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Sober, Industrious and of
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The Troubled Life of
Rose Ann Hedley

Family Connections Across
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DNA Story: Discovering
James Dede Smart

Resources for Searching for
Burials in Victoria

A Guide to Researching
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Contents

Articles 4

Sober, Industrious and of Good
Moral Character

Marilyn Fordred

DNA Story: Discovering James Dede Smart 9
June Torcasio

4 The Troubled Life of Rose Ann Hedley 12
Liz Kelly
9
Family Connections Across the Generations 16
16 Jane Vanderstoel

26 More GSV Awards 18

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research tutorials 2019 at the GSV 19

Jenny Redman

Resources for Searching for 20
Burials in Victoria
David Down

A Guide to Researching 26
Tasmanian Records
Margaret Vines

Researching People and Properties
12 in Richmond
Back cover

Clive Luckman

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Pen of the President 23
Book Reviews 25
Additions to the Library 30
Brickwall Corner and Members Queries 32
Research Corner 34
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GSV Member Societies 41
News from Public Record Office Victoria 42
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About the GSV 44
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Runner up 2018 GSV Writing Prize

Sober, Industrious and of
Good Moral Character

by Marilyn Fordred

Marilyn can be contacted at I walked through the arched entrance to Lyall Catherine Lissey Needham was around 21 when
[email protected] Mews in Belgravia, London. The white painted she married John Steward in 1832 in Brighton,
two and three storied brick houses were now Sussex. Their four children were born in the West
the homes of the affluent. Each house abutted End of London, in the fashionable suburbs of
the worn cobbles and occasionally shrubs and Kensington, Westminster, Mayfair and Chelsea.
flowers shouted their presence from door- These were the suburbs frequented by lords and
hugging planters. The stables had long ago ladies and their friends from the gentry.
been converted to garages but the many paned
windows of the living quarters on the upper floor Catherine and John Steward were in service to
were like the all-knowing eyes of those who had Arthur Algernon Capell, the Earl of Essex, and
lived here before; like Catherine Lissey Needham, his wife Countess Caroline.1 John Steward was a
her husband John Steward and their children coachman so John and Catherine lived above the
Eliza Catherine, Matilda Jane, Caroline Amelia stables in Lyall Mews in the mid-1840s, close to
and John Needham Steward. the London residence of the Earl so that horses
and carriages could be available at all times.2
Catherine was a seamstress so probably made,
mended, altered and embellished a range of fancy
clothing and linen for the Earl’s family.

Working for a titled family had benefits so the
Steward children were taught, at times, by the
household governess when the Capell family
were in residence in London. At other times the
children attended local schools; the girls were
enrolled at St Paul’s School in Westminster
between 1844 and August 1847 and Caroline also
went to the St Barnabas School in Belgravia.3

Life must have seemed contented to the Steward
family, that is until John became very ill with
pulmonary consumption. Consumption, or
tuberculosis as we know it today, was usually a
death sentence. Catherine would have nursed her
39-year-old husband through his illness, as he
dealt with a worsening cough, fevers and weight
loss. His death in 1847 was devastating and later
in life, when Catherine was very ill, she wrote to
her daughter Eliza that in the coming winter ‘if
Souls do unite I hope to meet your dear father and
all else I have loved’.4

Image 1: Lyall Mews, Belgravia, London. author’s collection The death of her husband meant that Catherine
4• Steward was now totally responsible for

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herself and her four children; responsible for The Colony of South Australia was looking Good Moral Character
their welfare and responsible for financing for assisted immigrants so Catherine filled
the household. She continued to work as a in the appropriate forms and waited for an
dressmaker as she and her children moved to a ‘Approval Circular’.8 When it arrived she paid her
smaller house, one without attached stables in contributions then waited for embarkation orders.
William Mews and then Queen Street (now Hans Eldest daughter Eliza was courting and she had
Street), both in Belgravia. decided to stay in London. Embarkation orders saw
Catherine and her three children meeting at the
By 1851 Catherine Steward was doing all she emigrants’ depot at Birkenhead, Liverpool a short
could to make sure her children were educated. while before their sailing ship was due to leave.
The youngest child, John, aged nine, was a
boarding pupil at the Greycoat Hospital School in Staying at Birkenhead would have given them an
Westminster.5 This school was set up to provide indication of the crowded condition in steerage
an education for the poor of the Westminster that was to be home for the next ninety-eight
parish. Caroline, aged thirteen, was likely at days. With them would have been baggage packed
a small, private boarding school in Brighton, with clothing and the linen that the Countess of
Sussex, under the guidance of a governess. Social Essex had given the family as a parting gift.9 On 13
etiquette, grooming, music, dancing, drawing and February 1854, Catherine aged 40, Matilda aged
needlework were the skills taught in these small seventeen, Caroline aged sixteen and John aged
schools. twelve left Liverpool, England on board the John
Bunyan, bound for South Australia.10 Possibly
Matilda, aged fourteen, was a pupil-teacher in they were very excited but probably also very
London. She was apprenticed to study teacher apprehensive about leaving their known comforts
training within an elementary school whilst and heading into the unknown.
continuing her education. Eliza, aged eighteen,
was working as a domestic servant within a The cramped conditions on-board and easily
respectable household close by in Brompton, transmitted diseases resulted in twenty-eight
Kensington, London. deaths of children under four before the John
Bunyan reached Adelaide on 22 May 1854.11
However Catherine did not see her future in
England and, as a widow, she was after a fresh Australia’s
start. Newspapers advertised free passages to the largest online
colonies where work was plentiful and where men family history
outnumbered women. Many single men lured to resource*
the Australian gold rush were also searching for
wives so a second marriage for Catherine seemed Research and
possible. It was time to make a move and leave build your family
London behind. A new and different land beckoned. tree online

In 1853 Catherine approached the Colonial Land *comScore, 2011
and Emigration Commission in Park Street,
London to inquire about an assisted passage
for herself and her children to Australia.6 This
was a courageous move. She was preparing to
leave behind her closest family – her mother, her
brother, her sister and even her eldest daughter,
Eliza. Emigrating to Australia was a challenging,
dangerous journey. Safety was never guaranteed
when crossing the oceans in a fully rigged sailing
ship. She would be leaving a steady position and
would have to find or create work as well as a home
for herself and her children in a new country,
where life would present many challenges.
Catherine must have done much thinking but she
knew that she and her girls were the single females
that the colonies wanted. She and her family fitted
the requirements. They were all in good health and
Catherine had been used to working for wages. She
and her family fitted the requirements as specified
by the Emigration Commission. They were all in
good health, Catherine had been used to working
for wages and they were ‘sober, industrious and of
good moral character’.7

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Image 2: Balaclava Hill, Whroo, from
the North (1858). State Library Victoria,
Accession No. H39205

The Steward family would have been relieved to to day which I could not have done yesterday I was
reach their destination in good health but what suffering such dreadful agony with my legs they
were their immediate plans? Did they meet with swell and get inflamed, Matilda came last night
friends, did they go to the nearby depot where and put me on Leeches which gave me great relief
prospective employers were waiting to hire or did I am going to have more on today.’13
they head straight to Victoria where the gold rush
had become an irresistible magnet? In Victoria As well as securing a job, Catherine met a new
there were well paid jobs, inflated by the gold man and remarried just before Christmas 1857.
rush, and single, eligible men were thronging to William Ormerod was a widower, of a similar age
the goldfields lured by seductive stories of easily and a digger. He had no children so it is likely that
found gold. When and how they changed states is Catherine’s sixteen-year-old son John was living
not known, however the Steward family were in with them in Whroo and probable that he was
Victoria by late 1857. also working on the diggings; hard, hazardous
and dirty work and very different to going to
Once in Victoria it was essential that the school in London.
members of the family found suitable jobs. The
Melbourne newspapers of the day, The Argus The town of Whroo was growing. It had been
and The Age, printed advertisements seeking surveyed and buildings were regularly being
housekeepers, domestic servants, nurses and added to the landscape. There were two hotels,
governesses. Perhaps this is how the family a regular mail-coach from Melbourne and the
came to live on the McIvor diggings, north of nearest town, Rushworth, was just four and a half
Melbourne, in the mid to late 1850s. All had miles distant. Some inhabitants lived in tents but
found work; daughter Caroline as a domestic there were also more substantial slab huts which
and Matilda as a governess in Heathcote. On the gave the town a settled appearance. The Balaclava
nominal list of the John Bunyan, Catherine had Hill Gold Company employed sixty men during
described herself as a housekeeper but in 1857 she 185714 so maybe John Ormerod laboured for this
was a nurse in the township of Whroo.12 Perhaps company or one similar and worked with the
this meant she worked as a nanny or a governess quartz crushing machines.
for a local farming family. However she may have
set herself up in a business, dispensing patent Living in the countryside, in a small town, was
medicines to the diggers, applying leeches to such a contrast to the London hustle and bustle
draw blood, working as a midwife or tending to and the elite society she had worked within, that
the inevitable breaks and abrasions that would it is hard to imagine Catherine believed she could
occur on the goldfields. There was no training for make a life in Australia. Each day she would
nurses back in the 1850s but she had previous have set a fire, bought and boiled the precious
experience in nursing her husband through his water, made simple bread, cooked mutton stews,
illness and was knowledgeable in the practices of washed and cleaned and sewed for her family. She
the times. When writing to her daughter in 1866 would have mixed with a diverse range of locals;
she said of her own illness, ‘I write these few lines squatters, starry-eyed gold seekers and even ex-

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Image 3: Samuel Calvert, and Solomon
Saul, The Ballaarat Exhibition - Arrival
of the Governor (1866). State Library
Victoria, Accession No. IMP27/09/66/340

convicts. The days would have been long and together such as Christmas:
tiring, the dust never ending, the summer heat
exhausting, the winter mud depressing, the lack of I will now tell you how we spent Christmas day
fresh produce and necessary goods disheartening Leon and John was at the Post Office Matilda
and the thought of bushrangers, riding the roads came and dined with me, Sarah and children with
and tracks of the area, extremely frightening. Caroline and Leon and John came in the Evening
We both had a fine goose plumb pudding Custard
By the mid-1860s, the alluvial goldfields frenzy of peas potatoes and ... 17
the 1850s had dissipated as gold companies shifted
to deep underground gold mining. Catherine and Letters went back and forth across the oceans
William Ormerod had shifted too. They were now between Catherine and her oldest daughter Eliza
living in Ballarat where work opportunities were who had remained in England. Catherine wrote
more favourable, especially for John who would about her family, her health and also alluded
find his niche working as a newsagent. Catherine to reading from the local newspapers. Perhaps
was back living in a busy, thriving and rapidly she read about the Melbourne Intercolonial
developing town, one of Victoria’s richest and Exhibition and imagined the ladies’ elaborate
largest gold producing towns. and richly decorated dresses whilst remembering
nostalgically the days when she had hand-stitched
Catherine and William Ormerod lived in their finery. I’m sure she would have been proud to
Creswick Road,15 perhaps in a wooden two or read the reports describing the abundance of gold
three roomed cottage. In the nearby area were that had been mined from the Victorian goldfields
recently erected houses while hotels, banks, in the previous fifteen years.18 Proud because
shops, a hospital, a fire station, a post office, a she and her family had been part of this journey;
railway station, theatres, coffeehouses, churches proud because her son John and her sons-in-law
and schools were not far away.16 These amenities were all industrious; proud because her children
meant that daily life for Catherine, a woman and their spouses were contributing to the
who had lived in the largest of cities, would economy of their new country and the growth of
have been more agreeable. Within ten years of the population.
arriving in Australia Catherine’s family were all
settled and married and also living in Ballarat. Catherine Lissey Ormerod/Steward passed
Matilda married Leon Maurice Davis in 1859, away early in 1867 and her husband William
John married Sarah Farmer in 1863 and Caroline Ormerod not long after. Did she prove herself a
married John Gedling, a miner, in 1864. Catherine valuable colonist in the thirteen years she lived
was once again part of a blossoming community in Australia? Had she lived a good moral life and
and her children were flourishing too. was she generally sober and industrious? We will
never really know the exact truth but as she wrote
in a letter to her daughter Eliza in 1866:

Very soon there were grandchildren to be loved as … for I am quite happy the almighty God herd [sic]
by 1866 John was father to two boys and Caroline my constant prayers and allowed [me] to live to
was mother to two girls. Special times were spent bring up my children and see them all settled and

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Good Moral Character Image 4: Caroline Amelia Gedling nee Steward (right)
with daughter and grandchildren, 1901. Used with
permission from Helen Hastie

they have kind Husbands and John a good wife they children back in 1853. Her goals were all about
have all been so kind to me.’19 family and Catherine Lissey Ormerod/Steward
had adventurously, courageously and rightly
As I walked under the arch and out of Lyall fashioned a new life for herself and her children in
Mews, I was pleased that Catherine had made Australia.
considered decisions for herself and her

References
1. Private Papers. Family Reminiscences–Pat Ellis 1980s Information collected from Gedling family
2. Ancestry, London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
3. Ancestry, School Admissions
4. Letter written by Catherine Ormerod to Eliza Green. 25 August 1866 Ballarat. Used with permission

from owner, Michael Skillman, England
5. familysearch, England and Wales Census, 1851
6. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, et al. 1852 Victoria, Immigration, p5, p10
7. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, p5
8. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, p6
9. Pat Ellis 1980s op. cit.
10. State Records of South Australia, Passenger Lists
11. ‘Emigrant Ship “John Bunyan”’, South Australian Register (Adelaide) 24 May 1854, p2
12. Marriage Certificate of Catherine Steward and William Ormerod. 14 December 1857. Registry of

Births, Deaths and Marriages, Melbourne, Victoria.
13. Letter written by Catherine Ormerod to Eliza Green 27 December 1866 Ballarat. Used with

permission from owner, Michael Skillman, England
14. ‘The Goulbourn Diggings’, The Age (Melbourne) 16 April 1857, p3
15. Ballarat and Ballarat East Directory 1865-1866 Compiled by F M Dicker, p20, p105

heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au
16. ‘Visit of His Excellency the Governor to Ballarat’, The Star (Ballarat) 2 September 1863, p2
17. Ormerod, 27 December 1866
18. ‘Opening of the Exhibition’, The Argus (Melbourne) 25 October 1866, p5
19. Ormerod, 25 August 1866

Surnames
Capell, Davis, Farmer, Gedling, Needham, Ormerod, Steward

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DNA Story: Discovering

James Dede Smart

by June Torcasio

In December 2017 I ordered an Ancestry DNA kit. age.3 This would indicate that he was still living. June can be contacted at
Their ethnicity estimate revealed that my ancestry But where was he at that time? His five sisters [email protected]
is 70% from England, Wales & Northwestern were in Australia by then, including the eldest,
Europe and 27% from Ireland and Scotland. Elizabeth Pierse, who had emigrated in 1849.4
I thought that France would be specifically
mentioned since my great grandmother, Sarah In May 2018 I heard from Sandy Donahue of
Dede, was of Huguenot descent. This was to be the Maine in the United States. I had forwarded
least of the DNA revelations. Paulette’s message about James Dede Smart
and she thought it was a ‘strange coincidence’.
Hundreds of DNA Matches emerged, so I As we shared information it became quite clear
contacted those near the top of my list. My that James Dede (born 1820) and James Dede
message listed surnames in my family tree and Smart were one and the same person. Move over
enquired whether any were familiar. In March Sherlock Holmes! Sandy also said:
2018 I received a reply from Paulette Ward of
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did a lot of research (way back around the 1920s).
I believe we are related via the Dede family of She did a family tree that has unfortunately been
London. I’m descended from Amelia Dede, [the lost … supposedly our ancestor was too young to get
sister of ] Jaques (James) who married Elizabeth into the infantry so he changed his name … and lied
Smart and emigrated to Australia with several about his age and got into the infantry.6
family members. Our shared match … is descended
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emigrated to Prince Edward Island, Canada, and too young for the infantry.7 So this was not the
used the name James Dede Smart. reason he changed his name. Why else would he
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Elizabeth’s son, James Dede, born 1820. This advertised for sale prior to the family’s departure
had intrigued me since 1999, when I began for New South Wales in 1838.8 Was he not the
researching my grandmother’s maternal line after natural son of James Dede? Had he committed a
a family reunion in Carisbrook, Victoria.

