Ancestor - March 2019

Discover a world of family historyVOLUME 34 ISSUE 5MARCH 2019$15.00ISSN 0044-8222Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncGetting it writeIntegrating history into our family storiesResearch CornerResearch Guide to Non-Conformist andNon-Parochial Records on TheGenealogistA Guide to Researching Tasmanian RecordsResources for Searching for Burials in VictoriaFamily Connections Acrossthe GenerationsThe Troubled Life ofRose Ann HedleyDNA Story: DiscoveringJames Dede SmartSober, Industrious and of Good Moral Character

TalksTheGenealogicalSociety of Victoria Incby Robyn AnsellSaturday 13 April 10.30am – 11.30amBookings Essential in person, via website, email or phone¢www.gsv.org.au ¢[email protected] J03 9662 4455GSV Members $5.00RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00Non-members $20.00GSV Members $5.00RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00Non-members $20.00Robyn is a founding member of the Chinese-Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV ) which was established in 2001 by a small group of people who shared an interest in the role played by Chinese immigrants in our society from the 1840s onwards.Image: Geelong Football Team senior twenty, 1896, from Col HutchinsonChinese-Australian family historyChinese-Australian family historyCol became the AFL Statistician and Historian in 1992, and since November, 2005 has been the AFL Statistics and History Consultant. He is a Life Member of the Australian Football Heritage Group, whose charter is to preserve the history of each of the AFL clubs and the code at all levels.Col’s theme will be ‘Families in Footy’. He will highlight the remarkable series of family links relating to players and coaches at the elite level, featuring all AFL clubs, during the sixteen decades that Australian Football has existed.AFL and Family HistoryAFL and Family Historyby Col HutchinsonThursday 2 May 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 CORRESPONDENCE The Editor, Ancestor, The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level 6, 85 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Phone: (03) 9662 4455 oremail: [email protected] EDITORIAL TEAMBarbara Beaumont – chairperson Bill Barlow Sue BlackwoodTina HockingLeonie Loveday Martin Playne Margaret Vines Jeanette Wickham CREATIVE Jeanette Wickham PRINTER Blue Star Print Vic CONTRIBUTIONSWe welcome the submission of articles on family history topics for possible publication.The editors reserve the right to edit or abridge articles to meet space constraints and editorial considerations. Submissions should be the work of the author submitting the article and should not have been published elsewhere unless agreed. All material should be submitted in electronic format to [email protected] submit text as Microsoft™ Word doc or docx fi les. Printed papers will not be considered for publication. Images should not be embedded in the text fi le, but sent as separate email attachments as high resolution JPG or TIFF fi les (minimum 300 dpi). Provide captions for each image in the text fi le. Articles should not exceed 3000 words in length. Shorter articles with images to illustrate the article are preferred. For further information on style to follow in preparing your article, please seegsv.org.au/ancestor-journal/guidelines-for-authors.html. If youhave further questions, email:[email protected] Regular contributors must submit material by 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October for publication in the March, June, September and December issues respectively. However articles for consideration for publication are received at any time. Space constraints mean that edited articles have to sometimes be held over until a later issue. ADVERTISING Advertising space is available. Our Media Kit is available at gsv.org.au/ancestor-journal/advertise.html © The Genealogical Society of Victoria. Material in this publication must not be reproduced without consent. The views expressed in Ancestor are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of The Genealogical Society of Victoria. Our cover: Hobart Town on the River Derwent, Van Diemen’s Land, painted by William John Huggins, engraved by Edward Duncan. State Library Victoria Accession No. H31992.DNA testing as an aid to family history has become very popular of late. Jenny Redman outlines the series of talks and tutorials that the GSV is running to help everyone, from beginners to advanced, with their DNA testing. We are fortunate to have interesting articles submitted by you, our members. In this issue we are pleased to bring you the runner-up in last year’s GSV Writing Prize, Marilyn Fordred’s story of the determination of her ancestor when unexpectedly faced with widowhood. A DNA success story by June Torcasio shows how contacts made through taking a DNA test allowed her to unravel a mystery that had been puzzling her since 1999. Liz Kelly recounts the life of her ancestor Rose Ann Hedley, who came to a sad end after being involved, with her husband, in various horseracing scams and a hotel fi re which was probably arson. Jane Vanderstoel writes of ‘the joy of family history research’ when you are able to make ‘serendipitous family connections’. The Richmond rate books are a mine of information on people living in Richmond from 1857 to 1902. In our back page item Clive Luckman shows how they can help shed light on your family story.This issue features two ‘How to’ items – a guide to researching Tasmanian records by Margaret Vines, and a guide to resources for searching for burials in Victoria.It is said that truth is stranger than fi ction, and it’s certainly true that Family History unearths many fascinating stories – are you writing yours? I hope so, because it’s not too early to start thinking about your entry for this year’s Writing Prize. Details of how to enter are on the website under the Ancestor Journal tab. Barbara BeaumontAncestor Editorial Team

2 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncPen of the Presi Pen of the President Jenny RedmanAn Unexpected GiftIf you have been into the GSV Centre lately you may have noticed lots of boxes being unpacked, new computers being installed and general increased activity around our digital resources. This is the fortunate outcome of a very generous bequest from one of our former members, Roger Heslop, who died last year. Roger was a longstanding and enthusiastic genealogical researcher. Over the years he supported the GSV with regular substantial donations and this recent bequest will enable us to update our catalogue, acquire a second, more reliable server with increased storage and to replace outdated equipment. We are extremely grateful to Roger for making these improvements possible.Leaders for Discussion CirclesOur Discussion Circles continue to be very popular with members and we would like to expand our off erings. For some time we have been hoping to start Circles that concentrate on Australian colonies and/or states, in particular, a Victorian Discussion Circle. The GSV has so many Australian records that are not available elsewhere but many of our members are not aware of or using them. However we do need volunteers to lead or chair such Circles.Leading a Discussion Circle should not be an onerous task. Circle members are encouraged to actively participate and to contribute suggestions and ideas for future topics. Often members present on their own research experiences and problems. Suggestions/advice from other circle members can introduce new sources and help solve those brick-walls. The leader does not need to be an expert in all areas of the Circle topic, delegation is the key.If you feel that you could contribute in this way, please talk with any of the volunteers, councillors or staff when you are next in or send me an email ([email protected]). We need to spread the load a bit more so we can all get time to write that history of our family.Postage CostsFollowing the increase in international postage costs we are moving to an electronic version of Ancestor for our international individual subscribers. This is in line with our previous decision to exchange e-copies of our journal with overseas societies rather than hard copies. Domestic postage is also a major cost over which we have no control so we are always happy to hear from those who have decided to go digital and access an electronic copy of Ancestor from our website. DNA Roadshows with Blaine BettingerIn August 2019 Unlock the Past is organising a DNA themed roadshow to six Australian cities with the one in Sydney extended to a three-day conference program. The Melbourne roadshow will be at the Jasper Hotel, 489 Queen Street near the Queen Victoria Market, a very convenient venue with good public transport, on Friday 23 August 2019. The Sydney conference will be held from Thursday 29 August until Saturday 31 August 2019. The main speaker at all venues will be the acclaimed international genealogist and author, Blaine Bettinger whose books, blogs and videos are prime sources for the GSV DNA and Family History presentations and tutorials. He will be supported by leading Australian DNA researchers and speakers. Details of the program content and registration are available at www.dnadownunder.com. I would expect these events will be very popular so registering early is advised.Finally … a reminderWe currently have approximately 170 webcasts available to members to access from home on a wide range of subjects of interest to genealogists. All are listed in the GSV Catalogue.For those who can visit the Centre our affi liate library status with the FamilySearch (LDS) means a huge resource has opened up for members. Nearly all of their restricted image collection is available. Search (from home if you want) for the record you want in the FamilySearchcatalogue where it will indicate which images must be accessed at an affi liate library like the GSV. Remember to have your FamilySearchusername and password with you. Being able to see fi lm of the original records is such a bonus to researchers.

• 3Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncContentsArticlesSober, Industrious and of GoodMoral Character 4Marilyn FordredDNA Story: Discovering James Dede Smart9June TorcasioThe Troubled Life of Rose Ann Hedley 12Liz KellyFamily Connections Across the Generations 16Jane VanderstoelMore GSV Awards 18DNA and Family History presentations and research tutorials 2019 at the GSV 19Jenny RedmanResources for Searching forBurials in Victoria 20David DownA Guide to ResearchingTasmanian Records 26Margaret VinesResearching People and Propertiesin Richmond Back coverClive LuckmanRegular FeaturesEditorial1Pen of the President 2Book Reviews 22Additions to the Library 23Brickwall Corner and Members Queries 25Research Corner 30Getting it write 32Jottings … and library news 34Blogging with Meg 35Around the Groups 36Around the Circles 37What’s On at our Member Societies 38GSV Member Societies 39News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria 40News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 41About the GSV 42Research Services 43News 44What’s On at the GSV 459416122026440

4 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncI walked through the arched entrance to Lyall Mews in Belgravia, London. The white painted two and three storied brick houses were now the homes of the affl uent. Each house abutted the worn cobbles and occasionally shrubs and fl owers shouted their presence from door-hugging planters. The stables had long ago been converted to garages but the many paned windows of the living quarters on the upper fl oor were like the all-knowing eyes of those who had lived here before; like Catherine Lissey Needham, her husband John Steward and their children Eliza Catherine, Matilda Jane, Caroline Amelia and John Needham Steward.Catherine Lissey Needham was around 21 when she married John Steward in 1832 in Brighton, Sussex. Their four children were born in the West End of London, in the fashionable suburbs of Kensington, Westminster, Mayfair and Chelsea. These were the suburbs frequented by lords and ladies and their friends from the gentry.Catherine and John Steward were in service to Arthur Algernon Capell, the Earl of Essex, and his wife Countess Caroline. John Steward was a 1coachman so John and Catherine lived above the stables in Lyall Mews in the mid-1840s, close to 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 benefi ts 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.3Life 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’.4The death of her husband meant that Catherine Steward was now totally responsible for Sober, Industrious and of Good Moral Characterby Marilyn FordredMarilyn can be contacted [email protected] 1:1 Lyall Mews, Belgravia, London. author’s collectionLll MRunner up 2018 GSV Writing PrizeIB li Ldh ’lli

• 5Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incherself and her four children; responsible for their welfare and responsible for fi nancing the household. She continued to work as a dressmaker as she and her children moved to a smaller house, one without attached stables in William Mews and then Queen Street (now Hans Street), both in Belgravia.By 1851 Catherine Steward was doing all she could to make sure her children were educated. The youngest child, John, aged nine, was a boarding pupil at the Greycoat Hospital School in Westminster. This school was set up to provide 5an education for the poor of the Westminster parish. Caroline, aged thirteen, was likely at a small, private boarding school in Brighton, Sussex, under the guidance of a governess. Social etiquette, grooming, music, dancing, drawing and needlework were the skills taught in these small schools. Matilda, aged fourteen, was a pupil-teacher in London. She was apprenticed to study teacher training within an elementary school whilst continuing her education. Eliza, aged eighteen, was working as a domestic servant within a respectable household close by in Brompton, Kensington, London.However Catherine did not see her future in England and, as a widow, she was after a fresh start. Newspapers advertised free passages to the colonies where work was plentiful and where men outnumbered women. Many single men lured to the Australian gold rush were also searching for wives so a second marriage for Catherine seemed possible. It was time to make a move and leave London behind. A new and diff erent land beckoned.In 1853 Catherine approached the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission in Park Street, London to inquire about an assisted passage for herself and her children to Australia. This 6was 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 fi nd 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 fi tted the requirements. They were all in good health and Catherine had been used to working for wages. She and her family fi tted the requirements as specifi ed 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’.7The Colony of South Australia was looking for assisted immigrants so Catherine fi lled in the appropriate forms and waited for an ‘Approval Circular’. When it arrived she paid her 8contributions then waited for embarkation orders. Eldest daughter Eliza was courting and she had decided to stay in London. Embarkation orders saw Catherine and her three children meeting at the emigrants’ depot at Birkenhead, Liverpool a short while before their sailing ship was due to leave. Staying at Birkenhead would have given them an indication of the crowded condition in steerage that was to be home for the next ninety-eight days. With them would have been baggage packed with clothing and the linen that the Countess of Essex had given the family as a parting gift. On 13 9February 1854, Catherine aged 40, Matilda aged seventeen, Caroline aged sixteen and John aged twelve left Liverpool, England on board the John Bunyan, bound for South Australia. Possibly 10they were very excited but probably also very apprehensive about leaving their known comforts and heading into the unknown.The cramped conditions on-board and easily transmitted diseases resulted in twenty-eight deaths of children under four before the John Bunyan reached Adelaide on 22 May 1854. 11Australia’s largest online family history resource*Research and earch and build your family tree online*comScore, 2011d your familye onlineGood Moral Char

6 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncThe Steward family would have been relieved to reach their destination in good health but what were their immediate plans? Did they meet with friends, did they go to the nearby depot where prospective employers were waiting to hire or did they head straight to Victoria where the gold rush had become an irresistible magnet? In Victoria there were well paid jobs, infl ated by the gold rush, and single, eligible men were thronging to the goldfi elds lured by seductive stories of easily found gold. When and how they changed states is not known, however the Steward family were in Victoria by late 1857.Once in Victoria it was essential that the members of the family found suitable jobs. The Melbourne newspapers of the day, The Argusand The Age, printed advertisements seeking housekeepers, domestic servants, nurses and governesses. Perhaps this is how the family came to live on the McIvor diggings, north of Melbourne, in the mid to late 1850s. All had found work; daughter Caroline as a domestic and Matilda as a governess in Heathcote. On the nominal list of the John Bunyan, Catherine had described herself as a housekeeper but in 1857 she was a nurse in the township of Whroo. Perhaps 12this meant she worked as a nanny or a governess for a local farming family. However she may have set herself up in a business, dispensing patent medicines to the diggers, applying leeches to draw blood, working as a midwife or tending to the inevitable breaks and abrasions that would occur on the goldfi elds. There was no training for nurses back in the 1850s but she had previous experience in nursing her husband through his illness and was knowledgeable in the practices of the times. When writing to her daughter in 1866 she said of her own illness, ‘I write these few lines to day which I could not have done yesterday I was suff ering such dreadful agony with my legs they swell and get infl amed, Matilda came last night and put me on Leeches which gave me great relief I am going to have more on today.’13As well as securing a job, Catherine met a new man and remarried just before Christmas 1857. William Ormerod was a widower, of a similar age and a digger. He had no children so it is likely that Catherine’s sixteen-year-old son John was living with them in Whroo and probable that he was also working on the diggings; hard, hazardous and dirty work and very diff erent to going to school in London.The town of Whroo was growing. It had been surveyed and buildings were regularly being added to the landscape. There were two hotels, a regular mail-coach from Melbourne and the nearest town, Rushworth, was just four and a half miles distant. Some inhabitants lived in tents but there were also more substantial slab huts which gave the town a settled appearance. The Balaclava Hill Gold Company employed sixty men during 1857 so maybe John Ormerod laboured for this 14company or one similar and worked with the quartz crushing machines.Living in the countryside, in a small town, was such a contrast to the London hustle and bustle and the elite society she had worked within, that it is hard to imagine Catherine believed she could make a life in Australia. Each day she would have set a fi re, bought and boiled the precious water, made simple bread, cooked mutton stews, washed and cleaned and sewed for her family. She would have mixed with a diverse range of locals; squatters, starry-eyed gold seekers and even ex-Image 2: Balaclava Hill, Whroo, from the North (1858). State Library Victoria, Accession No. H39205

• 7Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incconvicts. The days would have been long and tiring, the dust never ending, the summer heat exhausting, the winter mud depressing, the lack of fresh produce and necessary goods disheartening and the thought of bushrangers, riding the roads and tracks of the area, extremely frightening.By the mid-1860s, the alluvial goldfi elds frenzy of the 1850s had dissipated as gold companies shifted to deep underground gold mining. Catherine and William Ormerod had shifted too. They were now living in Ballarat where work opportunities were more favourable, especially for John who would fi nd his niche working as a newsagent. Catherine was back living in a busy, thriving and rapidly developing town, one of Victoria’s richest and largest gold producing towns.Catherine and William Ormerod lived in Creswick Road, perhaps in a wooden two or 15three roomed cottage. In the nearby area were recently erected houses while hotels, banks, shops, a hospital, a fi re station, a post offi ce, a railway station, theatres, coff eehouses, churches and schools were not far away. These amenities 16meant that daily life for Catherine, a woman who had lived in the largest of cities, would have been more agreeable. Within ten years of arriving in Australia Catherine’s family were all settled and married and also living in Ballarat. Matilda married Leon Maurice Davis in 1859, John married Sarah Farmer in 1863 and Caroline married John Gedling, a miner, in 1864. Catherine was once again part of a blossoming community and her children were fl ourishing too.Very soon there were grandchildren to be loved as by 1866 John was father to two boys and Caroline was mother to two girls. Special times were spent together such as Christmas:I will now tell you how we spent Christmas day Leon and John was at the Post Offi ce Matilda came and dined with me, Sarah and children with Caroline and Leon and John came in the Evening We both had a fi ne goose plumb pudding Custard peas potatoes and ... 17Letters went back and forth across the oceans between Catherine and her oldest daughter Eliza who had remained in England. Catherine wrote about her family, her health and also alluded to reading from the local newspapers. Perhaps she read about the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition and imagined the ladies’ elaborate and richly decorated dresses whilst remembering nostalgically the days when she had hand-stitched their fi nery. I’m sure she would have been proud to read the reports describing the abundance of gold that had been mined from the Victorian goldfi elds in the previous fi fteen years. Proud because 18she and her family had been part of this journey; proud because her son John and her sons-in-law were all industrious; proud because her children and their spouses were contributing to the economy of their new country and the growth of the population.Catherine Lissey Ormerod/Steward passed away early in 1867 and her husband William Ormerod not long after. Did she prove herself a valuable colonist in the thirteen years she lived in Australia? Had she lived a good moral life and 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:… for I am quite happy the almighty God herd [sic] my constant prayers and allowed [me] to live to bring up my children and see them all settled and Image 3: Samuel Calvert, and Solomon Saul, The Ballaarat Exhibition - Arrival of the Governor (1866). State Library Victoria, Accession No. IMP27/09/66/340

