
shortly. Please consult the Events page on our
growing market. Our DNA seminar in November
website for details of the meeting times and dates
last year presented by Patsy Daly was popular,
with one hundred attendees and many others for all the Discussion Circles.
registered on a waiting list.
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Contents
Articles
Use of Autosomal DNA to find Relatives
of Charles William Sharman 4
Robyn Sharman Hawking
Who’s Been Living in my House? 8
4 Louise Wilson
How I Found my Namesake 12
Elizabeth Kelly
8 Dr John Fishbourne: A Victorian 16
Medical Pioneer
Kaye Cole
A Walk Along Queen Street 19
Margaret Vines
8 How to: A Guide to Reseaching 20
Northern Territory Records
Martin Playne
New Discussion Circles 33
Vicki Montgomery FGSV and Mary-Anne Gourley
12
16
Regular Features
Editorial 1
30 Pen of the President 2
Additions to the Library 24
Members Queries 27
Getting it write 28
Research Corner 30
30 Jottings … and library news 34
Blogging with Meg 35
Around the Groups 36
Book Reviews 37
What’s On at our Member Societies 38
33 GSV Member Societies 39
News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40
News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41
About the GSV 42
Research Services 43
33 News 44
What’s On at the GSV 45
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Use of Autosomal DNA
to find Relatives of
Charles William Sharman
by Robyn Sharman Hawking
How can DNA help break down a brick wall? This But it nagged at me and I couldn’t let it go! So
is my story of how DNA analysis assisted with where to now? As technical improvements
establishing my great grandfather’s origins after in DNA testing occurred and became more
30 years of family research. affordable, I eventually decided to take a DNA
test in December 2016 with my cousin following
Charles William Sharman drowned in the suit six months later. Family members were
Murray River at Corowa, NSW in March 1910; he sceptical and said ‘you may not like what you fi nd’
Robyn can be contacted at
[email protected] was 52 years old. His death certificate states he or ‘that’s scary’, however I was convinced DNA
was a native of Launceston, Tasmania, as does would at the very least confirm the other lines
his marriage certificate and his two son’s birth of my tree, establish my genetic makeup and the
registrations. But why did he state his parents as best outcome would be to link Charles William
unknown, if he knew where he was born? Charles Sharman with someone else and find his origins.
was a reasonably well-educated man for the The results did all that and more!
time; he could read and write and was involved
in several community projects. For many years The test instructions were easy to follow; the
my Aunt, Nestor Sutherland (nee Sharman) toughest part was waiting for the results, which
searched Australia far and wide looking for any arrived seven weeks later. At first I did not see
Sharmans she could find, however no clues at all the connection, as I was still looking for the
to Charles William’s birth or parents. Her father, name Sharman or a variation of this surname.
James Sharman always stated ‘Dad didn’t have Eventually, I began to query ‘why was my DNA
parents’! matching as extremely high and as third and
fourth cousins with people I have never heard
As the years passed and researching became of or who had no surnames in common’? On the
easier, I took on the task to find Charles William DNA site that I used, information was provided
Sharman’s parents. English records were about which common ancestor third or fourth
searched at length, as Sharman is an English cousins should share. It appears this would be at
name, although I always felt this line of our family least one great great-grandparent.
was Irish. Therefore Irish, Scottish and USA
records were searched extensively, but nothing Excitement was building, the ‘extremely high’
substantial was found. Additionally, all Australian matches were checked and it was discovered all
state records and in particular Tasmanian records of these matches had common gg grandparents
were accessed, with several trips to the Tasmanian who had lived in the Launceston region of
Archive and Heritage Office in Hobart and enlisting Tasmania. The common ancestors were
the assistance of a local Tasmanian researcher Christopher James Coffey and his wife Bridget
but again no leads or clues. Several years ago, I Coffey (nee Gilligan/Gillighan). Christopher
thought I had found his birth in England, however Coffey was born around March 1820 and was an
I needed to find this Charles William Sharman’s Irishman transported from Westmeath, Ireland
siblings as they appeared to have left England at to Tasmania in 1843 for stealing his aunts’ sheep. 1
the same time as he did. Eventually I found them He was pardoned in 1853 and by July 1855 he had
all in New Zealand where they lived and died. A married Bridget Gilligan/Gillighan in Westbury,
huge disappointment, so I decided to move on Tasmania. 2
and commence writing my family history story
without knowing any more about Charles William Could this be right, our family DNA is matching
Sharman. We’d done enough. with an Irish convict named Christopher Coffey,
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Charles Sharman
not someone named Sherman, Shannon, 2nd child with Michael Finnerty) providing
Shurman or Shearman which are just a few of evidence that Charles William Sharman was
the surname variants that I had searched over indeed the son of Christopher and Bridget Coffey.
the years? Several other more distant matches with the
surname Gilligan have also been found.
Many emails to the Coffey DNA matches were
sent, with one of Samuel Coffey’s descendants The question for the Sharman descendants is
stating ‘Oh you would be descendant from the ‘why did Charles William Sharman fail to note
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missing boy’. Apparently their family stories his parents on his marriage registration, tell his
indicate there was another boy in this family and children he had no parents and why did he change
DNA has now provided the evidence that their his name from Coffey to Sharman’? It is assumed
family story was correct. Christopher and Bridget the eldest child would have known his name, as
Coffey had three children: Charles William Samuel James and Mary Coffey certainly did.
Sharman (born between March and July 1857), Was he fostered, were the boys neglected after
Samuel James Coffey (born 1 April 1858) and Christopher and Bridget were no longer together?
Mary Coffey (born 21 April 1860). No birth There are many Sharman families around the
registrations have been found for Charles William Launceston area of Tasmania. Did he live and
or Samuel James, however their sister Mary’s work with one of these families or did he wish to
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birth was registered in Port Sorrell, Tasmania. remove himself from the perceived convict taint
Bridget Coffey appeared in a court during July and take any name? The Coffey children don’t
1857 with ‘a child in her arms’, providing evidence appear to have been recognised in Bridget and
that Charles William (later Sharman) was Michael Finnerty’s family, as none are noted as
probably the child and the estimate of his birth Bridget’s children on her 1911 death certifi cate. 7
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date is correct.
The earliest evidence found of Charles William
It is now apparent that the marriage did not Sharman’s presence on mainland Australia
survive as Christopher Coffey placed a public was noted when he participated in a ballot to
notice in the Cornwall Chronicle, a Launceston purchase land in the Riverina area of NSW in
newspaper, stating ‘Bridget had left home without
just cause and he would not be responsible for
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her debts’. At some point, Bridget partners with
a man named Michael Finnerty, giving birth to
a daughter Ellen in 1865, the first of several more Australia’s
children, however no marriage between Bridget
and Michael has been found. No confi rmed death
for Christopher Coffey has been found either, largest online
but his name is mentioned in several Launceston
newspapers until 1872, providing an explanation
family history
of why Bridget and Michael could not marry.
What happened to her three children, who would
have been five, four and two years old when she resource *
left Christopher? It appears her two-year-old
daughter Mary probably went with her mother as
ch and
ear
Mary married John Davison in 1881. He was born Research and
in the Circular Head area of Tasmania – the same
d your family
region as Bridget and Michael lived. Research build your family
has found evidence of Mary Coffey’s (Davison)
e online
sons attending Finnerty family funerals and tree online
noted as nephews, however no evidence has
been found that Samuel’s family were known or
linked to Bridget’s second family and to date, the
whereabouts of Charles William and Samuel
James from 1862 until the mid 1880s has not been
established.
DNA had established that Charles William was
defi nitely Christopher Coffey’s son but was he
Bridget’s son too? The answer again was provided * comScore, 2011
by DNA, as the Sharman family DNA matches
with a descendant of Kate Finnerty (Bridget’s
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Charles Sharman Matches with Coffey Descendants Centimorgans Segments
DNA
Centimorgans
DNA
Relationship
Segments
(cMs)
(cMs)
1st Cousins – our great Kerry
Robyn grandfather was Charles 821 42
William Sharman
Shared matches with Coffey
Robyn Kerry
descendants
Grandson of
Andrew 172 8 41 4
Samuel Coffey
Great granddaughter of
Jennie 109 6 33 4
Samuel Coffey
Great granddaughter of
Annette 97 6 22.9 2
Samuel Coffey
Granddaughter of
Patricia 45 3 65 3
Mary Coffey
Great granddaughter of
Maryanne 28.6 5 24.3 2
Mary Coffey
Great grandson of
Jason 18.9 1 0 0
Mary Coffey
Great grandson of
Paul 16.2 4 11.2 2
Mary Coffey
Great great
granddaugher of Kate
Finnerty, daughter
Yarrum 14.6 1 14.7 1
of Bridget Coffey/
Finnerty (as per public
ancestry tree)
Table 1: Matches with Coffey Descendants. A number of matches were noted on AncestryDNA with other Coff ey descendants,
with several being ‘extremely high’, i.e. greater than 150cMs. However, as personal contact has not been established with these
matches, they have not been added to the table.
April 1885. He would have been approximately 28 the bride’s sister Mary Ann Tyler and William
years old. He did not win the ballot but at some Coffie. Is this William Coffie, Samuel’s brother,
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point he moved to Corowa, NSW, a small town later known as Charles William Sharman?
located on the Murray River and married Aimee Whilst this would be reasonable to assume, the
Louisa Wealands in 1890, producing two sons, marriage certificate appears to be completed by
Walter William and James Sharman (author’s the officiating priest, so why record two diff erent
grandfather) born 1891 and 1892 respectively. spellings of the surname Coff ey?
Charles Sharman continued to reside in the
Corowa area of NSW until his death in March Bridget Coffey (Finnerty) died in Rosedale in
1910. Coincidentally, Samuel James Coffey December 1911 and we wonder if mother and
(known as James) also lived in Corowa, NSW, sons ever met again after Bridget parted from
with several of his children being born there Christopher and did Charles and Samuel stay
between 1887 and 1892 with the Corowa census with their father Christopher until at least 1872?
of 1891 noting a ‘S. Coffey and family’ residing So many unanswered questions which we may
in South Corowa, a few houses from Charles never know the answers to, but whatever the
Sharman’s father-in-law James E Wealands. reason Charles William changed his name from
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Coincidence or did the brothers know each other? Coffey to Sharman; DNA has provided our family
We would assume so, as Corowa in 1890s was a with our great grandfather’s origins, extended our
very small town. When Samuel James Coffey family connections and our long standing brick
married Susan Tyler in 1883 the witnesses were wall has crumbled.
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Charles Sharman
Images 1 & 2: Many family members have noted
facial resemblances between the Sharman and
Coffey male lines. James Sharman 1970 (above)
Andrew Coffey 2014 (right). Author’s collection.
How was this achieved? In an effort to fi nd more and may actually be a false positive’. However,
information about our family ancestors, the ‘test the results in Table 1 are far greater than fi ve
takers’ (Robyn and Kerry) saliva samples were centimorgans (cMs), indicating the ‘test takers’
sent for testing with AncestryDNA and the results have a genetic match with the Coffey/Finnerty
(Table 1) were received within 8 weeks. descendants noted. The amount of DNA shared by
two people can determine the shared genealogical
AncestryDNA tests the autosomal DNA (atDNA) relationship and is determined by an average.
which has the potential to find genetic relatives. Robyn shares greater cMs and segments with
When the testing company receives the saliva test Andrew than does Kerry, (Table 1) however both
kit, the DNA is extracted and the basic building are 2nd cousins, 1x removed to Andrew.
blocks of DNA which are located throughout the
22 autosomal chromosomes are sampled. The In an attempt to establish other matches with
test will accurately identify the segments on Coffey/Finnerty descendants who may not have
the chromosomes that are identical by descent used AncestryDNA as their testing company, my
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between individuals 10,11 . According to Bettinger DNA data, kit number A788060 was recently
(p103) ‘AncestryDNA identifies two individuals as uploaded to the Gedmatch database. To date no
a genetic match if they share at least one segment further matches have been confi rmed.
of at least 5cMs which is a very low threshold
References
1. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849. https://search.ancestry.
com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1185
2. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/
db.aspx?dbid=1780. Registration Number 1252
3. Personal Communication with Andrew and Valmai Coffey, Warrnambool, Victoria.
4. Tasmanian Births. District of Port Sorrell. No. 574/1904
5. The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas.: 1835-1880), Wednesday, 15 July 1857, p5
6. The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas.:1835-1880), Wednesday 23 April 1862, p7
7. Victorian Deaths. District of Rosedale, 19 December, 1911. Registration Number 14685
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2/8419, Roll 2532. https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1733
Accessed 6 July 2017
9. Tasmanian Marriages. District of Deloraine, 23 January 1883. No 114
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Accessed 8 October 2017.
11. Blaine T. Bettinger, 2016. Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy. The Family Tree Books,
F+W Media. Inc. Blue Ash, Ohio. 1st edition.
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Image1: My house at South Melbourne. Photo © Louise Wilson, 2016
Who’s Been Living in my House?
by Louise Wilson
When my ten year old grandson visits from The original owner of this house was law clerk
Sydney he walks in my front door, looks around, Denis Lynch, from Mallow, County Cork in
smiles and says ‘I love this cosy cottage’. My Ireland. He had arrived in Melbourne on 31
English friends tell me it is ‘so Australian’. January 1854 aged 40 aboard the Truro, with
Louise can be contacted at
[email protected] I’ve always enjoyed its quirky features and his wife Elizabeth aged 41, daughter Mary aged
the feeling that it has been witness to ‘real seventeen, son John aged twelve, and daughter
2
life’. Researching its history has been fun as I Margaret aged eight. Both parents understated
explored the ghosts of its past. their ages by ten years or more, no doubt to qualify
for an assisted passage on the Truro, which brought
In gold rush days Melbourne’s tent city covered 297 government immigrants to Melbourne. 3
my part of South Melbourne, which then became
a working man’s area for most of its history South Melbourne’s original name, Emerald Hill,
until the ‘gentrification’ process began in recent held obvious appeal for a family from the Emerald
years. A few hours of delving into the Council Isle. Daughter Mary gave her abode as Emerald
Rate Books revealed that land in my Section of Hill when she married Anthony Rosendale on
the suburb was unsold as at 20 October 1858. 1 4 March 1856. She said she was a 21-year-old
4
However by 2 September 1859 my block contained housekeeper. He was a 28-year-old sea captain
a three-roomed house of brick and slate, making it from Germany, also currently living in Emerald
one of South Melbourne’s oldest surviving houses. Hill. They married at the Catholic Chapel in
The house on the downhill side was also built in Emerald Hill where she swore that her religion
1859 while the house on the uphill side was built was Roman Catholic. Her parents, brother and
in 1860, all three in different architectural styles. sister, previously part of a small minority Church
of Ireland congregation at Mallow, associated
The actual address will not be disclosed, for themselves locally with the Church of England.
reasons of privacy and because the houses in my
street have had three different street numbers The house itself, of brick and slate, had three
since 1859. Explaining those changes unduly rooms until 1865, when Rates Notices indicate
complicates the ‘people’ part of this story. that a fourth room had been added. This might
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My House
Image 2: Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works plan, South Melbourne (1895) State Library of Victoria
explain why the hallway contains three old door Exhibition Buildings when the Duke of Edinburgh
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steps, a feature which has always mystifi ed visited Melbourne late in 1867. He and his wife
everyone who visits my house. The Metropolitan had moved to a home virtually around the corner
Board of Works Map for 1895 also shows an from his parents, at 140 Albert Road, by the time
addition at the back which later owners say was their first child was born in 1868. 12
an old-fashioned cooking area.
5
During the major flood in the Yarra River in
The Lynch’s second daughter Margaret lived mid-March 1878 my home was underwater if
at home with her parents until she married newspaper reports are accurate:
Emanuel Trenwith in 1866 at St Luke’s Church
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of England. The newlyweds lived at Essendon but Between … Moray street and the St. Kilda road, a
Margaret returned home for the birth of her son considerable population has settled down. It was
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in my house on 31 July 1868. Unfortunately she estimated that on Saturday nearly 300 cottages
died only days after her confinement, on 4 August, were invaded by the flood to the depth of from 3ft.
and a funeral procession left from my front gate to 6ft. Boats had to be employed up to 10 o’clock at
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on 7 August, headed for Melbourne General night to rescue the inhabitants.
Cemetery. Margaret’s husband and son later Melbourne had already experienced major fl oods
8
turned up in New Zealand in sad circumstances:
in 1849 and December 1863 and offi cialdom now
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Emanuel Trenwith was charged with having turned its mind to flood amelioration works.
unlawfully deserted his child. John Tetley said
accused left the child with him a week since The 1878 flood marked the start of an annus
for a few hours, promising to call for him. He horribilis for the Lynch family, because Denis
subsequently found accused in a drunken state, Lynch died at home on 28 February 1879, after
when he again promised to call for the boy, but a year of suffering from cancer of the throat and
15
had not done so. Witness had no wish to charge mouth.
for the child’s maintenance for the week, but, as
the youngster had evidently been knocked about His widow Elizabeth struggled on for a few more
and neglected, he thought it right to bring the case years. In April 1880 mortgagees tried to sell her
before the Magistrate. The police gave accused home, a ‘snug and compact cottage’ with a 28 ft
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a very bad character. His Worship said he would street frontage. The elderly widow Elizabeth
order the boy, who is eight years old, to be sent to was also in arrears with her municipal rates.
the Industrial School for seven years, to be brought Perhaps planning to move in with someone else
up in the tenets of the Church of England ; and he (her daughter Mary Rosendale lived around the
informed the father that he would be called upon to corner, in Moray Street), in August she advertised
contribute towards the support of his child. 9 an onsite auction, for cash, of all her superior
cottage furniture, furnishings, bedding and bric-a-
Margaret’s brother John Denison Lynch married brac, nearly new and in good order. 17
in 1867, when he was a clerk living at Fitzroy.