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Sandy’s grandfather, the third James Dede Smart (1882-1950)

crime? Why did he not wish to be known by the We may never know exactly when James Dede
Dede surname? One can only speculate. changed his surname to Smart. He appears to
have done so by 1843 when he joined the British
The Dedes were of Huguenot descent. They had Army. The 1841 UK Census record lists a James
escaped from France towards the end of the 17th Smart as a medical student residing with Thomas
century after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and Sarah Smart at Newmarket Terrace in the
in 1685 by Louis XIV, which put their lives in grave Parish of St Matthew, Bethnal Green in London.
danger unless they renounced their religious The Smarts had lived in England for centuries
beliefs. There were generations of silk weavers in and they also had interests in the silk industry.
the Dede family – James Dede’s baptism record Thomas aged 25, was a silk broker and Sarah, 50,
indicates his father’s occupation as a weaver and was of ‘Independent Means’.11 Perhaps she was his
their abode as Spital Square.9 This locality was aunt and Thomas his cousin. Earlier, in Pigot &
favoured by wealthy master-weavers, throwsters Co.’s 1822 London Directory, ‘Silk-manufacturers’
and dyers of the silk industry. From 1826, when included James Dede at 17 Spital Square and J. &
French silks came on to the English market, the H. Smart at 37 Union Street, Bishopsgate12.
Spitalfields silk industry began to decline. The
baptism record for James’ older sister, Mary Ann In September 1843 James Dede Smart enlisted in
shows that Jaques (James) operated a stationery the British Army. He married Adelaide Hoare in
business from as early as 1814 in Sun Street, 1850 in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland.13 James was
London.10 Such an alternative occupation would based in County Armagh in early 1851 then in 1852
have meant economic survival for the Dede in Canterbury, Kent, when their first child, also
family given the parlous state of their traditional named James Dede Smart, was born. The family
livelihood. moved to Hull in Yorkshire, then back to Canterbury

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by 1861. James and Adelaide had eight children, Image 1: Sandy’s father, James Dede Smart IV, taken in 1929
although only four survived beyond 25 years.14 at his graduation from high school

In 1864 James received an honourable discharge as
Master Sergeant of the 6th Regiment and a silver
medal for good conduct and long service. He had
been in the Army for 21 years.15 By 1881 he was
living on Prince Edward Island, Canada.16 He died
in Springfield in 1896.17

James Dede Smart’s eldest son, also James Dede
Smart, was born in Canterbury, England, in 1852 and
married Jennie (Janet) McKay on Prince Edward
Island in 1875.18 Around 1890 James headed west,
deserting his wife and children. He settled near
Toronto, Canada and remarried, starting a new family.
He died in Canada around 1950.19

This James Dede Smart also had a son named
James Dede Smart, born 1882, who began working
for the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company
as an errand boy and rose to be president of the
firm. He died in Marlborough, Massachusetts in
1950.20

Sandy’s father, the fourth to be named James Dede
Smart, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire,
in 1911. The third of her grandfather’s six children,
he became an electrician establishing his own
business. Perhaps he was the last male of that
name.

References 12. Pigot & Co.’s London Directory 1822,
1. London, England, Church of England Births pp147-148

and Baptisms, 1813-1917 13. Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index,
2. ‘Shipping Intelligence’, The Sydney Herald, 1845-1958

18 January 1839, p12 14. England, Select Births and Christenings,
3. Death Registered in New South Wales, 1538-1975

Australia 15. UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner
4. ‘Shipping Intelligence Arrivals’, Adelaide Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925.
His birthplace is noted as Spitalfields. His
Observer, 1 December 1849, p2 Pensioner Admission or Examination Date
5. Rose Smart (1861-1931), daughter of the first was 11 October 1864 and his age: 44

James Dede Smart, trained as a teacher 16. Canada Census record
6. As related by Sandy Donahue 17. He was buried in St Elizabeth’s Cemetery,
7. British Army Service Records 1760-1915
Springfield on 11 February 1896, aged 75
Transcription years. St. Johns Anglican Church Crapaud
8. The Times (London), 21 July 1838, p2 register, Prince Edward Island, Canada
9. London, England, Church of England Births 18. Prince Edward Island, Canada, Marriage
Registers, 1832-1888
and Baptisms, 1813-1917 19. Information from Sandy Donahue
10. England, Select Births and Christenings, 20. Sandy Donahue

1538-1975
11. 1841 England Census

Surnames

Dede, Hoare, McKay, Pierse, Smart

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TheTroubled Life of
Rose Anne Hedley

by Liz Kelly

Liz can be contacted at The horse Fine Cotton unexpectedly won the Fitzroy and Carlton.5 Terence Brady worked as
[email protected] Commerce Novice Handicap at Eagle Farm a quarryman, probably at one of the bluestone
Racecourse, Brisbane on 18 August 1984. Despite quarries beside the Merri Creek – dangerous and
previous poor performances, he started as 7/2 laborious work for a man nearing 60.6
favourite. Upon returning to scale, white paint
and brown hair dye dribbled down his legs Rose may have received some education at St
prompting stewards to immediately stop betting Brigid’s Girls’ School in North Fitzroy, but she
payouts and launch an investigation. A superior quickly learnt dressmaking, the occupation of all
bay horse called Bold Personality had been the female Bradys.
substituted for the poorly performed brown and
white Fine Cotton, hence the paint and dye. The Tragedy struck on 1 July 1898 when the body of
ring-in perpetrators were warned off Australian Terence Brady, 68, was recovered from the Yarra
racecourses for life.1 River in Fairfield.7 He had gone missing from the
Brady home on 31 May and his family, frantic
As I read about Fine Cotton, I didn’t realise that to find him, had placed newspaper and gazette
in 1908 my great-aunt, Rose Anne Hedley née advertisements.8 The inquest determined that he
Brady, was involved in a horse racing scam at the committed suicide by drowning. He was described
as malnourished with signs of tuberculosis.
Riddell’s Creek races, causing
her too to be banned for life. My Marriage
father’s mother died when he was
a baby so he knew nothing of his Rose lived with her mother and siblings in
maternal aunt’s eventful life. Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, until she married
Robert James Hedley from Tallarook in March
Buckland to Fitzroy 1902 at St Brigid’s Church. According to the
marriage certificate, he was hotel keeper of the
Rose Brady was born in the Magpie Hotel in Perry Street, Collingwood and
Buckland Valley in 1873, the Rose was a tailoress. The certificate has Robert
sixth of thirteen children, to as 30, a year older than Rose.9 The Victorian Birth
Terence Brady, a gold miner Index makes him 37.
originally from County Cavan,
and Julia Moran from Tipperary.2 Curiously, on 4 February 1902 just prior to her
Rose attended the Miner’s Right marriage, the Licensing Court transferred the
School, infrequently it seems Magpie Hotel licence to ‘Rose A Brady’.10 Hedley
because in 1883 her father was previously licensee of the Jolly Hatters Hotel
appeared before the Buckland in Raphael St, Abbotsford.11 Possibly he had run-
Police Court for not sending his ins with licensing authorities, as thereafter all his
children to school for the required hotel activities were in his wife’s name.
number of days.3

After 25 unsuccessful years Following the short-lived Magpie Hotel venture
of gold mining, Terence was the Hedleys operated the Lavers Hill Hotel near
declared insolvent in 1884.4 Cape Otway from 1904 to 1906.12 In October
Rose, aged eleven, moved with 1906 Rose purchased the Commercial Hotel in
her family from Buckland to Romsey featuring thirteen guest bedrooms, plus
Fitzroy, Melbourne’s most billiard, dining and bar rooms. She was recorded
dangerous suburb, full of brothels as owner and licensee of the hotel with her
and sly grog shops. The Bradys husband as manager.13
moved frequently, always within
Image 1: Rose Anne Hedley, early 1900s

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The Ring-in Commercial Hotel. He was given a room by Rose Rose Anne Hedley
Hedley and forgotten. Four hours later he was dead.
Taking timeout from his managerial duties, James Dick was not a great husband – his wife
Robert Hedley purchased Romsey Jack, a bay Lillian Jury had sued for maintenance in 1907.21
gelding, in July 1907 for £10.14 In November, he However his death left three little girls fatherless –
made a ‘present’ of the horse to his wife, so Rose Olive aged nine, Rose seven and May three.
appeared as owner and nominator whenever the
horse was entered at local race meetings. Romsey An inquest into James Dick’s death was held
Jack under-performed in hack races at Woodend, at Romsey before the Coroner, Dr Robert H
Lancefield and Gisborne, until he won the Flying Cole on 11 May 1909. Dr Cole examined sixteen
Handicap at Romsey on 10 December 1907 and witnesses, finding that ‘the fire was feloniously,
the Flying Stakes at Riddell’s Creek on Boxing Day. unlawfully, maliciously and fraudulently caused
by Robert James Hedley and Robert Johnson’.
The Romsey Amateur Turf Club stewards met He committed them for trial before the Supreme
on 30 December 1907 to consider a protest Court for the wilful murder of James Dick.
against Romsey Jack’s 10 December win, which
alleged that Romsey Jack was identical to a well The Coroner’s evidence focused on the purchase
performed New Zealand horse called Rawmore.15 of the hotel. The Hedleys paid £2100 in October,
The Romsey stewards upheld the protest, 1906 being £1000 cash, plus a Commercial Bank
disqualified the Hedleys from racing for six mortgage at 7% interest. Insurance of £980 for
months and the horse for two years. Rawmore, a the building and £450 for furniture and stock
bay gelding from Invercargill, New Zealand, had was arranged by Robert. All transactions were in
won more than fifteen races before being sold in Rose’s name. Hotel trade was slow and by 1909
July 1907 to a Melbourne buyer.16 Rose still owed the bank £1033. Before the fire
Robert Hedley unsuccessfully attempted to sell
The Riddell’s Creek Racing Club officials met the hotel to buyers, including the Carlton and
on 21 January 1908. They found the parties United Brewery Company, for £2200.
guilty of fraudulent nomination and disqualified
Rose Hedley, the nominator, and the horse for The Trial
life, but took no action against Robert Hedley,
despite Mr Wright, the detective for the Victoria Robert Hedley and his co-accused Johnson, in
Racing Club (VRC), presenting evidence that police custody following committal, successfully
Hedley had a suspicious interest in the horse, applied for bail before Mr Justice Cussen on 14
had misrepresented Rawmore as Romsey Jack May. Charges must have been dropped against
and was probably the architect of the fraud. The Johnson as only Hedley went to trial. On 28
VRC was dissatisfied and directed Riddell’s Creek June 1909 The King v Robert James Hedley
officials to reconsider. This time Robert Hedley commenced in the Supreme Court Criminal
was also banned for life.17 Division before Mr Justice Hodges and a twelve
man jury, with Mr Dethridge prosecuting and
Like his race horses, it appears Hedley had ‘form’. Mr Maxwell defending. Evidence presented by
In March 1894, an R J Hedley and his horse prosecution witnesses was incriminating, albeit
The Markee were disqualified by the Seymour, circumstantial.
Mansfield, Jamieson and Upper Goulburn Racing
Clubs for varying periods of up to three years for Neighbour James Knott first saw flames in
engaging in suspicious practices and fraudulent the hotel’s billiard room and ran to wake hotel
nomination. The Markee was in reality a well residents. He was surprised to see Mr and Mrs
performed horse called Jew Boy.18 Hedley and two employees fully dressed and ready
to go at 3am. As the fire raged, George Pitcher
The Fire searched desperately for a hose but Hedley said
not to bother as the fire had too strong a hold.
The Commercial Hotel, Romsey went up in John Keen went to the storeroom to rescue stock
flames at 3am on the morning of Tuesday 27 April but finding nothing, he raced to the kitchen where
1909. The Presbyterian Church bell tolled while he encountered Robert Hedley wearing a Panama
townsfolk and police rallied to fight the fire.19 By hat and smoking a cigar. Keen asked, ‘What about
morning, the hotel was a blackened ruin. Someone saving some things?’ To which Hedley replied, ‘It’s
lifted the scorched remains of an iron bed to find too late, let the damn things burn.’
a burnt corpse, later identified as James Augustus
Dick.20 The police, with the Romsey Jack matter Despite witnesses alleging the storeroom
still fresh, were immediately suspicious. held minimal stock – just two cases and two
demijohns, one being empty – Hedley told Senior
On Monday 26 April 1909 James Dick, 28, an Constable McCormick that, prior to the fire,
engine driver working on Thomas Furphy’s it contained fourteen cases of liquor, two full
chaff cutting machine at Mr Park’s farm north of whisky demijohns and cordials amounting to
Romsey, came to town on errands for Mr Furphy. £60. McCormick later found fourteen bottles
Late that night he sought accommodation at the

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of schnapps hidden under a mattress in a shed Transactions having legal ramifications
behind the hotel. When questioned, Hedley were always recorded in Rose’s name, thus
asserted that someone must have stolen and quarantining Robert’s liability.
stashed the bottles during the fire.
The Assault
Witnesses testified that initially flames came
only from the billiard room. Constable Mills and In June 1910 Robert Hedley successfully applied
John Keen, at first, saw no fire in the storeroom, for a wine licence to operate The Australian Wine
but a few minutes later policemen Mills and Saloon in Warracknabeal, much to the annoyance
McCormick found the storeroom well alight. They of police who opposed the application citing the
could see no connection between the billiard Romsey Jack affair.28
room and storeroom fires.22 Keen reported seeing
Robert Hedley outside the storeroom during the As Rose worked alone in the saloon about 4pm
commotion. The storeroom and billiard room fires on Tuesday 13 December 1910, Frederick Lee, an
seemingly independently combusted. In fact the itinerant agricultural worker with a prison record
two locations were separated by 26 feet and two for violence, and who was known for drunken
stone walls, each eighteen inches thick. behaviour, entered the bar. With no one else about,
Rose felt uncomfortable. Lee requested a drink
While neighbours and police fought the fire, which she refused. She then walked to the kitchen.
neither Rose nor Robert Hedley checked James He followed, threw her to the ground, pinned her
Dick’s hotel room. Senior Constable McCormick down and tore at her blouse and petticoat while
testified that, when he later asked Rose Hedley, he groped at her thigh. Rose managed to break
‘How could you not remember this morning this free and ran next door to William Noske’s grocery
man (Dick) being in the hotel?’ she replied, ‘I shop in a distressed state. Rose was traumatised
forgot all about it as I was so excited and upset’. and badly bruised. She became ill and vomited for
several days afterwards.29

Mr Maxwell presented no defence witnesses Lee was arrested, charged with assault with intent
and led no evidence, simply asserting that many to commit rape and tried in the Ballarat Supreme
people had access to the hotel that night and, Court on 1 February 1911. He was found guilty
given the chaos, anyone might have dropped and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour in
a match.23 Mr Justice Hodges displayed his Pentridge Prison. The judge commented that, but
frustration: for the jury’s recommendation of mercy because
Mrs Hedley wasn’t actually raped, he would have
It seems to be another illustration of ‘’Nero was ordered a flogging.30
fiddling while Rome was burning’’. Here was this
man smoking a cigar whilst his hotel was on fire.... The Accident
The question is, how did the fire originate in two
separate parts of the building?24 The 1915 electoral roll shows Robert James
Hedley living at Tallarook.31 There’s no sign of
Nonetheless, in summing up, His Honour told Rose. Perhaps she drifted back to Melbourne. On
the jury that mere suspicion was not enough 28 January 1925, Rose, 51, was admitted to the
to convict, they had to be sure of guilt in such a Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Cheltenham, a
serious case. The Jury retired for three hours hospital for ill and destitute Melburnians. Although
before returning a not guilty verdict.25 separated from her husband, she was described
as a widow, anxious to receive the pension.32 Late
The Aftermath on Friday 11 July 1927, while on leave from the
Asylum, she stepped on to a train at Mentone
Two days after the fire, the Hedleys lodged claim station, but fell between the platform and train,
forms with the insurance companies which paid sustaining severe injuries including a fractured
£900 for the building loss and £290 for furniture skull and hip. She was taken, unconscious, to the
and stock. The land and remaining outbuildings Melbourne Hospital.33 She recovered and was
were sold by auction on 19 July 1909.26 readmitted to the Asylum till 1928.