8 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncReferences1. Private Papers. Family Reminiscences–Pat Ellis 1980s Information collected from Gedling family2. Ancestry, London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-19113. Ancestry, School Admissions4. 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, p107. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, p58. Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, p69. Pat Ellis 1980s op. cit.10. State Records of South Australia, Passenger Lists11. ‘Emigrant Ship “John Bunyan”’, South Australian Register (Adelaide) 24 May 1854, p2 12. Marriage Certifi cate 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, p105heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au16. ‘Visit of His Excellency the Governor to Ballarat’, The Star (Ballarat) 2 September 1863, p217. Ormerod, 27 December 186618. ‘Opening of the Exhibition’, The Argus (Melbourne) 25 October 1866, p5 19. Ormerod, 25 August 1866SurnamesCapell, Davis, Farmer, Gedling, Needham, Ormerod, Stewardthey have kind Husbands and John a good wife they have all been so kind to me.’19As I walked under the arch and out of Lyall Mews, I was pleased that Catherine had made considered decisions for herself and her children back in 1853. Her goals were all about family and Catherine Lissey Ormerod/Steward had adventurously, courageously and rightly fashioned a new life for herself and her children in Australia.Image 4: Caroline Amelia Gedling nee Steward (right) with daughter and grandchildren, 1901. Used with permission from Helen HastieGood Moral Char

• 9Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncDNA Story: Discovering James Dede martSby June TorcasioIn December 2017 I ordered an Ancestry DNA kit. Their ethnicity estimate revealed that my ancestry is 70% from England, Wales & Northwestern Europe and 27% from Ireland and Scotland. I thought that France would be specifi cally mentioned since my great grandmother, Sarah Dede, was of Huguenot descent. This was to be the least of the DNA revelations.Hundreds of DNA Matches emerged, so I contacted those near the top of my list. My message listed surnames in my family tree and enquired whether any were familiar. In March 2018 I received a reply from Paulette Ward of Dorset, England, who said:I believe we are related via the Dede family of London. I’m descended from Amelia Dede, [the sister of] Jaques (James) who married Elizabeth Smart and emigrated to Australia with several family members. Our shared match … is descended from Jaques [James] & Elizabeth’s son James who emigrated to Prince Edward Island, Canada, and used the name James Dede Smart.In an instant I was staring at the solution to the mystery of what had become of Jaques and Elizabeth’s son, James Dede, born 1820. This had intrigued me since 1999, when I began researching my grandmother’s maternal line after a family reunion in Carisbrook, Victoria. All we knew about James Dede was that he was baptised on 18 August 1820 at St Botolph without Bishopsgate, City of London. He was 1the only son of my great-great-grandparents Jaques (James) and Elizabeth Dede (neé Smart) who had left London for New South Wales with four of their daughters in September 1838. James was not with them when the barque Alfred arrived in Sydney on 17 January 1839. 2Contemporary Australian descendants of James and Elizabeth Dede did not know what became of him. When James’ mother, Elizabeth, died in June 1862 in Richmond, New South Wales, he was listed on her death certifi cate among his siblings as 42 years of age. This would indicate that he was still living. 3But where was he at that time? His fi ve sisters were in Australia by then, including the eldest, Elizabeth Pierse, who had emigrated in 1849.4In May 2018 I heard from Sandy Donahue of Maine in the United States. I had forwarded Paulette’s message about James Dede Smart and she thought it was a ‘strange coincidence’. As we shared information it became quite clear that James Dede (born 1820) and James Dede Smart were one and the same person. Move over Sherlock Holmes! Sandy also said:One of my great aunts [Rose] went to England and 5did a lot of research (way back around the 1920s). She did a family tree that has unfortunately been lost … supposedly our ancestor was too young to get into the infantry so he changed his name … and lied about his age and got into the infantry.6James Dede Smart was 23 on enlistment, not too young for the infantry. So this was not the 7reason he changed his name. Why else would he have done so? Perhaps he fell out with his parents because he was not interested in managing the stationery and bookselling business which was advertised for sale prior to the family’s departure for New South Wales in 1838. Was he not the 8natural son of James Dede? Had he committed a June can be contacted [email protected] Ronley StreetBlackburn Vic [email protected] for appointment (03) 9878 9285For all your publishing needs …PenFolk produces high quality books for family historians»» Our service is adapted to suit your needs, and may include design and production of books, papers and charts; reproducing and retouching photos and documents; advice and assistance with writing; designing and compiling family tree charts. We can take you through all stages of your project, or provide guidance and assistance with specific elements.We take pride in producing work of the highest possible quality, and provide a service that is personal, friendly, cooperative and confidential»» Our services include design and development; writing, editing and proof reading; illustration; graphic and photographic reproduction; training and support; consultation and advice; printing and delivery of the finished product.

10 10 • •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncImages 1 & 2: (left) Sandy’s great-grandmother, Jennie/Janet Smart née McKay (1851-1930) and three of her children and (right) Sandy’s grandfather, the third James Dede Smart (1882-1950)crime? Why did he not wish to be known by the Dede surname? One can only speculate.The Dedes were of Huguenot descent. They had escaped from France towards the end of the 17th century after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantesin 1685 by Louis XIV, which put their lives in grave danger unless they renounced their religious beliefs. There were generations of silk weavers in the Dede family – James Dede’s baptism record indicates his father’s occupation as a weaver and their abode as Spital Square. This locality was 9favoured by wealthy master-weavers, throwsters and dyers of the silk industry. From 1826, when French silks came on to the English market, the Spitalfi elds silk industry began to decline. The baptism record for James’ older sister, Mary Ann shows that Jaques (James) operated a stationery business from as early as 1814 in Sun Street, London. Such an alternative occupation would 10have meant economic survival for the Dede family given the parlous state of their traditional livelihood. We may never know exactly when James Dede changed his surname to Smart. He appears to have done so by 1843 when he joined the British Army. The 1841 UK Census record lists a James Smart as a medical student residing with Thomas and Sarah Smart at Newmarket Terrace in the Parish of St Matthew, Bethnal Green in London. The Smarts had lived in England for centuries and they also had interests in the silk industry. Thomas aged 25, was a silk broker and Sarah, 50, was of ‘Independent Means’. Perhaps she was his 11aunt and Thomas his cousin. Earlier, in Pigot & Co.’s 1822 London Directory, ‘Silk-manufacturers’ included James Dede at 17 Spital Square and J. & H. Smart at 37 Union Street, Bishopsgate .12In September 1843 James Dede Smart enlisted in the British Army. He married Adelaide Hoare in 1850 in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. James was 13based in County Armagh in early 1851 then in 1852 in Canterbury, Kent, when their fi rst child, also named James Dede Smart, was born. The family moved to Hull in Yorkshire, then back to Canterbury

• 11Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncSurnamesDede, Hoare, McKay, Pierse, SmartReferences1. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-19172. ‘Shipping Intelligence’, The Sydney Herald, 18 January 1839, p123. Death Registered in New South Wales, Australia4. ‘Shipping Intelligence Arrivals’, Adelaide Observer, 1 December 1849, p25. Rose Smart (1861-1931), daughter of the fi rst James Dede Smart, trained as a teacher6. As related by Sandy Donahue7. British Army Service Records 1760-1915Transcription8. The Times (London), 21 July 1838, p29. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-191710. ngland, ESelect Births and Christenings, 1538-197511. 1841 England Census12. Pigot & Co.’s London Directory 1822,pp147-14813. Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-195814. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-197515. UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925. His birthplace is noted as Spitalfi elds. His Pensioner Admission or Examination Date was 11 October 1864 and his age: 4416. Canada Census record17. He was buried in St Elizabeth’s Cemetery, Springfi eld on 11 February 1896, aged 75 years. St. Johns Anglican Church Crapaud register, Prince Edward Island, Canada18. Prince Edward Island, Canada, Marriage Registers, 1832-188819. Information from Sandy Donahue20. Sandy Donahueby 1861. James and Adelaide had eight children, although only four survived beyond 25 years.14In 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. By 1881 he was 15living on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He died 16in Springfi eld in 1896.17James 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. Around 1890 James headed west, 18deserting his wife and children. He settled near Toronto, Canada and remarried, starting a new family. He died in Canada around 1950. 19This 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 fi rm. He died in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1950.20Sandy’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.Image 1: Sandy’s father, James Dede Smart IV, taken in 1929 at his graduation from high school

12 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncThe Troubled Life of Rose Anne Hedleyby Liz KellyThe horse Fine Cotton unexpectedly won the Commerce Novice Handicap at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane on 18 August 1984. Despite previous poor performances, he started as 7/2 favourite. Upon returning to scale, white paint and brown hair dye dribbled down his legs prompting stewards to immediately stop betting payouts and launch an investigation. A superior bay horse called Bold Personality had been substituted for the poorly performed brown and white Fine Cotton, hence the paint and dye. The ring-in perpetrators were warned off Australian racecourses for life.1As I read about Fine Cotton, I didn’t realise that in 1908 my great-aunt, Rose Anne Hedley née Brady, was involved in a horse racing scam at the Riddell’s Creek races, causing her too to be banned for life. My father’s mother died when he was a baby so he knew nothing of his maternal aunt’s eventful life.Buckland to FitzroyRose Brady was born in the Buckland Valley in 1873, the sixth of thirteen children, to Terence Brady, a gold miner originally from County Cavan, and Julia Moran from Tipperary. 2Rose attended the Miner’s Right School, infrequently it seems because in 1883 her father appeared before the Buckland Police Court for not sending his children to school for the required number of days.3After 25 unsuccessful years of gold mining, Terence was declared insolvent in 1884. 4Rose, aged eleven, moved with her family from Buckland to Fitzroy, Melbourne’s most dangerous suburb, full of brothels and sly grog shops. The Bradys moved frequently, always within Fitzroy and Carlton. Terence Brady worked as 5a quarryman, probably at one of the bluestone quarries beside the Merri Creek – dangerous and laborious work for a man nearing 60. 6Rose may have received some education at St Brigid’s Girls’ School in North Fitzroy, but she quickly learnt dressmaking, the occupation of all the female Bradys.Tragedy struck on 1 July 1898 when the body of Terence Brady, 68, was recovered from the Yarra River in Fairfi eld. He had gone missing from the 7Brady home on 31 May and his family, frantic to fi nd him, had placed newspaper and gazette advertisements. The inquest determined that he 8committed suicide by drowning. He was described as malnourished with signs of tuberculosis. MarriageRose lived with her mother and siblings in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, until she married Robert James Hedley from Tallarook in March 1902 at St Brigid’s Church. According to the marriage certifi cate, he was hotel keeper of the Magpie Hotel in Perry Street, Collingwood and Rose was a tailoress. The certifi cate has Robert as 30, a year older than Rose. The Victorian Birth 9Index makes him 37.Curiously, on 4 February 1902 just prior to her marriage, the Licensing Court transferred the Magpie Hotel licence to ‘Rose A Brady’. Hedley 10was previously licensee of the Jolly Hatters Hotel in Raphael St, Abbotsford. Possibly he had run-11ins with licensing authorities, as thereafter all his hotel activities were in his wife’s name. Following the short-lived Magpie Hotel venture the Hedleys operated the Lavers Hill Hotel near Cape Otway from 1904 to 1906. In October 121906 Rose purchased the Commercial Hotel in Romsey featuring thirteen guest bedrooms, plus billiard, dining and bar rooms. She was recorded as owner and licensee of the hotel with her husband as manager.13Liz can be contacted [email protected] 1: Rose Anne Hedley, early 1900s

• 13Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Rose Anne HedThe Ring-inTaking timeout from his managerial duties, Robert Hedley purchased Romsey Jack, a bay gelding, in July 1907 for £10. In November, he 14made a ‘present’ of the horse to his wife, so Rose appeared as owner and nominator whenever the horse was entered at local race meetings. Romsey Jack under-performed in hack races at Woodend, Lancefi eld and Gisborne, until he won the Flying Handicap at Romsey on 10 December 1907 and the Flying Stakes at Riddell’s Creek on Boxing Day. The Romsey Amateur Turf Club stewards met on 30 December 1907 to consider a protest against Romsey Jack’s 10 December win, which alleged that Romsey Jack was identical to a well performed New Zealand horse called Rawmore. 15The Romsey stewards upheld the protest, disqualifi ed the Hedleys from racing for six months and the horse for two years. Rawmore, a bay gelding from Invercargill, New Zealand, had won more than fi fteen races before being sold in July 1907 to a Melbourne buyer.16The Riddell’s Creek Racing Club offi cials met on 21 January 1908. They found the parties guilty of fraudulent nomination and disqualifi ed Rose Hedley, the nominator, and the horse for life, but took no action against Robert Hedley, despite Mr Wright, the detective for the Victoria Racing Club (VRC), presenting evidence that Hedley had a suspicious interest in the horse, had misrepresented Rawmore as Romsey Jack and was probably the architect of the fraud. The VRC was dissatisfi ed and directed Riddell’s Creek offi cials to reconsider. This time Robert Hedley was also banned for life.17Like his race horses, it appears Hedley had ‘form’. In March 1894, an R J Hedley and his horse The Markee were disqualifi ed by the Seymour, Mansfi eld, Jamieson and Upper Goulburn Racing Clubs for varying periods of up to three years for engaging in suspicious practices and fraudulent nomination. The Markee was in reality a well performed horse called Jew Boy.18The FireThe Commercial Hotel, Romsey went up in fl ames at 3am on the morning of Tuesday 27 April 1909. The Presbyterian Church bell tolled while townsfolk and police rallied to fi ght the fi re. By 19morning, the hotel was a blackened ruin. Someone lifted the scorched remains of an iron bed to fi nd a burnt corpse, later identifi ed as James Augustus Dick. The police, with the Romsey Jack matter 20still fresh, were immediately suspicious.On Monday 26 April 1909 James Dick, 28, an engine driver working on Thomas Furphy’s chaff cutting machine at Mr Park’s farm north of Romsey, came to town on errands for Mr Furphy. Late that night he sought accommodation at the Commercial Hotel. He was given a room by Rose Hedley and forgotten. Four hours later he was dead. James Dick was not a great husband – his wife Lillian Jury had sued for maintenance in 1907. 21However his death left three little girls fatherless – Olive aged nine, Rose seven and May three.An inquest into James Dick’s death was held at Romsey before the Coroner, Dr Robert H Cole on 11 May 1909. Dr Cole examined sixteen witnesses, fi nding that ‘the fi re was feloniously, unlawfully, maliciously and fraudulently caused by Robert James Hedley and Robert Johnson’. He committed them for trial before the Supreme Court for the wilful murder of James Dick.The Coroner’s evidence focused on the purchase of the hotel. The Hedleys paid £2100 in October, 1906 being £1000 cash, plus a Commercial Bank mortgage at 7% interest. Insurance of £980 for the building and £450 for furniture and stock was arranged by Robert. All transactions were in Rose’s name. Hotel trade was slow and by 1909 Rose still owed the bank £1033. Before the fi re Robert Hedley unsuccessfully attempted to sell the hotel to buyers, including the Carlton and United Brewery Company, for £2200. The TrialRobert Hedley and his co-accused Johnson, in police custody following committal, successfully applied for bail before Mr Justice Cussen on 14 May. Charges must have been dropped against Johnson as only Hedley went to trial. On 28 June 1909 The King v Robert James Hedleycommenced in the Supreme Court Criminal Division before Mr Justice Hodges and a twelve man jury, with Mr Dethridge prosecuting and Mr Maxwell defending. Evidence presented by prosecution witnesses was incriminating, albeit circumstantial.Neighbour James Knott fi rst saw fl ames in the hotel’s billiard room and ran to wake hotel residents. He was surprised to see Mr and Mrs Hedley and two employees fully dressed and ready to go at 3am. As the fi re raged, George Pitcher searched desperately for a hose but Hedley said not to bother as the fi re had too strong a hold. John Keen went to the storeroom to rescue stock but fi nding nothing, he raced to the kitchen where he encountered Robert Hedley wearing a Panama hat and smoking a cigar. Keen asked, ‘What about saving some things?’ To which Hedley replied, ‘It’s too late, let the damn things burn.’Despite witnesses alleging the storeroom held minimal stock – just two cases and two demijohns, one being empty – Hedley told Senior Constable McCormick that, prior to the fi re, it contained fourteen cases of liquor, two full whisky demijohns and cordials amounting to £60. McCormick later found fourteen bottles