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John mixed in higher social circles than his Her son John or son-in-law Anthony Rosendale
family and was in attendance at the levee at the may have stepped in to clear the various arrears,
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My House because Elizabeth Lynch acquired the Title Brick COTTAGE, of four Rooms, Land, 28ft x 75ft
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Deeds to the land on 7 September 1880. She died
ASHWORTH and Co will SELL at AUCTION,
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at home ‘of senility’ on 7 October 1881. She was
on the premises as above that comfortable brick
buried with her husband in the Church of England
cottage above described situate in the most
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section of Melbourne General Cemetery.
favoured portion of South Melbourne, near Moray
Street within easy distance of the park and the
On 23 February 1882, the house was repossessed
trams and always in demand for occupation by
by The Australian Economic Bank Limited. For
desirable tenants. 27
the next 15 years Rates Notices claim that rates
were paid by Charles F Sincock.
Within a month of this advertisement the new
owner was registered as Anthony Rosendale. He
Perhaps with an eye to Melbourne’s land boom,
was the husband of Mary Lynch, who had never
in 1886 an attempt was made to sell the house,
lived in her parents’ old home but clearly held
for an asking price of £450: ‘four-roomed Brick
affection for it. Anthony died in 1904 and it took
Cottage, bath, gas, returning 15s weekly; garden
a few years before his affairs were settled and
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front and back, also good right-of way’. It took
his son John Rosendale, a plumber & gas fi tter,
until 25 October 1888 before title passed to two
moved in as the new owner/occupier in 1907. John
local estate agents as tenants in common. Yet
had recently married and electoral rolls state he
local government records continued to show the
lived here with Cecilia Rosendale until 1925.
mysterious Charles F Sincock as the owner. The
various tenants who stayed for a year or more in
In the small timber cottage next door lived their
the 1880s and 1890s were:
long-term neighbours, the Hempenstalls.
28
• Three different painters: William Groch, James Hempenstall died in this house in 1899.
29
Richard Mappin and Robert Tully. His widow Mary died there in 1919. His elder
30
daughter Margaret died there in 1941. Younger
• John S Barnes, engineer.
daughter Catherine died there in 1959, having
• Four different women: Joan McDougall, lived in the house for at least 60 years. The new
Elena Warner, Emma M Wells and Adelaide owners were an engineer named Thomas Nellis
Rosevear. Adelaide must have had some and his wife and they stayed for 30 years.
money behind her, because she off ered a
reward for the return of a personal item: During 1927 the Rosendales moved to Albert
‘LOST, Silver Locket, S. Melb. to Bourke- Park and my house was let out to Charles Fuller,
st., two deceased’s photos’. This being the a driver who’d been living across the road in 1912
22
middle of the great depression of the 1890s, it and next door since 1915. Charles Fuller and his
was unlikely she ever saw her treasured silver family continued as a tenant of my house for the
locket again. next 25 years, so the Fullers were another family
who loved the area and lived in this little enclave
• Donald Masenhelder, a pantryman working
for a total of 40 years.
on coastal shipping, his wife Emily operating
a dressmaking business from my home.
23
After John Rosendale’s widow died in 1961,
Donald perished with 31 other crew members
Charles Fuller also moved to Albert Park and
in the wreck of the Nemesis off Port Hacking
in January 1962 title was vested in National
24
in July 1904. Emily was a beneficiary of the
Trustees Executors and Agency Company of
Nemesis Relief Fund.
25
Australasia Limited. Thus ended a century-long
• After Masenhelder’s death a tailor named association of the Lynch family with my house,
William McGregor moved in for several apart from a gap of several decades in the 1880s
years. and 1890s.
Times were tough during the 1890s depression. Sands and Mc Dougall’s Melbourne Directory for
The tenant Robert Tully, struggling to fi nd the years 1964-1969 have G Mermagis at my
work as a painter, tried to sub-let the front address. He and his wife were Greek newcomers
room, ‘furnished or unfurnished’, with the added to Australia. Their daughter Mary says he
26
benefits of a fireplace and a cupboard. happened to be driving past, saw there was an
auction in progress, stopped and bought the
Council rate notices from 1898 show a local mason house. When the Mermigas family of four moved
named David Wilson owning my house for several in, the house contained four rooms with a long
years, renting it out until he died at the end of 1899. kitchen added on at the back. Conditions were
The property was advertised for auction in 1900 primitive: the only running water was outside, in
and it’s amusing to read a promotional spiel, which several sheds. The new owners rebuilt the kitchen
real estate agents might still use today: add-on, creating a small bathroom on the left, a
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kitchenette in the middle and an eating bay on the ‘lovely feeling’ but they didn’t stay long, as this
right. George grew his vegies in the back garden. house was too small for a family with two teenage
His wife grew flowers in the front garden. A gate children. My House
provided access to the back lane. The two children
called their old Nellis neighbours ‘Mr Bill’ and From December 1992 the house was owned for
‘Mrs Peggy’. Around 1975 the Mermigas family less than a year by the wife of an accountant from
moved away and became absentee owners, but Traralgon. Since 1993 it’s been in my appreciative
their newly-married daughter Mary returned to hands. If Dennis Lynch dropped by he would
live in her childhood home from 1986 to 1989. recognise the front half of the house as essentially
Mary loved the house and still drives past it the same as it was in 1859, but in the 1990s the
occasionally. Mary’s mother wailed in 2017 ‘I Council’s heritage officers agreed that my ex-
don’t know why we ever sold it!’ husband and I could completely rebuild and
extend the add-on section at the back of the house.
In October 1989 the Puttocks became joint
proprietors. Hairdresser (Kevin) and makeup People have lived and loved, have been married,
artist (Paddy) were originally from England and widowed and divorced, have been born and have
had previously lived nearby. They repainted the died in my house. No wonder their spirits speak to
house and replaced the front verandah in the you when you open the front door.
same style as the original. They still recall its
References
1. All information on Rates Notices from Council Rate Books, City of Port Phillip’s Emerald Hill
Library and Heritage Centre, 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne
2. Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871, http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_
search?searchid=24
3. ‘Shipping Intelligence’, The Argus, 1 February 1854, p4
4. Author’s copy of Victorian Marriage Cert, Ref 1856/59
5. State Library of Victoria website https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-
collections-format/maps/maps-melbourne-city-suburbs/mmbw-plans, accessed 9 Nov
2016
6. ‘Family Notices’, The Argus, 16 October 1866, p4
7. ‘Family Notices’, The Age, 1 August 1868, p2
8. ‘Family Notices’, The Argus, 7 August 1868, p4, and The Argus, 7 August 1868, p8
9. ‘Magisterial, Christchurch’, Star, Issue 2833, 2 May 1877, p2
10. ‘Family Notices’, The Argus, 9 March 1867, p 4 and author’s copy of Victorian Marriage Cert, Ref
1867/85
11. ‘The Duke of Edinburgh in Melbourne’, The Argus, 27 November 1867, p5
12. ‘Family Notices’, The Argus, 4 April 1868, p4
13. ‘Flood on 16 March 1878’, The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil, 13 April 1878, p7
14. ‘The Low-Lying Lands Commission’, The Argus, 26 July 1873, p6
15. The Argus, 6 March 1879, p8 and author’s copy of Victorian Death Cert, Ref 1879/12248
16. ‘Advertisement’, The Argus, 26 April 1880, p2
17. ‘Advertisement’, The Argus, 24 August 1880, p2
18. All information on Property Titles purchased from Department of Environment, Land, Water
and Planning, 570 Bourke St, Melbourne
19. ‘Advertisement’, The Argus, 8 October 1881, p1 and author’s copy of Victorian Death Cert, Ref
1881/10272
20. Email dated 24 May 2017 from Melbourne General Cemetery; Monumental, Compartment V,
Grave 595, mistakenly described as Catherine
21. ‘Advertisement’, Emerald Hill Record, 3 May 1886 through to 6 July 1886
22. ‘Advertisement’, The Age, 10 March 1894, p5
23. ‘Advertisement’, The Age, 25 January 1899, p3
24. ‘Loss of the Nemesis’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1904, p7
25. ‘Nemesis Relief Fund’, The Argus, 30 November 1904, p5
26. ‘Advertisement’, The Age, 23 June 1891, p3
27. ‘Sales by Auction’, The Argus, 21 July 1900, p3
28. ‘Family Notices’, The Argus, 31 August 1899, p1
29. ‘Advertising’, Advocate, (Melbourne}, 25 October 1919, p21
30. ‘Family Notices’, The Age, 30 August 1941, p1
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How I Found
My Namesake
by Elizabeth Kelly
How could a family of six vaporise into thin air? both died as babies. Then the McCallions moved
This seemed to be the fate of my great great aunt, to Sydney and were never heard from again.
Elizabeth McCallion née Kelly and her family
Elizabeth can be contacted at after they moved to Sydney in 1876. I was named In 1990 my father prepared a document
[email protected]
for my father’s aunt and she in turn was named attempting to trace all fi ve Kelly siblings, their
for the Elizabeth Kelly of this story, so I had a children and grandchildren with their assorted
special reason for locating this missing ancestor. marriages and offspring – no easy task as the
Devlins alone had eleven children. He sent it
When my great grandfather, John Kelly, to his extended family hoping to fill the family
disembarked from the White Star as a twenty- history gaps. However, the fate of Elizabeth
year-old on 15 September 1864 at Hobsons Bay McCallion and her family remained a roadblock.
Railway Pier, he was accompanied by his brother, Periodically my father trawled the Sydney phone
Peter Kelly, seventeen, and sister Elizabeth books contacting McCallions hoping to find a lost
1
Kelly, 22. They had come to Victoria to join their relative. Always he was disappointed. When my
older siblings, Michael Kelly of Kyneton and father died in 2000, I continued the search.
Mary Devlin née Kelly, whose family had become
farmers at Yea. My father told me many times that John
McCallion ran a hay and corn store owned by
The Kellys came from the town land of Labby John Kelly in Bridge Road, Richmond before
near Draperstown in Londonderry, Ireland, moving to New South Wales. I wish I’d paid more
the children of Michael Kelly, a farmer and attention and asked him more questions. Even with
blacksmith, and Alice Clarke or Clarkeson endless family history resources on the internet, I
or Clarken or Clerkin. Welcome to Irish still couldn’t fi nd the McCallions of Sydney.
spelling. Michael and Alice wanted their sons
to have a trade – Michael junior and Peter were Early on I established that during the late 1860s
blacksmiths and John a saddler and harness and early 1870s John McCallion operated a
maker, these skills giving the brothers a head start butcher shop in Bridge Road Richmond between
in the new colony of Victoria. Burnley and Coppin Streets. The children’s birth
certificates show the family living at various
Eighteen months after arriving in Victoria, Richmond addresses. A kind lady at St Ignatius
Elizabeth Kelly married John McCallion from Catholic Church, Richmond provided some
Londonderry in St Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne baptism certificates which revealed a surprise
2
on 19 April 1866. Her brother John was a witness. – a further child no one knew about – John
John McCallion worked as a cab driver in the McCallion born in 1874. 5
Fitzroy/Collingwood area in the mid-1860s. In
March 1866, just prior to his marriage, he became Perhaps the butchering business failed. By
the licensee of the Shepherds Arms Hotel in Smith September 1875 the butcher shop, occupied at
Street Collingwood. This was a bad idea. He was the time by Mrs McCallion, was advertised for
declared insolvent by August 1866. sale, unsuccessfully, as the premises were again
3
advertised for sale in March 1876 with Mrs
6
As far as we knew, following their marriage, McCallion in situ. A separate advertisement
4
Elizabeth and John lived in Richmond. Here they offered household furniture, two cows, a horse,
ran a shop and had five children – Mary Alice, cart and harness. The newspapers do not mention
James, Eliza, and twins Sarah Jane and Ellen, who Mr McCallion, possibly already in Sydney.
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My Namesake
Image 1: Facade of former Shepherd’s Arms Hotel, Smith Street, Collingwood.
An Ancestry shipping record has a Mrs E How to find the now non-existent Gardeners
McCallion and four children sailing to Sydney Lane Loop? The Gardeners Road Public
aboard the Macedon in June 1876. The family School has helpfully published online its 125th
7
reunion didn’t go well. In Sydney in February anniversary history which contains an early
1877 John McCallion, cab driver, was sentenced hand-drawn diagram of the Botany-Gardeners
to two months imprisonment for assaulting his Road intersection, showing the location of the
11
wife Eliza McCallion. He was in trouble with the Halfway House Hotel. Matched with modern
8
police twice more in 1877 –for keeping an unclean maps, Gardeners Loop is now Tramway Street,
cab, and not complying with transit regulations. Rosebery running parallel to Gardeners Rd. An
1886 Council petition published in the Sydney
The 1880 Sydney Sands Directory has John Morning Herald discloses a J McCallion living in
9
McCallion living in Botany Rd, Botany. A Tramway Street Botany.
newspaper advertisement of the same year has
him advertising a stray dog, stating that the dog’s I was stuck in Tramway Street, Botany for a
owner could contact him at the Halfway House, long time. My searches always led me back to
Botany. The Halfway House was a hotel located the McCallion family of North Sydney and
on the site of what is now the Newmarket Hotel the World War One Military Cross recipient,
on the corner of Botany and Gardeners Roads in W J McCallion but sadly, none were the right
the modern suburb variously called Mascot or McCallions.
Rosebery or Alexandria.
An Ancestry search revealed J McCallion in
An 1882 inquest of a man killed in a tram accident the Gaol Description and Entrance Books for
12
on the Botany line recorded the testimony of a Darlinghurst Gaol on 23 June 1883. John
local witness, James McCallion, aged fourteen. McCallion was arrested after he attacked
His name and age tallies with the second child of Michael Collins with a hammer. The victim
John and Elizabeth McCallion born in Richmond suffered two head wounds and bled profusely.
in 1868. The accident occurred at Gardeners Lane Richard Sayers was a witness. Strangely, I
Loop, Botany, the turnaround point for the Botany couldn’t find a newspaper report of McCallion
tram. The newspaper report contained graphic perpetrating such a serious assault, so I searched
detail about the deceased man’s brain protruding on ‘Michael Collins’ which disclosed two reports,
from his skull after being smashed by a tram. one with the attacker being ‘John McCollion’
10
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My Namesake and the other naming ‘John McCallum’. It His younger brother John had committed suicide
13
exactly eleven years later, on the anniversary of
seems John McCallion ran a boarding house
James’ death. Perhaps the older brother had been
in Botany where Michael Collins and Richard
the younger brother’s protector.
Sayers were boarders. Michael Collins arrived
home drunk and violent so John McCallion hit
him repeatedly with the hammer on the body and
children but couldn’t locate the parents. None
head. Five weeks later at his trial on 2 August I now had death certificates for the McCallion
1883 McCallion was found not guilty. 14 of the many John McCallums in the indexes
seemed right. I phoned Rookwood Catholic
Three months after the hammer incident, Richard Cemetery, obtained John McCallum the
Sayers was killed when he walked in front of a younger’s burial location and discovered that
moving tram on the Botany line. At the inquest, his father, interred in 1901, was buried with him.
a witness, Eliza McCallum, deposed that she Only four McCallums died in New South Wales
kept a boarding house on the Botany Road where in 1901, none of them John. However a John
Richard Sayers lived. He was killed opposite her McCullum died in Parramatta. It seemed that
house in Gardeners Lane Loop. 15 I had the wrong name and the wrong place. The
McCallions, the Mahonys and the Condons all
‘Eliza McCallum’ represented either a second lived in inner south east Sydney, nowhere near
transcription error or revealed that the family had Parramatta.
ceased calling themselves ‘McCallion, and had
adopted the name ‘McCallum’. The New South However, Mr McCullum of Parramatta was John
Wales Death indexes for the period have one John McCallion senior. He died of bowel cancer at the
McCallion (of the North Sydney McCallions) and George Street Asylum Parramatta, established in
many, many John McCallums. I was stuck again. 1862 for infirm and destitute men, where he had
been resident for eight months.
The Australian Death Index revealed a John
McCallum who died in Sydney in 1903 whose With fi ve McCallion death certificates I was still
parents were John and Elizabeth. I risked $33 and missing the one I really wanted – that of my great
a certificate arrived in my inbox in 2016, breaking great aunt Elizabeth née Kelly. The death indexes
the mystery which had intrigued my father and had Eliza/Elizabeth McCallums registered at
me for years. It was both revealing and tragic, Marrickville and Waterloo but they weren’t quite
recording the death of young John McCallion, the right. An Eliza McCallum died in Junee, central
surprise baby born in Richmond in 1874. On 18 west New South Wales in 1892 with no mother
October 1903, 29-year-old John McCallum had and a father called Michael but that couldn’t
entered a shed in the backyard of his residence, possibly be her. But it was! On 13 September 2016,
strung up a rope and hanged himself. Death by there on my screen was Elizabeth McCallion née
suicide was the verdict. The certificate had two Kelly and her death certificate – almost three
useful pieces of information – the informant decades after my father started his search. The
was his brother-in-law, James Condon, and he certificate doesn’t reveal why Eliza McCallum
died at what was the address of his sister, Eliza was living in Junee so far away from her husband
16
Mahony in Surry Hills. John McCallum must and family. At only 50, she died from the eff ects
have had an intellectual disability because inquest of chronic alcoholism. I assumed she was the last
witnesses described John as ‘weak minded’ McCallion, but her certificate indicated three
and suggested he killed himself because he was deceased baby girls. I knew about the dead twin
constantly teased by local boys. These days we’d girls. I quickly found Annie McCallum, born in
call it bullying. Sydney in 1881. She died nine days after birth.