The Licensing Reduction Board, established A Sad End
in 1906 to reduce the number of poorly run,
uneconomic hotels, met in Romsey in August 1909 From 1929 to 1935 Rose, probably ill, appears
to consider Rose Hedley’s compensation claim at several Fitzroy addresses, possibly cheap
for the ‘closure’ of her hotel. Upon surrendering boarding houses. In 1935 she was admitted to
her licence the Board awarded her £255.27 James Mont Park Mental Hospital, Bundoora, as an
Dick’s children probably received nothing. involuntary patient. On 15 October 1936, she
was in a maniacal and unmanageable state and
Were Robert and Rose Hedley partners in was ‘put to bed’, suggesting permanent physical
crime, or was she manipulated by her husband? restraint or isolation. She died in the hospital

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Rose Anne Hedley

Image 2: Mont Park Mental Hospital where Rose died in 1937

in June 1937, aged 64, from chronic alcoholism. that killed him, but it was she who gave him a
The inquest report describes her as emaciated, hotel room and forgot him.
suffering alcoholic dementia, and displaying
‘restless and destructive’ behaviour.34 In 1943 Rose’s estranged husband, Robert James
Hedley, also died in a psychiatric hospital –
Was Rose’s descent into alcohol-fuelled madness Mount Royal Hospital, Royal Park.35 They had no
triggered by remorse at her part in the death of children.
James Augustus Dick? She didn’t light the fire

References 19. ‘A Lodger’s Fate’, The Argus 28 April 1909 p7
1. Herald Sun 31 October 2013 20. The Inquest Deposition files, the Supreme
2. Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages
3. Diann Talbot, The Buckland Valley Goldfield, Court trial briefs, the witness testimonies
and affidavits, police interviews and police
p147 statements are contained in the following
4. ‘New Insolvents’, The Australasian file: The King v Robert James Hedley, PROV
Criminal Trial Briefs and Registers 1892-
13 December 1884 p32 1932 VPRS 30
5. Sands & McDougall Directory of Melbourne 21. The Age 3 October 1907
6. City of Fitzroy Rate Books, 2 November 1893 22. ibid
23. ‘Burnt in an hotel’, The Argus 30 June 1909
PROV series 2336 p9
7. Inquest Deposition Files 1898 PROV 24. ibid
25. ibid
VPRS 24/PO 26. ‘Advertising’, The Argus 17 July 1909 p3
8. Victoria Police Gazette 8 June 1898 p178 27. ‘The Reduction Board’, The Argus 21 August
9. Victoria Births Deaths and Marriages 1909 p20
10. ‘Metropolitan Licencing Court’, The Age 28. Sunbury News 9 July 1910
29. Testimony of Rose Hedley in The King v
4 February1902 p8 Frederick Lee PROV Criminal Trial Briefs
11. ‘Advertising’, The Age 25 July 1899 p3 and Registers 1892-1932 VPRS 30
12. ‘Notice of Application for a Roadside 30. ‘Offences Against Females, Remarks by the
Judge’, Ballarat Star 2 February 1911 p4
Victuallers Licence’, The Colac Herald 31. Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, 1915
28 November 1904 p3 Division of Echuca, Subdivision Seymour
13. Hotel plan–The King v Robert James Hedley 32. Melbourne Benevolent Asylum records,
PROV Criminal Trial Briefs & Registers State Library of Victoria, General Register of
1892-1932 VPRS 30 Inmates F Box 626/9
14. ‘The Turf’, The Herald 22 January 1908 p5 33. ‘Woman Seriously Injured’, The Argus
15. ‘Miscellaneous Notes’, The Australasian 27 July 1927
4 January 1908 p16 34. Inquest Deposition Files PROV 1937
16. The Otago Witness 31 July 1907 and VPRS24/PO
1 January 1908 35. Victorian Births Deaths and Marriage
17. ‘Notes and Chat’, The Argus 23 January 1908
p4
18. ‘Sporting Notes’, Weekly Times 19 May 1894
p12 and ‘A Disqualification’, The Age 28
March 1894 p7

Surnames
Brady, Cavan, Cole, Cussen, Dethridge, Dick, Hedley, Johnson, Keen, Knott, Lee, McCormick,
Maxwell, Mills, Moran, Noske, Pitcher, Wright

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Family Connections Across
the Generations

by Jane Vanderstoel

Jane can be contacted at I was inspired by the recent articles in Ancestor to Australia in 1854, just after the death of their
[email protected] about uncanny family connections across the mother, by their father John Stevenson, a Scottish
generations to share two of my own. My parents radical.2 By 1857 the family had settled in Maldon
were very keen genealogists in the 1980s and where John was involved in public life as a
1990s and members of the GSV. They had councillor and magistrate and had a reputation as
undertaken extensive research into both their a fierce and difficult man.
families and that of my husband. Since my
parents passed away I have kept all their research I surmised there could not be too many
materials, certificates and index cards. Menhennitt families in Victoria and found that
the two Menhennitts who connected our families
In late December 2014 there was an article in The were brother and sister. Their father Thomas
Age newspaper about Donald Bradman having Henry Menhennitt was born in Truro, Cornwall
Italian heritage via an Italian sailor who settled in and emigrated to Australia and married Fanny
NSW in 1826.1 I knew my husband’s family was Bailey (born in Chatham, Kent) in South Australia
connected to the Bradmans so I wondered if the in 1852. After the death of their first child in
Italian link was the same. I rummaged through infancy they moved to Sandhurst (Bendigo) in
my boxes and in Dad’s index file there he was: Victoria where they had another six children.
Emmanuel Sebastiano Denaro (aka Neich), three
times great grandfather of my husband and great In my daughter-in-law’s family Edward Peel
grandfather of Donald Bradman. and Sarah Hannah Toogood, both from Durham,
emigrated separately to NSW and married in
This was it for me. I was hooked. I wanted to Newcastle in 1860. In 1869 the family moved to
ensure the future of all the research my parents Sandhurst in Victoria. They had a total of thirteen
had done in a modern format and continue on children with seven dying in infancy. Their eldest
with the family research. I chose to use Ancestry son George Edward Peel born 1861 married
and Family Tree Maker to research and record Matilda Menhennitt in 1885. George Peel is my
the family history. While still working full-time I daughter-in-law’s three times great uncle.
found the research comforting and an antidote to
the work I did. I was excited by the idea that in the late 1800s
siblings Matilda and Samuel Menhennitt brought
At some point in the last three years I became our families together through their marriages
interested in exploring the family history of my to the Peel and Stevenson families and that 100
daughter-in-law to pass on to my grandson. It years later the families would come together
was during this research that I uncovered two through the marriage of my son and his wife.
connections between our families.
The next connection between our two families
The first came while researching her family in goes back to two female convicts on the Lady
central Victoria. I came across an unusual name Juliana. My father’s index cards didn’t go beyond
that rang bells for me: Menhennitt. I went back Emmanuel Sebastiano Denaro (aka Neich) and
to my Dad’s index cards and there it was: Samuel Mary Cuppitt the mother of his child, Sophia
George Menhennitt married Jean Stevenson, my Neich and I’m not surprised by the dead end as
two times maternal great-aunt in 1902. Jean was they were not married and the child appears to be
the daughter of Andrew Stevenson and Margaret the result of an out of marriage liaison, but that is
Gray. Andrew was one of five children bought a story for another time.

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Family Connections

Image 1: A View of Queensborough Norfolk Island attributed to John Eyre about 1804.
(Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales)

If he had been able to go back further my father 1789 of stealing a silver watch and sentenced to
would have been thrilled to find that Mary Cuppitt seven years transportation. Mary was incorrectly
was the granddaughter of a female convict Mary listed as being on board the Neptune but was in
Gittos. Mary was sentenced to seven years at fact transported on the Lady Juliana. When she
the Old Bailey in 1788 for stealing clothing. arrived in Port Jackson in April 1790 she was
She arrived on the Lady Juliana on the 6 June then sent to Norfolk Island aboard the Surprize
1790 and by August was aboard the Surprize for in August 1790. Early Norfolk Island records
Norfolk Island. In February 1791 she was given a show her as being given a pig in February 1791.4
pig to raise from the government herd as the small The marriage did not last, a notice placed by
settlement tried to become more self-sufficient in Samuel in the Sydney Gazette and New South
its production of food.3 On Norfolk Island Mary Wales Advertiser on Saturday 31 October 1812
began a relationship with William Charlton, a stated that: ‘Whereas my Wife, Mary Pickett, has
member of the NSW Corps. They had twelve eloped from my House without any just Cause or
children but did not marry until 1810. Their Provocation … ’. Samuel died in May 1817. In early
daughter Rebecca Charlton was Mary Cuppitt’s 1820 Mary left for Van Diemen’s Land advertising
mother. Rebecca and William Augustus Cuppitt her imminent departure to Hobart Town. Mary
had nine children from 1827 to 1847 but did not died in Hobart in 1824. Mary and Samuel’s
marry until 1853. daughter Jane Pickett went with her mother to
Tasmania and married Thomas Beechey. At some
I researched my daughter-in-law’s maternal line time late in her life she moved to Victoria and died
going back to Durham and Devon in England, in Fryerstown in central Victoria in 1853.
Ireland and Germany, all in the 1800s. I then
received some family history information from It took me a while to put the experiences of
my daughter-in-law’s paternal aunt that gave me these two women together and realise that Mary
a start on her father’s line. I followed generations Gittos, my son’s six times great grandmother
to Durham in England and Scotland on her and Mary Thompson, his wife’s six times great
grandfather’s line and Scotland, Devon and Kent grandmother were both transported on the
in England on her grandmother’s side. same ship to Australia, the Lady Juliana. They
were transported on another ship, the Surprize
Then I began to follow a line that had to Norfolk Island. In February 1791, they stood
generations born in Victoria and Tasmania and in line to be given a pig each to begin feeding
found more convicts. themselves and others. I would like to assume
that they knew each other, they may not have been
Samuel Pickett convicted in 1786 of stealing friends but it would be highly unlikely that they
100 yards of woollen druggett and sentenced were strangers.
to death that was commuted to seven years
transportation. Samuel arrived on the First Fleet It is the joy of family history research that when
aboard the Charlotte and is the six times great my son fell in love with his wife there were some
grandfather of my daughter-in-law. Samuel serendipitous family connections yet to be
married Mary Thompson, who was convicted in discovered.

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Family Connections First to find that through my line our families came our families first entwined with a shared history
together bumping gently up against each other in of two women who suffered poverty and hardship
the separate marriages of a brother and sister into both in England and the new colonies in Australia
each of our families four generations ago. Then but endured and created the foundations of
to uncover an amazing connection through my generations to come. 
husband’s line that over eight generations ago that

References
1. www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/joe-burns-family-folklore-about-donald-bradman-

finally-set-straight-20141227-12ego0.html (Accessed 12th September 2018)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_War (Accessed 6th January 2019)
3. www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/4313 (Accessed 12th September 2018)
4. www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/9031 (Accessed 12th September 2018)
Details of other sources are available from the author, and include birth, marriage and death
certificates and registrations from Victoria and New South Wales, Convict Indents 1788-1842,
Colonial Secretary’s Papers 1788-1856 and Settler and Convict Lists 1787-1834, Trove (National
Library of Australia) and personal papers.

Surnames

Bailey, Beechey, Bradman, Charlton, Cuppitt, Denaro, Gittos, Gray, Menhennitt, Neich, Peel, Pickett,
Stevenson, Thompson, Toogood

More 2018 GSV Awards

Images 1 & 2: As they missed the AGM, President Jenny Redman presented Maurice Majurey with his Medal
for Meritorious Service, and Helen Pearce with her certificate as winner of the 2018 GSV Writing Prize at the
volunteers’ morning tea. Details are in the December Ancestor, pp20-21. Photos by Meg Bate.

GSV 2019 Writing Prize

The prize this year is a Worldwide 12 month subscription to Ancestry, an Ancestry DNA kit
plus publication in the December issue of Ancestor.

Entries should:

• be between 1200 and 2400 words
• be the author’s own original work
• not have been previously published in any format
• have a family history / genealogy theme
• contain appropriate citations to documents and other works

Authors must be a member of the GSV or one of the Member Societies. Up to four images
may be included. Closing date 5.00 pm on 31 August 2019. Full details and entry form will
be on the GSV website in early March.

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DNA and Family History presentations DNA
and research tutorials 2019 at the GSV

by Jenny Redman

DNA Presentations using other sites and more advanced techniques to
progress your family history.
Presentations on various DNA topics will continue
to be scheduled monthly, with sessions repeated Module 4: Introduction to DNA Painter
based on Members’ needs. At present we have five
presentations on offer in the form of Modules. It is DNA Painter is an online tool that enables you to
strongly recommended that Modules 1-4 be taken upload shared segment data from other sites so
in order. Presentation sessions are 90 minutes. that you can create a profile of the DNA you have
inherited. It also provides various ways you can
Module 1: DNA Testing – Should I do it? use these profiles to break through brick walls in
your family history and identify unknown matches.
This is an introductory presentation for people The session will explain how to create a profile and
thinking about doing a DNA test. It considers the upload data from other sites. It will also provide an
various reasons for testing DNA and will explain overview of the various ways to use DNA Painter to
the different types of tests and testing companies, solve some of your DNA family history mysteries.
and what the results will tell you. It will explain The session is intended for people who have done
what is involved in providing DNA samples, who an autosomal DNA test and have at least a basic
should take the tests and privacy issues. It will also understanding of DNA segment information.
explain how to develop a family tree to use with
your DNA results. This presentation will help you Module 5: Introduction to Y DNA
decide whether you want to do DNA testing and the
most appropriate test to take. The presentation is for people interested in tracing
the male line of their family tree using the Y DNA
Module 2: Introduction to using your test. It will focus on the Family Tree Y DNA test. It
Ancestry DNA results is an introductory session and will cover who can
take the test, the different levels of testing, and how
This presentation is for beginners in DNA who Y DNA tests can be used in your family history. It
are starting to use their Ancestry DNA results. It will briefly explain haplogroups and ancient origins
is intended for people who have their Ancestry of your ancestors. It will also provide an overview
DNA results or who have tested and are waiting of the Y DNA test results and how to interpret
for their results. It will explain some DNA basics them. Y DNA is particularly important in tracing
and the various results you receive. The focus is the paternal line and surnames, and can be used to
understanding your Ancestry DNA results so you investigate brick walls and mysteries related to male
can use your DNA matches and to extend your lineage. The Y DNA test also enables you to join
family history. After attending this presentation, surname groups and haplotype groups which can
you will understand your Ancestry DNA results and provide additional information about your ancestry.
how to use them in your family history research.
DNA Research Tutorials
Module 3: Strategies for analysing
autosomal DNA results DNA Research Tutorials are small group sessions
that focus on a specific topic related to genetic
For intermediate DNA users who want to go further genealogy. The tutorials will explore more fully
with understanding and using their autosomal DNA some of the topics from the monthly GSV DNA
results to progress their family history research. presentations. Tutorials will be held monthly. The
The presentation will cover downloading DNA data aim is to help people to use DNA to advance their
and uploading it to other sites such as Gedmatch. It family history research. Each tutorial will have a
will introduce some online tools that can help you facilitator who will do the presentation and lead
better understand your autosomal DNA results. the tutorial but sessions are intended to be both
It will also explain a number of strategies such as practical and participatory. Participants will be
how to identify paternal and maternal lines, how to expected to bring relevant materials such as their
analyse DNA segments and matches, and how to use family tree, DNA data, and if possible their own
methods such as triangulation and DNA mapping to laptop, and be willing to contribute their questions
progress your family history. This presentation will and ideas on the topic. Research tutorials are 120
help you explore your autosomal DNA more fully by minutes.

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Resources for Searching for
Burials in Victoria

by David Down

David can be contacted at Obtaining the burial information of your The GMCT website (www.gmct.com.au) offers
[email protected] ancestors can provide a wealth of information both a burial database search and a mapping
both about the deceased and in many cases facility for the majority of their cemeteries. A
20 • their relatives. More and more records are being search will result in a list of names meeting your
digitised and made available online and this search criteria and an indication of whether a
article will point to a number of resources that map is available. Click on the link and a map will
you can use to assist with your research. open in a new tab. You can generate a printable
map by clicking on the ‘Print Map to PDF’ icon on
Death Certificates the top right-hand corner of the web page. If a map
is not generated then you may need to ensure that
A death certificate is the first document to your browser will allow pop-ups. The map of the
consult when searching for the burial place of location of the grave, such as the example shown
your ancestor. There is provision on Victorian here, also lists the names of the deceased located
death certificates to record the date and place on adjacent plots which is especially helpful when
of burial, the undertaker’s name, the name and searching for the plot at the cemetery.
religion of the officiating minister and the names
of witnesses. The information provided does not Many other cemeteries in Melbourne and other
indicate the burial plot within the cemetery and parts of Victoria offer online burial searches
this will need to be obtained from other sources. or will provide a search service if contacted.
The Australian Cemeteries website (www.
Birth, Deaths and Marriages Victoria maintain an australiancemeteries.com.au) has links to
excellent website where you can search for, and online databases where available.
then purchase, digital images of certificates. Their
search engine is powerful and the use of a wildcard Know your cemetery
character helps to narrow down your search.
It is important to understand the details of any
Cemetery Burial Records database that you are searching and you need to
familiarize yourself with the full nature of the
There are two major Cemetery Trusts in records covered by a particular database. For
Melbourne. The Greater Metropolitan example, you may locate a death certificate that
Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) is responsible for indicates that the deceased was buried in Coburg
nineteen cemeteries located in an arc across the Cemetery. If the burial occurred between 1860,
northern suburbs. The Southern Metropolitan the date that the cemetery opened, and 1872 then
Cemeteries Trust (SMCT) is similarly the event will not appear in the online burial
responsible for nine cemeteries in the southern database. The burial records from these early
Melbourne suburbs. There are a number of other years have not been located.
Melbourne cemeteries that are under the control
of Councils or Trusts. GSV Resources

The SMCT website (www.smct.org.au) contains The GSV holds a wealth of information about
a facility which enables searches of the burial Victorian cemeteries and burials. Start by
databases for Bunurong Memorial Park, Springvale searching the catalogue remembering that the
Botanical Cemetery and St Kilda Cemetery. Work wildcard character can only be used at the end
is currently underway to grant public access to of a search term. The Society’s Cemeteries
the burial databases of the other cemeteries under Database is a repository of indexed memorials
their administration. Read their search help page from over 600, primarily Victorian, cemeteries.
carefully as it is possible to find other deceased The memorials are indexed by name and linked to
individuals recorded at the same location. This a scan of the transcribed headstone or memorial.
information can assist to clearly identify a We are constantly adding records so it is
particular plot where numbers are absent. important to check the database regularly.