14 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incof schnapps hidden under a mattress in a shed behind the hotel. When questioned, Hedley asserted that someone must have stolen and stashed the bottles during the fi re.Witnesses testifi ed that initially fl ames came only from the billiard room. Constable Mills and John Keen, at fi rst, saw no fi re in the storeroom, but a few minutes later policemen Mills and McCormick found the storeroom well alight. They could see no connection between the billiard room and storeroom fi res. Keen reported seeing 22Robert Hedley outside the storeroom during the commotion. The storeroom and billiard room fi res seemingly independently combusted. In fact the two locations were separated by 26 feet and two stone walls, each eighteen inches thick.While neighbours and police fought the fi re, neither Rose nor Robert Hedley checked James Dick’s hotel room. Senior Constable McCormick testifi ed that, when he later asked Rose Hedley, ‘How could you not remember this morning this man (Dick) being in the hotel?’ she replied, ‘I forgot all about it as I was so excited and upset’.Mr Maxwell presented no defence witnesses and led no evidence, simply asserting that many people had access to the hotel that night and, given the chaos, anyone might have dropped a match. Mr Justice Hodges displayed his 23frustration:It seems to be another illustration of ‘’Nero was fi ddling while Rome was burning’’. Here was this man smoking a cigar whilst his hotel was on fi re.... The question is, how did the fi re originate in two separate parts of the building?24Nonetheless, in summing up, His Honour told the jury that mere suspicion was not enough to convict, they had to be sure of guilt in such a serious case. The Jury retired for three hours before returning a not guilty verdict.25The AftermathTwo days after the fi re, the Hedleys lodged claim forms with the insurance companies which paid £900 for the building loss and £290 for furniture and stock. The land and remaining outbuildings were sold by auction on 19 July 1909.26The Licensing Reduction Board, established in 1906 to reduce the number of poorly run, uneconomic hotels, met in Romsey in August 1909 to consider Rose Hedley’s compensation claim for the ‘closure’ of her hotel. Upon surrendering her licence the Board awarded her £255. James 27Dick’s children probably received nothing. Were Robert and Rose Hedley partners in crime, or was she manipulated by her husband? Transactions having legal ramifi cations were always recorded in Rose’s name, thus quarantining Robert’s liability.The AssaultIn June 1910 Robert Hedley successfully applied for a wine licence to operate The Australian Wine Saloon in Warracknabeal, much to the annoyance of police who opposed the application citing the Romsey Jack aff air.28As Rose worked alone in the saloon about 4pm on Tuesday 13 December 1910, Frederick Lee, an itinerant agricultural worker with a prison record for violence, and who was known for drunken behaviour, entered the bar. With no one else about, Rose felt uncomfortable. Lee requested a drink which she refused. She then walked to the kitchen. He followed, threw her to the ground, pinned her down and tore at her blouse and petticoat while he groped at her thigh. Rose managed to break free and ran next door to William Noske’s grocery shop in a distressed state. Rose was traumatised and badly bruised. She became ill and vomited for several days afterwards.29Lee was arrested, charged with assault with intent to commit rape and tried in the Ballarat Supreme Court on 1 February 1911. He was found guilty and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour in Pentridge Prison. The judge commented that, but for the jury’s recommendation of mercy because Mrs Hedley wasn’t actually raped, he would have ordered a fl ogging.30The AccidentThe 1915 electoral roll shows Robert James Hedley living at Tallarook. There’s no sign of 31Rose. Perhaps she drifted back to Melbourne. On 28 January 1925, Rose, 51, was admitted to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Cheltenham, a hospital for ill and destitute Melburnians. Although separated from her husband, she was described as a widow, anxious to receive the pension. Late 32on Friday 11 July 1927, while on leave from the Asylum, she stepped on to a train at Mentone station, but fell between the platform and train, sustaining severe injuries including a fractured skull and hip. She was taken, unconscious, to the Melbourne Hospital. She recovered and was 33readmitted to the Asylum till 1928.A Sad EndFrom 1929 to 1935 Rose, probably ill, appears at several Fitzroy addresses, possibly cheap boarding houses. In 1935 she was admitted to Mont Park Mental Hospital, Bundoora, as an involuntary patient. On 15 October 1936, she was in a maniacal and unmanageable state and was ‘put to bed’, suggesting permanent physical restraint or isolation. She died in the hospital

• 15Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incin June 1937, aged 64, from chronic alcoholism. The inquest report describes her as emaciated, suff ering alcoholic dementia, and displaying ‘restless and destructive’ behaviour. 34Was Rose’s descent into alcohol-fuelled madness triggered by remorse at her part in the death of James Augustus Dick? She didn’t light the fi re that killed him, but it was she who gave him a hotel room and forgot him.In 1943 Rose’s estranged husband, Robert James Hedley, also died in a psychiatric hospital – Mount Royal Hospital, Royal Park. They had no 35children.References1. Herald Sun 31 October 20132. Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages3. Diann Talbot, The Buckland Valley Goldfi eld, p1474. ‘New Insolvents’, The Australasian13 December 1884 p325. Sands & McDougall Directory of Melbourne6. City of Fitzroy Rate Books, 2 November 1893 PROV series 23367. Inquest Deposition Files 1898 PROVVPRS 24/PO8. Victoria Police Gazette 8 June 1898 p1789. Victoria Births Deaths and Marriages10. ‘Metropolitan Licencing Court’, The Age4 February1902 p8 11. ‘Advertising’, The Age 25 July 1899 p312. ‘Notice of Application for a Roadside Victuallers Licence’, The Colac Herald28 November 1904 p313. Hotel plan–The King v Robert James HedleyPROV Criminal Trial Briefs & Registers 1892-1932 VPRS 3014. ‘The Turf’, The Herald 22 January 1908 p515. ‘Miscellaneous Notes’, The Australasian4 January 1908 p1616. The Otago Witness 31 July 1907 and1 January 190817. ‘Notes and Chat’, The Argus 23 January 1908 p418. ‘Sporting Notes’, Weekly Times 19 May 1894 p12 and ‘A Disqualifi cation’, The Age 28 March 1894 p719. ‘A Lodger’s Fate’, The Argus 28 April 1909 p720. The Inquest Deposition fi les, the Supreme Court trial briefs, the witness testimonies and affi davits, police interviews and police statements are contained in the following fi le: The King v Robert James Hedley, PROV Criminal Trial Briefs and Registers 1892-1932 VPRS 3021. The Age 3 October 190722. ibid23. ‘Burnt in an hotel’, The Argus 30 June 1909 p924. ibid25. ibid26. ‘Advertising’, The Argus 17 July 1909 p327. ‘The Reduction Board’, The Argus 21 August 1909 p2028. Sunbury News 9 July 191029. Testimony of Rose Hedley in The King v Frederick Lee PROV Criminal Trial Briefs and Registers 1892-1932 VPRS 3030. ‘Off ences Against Females, Remarks by the Judge’, Ballarat Star 2 February 1911 p431. Australia, Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, 1915 Division of Echuca, Subdivision Seymour32. Melbourne Benevolent Asylum records, State Library of Victoria, General Register of Inmates F Box 626/933. ‘Woman Seriously Injured’, The Argus27 July 192734. Inquest Deposition Files PROV 1937 VPRS24/PO35. Victorian Births Deaths and Marriage Rose Anne HedImage 2: Mont Park Mental Hospital where Rose died in 1937SurnamesBrady, Cavan, Cole, Cussen, Dethridge, Dick, Hedley, Johnson, Keen, Knott, Lee, McCormick, Maxwell, Mills, Moran, Noske, Pitcher, Wright

16 16 • •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncI was inspired by the recent articles in Ancestorabout uncanny family connections across the generations to share two of my own. My parents were very keen genealogists in the 1980s and 1990s and members of the GSV. They had undertaken extensive research into both their families and that of my husband. Since my parents passed away I have kept all their research materials, certifi cates and index cards. In late December 2014 there was an article in The Age newspaper about Donald Bradman having Italian heritage via an Italian sailor who settled in NSW in 1826. I knew my husband’s family was 1connected to the Bradmans so I wondered if the Italian link was the same. I rummaged through my boxes and in Dad’s index fi le there he was: Emmanuel Sebastiano Denaro (aka Neich), three times great grandfather of my husband and great grandfather of Donald Bradman.This was it for me. I was hooked. I wanted to ensure the future of all the research my parents had done in a modern format and continue on with the family research. I chose to use Ancestryand Family Tree Maker to research and record the family history. While still working full-time I found the research comforting and an antidote to the work I did.At some point in the last three years I became interested in exploring the family history of my daughter-in-law to pass on to my grandson. It was during this research that I uncovered two connections between our families. The fi rst came while researching her family in central Victoria. I came across an unusual name that rang bells for me: Menhennitt. I went back to my Dad’s index cards and there it was: Samuel George Menhennitt married Jean Stevenson, my two times maternal great-aunt in 1902. Jean was the daughter of Andrew Stevenson and Margaret Gray. Andrew was one of fi ve children bought to Australia in 1854, just after the death of their mother, by their father John Stevenson, a Scottish radical. By 1857 the family had settled in Maldon 2where John was involved in public life as a councillor and magistrate and had a reputation as a fi erce and diffi cult man. I surmised there could not be too many Menhennitt families in Victoria and found that the two Menhennitts who connected our families were brother and sister. Their father Thomas Henry Menhennitt was born in Truro, Cornwall and emigrated to Australia and married Fanny Bailey (born in Chatham, Kent) in South Australia in 1852. After the death of their fi rst child in infancy they moved to Sandhurst (Bendigo) in Victoria where they had another six children. In my daughter-in-law’s family Edward Peel and Sarah Hannah Toogood, both from Durham, emigrated separately to NSW and married in Newcastle in 1860. In 1869 the family moved to Sandhurst in Victoria. They had a total of thirteen children with seven dying in infancy. Their eldest son George Edward Peel born 1861 married Matilda Menhennitt in 1885. George Peel is my daughter-in-law’s three times great uncle.I was excited by the idea that in the late 1800s siblings Matilda and Samuel Menhennitt brought our families together through their marriages to the Peel and Stevenson families and that 100 years later the families would come together through the marriage of my son and his wife.The next connection between our two families goes back to two female convicts on the Lady Juliana. My father’s index cards didn’t go beyond Emmanuel Sebastiano Denaro (aka Neich) and Mary Cuppitt the mother of his child, Sophia Neich and I’m not surprised by the dead end as they were not married and the child appears to be the result of an out of marriage liaison, but that is a story for another time.Family Connections Across the Generationsby Jane VanderstoelJane can be contacted at [email protected]

• 17Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncIf he had been able to go back further my father would have been thrilled to fi nd that Mary Cuppitt was the granddaughter of a female convict Mary Gittos. Mary was sentenced to seven years at the Old Bailey in 1788 for stealing clothing. She arrived on the Lady Juliana on the 6 June 1790 and by August was aboard the Surprize for Norfolk Island. In February 1791 she was given a pig to raise from the government herd as the small settlement tried to become more self-suffi cient in its production of food. On Norfolk Island Mary 3began a relationship with William Charlton, a member of the NSW Corps. They had twelve children but did not marry until 1810. Their daughter Rebecca Charlton was Mary Cuppitt’s mother. Rebecca and William Augustus Cuppitt had nine children from 1827 to 1847 but did not marry until 1853.I researched my daughter-in-law’s maternal line going back to Durham and Devon in England, Ireland and Germany, all in the 1800s. I then received some family history information from my daughter-in-law’s paternal aunt that gave me a start on her father’s line. I followed generations to Durham in England and Scotland on her grandfather’s line and Scotland, Devon and Kent in England on her grandmother’s side.Then I began to follow a line that had generations born in Victoria and Tasmania and found more convicts.Samuel Pickett convicted in 1786 of stealing 100 yards of woollen druggett and sentenced to death that was commuted to seven years transportation. Samuel arrived on the First Fleet aboard the Charlotte and is the six times great grandfather of my daughter-in-law. Samuel married Mary Thompson, who was convicted in 1789 of stealing a silver watch and sentenced to seven years transportation. Mary was incorrectly listed as being on board the Neptune but was in fact transported on the Lady Juliana. When she arrived in Port Jackson in April 1790 she was then sent to Norfolk Island aboard the Surprizein August 1790. Early Norfolk Island records show her as being given a pig in February 1791. 4The marriage did not last, a notice placed by Samuel in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on Saturday 31 October 1812 stated that: ‘Whereas my Wife, Mary Pickett, has eloped from my House without any just Cause or Provocation … ’. Samuel died in May 1817. In early 1820 Mary left for Van Diemen’s Land advertising her imminent departure to Hobart Town. Mary died in Hobart in 1824. Mary and Samuel’s daughter Jane Pickett went with her mother to Tasmania and married Thomas Beechey. At some time late in her life she moved to Victoria and died in Fryerstown in central Victoria in 1853.It took me a while to put the experiences of these two women together and realise that Mary Gittos, my son’s six times great grandmother and Mary Thompson, his wife’s six times great grandmother were both transported on the same ship to Australia, the Lady Juliana. They were transported on another ship, the Surprizeto Norfolk Island. In February 1791, they stood in line to be given a pig each to begin feeding themselves and others. I would like to assume that they knew each other, they may not have been friends but it would be highly unlikely that they were strangers. It is the joy of family history research that when my son fell in love with his wife there were some serendipitous family connections yet to be discovered. Family ConnectiImage 1: A View of Queensborough Norfolk Island attributed to John Eyre about 1804. (Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales)

18 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncFirst to fi nd that through my line our families came together bumping gently up against each other in the separate marriages of a brother and sister into each of our families four generations ago. Then to uncover an amazing connection through my husband’s line that over eight generations ago that our families fi rst entwined with a shared history of two women who suff ered poverty and hardship both in England and the new colonies in Australia but endured and created the foundations of generations to come. References1. 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 certifi cates 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.SurnamesBailey, Beechey, Bradman, Charlton, Cuppitt, Denaro, Gittos, Gray, Menhennitt, Neich, Peel, Pickett, Stevenson, Thompson, Toogood Family ConnectiMore 2018 GSV AwardsImages 1 & 2: As they missed the AGM, President Jenny Redman presented Maurice Majurey with his Medal for Meritorious Service, and Helen Pearce with her certifi cate 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.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 worksAuthors 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.GSV 2019 Writing Prize

• 19Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncDNADNA PresentationsPresentations on various DNA topics will continue to be scheduled monthly, with sessions repeated based on Members’ needs. At present we have fi ve presentations on off er in the form of Modules. It is strongly recommended that Modules 1-4 be taken in order. Presentation sessions are 90 minutes.Module 1: DNA Testing – Should I do it?This is an introductory presentation for people thinking about doing a DNA test. It considers the various reasons for testing DNA and will explain the diff erent types of tests and testing companies, and what the results will tell you. It will explain what is involved in providing DNA samples, who should take the tests and privacy issues. It will also explain how to develop a family tree to use with your DNA results. This presentation will help you decide whether you want to do DNA testing and the most appropriate test to take.Module 2: Introduction to using your Ancestry DNA results This presentation is for beginners in DNA who are starting to use their Ancestry DNA results. It is intended for people who have their Ancestry DNA results or who have tested and are waiting for their results. It will explain some DNA basics and the various results you receive. The focus is understanding your Ancestry DNA results so you can use your DNA matches and to extend your family history. After attending this presentation, you will understand your Ancestry DNA results and how to use them in your family history research.Module 3: Strategies for analysing autosomal DNA resultsFor intermediate DNA users who want to go further with understanding and using their autosomal DNA results to progress their family history research. The presentation will cover downloading DNA data and uploading it to other sites such as Gedmatch. It will introduce some online tools that can help you better understand your autosomal DNA results.It will also explain a number of strategies such as how to identify paternal and maternal lines, how to analyse DNA segments and matches, and how to use methods such as triangulation and DNA mapping to progress your family history. This presentation will help you explore your autosomal DNA more fully by using other sites and more advanced techniques to progress your family history.Module 4: Introduction to DNA Painter DNA Painter is an online tool that enables you to upload shared segment data from other sites so that you can create a profi le of the DNA you have inherited. It also provides various ways you can use these profi les to break through brick walls in your family history and identify unknown matches. The session will explain how to create a profi le and upload data from other sites. It will also provide an overview of the various ways to use DNA Painter to solve some of your DNA family history mysteries. The session is intended for people who have done an autosomal DNA test and have at least a basic understanding of DNA segment information. Module 5: Introduction to Y DNAThe presentation is for people interested in tracing the male line of their family tree using the Y DNA test. It will focus on the Family Tree Y DNA test. It is an introductory session and will cover who can take the test, the diff erent levels of testing, and how Y DNA tests can be used in your family history. It will briefl y explain haplogroups and ancient origins of your ancestors. It will also provide an overview of the Y DNA test results and how to interpret them. Y DNA is particularly important in tracing the paternal line and surnames, and can be used to investigate brick walls and mysteries related to male lineage. The Y DNA test also enables you to join surname groups and haplotype groups which can provide additional information about your ancestry. DNA Research TutorialsDNA Research Tutorials are small group sessions that focus on a specifi c topic related to genetic genealogy. The tutorials will explore more fully some of the topics from the monthly GSV DNA presentations. Tutorials will be held monthly. The aim is to help people to use DNA to advance their family history research. Each tutorial will have a facilitator who will do the presentation and lead the tutorial but sessions are intended to be both practical and participatory. Participants will be expected to bring relevant materials such as their family tree, DNA data, and if possible their own laptop, and be willing to contribute their questions and ideas on the topic. Research tutorials are 120 minutes.DNA and Family History presentations and research tutorials 2019 at the GSVby Jenny Redman