I quickly acquired the sisters’ marriage The McCallion story is mostly tragic, but the two
certificates. Mary Alice McCallum married James sisters, Mary Alice Condon and Eliza Mahony,
Condon on 25 April 1889 and Eliza McCallum married, had children and grandchildren and
married Patrick Mahony in June 1890. The apparently flourished well into old age. For 80
indexes showed the death of an Elizabeth Mahony years the family had called itself McCallum,
in 1968 which I initially dismissed – she couldn’t recording all their significant life events – births,
have lived that long. But she did! Eliza died in deaths and marriages – as McCallum. Curiously,
1968 aged 97 while her sister Mary Alice Condon, on each of the elderly sisters’ death certifi cates,
the eldest McCallion child, died in 1959 aged 92. in 1959 and 1968, their maiden name is recorded
Elizabeth Mahony’s death certifi cate informant as McCallion. I don’t know if the original name
was her 75-year-old daughter Margaret! The change was prompted by John McCallion’s
second McCallion sibling, James, the tram problems with the law or whether they decided
accident witness, died aged 23 of an infection at McCallum was just easier.
Coast Hospital, Little Bay on 18 October 1892.
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I subsequently passed the McCallion family he died in the Menindee Police Lockup from the
details to a relative who has incorporated them combined effects of Bright’s Disease, dysentery
into her Kelly Family Tree on Ancestry. and exposure. Menindee was the last bit of My Namesake
civilisation that Burke and Wills ever saw. Why
During the search, I found another lost family was Peter in such a remote place, why was he in
member in New South Wales. Peter Kelly, the lockup and how did the exposure occur?
Elizabeth’s brother, one of the sibling trio who
arrived in Hobson’s Bay in 1864, also disappeared Family history – you answer one question and ten
in the 1870s and was never heard of again. In 1903 others pop up.
References MELBOURNE TARTAN
1. Passenger List for White Star, Port Phillip 15
September 1864. Unassisted Passenger Lists
1852-1923, Public Record Offi ce of Victoria FESTIVAL
2. The Argus, 20 April 1866 p4, Marriages
3. Victorian Government Gazette 1866 p537, 19 – 22 July 2018
‘Insolvencies’. The Argus 12 March 1866,
‘Notice of Application for a Transfer of Celebrating Scottish culture in Australia
Publicans Licence’
Grand Ceilidh Dance
4. Sands & McDougall Directory of Melbourne,
1865-1876 Abbotsford Convent
5. Baptism records, St Ignatius Catholic Church, Gala Dinner and Entertainment
Church Street, Richmond Melbourne Town Hall
6. The Age, 11 September 1875 p2 ‘Advertising’
The Argus 22 March 1876 p2 Cultural Exhibition & Scottish Music events
Melbourne Town Hall
7. New South Wales Unassisted Passenger Lists
8. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 February 1877 p11, Massed Pipe Band city parade
‘Water Police Court’ Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service
9. Sands Directory of Sydney 1880
Pop-up cultural events around Melbourne CBD
10. Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1882 p3,
‘Coroner Inquest’. throughout the Festival
11. Gardeners Road Public School Celebrating 125 For further information contact
Years of Public Education [email protected]
12. New South Wales Darlinghurst Gaol
A joint venture of VSHCF and SVCG
Description and Entrance Books 1818-1913
www.vshcf.com.au
13. Evening News 26 June 1883 p4 ‘Assault at
Waterloo’. Sydney Morning Herald 25 June
1883 p3, ‘Redfern Police Court’
14. New South Wales Criminal Court Records
1830-1945
15. Sydney Morning Herald 1 October 1883 p7,
‘Coroner’s Inquest’
16. Evening News 20 October 1903 p3, ‘Strange
reason for Suicide’
General Sources
Rookwood Catholic Cemetery Trust burial records.
Victorian BDM certifi cates.
NSW BDM certifi cates.
www.trove.nla.gov.au Digitised Newspapers.
www.ancestry.com Australian Death Index
www.findmypast.com.au
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Dr John Fishbourne:
A Victorian Medical Pioneer
by Kaye Cole
An Introductory Confession a result of Learmonth’s declining population, so a
When I first began looking for my great move became necessary. When a hospital position
grandmother Eliza Fishbourne’s Irish forebears, became available in Ararat, about 50 miles west of
10
I found quite a few of them in Carlow Town, Ballarat, Dr John took his family there.
including Eliza’s father Peter who was a coach-
builder. Among the others were several Roberts Ararat, Kew and Moonee Ponds
Kaye can be contacted at and a couple of Williams, who were members of Ararat had developed following its gold rush in
[email protected]
the Irish Protestant Ascendancy, seemed to be 1857, and once the diggers moved on it became
quite well off, owned lots of property, and sent a growth centre for western Victoria, especially
their sons to Trinity College Dublin. However when the government opened a large mental
11
something wasn’t quite right; my Peter the asylum there in 1865. Very soon after his arrival
coachbuilder simply didn’t seem to fit with this in 1872, John Fishbourne moved across to the
lot, even though we knew his father’s name mental hospital as a resident medical offi cer,
12
was Robert. Eventually I realised that he was where he stayed for the next fi ve years. Four
13
probably an illegitimate member of this family, more of his children were born in Ararat , and
1
although of course I can’t prove it. here began his lifelong interest in mental health,
and his passion for improving the care of people
Having amassed a good deal of information about with mental and intellectual disabilities.
the wealthy Fishbournes, I wasn’t prepared
to throw them away, so I continued to pursue In 1877 John Fishbourne was transferred to
14
this family on the basis that Robert Moore the Kew Asylum, where he worked until 1882.
Fishbourne was probably my great great great By that time he was thoroughly disenchanted
grandfather. On the other hand it can be said with with the government’s neglect of the asylum
some certainty that he was the grandfather of Dr system, and their failure to provide separate
2
John Fishbourne , the subject of this article. So, care for intellectually disabled children and
having established some context, let us return to people with epilepsy, who were still being housed
15
our muttons. inappropriately in insane asylums. In 1878,
during his time in Kew, his fifth daughter Mary
16
John William Yorke Fishbourne Evelyn was born. She probably had Down
17
On 6 December 1843 this grandson of Robert Syndrome and also suffered from epilepsy , two
Moore Fishbourne was born at the Rectory in conditions quite often seen together. 18
Coolkenna, County Wicklow, and in March 1844
his father Rev. Robert Fishbourne, baptised him At the end of 1882 Dr Fishbourne left the
3
in the parish church of Aghade. John was to government service and in 1883 set up a private
19
enjoy a comfortable middle class upbringing and practice in Moonee Ponds. In conjunction
a good education, graduating in medicine from with Dr John Springthorpe and others in
Trinity College Dublin in 1865. 4 the Victorian Branch of the British Medical
Association he then became very active in
In 1869, having seen the world while serving as publicly promoting reform of the asylum system,
5
a ship’s surgeon, he disembarked in Sydney and and in pressing for the education of ‘feeble
20
travelled to Victoria where he first settled at minded’ children. It took another twenty years
6
Learmonth near Ballarat. Before Christmas that before this lengthy campaign bore fruit, with the
year Dr Fishbourne’s fi ancée Marian Radcliff eventual establishment in 1903 of a reorganised
21
7
arrived from Ireland and the couple were Victorian Lunacy Department. In the meantime
married early in the New Year. 8 Dr Fishbourne had become recognised as a
22
leading local expert in mental diseases , which
Their first baby, very properly named Robert, was at that time were seen to include intellectual
9
born in 1870 at Learmonth , however by 1872 Dr disability as well as epilepsy.
Fishbourne’s medical practice was suff ering as
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Dr John Fishbourne
Tired of waiting for the government to address the
educational needs of children with intellectual
disabilities, in 1897 Dr Fishbourne set up his own
residential school, ‘St Aidans’, by adding rooms to
his private house in Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds.
His daughter Laeta was a trained teacher, and
under her father’s supervision, and with several
colleagues she conducted what was in eff ect the
first ‘Special School’ in Victoria. The school was
23
later recognised by the Education Department ,
and was much admired in the newspapers for
its achievements with children previously
24
thought to be incapable of learning. When Dr Image 1: Dr John Fishbourne,
Fishbourne died in 1911 St Aidan’s closed , but from the author’s collection.
25
in 1913 the first Education Department Special
26
School opened in Bell Street Fitzroy. Finally the
government had taken up its responsibilities.
The Talbot Colony operated for over 50 years and
The Talbot Epileptic Colony at its peak housed up to 160 patients, including
30
Dr Fishbourne’s other major contribution was children, for whom a school was provided.
his leading role in the establishment in 1906 of a Originally envisaged as fi nancially self-suffi cient
residential farm colony for people with epilepsy. and catering for people with some capacity
In this endeavour the newly formed National for self-care and improvement, the colony did
Council of Women was a major participant in later receive government funding. This made
fund raising and publicising the need for such it more difficult for the centre to be selective
a colony, which was then seen in Europe and in its admissions, and eventually it became a
America as the most appropriate way of caring for nursing home rather than an active farm colony.
people with epilepsy. 27 Meanwhile in light of signifi cant improvements
in the treatment of epilepsy, attitudes towards
The ‘Talbot Centre for Epileptics’ was named residential care were undergoing substantial
after its patron Lady Talbot, the Governor’s wife change, and community based services were now
and was built on donated land later to be occupied seen as more appropriate. 31
by Monash University. As one of the Centre’s
main founders, John Fishbourne was deeply In 1960 the Talbot Epileptic Colony was closed
involved in its management, acting as honorary when the government took over its land to
medical officer and assisting in the selection of establish Monash University. The Royal Talbot
28
people who became residents. Rehabilitation Centre in Kew, which was to
replace the colony no longer had a specifi c focus
In 1911, just before he died, Dr Fishbourne wrote on epilepsy, and over time ceased to play any role
an extensive paper for the Australasian Medical for people with epilepsy. 32
Congress in Sydney, entitled The Segregation
of the Epileptic and Feeble Minded, in which he The closure of the Talbot Colony left a void
outlined the progress being made in England and which led to the formation in 1964 of a lay
the United States, and highlighted the needs of organisation, initially named the Victorian
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this invisible and neglected group in the local Bureau for Epilepsy , which began to develop
community. What was required he said, was a a range of support services for people with
‘long patient process of educating the public’ to epilepsy and their families. By 1976 the now re-
arouse the community’s sense of responsibility so named ‘Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria’ was
that adequate funds would be made available to beginning to attract a modest level of government
meet those needs. 29 funding, and was able to advertise for its fi rst paid
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Dr John Fishbourne community education offi cer. Dr Fishbourne’s epilepsy, I was appointed to this position. At that
time I had never heard the name ‘Fishbourne’, as
vision was still alive.
I did not begin to research my family history for
another decade. All unknowing, I had picked up
As it happened, I was just re-entering the
workforce after raising my children and although
the torch kindled so many years ago by my ‘cousin’
lacking any previous knowledge or experience of
References Dr John Fishbourne!
1. I cannot find a baptismal record for Peter Henry Fishbourne b.c.1819. His earliest documentation
is his marriage entry in the Carlow Presbyterian Church records, which gives his father’s name
as Robert. Peter’s first child was born in Carlow Town, but by 1844 he had moved to Tullow where
he set up a coach building workshop. The wealthy Fishbourne family also had a coach building
workshop in Carlow Town, to service their coachline business. Given the relative rarity of the
surname, Peter’s original connection with Carlow Town and his occupation, a close link with the
wealthy Fishbournes seems likely. However none of the available information suggests that he
was a legitimate child of either Robert Moore Fishbourne or of his son Rev. Robert b.1800.
2. (Rev.) Robert Fishbourne was baptised in St Mary’s Church of Ireland Carlow in 1800, his father
being named in the register as Robert Moore Fishbourne.
3. St Michael’s Church of Ireland, Aghold, Co. Wicklow. Parish Register
4. Smith, J. ed. 1904, Cyclopedia of Victoria, vol.2, Melbourne
5. Mariners and ships in Australian waters, www.marinersandships.com.au (accessed 17
September 2017)
6. Smith (1904)
7. Public Record Office of Victoria [PROV] Index to unassisted passenger lists to Victoria 1852-1923.
www.prov.vic.gov.au (accessed 17 September 2017)
8. Victoria Civil Registration, Index to Marriages
9. Victoria Civil Registration, Index to Births
10. Smith (1904)
11. Banfi eld,L. 1986, Like the Ark: the Story of Ararat. Rev. Ed. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne
12. Victoria Government Gazette, online archive 1836-1977. www.slv.vic.gov.au (accessed 17
September 2017)
13. Victoria Civil Registration, Index to Births
14. Victoria Government Gazette
15. Royal Commission on Asylums for the Insane and Inebriate, Report, Victoria 1886. (Zox
Commission), cited in Williams, B.R.[1] 1989, Dr John Fishbourne, an early campaigner for the
education of the feeble-minded and epileptic in Victoria, [thesis] Faculty of Education, Monash
University
16. Victoria Civil Registration, Index to Births
17. Personal communication, 2013, Jim Allinson, a direct descendant of Dr Fishbourne.
18. Personal communication, 2013, Dr Peter Bladin (neurologist)
19. Gardiner,L., Fishbourne, John William Yorke (1843-1911), Australian Dictionary of Biography.
http://adb.anu.edu.au (accessed 17 September 2017)
20. Zox Commission report, cited in Williams, B.R.
21. Williams, B.R. (see ref 15)
22. Williams, B.R.
23. Williams, B.R.
24. For example, Sun (newspaper) 1900, April 20, quoted at length in Williams, B.R
25. Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) VPRS 10300 Unit 4. Closed Registered Schools Files, letter
dated 5 December 1911.
26. Williams, B.R. [2] 1989-90 Dr John Fishbourne: a Pioneer in the Evolution of Special Education in
Victoria, In Melbourne Studies in Education, 1989-90
27. Bladin, P.F. 1998, The Talbot Colony-Farm for Epileptics Clayton, Victoria, 1907-1960. Typed spiral
bound MS
28. Bladin
29. Williams, B.R. The full text of Dr Fishbourne’s paper is contained in the Transactions of the
Australasian Medical Congress, Sydney, 11:885 (1911)
30. Bladin
31. Bladin
32. Bladin
33. Overview of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria. www.epinet.org.au (accessed 17 September
2017)
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A Walk along Queen Street
by Margaret Vines
Queen Street has been a very significant street in the
history of Melbourne. It began at the Yarra River, at
Queen’s Wharf, in the earliest days
of the settlement. The Yarra Falls
at Queen Street marked the divide Margaret can be contacted at
between fresh and salt water at low [email protected]
tide, and on the seaward side was
the Pool, a wider stretch of water
where ships could turn around. The Customs House,
now the Immigration Museum, was built facing this.
Queen Street became a river crossing point, where
Queen’s Bridge led on to Queensbridge Street and South
Melbourne. The later building of the Railway viaduct,
‘Banana Alley’, extending along Flinders Street, has
obscured this.
The new home of the GSV, at 85 Queen Street, is one
building from the corner of Queen and Collins Streets.
By the ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ boom of the 1880s this
corner was a Melbourne banking headquarters. Many of
the splendid bank and insurance buildings from this era
remain today, and are heritage listed.
Directly opposite the GSV at 90 Queen Street is
the Melbourne Safe Deposit, a delightfully detailed
example of Gothic revival architecture. On the corner
of Collins Street is the classically styled Bank of
Australasia, now a luxury boutique hotel, ‘Treasury on
Collins’. Across Collins Street is the former National
Mutual Life Asssurance office with its 1891 foundation
stone on display.
Best of all is the current ANZ Bank on the Queen
Street corner, with the entrance to the Bank Museum
on Collins Street. Built as the English Scottish and
Australian Bank between 1883 and 1887, this must be
one of the prettiest and most colourful bank interiors
in the world. Its Gothic revival, Venetian-infl uenced,
architecture is famous.
Continue along to the end of Queen Street and you
arrive at the Victoria Market – but in early Melbourne,
until after the Gold Rushes, this was the Old Melbourne
Cemetery. The graves and headstones were moved to
the Fawkner Pioneer Section when the market was
expanded in 1924.
So, when you are visiting the GSV in Queen Street, have
a look at the heritage and history around it.
Images: From the top, Melbourne Safe Deposit, ANZ Bank
on the corner of Collins and Queen Streets, and the Bank’s
interior. All images courtesy of Margaret Vines.
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A Guide to Researching
Northern Territory Records
by Martin Playne
This guide provides a starting point for your Assembly. Thus, be aware that records may be held
research into the Northern Territory (NT). in different locations (NSW, SA, ACT/Federal/
This guide assumes that before travelling to the Military, and NT).
Northern Territory you will have searched the
major online commercial resources, such as GSV Resources for NT Research
Martin can be contacted at: fi ndmypast™, as well as exhausting the records https://gsv.org.au
[email protected] held at the GSV, and not forgetting to search In addition to free access to members to a number
Trove™ (National Library of Australia) for NT of online commercial databases, the GSV holds
newspapers. a considerable number of lists and indexes for
the NT. Resources for the NT are in three main
The Northern Territory was part of colonial New areas: births, deaths and marriages; immigration
South Wales from 1825 to 1863, except for a brief and passenger lists; wills and probates. Our
time from February to December 1846, when it was experienced researchers can help guide you in
part of the short-lived colony of North Australia. your research. A search on the GSV catalogue
It was part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911. for ‘Northern Territory’ revealed 185 catalogue
On 1 January 1911, a decade after federation, the entries. These entries covered a diverse range of
Northern Territory was separated from South topics including BDM records, information on
Australia and transferred to Commonwealth grave sites, land orders and pastoral leases.
control. During World War Two, most of the NT
was placed under military government. After the Genealogical and Historical Societies
war, control for the entire area was handed back in the NT
to the Commonwealth. In 1978 the Territory was Genealogical Society of the Northern
granted responsible government, with a Legislative Territory
The Society is
situated on the fi rst
floor of Cavenagh
Court, the Northern
Territory Archives
Service building, 25
Cavenagh Street,
Darwin. Their
Library is located
at Unit 4, 84 Smith
Street Darwin
NT (opposite the
Chinatown carpark
entrance), and is
three doors from the
RSL Club, which is
near the Knuckey
and Cavenagh Street
traffic lights, a short
walk from the Smith
Street Mall.
