SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGIST August 2022
Butcher, Baker, Insolvent, and Bailiff: The Life and Times of George Milbank….. born in Bromley by Bow, England in 1826…trained as a butcher with his father…in 1849 he decided to move to Australia…..married in Port Adelaide to a female butcher a month after arrival….went into partnership with Vessey….won prizes for dressed carcasses at Agricultural Shows……six daughters and four sons…..
Was Herbert the Black Sheep of the Woodgate Family?….born into a privilege family…attended Harrow School….at 21 Herbert travelled to Australia….carefree years followed….married Marie Dunemann in 1871…involved in community affairs in the town Terowie….
A Blighted Branch of the Broadbent family….as devout Wesleyan Methodist, the Broadbent family was well regarded as early South Australian pioneers…their children ended up rather tragically…
Search and Serendipity – That’s Genealogy!….tracing the Goldsworthy family from Cornwall and in South Australia….
KITH & KIN Cape Banks FHS September 2022
DNA Dramas…..My DNA Journey…. DNA Anecdotes
Class 1B, Rainbow Street Public School, 1947
Drowning in the Condamine… floods, stores essentially cleaned out….a woman in labour and the midwife was on other side of the swollen river….
Visit to Sydney Jewish Museum….. Bus Trip to Ebenezer and Windsor
WENDISH NEWS September 2022
Past Events….Society’s 35th Anniversary Luncheon and Country Tour to Ballarat, 12-14 March, 2022
Roll Reunion at Rainbow, Victoria June 2022….marking the Centenary of the death of Johann Heinrich Roll….
DESCENT Society of Australian Genealogists….Spring 2022
In search of…The Impact of European Colonisation….How do we make sense of the difficult stories we encounter? …Unpicking the legacies of the Anglo-Boer War…….The Anglo-Boer War….Legacy in South Africa….Legacy in Britain….Unpicking the story….
In search of…The Impact of European Colonisation….from Sussex to Bengal…The Waller Family in British India
In search of….The Impact of European Colonisation…..Glyn Morgan Davies
In search of…The Impact of European Colonisation….William Gibson of Jessore
On the Record from NSW State Archives and Records…….New indexes – deceased estate files; Court of Claims 1833-1922;
Colonial Secretary’s Special bundles 1826-1982 Exhibitions…Sydney Snapshots 1900s-1940s…Unrealised Sydney
Education @ SAG……Let’s Talk About….Investigative Genetic Genealogy…..
The War Cry. Missing persons’ index…..when William Booth began preaching to the poor and destitute of London’s East End in the mid-nineteenth century, founding the Salvation Army as an organisation to provide food, schooling and other relief to the destitute, he could not have imagined the importance his organisation would play….
LINK ‘N’ CHAINS Liverpool Genealogy Society October 2022
The Way it Was…Historical Sketches of Liverpool….27 June 1872 – 27 June 2022 100 Popular Baby Girl and Boy Names…1961 then 2021
Out of the Frying Pan….conditions in Scotland were harsh into the late 1830s… chance of a better life in the Colony had enticed many to emigrate….illnesses, weather conditions made for a difficult journey….
35th Anniversary of the Liverpool Genealogy Society Inc…..
A Trip to Kingswood Archives in 1988 – Old Form Torrens Register…folios in the Old Form register show….how can these records help?…accessing records….records for purchase….identifying records…before leaving home…volume and folio number NOT known…..
12st Warden of Liverpool – Veteran of Waterloo
Every family has a Secret….from TV show….
Solving Genealogy Problems – How to break down brick walls and build your family tree by Dr Graeme David. [paperback approx. $12]
Best Wishes JGS