20 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncResources for Searching for Burials in Victoria by David DownDavid can be contacted at [email protected] the burial information of your ancestors can provide a wealth of information both about the deceased and in many cases their relatives. More and more records are being digitised and made available online and this article will point to a number of resources that you can use to assist with your research.Death Certifi catesA death certifi cate is the fi rst document to consult when searching for the burial place of your ancestor. There is provision on Victorian death certifi cates to record the date and place of burial, the undertaker’s name, the name and religion of the offi ciating minister and the names of witnesses. The information provided does not indicate the burial plot within the cemetery and this will need to be obtained from other sources.Birth, Deaths and Marriages Victoria maintain an excellent website where you can search for, and then purchase, digital images of certifi cates. Their search engine is powerful and the use of a wildcard character helps to narrow down your search.Cemetery Burial RecordsThere are two major Cemetery Trusts in Melbourne. The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) is responsible for nineteen cemeteries located in an arc across the northern suburbs. The Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (SMCT) is similarly responsible for nine cemeteries in the southern Melbourne suburbs. There are a number of other Melbourne cemeteries that are under the control of Councils or Trusts. The SMCT website (www.smct.org.au) contains a facility which enables searches of the burial databases for Bunurong Memorial Park, Springvale Botanical Cemetery and St Kilda Cemetery. Work is currently underway to grant public access to the burial databases of the other cemeteries under their administration. Read their search help page carefully as it is possible to fi nd other deceased individuals recorded at the same location. This information can assist to clearly identify a particular plot where numbers are absent.The GMCT website (www.gmct.com.au) off ers both a burial database search and a mapping facility for the majority of their cemeteries. A search will result in a list of names meeting your search criteria and an indication of whether a map is available. Click on the link and a map will open in a new tab. You can generate a printable map by clicking on the ‘Print Map to PDF’ icon on the top right-hand corner of the web page. If a map is not generated then you may need to ensure that your browser will allow pop-ups. The map of the location of the grave, such as the example shown here, also lists the names of the deceased located on adjacent plots which is especially helpful when searching for the plot at the cemetery. Many other cemeteries in Melbourne and other parts of Victoria off er online burial searches or will provide a search service if contacted. The Australian Cemeteries website (www.australiancemeteries.com.au) has links to online databases where available. Know your cemeteryIt is important to understand the details of any database that you are searching and you need to familiarize yourself with the full nature of the records covered by a particular database. For example, you may locate a death certifi cate that indicates that the deceased was buried in Coburg Cemetery. If the burial occurred between 1860, the date that the cemetery opened, and 1872 then the event will not appear in the online burial database. The burial records from these early years have not been located.GSV ResourcesThe GSV holds a wealth of information about Victorian cemeteries and burials. Start by searching the catalogue remembering that the wildcard character can only be used at the end of a search term. The Society’s Cemeteries Database is a repository of indexed memorials from over 600, primarily Victorian, cemeteries. The memorials are indexed by name and linked to a scan of the transcribed headstone or memorial. We are constantly adding records so it is important to check the database regularly.

• 21Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncFriends of Cemetery GroupsFriends of Cemeteries Groups have grown over time and exist for many Victorian cemeteries. Most will answer queries regarding burial searches and may provide images of memorials if they exist. Many have their own websites whilst others provide contact details on the Australian Cemeteries website.WebsitesThe Australian Cemeteries website (www.australiancemeteries.com.au) off ers a comprehensive index of cemeteries throughout Australia and lists, for each, the resources available to assist in searching for burials and transcripts or images of memorials.Cora Num’s website (www.coraweb.com.au) has an extensive list of resources for tracing burials and memorials in Victorian and other Australian cemeteries.The Ryerson Index (www.ryersonindex.org) is a free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. The date range covered extends from early Sydney newspapers to newspapers published recently. The Index also includes funeral notices and some probate notices and obituaries. This is an important site to visit when searching for burial information.The Trove website (trove.nla.gov.au) is also an important resource for all aspects of your family history research. Their collection of digitised newspapers, government gazettes, magazines, books, pictures and maps grows continually.An understanding of the history of the cemetery in which your ancestor is buried will greatly enhance your family history as will an appreciation of the history of the practices relating to death and dying in Australia across the ages.Recommended Books • Gilbert, Lionel A, A Grave Look at History: Glimpses of a Vanishing Form of Folk Art, Sydney, John Ferguson, 1980 • Sagazio, Celestina, ed., Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Melbourne, National Trust of Australia, 1992 • Jalland, Pat, Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2002 • Kellehear, Allan, ed., History of Death and Dying in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford university Press, 2000 • Griffi n, Graeme M & Tobin, Des, In the Midst of Life: The Australian Response to Death, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1997Image 1: The GMCT website provides maps and information concerning those buried in a plot: Sample from the Coburg Cemetery showing the Watson family

22 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Book Reviews Book Reviews As the story of the Serbian campaign is told we are shown the role of the volunteers at each stage. For example the medical volunteers, having anticipated treating casualties, found themselves dealing with a typhus epidemic. Later, in October 1916, they had to evacuate across the mountains with the retreating Serbian Army and Government, in the face of a joint assault by Germany and Austria from the north and Bulgaria from the east. Some of them returned to Serbia in November 1916 for the retaking of Monastir and from September 1918, the victorious drive of the Serbian and allied armies to Belgrade.The author estimates just under one and a half thousand Australian and NZ people served in the Serbia/Salonika campaign. As well as the medical volunteers there were soldiers serving in the British army, an AIF transport unit, volunteers in the Serbian army, observers in RAF planes and sailors in the Australian navy and merchant navy supplying the campaign. A large number of Annexes (and an index) complete the book, including a large number of biographies, statistical information, lists of personnel such as of those awarded Serbian decorations, and a description of the eff orts back in Australia to assist Serbia during the war. It is a most useful work for those exploring WW1, and for Serbian and Australian family historians. MV3. The Vanished Land – Disappearing dynasties of Victoria’s Western DistrictAuthor: Richard Zachariah 316pp ISBN: 978 1 74305 501 4Pub: Wakefi eld Press, Mile End, South Australia, 2017At fi rst glance, it may seem surprising to review this book in a genealogical magazine. I did review in a recent issue, two books (by Margaret Kiddle and Maggie Black) on the early European settlers of the Western District of Victoria. In many ways this book is a sequel to those historical volumes. Furthermore, it holds names of 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.The author was brought up in Hamilton in the heart of the Western District in the fi fties, and had a career as a journalist. In this book, he has brought that background and those skills to bear with the numerous personalities he interviewed while researching this book. The book contains 34 chapters – each devoted to one or more established western district families, nearly all of whom have been graziers, and many of them descended from the early squatters. Zachariah imparts to the reader very successfully why the wool industry has declined from its peak in the booming fi fties to the present day. In many ways, this is a sad story of the passing of established wealthy families running large properties and having tremendous political infl uence. His writing clearly shows that he understands and loves these people and their often extravagant lifestyles. He has taken the trouble to interview a large cross-section of the district to give a balanced picture, and to argue his thesis on the passing of so many dynasties. MJP 1. Blue Lake: fi nding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne SwampAuthor: David Sornig 392pp ISBN: 9781925322743Pub: Scribe, Brunswick, Vic., 2018This study of the old West Melbourne swamp focuses on the inhabitants. It begins with a homeless woman, Elsie and her last days and death in her humpy on the Dudley Flats. It is a confronting description, an imaginative re-creation. The author follows the history of the ‘Swamp’ from the Blue Lake fi lled with birdlife, pre white settlement to the days of the boiling down works of the 1840s and the mud, rubbish and noxious fumes of the Tip. Later there was the Fishermans Bend Cutting and creation of Coode Island in the 1880s, Victoria Dock in the 1890s and the Bonfi re of the Pianos at the tip in 1914. It needed a good detailed map or two to locate the area rather than the impressionistic one hidden on page 288. The author deliberately uses ‘the tools of the novelist’ to re-create the lives of three representative characters – Elsie Carr, Jack Peacock and the German Lauder Rogge. Elsie had been a singer, the ‘Black Nightingale’. Jack was ‘the king of Dudley Flats’ a horseman, carter, riding instructor, horse trainer and tip-scavenger, while Lauder Rogge was ex German Navy, a mariner and naturalised Australian detained in WW1 and a doglover. Each in their way were isolates, pushed out of society, coming to Dudley Flats during the 1930s depression.In drawing attention to an area which has now disappeared, the book raises issues still with us – homelessness, social isolation and poverty – reminding us as family historians to be inclusive. MV2. Our Forgotten Volunteers: Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War OneAuthor: Bojan Pajic 491pp ISBN: 9781925 801446Pub: Arcadia, N. Melbourne, Vic., 2018 Available in GSV LibraryThis interesting and worthwhile project aims to commemorate the volunteers in a WW1 campaign which is often overlooked in the Australian concentration on Gallipoli and France. It records the participation of Australians and New Zealanders in the Serbian campaign, and the research also linked with their descendants. In the latter the GSV assisted the author, and he thanks, in particular, Linley Hooper and Yvonne Izatt.Though the war began in the Balkans with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, this battlefront was neglected both at the time and since. Serbia was fi ghting on the British side against Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, but was generally left to fend for itself. It was invaded by Austria in 1914 and appealed for 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. 1 3 2 Reviews by Martin Playne, Margaret Vines

• 23Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Additions to the Library See the library catalogue for full details,exact format, and location of materialwithin the library - available online atwww.gsv.org.au or in the library. Compiled by Linley HooperPlease check the library catalogue for full descriptions. All listed LDS microfi lms are held in the LDS Long Term Loans Cabinets. Request by fi lm number at the Information Desk. Thank you to all donors to the library collection. Abbreviation used:ISG = International Settlers Group (...) = Donor’s name, if not the author FAMILY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHYBRADLEY FAMILYConvicted: a fascinating history of colonial Australia retold through three generations of one family. Bradley, Peter. (Bate, M) [GSV: 929.2 BRAD BRA]LINKLATER FAMILYFrom oaks to gums: v. 18 Robert Linklater from the Shetland Islands. Smith, Margaret & Eric Smith. [Digital copy at GSV]WISEWOULD FAMILYDr Gweneth Wisewould: Trentham and district doctor 1938-1972. Garner, Beatrice. Includes her poems. (Garner, B.M) [GSV: 929.2 WISE GAR]WUCHATSCH FAMILYSarka to Westgarthtown: the Wuchatatsch in Germany and Australia. Wuchatsch, Robert N. Contents: The author was raised in an 1850s bluestone farmhouse at Westgarthtown, Victoria’s fi rst German settlement, located in today’s northern Melbourne suburbs of Thomastown and Lalor. Rob Wuchatsch’s great-grandparents, the Wends Johann & Magdalene Wuchatsch, settled there in 1850 shortly after arrival from Upper Lusatia in the Kingdom of Saxony. By the 1950s, Westgarthtown was a 19th Century enclave of stone farmhouses, stables & milking shed, bordered & divided by seemingly endless drystone walls. At its heart was an old Lutheran church & cemetery. This book tells the story of the Wuchatsch family in Germany & Australia from the early 1700s. Profusely illustrated, it covers in narrative style the lives of Johann, Hanna & Magdalene Wuchatsch; their children; grandchildren; & great-grandchildren. Subsequent generations are included in family tree form. Parts of the book are in German as well as English so Wuchatsch relatives in each country can read them. (Author) [GSV: 929.2 WUCH WUC]YEAMAN FAMILYAcross that far horizon: the Yeaman family in Australia. Yeaman, Marisa. [GSV 929.2 YEAM YEA] {Copies available from www.historicpaths.com cost $49.99}AUSTRALIAImmigration restriction 1901-1957: annual returns as required under the Australian Immigration act between 1901 and 1957 on persons refused admission, countries whence they arrived, grounds on which admission refused, persons who passed the dictation test and departures of coloured persons from Australia. York, Barry. (Victoria University) [GSV: 325.94 YOR]Our forgotten volunteers: Australians & New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One. Pajic, Bojan. (Bojan Pajic) [GSV: 940.40994 PAJ] {Review}VICTORIARemember respect rejoice: our service personnel we salute you 1939-1945: Pyramid Hill & District happenings & letters home from WW2. Pyramid Hill & District Historical Society. Helen Stevens, ed. [GSV: 994.54 PYRA PYR]EUROPEGERMANYGerman residential records for genealogists: tracking your ancestor from place to place in Germany. Minert, Roger. (ISG) [GSV: 929.143 MIN] LITHUANIALithuanian artists in Australia 1950-1990. Kazokas, Genovaite. (Victoria University) [GSV: 700.899192 KAZ]SWITZERLANDMap guide to Swiss parish registers: Canton of Vaud (Waadt) with full index of included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 7). (ISG) [GSV: 912.494 HAN]Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Canton of Zurich with full index of included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 3). (ISG) [GSV: 912.494 HAN]Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Cantons of Lucerne, Obwalden, Nidwalden and Schwyz with full index of included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 9). (ISG) [GSV: 912.494 HAN]Map guide to Swiss parish registers: Cantons of Solothurn, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt and Schaffh ausen with full index of included towns. Hansen, Kevan M. (Map guide to Swiss parish registers; v. 8). (ISG) [GSV 912.494 HAN]UNITED KINGDOMENGLANDOur criminal ancestors: sources for researching your criminal past: an introduction to the criminal justice system and material held at the Hull History Centre and East Riding of Yorkshire Archives. East Riding of Yorkshire Archives. Written & compiled by Victoria Dawson, Helen Johnston & Heather Shore. [GSV: 364.3 EAS]CORNWALLThe 1696 association oath rolls for Cornwall. by Richard Polkinghorne & Richard G Grylls. Contents: The Gentry Roll; The First Tinners Roll; The Second Tinners Roll; The Borough Rolls; Launceston (1) & (2), Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Truro, Bodmin, Helston, Saltash, Camelford, West Looe, Grampound, East Looe, Penryn, Tregony, Bossiney, St. Ives, Fowey, St. Germans, Mitchell otherwise St. Michael, St. Mawes, Callington, Falmouth, Penzance, Marazion, The Isles of Scilly, The Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter, The MPs Roll. (Hawke, Stephen) [Digital copy at GSV]LANCASHIREThe registers of Sacred Trinity Upholland 1813-1841. Lancashire Parish Register Society. Transcribed by K T Taylor. (Lancashire Parish Register Society; v. 190). (Subs) [GSV: 929.3342 LAN LAN]SUFFOLKSuff olk baptism index 1754-1812: Dunwich deanery. Suff olk FHS. Contents: Aldringham cum Thorpe St Andrew, Benacre St Michael, Blyford, All Saints, Blythburgh Holy Trinity, Bramfi eld St Andrew (1754-1812), Brampton St Peter, 1760-1812, Carlton, St Peter, Chediston St Mary, Cookley St Michael, Covehithe St Andrew, Cratfi eld St Mary, Darsham All Saints, Dunwich All Saints, Frostenden All Saints, Halesworth St Mary, Henstead St Mary, Heveningham St Margaret, Holton St Peter, Huntingfi eld St Mary, Kelsale St Mary & St Peter, Knodishall St Lawrence, Leiston St Margaret with Sizewell, Linstead Magna St Peter, Linstead Parva St Margaret, Middleton cum Fordley Holy Trinity, Peasenhall St Michael, Reydon St Margaret, Rumburgh St Michael, Sibton St Peter, Sotherton St Andrew (1754-1812), South Cove St Lawrence (1755-1812), Southwold St Edmund, Spexhall, St Peter, Stoven St Margaret (1755-1812), Theberton St Peter, Thorington St Peter, Ubbeston St Peter, Uggeshall St Mary (1753-1812), Walberswick St Andrew, Walpole St Mary, Wangford (nr Southwold), St Peter, Wenhaston St Peter, Westhall St Andrew, Westleton St Peter, Wissett, St Andrew (1754-1818), Wrentham St Nicholas, Yoxford, St Peter (1754-1812) (Purchase) [Computer]SUSSEXChurch surveys of Chichester archdeaconry 1602, 1610 & 1636. Sussex Record Society. Edited by Joan Barham & Andrew Foster. (Sussex Record Society; v. 98). Contents: Aldingboume, All Saints Chichester, Angmering, Appledram, Arundel, Ashington, Ashurst, Barlavington, Bepton, Bersted, Bignor, Billingshurst, Binsted, Birdham, Botolph, Bramber, Buncton, Burton, Chidham, Chiltington , Chithurst, Climping, Cocking, Compton, Coombes, Didling, Donnington, Duncton, Durrington, Earnley, Eartham, Easeboume, East Dean, Additions to Lib