Image 1: Cahill’s Crossing on the East Alligator River, Arnhem
Land, NT. All photos from the author’s collection
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Postal: PO Box 37212, Winnellie, NT 0821 Registry of Births, Deaths, and
Tel 08 8981 7363 Marriages
www.gsnt.org.au The Darwin office is located at Ground Floor,
Email: [email protected] Nichols Place, cnr Cavenagh and Bennett Streets.
The Library is air-conditioned, with reference The Alice Springs office is in Centrepoint GSV ‘How to’ Series
books, microfi che, microfilm, CDs and family Building, cnr Gregory Terrace and Hartley Street.
history journals, as well as computers to access Postal: GPO Box 3021, Darwin, Northern
subscription databases. Lift or stairs access Territory 0801, or PO Box 8043, Alice Springs,
is available. The facilities are open Monday Northern Territory 0871
and Tuesday and on Saturday afternoon. The Tel: 08 8999 6119 (Darwin)
Society has a quarterly journal Progenitor, and a 08 8951 5339 (Alice Springs)
reciprocal member arrangement with the GSV. www.nt.gov.au/justice/bdm/index.shtml or
https://nt.gov.au/law/bdm
Historical Society of the Northern Territory Email: [email protected]
Postal: PO Box 40544, Casuarina, Northern
Territory, Australia 0811 These offices hold records of vital events from
Tel: mob: 0487 413 709 1870 to the present. For family history purposes,
www.historicalsocietynt.org.au certificates less than a certain age will not be
Email: [email protected] issued. These are: Births: 80 years, Marriages: 60
years, Deaths: 30 years.
The Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Incorporated was founded in 1964. The Society
engages in an active publishing program (see
website). The journal Northern Territory
Historical Studies: A Journal of History,
Heritage and Archaeology publishes material
on the history of the Northern Territory or
on subjects which have some relevance to
Northern Australia.
Darwin NT Family History Centre
18 Trower Road, Darwin, NT 0810
Tel: 08 8985 1980
This is a Familysearch (LDS, Utah) research
centre. Make an appointment before visiting.
Northern Territory Archives
Service (NTAS)
370 Bagot Rd, enter via Kelsey Crescent,
Millner, NT 0818
Tel: 08 8924 7677
Postal: PO Box 1347, Nightcliff NT 0814
www.nt.gov.au/nreta/ntas/index.html
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Reading Room open Tues-Fri
Image 2: Magpie Geese, Cooinda, Kakadu, NT.
The NTAS also has an office in Alice Springs,
at Minerals House, 58 Hartley Street, Alice Government Gazettes
Springs NT 0871
https://nt.gov.au/about-government/gazettes
Tel: 08 8951 5669
NT Government Gazettes have been released
since 1978 and can be accessed online.
Functions of the NT Archives Service include
preservation of government and community Northern Territory Library
archives, provision of public access to archives
Parliament House, cnr Bennett and Mitchell
collections and the provision of records
Streets, Darwin NT 0800
management policy. The NTAS has an extensive
Postal: PO Box 42, Darwin, NT 0801 Tel 08 8999
catalogue of its holdings (265 pages) and this is
7177
well worth examining prior to visiting as many
https://dtc.nt.gov.au/arts-and-museums/
of the holdings would be of relevance to a family
northern-territory-library or
historian. They include, for example, police
http://www.ntl.nt.gov.au
and court records, mission records, and many
email: [email protected]
photographic collections.
Hours: closed on Mondays.
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GSV ‘How to’ Series
Image 3: Ubirr rock art, Kakadu, NT
The Territory has a long and rich tradition of offices in all capital cities. Ensure that the records
stories and knowledge, from those of Indigenous you are seeking are held at the office you intend to
peoples of this country to those of more recent visit. Submit your request to view records at least
pioneering and immigrant communities. a week before your planned visit so that they can
The Northern Territory Library aims to retrieve them from off site storage.
comprehensively collect the documentation
of this history in all its forms, including all The NAA has a very comprehensive Research
information published in and about the Territory. Guide, No. 22, by Ted Ling on Commonwealth
Government Records about the Northern
The Northern Territory Library has an extensive Territory (details are given on its detailed
collection of NT family history research contents online at: http://guides.naa.gov.au/
materials, which experienced library staff can records-about-northern-territory). These
help you locate. Many are only available on records cover all aspects of the NT, and give a
CD-ROM within the Library. The Library has helpful historical perspective.
compiled a number of family history guides
- these include a specific NT Guide and an Chapter 4 of the Research Guide covers military
Indigenous Family History Sources guide. These personnel in World War Two and includes
can be downloaded from the Library's website. listings of military personnel and others involved
in the war effort (http://guides.naa.gov.au/
The Library holds indexes to births, deaths and records-about-northern-territory/part1/
marriages for all states of Australia on CD-ROM chapter4/4.4.aspx).
or microfi che.
Following the bombing in 1942, and possible
Useful online links for researching family history invasion, the Government decided that that
in other states and territories include: part of the Northern Territory north of Alice
• Convict Records at Northern Territory Library Springs would be placed under direct military
(86.2 kb) administration. Alice Springs would remain
under civilian administration.
• Early Church Records (416.3 kb)
• Shipping and Immigration (185.2 kb) - this These records are probably your first step if
subject guide has information about resources searching for relatives in the NT in WW2.
dealing with travel and immigration, including
passenger lists, ships and indexes to assisted Chapter 8 covers Aboriginal people in the NT.
and unassisted immigrants. The Commonwealth Government gathered
information about Aboriginal births, deaths and
National Archives of Australia (NAA) marriages and about the location of Aboriginal
Darwin Office, Kelsey Crescent, Millner NT 0810 people. Some records were kept from the 1920s,
Postal: PO Box 24 , Nightcliff NT 0814 but more detailed records were maintained from
Tel: (08) 8999 6890 the 1950s. An Aboriginal Population Register
www.naa.gov.au section was established within the Welfare
Hours: Tuesday to Friday Branch to gather this information. Unless
otherwise stated, the records were maintained
Records can only be viewed at the state or by the Native Affairs Branch to 1955, then the
territory offi ce where they are held. There are Welfare Branch to 1970, then the Welfare Division
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to 1972, then the Department of Aboriginal Land Records
Affairs. A series of approximately 60,000 cards The Genealogical Society of the NT has
maintained by the Aboriginal Population published a number of useful indexes (mostly GSV ‘How to’ Series
Register section is now located with the Northern as microfiche). Copies are also held by the NT
Territory Registrar-General's Offi ce. The Library. They include land applications; land
information contained varies but can include a orders; gold mining, mineral lands, pearling
person’s name, year and place of birth, parents and pastoral leases – mostly for the nineteenth
and siblings. century period.
Other Australian Aboriginal Images
Genealogy Resources The NT Library holds 60,000 images on Picture
NT Archives Service (see above) NT, which is a digital database (if using images in
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres a publication, permission is required).
Strait Islander Studies
www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/finding-your- Conclusion
family The Northern Territory until World War Two had
a small population of settlers mainly involved in
Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies
the pastoral industries, in gold mining ventures,
www.cifhs.com/default.html
in government, and in mission stations. The
Cora Web
indigenous population was much larger. The
www.coraweb.com.au/abor.htm
occupation of much of the Northern Territory
NT Library (see above) by military personnel and the consequent
Strehlow Research Centre injection of infrastructure by the Commonwealth
Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs Government led to rapid development. Family
Tel 08 8951 1110 history records for NT are somewhat diff erent
Email: [email protected] from those in other parts of Australia, mainly
because regional government was not established
The Strehlow Research Centre manages one of until much later. This has necessitated
Australia’s most important collections of fi lm, genealogists searching NT records in NSW,
sound, archival records and museum objects South Australia, and Canberra, as well as in the
relating to Indigenous ceremonial life. NT. The distance between Alice Springs and
Darwin further complicates searching, so central
Access to the Strehlow Collection by researchers Australian searching is limited, with the main
and other interested parties is governed by the organisations covering genealogy being based in
Strehlow Centre Board. Many elements in the Darwin.
collection can only be accessed
by the appropriate traditional
Aboriginal custodians, or
by people acting with their
consent and approval. The
Research Centre off ers family
history services for Aboriginal
people of central Australia
Image 4: Sunset, East Point, Darwin, NT
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Additions to the Library See the library catalogue for full details,
exact format, and location of material
within the library - available online at
www.gsv.org.au or in the library.
Compiled by Linley Hooper
Please check the library catalogue for full Ottry; Parker; Pawley; Pegler; Penfound; TASMANIA
descriptions. All listed LDS microfi lms are Phillips; Plummer; Prior; Puckle; Puttock; Sarah Island: the penal settlement at
held in the LDS Long Term Loans Cabinets. Rathbone; Robbins; Robson; Rogers; Macquarie Harbour 1831. Davey, Richard.
Request by film number at the Information Roscholler; Rothenberger; Rowe; Ryan; [GSV 994.6 DAV]
Desk. Thank you to all donors to the library Ryman; Sanders; Schuler; Shaw; Shorrt;
VICTORIA
collection. Simpson; Skinner; Slater; Smedley; A post-adoption guide: searching for records
Smith; Smyth; Snowden; Speering;
Abbreviations used: & birth relatives. Developed by VANISH
Stafford; Stenner; Stewart; Stocker; search & support workers. [GSV V 362.7
(...) = Donor’s name, if not the author
FHS = Family History Society Straker; Talbott; Taylor; Tehan; Thomas; POS]
Townsend; Tyack; Uren; West; Whatley;
IAG = Irish Ancestry Group White; Wilson; Winning. [GSV 929.2 State of Victoria: timelines for genealogists.
ISG = International Settlers Group KIRK KIR] Bate, Meg. [GSV 994.5 BAT]
= Society purchase Ad Altiora Certamus: a collective memoir of
bapt=baptism; dth=death; mar=marriage Maria Millard and Caleb George. Watters, the Box Hill High School 1950-55 cohort&
LDS = Microfilms in the Long Term Loans Robyn. Computer 5 the foundation matriculation class. Robert
Cabinet. Request by film number at the Nicholas O’Donnell’s autobiography. Ed. L Hayes, Peter McL Hiscock & Graeme C
Information desk with an introduction & an epilogue by Val Smith, foreword by W Pye. (McKirdy, L)
Noone. (Review) [GSV 920 ODON NOO] [GSV 373.945 BOXH HAY]
FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Joseph Thomas Oaklley. Watters, Robyn. What Kiddle forgot: a social history of the
Bessie May Oakley Baynes. Watters, Computer 5 Mount Elephant district of Western
Robyn. Computer 5 Ann Waghorn Munday. Watters, Robyn. Victoria 1860-1888. Sturmfels, Michael
Brown of Sandringham. Watters, Robyn. Computer 5 Sylvester. Computer 5 {Received as a
Computer 5 Watters. Watters, Robyn. Computer 5 digital copy 4 Dec 2017 plus Excel fi le}
Edwin Tylor Brown. Watters, Robyn. GENERAL Omeo pioneer cemetery: full burial register
Computer 5 Manuscript to market: the lifecycle of getting 1857-2001, monumental inscription &
John Drummond a Scottish soldier: the your book into print. Pierotti, Susan. colour photograph, inquest index, parents.
story of his family. Binns, Florence June Instructions and case studies on how to Carroll, Dianne. (Estate of Levens, A)
[GSV 929.2 DRUM BIN] write, edit, self-publish and market a book Computer 5
Archibald Bert Duncan. Watters, Robyn. for first-time authors. (Review) [070.5
Computer 5 PIE] EUROPE
Duncan and Duggan. Watters, Robyn. DNA for genealogy. Farmer, Kerry. (Review) A guide to Jewish genealogy in Latvia
Computer 5 [GSV 572.8 FAR] and Estonia. Beare, Arlene. Revised by
Ernest William Duncan. Watters, Robyn. GEDmatch: tools for DNA & genealogy Arlene Beare. 3rd ed. (A Guide to Jewish
Computer 5 research. Farmer, Kerry. (Review) [GSV genealogy; no. 8). (ISG) [GSV 929.1474
Lyla Vera Duncan and Maud Irene Duncan. 572.8 FAR] JEW]
Watters, Robyn. Computer 5 GERMANY
William and Sarah Duncan. Watters, AUSTRALIA Civil registration: births, marriages & deaths
Robyn. Computer 5 War memorials photos. Compiled by Elaine in Germany. Kopittke, Eric. (Review) [GSV
John King: Ireland’s forgotten explorer; Craig. Contents: Angaston; Bairnsdale; 929.3343 KOP]
Australia’s fi rst hero. Villiers, Eric. (Cohn, Bairnsdale Boer; Beaconsfi eld; Belgrave; Map guide to German parish registers: cities
M-A) [920 KING VIL] Berwick; Blackburn; Bonnie Doon; of Bremen, Lubeck and Kiel with full street
Eastenders: the Kirkhams from Poplar. Box Hill Kokoda Trail; Box Hill South index. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to
Kirkham, Donald H. Index of names: Africa & China; Bright; Burra South German parish registers ; v. 57). (ISG) [GSV
Aldus; Allen; Allum; Archer; Artis; Bagley; Australia; Charlton; Croydon; Doncaster; 912.43 HAN]
Baker; Barbour; Beezley; Bennett; Berkout; Ferntree Gully Primary School; Ferny German genealogy: research in Pomerania
Blacket; Blackley; Boudet; Bowman; Bray; Creek; Grand; Harkaway; Kalorama; with specific examples of Kreis Schlawe
Breen; Burgess; Busteed; Butler; Byrne; Kapunda; Leongatha; Lilydale; Mansfi eld; research. Schilling, Donna. (ISG) [GSV
Calvert; Connell; Cornwall; Cowan; Crago; Mansfield Boer; Mirboo North; Mitcham; 929.14381 SCH]
Craig; Crowle; Culnane; Curtis; Dailey Mitcham WW2; Montrose; Nhill; Alsfeld (KrSt Alsfeld) Kirchenbuch
Devitt; Ditchburn; Dow; Dowling; Duggan; Notes; Nunawading; Orbost; Orroroo; [Parish register deaths of Alsfeld. Includes
Durant; Eastman; Evans; Everitt; Findlay; Ouyen; Peterborough; Quorn; Ringwood; Reibertenrod] 1808-1873; Leusel (Kr.
Fitzpatrick; Fitzsimmons; Gambell; Rosedale; Saddleworth; Sale; Sedan; Alsfeld) Kirchenbuchduplikat [Parish
George; Gibb; Grant; Gwalter; Hadfi eld; Stratford; Tarlee; Thumbs; Trafalgar; register transcripts of bapt, marr & bur
Hall; Hanne; Hayes; Hayler; Hebden; Traralgon; Wedderburn; Wycheproof; for Leusel, Hessen, Germany] 1633-
Henderson; Henry; Hewitt; Hillier; Yarck; Yarra Glen; Yarragon; Yea. (Estate 1807; Evangelische Kirche [Evangelical
Hogland; Hopkins; Howard; Howarth; of Levens, A) Computer 5 Church] (LDS; 1336934). Contents: Alsfeld
Huggert; Hughes; Hunt; Irving; Jackson; NEW SOUTH WALES Tote [dth]1871-1873 Konfi rmationen
James; Jarvis; Jensen; Jobson; Johnson; Elizabeth 1828: the worst and most [confirmations] 1808-1876; Leusel Taufen
Judd; Kelly; Kennedy; Kerr; Lane; turbulent: from Celtic Cross to Southern [bapt] 1633-1772; Leusel Tote 1633-1772
Leeming; Lewis; Lowry; Maroney; Mather; Cross. Voytas, Suzanne. On 12 January Heiraten [marriages] 1763-1762, 1634-1762
McAllum; McGillivray; McGregor; 1828 the female convict ship Elizabeth Konfirmationen 1633-1771; Leusel Taufen,
McInerney; McKeon; McLaren; sailed into Port Jackson with 193 Irish Heiraten, Tote, Konf. 1773-1800 Taufen
McNamara; McRoberts; Miers; Mugg; women and 16 of their children. Includes 1778-1800 Heiraten 1774-1800 Tote 1880,
Mulvihill; Murphy; Nangle; Newton; biographical information about the 1774-1800; Leusel Taufen, Tote, Heiraten
Nicholas; Nielsen; Northrop; Openshaw; women. [GSV 364.3 VOY] 1801-1807. (Murray, Jennifer) LDS.
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Wanlo (Rheinland) Zivilstandsregister Cornish mss at Nettlecombe court in bur 1697-1762 (list of vicars 1679-1923,
[Civil register of mar & deaths for Wanlo, Somerset. Henderson, Charles G. (LDS ; briefs 1702-1713) [item 3], bapt, bur 1762-
Rheinland, Germany] 1799-1875. Contents: 232830). (Harry, M). LDS. 1812 [item 4], bapt 1813-1878 [item 5],
Heiraten [mar] 1855-1875 Tote [deaths] History of the hundred of Kerrier, pedigrees mar with banns 1768-1812 [item 6], mar Library Additions
1799-1834 [LDS 1043734]. Tote 1835-1875 and notes. Henderson, Charles G. (LDS ; 1813-1837 [item 7], bur 1813-1978 [item 8].