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Image 1: The GMCT website provides maps and
information concerning those buried in a plot:
Sample from the Coburg Cemetery showing the
Watson family

Friends of Cemetery Groups The Trove website (trove.nla.gov.au) is also an important
resource for all aspects of your family history research. Their
Friends of Cemeteries Groups have grown over time and collection of digitised newspapers, government gazettes,
exist for many Victorian cemeteries. Most will answer magazines, books, pictures and maps grows continually.
queries regarding burial searches and may provide images
of memorials if they exist. Many have their own websites An understanding of the history of the cemetery in which
whilst others provide contact details on the Australian your ancestor is buried will greatly enhance your family
Cemeteries website. history as will an appreciation of the history of the practices
relating to death and dying in Australia across the ages.
Websites
Recommended Books
The Australian Cemeteries website (www.
australiancemeteries.com.au) offers a comprehensive • Gilbert, Lionel A, A Grave Look at History: Glimpses of a
index of cemeteries throughout Australia and lists, for each, Vanishing Form of Folk Art, Sydney, John Ferguson, 1980
the resources available to assist in searching for burials and
transcripts or images of memorials. • Sagazio, Celestina, ed., Cemeteries: Our Heritage,
Melbourne, National Trust of Australia, 1992
Cora Num’s website (www.coraweb.com.au) has an
extensive list of resources for tracing burials and memorials • Jalland, Pat, Australian Ways of Death: A Social and
in Victorian and other Australian cemeteries. Cultural History 1840-1918, Melbourne, Oxford
University Press, 2002
The Ryerson Index (www.ryersonindex.org) is a free
index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. • Kellehear, Allan, ed., History of Death and Dying in
The date range covered extends from early Sydney Australia, Melbourne, Oxford university Press, 2000
newspapers to newspapers published recently. The Index
also includes funeral notices and some probate notices and • Griffin, Graeme M & Tobin, Des, In the Midst of Life:
obituaries. This is an important site to visit when searching The Australian Response to Death, Carlton, Melbourne
for burial information. University Press, 1997

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Book Reviews Book Reviews Reviews by Martin Playne, Margaret Vines
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1. Blue Lake: finding Dudley Flats and the West As the story of the Serbian campaign is told we are shown the role
Melbourne Swamp of the volunteers at each stage. For example the medical volunteers,
having anticipated treating casualties, found themselves dealing
Author: David Sornig 392pp ISBN: 9781925322743 with a typhus epidemic. Later, in October 1916, they had to
evacuate across the mountains with the retreating Serbian Army
Pub: Scribe, Brunswick, Vic., 2018 and Government, in the face of a joint assault by Germany and
Austria from the north and Bulgaria from the east. Some of them
This study of the old West Melbourne swamp focuses on the returned to Serbia in November 1916 for the retaking of Monastir
inhabitants. It begins with a homeless woman, Elsie and her last and from September 1918, the victorious drive of the Serbian and
days and death in her humpy on the Dudley Flats. It is a confronting allied armies to Belgrade.
description, an imaginative re-creation.
The author estimates just under one and a half thousand
The author follows the history of the ‘Swamp’ from the Blue Lake Australian and NZ people served in the Serbia/Salonika campaign.
filled with birdlife, pre white settlement to the days of the boiling As well as the medical volunteers there were soldiers serving in the
down works of the 1840s and the mud, rubbish and noxious British army, an AIF transport unit, volunteers in the Serbian army,
fumes of the Tip. Later there was the Fishermans Bend Cutting observers in RAF planes and sailors in the Australian navy and
and creation of Coode Island in the 1880s, Victoria Dock in the merchant navy supplying the campaign.
1890s and the Bonfire of the Pianos at the tip in 1914. It needed
a good detailed map or two to locate the area rather than the A large number of Annexes (and an index) complete the book,
impressionistic one hidden on page 288. including a large number of biographies, statistical information,
lists of personnel such as of those awarded Serbian decorations,
The author deliberately uses ‘the tools of the novelist’ to re-create and a description of the efforts back in Australia to assist Serbia
the lives of three representative characters – Elsie Carr, Jack during the war. It is a most useful work for those exploring WW1,
Peacock and the German Lauder Rogge. Elsie had been a singer, the and for Serbian and Australian family historians. MV
‘Black Nightingale’. Jack was ‘the king of Dudley Flats’ a horseman,
carter, riding instructor, horse trainer and tip-scavenger, while 3. The Vanished Land – Disappearing dynasties of
Lauder Rogge was ex German Navy, a mariner and naturalised Victoria’s Western District
Australian detained in WW1 and a doglover. Each in their way
were isolates, pushed out of society, coming to Dudley Flats during Author: Richard Zachariah 316pp ISBN: 978 1 74305 501 4
the 1930s depression. Pub: Wakefield Press, Mile End, South Australia, 2017

In drawing attention to an area which has now disappeared, the At first glance, it may seem surprising to review this book in a
book raises issues still with us – homelessness, social isolation and genealogical magazine. I did review in a recent issue, two books (by
poverty – reminding us as family historians to be inclusive. MV Margaret Kiddle and Maggie Black) on the early European settlers
of the Western District of Victoria. In many ways this book is a
2. Our Forgotten Volunteers: Australians and sequel to those historical volumes. Furthermore, it holds names of
New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One many persons resident in western Victoria in the last 70 years, and
as such is a useful genealogical record. It has a good names index.
Author: Bojan Pajic 491pp ISBN: 9781925 801446
The author was brought up in Hamilton in the heart of the Western
Pub: Arcadia, N. Melbourne, Vic., 2018 Available in GSV Library District in the fifties, and had a career as a journalist. In this book,
he has brought that background and those skills to bear with the
This interesting and worthwhile project aims to commemorate the numerous personalities he interviewed while researching this
volunteers in a WW1 campaign which is often overlooked in the book. The book contains 34 chapters – each devoted to one or more
Australian concentration on Gallipoli and France. It records the established western district families, nearly all of whom have been
participation of Australians and New Zealanders in the Serbian graziers, and many of them descended from the early squatters.
campaign, and the research also linked with their descendants. In Zachariah imparts to the reader very successfully why the wool
the latter the GSV assisted the author, and he thanks, in particular, industry has declined from its peak in the booming fifties to the
Linley Hooper and Yvonne Izatt. present day. In many ways, this is a sad story of the passing of
established wealthy families running large properties and having
Though the war began in the Balkans with the assassination of tremendous political influence. His writing clearly shows that he
the Austrian Archduke, this battlefront was neglected both at the understands and loves these people and their often extravagant
time and since. Serbia was fighting on the British side against lifestyles. He has taken the trouble to interview a large cross-
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, but was generally left to section of the district to give a balanced picture, and to argue his
fend for itself. It was invaded by Austria in 1914 and appealed for thesis on the passing of so many dynasties. MJP 
help from the Allies – for both armaments and medical personnel
and equipment. A multiplicity of medical units volunteered under
the Red Cross umbrella. Many had Australian and NZ volunteers
– doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers. Many were women.
Each unit and its activity are described, often in the words of the
volunteers themselves, including some interesting observations
from volunteer and author Miles Franklin.

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Additions to the Library See the library catalogue for full details, Additions to Library
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 admission refused, persons who passed the Gentry Roll; The First Tinners Roll;
descriptions. All listed LDS microfilms are dictation test and departures of coloured The Second Tinners Roll; The Borough
held in the LDS Long Term Loans Cabinets. persons from Australia. York, Barry. Rolls; Launceston (1) & (2), Liskeard,
Request by film number at the Information (Victoria University) [GSV: 325.94 YOR] Lostwithiel, Truro, Bodmin, Helston,
Desk. Thank you to all donors to the library Our forgotten volunteers: Australians & Saltash, Camelford, West Looe,
collection. New Zealanders with Serbs in World War Grampound, East Looe, Penryn, Tregony,
One. Pajic, Bojan. (Bojan Pajic) [GSV: Bossiney, St. Ives, Fowey, St. Germans,
Abbreviation used: 940.40994 PAJ] {Review} Mitchell otherwise St. Michael, St.
ISG = International Settlers Group Mawes, Callington, Falmouth, Penzance,
(...) = Donor’s name, if not the author VICTORIA Marazion, The Isles of Scilly, The Clergy
Remember respect rejoice: our service of the Diocese of Exeter, The MPs Roll.
FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY personnel we salute you 1939-1945: (Hawke, Stephen) [Digital copy at GSV]
BRADLEY FAMILY Pyramid Hill & District happenings &
Convicted: a fascinating history of colonial letters home from WW2. Pyramid Hill & LANCASHIRE
Australia retold through three generations District Historical Society. Helen Stevens, The registers of Sacred Trinity Upholland
of one family. Bradley, Peter. (Bate, M) ed. [GSV: 994.54 PYRA PYR] 1813-1841. Lancashire Parish Register
[GSV: 929.2 BRAD BRA] Society. Transcribed by K T Taylor.
LINKLATER FAMILY EUROPE (Lancashire Parish Register Society; v.
From oaks to gums: v. 18 Robert Linklater 190). (Subs) [GSV: 929.3342 LAN LAN]
from the Shetland Islands. Smith, Margaret GERMANY
& Eric Smith. [Digital copy at GSV] German residential records for SUFFOLK
WISEWOULD FAMILY genealogists: tracking your ancestor from Suffolk baptism index 1754-1812: Dunwich
Dr Gweneth Wisewould: Trentham and place to place in Germany. Minert, Roger. deanery. Suffolk FHS. Contents:
district doctor 1938-1972. Garner, Beatrice. (ISG) [GSV: 929.143 MIN] Aldringham cum Thorpe St Andrew,
Includes her poems. (Garner, B.M) [GSV: Benacre St Michael, Blyford, All Saints,
929.2 WISE GAR] LITHUANIA Blythburgh Holy Trinity, Bramfield St
WUCHATSCH FAMILY Lithuanian artists in Australia 1950-1990. Andrew (1754-1812), Brampton St Peter,
Sarka to Westgarthtown: the Wuchatatsch Kazokas, Genovaite. (Victoria University) 1760-1812, Carlton, St Peter, Chediston St
in Germany and Australia. Wuchatsch, [GSV: 700.899192 KAZ] Mary, Cookley St Michael, Covehithe St
Robert N. Contents: The author was Andrew, Cratfield St Mary, Darsham All
raised in an 1850s bluestone farmhouse at SWITZERLAND Saints, Dunwich All Saints, Frostenden All
Westgarthtown, Victoria’s first German Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Saints, Halesworth St Mary, Henstead St
settlement, located in today’s northern Canton of Vaud (Waadt) with full index of Mary, Heveningham St Margaret, Holton
Melbourne suburbs of Thomastown included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map St Peter, Huntingfield St Mary, Kelsale St
and Lalor. Rob Wuchatsch’s great- guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 7). (ISG) Mary & St Peter, Knodishall St Lawrence,
grandparents, the Wends Johann & [GSV: 912.494 HAN] Leiston St Margaret with Sizewell,
Magdalene Wuchatsch, settled there in Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Canton Linstead Magna St Peter, Linstead Parva
1850 shortly after arrival from Upper of Zurich with full index of included St Margaret, Middleton cum Fordley Holy
Lusatia in the Kingdom of Saxony. By the towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to Trinity, Peasenhall St Michael, Reydon St
1950s, Westgarthtown was a 19th Century Swiss parish registers; v. 3). (ISG) [GSV: Margaret, Rumburgh St Michael, Sibton
enclave of stone farmhouses, stables 912.494 HAN] St Peter, Sotherton St Andrew (1754-
& milking shed, bordered & divided by Map guide to Swiss parish registers: 1812), South Cove St Lawrence (1755-
seemingly endless drystone walls. At Cantons of Lucerne, Obwalden, 1812), Southwold St Edmund, Spexhall,
its heart was an old Lutheran church & Nidwalden and Schwyz with full index of St Peter, Stoven St Margaret (1755-
cemetery. This book tells the story of the included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map 1812), Theberton St Peter, Thorington
Wuchatsch family in Germany & Australia guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 9). (ISG) St Peter, Ubbeston St Peter, Uggeshall
from the early 1700s. Profusely illustrated, [GSV: 912.494 HAN] St Mary (1753-1812), Walberswick St
it covers in narrative style the lives of Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Andrew, Walpole St Mary, Wangford
Johann, Hanna & Magdalene Wuchatsch; Cantons of Solothurn, Basel-Landschaft, (nr Southwold), St Peter, Wenhaston St
their children; grandchildren; & great- Basel-Stadt and Schaffhausen with full Peter, Westhall St Andrew, Westleton St
grandchildren. Subsequent generations index of included towns. Hansen, Kevan Peter, Wissett, St Andrew (1754-1818),
are included in family tree form. Parts of M. (Map guide to Swiss parish registers; v. Wrentham St Nicholas, Yoxford, St Peter
the book are in German as well as English 8). (ISG) [GSV 912.494 HAN] (1754-1812) (Purchase) [Computer]
so Wuchatsch relatives in each country
can read them. (Author) [GSV: 929.2 UNITED KINGDOM SUSSEX
WUCH WUC] Church surveys of Chichester
YEAMAN FAMILY ENGLAND archdeaconry 1602, 1610 & 1636. Sussex
Across that far horizon: the Yeaman family Our criminal ancestors: sources for Record Society. Edited by Joan Barham
in Australia. Yeaman, Marisa. [GSV 929.2 researching your criminal past: an & Andrew Foster. (Sussex Record
YEAM YEA] {Copies available from www. introduction to the criminal justice Society; v. 98). Contents: Aldingboume,
historicpaths.com cost $49.99} system and material held at the Hull All Saints Chichester, Angmering,
History Centre and East Riding of Appledram, Arundel, Ashington, Ashurst,
AUSTRALIA Yorkshire Archives. East Riding of Barlavington, Bepton, Bersted, Bignor,
Immigration restriction 1901-1957: annual Yorkshire Archives. Written & compiled Billingshurst, Binsted, Birdham, Botolph,
returns as required under the Australian by Victoria Dawson, Helen Johnston & Bramber, Buncton, Burton, Chidham,
Immigration act between 1901 and 1957 Heather Shore. [GSV: 364.3 EAS] Chiltington , Chithurst, Climping,
on persons refused admission, countries Cocking, Compton, Coombes, Didling,
whence they arrived, grounds on which CORNWALL Donnington, Duncton, Durrington,
The 1696 association oath rolls for Earnley, Eartham, Easeboume, East Dean,
Cornwall. by Richard Polkinghorne
& Richard G Grylls. Contents: The

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Additions to Library East Lavant, East Marden, East Preston, SCOTLAND Goroke cemetery register and headstones
East Wittering, Eastergate, Egdean, Admission register of Notaries Public in 14/3/1890 - 13/9/1982. GSV Wimmera
Elsted, Felpham, Fernhurst, Ferring, Scotland: v. 1 1860-1899; v. 2 1800-1859. Group.
Findon, Fishboume, Fittleworth, Ford, Scottish Record Society. Edited by John Goroke private cemeteries: ‘Pleasant
Funtington, Goring, Graffham, Greatham, Finlay. (Scottish Record Society; new Banks’ station cemetery 1866-1893 &
Green Wiston, Hardham, Heene, series v. 43). (Subs) [GSV: 941.1005 SCO] ‘Mortat’ private cemetery 1850-1877. GSV
Heyshott, Horsham, Houghton, Hunston, Calendar of Scottish supplications to Wimmera Group.
Iping, Itchingfield, Kingston, Kirdford, Rome: v. 6, 1471-1492. Scottish Record Guildford cemetery records 1871-1st Nov
Lancing, Linchmere, Littlehampton, Society. Edited by Alan Macquarrie, 1998. Fairweather, L.
Lodsworth, Lordington, Lurgashall, Roland J Tanner & the late Annie I Mallacoota West cemetery headstones
Lyminster, Madehurst, Merston, Mid Dunlop. (Scottish Record Society; new 1913-1984. Barraclough, Linda.
Lavant, Middleton, Midhurst, North series v. 42). (Subs) [GSV: 941.1005 SCO] Murchison cemetery headstones Sep 1865
Marden, North Mundham, North Stoke, to 18 Feb 1983. Jones, Constance L.
Northchapel, Nuthurst, Oving, Pagham, GENERAL Pennyweight Flat Cemetery (for children)
Parham, Patching, Petworth, Poling, Referencing for genealogists: sources and 1852-1855. Headstones transcribed by
Pulborough, Racton, Rogate, Rudgwick, citation. Macdonald, Ian G. [GSV: 929.1 Connie Jones & Nancy Roberts. Contents:
Rumboldswhyke, Rusper, Rustington, MAC] List of proved & possible burials 1852-
Selham, Selsey, Shipley, Sidlesham, Worlds apart: migration in modern English 1857; Headstones 1852-1855; Map and
Singleton, Slindon, Slinfold, Sompting, literature. Cauchi, Maurice N. (Victoria newspaper clippings.
South Harting, South Stoke, St Andrew, University) [GSV: 325 CAU] Queenstown (Smith’s Gully) cemetery
St Bartholomew, St Martin, St Olave, St headstones 30/12/1862 - 23/4/1981;
Pancras, St Peter the Great (Subdeanery), Additions and updates to the register 31/7/1831 to 29/4/1981; newspaper
St Peter the Less, Stedham, Steyning, Cemetery Database articles: Digging tales from the graves,
Stopham, Storrington, Stoughton, Pioneers rest easier. Transcribed by Alice
Sullington, Sutton, Tangmere, Tarring, Antwerp cemetery, shire of Dimboola: Curr, with photocopy of register from
Terwick, Thakeham, Tillington, register and headstones 1910-1982. Eltham Shire.
Tortington, Treyford, Trotton, Tuxlith, Transcribed by the GSV Wimmera Group. Stanley cemetery register 2/10/1866 to
Upmarden, Upwaltham, Walberton, Ashens cemetery headstones 1890-1908; 1/7/1997. Craig, Geoffrey Francis.
Warminghurst, Warnham, Warningcamp, includes some Ebenzer Mission cemetery Toongabbie cemetery memorial
Washington, West, West Grinstead, West headstones. Gillespie, John D. inscriptions as at 25 January 1983.
Itchenor, West Stoke, West Thomey, West ‘Golf Hill’ or Leigh cemetery (Shelford), Nathan, John.
Wittering, Westboume, Westhampnett, on private property of the Russell family: Yalca North cemetery headstones
Wiggonholt, Wisborough, Woolavington, headstones 7/7/1844 to 29/5/1907. Reese, 1/10/1895 to 26/5/1977. Nathalia &
Woolbeding, Yapton. (Subs) [GSV: 942.25 Joan. District Historical Society.
SUS] Gormandale cemetery headstones The Norfolk Island cemetery. Zada,
8/11/1895 to 13/7/1982. Compiled by Jean Susie.
McNally & Julie Stevens.