24 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncAbbreviations: anc ancestors arr arrived b&d born and died b born bap baptised bro/s brother/brothers bur buried c1803 circa 1803 chn children d died dau/s daughter/daughters desc descendantsfafather fr from g-gf great-grandfather g-gm great-grandmother g-grandpar great-grandparents gg-grandpar great-great-grandparents m marriedmomother m1 fi rst marriage m2 second marriage par parents sis sister/sisters unk unknown Submissions: • Provide your membership number and contact details including fi rst name, surname, postal address, phone number and email address. • In order to protect your privacy, your initial, surname and one or two elements of your contact details will be published ie: email address, phone number or address. Please indicate which one(s) you would like us to use.• Print all surnames, given names and place names relating to your search.• 80 words allowed for a free entry(includes heading). • List heading surnames in order of importance as, owing to space constraint names may be limited to one line. • Entries can be emailed to: [email protected] East Lavant, East Marden, East Preston, East Wittering, Eastergate, Egdean, Elsted, Felpham, Fernhurst, Ferring, Findon, Fishboume, Fittleworth, Ford, Funtington, Goring, Graffh am, Greatham, Green Wiston, Hardham, Heene, Heyshott, Horsham, Houghton, Hunston, Iping, Itchingfi eld, Kingston, Kirdford, Lancing, Linchmere, Littlehampton, Lodsworth, Lordington, Lurgashall, Lyminster, Madehurst, Merston, Mid Lavant, Middleton, Midhurst, North Marden, North Mundham, North Stoke, Northchapel, Nuthurst, Oving, Pagham, Parham, Patching, Petworth, Poling, Pulborough, Racton, Rogate, Rudgwick, Rumboldswhyke, Rusper, Rustington, Selham, Selsey, Shipley, Sidlesham, Singleton, Slindon, Slinfold, Sompting, South Harting, South Stoke, St Andrew, St Bartholomew, St Martin, St Olave, St Pancras, St Peter the Great (Subdeanery), St Peter the Less, Stedham, Steyning, Stopham, Storrington, Stoughton, Sullington, Sutton, Tangmere, Tarring, Terwick, Thakeham, Tillington, Tortington, Treyford, Trotton, Tuxlith, Upmarden, Upwaltham, Walberton, Warminghurst, Warnham, Warningcamp, Washington, West, West Grinstead, West Itchenor, West Stoke, West Thomey, West Wittering, Westboume, Westhampnett, Wiggonholt, Wisborough, Woolavington, Woolbeding, Yapton. (Subs) [GSV: 942.25 SUS]SCOTLANDAdmission register of Notaries Public in Scotland: v. 1 1860-1899; v. 2 1800-1859. Scottish Record Society. Edited by John Finlay. (Scottish Record Society; new series v. 43). (Subs) [GSV: 941.1005 SCO]Calendar of Scottish supplications to Rome: v. 6, 1471-1492. Scottish Record Society. Edited by Alan Macquarrie, Roland J Tanner & the late Annie I Dunlop. (Scottish Record Society; new series v. 42). (Subs) [GSV: 941.1005 SCO]GENERALReferencing for genealogists: sources and citation. Macdonald, Ian G. [GSV: 929.1 MAC]Worlds apart: migration in modern English literature. Cauchi, Maurice N. (Victoria University) [GSV: 325 CAU]Additions and updates to theCemetery DatabaseAntwerp cemetery, shire of Dimboola: register and headstones 1910-1982. Transcribed by the GSV Wimmera Group.Ashens cemetery headstones 1890-1908; includes some Ebenzer Mission cemetery headstones. Gillespie, John D. ‘Golf Hill’ or Leigh cemetery (Shelford), on private property of the Russell family: headstones 7/7/1844 to 29/5/1907. Reese, Joan.Gormandale cemetery headstones 8/11/1895 to 13/7/1982. Compiled by Jean McNally & Julie Stevens.Goroke cemetery register and headstones 14/3/1890 - 13/9/1982. GSV Wimmera Group. Goroke private cemeteries: ‘Pleasant Banks’ station cemetery 1866-1893 & ‘Mortat’ private cemetery 1850-1877. GSV Wimmera Group.Guildford cemetery records 1871-1st Nov 1998. Fairweather, L.Mallacoota West cemetery headstones 1913-1984. Barraclough, Linda.Murchison cemetery headstones Sep 1865 to 18 Feb 1983. Jones, Constance L.Pennyweight Flat Cemetery (for children) 1852-1855. Headstones transcribed by Connie Jones & Nancy Roberts. Contents: List of proved & possible burials 1852-1857; Headstones 1852-1855; Map and newspaper clippings.Queenstown (Smith’s Gully) cemetery headstones 30/12/1862 - 23/4/1981; register 31/7/1831 to 29/4/1981; newspaper articles: Digging tales from the graves, Pioneers rest easier. Transcribed by Alice Curr, with photocopy of register from Eltham Shire.Stanley cemetery register 2/10/1866 to 1/7/1997. Craig, Geoff rey Francis.Toongabbie cemetery memorial inscriptions as at 25 January 1983. Nathan, John.Yalca North cemetery headstones 1/10/1895 to 26/5/1977. Nathalia & District Historical Society.The Norfolk Island cemetery. Zada, Susie.Additions to Lib

nd a death record for Joseph Hankinson? fiCan you help Geoff Langsworth • 25Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Members Que riesWARESeeking 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 DEDE b 1822 d 1877. Chn: Elizabeth b 1853; Sarah b 1856; Emma b 1858; Alice b 1861; Lucy b 1863. Lived Kyneton & Maryborough VIC.J. Torcasio¢[email protected] HANKINSON married Caroline Mary EDWARDS on 5th March 1845 in Western Australia. They produced three children, Robert born 1847 Fremantle, WA, William born 1849 Fremantle, WA and Elizabeth born 1851 Vasse, WA. In 1858 they moved to Edenhope in Western Victoria. Joseph Hankinson is said to have died about 1870 when returning home to Edenhope possibly from Adelaide. I have not been able to locate any death records in either Victoria or South Australia for Joseph. An unsubstantiated story ght or died in fistates he may have been killed in a quicksand but neither story can be proven.Caroline Mary Hankinson remarried Thomas East FLETCHER in 1885 and later died on 18th May 1890 in cate 1890 – 5506 it states fiEdenhope. On her death certi ‘widow 1870. ‘Geoff Langsworth177 Elizabeth StreetEdenhope, Victoria. 3318.03 5585 1795WARE¢Email Address ÇMailing Address JPhoneBRICKWAll Corner About Brick Wall Corner Brick Wall Corner is about YOUR Brick Wall. Our readers, who have experienced similiar research and sources, can then contribute. Basic guidelines: • open to Members and Non-Members • maximum of 200 words or image plus 50 words for Brick Wall questions Email to Ancestor at [email protected] OR post to Ancestor Editor at the GSV.More detailed guidelines can be found in “News and Links from Ancestor” on the GSV web site, www.gsv.org.au

26 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncBeginningThe GSV website Members Area has a Guided Research introduction to Tasmania:www.gsv.org.au/research-library-membersThe Libraries Tasmania Home Page is the next place to go: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspxThis used to be called the LINC website and links together, on the one website, the resources of the Library of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Archives, under categories such as ‘Heritage’ and ‘Family History’. It is a wonderful resource and repays time spent becoming familiar with it. Under ‘Family History’, it has the Tasmanian Names Index giving fast search access to records of births, deaths and marriages, convict conduct records, arrivals and departures, inquests and wills. Copies of the original records can be downloaded. Just type in the full name – the results can then be sorted by fi lters. The records available under the Names Index, can also be accessed separately under their titles. There has been considerable digitisation of all the main Tasmanian records for family history, and they are now available for free downloading via this site.If you are visiting Hobart, the Libraries Tasmania building at 91 Murray Street, Hobart, is the hub for Tasmanian Family History research. In the same building, on diff erent fl oors, are the State Library, the State Archives, the National Archives Tasmanian branch, and the specialist Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts. BDMs: Registry of Births, Deaths and MarriagesThe Tasmanian registry does not have an online search facility.Indexes are available through the Libraries/LINC website above. Births and deaths 1803–1933 and 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 certifi cates 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/2400177The GSV Library has the Tasmanian Pioneers Index and a Federation Index, which covers births to 1919 and marriages and deaths to 1930. They are available on GSV computers with the Diggersoftware. 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)A Guide to ResearchingTasmanian Records by Margaret VinesMargaret can be contacted at: [email protected] 1: State Library of Tasmania, Hobart. All images by author.

• 27Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncFor more recent certifi cates see the Tasmanian registry at www.justice.tas.gov.au/bdmConvictsA 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.aspxThanks to Governor Arthur’s reforms of record keeping in the 1820s, there is a considerable amount here not just under the CON classifi cation but under others e.g., CSO, the Colonial Secretary’s Offi ce.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 prefi x)For female convicts, look in the GSV Library for the large and delightfully named book Notorious strumpets and dangerous girls: convict women in 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.Also refer to the Female Convicts Research Centre. You will need to register fi rst at www.femaleconvicts.org.au. There is also the Cascades Female Factory:https://femalefactory.org.au.Image 2: Convict Barracks, HobartImage 3: Penitentiary Chapel, Hobart GSV ‘How to’ Se

28 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncFor orphans there is The Friends of the Orphan Schools, which also has a contact facility to link with other descendants. Their records include convicts’ children and also other orphans. www.orphanschool.org.au/index.phpLibrary of Tasmania The central offi ce at 91 Murray Street Hobart has reception, daily newspapers , the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, and a café on the ground fl oor. First fl oor is the Lending Library. Second fl oor is the Reference Library. This has a large bank of computers for family historians, with access to additional material such as digitised maps, not on the website, and very helpful librarians. The reference collection for Tasmanian history is also here, as is the entry to the History Room.Reference Librarians will answer research questions (on material available only in Tasmania) from ‘overseas’ which includes mainland Australia. Fill in the ‘Research Enquiry’ form on the website for up to one hour of their time, and allow 20 days for a reply. www.libraries.tas.gov.au/get-help/Pages/help-finding.aspxThe History Room on the Reference fl oor of the Hobart Library gives access to the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Offi ce (TAHO) collection and has archives rules: i.e., bring photo ID and address (e.g., Drivers Licence) to gain accreditation; sign in each day after depositing bags in a locker; and use only pencil and paper or a computer. Documents can be scanned, photocopied or photographed, so bring a USB drive, cash or camera. Most documents can be ordered and viewed in the History Room. The repository is in Berriedale and open Monday to Friday but most items will be brought to the History Room at the Hobart Library. 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/2170647while 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.Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts at 91 Murray St Hobart is a living collection of nationally signifi cant Tasmanian colonial paintings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, English and European decorative arts and furniture. It is defi nitely worth a visit, and items from the collection can also be viewed in the Library Tasmania History RoomGenealogical and Historical Societies in TasmaniaThe Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. has branches in Burnie, Hobart, Huon, Launceston, and Mersey. See www.tasfhs.org/about.htmfor details. Back copies and the index to their magazine Tasmanian Ancestry are available at the GSV including on the GSV members website. The magazine contains a members’ interests page. Volunteers at each branch will handle research queries for their area.Local history societies exist in many areas, but may not have the resources to help you with research queries e.g., the Launceston Historical Society does not. Their websites and publications may give some history of the town or area. The Tasmanian Historical Research Association is the more academic peak body. The National Trust may also be useful as it is the caretaker of many important historic sites.Aboriginal Genealogy ResourcesRefer to ‘Records on Tasmanian Aboriginals’: this Guide is on the Libraries Tasmania websiteLand RecordsEarly land grants and land holdings were the subject of re-examination in the 1830s and 1840s and the Government Gazettes may have considerable detail. See FamilySearchfor Australia, Tasmania, Government Gazette, 1833-1925 at www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2170647These Gazettes also contain annual ratebooks, for Hobart and other local government areas, so both owners and occupants can be traced, though Image 4: Allport Library and Museum, Hobart

• 29Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incresearchers 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 Offi ce, Level 1, 134 Macquarie Street, Hobart. See their website for details and costs and other locations. https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/land-tasmania/land-titles-office/general-information/how-to-search-for-land-information/how-to-search-a-torrens-titleAerial photographs from 1945 are also available from the Lands Department – see the website again for details and costs. NewspapersTrove carries newspapers: the Hobart Mercuryfrom 1860 to1954 and Launceston Examiner to 1899, plus a huge number of earlier, lesser known or more ephemeral titles. See the GSV library for published indexes to the Launceston Examinerfamily notices up to c1960A very useful name index is the Wayn card index, which is now searchable online in the Tasmanian Archives. This is the Index to Tasmanian Government and Colonial Newspapers, prepared in the 1920s by Miss A L Wayn. For some further indexes refer to Meg Bate’s ‘Research Corner’ article in Ancestor December 2018. The State Library of Victoria has the complete run of both the Hobart Mercury and the Launceston Examiner. These are on microfi lm to late 2018 and then in hard copy to the present. Microfi lms can be ordered and will be available within 30 minutes. ImagesThe 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, 2008Cemeteries Almost all cemeteries are covered by the Tamiot Index published by the Tasmanian Family History Society. See this on a computer at the GSV. The newer cemetery at Cornelian Bay, Hobart is not here but is covered by Millingtons Funeral Directors at www.millingtons.com.au/cemetery-records-search.BooksSee the GSV Library catalogue; these are good ones to begin with: • James Boyce, Van Dieman’s Land, Black Inc, 2008 • Alison Alexander, Tasmanian Convicts, Allen and Unwin, 2010 • Henry Reynolds, History of Tasmania, CUP, 2011, and •The Companion to Tasmanian History, University of Tasmania, 2005www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history.FinallyThe commercial databases are worth checking.Ancestry has a Tasmanian collection: Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899. In a varied collection, the Tasmanian Electoral Rolls, selected years from 1914 to 1980, stand out, and fi ndmypast has some Tasmanian Almanacs and Directories.Image 5: Arthurs Circuit, Battery Point, Hobart

30 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncResearch CornerNon-Conformist records date from the mid-1600s when various groups refused to conform to the Church of England and wanted freedom to worship in their own way. These groups included Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, Catholics and Unitarians. The number of non-conformists is said to equal the number following the Church of England, making these records invaluable. Julian DatesThe Julian Calendar was the standard system until 1752 which was then replaced by the Gregorian Calendar and the fi rst day of the year became January 1st. TheGenealogist uses the date as written, so please be aware of this when searching for dates before March 1752. Consult Wikipedia for more information.What is RG4?RG4 are registers (authenticated by the Non-Parochial Registers Commissioners) of births, baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages. They cover 1567 to 1858. •Royal Hospital, Greenwich, 1694 onwards •Dr Williams’ Library, 1742-1865 •Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry, 1742-1837 •Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry, 1818-1838 •Anglican (Church of England) BMD Records – Registers kept by institutions outside the normal Church of England parish structure, such as Greenwich Hospital. •Baptist, Independent and Presbyterian BMD Records – The Protestant Dissenters’ Registry served the congregations in London 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 •Wesleyan Methodist BMD Records– This Registry was set up in 1818 and provided registration of births and baptisms of Wesleyan Methodists throughout England, Wales and elsewhere. The registers continued until 1838, with some retrospective registration of births to 1773. •Roman Catholic BMD Records – Registers of births, baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages for some Roman Catholic communities in Dorset, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. •Huguenot Records – Huguenots were members of the French Protestant Church, many of whom, before the French Revolution of 1789, left their homes in France to escape persecution. More than 50,000 of these refugees came to the British Isles •Other Records – Outside of the UK there are some records for Russia, and a range of records from German, Dutch and Swiss churches in England.RG8 is the GRO Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non Parochial Registers Commission of 1857 or those which were later deposited for safe custody. Among the more extensive collections in this series are the registers of the British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn, which record particulars of births and baptisms; registers of burials in the Victoria Park Cemetery, the New Burial Ground, Southwark Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, , Hackney, and the Bethnal Green Protestant Dissenters Burying Ground; registers of Chapels Royal at St James’s Palace, Whitehall and Windsor Castle. The rest of the series contains the archive of the Russian Orthodox Church in London, 1721-1927. These records are under the link RG8 Books.Research Guide to Non-Conformist andNon-Parochial Records on TheGenealogist

• 31Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncThe Lying in Hospital records cover the birth and baptism of children born at the hospital and may include death dates between 1749 and 1868. The records can include: date of admission, name of woman and husband, occupation, woman’s age, parish, came in, went out on leave, returned, delivered, child baptised, woman discharged, recommender’s name and sometimes more. An example from a Register:On the 17th June 1758, Rachel Ward wife of John a staymaker aged 27 of the parish St Martin in the Fields was admitted. She gave birth to a boy on the 17th June who was then baptised on the 25th June with the name Thomas. She was Discharged 5th July. Rachel Ward was recommended to the hospital by Lady Carpenter.RG5 are birth certifi cates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry. They date from 1742 to 1840.Protestant Dissenters’ RegistryThis Registry at Rev Daniel Williams’ Library, Cripplegate, served congregations of Baptists, Independents and Presbyterians. Originally for parents living within 12 miles of London it subsequently became open to anyone, regardless of distance or denomination, provided a fee was paid. It started in 1742, with retrospective entries going back to 1716, and continued until 1837. Unlike RG4, RG5 contains only the birth records. The increased requirement to provide evidence of birth led the Dissenting Deputies (representing Baptists, Congregationalists & Presbyterians) to establish a births register of their children in 1743 at the Dissenters Library. Records contain details of three generations of a family (approximately 200,000 named individuals) between April 6th 1743 and Dec 30th 1837.Wesleyan Methodist RegistryThe Wesleyan Methodist Registry certifi cates and entries have the name and sex of the child, name and address of the father, name of the mother and of both her parents, the date and place of birth, the name of the Wesleyan circuit, with the signature (or name, in the register) of the parents, witnesses, and the minister. The register contains details of three generations of each family (about 50,000 named individuals).RG6 is the Society of Friends’ (Quakers) Registers, Notes and Certifi cates of Births, Marriages and Burials ranging from 1578-1841 in England and Wales. Some original birth and burial notes and original marriage certifi cates are included. The documents are arranged by Quarterly or Monthly Meetings, which consisted of a county or combinations of counties. With these records, it is important to remember that entries may be recorded in a number of registers, Monthly and/or Quarterly – but diff erences may occur and it is worth viewing each record. Quakers had the reputation for maintaining the most meticulous records of births (Quakers did not practise baptism), marriages and deaths. Register books began in the late 1650s. In 1776, following a decision by the Yearly Meeting of 1774, the Quakers overhauled their registration system – birth and burial notes were standardised with printed books being provided. These birth notes and register entries contain the date of birth, place of birth (locality, parish and county), parents’ names (often with the father’s occupation), the child’s name, and witnesses. The post-1776 burial notes and register entries commence with the gravemaker’s name and the date the grave was to be made, followed by the burial place and details of the deceased (name, residence, age, date of death), and concludes with the actual date of burial. The Quakers’ system of registration was so thorough that when Hardwicke’s Marriage Act was passed in 1753, they were specifi cally excluded from the requirement to marry in Anglican churches. All marriage certifi cates were transcribed into Monthly Meeting registers, together with the names of witnesses. In 1794, this requirement for Monthly Meetings to keep full copies of the certifi cates was rescinded, and from that date only the books of abstracts were kept. These abstracts start with the date of the marriage, details of the groom (name, residence and occupation), the groom’s parents, the bride’s name, her parents, place, and signatures of witnesses.On the TNA website you can fi nd more content and background information. A continuation of this article will appear in the next edition of Ancestor.Adapted from the TheGenealogist website byLinley Hooper, FGSV.