[LDS 1043735]. (Baker, K). LDS. 246804). Contents: Includes St Anthony- Studland bapt 1581-1585, 1599-1624, 1636-
in-Meneage, Breage, Budock, Constantine, 1749, mar 1636-1749, bur 1636-1727 [item
IRELAND
Twenty useful Irish websites for family Cury, Falmouth, Germoe, St Gluvias, 9], bapt (incl. births) 1783-1813 & one 1837
Grade, Gunwalloe alias Winnington,
[item 10], bapt 1813-1960 [items 11, 12], mar
history. Paton, Chris. (Review) [GSV Gwennap with St Day, Helston, St Keverne, 1755-1789 [item 13], mar 1789-1811, banns
929.1415 PAT]
Landewednack, Mabe, Manaccan, St 1789-1791 [item 14], mar 1813-1939 [items
Martin-in-Meneage, Mawgan-in-Meneage, 15-17], bur 1783-1937 [items 18, 19] banns
UNITED KINGDOM
Deputy Keeper of the Public records Mawnan, Mullion, Mylor, Perranarworthal, 1823-1953 [item 20]. Durweston tithe map,
Ireland: 59th Report 1961. A M N Moir: Ruan Minor, and Ruan Major, Sithney, St ca. 1837 [item 21] Church of England. (LDS;
The continuing Moir saga: a genealogical Stithians, Wendron. (Harry, M). LDS. 2427490). (Harry, M). LDS.
record of an Albany family; Jean English: History of the hundred of Powder, pedigrees Yetminster bapt, mar, bur 1677-1711 [item
The history of the English family in Bath and notes. Henderson, Charles G. (LDS; 1], bapt, mar, bur 1677-1711 (incl. Leigh and
1770-1890; John L Martin: Leary family 246803). Contents: Includes Cornelly, Chetnole) [item 2], bapt, bur 1759-1783
[notebook]; William Vickerman: William Creed, Cuby, Feock, Fowey, Gerrans, [item 3], bapt, bur 1792-1812 [item 4], bapt
Vickerman sea captain 1842-c 1910; Irving, Gorran, Grampound, Kea, Kenwyn, 1783-1793 [item 5], bapt 1810-1967 [items
J: The book of Dumbartonshire; Cullinan, Ladock, Lamorran, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel, 6-9], mar, banns 1754-1774 [item 10], mar,
Michael S: The Cullinan and Cullinane Luxulyan, Merther, Mevagissey, Philleigh, banns 1772-1783 [item 11], mar 1783-1794
family genealogy; Cohen, Pamela Brunel: Probus, Roche, Ruan-Lanihorne, St Allen, [item 12], mar, banns 1795-1812 [item 13],
The Cohen and the Levy families in England St Anthony-in-Roseland, St Austell, St mar 1813-1956 [items 14, 15] Church of
and Australia 1660-1990; Pedgley, David Blazey, St Clement, St Dennis, St Enoder, England. (LDS; 2427618). (Harry, M). LDS.
E: An index of personal names in Isle of St Erme, St Ewe, St Just-in-Roseland, St KENT
Wight probate records 1378-1600; Society Mewan, St Michael-Carhayes, St Michael- Queenborough bur 1811-1933. mar 1754-
of Friends (Ireland): Jones index, Quaker Penkevil, St Sampson, St Stephen-in- 1812; mar banns 1754-1818, mar banns
index to births, marriages & deaths in Brannel, Tregavethan, Tregony, Truro St 1844-1960. Church of England. (LDS;
Ireland’s monthly meetings ca 1606-1872; Mary, Tywardreath, Veryan. (Harry, M). 2228370). (Harry, M). LDS.
Isle of Man family history society: St Paul’s LDS.
church Foxdale, monumental inscriptions; Materials for a history of Ladock & Probus LANCASHIRE
Trivett, John E: Trivett family history [Cornwall] Henderson, Charles G. (LDS; The registers of St Saviour Ringley (1674)
1040-1998; Shercliff, W H: Poynton, a coal 254239). (Harry, M). LDS. 1719-1837. Lancashire Parish Register
mining village: social history, transport The parochial & family history of the Society. Edited by C D Rogers. (Lancashire
and industry 1700-1939. (LDS; 1559454). deanery of Trigg Minor in the county of Parish Register Society; v. 188). [GSV
(Mercer, P) LDS. Cornwall. Maclean, John. (LDS ; 90276). 929.3342 LAN LAN]
Burials in the ground of the Honble [sic] (Harry, M). LDS. LINCOLNSHIRE
East India Company at Poplar, 1825[-1855]. DEVON Yarborough deanery: bapt & bur index
Pension records 1738-1832. Maritime Devonshire notes and notelets, principally 1754-1812. Lincolnshire FHS. Barnetby
records. Bethnal Green: notices of marriage, genealogical and heraldic. Drake, William le Wold, Barrow on Humber, Barton St
1837-1878. India Offi ce. (LDS; 1786073). Richard. (LDS; 251859). Contents: Merwyn Mary, Barton St Peter, Bigby, Bonby, Bishop
(Gourley, M-A). LDS. of Marwood & appendix, Armorial bearings Norton, Brocklesby, Broughton, Cadney,
Regular Widows Fund Payments 1820- of Boteler and Drake & appendix, Cutliff e Croxton, Elsham, Goxhill, Grayingham,
1857: list of pensioners 1817-1847, list of Damage & appendix, Richard Drake of Great Limber, Hibaldstow, Horkstow,
of applicants 1835-1839, sons’ pensions Esher & appendix, Whitfield & Garland Kirmington, Kirton in Lindsey, Manton,
1820-1866, daughters’ pensions 1848-1860, of Marwood, Heath of Exeter & appendix, Melton Ross, North Kelsey, Redbourne,
accounts 1816-1833, receipts & payments Pedigree of royal descents of some Saxby All Saints, Scawby, Somerby,
1820-1825, stocks & annuities 1835-1838, Devonshire families with appendix, Hatch South Ferriby, Thornton Curtis, Ulceby,
regulations 1837 (some documents have of Wollegh, Aller & Satterleigh & appendix, Waddingham, Wootton, Worlaby by Brigg,
partial indexes) India Offi ce. Accountant Hamlyn & Hammett of Woolfardisworthy Wrawby, Wrawby chapel. () Computer 4
General’s Department. (LDS; 1866709). and Clovelly, Chichester of Youlston, Hall &
(Gourley, M-A). LDS. Arlington & appendix. (Harry, M). LDS. SUFFOLK
Archdeaconry of Suffolk Bishop’s transcripts
ENGLAND DORSET 1813. Church of England. (LDS ; 952318).
CORNWALL Church-Knowle bapt 1547-1738; mar 1560- (Ross, D). LDS.
Calendars of Cornish mss. Henderson, 1737, bur 1558-1712, 1734 [item 1], bapt Archdeaconry of Suffolk Bishop’s transcripts
Charles G. (LDS; 231933); v. 13 Mitchell 1739-1784. mar 1739-1752; bur 1739-1785 1821. Church of England. (LDS; 918506).
court rolls v. 14 Collins misc. collection v. [item 2], bapt, bur 1785-1812 [item 3], bapt (Ross, D). LDS.
15 Rentals and survey of manors v. 16 St. 1813-1961 [items 4, 5], bapt 1898-1900 SURREY
Aubyn Clowance estates; (LDS; 231935) v. [item 6], mar 1755-1837 [items 7-9], bur in Surrey burials index. West Surrey FHS.
19 Trelawne and Menabilly deeds; (LDS; woollen 1678-1748, 1781-1783 [item 10], bur Indexed by Alan Benny. 2nd ed.: 575,500
231937) v. 24 Catalogue of ancient deeds & 1813-1917 [item 11], bur 1898-1901 [item 12], burials in non-metropolitan Surrey, 1538-
papers Port Eliot, St. Germans v. 25 Misc. banns 1823-1892 [item 13] 2005. For precise dates see GSV Library
v. 26 Misc. deeds v. 27 Trebartha Hall - Compton-Abbas bapt 1640-1644, 1651-1723, Catalogue. Abinger, Addington, Addlestone,
Launceston; (LDS 231939) v. 31 Data for mar 1640-1641, 1654, 1660-1723; bur 1640- Albury, Alfold, Ash, Ashford(Ex-
history of church & priory St. Germans, 1644, 1659-1682, 1686-1723 [item 14], bapt, Middlesex), Ashtead, Bagshot, Banstead,
etc. v. 32 Cartulary Launceston priory v. 33 bur 1724-1812; mar 1726-1752 [item 15], Barnes, Beddington, Betchworth, Bisley,
Misc. v. 34 Launceston borough archives; bapt 1813-1870 [item 16], mar 1754-1788 Bletchingley, Blindley Heath, Botley
(LDS 231940); v. 37 Trans. Black Princes [item 17] mar 1788-1812, banns 1788- & Lyne, Bramley, Brixton Hill Union
council book v. 43 Free holders in Cornwall, 1814 [item 18] Church of England. (LDS; Chapel, Buckland, Burpham, Burstow,
1450, v. 65 Notes from deeds & papers, 2427490). (Harry, M). LDS. Byfleet, Camberley, Capel, Carshalton,
Trewarthenick, data on Henderson family. Worth-Matravers bapt, mar, bur 1584-1696 Caterham, Chaldon, Charlwood Union
(Harry, M). LDS. [item 1] another filming [item 2], bapt, mar,
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Library Additions Chapel, Charlwood, Cheam, Chelsham, Guildford St Mary, Guildford St Nicolas, Thames, Wanborough, Warlingham, West
Chertsey, Chertsey Dissenters, Chertsey
Clandon, Westcott, Westend, West Horsley,
Hale, Ham, Hambledon, Hascombe,
Haslemere Independent Chapel,
West Molesey, Weybridge, Weybridge R.C.,
Presbyterian, Chessington, Chiddingfold,
Haslemere Independent Meeting House
Chipstead, Chobham Baptist Church,
Whyteleafe, Wimbledon, Windlesham,
Chobham, Claygate, Cobham, Cobham
St John, Woldingham, Wonersh,
Hersham, North Holmwood, Hook, Horley,
Independent Chapel, Coldharbour,
Compton, Coulsdon, Cranleigh, Crowhurst,
Horne, Horsell, Kew, Kingston Heather
Woodmansterne, Worplesdon, Wotton,
Wrecclesham, Wyke, Tooting Independent
Croydon All Saints, Croydon Christ Deaths, Haslemere, Hatchford, Headley, Wisley, Witley, Woking St Peter, Woking
Street Chapel, Kingston Particular
Church, Croydon (St John The Baptist), Baptist Chapel, Kingston, Kingswood, Chapel, Wandsworth Independent Chapel
Croydon Queens Road Cemetery, Croydon Leatherhead Leigh, Limpsfi eld, Lingfi eld, & Bridge Fields Chapel. () Computer 4
George Street Chapel, Croydon St Little Bookham, Littleton (Ex Middlesex),
James, Croydon North End Methodist, Longcross, Long Ditton, Malden, Merrow, YORKSHIRE
Croydon Northend Wesley, Croydon Merstham, Merton, Mickleham, Milfor, Grinton Bishop’s transcripts: bapt, mar, bur
St Peter, Dorking, Dorking Municipal Mitcham Independent Chapel, Mitcham, 1674-1675, 1689, 1723-1724, 1727-1730,
Cemetery, Dorking Workhouse Deaths, Morden, Mortlake Independent Chapel, 1687, 1689, 1692-1693, 1697-1719, 1721,
Dorking, West Street Chapel, Lingfi eld Mortlake, Newdigate, Norwood (Lower) 1726, 1736, 1730, 1732, 1734, 1737-1739,
Dormansland Baptist Chapel, Dunsfold, Independent Chapel, Nutfi eld, Ockham, 1769-1788, 1790-1798, 1824. Church of
East Clandon, East Horsley, East Molesey, Ockley, Oakwood, Oxted, Peperharow, England. (LDS; 207534). (Beattie, M). LDS.
Effingham Surrey, Egham, Elstead, Epsom Petersham, Pirbright, Puttenham, SCOTLAND
St. Martin, Epsom Workhouse Deaths, Pyrford, Quaker, Ranmore, Redhill The history of Rutherglen and East Kilbride:
Epsom Church St Chapel, Epsom Little Philanthropic Chapel, Redhill (Reigate), published with a view to promote the study
Chapel, Esher, Ewell, Ewhurst, Farleigh, Reigate, Reigate Workhouse, Richmond, of antiquity & natural history [item 1]. The
Farncombe, Farnham Ebenezer Chapel, Roehampton, Ripley, Sanderstead, Seale, civil & ecclesiastical history of Scotland AD
Farnham St Andrew, Fetcham, Frensham, Send, Shackleford, Shalford, Shere, Shirley, 53-818 [item 2]. Inscriptions on pre 1835
Frimley, Gatton, Godalming Harts Lane Shottermill, St Martha, St Thomas on headstones at Guthrie parish burial ground,
Chapel, Godalming Independent Chapel, The Bourne, Staines (Ex Middlesex) Angus [item 3]. Monumental inscriptions
Godalming, Godalming Eashing Municipal, Workhouse, Stoke D’abernon, Stoke Next Snow churchyard, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen
Godalming Municipal Cemetery at Guildford, Sutton, Tandridge, Tatsfi eld, 1718-1902 [item 4] David Ure; Thomas
Nightingale Road, Godstone, Grafh am, Thames Ditton, Thorpe St Mary, Thursley, Innes; Archibald Strath Maxwell. (LDS;
Great Bookham, Guildford Independent Tilford, Titsey, Upper Norwood, Virginia 924703). (Harry, M). LDS.
Chapel Deaths, Guildford Holy Trinity, Water, Walton on The Hill, Walton on
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Enhance Stories with Oral History
All of us have been told stories at family More information is available on the Arts Law
gatherings or by our parents or grandparents over Centre Australia website.
the years but how many incorporate them into our
stories? Technology today enables us to record The Interview
family stories for future generations and to jog For a successful interview you should be well
our own memories. Not being particularly savvy prepared. You need to have a structure, a purpose
with technology, it was with trepidation that I and time frame for your interview. This will help
By Jenny Scammell, based started the unit called Oral History as part of the to make your interviewee feel comfortable and
on her presentation at the Diploma of Family History at the University of enable you to obtain the outcome you want. At
GSV Writers Circle on 6 Tasmania. It proved to be a very enjoyable, quite the start of an interview, state your name, the
September 2017. Jenny straightforward exercise that opened my eyes to
can be contacted via: date, the location, the name of the person being
[email protected] another facet of writing family history. interviewed and the reason for the interview.
Always ask them if they consent to the interview.
What is Oral History? In order for the interview to flow smoothly always
Oral History refers to the knowledge, data prepare a list of questions and if you think it will
and historical information that is gathered by help, give this to the person beforehand. However,
direct verbal communication with others, most be prepared for deviations and consider the other
effectively in a structured interview. It is reliant person's emotions. Stop the interview if required.
on the ability of the interviewer to communicate Always focus on the person, not your equipment.
well and have a good rapport with the person Don’t try to rush them, embrace the silences while
being interviewed. Inconsistencies will often they think about the question.
occur depending on family dynamics and the
person's memory. It helps to concentrate on Asking the Questions
personal memories, experiences and emotions In these interviews it is important to get your
which can later be added to with actual facts. interviewee remembering and talking freely and
to do this they need to be at ease and asked the
Technical Considerations right type of questions. Small talk is a way to put
My advice if you are just starting out, is to people at ease. Ask questions about the present
keep it as simple as possible and use recording day so they don’t feel you are just there to extract
methods you are familiar with if you can. Ehow information. Building a rapport makes for a more
and Youtube are great sites for instructional and relaxed interview.
technical information. Most smartphones have
recording capabilities or a voice recorder can be Ask open-ended questions like 'How, why or what
purchased. I used my iphone to record interviews do you think about…?' Try to avoid giving potential
and that proved easy and worked well. For answers and where appropriate ask about sounds
transcribing your interview, there is transcription and smells. Transition your questions, don’t
software available both free and for a small fee, or change the topic abruptly and listen carefully to
you can do as I did, transcribe the old fashioned the answers so you don’t ask a question already
way! You may also wish to edit your interview answered. Both can lead the person to become
and Audacity software is useful, free software for disengaged. It is always nice to have a photo of
audio editing. It was a task I managed to avoid. your interviewee and perhaps of any objects you
may have talked about in the interview. Again
Copyright with consent.
Any interview you conduct is owned by the person
interviewed and you must obtain a release from Writing the Story
them. An information sheet should be provided Your interview will more than likely produce
to them advising how you intend to use the many stories for you to write about, as mine did.
interview, so that they can give informed consent. It is helpful to look elsewhere to find context and
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Getting it write
flesh out your story, but always remember to keep It caused the closure of schools, mostly Primary
your interviewee’s voice dominant. One of the ones, but that only happened when an outbreak
topics that my interviewee, Sheila Scammell of polio was reported. There was a belief that
talked about was her memories of the outbreak infantile paralysis, as the name suggested,
of polio in Yarra Junction when she was a child. only affected young children. Children were
Below is the story I wrote from my interview. in the majority, but it did affect all ages. From
newspapers of the time, it appears the epidemic
My Story - The Day School Closed began in Melbourne suburbs before spreading to
‘We had a polio epidemic and the school was the country areas. A report from Dr. Murdoch,
closed for three months.’ This was one of Sheila who was both the Yarra Junction Doctor and
Scammell’s recollections from her days growing Shire Health Officer, showed the epidemic fi rst hit
up in Yarra Junction. the Upper Yarra area in early November around
Cup time and was widely scattered. The Yarra
In the late 1930s, Victoria had an epidemic of Junction State School, where Sheila and her
polio, referred to then as infantile paralysis. siblings attended, was closed. Sheila remembered:
Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital
(later known as Fairfield Hospital) struggled to The teacher would ride around on this beautiful
cope with the increased influx of patients. At its horse, to all the houses, and put schoolwork in the
onset, the hospital had only one iron lung, but letterbox for us to do. Every morning when we
by the epidemic’s peak, 30 iron lungs were being got up we had breakfast and we would then have
used, some even time-shared! In the twelve to go and do our schoolwork and stay there until
months from July 1937, of the 1,275 patients the pages had all been done. We had a very large
admitted to the hospital, 77 died and many were bathroom opposite the kitchen and Mum had
set up a table in there for us to do our homework.
disabled for life.