Abbreviations: chn children gg-grandpar great-great-
d died grandparents
anc ancestors dau/s daughter/daughters
desc descendants m married
arr arrived fa father mo mother
fr from m1 first marriage
b&d born and died g-gf great-grandfather m2 second marriage
g-gm great-grandmother par parents
b born g-grandpar great-grandparents sis sister/sisters
unk unknown
bap baptised

bro/s brother/brothers

bur buried

c1803 circa 1803

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Seeking info/desc my g-gf John WARE b c1800 Faringdon/
Hailey OXF/BERKS ENG d 1878 Maryborough VIC (par:
James WARE & Ann COWDEROY) m1 c1825 Maria
WARREN (or KING). Chn: Jane b 1826; James b 1827;
Mary b 1830; John b 1833. John, Jane, James & Mary arr
Port Phillip 1841. Employed by Irish squatter Henry
DWYER at Little River & Grampians; m2 1852 Sarah
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BRICKWAll Corner

Can you help Geoff Langsworth find a death record for Joseph Hankinson?

Joseph HANKINSON married Caroline Mary EDWARDS Caroline Mary Hankinson remarried Thomas East
on 5th March 1845 in Western Australia. They produced FLETCHER in 1885 and later died on 18th May 1890 in
three children, Robert born 1847 Fremantle, WA, William Edenhope. On her death certificate 1890 – 5506 it states
born 1849 Fremantle, WA and Elizabeth born 1851 Vasse, ‘widow 1870. ‘
WA. In 1858 they moved to Edenhope in Western Victoria.
Joseph Hankinson is said to have died about 1870 when Geoff Langsworth
returning home to Edenhope possibly from Adelaide. I have 177 Elizabeth Street
not been able to locate any death records in either Victoria Edenhope, Victoria. 3318.
or South Australia for Joseph. An unsubstantiated story
states he may have been killed in a fight or died in 03 5585 1795
quicksand but neither story can be proven.

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A Guide to Researching
Tasmanian Records

by Margaret Vines

Margaret can Beginning The records available under the Names Index,
be contacted at: can also be accessed separately under their titles.
[email protected] The GSV website Members Area has a Guided There has been considerable digitisation of all the
Research introduction to Tasmania: main Tasmanian records for family history, and
www.gsv.org.au/research-library-members they are now available for free downloading via
this site.
The Libraries Tasmania Home Page is the next
place to go: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Pages/ If you are visiting Hobart, the Libraries Tasmania
Home.aspx building at 91 Murray Street, Hobart, is the hub
for Tasmanian Family History research. In the
This used to be called the LINC website and links same building, on different floors, are the State
together, on the one website, the resources of the Library, the State Archives, the National Archives
Library of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Archives, Tasmanian branch, and the specialist Allport
under categories such as ‘Heritage’ and ‘Family Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
History’. It is a wonderful resource and repays
time spent becoming familiar with it. BDMs: Registry of Births, Deaths and
Marriages
Under ‘Family History’, it has the Tasmanian
Names Index giving fast search access to records The Tasmanian registry does not have an online
of births, deaths and marriages, convict conduct search facility.
records, arrivals and departures, inquests and
wills. Copies of the original records can be Indexes are available through the Libraries/LINC
downloaded. Just type in the full name – the website above. Births and deaths 1803–1933 and
results can then be sorted by filters. marriages 1804–1899 are indexed here and the
record images can be downloaded by clicking on
the resource link. This is a boon compared the
high charges for certificates in other states.

However Tasmanian BDMs, especially early
ones, can be disappointing compared to the
Victorian ones, as there is very little detail. For
example marriage and death records do not give
the parents of those recorded. Refer to the GSV
Guided Research page mentioned above for
details of what is included at various times.

Later Births 1899–1912 are indexed on the
FamilySearch website and images can be
downloaded: www.familysearch.org/search/
collection/2400177

Image 1: State Library of Tasmania, Hobart. All images by author. The GSV Library has the Tasmanian Pioneers
26 • Index and a Federation Index, which covers births
to 1919 and marriages and deaths to 1930. They
are available on GSV computers with the Digger
software. Some early church records, which
missed on inclusion in the Tasmanian Library/
Linc databases are indexed in Buchanan, A.L.,
Index to Tasmanian Deaths/Burials 1787-1840 in
the GSV Library (929.33946 BUC)

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GSV ‘How to’ Series

Image 2: Convict Barracks, Hobart

For more recent certificates see the Tasmanian Also refer to the Female Convicts Research
registry at www.justice.tas.gov.au/bdm Centre. You will need to register first at www.
femaleconvicts.org.au. There is also the
Convicts Cascades Female Factory:
https://femalefactory.org.au.
A Tasmanian Names Index search on the Library/
Linc website provides access to, and downloading
of, all the main documents, but not necessarily
everything in the Archives. The Convict Conduct
Records provide a highly condensed summary of
each convict’s time in Van Dieman’s Land. Refer
to the Library’s ‘Convict Abbreviations’ page to
make sense of all the details, and then write out
your own unabbreviated translation of the record.

Once the Names Index is exhausted, refer to the
‘Tasmanian Archives Guide, Convict Life’, for
further resources. www.libraries.tas.gov.au/
family-history/Pages/Convict-life.aspx

Thanks to Governor Arthur’s reforms of record
keeping in the 1820s, there is a considerable
amount here not just under the CON
classification but under others e.g., CSO, the
Colonial Secretary’s Office.

Port Arthur https://portarthur.org.au is the best
known convict website but there are many others.

Don’t forget that the British Government also kept
convict records. These are most easily accessed in
the Ancestry ‘Convict Collection’ (with HO prefix)

For female convicts, look in the GSV Library for Image 3: Penitentiary Chapel, Hobart
the large and delightfully named book Notorious
strumpets and dangerous girls: convict women in • 27
Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-1829 by Phillip Tardif
(now also a CD). This contains biographies of all
the convict women, and includes mention of their
partners and children.

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Tasmanian Archives (TAHO): catalogue
access is via the Libraries Tasmania website
and in person via the History Room above.
Tasmanian Government Gazettes can be browsed
at FamilySearch under Australia, Tasmania,
Government Gazette, 1833-1925 at www.
familysearch.org/search/collection/2170647
while recent ones are at www.gazette.tas.gov.au.

National Archives of Australia: As in
Melbourne this operates in Hobart in the same
premises as the State Archives. Order items
to be viewed at the Hobart branch of Libraries
Tasmania in the History Room where National
Archives staff are available Wednesday to Friday.

Image 4: Allport Library and Museum, Hobart Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
at 91 Murray St Hobart is a living collection
For orphans there is The Friends of the Orphan of nationally significant Tasmanian colonial
Schools, which also has a contact facility to link paintings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts,
with other descendants. Their records include English and European decorative arts and
convicts’ children and also other orphans. furniture. It is definitely worth a visit, and items
www.orphanschool.org.au/index.php from the collection can also be viewed in the
Library Tasmania History Room
Library of Tasmania
Genealogical and Historical Societies
The central office at 91 Murray Street Hobart in Tasmania
has reception, daily newspapers , the Allport
Library and Museum of Fine Arts, and a café The Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. has
on the ground floor. First floor is the Lending branches in Burnie, Hobart, Huon, Launceston,
Library. Second floor is the Reference Library. and Mersey. See www.tasfhs.org/about.htm
This has a large bank of computers for family for details. Back copies and the index to their
historians, with access to additional material such magazine Tasmanian Ancestry are available at the
as digitised maps, not on the website, and very GSV including on the GSV members website. The
helpful librarians. The reference collection for magazine contains a members’ interests page.
Tasmanian history is also here, as is the entry to Volunteers at each branch will handle research
the History Room. queries for their area.

Reference Librarians will answer research Local history societies exist in many areas, but
questions (on material available only in may not have the resources to help you with
Tasmania) from ‘overseas’ which includes research queries e.g., the Launceston Historical
mainland Australia. Fill in the ‘Research Enquiry’ Society does not. Their websites and publications
form on the website for up to one hour of their may give some history of the town or area. The
time, and allow 20 days for a reply. Tasmanian Historical Research Association is
www.libraries.tas.gov.au/get-help/Pages/ the more academic peak body. The National Trust
help-finding.aspx may also be useful as it is the caretaker of many
important historic sites.
The History Room on the Reference floor of the
Hobart Library gives access to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Genealogy Resources
Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) collection and
has archives rules: i.e., bring photo ID and address Refer to ‘Records on Tasmanian Aboriginals’: this
(e.g., Drivers Licence) to gain accreditation; sign Guide is on the Libraries Tasmania website
in each day after depositing bags in a locker;
and use only pencil and paper or a computer. Land Records
Documents can be scanned, photocopied or
photographed, so bring a USB drive, cash or Early land grants and land holdings were the
camera. Most documents can be ordered and subject of re-examination in the 1830s and
viewed in the History Room. The repository is in 1840s and the Government Gazettes may
Berriedale and open Monday to Friday but most have considerable detail. See FamilySearch
items will be brought to the History Room at the for Australia, Tasmania, Government Gazette,
Hobart Library. 1833-1925 at www.familysearch.org/search/
collection/2170647

These Gazettes also contain annual ratebooks,
for Hobart and other local government areas, so
both owners and occupants can be traced, though

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researchers need to be aware that street numbers
may have changed, as they have in much of old
Hobart. On the Libraries Tasmania website
the guide ‘Researching a building’s history’ is
recommended by their librarians.

Tasmanian Deeds of Land Grants 1804-1935 is
an indexed database available on Ancestry where
original documents can be downloaded.

Libraries Tasmania website has a ‘Land Grants’
page https://libraries.tas.gov.au/archive-
heritage/guides-records/Pages/Land-grants.
aspx which includes this but the Ancestry version
might be easier to search to begin with. Then refer
to the Tasmanian Libraries page which includes
many other digitised documents including maps,
as well as some records only available in the
Hobart library and Archives.

You can search a title at the Land Titles Office, Image 5: Arthurs Circuit, Battery Point, Hobart
Level 1, 134 Macquarie Street, Hobart. See their
website for details and costs and other locations. Cemeteries
https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/land-tasmania/
land-titles-office/general-information/ Almost all cemeteries are covered by the Tamiot
how-to-search-for-land-information/how-to- Index published by the Tasmanian Family History
search-a-torrens-title Society. See this on a computer at the GSV.

Aerial photographs from 1945 are also available The newer cemetery at Cornelian Bay, Hobart is
from the Lands Department – see the website not here but is covered by Millingtons Funeral
again for details and costs. Directors at www.millingtons.com.au/
cemetery-records-search.
Newspapers
Books
Trove carries newspapers: the Hobart Mercury
from 1860 to1954 and Launceston Examiner to See the GSV Library catalogue; these are good
1899, plus a huge number of earlier, lesser known ones to begin with:
or more ephemeral titles. See the GSV library for
published indexes to the Launceston Examiner • James Boyce, Van Dieman’s Land, Black Inc,
family notices up to c1960 2008

A very useful name index is the Wayn card index, • Alison Alexander, Tasmanian Convicts, Allen
which is now searchable online in the Tasmanian and Unwin, 2010
Archives. This is the Index to Tasmanian
Government and Colonial Newspapers, prepared • Henry Reynolds, History of Tasmania, CUP,
in the 1920s by Miss A L Wayn. For some further 2011, and
indexes refer to Meg Bate’s ‘Research Corner’
article in Ancestor December 2018. • The Companion to Tasmanian History,
University of Tasmania, 2005
www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_
tasmanian_history.

The State Library of Victoria has the complete Finally
run of both the Hobart Mercury and the
Launceston Examiner. These are on microfilm The commercial databases are worth checking.
to late 2018 and then in hard copy to the present. Ancestry has a Tasmanian collection: Tasmania,
Microfilms can be ordered and will be available Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records,
within 30 minutes. 1800-1899. In a varied collection, the Tasmanian
Electoral Rolls, selected years from 1914 to 1980,
Images stand out, and findmypast has some Tasmanian
Almanacs and Directories.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has
a strong photographic collection dating from
1848. It is located on the corner of Macquarie
and Argyle Streets and its website is www.tmag.
tas.gov.au. Refer also to their attractive book –
Joanne Huxley, Site: Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery, TMAG, 2008

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Research Corner

Research Guide to Non-Conformist and
Non-Parochial Records on TheGenealogist

Non-Conformist records date from the mid- • Wesleyan Methodist BMD Records
1600s when various groups refused to conform – This Registry was set up in 1818 and
to the Church of England and wanted freedom to provided registration of births and baptisms
worship in their own way. These groups included of Wesleyan Methodists throughout
Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, England, Wales and elsewhere. The registers
Quakers, Methodists, Catholics and Unitarians. continued until 1838, with some retrospective
The number of non-conformists is said to equal registration of births to 1773.
the number following the Church of England,
making these records invaluable.  • Roman Catholic BMD Records – Registers of
births, baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages
Julian Dates for some Roman Catholic communities in
Dorset, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire,
The Julian Calendar was the standard system Northumberland, Nottinghamshire,
until 1752 which was then replaced by the Oxfordshire and Yorkshire.
Gregorian Calendar and the first day of the year
became January 1st. TheGenealogist uses the • Huguenot Records – Huguenots were
date as written, so please be aware of this when members of the French Protestant Church,
searching for dates before March 1752. Consult many of whom, before the French Revolution
Wikipedia for more information. of 1789, left their homes in France to escape
persecution. More than 50,000 of these
What is RG4? refugees came to the British Isles

RG4 are registers (authenticated by the Non- • Other Records – Outside of the UK there
Parochial Registers Commissioners) of births, are some records for Russia, and a range
baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages. They of records from German, Dutch and Swiss
cover 1567 to 1858. churches in England.

• Royal Hospital, Greenwich, 1694 onwards RG8 is the GRO Registers of Births, Marriages

• Dr Williams’ Library, 1742-1865 and Deaths surrendered to the Non Parochial
Registers Commission of 1857 or those which
• Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist were later deposited for safe custody. Among
Registry, 1742-1837 the more extensive collections in this series are
the registers of the British Lying-in Hospital,
• Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Holborn, which record particulars of births and
Registry, 1818-1838 baptisms; registers of burials in the Victoria
Park Cemetery, the New Burial Ground,
• Anglican (Church of England) BMD Southwark, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground,
Records – Registers kept by institutions Hackney, and the Bethnal Green Protestant
outside the normal Church of England parish Dissenters Burying Ground; registers of
structure, such as Greenwich Hospital. Chapels Royal at St James’s Palace, Whitehall
and Windsor Castle. The rest of the series
• Baptist, Independent and Presbyterian contains the archive of the Russian Orthodox
BMD Records – The Protestant Dissenters’ Church in London, 1721-1927. These records are
Registry served the congregations in London under the link RG8 Books.
and within a twelve mile radius. However,
parents from most parts of the British Isles
and even abroad also used the registry. It was
started in 1742, with retrospective entries
going back to 1716, and continued until 1837

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The Lying in Hospital records cover the birth RG6 is the Society of Friends’ (Quakers)
and baptism of children born at the hospital and
may include death dates between 1749 and 1868. Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births,
The records can include: date of admission, name Marriages and Burials ranging from 1578-1841
of woman and husband, occupation, woman’s in England and Wales. Some original birth and
age, parish, came in, went out on leave, returned, burial notes and original marriage certificates
delivered, child baptised, woman discharged, are included. The documents are arranged by
recommender’s name and sometimes more. An Quarterly or Monthly Meetings, which consisted
example from a Register: of a county or combinations of counties. With
these records, it is important to remember that
On the 17th June 1758, Rachel Ward wife of John entries may be recorded in a number of registers,
a staymaker aged 27 of the parish St Martin in the Monthly and/or Quarterly – but differences
Fields was admitted. She gave birth to a boy on may occur and it is worth viewing each record.
the 17th June who was then baptised on the 25th Quakers had the reputation for maintaining the
June with the name Thomas. She was Discharged most meticulous records of births (Quakers did
5th July. Rachel Ward was recommended to the not practise baptism), marriages and deaths.
hospital by Lady Carpenter. Register books began in the late 1650s.