32 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Incwriteeetteeriteei ei erittittteeitrrrititeteeeeeeeitriiitttriterritteeteriritiwrw w w w w writetteeeeeeeew w w w w w w w w wrw w w wrw w w w w w wrw w w w wrw w w w w w wAs writers of the story of our family, we want to present more than just a list of facts. To enter imaginatively into the lives of our forebears, and to be able to write interestingly about them, we need to delve into the social and historical context of their lives, in order to see what factors may have infl uenced them. Having found basic records such as birth, marriage and death, we have times and places as starting points for our research. The big events of history, such as the Industrial Revolution, world wars, droughts, famines, the gold rushes and the Depression, may well have impacted our families, but also the smaller, more local events, such as the introduction of gas lighting, the opening of a school, or the advent of a railway line may have had great signifi cance.Jonathan Oates’ book, Tracing your family history through local history records: a guide for family historians gives good advice about how to go about your research. As well as the more obvious resources such as major libraries and archives, Oates discusses the value of local history and heritage libraries or archives, photos, maps and plans, and not least ‘fi eldwork’, i.e. a visit to the area where your ancestors lived. If you are lucky, there may still be buildings from the time they lived there, which will have their own tale to tell. The social class and geographical location of our ancestors’ lives must be taken into consideration. George Ewart Evans’ books recording oral history from Suff olk farm workers have given me a picture of the grinding conditions of life for my nineteenth century Suff olk agricultural labourer ancestors. Other ancestors of mine lived in London early in the twentieth century when the Fabian Society was conducting research into working class families in Lambeth. Maud Pember Reeves’ book, Round about a pound a week, paints a vivid portrait of the poor housing, monotonous food aff ording inadequate nutrition, resultant poor health, and the unrelenting struggle to make ends meet that my London ancestors experienced.The expense of providing poor relief in early nineteenth century Britain led to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which authorised the setting up of workhouses, run by a Board of Guardians. This Act might have condemned your ancestors to a miserable existence in a workhouse. One writer discovered that her ancestors came to Australia because the Board of Guardians solved the problem of supporting the poor in their area by subsidising them to emigrate. If your British ancestors were mill workers or coal miners during the Industrial Revolution, the various Factory Acts and Coal Mines Acts of the 1900s would have gradually brought about an improvement in their conditions of work and a reduction in their hours. Some Australian and New Zealand workers were early benefi ciaries of the eight-hour day movement (as early as 1840 in New Zealand and 1856 in Australia), which was enshrined in law in Victoria for all workers in 1916. There are many reasons for the migration of peoples, including the colonial ambitions of countries. A British ancestor may have gone out to India, South Africa or another colony as a member of the Army or the Civil Service, or as a settler. My great-grandfather was in India for six and half years in the British Army. His army record is available, detailing where he was posted, and illnesses he suff ered from. Research into conditions for the ordinary soldier of the time gave me a fuller picture of his journey out and his life there.For those of us whose ancestors came to Australia, we might consider the factors that led them to come here, willingly or unwillingly. Obviously the British policy of transportation of people who fell foul of the law, which continued until 1868, was the reason many found themselves here unwillingly. Those who came of their own volition were often escaping poverty in their land of origin or seeking better opportunities. The gold rushes were a strong pull factor that enticed people from many lands to try their luck here in Victoria.By Barbara Beaumont, based on discussion at theGSV Writers Circle on5 September 2018.Barbara can be contacted at [email protected] history into our family stories

• 33Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncWho has not found an ancestor or family member who lost a child to one of the many diseases prevalent at the time, or even a woman who died in childbirth? The provision of a reliable, safe water supply, the introduction of a town sewerage scheme, or the availability of the Flying Doctor Service, would have had a profound infl uence on the public health of an area. A fact that we discover can take us down an interesting path of research. One writer found that her ancestors had come out to Australia on the fi rst ship to use tinned food but, because some cans were not correctly sealed, many people who ate the food suff ered from food poisoning and even died. This led to an investigation into the history of tinned food. Another writer pondered the fact that her ancestor had given birth to eighteen children, and investigated the options for birth control at the time. Such research can be fascinating, but the writer must use judgement as to how much of the research to put into the family story. The key, of course, is relevance – to what extent did the information you have found out have an eff ect on the lives of your ancestors? You may have found out a lot of information that you ultimately decide to leave out. In a longer work you have the option of including this information into a box or appendix.It may be necessary to give background 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 familiar with. For an article, a couple of paragraphs may be suffi cient, while for a book several pages of historical background may be required. It would be wise to apply some sort of methodology to organising the results of your researches. A timeline giving events in your family’s life in one column and major social, local, national and international events in another may be helpful. There are many timelines available online to help you with this. Another approach is to use the headings Social, Local, National and International History and note down under each in what way they aff ected your family. One writer found that the First World War had little direct eff ect on her family as the men in the family were either too old or too young to join the army, whereas the Depression caused much suff ering because the family lost land and family members lost their jobs. An interesting technique to reveal how much of your story is about your family, and how much is about history, may be to apply a colour code to your writing, using one colour for your family story and one for background information. This will enable you to judge whether you are achieving the right balance. Of course, there is no magic formula, and as with all writing, what one may fi nd fascinating another may fi nd boring or irrelevant.Getting it writSome Further ReadingOates, 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)

34 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncShipboard diaries are always a welcome read – see ‘Diary of an 1882 voyage to Australia’. Charles J Amey and George Francis travelled on the British India Company’s steamship Compta from Plymouth to Townsville, Qld, see The Greenwood Tree 43:2 (Jun 2018). This journal also spotlights the parishes of Nether Compton (Dorset) and Winscombe (Somerset).Irish Roots 108 (2018:4) features county Fermanagh along with an article on the administrative bungling that resulted in the loss of the majority of pre-1901 census records. Maurice Gleeson also provides ‘A step by step approach to using DNA in cases of unknown parentage’. Another article discusses ways of ‘Digitising your family tree’ using social media.The Irish Genealogist always has quality articles and the current issue 15:1 (2018) covers the Vesey, Wise, Power, Fade, Healey, Merrick, and Donovan families along with a detailed account of Queen’s County [Laois] gaols.The 2018 edition of the Tipperary Historical Journalcovers a wide variety of articles including an Australian link with Henry Joseph Ryan.‘The Bawdy (but gorgeous) Georgians’ is an amusing article on Georgian life in Origins 42:2 (Summer 2018) – did you know that a bunter was a destitute prostitute?The Flowing Stream: journal of the Sheffield and District FHS 39:4 (Winter 2018) has a concise report of Else Churchill’s talk on ‘Church Courts’.The Greenwood Tree 43:4 (Dec 2018) shows some pitfalls with offi cial marriage certifi cates in England and Wales and stresses the importance of viewing the original church certifi cate, not the government copy from the GRO. See ‘Marriage guidance for genealogists’.Findmypast has added more than 30,000 baptism records from the Free Church of Scotland in Caithness, Cromarty, Inverness-shire, Moray, Ross, and Sutherland. Another new Scottish resource on that website is the Edinburgh Temperance Pledges 1886-1908. Temperance pledges were introduced by the United Presbyterian Church and were originally called the Band of Hope Register. The index records name, birth year, address, and includes the names and ages of children who signed the pledge.Genealogists’ Magazine 32:12 (Dec 2018) publishes an eyewitness account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s execution on 29 Oct 1648 – found in their Society archives! Another unexpected article in this issue is ‘Echoes of the Crimean War in Dublin’s Anglican cathedrals’ – mostly Irish Army offi cers. Michael Gandy also writes about ‘Writing it up (for people who don’t want to write it up)’. The previous issue has an interesting story about the ups and downs of families – see ‘Arndell and Arundell: a genealogical paradox’. It also highlights the workings of the College of Arms.The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has now passed 29 million pages. It includes 419, 447 pages from Scottish newspapers covering 1700 to 1999 plus over 419,000 pages from Irish newspapers between 1700-2018. Searching is free (once registered) but a fee or subscription is required for downloading articles at home, but this is one of the many free resources available at our GSV Research Centre.Western Ancestor 14:3 (Sep 2018) continues its excellent series on DNA by Cate Pearson in ‘You and your X (chromosome, that is)’. This issue also contains an article on ‘Adoption: social attitudes and practices’ by Wendy Brown.The North West Kent FHS Journal 14:12 (Dec 2018) has an interesting article on ‘DNA matching and ethnicity tests’ comparing the way the results are handled by FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry.‘He was a whaler, I think …’ describes how to trace individual whalers in New Zealand waters. Over 250 visits to the Bay of Islands from Sydney were made between 1835 and 1840. See the New Zealand Genealogist 29/374 (Dec 2018).The Essex Family Historian 166 (Dec 2018) has a good article on ‘The Spanish Flu epidemic’ between early 1918 and December 1920 that killed about 25 million people in its fi rst 25 weeks. The previous issue 165 (Aug 2018) has a clear article on ‘Chancery Court records’ by Clare O’Grady along with a review of the excellent ‘Tracing your ancestors through the Equity Courts’ which we hold in our Research Centre.And if you found reading my article on non-conformist records on TheGenealogist in Research Corner of interest, Eve McLaughlin’s article in Bucks Ancestor 27:4 (Dec 2018) ‘The Nonconformist element’ is a lively and informative account on the subject. Many of our journals now arrive electronically and are stored on our computer system. We are working on making these accessible in the library. Indexing these journals has not yet commenced but most are searchable pdfs. However, unlike the entries in the catalogue for the printed journals, it is easy to miss an article on your family or research interest if it is in an unexpected magazine. If you’d like to join the indexing team – either at the Society, or at home if you receive personal electronic journals we also hold – please contact Linley at the library or via [email protected].Jottings Linley Hooper, FGSV Jottings...and library news

• 35Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncBloggingwith MegMeg BateBloggingUsing Newspapers to Uncover an Emigrant’s Journeyby Sue McNellyhttps://kindredpast.com/2018/09/28/using-newspapers-to-uncover-an-emigrants-journeySue uses newspapers and provides us with ideas on how to obtain information on your emigrant’s journey using the British Newspaper Archive. Suggestions focus on advertisements, life on board, ships lost at sea or plagues by disease, and letters sent back home. Many of us use Trovebut it’s worth taking advantage of our access to the British Newspaper Archive available free at the GSV.British Red Cross launches online database of its archives by Gale Denverhttp://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=25516Gale’s article alerts us to the new database at British Red Cross that focuses on their historical artifacts collection. This includes letters, posters, photographs, fi lms and artifacts from 1870 to more recent years. This database should not to be confused with the WW1 Volunteers database that was launched a couple years ago.Women in Scotland: the poor and women’s healthby C. Jenkin http://statacc.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2018/10/18/women-in-scotland-the-poor-and-womens-healthThis article on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland’s blog demonstrates the variety of information that is available and it’s a resource that should not be overlooked. It’s well researched and provides extracts demonstrating women’s health in the 18th and 19th centuries, plus the causes of their poverty and then what Scottish society did to assist them. An example of one of the extracts: ‘Jura, County of Argyle – A great proportion of children die in infancy, and many of the mothers, though of a strong constitution, recover slowly in child-bed. Both these circumstances seem to be owing to unskilful treatment, for there is not a single bred midwife in the island.’Deserted families in The Poor Law Unions’ Gazetteby Margaret Makepeacehttps://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/12/deserted-families-in-the-poor-law-unions-gazette.htmlMany of the newspaper collections such as Trove or the British Newspaper Archive include specialist papers. Here Margaret writes about The Poor Law Unions’ Gazette published between 1856 and 1903. Each issue includes descriptions of the wanted persons and lists their last known address, their age, height, build, facial features, clothing when last seen, and occupation. The authorities were keen to trace them because their spouses and children were now chargeable to the Poor Law. One example of an entry: ‘Charles Mooring was a boot salesman well-known in the trade, formerly of Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town. Aged 24, he was 5 feet 9 inches tall, with ½fair hair and a moustache. He was last seen wearing a black morning coat, light trousers, and a Trilby hat. It was thought that he might visit his mother at the Kentish Town address. He had left a wife and one child.’FamilySearch makes it easier to access unlinked digitized records by Colleen Robledo Greene www.colleengreene.com/2018/11/09/familysearch-makes-it-easier-to-access-unlinked-digitized-recordsFamilySearch is continuing to make changes to their search website and it’s often hard to keep track. Here Colleen shows us a quick way to discover if an image is available in the FamilySearch catalogue when the initial message displayed is “No image available”. Note that if the message displayed states it is available at a ‘FamilySearch affi liate library’ then you can get access to it at the GSV. (Don’t forget that you can keep up to date with FamilySearch by attending one of our regular classes.)More workhouse registers online at Tipperary Studies and Valuation Office Revision Books: latest digitization news both by Claire Santrywww.irishgenealogynews.com/2017/07/tipperary-studies-uploads-workhouse.htmlIf you have Tipperary ancestors then you may want to check out this article as there is a variety of records on the Tipperary Studies Digitization Project site. They have recently added school and workhouse registers to this collection.www.irishgenealogynews.com/2018/11/valuation-office-revision-books-latest.htmlClaire reports on the digitisation project by the Public Record Offi ce of Northern Ireland where they have digitized Griffi th’s Valuation Revision Books for 17 counties. These are: Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork City & County, Donegal, Dublin City & County, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Limerick City & County, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Off aly, Roscommon, Sligo and Tipperary. This leaves the following counties still awaiting digitisation: Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. Unfortunately these are only to PRONI’s personal visitors as there are no funds and no plans to create an online database.

36 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc IRISH ANCESTRY GROUPNext Meeting : Saturday, 11 May 2019GSV Research & Education Centre1.00pm — Discussion topic: Co. Dublin2.00pm — Speaker: Glen WallGlen will speak about the value of ebooks inFamily HistoryVisitors welcomeBring your lunch and have a chat. Also bring your mobile phone to gain access to the building (9662 4455) General meetings held on second Saturday of February, May, August and November in GSV meeting room. Yearly subscription due on 1 Sept each year is $11.00. Newsletter Blarney published quarterly. Beginners’ Kits and Griffi ths Valuation Kits available at the GSV Bookshop. For more information contact [email protected] the Gro Around the Groups Scottish Ancestry GroupQuarterly meetingsSaturday, 16 March 2019 1.00pm – 3.00pmSpeaker: Malcolm G Horsburgh Teinds and their role in Scottish SocietyOriginating as tithes with which to pay the clergy, teinds were privatised after the Reformation but Titulars still paid aministerial stipend.Saturday, 15 June 2019 1.00pm – 3.00pmMore Scottish Internet ResourcesSix 15 minute talks with a variety of speakers.All GSV members, SAG subscribers and visitors welcomeQuarterly Meetings1.00pm to 3.00pm, 3rd Sat. of March, June,September and fourth Sat. of NovemberGSV Research & Education Centre Enquiries: ¢www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/sag GSV Writers Circle Meetings : First Wednesday each month, (except January) 12.30 till 1.30pm – GSV Research & Education Centre 6 March How to decide on a point of view3 AprilReview of member’s submissions1.30-2.30pm Tech tricks: Adding images, managingplacement, spacing in relation to text, wrapping text, etc1 MayDeveloping characters5 JuneReview of member’s submissions1.30-2.30pm Tech tricks: Kindle Direct Publishing(Amazon) and Ingram Spark – introducing bothoptions and discussing the pros and cons and the hows All members of the GSV are welcomeSee pages 32–33 for the GSV Writers Circlequarterly column International Settlers Group(non-British research) Meeting: Saturday, 18 May 2019, 1pmMarie-Thérèse Jensen: Reasons for emigration to Australia 1850-1900Meeting: Saturday, 17 August 2019, 1pmWhat is your most precious family object(non-British)?Venue: GSV Research & Education CentreMeetings held 3rd Saturday (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) 1.00pm. Annual subscription $11 and includes the quarterly newsletter published Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct. Enquiries & membership form: J Yvonne Izatt 03 9899 8136 Ç [email protected]¢www.gsv.org.au/activities/groups/isg