Then, this was put in the letterbox for the teacher
to collect the next day and he would leave another
Alicia May Murdoch, aged 8, was one of these, lot of work for us. You can imagine, six of us, having
admitted on 15 December 1937. She was the homework all day and Mum supervising us. No
daughter of the local doctor at Yarra Junction way would we go out until it was done to Mum’s
and had been sick for five days. She was one of satisfaction!
the luckier patients, discharged after thirty days,
cured. Although, Sheila said this about her school Luckily none of Sheila’s family contracted polio,
friend:
but as a nine-year-old, memories of three months
Alicia, when she came home from hospital was off school and her friend, Alicia, being aff ected
paralysed. She had a bed in the enclosed verandah stayed with her for life.
at the front of her home, which was in the main
street of Yarra Junction. We used to call in after As with any digital data make sure you make
school and see her on our way home, as Alicia was a backup of your interview and although there
the same age as me. is nothing like hearing the recorded voice, a
transcription is also a valuable backup. It will
This epidemic spread fear everywhere. When then be available for future generations and your
news of Alicia’s case broke, the local newspaper own further reference. Oral history provides
ran an article with the heading ‘Paralysis at Yarra another way to bring your family history writing
Junction’ and finished with a stern warning alive and add more context to your story.
that precautions should be followed, as ‘country
children are more susceptible to attack than city References
children.’ The precautions were, to put children to • Anderson, W.K. ‘Fairfi eld Infectious
bed for a week at the slightest sign of illness and Diseases Hospital’ [entry], e-Melbourne
keep children at home. The fear of catching polio - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online.
kept people in isolation as Sheila recalls: http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/
EM00545b.htm accessed 4 December 2016.
Dr. Murdoch was the doctor in Yarra Junction for
many years. His daughter, Alicia, got polio, so then • Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian.
we had no doctor. Dad rang the doctor in Warburton • Patient records, Queen’s Memorial Infectious
and asked him to come down once a week. They got Diseases Hospital, Genealogical Society of
two rooms in the hotel opposite us, Paul’s Hotel, Victoria, Melbourne.
and that’s where the doctor came once a week to • Scammell, Sheila, interview by author,
see anybody that wanted to be seen. He didn’t do digital recording, Glen Waverley, Victoria, 20
much good, because, no one wanted to go out and November 2016 in author’s possession
see a doctor of any sort in those days, as they were
frightened of the polio.
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Research Corner Michael Sturmfels
Shepherds, shearers, housemaids and rabbiters
Was one of your ancestors a pastoral worker in the 19th century?
Image 1: Larra homestead, from M.A. thesis
In the 1990s I undertook research into pastoral histories of the period, such as Margaret Kiddle’s
workers in the Western District of Victoria for Men of Yesterday, which focused on the large
an M.A. thesis at La Trobe University which landowners and their families, and ignored the
has recently been added to the GSV library. At extensive economic and social contribution of
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the time of the research I compiled a database the working people on their estates. I wanted to
of information on around 2000 pastoral trace their lives and tell their stories, something
workers such as domestic servants, of a challenge in those pre-internet and Ancestry
Michael can be contacted at station workers, itinerant workers and days, as little was known about most pastoral
[email protected] contractors. This information was workers other than some brief entries in a station
originally on index cards and it has only account books. In order to maximise the chances
been in the last few months that I have found of finding multiple sources of information for any
time to transfer it into an Excel spread sheet one individual, I decided to restrict my research
which could be useful to genealogical researchers, to a specific period (1860-1880), and a particular
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and which is now also available at the GSV. All geographical area (the Mt Elephant district of
references made in this article can be found in Western Victoria). I began with as many fi nancial
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this database. and other estate records as I could find, many of
which were still in private hands, then examined
My academic research developed from a all relevant newspapers as well as a range of
frustration I found with standard pastoral other sources such as inquests, court cases,
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Image 2: Stone wall, Mt Fyans, author’s photo
hospital in-patient records, electoral lists and One long-term employee was Robert Marshall.
bankruptcies. Something you can now do at the He arrived in Victoria in 1852 from Scotland on
click of a mouse! the Marco Polo as an assisted immigrant with his
family and was immediately engaged to work as a
My hope was this cross-referencing would shepherd on Larra station near Derrinallum, with
help me to fill in the gaps in the lives of these his wife Margaret doing the laundry. He wrote a
otherwise anonymous people as they moved letter home soon after his arrival describing the
between employment, had families and changed voyage out and the good pay and conditions he
residence. I found a much more complex world found here. Marshall worked at Larra for many
than that which had been previously portrayed. decades, except for a brief period when he left the
Overall there was a great turnover in station station and leased a farm on the Moorabool River
workforces, particularly amongst household and near Geelong. Unfortunately, he was forced to fi le
itinerant workers: for example, Tandarook had 24 for bankruptcy in 1865, arrears £3, because his
house cooks over sixteen years. Court cases give crops failed and his cows died. He went back to
a vivid insight into the power imbalance between Larra and the station accounts between 1876 and
employer and employee: a housemaid at Hopkins 1880 show him being employed as a shepherd,
Hill homestead, Mary Burke, broke the plate glass rabbit trapper and stone waller, and he also
windows of the mansion in 1865 ‘because Mr appears on an electoral list as living at Larra. He
Moffatt promised to marry me and did not keep is mentioned in a letter of appreciation written by
his word [and] he also administered poison to me his original employer and still owner of Larra, J.L.
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which destroyed my child’. The magistrate was Currie, to his long-term employees in 1894. After
sympathetic to her case but gave her a week in jail. retiring from active work, Marshall lived out
the rest of life in a cottage on the estate, dying in
Most employees left little documentary evidence 1909 aged 91. His brother James and children also
other than the brief record of their employment. worked on the estate, his daughter Rose, baptised
But others lived and worked for an extended on the ship on the way out, as a housemaid.
period on the same estate, and it was possible
to assemble more evidence about their lives, Some workers were paid as contractors, such as
particularly if they were an overseer or manager fencers, stone wallers and drainers, having drawn
or a highly-regarded long-term employee. It was up a contract for the work to be undertaken and
not uncommon for a number of members of the its completion date. This work was better paid
one family to be employed on an estate, such as because it required specialist skills and tools,
the McColl, Condie, Geddes, Marshall, Lillico and many contractors were able to purchase
and Laird families, the women working in the their own land and become successful small
house as cooks and housemaids, and the men as farmers. Shearers were paid per 100 sheep shorn
shepherds and boundary riders. and might earn up to £25 for three weeks work
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Research Corner
Image 3: Ballarat Hospital In-patient ticket, M.A. thesis
on each estate (the average annual wage for a the stock troughs were not filled. The monotony of
shepherd or boundary rider was around £50 and life was sometimes broken by a trip to the pub or
for a housemaid £25 or £30). At shearing time, a visit from a hawker bringing round goods to sell.
collections were taken up for charitable institutions The account books at Bolac Plains record a number
such as Geelong Hospital, and lists published in of payments to Simon Kozminsky whose family
newspapers show that workers were generous with began the famous jewellery store in Melbourne
their donations, usually giving half a week’s pay. which closed only recently.
Some of these employees were themselves later
admitted to the hospital for treatment, often on the For those wishing to look at the database, it is
recommendation of their employer. One such was organised by surname, with further fields for given
Henry Vagg, kicked in the knee by a horse while name, place (station where employed), employment
carting wool for Gala station in 1871. type, information known (including sources) and
my comments. A worker may have multiple records
Employees often began working at a young age, if they worked on different estates. The bulk of the
helping in the wool shed or round the house, and material is financial, as this was the starting point
soon progressed to adult work. An Aboriginal stock- for my research.
rider, Prince Albert, who died of tuberculosis at
Meningoort in 1863 was aged only 16. The life was Please note: the database includes all the
often arduous and lonely, especially for shepherds information that was available to me at the time of
and boundary riders living at outstations on large the research. It has not been updated in the light
estates. The inquest into the death of boundary of the mass of material and search tools which
rider Donald McPhail at Mt Noorat in 1875 heard have become available since the development of
that he only visited the home station once a week in the internet, as this would have become a never-
order to collect rations. His fellow boundary rider ending task. However, I am happy to receive
saw him once every two or three days and did not correspondence about the information which has
realise he had met with an accident until he noticed been collected.
References
1. What Kiddle forgot: a social history of the Mount Elephant district of western Victoria, 1860-1880, M.A.
thesis, La Trobe University, 1996. Electronic copy at GSV.
2. Workers of the Mt Elephant District, 1860-1880, Excel database, GSV.
3. Including towns such as Camperdown, Cobden, Terang, Mortlake, Derrinallum, Lismore and Skipton.
Pastoral estates covered include Larra, Purrumbete, Titanga, Glenormiston, Tandarook, Jancourt,
Merrang, Bolac Plains, Keilambete, Gala, Stony Point (see list in database).
4. This quote comes from the deposition in Mortlake Court, it was not published in the newspaper
report.
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New Discussion Circles
Our Discussions Circles are proving to be very popular as they provide both background information Discussion Circles
to help with our research and advice about relevant sources that we can consult. In addition, these
meetings enable members to share their research experiences and knowledge with others in the
Discussion Circle. All GSV members are welcome to join. Details can be found on our website.
Do you have London Ancestors?
by Vicki Montgomery FGSV
With 2,000 years of history, London is likely
to figure in the family history of many people.
As the largest city in the United Kingdom, it’s
grown rapidly in the last millennium from a
population of around 15,000 to nearly 9,000,000
today. Prior to 1965, what we now call Greater
London included the City of London (which
contained 109 parishes in its ‘square mile’), the
City of Westminster, the county of Middlesex and
parts of the counties of Surrey, Kent, Essex and
Hertfordshire.
i
in the military, the government or as part of the
p
prosperous business community.
The extensive records maintained by the East
T
I India Company, the India Office and the British
government are held by the British Library.
The GSV is planning to start a London Discussion
Previously the records were only accessible to the
Circle with an introductory talk by Vicki
family historian by a personal visit to London. It
Montgomery on 22 March at 12pm. Subsequent
is now possible to gather information through the
monthly meetings, commencing on Thursday 26
several websites containing collections pertinent
April, will include presentations and discussion
to (family) history in India. Websites with
on more in-depth topics related to London such as
collections include FamilySearch, fi ndmypast and
Maps and Gazetteers, Civil Registration (Births
Ancestry. The information will be in the form of
Deaths and Marriages), Church Records, Probate,
digitised original records or transcripts from the
Census, Taxes, Land records, Migration, Military,
India Office Collections. Families in British India
Criminals, Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts,
Society (FIBIS), an online society based in the UK
Poor Laws, School records, Newspapers, Guilds
with a philosophy of self-help, will also provide the
and Freemen, Apprentices, local occupations,
family historian with advice, information and a
Electoral Rolls, Archives and other Repositories,
range of transcribed records. The FIBIS database,
Family History Societies, and digital sources on
library, gallery and wiki are free to search.
various websites and blogs.
With the range of information now available, the
British India, a place to look for that GSV has established the British India Discussion
misplaced Ancestor Circle with the aim to encourage, foster and
by Mary-Anne Gourley, GSV Member and FIBIS
discuss GSV members’ interests and research on
representative in Australia
the sub-continent. As with other groups there will
Hit a brick wall and wondering where was that
be a monthly meeting commencing on Tuesday 17
ancestor? Have you considered looking for April at 12pm in the GSV Meeting Room.
them in India amongst the records of the India
Office Collection held by the British Library in Images: Houses of Parliament from the London Eye
London? From the 17th to the 20th century over courtesy of Barbara Beaumont, and Dudley Gourley on
3,000,000 Britons served in India and South Asia elephant c1927, by kind permission of Colin Gourley.
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Jottings Jottings... and library news Linley Hooper, FGSV
The New Zealand Genealogical Society is celebrating 50 I highly recommend Avotaynu: the international review
years with an interesting issue of their magazine looking of Jewish genealogy for anyone searching for European
back over that time and comparing it with the future, ancestors. Although its focus is on Jewish ancestry it has
including an article by noted USA genealogist Joshua Taylor great articles on various archival sources and excellent
who calls it the ‘Shaky leaf and swab generation’. But most articles on understanding DNA results. Like almost all the
enjoyable is a reprint of Anthony Camp’s 2013 lecture on journals we receive it is indexed in our library catalogue
the history of English genealogy. See the August 2017 issue by family names, places and topics e.g. Latvia or Genetic
of The New Zealand Genealogist 48:367. The December genealogy (which may not come readily to mind, but the
2017 issue contains two interesting articles on NZ census word DNA will appear is most titles anyway).
records: ‘The Empire Census: NZ’s first national census in
1851’ by Donald Hansen with a ‘Table of surviving nominal Herefordiensis 13:7 (Oct 2017) includes a good article on
census records’ and ‘Auckland Police census 1842-1846’ by ‘The new GRO index’ showing the changes to the online civil
Keith Giles. BDM indexes for England and Wales and an excellent clear
article on ‘Chancery Court records’.
Descent 47:2 (Jun 2017) has an article on the wreck
of the Dunbar with details on some of the survivors in Please keep checking our library catalogue for articles on
‘Remembering the Dunbar’ by Ralph Hawkins along with your family names and places. I can’t possibly mention
‘Cheering the intelligence of the state of the Factory’. The all the useful items I read about here. Unfortunately the
latter is on the management of the Parramatta Female indexing of our periodicals has fallen behind as we have been
Factory by Mr and Mrs Bell from August 1836. There are concentrating on the move and our scanning projects.
also some tips on using the Ryerson Index to death notices
and obituaries in Australian newspapers. So we are looking for more indexing help to get this
material out to our members. Indexing of the scanned
In Doncaster Ancestor 27:2 (Summer 2017) ‘Finding Uncle material is fairly straightforward as we have many specifi c
Harold’ shows a different view of recruiting and records fields, plus a comment field for anything left-over, but the
for WW1. Also in this issue ‘In search of my ancestor’s indexing of journals does require a basic understanding of
occupation’ warns about taking stated occupations too established subject headings and is therefore not so easy
seriously and discusses beer sellers and their licensing. to do from home (but not impossible!). We do like to keep
‘Twelve guinea behaviour: memories of a 1960s family our exchange journals on the premises in case members
wedding’ is an amusing tale for those of us old enough to wish to peruse them before they are indexed, but many
remember them. may have your own copies of various magazines and may
be able to provide indexes. Please talk to Linley or Meg
The Highland FHS 35:3 (May 2017) has an interesting ([email protected]) if you are interested. Our
article on ‘Scottish settlement in Prince Edward Island focus always is on names and places, but quality articles
and Nova Scotia 1790 to 1815’. If you have trouble fi nding on using various resources are equally important. If a few
your ancestral hamlet despite using ScotlandsPlaces members put up their hands, we will arrange a meeting to
website, you will find tips in ‘The story of rural cottages – discuss procedures, etc.
Foxmoss, Cawdor’ and of particular interest if you’ve lost a
McPherson, Sinclair or McKenzie. Another useful article ‘Heir hunting – the real deal’ by Kirsty Grey in The Midland
is the ‘Roll of Caithness militia men in 1825’ which lists Ancestor 18:11 (Sep 2017), tells how unclaimed assets of
those balloted to serve or serving as a substitute for another. deceased estates really works. You may be struggling to fi nd
the origins of your convict ancestors but this same issue
The Scottish Genealogist 64:2 (Jun 2017) off ers ‘The tells the story of the Westbury family who had two family
perplexing genealogy of St John Ogilvie: Catholic families in members sent to Van Diemen's Land.
Scotland’. The September issue (64:3) has defi nitive articles
on ‘The Family Murray of Ochtertyre, Perthshire’ by Bruce So, just like regular checking of Ancestry, fi ndmypast,
Bishop and ‘The fi rst Berkeleys in Scotland’ by T G Barclay. TheGenealogist, etc, you need to keep checking our library
Other articles are on ‘Charles Blair 1760-1829, George Hay catalogue – somebody may have written about the missing
Forbes and Mary Stuart Huntly (Senora Spencer) 1871- side of your family history and there’s no guarantee that it
1940 who with her husband was a pioneer of cinemas in will be in the journal you expect it to be.
Australia.
For example, ‘A Conundrum of Kings’ in Suffolk Roots
The Scrivener 160 (Sep 2017) contains the interesting 43:3 (Dec 2.017) sorts out ‘The Bugg and King families
family-story of author Catherine Cookson, from her birth in of Wynyard, Tasmania’. This issue also features ‘Convict
abject poverty to multi-millionaire philanthropist. George Sturgeon (1793-1868) and his two sons’.
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Blogging
Blogging with Meg
Meg Bate
Family history and the Statistical Accounts Remembering Passchendaele – 100 years on by Michael
by Jane Harris Wheeler on the State Library of Victoria blog
http://statacc.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2017/11/22/family- https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/remembering-
history-and-the-statistical-accounts-2 passchendaele-100-years-on
Jane is a professional genealogist who specializes in A brief summary of this horror battle is given and the blog
Scottish genealogy and regularly uses this resource for is illustrated using Frank Hurley’s photos. This battle is
background and also for specific information on churches, personally significant as my great uncle, a Lieutenant died
migration, occupations and more. Here she steps through here. Also mentioned is the resource, available in the State
various examples of the valuable information that can be Library of Victoria, that assists in the interpretations and
found in the Statistical Accounts. history of the battle.