RG5 are birth certificates from the Presbyterian, In 1776, following a decision by the Yearly
Meeting of 1774, the Quakers overhauled their
Independent and Baptist Registry and from the registration system – birth and burial notes were
Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry. They standardised with printed books being provided.
date from 1742 to 1840. These birth notes and register entries contain the
date of birth, place of birth (locality, parish and
Protestant Dissenters’ Registry county), parents’ names (often with the father’s
This Registry at Rev Daniel Williams’ Library, occupation), the child’s name, and witnesses.
Cripplegate, served congregations of Baptists, The post-1776 burial notes and register entries
Independents and Presbyterians. Originally commence with the gravemaker’s name and the
for parents living within 12 miles of London it date the grave was to be made, followed by the
subsequently became open to anyone, regardless burial place and details of the deceased (name,
of distance or denomination, provided a fee was residence, age, date of death), and concludes with
paid. It started in 1742, with retrospective entries the actual date of burial.
going back to 1716, and continued until 1837.
Unlike RG4, RG5 contains only the birth records. The Quakers’ system of registration was so
The increased requirement to provide evidence thorough that when Hardwicke’s Marriage
of birth led the Dissenting Deputies (representing Act was passed in 1753, they were specifically
Baptists, Congregationalists & Presbyterians) to excluded from the requirement to marry in
establish a births register of their children in 1743 Anglican churches. All marriage certificates
at the Dissenters Library. Records contain details were transcribed into Monthly Meeting registers,
of three generations of a family (approximately together with the names of witnesses. In 1794,
200,000 named individuals) between April 6th this requirement for Monthly Meetings to keep
1743 and Dec 30th 1837. full copies of the certificates was rescinded, and
from that date only the books of abstracts were
Wesleyan Methodist Registry kept. These abstracts start with the date of the
The Wesleyan Methodist Registry certificates and marriage, details of the groom (name, residence
entries have the name and sex of the child, name and occupation), the groom’s parents, the bride’s
and address of the father, name of the mother name, her parents, place, and signatures of
and of both her parents, the date and place of witnesses.
birth, the name of the Wesleyan circuit, with the
signature (or name, in the register) of the parents, On the TNA website you can find more content and
witnesses, and the minister. The register contains background information. A continuation of this
details of three generations of each family (about article will appear in the next edition of Ancestor.
50,000 named individuals).
Adapted from the TheGenealogist website by
Linley Hooper, FGSV.

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write

Integrating history into our family stories

As writers of the story of our family, we want to The expense of providing poor relief in early
nineteenth century Britain led to the Poor Law
present more than just a list of facts. To enter Amendment Act of 1834, which authorised the
setting up of workhouses, run by a Board of
imaginatively into the lives of our forebears, Guardians. This Act might have condemned your
ancestors to a miserable existence in a workhouse.
and to be able to write interestingly about One writer discovered that her ancestors came to
Australia because the Board of Guardians solved
By Barbara Beaumont, based on them, we need to delve into the social and the problem of supporting the poor in their area by
subsidising them to emigrate.
discussion at the historical context of their lives, in order to
GSV Writers Circle on see what factors may have influenced them.
5 September 2018. Having found basic records such as birth,
Barbara can be contacted at marriage and death, we have times and
[email protected]

places as starting points for our research.

The big events of history, such as the Industrial If your British ancestors were mill workers or
Revolution, world wars, droughts, famines, the coal miners during the Industrial Revolution,
gold rushes and the Depression, may well have the various Factory Acts and Coal Mines Acts of
impacted our families, but also the smaller, more the 1900s would have gradually brought about
local events, such as the introduction of gas an improvement in their conditions of work and
lighting, the opening of a school, or the advent of a a reduction in their hours. Some Australian and
railway line may have had great significance. New Zealand workers were early beneficiaries of
the eight-hour day movement (as early as 1840 in
Jonathan Oates’ book, Tracing your family history New Zealand and 1856 in Australia), which was
through local history records: a guide for family enshrined in law in Victoria for all workers in 1916.
historians gives good advice about how to go
about your research. As well as the more obvious There are many reasons for the migration of
resources such as major libraries and archives, peoples, including the colonial ambitions of
Oates discusses the value of local history and countries. A British ancestor may have gone
heritage libraries or archives, photos, maps and out to India, South Africa or another colony as
plans, and not least ‘fieldwork’, i.e. a visit to the a member of the Army or the Civil Service, or as
area where your ancestors lived. If you are lucky, a settler. My great-grandfather was in India for
there may still be buildings from the time they six and half years in the British Army. His army
lived there, which will have their own tale to tell. record is available, detailing where he was posted,
and illnesses he suffered from. Research into
The social class and geographical location of our conditions for the ordinary soldier of the time
ancestors’ lives must be taken into consideration. gave me a fuller picture of his journey out and his
George Ewart Evans’ books recording oral life there.
history from Suffolk farm workers have given
me a picture of the grinding conditions of life For those of us whose ancestors came to Australia,
for my nineteenth century Suffolk agricultural we might consider the factors that led them to
labourer ancestors. Other ancestors of mine lived come here, willingly or unwillingly. Obviously the
in London early in the twentieth century when British policy of transportation of people who
the Fabian Society was conducting research into fell foul of the law, which continued until 1868,
working class families in Lambeth. Maud Pember was the reason many found themselves here
Reeves’ book, Round about a pound a week, paints unwillingly. Those who came of their own volition
a vivid portrait of the poor housing, monotonous were often escaping poverty in their land of origin
food affording inadequate nutrition, resultant or seeking better opportunities. The gold rushes
poor health, and the unrelenting struggle to make were a strong pull factor that enticed people from
ends meet that my London ancestors experienced. many lands to try their luck here in Victoria.

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Who has not found an ancestor or family member familiar with. For an article, a couple of paragraphs Getting it write
who lost a child to one of the many diseases may be sufficient, while for a book several pages of
prevalent at the time, or even a woman who died historical background may be required.
in childbirth? The provision of a reliable, safe
water supply, the introduction of a town sewerage It would be wise to apply some sort of
scheme, or the availability of the Flying Doctor methodology to organising the results of your
Service, would have had a profound influence on researches. A timeline giving events in your
the public health of an area. family’s life in one column and major social, local,
national and international events in another may
A fact that we discover can take us down an be helpful. There are many timelines available
interesting path of research. One writer found online to help you with this. Another approach
that her ancestors had come out to Australia on is to use the headings Social, Local, National
the first ship to use tinned food but, because some and International History and note down under
cans were not correctly sealed, many people who each in what way they affected your family. One
ate the food suffered from food poisoning and writer found that the First World War had little
even died. This led to an investigation into the direct effect on her family as the men in the family
history of tinned food. Another writer pondered were either too old or too young to join the army,
the fact that her ancestor had given birth to whereas the Depression caused much suffering
eighteen children, and investigated the options because the family lost land and family members
for birth control at the time. Such research can be lost their jobs.
fascinating, but the writer must use judgement as
to how much of the research to put into the family An interesting technique to reveal how much of
story. The key, of course, is relevance – to what your story is about your family, and how much
extent did the information you have found out is about history, may be to apply a colour code
have an effect on the lives of your ancestors? You to your writing, using one colour for your family
may have found out a lot of information that you story and one for background information.
ultimately decide to leave out. In a longer work This will enable you to judge whether you are
you have the option of including this information achieving the right balance. Of course, there is no
into a box or appendix. magic formula, and as with all writing, what one
may find fascinating another may find boring or
It may be necessary to give background irrelevant.
information at the beginning of a story to create
the context. We cannot assume that our readers
will know facts that we, from long research, are

Some Further Reading

Oates, Jonathan, Tracing your family history through local history records: a guide for family historians
(GSV: 929.142 OAT)

Hey, David, Family history and local history in England (RHSV: 942 HEY and SLV: G929.103 H511F)
Hey, David, How our ancestors lived: a history of life a hundred years ago (GSV: 942.081 HEY)
Reeves, Maud Pember, Round about a pound a week, 1913 (RHSV: 942.1 REE)
Starmans, Barbara J, Tracing your Ancestors’ Lives: a guide to social history for Family Historians,

(SLV: G338.6340941 EM6IT)
Hicks, Shauna, Family & local history resource directory for Victoria  (SLV: G929.10720945 H529F)
Evans, George Ewart, The Days That We Have Seen, (SLV: S942.6 EV1)
Fowler, Simon, Starting Out in Local History, (SLV: G929.1072042 FF829S)
Sturdevant, Katherine Scott, Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History

(SLV: G929.1072073)
Barker, Anthony, What Happened When: A Chronology of Australia from 1788, (GSV: 994 BAR and SLV:

SLT 994 B24W)

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Jottings Jottings. . andlibrarynews Linley Hooper, FGSV

Shipboard diaries are always a welcome read – see ‘Diary people who don’t want to write it up)’. The previous issue
of an 1882 voyage to Australia’. Charles J Amey and has an interesting story about the ups and downs of families
George Francis travelled on the British India Company’s – see ‘Arndell and Arundell: a genealogical paradox’. It also
steamship Compta from Plymouth to Townsville, Qld, see highlights the workings of the College of Arms.
The Greenwood Tree 43:2 (Jun 2018). This journal also
spotlights the parishes of Nether Compton (Dorset) and The British Newspaper Archive (www.
Winscombe (Somerset). britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has now passed 29
million pages. It includes 419, 447 pages from Scottish
Irish Roots 108 (2018:4) features county Fermanagh along newspapers covering 1700 to 1999 plus over 419,000 pages
with an article on the administrative bungling that resulted from Irish newspapers between 1700-2018. Searching is
in the loss of the majority of pre-1901 census records. free (once registered) but a fee or subscription is required
Maurice Gleeson also provides ‘A step by step approach for downloading articles at home, but this is one of the
to using DNA in cases of unknown parentage’. Another many free resources available at our GSV Research Centre.
article discusses ways of ‘Digitising your family tree’ using
social media. Western Ancestor 14:3 (Sep 2018) continues its excellent
series on DNA by Cate Pearson in ‘You and your X
The Irish Genealogist always has quality articles and the (chromosome, that is)’. This issue also contains an article on
current issue 15:1 (2018) covers the Vesey, Wise, Power, ‘Adoption: social attitudes and practices’ by Wendy Brown.
Fade, Healey, Merrick, and Donovan families along with a
detailed account of Queen’s County [Laois] gaols. The North West Kent FHS Journal 14:12 (Dec 2018)
has an interesting article on ‘DNA matching and ethnicity
The 2018 edition of the Tipperary Historical Journal tests’ comparing the way the results are handled by
covers a wide variety of articles including an Australian FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry.
link with Henry Joseph Ryan.
‘He was a whaler, I think …’ describes how to trace individual
‘The Bawdy (but gorgeous) Georgians’ is an amusing whalers in New Zealand waters. Over 250 visits to the Bay
article on Georgian life in Origins 42:2 (Summer 2018) – of Islands from Sydney were made between 1835 and 1840.
did you know that a bunter was a destitute prostitute? See the New Zealand Genealogist 29/374 (Dec 2018).

The Flowing Stream: journal of the Sheffield and The Essex Family Historian 166 (Dec 2018) has a good
District FHS 39:4 (Winter 2018) has a concise report of article on ‘The Spanish Flu epidemic’ between early 1918
Else Churchill’s talk on ‘Church Courts’. and December 1920 that killed about 25 million people
in its first 25 weeks. The previous issue 165 (Aug 2018)
The Greenwood Tree 43:4 (Dec 2018) shows some pitfalls has a clear article on ‘Chancery Court records’ by Clare
with official marriage certificates in England and Wales O’Grady along with a review of the excellent ‘Tracing your
and stresses the importance of viewing the original church ancestors through the Equity Courts’ which we hold in our
certificate, not the government copy from the GRO. See Research Centre.
‘Marriage guidance for genealogists’.
And if you found reading my article on non-conformist
Findmypast has added more than 30,000 baptism records records on TheGenealogist in Research Corner of interest,
from the Free Church of Scotland in Caithness, Cromarty, Eve McLaughlin’s article in Bucks Ancestor 27:4 (Dec
Inverness-shire, Moray, Ross, and Sutherland. Another 2018) ‘The Nonconformist element’ is a lively and
new Scottish resource on that website is the Edinburgh informative account on the subject.
Temperance Pledges 1886-1908. Temperance pledges were
introduced by the United Presbyterian Church and were Many of our journals now arrive electronically and are
originally called the Band of Hope Register. The index stored on our computer system. We are working on
records name, birth year, address, and includes the names making these accessible in the library. Indexing these
and ages of children who signed the pledge. journals has not yet commenced but most are searchable
pdfs. However, unlike the entries in the catalogue for the
Genealogists’ Magazine 32:12 (Dec 2018) publishes an printed journals, it is easy to miss an article on your family
eyewitness account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s execution on or research interest if it is in an unexpected magazine. If
29 Oct 1648 – found in their Society archives! Another you’d like to join the indexing team – either at the Society,
unexpected article in this issue is ‘Echoes of the Crimean or at home if you receive personal electronic journals
War in Dublin’s Anglican cathedrals’ – mostly Irish Army we also hold – please contact Linley at the library or via
officers. Michael Gandy also writes about ‘Writing it up (for [email protected]. 

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Blogging with Meg Meg Bate Blogging

Using Newspapers to Uncover an Emigrant’s Journey authorities were keen to trace them because their spouses
by Sue McNelly and children were now chargeable to the Poor Law. One
https://kindredpast.com/2018/09/28/using- example of an entry: ‘Charles Mooring was a boot salesman
newspapers-to-uncover-an-emigrants-journey well-known in the trade, formerly of Prince of Wales Road,
Kentish Town. Aged 24, he was 5 feet 9½ inches tall, with
Sue uses newspapers and provides us with ideas on how fair hair and a moustache. He was last seen wearing a
to obtain information on your emigrant’s journey using black morning coat, light trousers, and a Trilby hat. It was
the British Newspaper Archive. Suggestions focus on thought that he might visit his mother at the Kentish Town
advertisements, life on board, ships lost at sea or plagues by address. He had left a wife and one child.’
disease, and letters sent back home. Many of us use Trove
but it’s worth taking advantage of our access to the British FamilySearch makes it easier to access unlinked
Newspaper Archive available free at the GSV. digitized records by Colleen Robledo Greene
www.colleengreene.com/2018/11/09/familysearch-
British Red Cross launches online database of its makes-it-easier-to-access-unlinked-digitized-records
archives by Gale Denver
http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=25516 FamilySearch is continuing to make changes to their
search website and it’s often hard to keep track. Here
Gale’s article alerts us to the new database at British Red Colleen shows us a quick way to discover if an image
Cross that focuses on their historical artifacts collection. is available in the FamilySearch catalogue when the
This includes letters, posters, photographs, films and initial message displayed is “No image available”. Note
artifacts from 1870 to more recent years. This database that if the message displayed states it is available at a
should not to be confused with the WW1 Volunteers ‘FamilySearch affiliate library’ then you can get access to it
database that was launched a couple years ago. at the GSV. (Don’t forget that you can keep up to date with
FamilySearch by attending one of our regular classes.)
Women in Scotland: the poor and women’s health
by C. Jenkin More workhouse registers online at Tipperary
http://statacc.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2018/10/18/women- Studies and Valuation Office Revision Books: latest
in-scotland-the-poor-and-womens-health digitization news both by Claire Santry
www.irishgenealogynews.com/2017/07/tipperary-
This article on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland’s blog studies-uploads-workhouse.html
demonstrates the variety of information that is available
and it’s a resource that should not be overlooked. It’s well If you have Tipperary ancestors then you may want to
researched and provides extracts demonstrating women’s check out this article as there is a variety of records on
health in the 18th and 19th centuries, plus the causes of the Tipperary Studies Digitization Project site. They have
their poverty and then what Scottish society did to assist recently added school and workhouse registers to this
them. An example of one of the extracts: ‘Jura, County collection.
of Argyle – A great proportion of children die in infancy,
and many of the mothers, though of a strong constitution, www.irishgenealogynews.com/2018/11/valuation-
recover slowly in child-bed. Both these circumstances office-revision-books-latest.html
seem to be owing to unskilful treatment, for there is not a
single bred midwife in the island.’ Claire reports on the digitisation project by the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland where they have
Deserted families in The Poor Law Unions’ Gazette digitized Griffith’s Valuation Revision Books for 17
by Margaret Makepeace counties. These are: Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork City &
https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/12/deserted- County, Donegal, Dublin City & County, Galway, Kerry,
families-in-the-poor-law-unions-gazette.html Kildare, Limerick City & County, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan,
Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Tipperary. This leaves the
Many of the newspaper collections such as Trove or the following counties still awaiting digitisation: Kilkenny,
British Newspaper Archive include specialist papers. Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Waterford, Westmeath,
Here Margaret writes about The Poor Law Unions’ Wexford and Wicklow. Unfortunately these are only to
Gazette published between 1856 and 1903. Each issue PRONI’s personal visitors as there are no funds and no
includes descriptions of the wanted persons and lists plans to create an online database.
their last known address, their age, height, build, facial
features, clothing when last seen, and occupation. The

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Around the Groups Around the Groups

Scottish Ancestry Group IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP

Quarterly meetings Next Meeting: Saturday, 11 May 2019
Saturday, 16 March 2019 1.00pm – 3.00pm
GSV Research & Education Centre
Speaker: Malcolm G Horsburgh
Teinds and their role in Scottish Society 1.00pm — Discussion topic: Co. Dublin
Originating as tithes with which to pay 2.00pm — Speaker: Glen Wall
the clergy, teinds were privatised after the
Glen will speak about the value of ebooks in
Reformation but Titulars still paid a Family History
ministerial stipend.
Visitors welcome
Saturday, 15 June 2019 1.00pm – 3.00pm Bring your lunch and have a chat. Also bring
More Scottish Internet Resources your mobile phone to gain access to the building

Six 15 minute talks with a variety of speakers. (9662 4455)

All GSV members, SAG subscribers and visitors welcome General meetings held on second Saturday of February,
May, August and November in GSV meeting room.
Quarterly Meetings Yearly subscription due on 1 Sept each year is $11.00.
1.00pm to 3.00pm, 3rd Sat. of March, June, Newsletter Blarney published quarterly.