• 37Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Around the Circles British India Discussion CircleMeetings every three months on the third Tuesday in February, May, August and Novemberat the GSV Centre – 12pm to 1pmThis is for members with the common interest ofBritish ancestors in India from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Discussions of ‘brick walls’, review of sources available at the GSV as well as those nationwide, overseas and online. Bring your family informationand queries and join the discussion.All GSV members welcome.Convenor: Mary Anne [email protected] English Discussion CircleMeetings fourth Wednesday of each month except December at the GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pm Next meetings: 27 Mar, 24 Apr, 22 May and 26 JunThis Discussion Circle is to assist GSV members researching in England before 1700. Many records either cease to exist or become uncommon by 1700, and the Circle will assist your understanding of these records and how they can be accessed. It also provides relevant new sources and websites, and encourages members to present on their families andcontribute to discussions.New members are welcomeConvenor: Alan [email protected] of Northern England Discussion CircleMeetings second Tuesday of each month except Januaryat the GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 1.30pmNext Meetings: 12 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May and 11 JunWe are an enthusiastic group who meet to discuss research and share interests in the North of England, covering the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Lancashire. For anyone who has ancestors in this region, whether you are just starting out or have been researching for a number of years, we can help.All GSV members welcomeConvenor: David [email protected] West England Research and Discussion circleNext Meetings: 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 8 May and 12 Junat GSV Centre – 12.30pm to 2.00pmGSV members with research interests in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset are welcome. Copies of meeting notes and presentations are provided to members who join the SWERD email list (free for GSV members). Key discussion topics advised by email to SWERD members, the GSV blog and Facebook page prior to meetings. Recent meeting topics included DNA of Cornwall, Poor Law and Workhouses in south west England, Medieval records and the MonmouthRebellion and Bloody Assizes. Convenor: Stephen [email protected] Discussion CircleMeetings fourth Thursday each month except December at the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 11.30amNext meetings: 28 Mar, 23 May and 27 Jun(no meeting in April)With 2000 years of history, London is likely to fi gure in the family history of many people, it was a magnet for internal and foreign immigration. We aim to share information about research resources, learn about our ancestors’ lives in London and perhaps even break down some brick walls. Discussion topics can include local occupations and businesses, migration, maps and gazetteers, electoral rolls, taxes, land records, military, criminals, civil and ecclesiastical courts, poor laws, school records, newspapers, apprentices, guilds and freemen and much more. New members very welcome.Convener: Vicki MontgomeryMailing list: [email protected] Discussion CircleMeetings second Wednesday of each monthat the GSV Centre – 10.30am to 12pmNext meetings: 13 Mar, 10 Apr, 8 May and 12 JunIf you are interested in joining the group please read the description, on the GSV website, of the topics we cover in our discussions. If that appeals to you emailthe Convenor and get an application form to join.If you have not had a DNA test done email theConvenor for advice on what to do.Convenor: David [email protected] the Circ

38 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc What’s On at our Me mber Societies The Clan MacMillan Society of Australia31st March, 2019. Annual Get-togetherThe committee will be manning our tent at the Ringwood Highland Games & Celtic Festival. The new venue is the J. W. Manson Reserve, Selkirk Avenue, Wantirna Vic. Members are encouraged to come along and enjoy the games while using out tent as your meeting palace. Just bring your own chair and esky for us to mind till you’re ready to enjoy your picnic lunch. If you don’t want to bring lunch there are plenty of goodies to buy.New members welcome, Sign up on the day. $20PAEnquiries:¢http://clanmacmillanaustralia.com.auQueenscliffe Historical MuseumAt Queenscliffe Historical Museum we rediscover our heritage. On 28 February the talk will be on Swan Bay – a Unique Ecosystem. Robin Spry will show its history, vegetation, wildlife and international significance for migratory birds. On 21 March, in conjunction with the Henry Handel Richardson Society, Professor Stefan Welz from Germany will present his view on Henry Handel Richardson. On 28 March, our speaker will be the world famous illustrator, Robert Ingpen. Robert has written and illustrated a number of historical books. On 18 April our speaker will be Anne Marsden, the author of And the women came too: the Families of the Founders of the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institution. Anne will focus on Martha Lonsdale. On 23 May Dr Mike Birrell will present the current research on the Bairnsdale Ulcer. For further details, please visit our website: ¢www.historyofqueenscliffe.comPort Phillip Pioneers Group Inc Saturday: 16 February 2019, 2.00pmSpeaker: Ken SmithTopic: How to find where your ancestor lived in the town of Melbourne in the 1840sSaturday: 11 May 2019, 2.00pmSpeaker: May Val WilkinsonTopic: The first white child born in MelbourneVenue: Wesley Hall, St Andrew’s Uniting ChurchCnr Burke and Malven Rds, GardinerVisitors are very welcome. Entry $2Afternoon Tea provided.Enquiries:JClare 03 9578 3654¢www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au Sunbury Family History Society IncThe committee decided to reschedule the society’s 2019 meetings from evenings to the third Tuesday afternoon of the month.Dates and speakers for the February to April meetings are:Tuesday: 19 February 2019 at 1.00pmSpeaker: Peter FreeTopic: The Free familyTuesday 19 March 2019 at 1.00pmSpeaker: Rosa McCallTopic: Convict Ancestor, Henry BessantTuesday 16 April 2019 at 1.00pmSpeaker: Trevor Dunn.Topic: A Journey along the old Bulla RoadVenue : Sunbury Senior Citizens Centre8 O’Shanassy Street, Sunbury 3429Visitors are very welcome and afternoon tea is providedEnquiries:JRosa 03 9744 7032Victorian Gum IncChange of Office HoursPlease note that:Commencing in January 2019 the VICGUM office, which is located on level 4, 83 William Street will only open on Wednesdays between 10:30am and 2:30pm.Anyone wishing to contact VICgum can do so by sending an email to: [email protected] can be ordered online by visiting the website: www.vicgum.asn.auAnyone wishing to become a member can do so by visiting the website where there is provision for a membership applicationDescendants of Convicts Group VictoriaPlease note that the dates of meetings for Descendants of Convicts Group Inc for 2019 are as follows:Saturday 16 MarchSaturday 18 MaySaturday 20 JulySaturday 21 SeptemberSaturday 30 NovemberAll meetings will be held in theHayden Raysmith Room4th Floor, Ross Association House247-251 Flinders Lane, MelbourneEnquiries:¢www.docs.org.auMember Societi

• 39Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncMember Societi GSV Member S ocieties Further information on our 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 IncÇ PO Box 98, Anglesea VIC 3230¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~angen Ararat Genealogical SocietyÇ PO Box 103, Ararat VIC 3377J Marion McAdie 03 5352 4199¢ [email protected] Ballarat & District Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre VIC 3354J Carol Armstrong 03 5335 7630¢ www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au Barham/Koondrook Genealogical GroupÇ PO Box 48, Barham NSW 2732J Helen Hall 03 5453 2091 Benalla Family Research Group IncÇ PO Box 268, Benalla VIC 3671J Wendy Webster 0427 664 271¢ www.benallafamilyresearchgroup.org Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 1049, Bendigo VIC 3552¢ https://brgsbendigo.weebly.comThe Clan Grant Society (Australia)Ç 351 High Street, Templestowe Lower 3107J Brian Noble 0410 485 821 (9am–6pm)¢ [email protected] Clan MacMillan Society of Australia¢ [email protected]¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mcmillan Clan MacNicol Society of Victoria IncÇ 21 Stirling Street, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156J Beth Bell 03 9753 5057 Cobram Genealogical Group IncÇ PO Box 75, Cobram VIC 3644J Barbara Coleman 03 5872 1729 Colac & District Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 219, Colac VIC 3250J Colac History Centre 03 5231 5736 ¢ www.colacfamilyhistory.org.au Deniliquin Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 144, Deniliquin NSW 2710J Val Hardman 03 5881 3980¢ http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg Descendants of Convicts Group IncÇ PO Box 229, Coldstream VIC 3770J Yvonne Bethell 03 9739 1427¢ www.docs.org.au East Gippsland Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 1104, Bairnsdale VIC 3875J Tony Meade 03 5152 1111¢ www.egfhg.org.au Echuca/Moama Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 707, Echuca VIC 3564J Barbara Goldsmith 0467 066 593¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist Geelong Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 1187, Geelong VIC 3220J Susie Zada 0414 666 017¢ www.geelongfhg.com Gisborne Genealogical Group IncÇ PO Box 818, Gisborne VIC 3437J Tricia McLay 0408 054 537¢ www.ggg.org.au Hamilton History Centre IncÇ PO Box 816, Hamilton VIC 3300J History Centre 03 5572 4933¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhistHeyfield Family History GroupÇ PO Box 201 Heyfield VIC 3858J 03 5148 2100¢ [email protected] History Project IncÇ C/- North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051J Mary Kehoe 03 9329 5814 ¢ www.hothamhistory.org.auHuguenot Society (Victorian Chapter)Ç 2/2B St Georges Road Toorak VIC 3142J Sue A’Beckett 0408 201 422 Jamieson & District Historical Society IncÇ PO Box 26, Jamieson VIC 3723¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs¢ [email protected] Kerang & District Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 325, Kerang VIC 3579JBev Nethercote 0447 304 667¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kerangfh Kyabram Regional Genealogical Society IncÇ 34 Saunders Street, Kyabram VIC 3620JJennifer Cole 03 5860 6694¢ [email protected] Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Ctr IncÇ PO Box 674, Lakes Entrance VIC 3909J 03 5155 3843Mansfield Family History Group IncJ Sheena Daykin 03 5775 1659¢ mansfieldfamilyhistory group @gmail.comMaryborough Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 59, Maryborough VIC 3465J Helen Ritchie 0409 611 170¢ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg2 Melton Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 2094, Melton South VIC 3338J Deb Slattery 03 9747 3320¢ http://meltonfamilyhistory.org Mid-Gippsland Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 767, Morwell VIC 3840¢ [email protected]¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs Mildura & District Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 2895, Mildura VIC 3502J Kaylene Charles 03 5021 4763¢ www.milduragenealogy.com.au NarreWarren&DistrictFamilyHistory GrpIncÇ PO Box 149, Narre Warren VIC 3805J Lynne Bradley 03 8787 5558¢ http://nwfhg.org.au Nathalia Genealogical Group IncÇ PO Box 116, Nathalia VIC 3638J Lyn Franklin 03 5866 2543¢ [email protected] Ouyen District History & Genealogical CtrÇ Box 131, Ouyen VIC 3490¢ http://ouyen.vic.au/history Phillip Island&District Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 821, Cowes VIC 3922J Bob Hayes 0419 582 175¢ [email protected] Port Fairy Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 253, Port Fairy VIC 3284J Ian Perry 0447 265 759¢ [email protected] Port Phillip Pioneers Group IncÇ C/- 55 Kerferd Street, Malvern East VIC 3145J Marilla James 03 9500 8118¢ www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.auPortland Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 409 Portland VIC 3350J Anne Grant 03 5522 2266¢ [email protected] Prahan Mechanics InstituteÇ 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran VIC 3181J 03 9510 3393¢ www.pmi.net.au Queenscliffe Historical Museum IncÇ PO Box 135, Queenscliff VIC 3225 J Historical Museum 03 5258 2511¢ www.queenscliffe-history.org Richmond & Burnley Historical Society IncÇ3/415 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121J 03 9427 1800¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rbhs Sale & District Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 773, Sale VIC 3850 J Heather Pocknall 0428 411 603 Shepparton Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 1529, Shepparton VIC 3632J Garry Wallden 03 5828 3236¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh South Gippsland Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 395, Leongatha VIC 3953¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs Southern Peninsula Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 2189, Port Phillip Plaza, Rosebud 3939J Annette Buckland 0402 858 878¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~spfhs Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy IncÇ PO Box 417, Stawell VIC 3380¢ www.stawellfamilyhistory.com.au Sunbury Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 601, Sunbury VIC 3429J William Wilson 03 9744 4478¢ www.sunburyfhs.org.au Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society IncÇ PO Box 1232, Swan Hill VIC 3585J Steve Pentreath 0428 584 325¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs Terang & District Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 14, Terang VIC 3264J Jan Whamond 0427 954 397¢ [email protected] Toora & District Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 41, Toora VIC 3962¢ http://toora.org/ Victorian GUM IncÇ PO Box 397, Collins Street WestMelbourne VIC 8007J Office 03 9078 4738¢ www.vicgum.asn.au Wangaratta Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 683, Wangaratta VIC 3676J Val Brennan 03 5727 6229¢ www.wfhs.org.au West Gippsland Genealogical Society IncÇ PO Box 225, Warragul VIC 3820J Barbara Clayton 03 5611 3871¢ www.westgippslandgenealogy.com Wimmera Association for Genealogy IncÇ PO Box 880, Horsham VIC 3402J Ian Rees 0429 953 054¢ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wafg Wodonga Family History Society IncÇ PO Box 289, Wodonga VIC 3689J Wendy Cooksey 02 6056 3220¢ http://wodongafamilyhistory.org Wonthaggi Genealogy IncÇ 23 Murray Street, Wonthaggi 3995J 03 5672 3803¢ [email protected] Yarrawonga Family History Group IncÇ PO Box 7, Yarrawonga VIC 3730J Jan Parker 03 5744 1460¢ www.yarrawongafamilyhistorygroupinc.com

40 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncRecords opened 1 January 2019News from Public Record Offi ce Victoria From Tara Oldfi eldFor further information visit prov.vic.gov.au.Every year on the fi rst of January hundreds of state archives are made public as part of Public Record Offi ce Victoria’s annual Section 9 record openings. Under Section 9 of the Public Records Act 1973, fi les of a personal or private nature are closed to prevent the violation of personal privacy. These historic records, which as of 1 January have passed their assigned closure period, are of particular interest to family historians waiting on fi les that mention members of their family tree. Among the fi les made public for the fi rst time this year are 1942-43 capital case fi les. Capital cases relate to those criminal trials where a sentence of death was given. This year the Victorian Government copy of the trial of ‘Brownout Strangler’ Eddie Leonski is included (there is also a copy held on open access with the National Archives in Canberra.) Six months after Leonski was executed at Pentridge, two other men narrowly escaped their death sentences for murder, Norman Morris Searle and Charles Mills. Their fi les sit beside Leonski’s as part of this year’s openings. Also, among the openings are mental health records, divorce cases, prison registers and other criminal case fi les of 1943, including an infamous Brighton murder that took place outside the old Coff ee Palace, as well as Victorian Railway Records of 1962-63. Director and Keeper of Public Records, Justine Heazlewood, says that the records will help researchers, historians, writers and genealogists paint a fuller picture of Melbourne during those periods:These historic records will be invaluable to researchers as they provide not only information about individuals but also a glimpse into the time in which they were written. For instance, if your ancestor spent time in an asylum in the 1940s, you can get a sense of what that experience may have been like by looking through some of these records.A broad guide to time periods for closure under Section 9 is as follows: • Records primarily concerning adults may be closed for 75 years from the year in which the records were created. • 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.The full list, and further detail on some of the stories featured within the records, can be found on our website. Melbourne Design WeekWe 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.Image:age: One of the Landmark competition designs to be displayed during One of the Landmark competition designs to be displayed duringDesign WeekIm

• 41Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncOne of the great little treasures in the RHSV Collection is an original copy of the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907, Offi cial 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 fi ne 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 was the formation of the Victorian Ladies’ Photographic Association in 1908 – reported in The Australasian.  Refl ecting the general attitude to women’s activities at this time, it was reported under ‘Social Notes’:The Victorian Ladies’ Photographic Association, which has only recently been formed, and enjoys the distinction of being the only Ladies’ Photographic Association in the Commonwealth, held its inaugural meeting on April 14. The association is an indirect result of the Women's Exhibition. The lecture-room of the photographic department at the Working Men’s College was well fi lled by members and their friends.‘Social Notes’ (18 April 1908). The Australasian(Melbourne, Vic: 1864 - 1946), p46.In 1910 Agnes Thomson was the president of the Victorian Ladies’ Photographic Association.The RHSV (as well as the GSV) also holds the Australian Women’s Work Exhibition 1907 Catalogue Index, by Lenore Frost, published in microfi che format in 1997.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, offi ce bearers, general committee, and the intended range of exhibits – fi ne arts, applied arts, photography, needlework, preserves, horticulture, cookery, shorthand and typewriting, medicine and surgery, physical culture. It also includes proforma programmes of exhibitions and conditions, the intended programme for the opening ceremony, the award list and templates for the award posters. Our manuscript collection includes Papers on the First Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907by Patricia Keep, and includes a copy of the introduction from the programme of the Opening Ceremony; list of offi ce bearers; copy of a series of articles written by Mrs E. F. Allen (Vesta) for The Argus describing the Exhibition in detail from 15 October to 2 December, 1907, details of creche facilities, preparations, costs, exhibits and demonstrations, overseas contributions and overall achievements of the Exhibition. Royal Historical Society of Victoria For more information, visit www.historyvictoria.org.auFrom Lenore Frost Women’s Work Exhibition 1907Image: Diploma designed for the exhibition by Ruby Lindsay. RHSV Collection, LIB 024775. First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907. Offi cial souvenir catalogue