Scotland: General register of lunatics in asylum Doing a Genealogy Research Project from Start to
by John Reid Finish by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.
http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com. http://familylocket.com/doing-a-genealogy-research-
au/2017/12/scotland-general-register-of-lunatics.html project-from-start-to-finish
John alerts us to the index to 14 volumes of the General Nicole and Dianne Elder have just completed a genealogy
Register of Lunatics in Asylum from 1858-1915. It lists research project, From the beginning to end? From objective
every patient admitted to an asylum in Scotland during this to report? Here Nicole shares what was learnt. She proceeds
period. To compliment this blog it is worth looking at the through the various stages of research from objective and
An old Scottish blog by the Old Scottish Genealogy & Family analysis, research planning, research log, and citations
History In and out of the Asylum where it demonstrated how to writing. A research project template is available to
the record of a Janet Mellis Mather is used. download
DNA … Again! by Wayne Shepheard Trove – Eight Years of Incredible Discoveries
http://discovergenealogy.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/ by Alona Tester
dnaagain.html https://www.lonetester.com/2017/12/trove-eight-
years-of-incredible-discoveries
A review of the National Geographic’s livingdna website or
One Family One World project. Will a world-wide tree be Alona looks back over the 8 years since the introduction
possible? of the Trove website changed the way we access historical
and genealogical research in Australia. Trove has provided
Parish Chest Records and Parish Baptism Registers us with over half a billion records. Check out the videos on
by Linda Elliott are part of the Geneaology Building Block What is Trove? And How to use Trove an overview. Do you
Series at Mad about Geneaology know know what a Troveite is?
http://www.madaboutgenealogy.com/genealogy-
building-block-series
https://madaboutgenealogy.com/parish-chest-records-
genealogy
https://www.madaboutgenealogy.com/parish-baptism-
registers
If you are new to genealogy then explore and enjoy Linda’s
introduction to these and other records on the Mad about
Genealogy site. Do you know about the Rose’s act?
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Around the Groups Around the Groups GSV Writers Circle
IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP
Next Meeting : Saturday 12 May 2018 Meetings : First Wednesday each month,
(except January)
GSV Research & Education Centre
12.30 till 1.30pm – GSV Research & Education Centre
7 March
1 .00pm — Discussion topic: Co. Cork
Discussion: The minutiae of past lives
2.00pm — Speaker: Beryl O’Gorman
2.00 – 3.30pm Talk by Irene Graham
Local writing Local history -
(The Creative Writer’s Workshop)
Finding answers in the written word
Writing Memoir and Family History
Visitors welcome 4 April
Have your mobile phone with you to access the Review of Members’ submissions
building (9662 4455)
2 May
Discussion: What constitutes a great
General meetings held on second Saturday of February, introduction and conclusion
May, August and November in GSV meeting room. 6 June
Yearly subscription due on 1 Sept each year is $11.00. Review of Members’ submissions
Newsletter Blarney published quarterly.
Beginners’ Kits and Griffiths Valuation Kits available All members of the GSV are welcome
at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact See pages 30–31 for the GSV Writers Circle
[email protected] quarterly column
Scottish Ancestry Group
International Settlers Group
(non-British research)
Quarterly meeting
Saturday 17 March 2018
Guest speaker: Alex Glennie
Meeting: Saturday, 19 May 2018, 1pm Scottish Censuses and Other Easily Accessible
Chris Elmore, The Changing Borders of but Hidden Sources
Europe and Why They are Important for
Genealogical Research
Meeting Room, GSV Research & Education Centre Quarterly Meetings
1.00pm to 3.00pm
GSV Research & Education Centre
Enquiries: ¢www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag
Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov)
1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the
quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct.
Enquiries & membership form:
J Yvonne Izatt 03 9899 8136 Ç [email protected]
¢ www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/isg
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Reviews by Margaret Vines, Bill Barlow, Alan Fincher, Sue Blackwood
1 2 3
1. Seymour’s Wooden Wonder and other stories 3. Unlock the Past Handy Guides
Author: John G Jennings ISBN 978 0 9751658 1 2 A new series. All Pub: St Agnes SA 2017 as A4 foldout cards 4pp.
Pub: Seymour and District Historical Society Inc. 2010. 146pp In GSV library. Also available as ebooks
Available at GSV library or for purchase from Seymour and District Births, marriages and deaths in Australia
Historical Society. Author : Kerry Farmer ISBN: 9781925323894
Seymour’s Wooden Wonder is the 1892-3 Goulburn Bridge. The Kerry Farmer’s four page publication on births, marriages and
book aims to raise funds to restore it, to become part of an extended deaths in Australia is a good reference for researchers as it details
Historical Walk and a future cycling link between Seymour and the information likely to be on certificates by state and time
Puckapunyal. The project is still at an early stage: in 2017-8 only periods, and refers to the privacy limitations in accessing by state.
works to stabilise the structure are planned. Content is important as early certificates in some states have much
Beginning with the Wooden Wonder Bridge, which is the current less information than certificates from others, and it is nice to
structure on the original river crossing to the Beechworth know what you are getting before purchase. The publication also
goldfields, the book explores a wide selection of topics, in 62 provides by state what to expect from early church records before
short chapters. These range from the 19th century rowing club, civil registration, information on births and deaths at sea, and how
to the Court House, the Log Lockup, the early fl oods, schools, to access civil registration data, including transcriptions – the list
the Aborigines, parks, hotels and breweries, even the Bill’s water of relevant websites is most useful.
trough, as well as outstanding local events, like the ‘Sensational Australian certificates can provide wonderful research
Railway Smash’ of 1904. Some first-hand accounts of the town in information, sometimes better than expected – such as the
various years, like the surprise appearance of American soldiers in amount of information on the parents of the first generation born
1942, bring both the town and the times to life. in Australia, and the length of time a deceased person had been in
The topics are in no particular order so Lord Kitchener’s 1910 visit Australia or individual states (useful for researching passenger
comes after recollections from the year 1965. All the selections records).AF
are brief and to the point, making the book easy to dip into. Since
there are a large number of people and families referred to, family Civil registration - births, marriages and deaths in
historians will be grateful for the index which includes surnames. Britain and Ireland
MV Author: Chris Paton ISBN/ISSN: 9781925323870
Chris Paton in his publication on civil registration in Britain
2. County Clare, Axedale & Beyond: An Irish Clan Downunder
and Ireland packs a lot of important information into its four
Authors: John Collard & Tony O’Grady 283pp pages. In addition to helpful backgrounds on civil registration,
Pub: Ozsmart, ACT, 2014 commencement dates (including those in the Isle of Man and
This history was compiled and written by two third cousins the Channel Islands), and information recorded in certifi cates
who met via the internet and then combined their research. The by country, its section on sourcing the records is very useful.
story traces the everyday lives of the five children of the family Unfortunately the certificates do not contain the level of
of Anthony McGrath (1785–1865) and Ellen (McNamara) of information available from Australian certificates, so you need to
Ballytarsna, Co. Clare, Ireland. The siblings emigrated to Australia assess whether the information you get is worth the expenditure
between 1852 and 1858 and established farms with their partners (particularly for English and Irish death certifi cates).
in the Axedale district, east of Bendigo. Two sisters married The information on phased releases of free birth, marriage and
County Clare men (John McNamara and William Doherty) and death records from Ireland will be welcomed by researchers.AF
the third sister married Michael O’Grady. This book covers the
descendants of the McGrath, McNamara, Doherty and O’Grady Twenty useful Irish websites for family history
families in Axedale, during WW1 and post WW2 as they expanded Author: Chris Paton ISBN/ISSN: 9781925323870
and dispersed throughout Australia. The book covers seven
generations, extending to a thematic description of the ‘millennial’ This Guide emphasises the many Irish records that have survived
members (born 1985–2014) of Patrick McGrath’s family up to the destruction. The websites include ‘vital records’ held by the
present. Although the family did not leave diaries and journals, the General Register Office, the National Library of Ireland, the Irish
writers have taken pains to tell the family’s otherwise silent story government and historical foundations.
against the context of Australian and Irish events. In particular There are also ‘land records’, ‘military records’, and ‘migration
they reflect on the influence of their Irish Catholic heritage. records’ as well as archives of ordinance maps, nineteenth century
street directories, and cemetery records.SB
The text includes twelve tables showing the children of the various
families, and many black and white photos. Sadly the location maps
are of low quality and the few images of primary source material DNA for genealogy
(headstone, marriage certificate and passenger list) are unreadable. Author: Farmer, Kerry ISBN/ISSN: 9781925323818
As this record traces the numerous family descendants through This guide begins with an explanation of the four diff erent DNA
160 years it is unfortunate that there is no name index. Apart from tests, and goes on to list the areas where DNA can be a useful tool.
providing a rich compendium of information for the family, the The websites of nine commercial DNA testing companies are
book succeeds well in showing the parts played by ‘ordinary’ people listed. The last page has an essential glossary.SB
in the changing fortunes of that local farming district in the late
19th and early 20th centuries.BB
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Member Societies What’s On at our Me mber Societies
Sunbury Family History Society Inc
The Scots are Coming to Leongatha
The Sunbury Family History Society, founded in 1984,
The South Gippsland Genealogical Society
provides members and the wider community with
in conjunction with Scottish Ancestry Group of
facilities and records to assist with genealogy and
the Genealogical Society of Victoria are pleased to
present
Monthly meetings are held at 8pm on the third
The Scottish Roadshow 2018
Wednesday, from February to November, at the Senior
Citizens Centre, 8 O’Shanassy Street Sunbury. At
When: Saturday 23 June 2018 family history research.
Time: 9.30am for 10.00am start meetings, members and guests are invited to give
Where: Uniting Church Hall, Peart St, Leongatha 3953 presentations on genealogy and related issues and to
invite further discussion.
Topics:
1: Beginning Scottish Family History The newsletter, TraceBack, contains articles of local
2: Scotlands People and wider genealogical interest and is issued several
3: Statistical Accounts of Scotland times a year.
4: Scottish Land and Inheritance Contact:
Ç PO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429
Please put this date in your diary and join us for a
wonderful day.
For further information contact
¢[email protected]
Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc
They Answered the Call - a World War 1
West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc Walk in Cranbourne Cemetery
Library opening hours Where: Cranbourne Cemetery, Corner Sladen Street
Wednesday- Friday 10.00am-2.00pm and Cemetery Road, Cranbourne.
2nd Saturday - 10.00am-3.00pm When: Sunday 22 April 2018 at 10 am.
4th Sunday - 2.00pm-4.00pm
Cost: $5 per person paid on the day.
Location - 1st floor, Old Shire Hall, cnr Smith & Queen Bookings are essential.
Streets, Warragul
Our latest cemetery book will be available for purchase
If you have WW1 personnel buried in West Gippsland on the day.
cemeteries, we would love to hear from you.
Contact:
Contact: ¢Jane Rivett-Carnac, [email protected]
¢[email protected] ¢Lyne McGregor, [email protected]
JBarbara 03 5611 3871
Ç PO box 225 Warragul VIC 3820
Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc
The Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria Inc Next meeting, Saturday 12 May 2018, 2.00pm
Meetings in 2018 Venue: Wesley Hall, St Andrew’s Uniting Church
All meetings will be held at Cnr Burke and Malven Rds, Gardiner
4th Floor, Ross House Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2
247-251 Flinders Lane Melbourne Afternoon Tea provided.
Next Meeting: Saturday 3 March at 1.30pm Enquiries:
Speaker: Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stuart from JClare 03 9578 3654
University of Tasmania ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au
Following meeting: Saturday 5 May
Speaker: Emily Goddard – This is Eden
VicGUM
Phillip Island and District VicGUM is a not for profit organisation and offers
Genealogical Society Inc software support to members. They are the Australian
Distributors for Family Tree Maker (FTM).
Family Tree Maker User Group meetings
Group meetings with experienced researchers to provide The latest version is now available.
hints and information on updates. Individual member To purchase visit the website: www.vicgum.asn.au
problems also discussed. For FTM users at all levels. VicGUM members receive a 10% discount when they
Saturday 7 April 2018 1.30pm to 4.30pm purchase on line.
Saturday 2 June 2018 1.30pm to 4.30pm Also available: Reunion 12 for the Mac
Brick Wall Forums Vicgum members receive a monthly newsletter,
Forums for researchers to try and help each other break connection to Gumnet, members only website and
down the brick walls they experience while undertaking ongoing technical support. For member benefits visit
research will be held regularly during the year. Check our the web site and join on line
website for dates.
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Further information: ÇLevel 4, 460 Collins St Melbourne VIC 3000
¢www.piadgs.org.au ÇPO Box 397 Collins St West VIC 8007
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Further information on our Member Societies
can be found on the GSV website at
www.gsv.org.au/activities/member-societies-list
Anglesea & District History Society Inc Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc Member Societies
Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 JHistorical Museum 03 5258 2511
Ararat Genealogical Society Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc ¢www.queenscliffe-history.org
Ç PO Box 361, Ararat VIC 3377 ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc
J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs Ç Lwr Lvl, Richmond Library,
¢ [email protected] Kerang & District Family History Group Inc 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 J 03 9428 6231
Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs
J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh Sale & District Family History Group Inc
¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ÇPO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850
Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc
Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620 JHeather Pocknall 0428 411 603
Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 J Jennifer Cole 03 5852 2842 Shepparton Family History Group Inc
J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 ¢ [email protected] ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632
Benalla Family Research Group Inc Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc JGarry Wallden 03 5828 3236
Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 ÇPO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh
J Bill Willett 03 5762 8803 J03 5155 3843 South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc
¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org ÇPO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953
Mansfield Family History Group Inc
Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc JSheena Daykin 03 5775 1659 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs
Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.com Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc
¢ https://brgsbendigo.weebly.com ÇPO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939
Maryborough Family History Group Inc
Clan MacMillan Society of Australia ÇPO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 JAnnette Buckland 0402 858 878
¢ [email protected] JJudith Healey 03 5464 2601 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan ¢www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc
Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc Melton Family History Group Inc ÇPO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380
Ç 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 ¢www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au
J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 Sunbury Family History Society Inc
Cobram Genealogical Group Inc ¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org ÇPO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429
Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc JWilliam Wilson 03 9744 4478
JBarbara Coleman 03 5872 1729 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au
ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840
Colac & District Family History Group Inc ¢[email protected] Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society Inc
Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs ÇPO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585
J Colac History Centre 03 5231 5736 JLyn Cunningham 03 5032 2840
¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs
ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502
Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763 Terang & District Family History Group Inc
ÇPO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 ÇPO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264
¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au
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News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria
From Tara Oldfi eld
For further information visit prov.vic.gov.au.
2018 Victorian Community History Awards
Have you recently completed a history book or The Victorian archival collection contains historic
project? Think it deserves some recognition? images of Melbourne’s built environment dating
Consider entering it for this year’s Victorian back to the last century (c1900 onwards), including
Community History Awards. For the second year some of Melbourne’s most iconic capital projects of
the Awards program will include the Victorian the 20th century.
Premier’s History Award for the most outstanding
project of the year. The prestigious award was These images are contrasted with photos of
presented to John Burch in 2017 for his book Melbourne's current urban landscape.
Returning the Kulkyne. The book provides an
insight into the human stories of the Kulkyne This is a free exhibition. Visit prov.vic.gov.au for
ranging from the Indigenous Latji Latji and Nyeri opening hours.
Nyeri clans to squatters and pastoralists, hunters,
rangers and even railwaymen and the restitution Physical and digital records across the
of the environment after decades of misuse and Victorian Government
degradation. Over the last two years we have completed surveys
into the physical and digital record holdings of
For information on the 2018 nomination period, the Victorian Public Sector. The surveys asked
deadlines, and to see past winners, visit prov.vic. Victorian Government agencies for details on
gov.au. the scope and storage of their physical and digital
records. The results reveal a signifi cant amount
Beyond Bluestone of physical and digital records in need of either
The Victorian Archives Centre lobby gallery, disposal or transfer to PROV as state archives in the
the VAC Gallery, is now showing images from next five years. Some of the key fi ndings:
contemporary street photographers alongside • The Victorian Public Sector is holding
archival photos from our collection for the approximately 446 kilometres of physical
new exhibition Beyond Bluestone – bending records created up until 1985, of which an
architectural boundaries. estimated 47 kilometres are of permanent
value in need of transfer to Public Record Offi ce
Victoria.
• Many agencies are incurring unnecessary
storage costs because they are not destroying
temporary value records when they reach
minimum legal retention periods or routinely
transferring permanent value records to PROV.
• Many agencies do not know the contents of
the physical and digital records they hold and,
particularly for pre-1900 records, are storing
them in conditions which place them at risk of
loss, damage or theft.
• Many agencies do not use standard risk
management methods or tools for managing
risks to records.
Visit our blog for more information: www.prov.vic.
gov.au/about-us/our-blog/physical-and-digital-
records-held-across-vic-gov.
Image 1: Victorian Archives Centre lobby gallery.
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Royal Historical Society of Victoria
For more information, visit http://www.historyvictoria.org.au
Scrapbooks – a RHSV online exhibition
When you open the home page of the RHSV
website, current events like the regular Monday
Walking Tours of the Flagstaff Gardens or the
continuing exhibition Standing on the Corner will
take your eye.
But look further. On the header under Exhibitions,
there is a drop down to Online Exhibitions, and
then to the RHSV Scrapbook Collection. The RHSV
has been receiving donations of Scrapbooks for
decades. They have now begun to digitise them.
Helen Kesarios introduces the Scrapbook with a
short account of their value as historical artifacts;
the 19th century was a golden age. They can contain
photographs, newspaper cuttings, diary entries
and ephemera and the subjects are as varied as the
scrapbookers themselves. Anyone could ‘write a
book with a pair of scissors’.
The current RHSV online exhibition features Image 1: From the Scrapbook ‘The Evolution of
Trams, with explanatory short articles on Cable Melbourne’s Marvellous Trams’
Trams, Electric Trams, the Metropolitan Transit
Meanwhile, on the Exhibitions menu, there are
Authority and Yarra Trams. The key scrapbook
other online exhibitions and a further drop down
material is The Evolution of Melbourne’s Marvellous
to ‘Items of Interest.’ This draws the reader’s
Trams a collection of newspaper cuttings in seven
attention, often with brief explanatory articles, to
parts, covering many years, perhaps the earliest
‘Manuscripts of Interest’ and ‘Images of Interest’
being a cartoon from Melbourne Punch in 1885.