September and fourth Sat. of November Beginners’ Kits and Griffiths Valuation Kits available
GSV Research & Education Centre at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact

Enquiries:¢www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag [email protected]

GSV Writers Circle International Settlers Group

Meetings : First Wednesday each month, (non-British research)
(except January)
Meeting: Saturday, 18 May 2019, 1pm
12.30 till 1.30pm – GSV Research & Education Centre Marie-Thérèse Jensen: Reasons for emigration

6 March to Australia 1850-1900

How to decide on a point of view Meeting: Saturday, 17 August 2019, 1pm
What is your most precious family object
3 April
(non-British)?
Review of member’s submissions
1.30-2.30pm Tech tricks: Adding images, managing Venue: GSV Research & Education Centre
placement, spacing in relation to text, wrapping text, etc
Meetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov)
1 May 1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the
quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct.
Developing characters
Enquiries & membership form:
5 June J Yvonne Izatt 03 9899 8136 Ç [email protected]

Review of member’s submissions ¢ www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/isg
1.30-2.30pm Tech tricks: Kindle Direct Publishing
(Amazon) and Ingram Spark – introducing both Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019
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All members of the GSV are welcome
See pages 32–33 for the GSV Writers Circle

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British India Discussion Circle DNA Discussion Circle

Meetings every three months on the third Tuesday in Meetings second Wednesday of each month
February, May, August and November at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 12pm
at the GSV Centre – 12pm to 1pm
Next meetings: 13 Mar, 10 Apr, 8 May and 12 Jun
This is for members with the common interest of
British ancestors in India from the 17th to the 20th If you are interested in joining the group please read the
centuries. Discussions of ‘brick walls’, review of sources description, on the GSV website, of the topics we cover

available at the GSV as well as those nationwide, in our discussions. If that appeals to you email
overseas and online. Bring your family information the Convenor and get an application form to join.

and queries and join the discussion. If you have not had a DNA test done email the
All GSV members welcome. Convenor for advice on what to do.

Convenor: Mary Anne Gourley Convenor: David Andreassen
[email protected] [email protected]

Early English Discussion Circle London Discussion Circle

Meetings fourth Wednesday of each month except Meetings fourth Thursday each month except
December at the GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pm December at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 11.30am
Next meetings: 27 Mar, 24 Apr, 22 May and 26 Jun
Next meetings: 28 Mar, 23 May and 27 Jun
This Discussion Circle is to assist GSV members (no meeting in April)
researching in England before 1700. Many records
either cease to exist or become uncommon by 1700, With 2000 years of history, London is likely to figure in the
and the Circle will assist your understanding of these family history of many people, it was a magnet for internal
records and how they can be accessed. It also provides and foreign immigration. We aim to share information about
relevant new sources and websites, and encourages research resources, learn about our ancestors’ lives in London
and perhaps even break down some brick walls. Discussion
members to present on their families and
contribute to discussions. topics can include local occupations and businesses,
New members are welcome migration, maps and gazetteers, electoral rolls, taxes, land
records, military, criminals, civil and ecclesiastical courts,
Convenor: Alan Fincher poor laws, school records, newspapers, apprentices, guilds and
[email protected]
freemen and much more. New members very welcome.
Counties of Northern England Convener: Vicki Montgomery
Discussion Circle
Mailing list: [email protected]
Meetings second Tuesday of each month except January
at the GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 1.30pm South West England Research and
Discussion circle
Next Meetings: 12 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May and 11 Jun
Next Meetings: 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 8 May and 12 Jun
We are an enthusiastic group who meet to discuss at GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pm
research and share interests in the North of
GSV members with research interests in the counties
England, covering the counties of Northumberland, of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset are welcome. 
Westmoreland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Copies of meeting notes and presentations are provided

Lancashire. For anyone who has ancestors in this to members who join the SWERD email list (free for
region, whether you are just starting out or have been GSV members). Key discussion topics advised by email
to SWERD members, the GSV blog and Facebook page
researching for a number of years, we can help. prior to meetings. Recent meeting topics included DNA
All GSV members welcome of Cornwall, Poor Law and Workhouses in south west

Convenor: David Down England, Medieval records and the Monmouth
[email protected] Rebellion and Bloody Assizes. 

Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 Convenor: Stephen Hawke
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Member Societies What’s On at our Member Societies

The Clan MacMillan Society of Australia Victorian Gum Inc
Change of Office Hours
31st March, 2019. Annual Get-together
Please note that:
The committee will be manning our tent at the
Ringwood Highland Games & Celtic Festival. The new Commencing in January 2019 the VICGUM office,
venue is the J. W. Manson Reserve, Selkirk Avenue, which is located on level 4, 83 William Street will
Wantirna Vic. Members are encouraged to come only open on Wednesdays between 10:30am and
along and enjoy the games while using out tent as your 2:30pm.
meeting palace. Just bring your own chair and esky for
us to mind till you’re ready to enjoy your picnic lunch. Anyone wishing to contact VICgum can do so by
If you don’t want to bring lunch there are plenty of sending an email to: [email protected]
goodies to buy.
Software can be ordered online by visiting the website:
New members welcome, Sign up on the day. $20PA www.vicgum.asn.au

Enquiries: Anyone wishing to become a member can do so by
¢http://clanmacmillanaustralia.com.au visiting the website where there is provision for a
membership application

Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Sunbury Family History Society Inc

Saturday: 16 February 2019, 2.00pm The committee decided to reschedule the society’s
Speaker: Ken Smith 2019 meetings from evenings to the third Tuesday
Topic: How to find where your ancestor lived in the afternoon of the month.
town of Melbourne in the 1840s Dates and speakers for the February to April meetings
are:
Saturday: 11 May 2019, 2.00pm Tuesday: 19 February 2019 at 1.00pm
Speaker: May Val Wilkinson
Topic: The first white child born in Melbourne Speaker: Peter Free
Topic: The Free family
Venue: Wesley Hall, St Andrew’s Uniting Church Tuesday 19 March 2019 at 1.00pm
Cnr Burke and Malven Rds, Gardiner Speaker: Rosa McCall
Visitors are very welcome. Entry $2 Topic: Convict Ancestor, Henry Bessant
Afternoon Tea provided. Tuesday 16 April 2019 at 1.00pm
Speaker: Trevor Dunn.
Enquiries: Topic: A Journey along the old Bulla Road
JClare 03 9578 3654 Venue : Sunbury Senior Citizens Centre
¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au 8 O’Shanassy Street, Sunbury 3429
Visitors are very welcome and afternoon tea is
Queenscliffe Historical Museum provided

At Queenscliffe Historical Museum we rediscover our Enquiries:
heritage. JRosa 03 9744 7032
On 28 February the talk will be on Swan Bay – a
Unique Ecosystem. Robin Spry will show its history, Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria
vegetation, wildlife and international significance for
migratory birds. Please note that the dates of meetings for Descendants
On 21 March, in conjunction with the Henry Handel of Convicts Group Inc for 2019 are as follows:
Richardson Society, Professor Stefan Welz from
Germany will present his view on Henry Handel Saturday 16 March
Richardson. Saturday 18 May
On 28 March, our speaker will be the world famous Saturday 20 July
illustrator, Robert Ingpen. Robert has written and Saturday 21 September
illustrated a number of historical books. Saturday 30 November
On 18 April our speaker will be Anne Marsden, the All meetings will be held in the
author of And the women came too: the Families of
the Founders of the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institution. Hayden Raysmith Room
Anne will focus on Martha Lonsdale. 4th Floor, Ross Association House
On 23 May Dr Mike Birrell will present the current 247-251 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
research on the Bairnsdale Ulcer.
Enquiries:
For further details, please visit our website: ¢www.docs.org.au
¢www.historyofqueenscliffe.com
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GSV Member Societies Further information on our Member Societies Member Societies
can be found on the GSV website at

www.gsv.org.au/activities/member-societies-list
¢Website or email address ÇMailing Address JPhone

Anglesea & District History Society Inc Hotham History Project Inc Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc
Ç PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230 ÇC/- North Melbourne Library ÇPO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen JHistorical Museum 03 5258 2511
66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 ¢www.queenscliffe-history.org
Ararat Genealogical Society JMary Kehoe 03 9329 5814
Ç PO Box 103, Ararat VIC 3377 ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.au Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc
J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199 Ç 3/415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121
¢ [email protected] Huguenot Society (Victorian Chapter) J 03 9427 1800
Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc JSue A’Beckett 0408 201 422
Ç PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354 Sale & District Family History Group Inc
J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630 Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc ÇPO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850
¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au ÇPO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723 JHeather Pocknall 0428 411 603
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs
Barham/Koondrook Genealogical Group ¢ [email protected] Shepparton Family History Group Inc
Ç PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732 ÇPO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632
J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 Kerang & District Family History Group Inc JGarry Wallden 03 5828 3236
ÇPO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579 ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh
Benalla Family Research Group Inc J Bev Nethercote 0447 304 667
Ç PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc
J Wendy Webster 0427 664 271 ÇPO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953
¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs
Ç34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620
Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Inc J Jennifer Cole 03 5860 6694 Southern Peninsula Family History Society Inc
Ç PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552 ¢ [email protected] ÇPO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939
¢ https://brgsbendigo.weebly.com JAnnette Buckland 0402 858 878
Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr Inc ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs
The Clan Grant Society (Australia) ÇPO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909
Ç351 High Street, Templestowe Lower 3107 J03 5155 3843 Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc
JBrian Noble 0410 485 821 (9am–6pm) ÇPO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380
¢ [email protected] Mansfield Family History Group Inc ¢www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au
JSheena Daykin 03 5775 1659
Clan MacMillan Society of Australia ¢mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.com Sunbury Family History Society Inc
¢ [email protected] ÇPO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan Maryborough Family History Group Inc JWilliam Wilson 03 9744 4478
ÇPO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465 ¢www.sunburyfhs.org.au
Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria Inc JHelen Ritchie 0409 611 170
Ç 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 ¢www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society
J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 Inc
Melton Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585
Cobram Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338 J Steve Pentreath 0428 584 325
Ç PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644 JDeb Slattery 03 9747 3320 ¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs
JBarbara Coleman 03 5872 1729 ¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org
Terang & District Family History Group Inc
Colac & District Family History Group Inc Mid-Gippsland Family History Society Inc ÇPO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264
Ç PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250 ÇPO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840 JJan Whamond 0427 954 397
J Colac History Centre 03 5231 5736 ¢[email protected] ¢[email protected]
¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs
Toora & District Family History Group Inc
Deniliquin Genealogical Society Inc Mildura & District Genealogical Society Inc ÇPO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962
ÇPO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710 ÇPO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502 ¢http://toora.org/
JVal Hardman 03 5881 3980 JKaylene Charles 03 5021 4763
¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg ¢www.milduragenealogy.com.au Victorian GUM Inc
ÇPO Box 397, Collins Street West
Descendants of Convicts Group Inc NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpInc
ÇPO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770 ÇPO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805 Melbourne VIC 8007
JYvonne Bethell 03 9739 1427 JLynne Bradley 03 8787 5558 JOffice 03 9078 4738
¢www.docs.org.au ¢http://nwfhg.org.au ¢www.vicgum.asn.au

East Gippsland Family History Group Inc Nathalia Genealogical Group Inc Wangaratta Family History Society Inc
ÇPO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 ÇPO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638 ÇPO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676
JTony Meade 03 5152 1111 JLyn Franklin 03 5866 2543 JVal Brennan 03 5727 6229
¢www.egfhg.org.au ¢[email protected] ¢www.wfhs.org.au

Echuca/Moama Family History Group Inc Ouyen District History & Genealogical Ctr West Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc
ÇPO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564 ÇBox 131, Ouyen VIC 3490 ÇPO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820
JBarbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593 ¢http://ouyen.vic.au/history JBarbara Clayton 03 5611 3871
¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist ¢www.westgippslandgenealogy.com
Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society Inc
Geelong Family History Group Inc Ç PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922 Wimmera Association for Genealogy Inc
ÇPO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220 J Bob Hayes 0419 582 175 ÇPO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402
JSusie Zada 0414 666 017 ¢ [email protected] JIan Rees 0429 953 054
¢www.geelongfhg.com ¢http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg
Port Fairy Genealogical Society Inc
Gisborne Genealogical Group Inc ÇPO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284 Wodonga Family History Society Inc
ÇPO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437 JIan Perry 0447 265 759 ÇPO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689
JTricia McLay 0408 054 537 ¢[email protected] JWendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220
¢ www.ggg.org.au ¢http://wodongafamilyhistory.org
Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc
Hamilton History Centre Inc ÇC/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 Wonthaggi Genealogy Inc
ÇPO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300 JMarilla James 03 9500 8118 Ç23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995
JHistory Centre 03 5572 4933 ¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au J03 5672 3803
¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist ¢[email protected]
Portland Family History Society Inc
Heyfield Family History Group ÇPO Box 409 Portland VIC 3350 Yarrawonga Family History Group Inc
ÇPO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858 JAnne Grant 03 5522 2266 ÇPO Box 7, Yarrawonga VIC 3730
J03 5148 2100 ¢[email protected] JJan Parker 03 5744 1460
¢ [email protected]
Prahan Mechanics Institute ¢www.yarrawongafamilyhistorygroupinc.com
Ç 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran VIC 3181
J03 9510 3393
¢www.pmi.net.au

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News from Public Record Office Victoria

From Tara Oldfield
For further information visit prov.vic.gov.au.

Records opened 1 January 2019

Every year on the first of January hundreds of state Coffee Palace, as well as Victorian Railway Records
archives are made public as part of Public Record of 1962-63. Director and Keeper of Public Records,
Office Victoria’s annual Section 9 record openings. Justine Heazlewood, says that the records will help
Under Section 9 of the Public Records Act researchers, historians, writers and genealogists
1973, files of a personal or private nature are closed paint a fuller picture of Melbourne during those
to prevent the violation of personal privacy. These periods:
historic records, which as of 1 January have passed
their assigned closure period, are of particular These historic records will be invaluable to
interest to family historians waiting on files that researchers as they provide not only information
mention members of their family tree. about individuals but also a glimpse into the time
in which they were written. For instance, if your
Among the files made public for the first time this ancestor spent time in an asylum in the 1940s, you
year are 1942-43 capital case files. Capital cases can get a sense of what that experience may have been
relate to those criminal trials where a sentence like by looking through some of these records.
of death was given. This year the Victorian
Government copy of the trial of ‘Brownout A broad guide to time periods for closure under
Strangler’ Eddie Leonski is included (there is Section 9 is as follows:
also a copy held on open access with the National
Archives in Canberra.) Six months after Leonski • Records primarily concerning adults may be
was executed at Pentridge, two other men narrowly closed for 75 years from the year in which the
escaped their death sentences for murder, Norman records were created.
Morris Searle and Charles Mills. Their files sit
beside Leonski’s as part of this year’s openings. • Records concerning children as the primary
subject may be closed for 99 years.

• Records such as staff records where the
individuals concerned may still be in the
workforce may be closed for a lesser period such
as 30, 40, or 50 years as appropriate.

Image: One of the Landmark competition designs to be displayed during The full list, and further detail on some of the
Design Week stories featured within the records, can be found on
our website.
Also, among the openings are mental health
records, divorce cases, prison registers and other Melbourne Design Week
criminal case files of 1943, including an infamous
Brighton murder that took place outside the old We are pleased to be part of Melbourne Design
Week again this year, hosting the event Melbourne’s
Green Spaces: From Sci-Fi to Future Reality on
Thursday 21 March at 6pm.

Peta Christensen from Cultivating Community,
Warwick Savvas from ASPECT Studios, Skye
Haldane, Manager of Design at City of Melbourne
and Andrew Laidlaw from the Royal Botanic
Gardens will be joining us to discuss the lessons
we can take from the past to ensure that our green
spaces continue to serve our communities’ needs
as we look towards the future. We will also have
original landscaping plans from our collection on
display as part of the event – from the designs for
the Fitzroy and Royal Botanic Gardens to the overly
ambitious submissions by the general public for
the doomed 1978 Melbourne Landmark Design
Competition. Bookings essential via the ‘what’s on’
page of our website.

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Royal Historical Society of Victoria

For more information, visit www.historyvictoria.org.au

From Lenore Frost

Women’s Work Exhibition 1907

One of the great little treasures in the RHSV
Collection is an original copy of the First
Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907,
Official souvenir catalogue from an exhibition held
in the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings in 1907.
What makes this so special is that it includes
names of thousands of women in the Edwardian
period – competitors, prize winners, prize donors,
advertisers and trade exhibitors. Competitions
included applied and fine arts, cookery,
needlework and laundry work. Most entrants were
Victorian, but all States were well represented.

In some cases, the Women’s Work Exhibition
provided a springboard for a professional career,
such as the photographer Agnes Thomson. Agnes
entered some of her works in the Exhibition
in 1907, and by 1910 she was advertising a
photographic studio at her parents’ home in
Ascot Vale.