42 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncAbout the GSV A bout the GSV Why become a member of the GSV? Tracing your family tree is one of the world’s most popular pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Victoria is a leading Australian family history society for the study of genealogy and exists to assist members in tracing their ancestors. We welcome you to join us and discover a world of family history. We provide advice and expertise along with a reference library containing extensive records for Victoria, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as many collections from other countries. Courses, classes, discussion circles, presentations and seminars are held regularly. See pages 45 to 48 for all the upcoming events. Our online members area features searchable databases and an ever-increasing library catalogue. Membership Benefi ts • Access to a team of friendly volunteer research assistants trained to help you with library resources • Access to our comprehensive library collection of indexes, microforms, books, and digital resources • Free library access to commercial databases including: Ancestry findmypast TheGenealogist, , , and British Newspaper Archive • Our quarterly award-winning journal Ancestor • Free publication in the ‘Members Queries’ feature in Ancestor (one per year) • Online access to the GSV’s extensive collections, including the library catalogue, the Genealogical Index of Names (GIN), cemeteries database, all of which usually include additional information for members • Online access to Guided Research for Australian states, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland – a starting point for newcomers to genealogy • Free ‘Quick Lookups’ for members if you cannot visit , the library •A free annual research query of up to two hours for members residing more than 100km from Melbourne •Discounts on our publications, services and events(not sale items) •Reciprocal rights with other Australian and NZ major societies (conditions apply) • Ancestral Interest Groups and Discussion Circles • GSV Talks and Classes: (see pages 45 to 48) The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc Patron The Honourable Linda Dessau, AC Governor of Victoria Honorary Offi ce Bearers and Councillors President Jenny RedmanVice PresidentsPenny WolfPeter Johnston Secretary Vicki Montgomery FGSV TreasurerStephen Hawke Council Janne Bonnett Erna CameronDavid Down Lorna Elms Simon FosterRobert GribbenLeonie LovedayMargaret McLarenMichael Rumpff Staff Library Manager Linley Hooper FGSV Assistant Library Manager Meg Bate Offi ce Administrator Linda Farrow Membership Options A$ Joining fee (Australia/international) 18.00/18.00 Annual Membership One person (Australia/international) 96.00/114.00 Two, same address (Australia/international) 145.00/163.00 Three, same address(Australia/international) 194.00/212.00 Extra Member 48.00 18—25 year-old Next Generation Genie 48.00 Ancestor only Australia (no joining fee) 70 .00 International (no joining fee) 90.00 Member Societies 121.00 Day Visitor Full day with free Library access *20.00 * Fee rebatable against membership fee, within 14 days. Level 6, 85 Queen Street,Melbourne, Victoria, 3000AustraliaWeb www.gsv.org.auEmail [email protected] 03 9662 4455 Library Hours Monday 1.00pm — 4.00pmTuesday 10.00am — 7.00pmWednesday to Saturday 10.00am — 4.00pm Offi ce Hours Monday to Friday 9.00am — 4.00pmSaturdayClosed Closed public holidays and Easter Saturday

• 43Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncResearch Servic Research Services Free Quick Lookup There is a free eResearch service for a library lookup or research advice taking up to 30 minutes for members who cannot visit the library. Replies are by email but if prints are required a cost estimate will be given. Members may send in one eResearch query at a time. Another may be submitted after receipt of results. To submit a request by email, see the Research & Resources page online at www.gsv.org.au/research/research-services.html . To submit a request by mail, download and complete the Postal Research Request Form located on the website, or collect one from the GSV. Submit with a SSAE. Prints are $0.25 per A4 page – a quotation can be provided on request if an additional SSAE is provided. Extended Research The Research Team at the GSV can spend time researching a family or topic of your choice.Per hour: Members $30.00/ Non-members $50.00 pre paid. Includes limited copying and postal charges. Members residing more than 100 km from Melbourne are off ered one annual session of complimentary research taking up to two hours.Getting Started ConsultationsMembers 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 1925Researchers will o btain copies from Public Records Offi ce Victoria (PROV). Members: $50.00 / Non-members: $75.00 Other Public RecordsResearchers will obtain copies from Public Record Offi ce Victoria (PROV) where specifi c reference [VPRS/Unit etc] is provided.Per hour: Members: $60.00 / Non-members $85.00Further information about our Research serviceswill be found on our website www.gsv.org.au/research/research-services.html. Contact [email protected] if you need specific guidance.General Register Offi ce (GRO) certifi catesEngland and Wales birth, death and marriage certifi cates, births and deaths at sea and events registered with UK Consuls and armed services personnel may be purchased online: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificateScottish birth, death and marriage certifi catesImages of Statutory (civil) registrations may be purchased online. Church registers, census records, divorce records and wills are also available: www.scotlandspeople.gov.ukTo learn more you may like to attend the monthly class on ScotlandsPeople. Check the ‘What’s On’ pages in this issue of Ancestor (pp 45-48).England and Wales Wills and ProbateWills and probate may be searched and ordered for people who died in or after 1858 to current times. A ‘grant of representation’ gives someone the legal right to deal with a deceased person’s estate but not all grants of representation contain a will: www.gov.uk/search-will-probateIf you have any queries or need some help in using these websites ask for some assistance in the library.Sel Help Guidef

44 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncNewsCan you help identify people in photographs from over 20 years ago?Yvonne Kenna ([email protected]) has a selection of very old photographs that have been passed down to her from her grandfather’s family line. Unfortunately the subjects have no name identifying who the people are in the photos. The photos were taken in studios around the late 1890s to early 1900s. The family came from Euroa in Victoria. She has been in contact with descendants from the family, but like her they are unfortunately unable to identify who the people are. The likely family surnames she believes they could be from are; Gibbs, Watkins, Beaton, Harrison, Garrett, Pike, Bell, Saxon, Worland & Prowd. Her grandfather was William George Gibbs (1894 -1975) and she believes the photos were his mother’s Isabella Mary Jane nee Beaton (1873 -1955) or quite possibly her father’s Peter Beaton (1843 -1923).Yvonne has sent the photos to the GSV in the hope that GSV members may be able to identify some of the people. If you think you can help, please contact Linda at the GSV offi ce.Canadian Network releases Heritage DocumentsCanadian Research Knowledge Network has digitised over 60 million pages of Canadian documentary heritage and will soon be making them available at no charge.www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/over-60-million-pages-digitized-canadian-documentary-heritage-soon-be-available-no-chargeTracking 13 million people – the world’s largest family treeFrom: Australia’s Science Channelhttps://australiascience.tv/Scientists have created the largest family tree, made up of 13 million people linked through time. What it reveals is amazing, tracking over 500 years of marriage and migration in Europe and North America to expose the impact of human culture and the spread of genes around the world. The study revealed some massive societal changes which were refl ected in the changing genetic profi les of populations. These included changing attitudes towards marriage, migration, historical events such as elevated death rates at military age during the American Civil War, and both world wars, and a reduction in child mortality during the 20th century.The researchers have made the data and tree available for other scientists to study through the website FamiLinx.orgThe research has been published in Science.GRO (UK) Certifi cate Costs Have IncreasedThe cost of PDF copies of digitised birth and death records increased on 16 February to £7, with priority deliveries available at £45.Family Tree Live Show 26–27 April 2019Alexandra Palace, London  https://familytr.ee/familytreeliveIf you are in London, then consider this. More than 60 talks and lots more. For detail, see https://familytr.ee/lecturesTickets cost £12 per person pay day (children aged 16 and under free).Alexandra Palace has a lovely pub, and stunning views of the London skyline, which you can enjoy from the promenade style terrace! Great for enticing ‘other halves’ to come with you.Do you have a home for this photo?Jean Iredale (39 Cloverbrook Place, Carina, Q 4152) has sent us this photo found in a Queensland junk shop. The inscription on the back of the photo identifi es the baby as Jessie Helen McArthur, 10.5 months old. Jean Iredale has located the name in the Victorian births registry, and consequently has sent it to the GSV in order to try to unite it with a family member. If you know of this person, contact the GSV Offi ce to claim the photograph.Need legal help?(from the RHSV newsletter)Community organisations, like historical societies, have two low-cost / free legal services which are there to help. The two organisations cover everyday issues with which you may need help (copyright, employment, contracts, insurance, roles of committee members etc). Not-for-profit Law is a specialist legal service for community organisations. It is a program of Justice Connect a social justice organisation and community legal service and is itself a not-for-profi t community organisation and registered charity. NFP Law provides free or low cost, high quality practical help for not-for-profi t community organisations and advocates for improved standards and legal frameworks. Arts Law Centre of Australia is Australia’s independent national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-profi t company limited by guarantee. It provides free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters.NewsuisoptH1JlibcitfkcOp

• 45Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncWhat’s OnTALKSThur. 7 12.00pm – 1.00pmEnglish Research in the 1700sby Alan FincherThis talk will explore how to research this period using a wide range of records.Bookings essentialMembers $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00Tues. 19 10.00am – 11.30amDNA – Module 2: Introduction to using your Ancestry DNA resultsby Alan RhodesFor beginners in DNA research who have tested and need a basic introduction to analysis of results.Bookings essentialMembers $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50,non-members $30.00 Tues. 26 10.00am – 12.00pmDNA Research Tutorial – UsingAncestry shared matchesby Alan RhodesMembers $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00COMPUTER BASED RESOURCECLASSES1.30pm to 2.30pmThese small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home.Tues. 5findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTMonlineTues. 12 The National Archive (UK) onlineThur. 14FamilySearchTM online Tues. 19 GSV library catalogue & databases Wed. 20 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages onlineThur. 21 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales onlineTues. 26AncestryTM onlineThur. 28 Internet for GenealogyBookings essentialMembers Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00DISCUSSION CIRCLESWed. 612.30pm – 2.30pmGSV WritersTues. 12 12.30pm – 1.30pmCounties of Northern EnglandWed. 13 10.30am – 12.00pmDNAWed. 13 12.30pm – 2.00pmSouth West England Research & DiscussionWed. 27 12.30pm – 2.00pmEarly English Genealogy – pre 1700Thur. 28 10.30am – 11.30amLondon ResearchMembers Only – FreeCLOSEDMon. 11Labour Day public holidaySEMINARFri. 2210.0am – 12.30pmThe Culture and Traditions of the Highland Clans, andTracing Your Ancestors in the Highlands of Scotlandby Graeme MackenzieBookings essentialMembers $20.00, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $30.00, non-members $40.00CLASSESWed. 69.30am – 10.30amOrientation: introduction to the Society and our resourcesBookings essential – Members Only – FreeWed. 610.45am – 12.00pmStarting Your Family History: methodology and resourcesBookings essentialMembers Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00MEETINGSSat. 161.00pmScottish Ancestry GroupFOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCEWed. 27 10.00am – 4.00pm – IrelandMembers Free, non-members $20.00COURSEWed. 20, 27 Mar, 3 Apr 10.30am – 12.30pmWriting Family History by Margaret VinesBookings essentialMembers $90, non-members $180.00See inside front cover for details What’s On at the GSV – March

46 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncCLASSESSat. 610.00am – 11.00amOrientation: introduction to the Society and our resourcesBookings essential – Members Only – FreeSat. 611.15am – 12.30pmStarting Your Family History: methodology and resourcesBookings essentialMembers Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00What’s OnCOMPUTER BASED RESOURCECLASSES1.30pm to 2.30pmThese small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home.Tues. 2findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTMonlineThur. 4 National and State Archives in AustraliaTues. 9 The National Archives (UK) onlineThur. 11FamilySearchTM onlineTues. 16 GSV library catalogue & databases Wed. 17 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 18 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales onlineTues. 23AncestryTM onlineTues. 30 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (1pm to 2pm)*Bookings essentialMembers Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, non-members $20.00* Note change of timeDISCUSSION CIRCLESWed. 3 12.30pm – 2.30pmGSV WritersTues. 9 12.30pm – 1.30pmCounties of Northern England Wed. 10 10.30am – 12.00pmDNAFri. 1212.30pm – 2.00pmSouth West England Research & DiscussionWed. 24 12.30pm – 2.00pmEarly English Genealogy – pre 1700Members Only – Free What’s On at the GSV – AprilCLOSEDFri. 19, Sat. 20 and Mon. 22 Easter Public HolidaysThur. 25 Anzac DayBookings in person, via website, email or phone¢www.gsv.org.au¢[email protected] 03 9662 4455New members welcome. TALKSSat. 1310.30am – 11.30amChinese-Australian family historyby Robyn AnsellRobyn is a founding member of the Chinese-Australian Family Historians of Victoria.Bookings essentialMembers $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00,non-members $20.00Tues. 16 10.00am – 11.30amDNA – Module 4: Introduction to DNA Painterby Alan RhodesBookings essentialMembers $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50,non-members $30.00Tues. 30 10.00am – 12.00pmDNA Research Tutorial – Getting Started with DNA Painterby Alan RhodesBookings essentialMembers $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00,non-members $40.00FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCEFocus your research with experienced helpers in the LibraryMon. 8 1.00pm – 4.00pm – ScotlandWed. 24 10.00am – 4.00pm – IrelandMembers Free, non-members $20.00

• 47Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc What’s On at the GSV – May DISCUSSION CIRCLESWed. 1 12.30pm – 2.30pmGSV WritersWed. 8 10.30am – 12.00pmDNAWed. 8 12.30pm – 2.00pmSouth West England Research & DiscussionTues. 14 12.30pm – 1.30pmCounties of Northern England Tues. 21 12.00pm – 1.00pmBritish India ResearchWed. 22 12.30pm – 2.00pmEarly English Genealogy – pre 1700Thur. 23 10.30am – 11.30amLondon ResearchMembers Only – FreeCLASSESSat. 410.00am – 11.00amOrientation: introduction to the Society and our resourcesBookings essential – Members Only – FreeSat. 411.15am – 12.30pmStarting Your Family History: methodology and resourcesBookings essentialMembers Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00COMPUTER BASED RESOURCECLASSES1.30pm to 2.30pmThese small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home.Thur. 2 National and State Archives in AustraliaTues. 7findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTMonlineThur. 9FamilySearchTM online Tues. 14 The National Archives (UK) onlineWed. 15 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 16 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales onlineTues. 21 GSV library catalogue & databasesThur. 23 Internet for GenealogyTues. 28AncestryTM onlineTues. 30 ScotlandsPeopleTM online (1pm to 2pm)*Bookings essential Members Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00* Note change of timeTALKSThur. 2 12.00pm – 1.00pmAFL and Family Historyby Col HutchinsonCol is the AFL Statistics and History Consultant.Bookings essential – Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00Thur. 16 12.00pm – 1.00pmInspiring ways to captivate non-genealogistsVideo presentation by Lisa Louise CookeBookings essential – Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00Tues. 21 10.00am – 11.30pmDNA – Module 5: Introduction to Y DNAby Alan RhodesFor DNA researchers interested in tracing the paternal line and surnames.Bookings essential – Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00Tues. 28 10.00am – 12.00pmDNA Research Tutorial – Ways to organise your DNA matchesby Alan RhodesBookings essentialMembers $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00,non-members $40.00What’s OnMEETINGSSat. 111.00pmIrish Ancestry GroupSat. 181.00pmInternational Settlers GroupFOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCEFocus your research with experienced helpers in the LibraryMon. 13 1.00pm – 4.00pm – ScotlandWed. 22 10.00am – 4.00pm – IrelandMembers Free, non-members $20.00

48 •Volume 34 Issue 5 / March 2019 © The Genealogical Society of Victoria IncWhat’s On What’s On at the GSV – JuneCOMPUTER BASED RESOURCECLASSES1.30pm to 2.30pmThese small group classes are designed to enable you to get the most out of the computer-based resources available in the GSV library and at home.Tues. 4findmypastTM, TheGenealogistTM, British Newspaper ArchiveTM & MyHeritageTMonlineThur. 6 National and State Archives in AustraliaTues. 11 The National Archives (UK) onlineThur. 13FamilySearchTM onlineTues. 18 GSV library catalogue & databases Wed. 19 Australian Birth Deaths & Marriages online Thur. 20 Archives of Scotland, Ireland & Wales onlineTues. 25AncestryTM onlineThur. 27 Internet for GenealogyBookings essentialMembers Free, AIGS/RHSV/CAV $15.00, non-members $20.00CLASSESSat. 110.00am – 11.00amOrientation: introduction to the Society and our resourcesBookings essential – Members Only – FreeSat. 111.15am – 12.30pmStarting Your Family History: methodology and resourcesBookings essentialMembers Free, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00CLOSEDMon. 10Queen’s birthdayDISCUSSION CIRCLESWed. 5 12.30pm – 2.30pmGSV WritersTues. 11 12.30pm – 1.30pmCounties of Northern England Wed. 12 10.30am – 12.00pmDNAWed. 12 12.30pm – 2.00pmSouth West England Research & DiscussionWed. 26 12.30pm – 2.00pmEarly English Genealogy – pre 1700Thur. 27 10.30am – 11.30amLondon ResearchMembers Only – FreeTALKSThur. 13 12.00pm – 1.00pmCold Cases: brick wall strategiesVideo presentation by Lisa Louise CookeBookings essential – Members $5.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $15.00, non-members $20.00Tues. 18 10.00am – 11.30amDNA – Module 1: DNA testing - should I do it? by Alan RhodesAn introduction to genetic genealogy for people thinking about doing a DNA test, covering the pros and cons of testing as well as privacy and security issues.Bookings essential – Members $7.50, RHSV/CAV/FHC $22.50, non-members $30.00Tues. 25 10.00am – 12.00pmDNA Research Tutorial – Working with your DNA matchesby Alan RhodesBookings essential – Members $10.00, RHSV/CAV/FHC $30.00, non-members $40.00FOCUSSED RESEARCH ASSISTANCEFocus your research with experienced helpers in the LibraryWed. 26 10.00am – 4.00pm – IrelandMembers Free, non-members $20.00MEETINGSSat. 151.00pmScottish Ancestry GroupSTOP 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 ‘signifi cant service to the Uniting Church in Australia, to ecumenical relations and theological studies.’ 