– varying from Ferdinand Von Mueller’s papers to
Browsing through, you will find gems like the
MacRobertson’s Confectionery. There is a lot to
1968 photo of a two tram collision and derailment
explore on the RHSV website.
blocking the corner of Swanston and Flinders
Streets – blamed on a red sports car. There are
cuttings explaining the interior of the driver’s cabin,
and perennial issues – like complaints that the
safety zones at city tram stops were too narrow to
take the crowds.
The final scrapbook material in the exhibition is of
St Kilda Road: From Bush Track to Boulevard, the
evolution of St Kilda Road. This contains another
perennial complaint – from 1934 – about tree
removal. With the building of Domain station and
interchange it is a topical issue – St Kilda Road has
always been changing, before and since the time of
the 19th century Toll Gates pictured.
Together the scrapbooks digitised here create a
picture of Melbourne as it has changed – from The RHSV publication Remembering Melbourne
horse-drawn trams to the present streamlined fl eet. 1850-1960 has been reprinted with corrections
and is again available. To accompany this, the
It is to be hoped that more of the scrapbook exhibition Standing on the Corner will continue
collection can soon become digital exhibits. until 30 March 2018.
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A bout the GSV
About the GSV The Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Membership Options A$
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia
Genealogical
www.gsv.org.au
Web
[email protected]
Society of
Email
03 9662 4455
Phone
Victoria Inc
Annual Membership
Why become a member of the GSV? Joining fee (Australia/international) 18.00/18.00
One person (Australia/international) 96.00/114.00
Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular Two, same address (Australia/international) 145.00/163.00
pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a Three, same address(Australia/international) 194.00/212.00
leading Australian family history society for the study of Extra Member 48.00
genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their 18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 48.00
ancestors.
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We welcome you to join us and Australia (no joining fee) 70 .00
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discover a world of family history.
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We provide advice and expertise along with a reference
library containing extensive records for Victoria, Australia, Day Visitor
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collections from other countries. * Fee rebatable against membership fee, within 14 days.
Courses, classes, discussion circles, presentations and
seminars are held regularly. See pages 45 to 48 for all the
upcoming events. Library Hours
Monday 1.00pm — 4.00pm
Our online members area features searchable databases and Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm
an ever-increasing library catalogue.
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Membership Benefi ts Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pm
Saturday Closed
• Access to a team of friendly volunteer research Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday
assistants trained to help you with library resources
• Access to our comprehensive library collection of
indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources
Patron
• Free library access to commercial databases including: The Honourable Linda Dessau, AC
Ancestry, findmypast, TheGenealogist, and British Governor of Victoria
Newspaper Archive
• Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor Honorary Office Bearers and Councillors
President David Down
• Free publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in
Ancestor (one per year) Treasurer Stephen Hawke
Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV
• Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections,
including the library catalogue, the Genealogical Index of Council Janne Bonnett
Names (GIN), cemeteries database, all of which usually Erna Cameron
include additional information for members
Lorna Elms
• Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, Robert Gribben
New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting
point for newcomers to genealogy Peter Johnston
Leonie Loveday
• Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members, if you cannot visit
the library Margaret McLaren
Jenny Redman
•A free annual research query of up to two hours for Michael Rumpff
members residing more than 100km from Melbourne
Penny Wolf
• Discounts on our publications, services and events
(not sale items)
Staff
• Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV
societies (conditions apply)
Assistant Library Manager Meg Bate
• Ancestral Interest Groups and Discussion Circles
Offi ce Administrator Linda Farrow
• GSV Talks and Classes: (see pages 45 to 48)
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Research Services Self Help Guide
Free Quick Lookup General Register Offi ce (GRO) Research Services
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
required a cost estimate will be given. Members may send in
Consuls and armed services personnel may be purchased
one eResearch query at a time. Another may be submitted
online: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate
after receipt of results.
To submit a request by email, see the Research & Resources Scottish birth, death and marriage
page online at www.gsv.org.au/research/research- certifi cates
services.html .
To submit a request by mail, download and complete the Images of Statutory (civil) registrations may be purchased
Postal Research Request Form located on the website, or online. Church registers, census records, divorce records
collect one from the GSV. Submit with a SSAE. Prints are and wills are also available: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
$0.25 per A4 page – a quotation can be provided on request if To learn more you may like to attend the monthly class
an additional SSAE is provided. on ScotlandsPeople. Check the ‘What’s On’ pages in this
issue of Ancestor (pp 45-48).
Extended Research
The Research Team at the GSV can spend time researching England and Wales Wills and Probate
a family or topic of your choice. Wills and probate may be searched and ordered for people
Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00 pre who died in or after 1858 to current times. A ‘grant of
paid. Includes limited copying and postal charges. representation’ gives someone the legal right to deal with a
Members residing more than 100 km from Melbourne are deceased person’s estate but not all grants of representation
offered one annual session of complimentary research contain a will: www.gov.uk/search-will-probate
taking up to two hours.
If you have any queries or need some help in using these
Getting Started Consultations websites ask for some assistance in the library.
Members may book a free half hour ‘getting started’
consultation on Monday afternoons between 1pm and
3pm. Please email Linley Hooper, our Library Manager, at
[email protected] with a preferred time and date.
Consultations
Stuck with your research? Arrange a consultation in our
library with a member of the research team.
Consultations are for one hour.
Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00
Transcriptions and Latin Translations
Early documents such as wills, deeds and marriage licences
can be transcribed.
Per hour: Members $30.00 / Non-members $50.00
Victorian Probate Papers post 1925
Researchers will o btain copies from Public Records Offi ce
Victoria (PROV).
Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00
Other Public Records
Researchers will obtain copies from Public Record Offi ce
Victoria (PROV) where specific reference [VPRS/Unit etc]
is provided.
Per hour: Members: $60.00 / Non-members $85.00
Further information about our Research services
will be found on our website www.gsv.org.au/research/
research-services.html. Contact [email protected] if
you need specific guidance.
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News
News
Bridging the Past and Future – Member, attended and gave a short presentation on the GSV
9 to 12 March 2018 Writers Circle and on the importance of formal publication
In just a few days from now the Society of Australian procedures by family historians wherever possible to ensure
Genealogists will be hosting the 15th Australasian Congress that the information is accessible by professional historians.
on Genealogy and Heraldry at the International Convention
Centre (ICC) in Darling Harbour, Sydney. The Congress is Online Developments at the Australian
held every three years under the auspices of AFFHO, the Dictionary of Biography (ADB)
Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations. Since going online in 2006, the ADB has adopted a variety
The organisers have taken some of the key elements from of approaches to increase its coverage and improve its
previous Congresses, as well as major international events research capabilities. Two companion websites have been
such as Rootstech (hosted annually by FamilySearch in the started – Obituaries Australia and People Australia, which
USA) to bring you Congress 2018. has given them the ability to add records for all Australians.
The amount of indexing of entries has also been vastly
We know quite a number of GSV members will be attending, increased, which enables advanced analysis, browsing and
and we look forward to receiving reports of aspects of the answering complex research queries. Obituaries Australia
Congress from them in the coming weeks. was launched in 2011 and contains mostly published
obituaries. People Australia is their over-arching website.
Related Histories: Studying the Family – It searches all the websites at the same time and acts as
28 and 29 November 2017 a biographical register. In 2017, there were 12,900 ADB
This conference was held at the National Library of entries, 7500 obituaries and 7000 biographical registers. A
Australia, Canberra, and was organised by staff of the current project is the First Three Fleets project. This will
National Centre of Biography and School of History, add about 100,000 records. Detailed indexing enables the
ANU, and History, Macquarie University. This conference creation of visualisations, such as comprehensive family
followed on three years after the previous conference at trees, and aggregations of data on the fortunes of the fl eeters
Macquarie, and it was envisaged that this would further as an example. The ADB is hoping to enlist the support of
the application of family history findings in the study of family historians to help provide not only BDM data on
social history, and secondly, further develop the formation their families but also details of families in Trove and in
of a family history network (FHN) between universities, government records [this report is based on information
professional historians, and genealogical societies and local presented by Christine Fernon, Online Manager, National
history societies. Centre of Biography, ANU on 29 November 2017].
The sessions were recorded and it is planned that these GSV Writing Prize 2018
be made available as a podcast. There was a total of 29 We are now open for entries for the GSV Writing Prize
speakers. There was no specific session on the formation for 2018 – it is now in its fifth year. Entries close on 31
of a FHN, which was disappointing. The conference was August 2018. The winning article will be published in the
attended by about 150 people, about half of which were December issue of Ancestor. Conditions of entry remain the
family historians. I thought this was surprisingly large same. You can find these on the GSV website under Ancestor
considering the limited publicity and the lateness in (www.gsv.org.au/ancestor-journal/GSV-writing-prize).
producing a final program. Many of the papers were of Entry to the competition is only open to a GSV Member.
interest in that they were aggregating data on families, However, non-members as well as members are always
and then analysing various aspects by inspection of all welcome to submit articles for publication to the journal
the data. This enabled them to draw conclusions not throughout the year.
otherwise possible (e.g., Tasmanian convicts, male and
female; Maori/white relationships; ethnic relationships Ancestry™ have generously agreed once again to donate this
such as Chinese settlers; Wiltshire BDM studies of two annual prize in our writing competition. It will be for a 12
villages). Representatives of the Australian Dictionary month subscription to Ancestry’s UK Heritage Plus planX.
of Biography (ADB) online (Christine Fernon and Scott
Yeadon) gave a very interesting presentation on the power of The Scots are coming to Leongatha
the online version of the ADB for further detailed analysis, The Scottish Roadshow is on Saturday 23 June starting at
cross-linking, using the raw entries to analyse relationships. 9.30 am at the Uniting Church Hall, Peart Street, Leongatha.
They are progressing with two new databases – Obituaries A full program of Scottish family history information.
and People. It will be worthwhile keeping an eye online Details: [email protected]
for future developments by ADB. Martin Playne, a GSV
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What’s On
What’s On at the GSV – March 2018
CLOSED
COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
Mon. 12
Labour Day CLASSES
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Fri. 30
Good Friday These small group classes are designed to enable you
to get the most out of the computer-based resources
Sat. 31
Easter Saturday available in the GSV library and at home.
Thur. 1 FamilySearch online
TM
Tues. 6 The National Archive (UK) online
Thur. 8 GSV library catalogue & databases
TALK
Tues. 13 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
Thur. 1 12.00pm – 1.00pm
How Facebook and Blogging can help Thur. 15 Internet for Genealogy
your family history research
Tues. 20 Ancestry online
TM
by Meg Bate and Janne Bonnett
An introduction to Social Networking for Genealogists Wed. 21 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
Bookings essential Thur. 22 National and State Archives in Australia
Members $5.00, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
TM
TM
non-members $20.00 Tues. 27 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British
TM
Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage TM
online
TM
Thur. 29 ScotlandsPeople online
Bookings essential.
CLASSES
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
Tues. 13 10.00am – 12.00pm
non-members $20.00
Using Family Tree Maker – Assistance by
VicGum
Bookings essential
Members & VicGum Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
non-members $20.00
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Wed. 7 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Sat. 17 10.30am – 12.30pm
GSV Writers
Orientation: introduction to the Society
and our resources Tues. 13 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire & Cumberland
Bookings essential – Members Only – Free
Wed. 14 10.30am – 12.00pm
Thur. 22 12.00pm – 1.00pm DNA
London Research
Wed. 14 12.30pm – 2.00pm
by Vicki Montgomery South West England Research & Discussion
With a view to starting a Discussion Circle
Wed. 28 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Bookings essential. Early English Genealogy – pre 1700
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, Members Only – Free
non-members $20.00
MEETINGS
FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Sat. 17 1.00pm
Focus your research with experienced
helpers in the Library Scottish Ancestry Group
Wed. 28 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
Bookings in person, via website, email or phone
Members Free, non-members $20.00 ¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455
New members welcome.
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What’s On What’s On at the GSV – April
CLOSED
COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
Mon. 2 April
CLASSES
Easter Monday Holiday
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Wed. 25
Anzac Day 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.
Tues. 3 The National Archive (UK) online
TM
Thur. 5 FamilySearch online
COURSE
Writing Family History Tues. 10 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
by Margaret Vines
Thur. 12 GSV library catalogue & databases
Thur. 5, 12 and 19 10.30am – 12.30pm
TM
Tues. 17 Ancestry online
• Writing process - getting started, especially
drafting and editing Wed. 18 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
• Basic writing skills
Thur. 19 Internet for Genealogy
• Historical skills, including documenting your
TM
TM
writing Tues. 24 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British
Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage TM
TM
Participants will be expected to be writing both in online
class and between classes
Thur. 26 National and State Archives in Australia
Bookings essential, and can be made online,
in person, by email or by telephone (Mon–Fri, Bookings essential.
9.00am–4.00pm). Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
non-members $20.00
Members $90.00,
AIGS/RHSV/CAV $135.00, non-members $180.00
Maximum 10 people
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Wed. 4 12.30pm – 1.30pm
GSV Writers
CLASSES
Sat. 7 10.00am – 11.00am Tues. 10 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Orientation: introduction to the Society Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire & Cumberland
and our resources Wed. 11 10.30am – 12.00pm
Bookings essential – Members Only – Free DNA
Fri. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Sat. 7 11.15am – 12.30pm South West England Research & Discussion
Starting Your Family history: Tues. 17 12.00pm – 1.00pm
methodology and resources British India
Bookings essential Thur. 26 10.30am – 11.30am
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, London Research
non-members $20.00
Members Only – Free
Tue. 10 10.00am – 12.00pm
An Introduction to Family History
Software by VicGum
Bookings essential
Members & VicGum Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
non-members $20.00 Focus your research with experienced
helpers in the Library
Mon. 9 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland
Bookings in person, via website, email or phone
Members Free, non-members $20.00
¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455
New members welcome.
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What’s On at the GSV – May
What’s On
COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
TALK
Thur. 24 12.00pm – 1.00pm CLASSES
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Victorian Land Titles & Documents –
Old to New These small group classes are designed to enable you
by Susie Zada to get the most out of the computer-based resources
available in the GSV library and at home.
Bookings essential – Members $5.00,
AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Tues. 1 The National Archives (UK) online
Thur. 3 FamilySearch online
TM
Tues. 8 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
Thur. 10 GSV library catalogue & databases
CLASSES
TM
Wed. 2 10.00am – 11.00am Tues. 15 Ancestry online
Orientation: introduction to the Society Wed. 16 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
and our resources
Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Thur. 17 Internet for Genealogy
TM
TM
Wed. 2 11.15am – 12.30pm Tues. 22 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British
TM
Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage TM
Starting Your Family history:
methodology and resources online
Thur. 24 National and State Archives in Australia
Bookings essential
TM
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, Tues. 29 ScotlandsPeople online
non-members $20.00
Bookings essential.
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
Tue. 8 10.00am – 12.00pm
non-members $20.00
Using Family Tree Maker - Assistance by
VicGum
Bookings essential
Members & VicGum Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
non-members $20.00
FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Focus your research with experienced
helpers in the Library
Mon. 14 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland
Wed. 23 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Wed. 2 12.30pm – 1.30pm Members Free, non-members $20.00
GSV Writers
Tues. 8 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire & Cumberland
Wed. 9 10.30am – 12.00pm
DNA MEETINGS
Wed. 9 12.30pm – 2.00pm Sat. 12 1.00pm
South West England Research & Discussion Irish Ancestry Group
Tues. 15 12.00pm – 1.00pm Sat. 19 1.00pm
British India International Settlers Group
Wed. 23 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Early English Genealogy – pre 1700
Thur. 24 10.30am – 11.30am
London Research
Members Only – Free RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Sat. 5 10.30am – 4.00pm
Maximum 6 people
Members $90.00,
Bookings in person, via website, email or phone
AIGS/RHSV/CAV $135.00, non-members $180.00
¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455
New members welcome.
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What’s On What’s On at the GSV – June
COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
CLOSED
Mon. 11 CLASSES
Queen’s Birthday 1.30pm 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.
Tues.5 The National Archives (UK) online
TM
Thur. 7 FamilySearch online
TALK
Thur. 21 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 12 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
The Methodist Contribution: Historical Thur. 14 GSV library catalogue & databases
background for genealogists
TM
by Robert Gribben Tues. 19 Ancestry online
The life and times of the founders, John and Charles Wed. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
Wesley. Methodism’s unique characteristics, practices
and institutions Thur. 21 Internet for Genealogy
Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Tues. 26 findmypast , TheGenealogist , British
TM
TM
AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, non-members $20.00 Newspaper Archive & MyHeritage TM
TM
online
Thur. 28 National and State Archives in Australia
Bookings essential
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV $15.00,
non-members $20.00
CLASSES
Sat. 2 10.00am – 11.00am
Orientation: introduction to the Society
and our resources DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Bookings essential – Members Only – Free Wed. 6 12.30pm – 1.30pm
GSV Writers
Sat. 2 11.15am – 12.30pm
Starting Your Family history: Tues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pm
methodology and resources Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire & Cumberland
Wed. 13 10.30am – 12.00pm
Bookings essential
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, DNA
non-members $20.00 Wed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm
South West England Research & Discussion
Tue. 12 10.00am – 12.00pm Tues. 19 12.00pm – 1.00pm
An Introduction to Family History British India
Software by VicGum Wed. 27 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Bookings essential Early English Genealogy – pre 1700
Members & VicGum Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, Thur. 28 10.30am – 11.30am
non-members $20.00 London Research
Members Only – Free
MEETINGS
FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Focus your research with experienced Sat. 16 1.00pm
helpers in the Library Scottish Ancestry Group
Wed. 27 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
Bookings in person, via website, email or phone
Members Free, non-members $20.00
¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J (03) 9662 4455
New members welcome.
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