One outcome of the Women's Work Exhibition Image: Diploma designed for the exhibition by
was the formation of the Victorian Ladies’ Ruby Lindsay. RHSV Collection, LIB 024775. First
Photographic Association in 1908 – reported in Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907.
The Australasian.  Reflecting the general attitude Official souvenir catalogue
to women’s activities at this time, it was reported
under ‘Social Notes’: and the intended range of exhibits – fine arts,
applied arts, photography, needlework, preserves,
The Victorian Ladies’ Photographic Association, horticulture, cookery, shorthand and typewriting,
which has only recently been formed, and medicine and surgery, physical culture. It also
enjoys the distinction of being the only Ladies’ includes proforma programmes of exhibitions
Photographic Association in the Commonwealth, and conditions, the intended programme for the
held its inaugural meeting on April 14. The opening ceremony, the award list and templates
association is an indirect result of the Women's for the award posters.
Exhibition. The lecture-room of the photographic
department at the Working Men’s College was well Our manuscript collection includes Papers
filled by members and their friends. on the First Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907
‘Social Notes’ (18 April 1908). The Australasian by Patricia Keep, and includes a copy of the
(Melbourne, Vic: 1864 - 1946), p46. introduction from the programme of the Opening
Ceremony; list of office bearers; copy of a series
In 1910 Agnes Thomson was the president of the of articles written by Mrs E. F. Allen (Vesta) for
Victorian Ladies’ Photographic Association. The Argus describing the Exhibition in detail
from 15 October to 2 December, 1907, details of
The RHSV (as well as the GSV) also holds the creche facilities, preparations, costs, exhibits
Australian Women’s Work Exhibition 1907 and demonstrations, overseas contributions and
Catalogue Index, by Lenore Frost, published in overall achievements of the Exhibition.
microfiche format in 1997.
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Another original treasure from this exhibition in
our collection is the First Australian Exhibition
of Women’s Work, 1907 which is a prospectus for
the planned 1907 Exhibition and includes lists
of the patrons, office bearers, general committee,

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About the GSV The Level 6, 85 Queen Street, About the GSV

Genealogical Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia

Society of Web www.gsv.org.au Membership Options A$
Email [email protected] 18.00/18.00
Joining fee (Australia/international)
Victoria Inc Phone 03 9662 4455

Why become a member of the GSV? Annual Membership

Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular One person (Australia/international) 96.00/114.00
pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a
leading Australian family history society for the study of Two, same address (Australia/international) 145.00/163.00
genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their
ancestors. Three, same address(Australia/international) 194.00/212.00

We welcome you to join us and Extra Member 48.00
discover a world of family history.
18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 48.00
We provide advice and expertise along with a reference
library containing extensive records for Victoria, Australia, Ancestor only 70.00
New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as many Australia (no joining fee) 90.00
collections from other countries. International (no joining fee)

Courses, classes, discussion circles, presentations and Member Societies 121.00
seminars are held regularly. See pages 45 to 48 for all the
upcoming events. Day Visitor

Our online members area features searchable databases and Full day with free Library access *20.00
an ever-increasing library catalogue.
* Fee rebatable against membership fee, within 14 days.
Membership Benefits
Library Hours
• Access to a team of friendly volunteer research
assistants trained to help you with library resources Monday 1.00pm — 4.00pm

• Access to our comprehensive library collection of Tuesday 10.00am — 7.00pm
indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources
Wednesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm
• Free library access to commercial databases including:
Ancestry, findmypast, TheGenealogist, and British Office Hours
Newspaper Archive
Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pm
• Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor
Saturday Closed
• Free publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in
Ancestor (one per year) Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday

• Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections, Patron
including the library catalogue, the Genealogical Index of The Honourable Linda Dessau, AC
Names (GIN), cemeteries database, all of which usually Governor of Victoria
include additional information for members
Honorary Office Bearers and Councillors
• Online access to Guided Research for Australian states,
New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting President Jenny Redman
point for newcomers to genealogy
Vice Presidents Penny Wolf
• Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members, if you cannot visit
the library Peter Johnston

• A free annual research query of up to two hours for Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV
members residing more than 100km from Melbourne
Treasurer Stephen Hawke
• Discounts on our publications, services and events
(not sale items) Council Janne Bonnett

• Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major Erna Cameron
societies (conditions apply)
David Down
• Ancestral Interest Groups and Discussion Circles
Lorna Elms
• GSV Talks and Classes: (see pages 45 to 48)
Simon Foster

Robert Gribben

Leonie Loveday

Margaret McLaren

Michael Rumpff

Staff Linley Hooper FGSV
Library Manager Meg Bate
Assistant Library Manager Linda Farrow
Office Administrator

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Research Services Self Help Guide Research Services

Free Quick Lookup General Register Office (GRO)
certificates
There is a free eResearch service for a library lookup or
research advice taking up to 30 minutes for members who England and Wales birth, death and marriage certificates,
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- certificates
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
England and Wales Wills and Probate
The Research Team at the GSV can spend time researching
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 obtain copies from Public Records Office
Victoria (PROV).
Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00

Other Public Records

Researchers will obtain copies from Public Record Office
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

Can you help identify people in photographs Family Tree Live Show 26–27 April 2019
from over 20 years ago? Alexandra Palace, London  

Yvonne Kenna ([email protected]) has a selection https://familytr.ee/familytreelive
of very old photographs that have been passed down to If you are in London, then consider this. More than 60 talks
her from her grandfather’s family line. Unfortunately the and lots more. For detail, see https://familytr.ee/lectures
subjects have no name identifying who the people are in Tickets cost £12 per person pay day (children aged 16 and
the photos. The photos were taken in studios around the under free).
late 1890s to early 1900s. The family came from Euroa in
Victoria. She has been in contact with descendants from Alexandra Palace has a lovely pub, and stunning views
the family, but like her they are unfortunately unable to of the London skyline, which you can enjoy from the
identify who the people are. The likely family surnames she promenade style terrace! Great for enticing ‘other halves’ to
believes they could be from are; Gibbs, Watkins, Beaton, come with you.
Harrison, Garrett, Pike, Bell, Saxon, Worland & Prowd. Her
grandfather was William George Gibbs (1894 -1975) and she Do you have a home for this photo?
believes the photos were his mother’s Isabella Mary Jane
nee Beaton (1873 -1955) or quite possibly her father’s Peter Jean Iredale (39 Cloverbrook Place, Carina, Q 4152) has sent
Beaton (1843 -1923). us this photo found
in a Queensland junk
Yvonne has sent the photos to the GSV in the hope that GSV shop. The inscription
members may be able to identify some of the people. If you on the back of the
think you can help, please contact Linda at the GSV office. photo identifies
the baby as Jessie
Canadian Network releases Heritage Helen McArthur,
Documents 10.5 months old.
Jean Iredale has
Canadian Research Knowledge Network has digitised over located the name
60 million pages of Canadian documentary heritage and will in the Victorian
soon be making them available at no charge. births registry, and
consequently has sent
www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/over-60-million-pages-digitized- it to the GSV in order
canadian-documentary-heritage-soon-be-available- to try to unite it with a
no-charge family member. If you
know of this person,
Tracking 13 million people – the world’s contact the GSV
largest family tree Office to claim the
photograph.
From: Australia’s Science Channel
https://australiascience.tv/ Need legal help?

Scientists have created the largest family tree, made up (from the RHSV newsletter)
of 13 million people linked through time. What it reveals Community organisations, like historical societies, have two
is amazing, tracking over 500 years of marriage and low-cost / free legal services which are there to help. The
migration in Europe and North America to expose the two organisations cover everyday issues with which you may
impact of human culture and the spread of genes around the need help (copyright, employment, contracts, insurance,
world. The study revealed some massive societal changes roles of committee members etc). 
which were reflected in the changing genetic profiles of
populations. These included changing attitudes towards Not-for-profit Law is a specialist legal service for
marriage, migration, historical events such as elevated death community organisations. It is a program of Justice
rates at military age during the American Civil War, and Connect a social justice organisation and community legal
both world wars, and a reduction in child mortality during service and is itself a not-for-profit community organisation
the 20th century. and registered charity. NFP Law provides free or low cost,
high quality practical help for not-for-profit community
The researchers have made the data and tree available for organisations and advocates for improved standards and
other scientists to study through the website FamiLinx.org legal frameworks. 
The research has been published in Science.
Arts Law Centre of Australia is Australia’s independent
GRO (UK) Certificate Costs Have Increased national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-
profit company limited by guarantee. It provides free or low
The cost of PDF copies of digitised birth and death records cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to
increased on 16 February to £7, with priority deliveries Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms,
available at £45. on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters.

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What’s On at the GSV –March What’s On

CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
CLASSES
Mon. 11
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Labour Day public holiday These small group classes are designed to enable you
to get the most out of the computer-based resources
SEMINAR available in the GSV library and at home.
Tues. 5 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British
Fri. 22 10.0am – 12.30pm
Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM
The Culture and Traditions of the online
Highland Clans, and Tues. 12 The National Archive (UK) online
Tracing Your Ancestors in the Highlands Thur. 14 FamilySearchTM online
of Scotland Tues. 19 GSV library catalogue & databases
by Graeme Mackenzie Wed. 20 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
Thur. 21 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
Bookings essential Tues. 26 AncestryTM online
Members $20.00, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $30.00, Thur. 28 Internet for Genealogy

non-members $40.00 Bookings essential
Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,
TALKS
non-members $20.00
Thur. 7 12.00pm – 1.00pm
COURSE
English Research in the 1700s
Wed. 20, 27 Mar, 3 Apr 10.30am – 12.30pm
by Alan Fincher
This talk will explore how to research this period using a Writing Family History by Margaret Vines
wide range of records.
Bookings essential
Bookings essential Members $90, non-members $180.00
Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,
See inside front cover for details
non-members $20.00
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Tues. 19 10.00am – 11.30am
Wed. 6 12.30pm – 2.30pm
DNA – Module 2: Introduction to using GSV Writers
your Ancestry DNA results
Tues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pm
by Alan Rhodes Counties of Northern England
For beginners in DNA research who have tested and
need a basic introduction to analysis of results. Wed. 13 10.30am – 12.00pm
DNA
Bookings essential
Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, Wed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pm
South West England Research & Discussion
non-members $30.00
Wed. 27 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Tues. 26 10.00am – 12.00pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700

DNA Research Tutorial – Using Thur. 28 10.30am – 11.30am
Ancestry shared matches London Research
Members Only – Free
by Alan Rhodes
Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
non-members $40.00
Wed. 27 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
CLASSES Members Free, non-members $20.00

Wed. 6 9.30am – 10.30am MEETINGS

Orientation: introduction to the Society Sat. 16 1.00pm
and our resources Scottish Ancestry Group

Bookings essential – Members Only – Free • 45

Wed. 6 10.45am – 12.00pm

Starting Your Family History:
methodology and resources

Bookings essential
Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,

non-members $20.00

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CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
CLASSES
Fri. 19, Sat. 20 and Mon. 22
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Easter Public Holidays These small group classes are designed to enable you
to get the most out of the computer-based resources
Thur. 25 available in the GSV library and at home.
Tues. 2 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British
Anzac Day
Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM
TALKS online
Thur. 4 National and State Archives in Australia
Sat. 13 10.30am – 11.30am Tues. 9 The National Archives (UK) online
Thur. 11 FamilySearchTM online
Chinese-Australian family history Tues. 16 GSV library catalogue & databases
Wed. 17 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
by Robyn Ansell Thur. 18 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
Robyn is a founding member of the Chinese-Australian Tues. 23 AncestryTM online
Family Historians of Victoria. Tues. 30 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (1pm to 2pm)*

Bookings essential Bookings essential
Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,

non-members $20.00 non-members $20.00
* Note change of time
Tues. 16 10.00am – 11.30am
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
DNA – Module 4: Introduction to DNA
Painter Wed. 3 12.30pm – 2.30pm
GSV Writers
by Alan Rhodes
Bookings essential Tues. 9 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Counties of Northern England
Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50,
non-members $30.00 Wed. 10 10.30am – 12.00pm
DNA
Tues. 30 10.00am – 12.00pm
Fri. 12 12.30pm – 2.00pm
DNA Research Tutorial – Getting Started South West England Research & Discussion
with DNA Painter
Wed. 24 12.30pm – 2.00pm
by Alan Rhodes Early English Genealogy – pre 1700
Bookings essential Members Only – Free

Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
non-members $40.00
Focus your research with experienced
CLASSES helpers in the Library

Sat. 6 10.00am – 11.00am Mon. 8 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland
Wed. 24 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
Orientation: introduction to the Society Members Free, non-members $20.00
and our resources
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Sat. 6 11.15am – 12.30pm

Starting Your Family History:
methodology and resources

Bookings essential
Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,

non-members $20.00

Bookings in person, via website, email or phone
¢ www.gsv.org.au ¢ [email protected] J 03 9662 4455
New members welcome.

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TALKS COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
CLASSES
Thur. 2 12.00pm – 1.00pm
1.30pm to 2.30pm
AFL and Family History These small group classes are designed to enable you
to get the most out of the computer-based resources
by Col Hutchinson available in the GSV library and at home.
Col is the AFL Statistics and History Consultant. Thur. 2 National and State Archives in Australia
Tues. 7 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British
Bookings essential – Members $5.00,
RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM
online
Thur. 16 12.00pm – 1.00pm Thur. 9 FamilySearchTM online
Tues. 14 The National Archives (UK) online
Inspiring ways to captivate non- Wed. 15 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
genealogists Thur. 16 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
Tues. 21 GSV library catalogue & databases
Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke Thur. 23 Internet for Genealogy
Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Tues. 28 AncestryTM online
Tues. 30 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (1pm to 2pm)*
RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00
Bookings essential
Tues. 21 10.00am – 11.30pm Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,

DNA – Module 5: Introduction to Y DNA non-members $20.00
* Note change of time
by Alan Rhodes
For DNA researchers interested in tracing the paternal DISCUSSION CIRCLES
line and surnames.
Wed. 1 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Bookings essential – Members $7.50, GSV Writers
RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00
Wed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pm
Tues. 28 10.00am – 12.00pm DNA

DNA Research Tutorial – Ways to Wed. 8 12.30pm – 2.00pm
organise your DNA matches South West England Research & Discussion

by Alan Rhodes Tues. 14 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Bookings essential Counties of Northern England

Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, Tues. 21 12.00pm – 1.00pm
non-members $40.00 British India Research

CLASSES Wed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Early English Genealogy – pre 1700
Sat. 4 10.00am – 11.00am
Thur. 23 10.30am – 11.30am
Orientation: introduction to the Society London Research
and our resources Members Only – Free

Bookings essential – Members Only – Free MEETINGS

Sat. 4 11.15am – 12.30pm Sat. 11 1.00pm
Irish Ancestry Group
Starting Your Family History:
methodology and resources Sat. 18 1.00pm
International Settlers Group
Bookings essential
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non-members $20.00

FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE

Focus your research with experienced
helpers in the Library

Mon. 13 1.00pm – 4.00pm – Scotland
Wed. 22 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland

Members Free, non-members $20.00

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What’s On What’s On at the GSV –June

CLOSED COMPUTER BASED RESOURCE
CLASSES
Mon. 10
1.30pm to 2.30pm
Queen’s birthday
These small group classes are designed to enable you
TALKS to get the most out of the computer-based resources
available in the GSV library and at home.
Thur. 13 12.00pm – 1.00pm Tues. 4 findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British

Cold Cases: brick wall strategies Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTM
online
Video presentation by Lisa Louise Cooke
Bookings essential – Members $5.00, Thur. 6 National and State Archives in Australia

RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00 Tues. 11 The National Archives (UK) online

Tues. 18 10.00am – 11.30am Thur. 13 FamilySearchTM online

DNA – Module 1: DNA testing - should I Tues. 18 GSV library catalogue & databases
do it? by Alan Rhodes
Wed. 19 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online
An introduction to genetic genealogy for people
thinking about doing a DNA test, covering the pros and Thur. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales online
cons of testing as well as privacy and security issues.
Tues. 25 AncestryTM online
Bookings essential – Members $7.50,
RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00 Thur. 27 Internet for Genealogy
Bookings essential
Tues. 25 10.00am – 12.00pm
Members Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00,
DNA Research Tutorial – Working with non-members $20.00
your DNA matches
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
by Alan Rhodes
Bookings essential – Members $10.00, Wed. 5 12.30pm – 2.30pm
GSV Writers
RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00
Tues. 11 12.30pm – 1.30pm
CLASSES Counties of Northern England

Sat. 1 10.00am – 11.00am Wed. 12 10.30am – 12.00pm
DNA
Orientation: introduction to the Society
and our resources Wed. 12 12.30pm – 2.00pm
South West England Research & Discussion
Bookings essential – Members Only – Free
Wed. 26 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Sat. 1 11.15am – 12.30pm Early English Genealogy – pre 1700

Starting Your Family History: Thur. 27 10.30am – 11.30am
methodology and resources London Research
Members Only – Free
Bookings essential
Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCE

non-members $20.00 Focus your research with experienced
helpers in the Library
MEETINGS
Wed. 26 10.00am – 4.00pm – Ireland
Sat. 15 1.00pm Members Free, non-members $20.00
Scottish Ancestry Group

STOP PRESS!

The GSV sends its Congratulations to member Robert Gribben who was made a Member
of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year’s awards for ‘significant service to the Uniting
Church in Australia, to ecumenical relations and theological studies.’ 

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