August/September Snippets…..2018
History. Royal Australian Historical Society. June 2018
Investigating the Social History of Aircraft Accidents…..Fatal flight and farming/Lismore 1932….Interrupted leisure in the metropolis/Sydney 1966….Seeking sources on Aviation Accidents?
The Sportmen’s thousand: War Heroes and AIF recruitment in 1917…..the Sportsmen’s Thousand appears to be the first government-sanctioned propaganda in Australia to feature a Victoria Cross recipient….
Unspeakably Happy and Content: single women’s surprising WW! Service…ambulance drivers…helping the Serbs.
A Grim Shadow: The Influenza Pandemic……the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918-19 had a devastating impact….NSW was immediately declared infected and schools, churches and places of entertainment were closed…
Ances-Tree. Burwood and Dist. FH. June 2018
The Mid-1800 Immigrants to Eastern Australia from Erbach in the Duchy of Nassau Pt.1…names A to Busch…to be continued
Louis ARNAUDON -from France to Dubbo…..He was one of 10 children who survived…a great..must read article with lots of information and pictures…
Kith & Kin. Cape Banks FHS. September 2018
The Family Member I would Most Like to Meet; Joseph Holden Wood 2 (1841-1908) Retirement of Sergeant Hickey…was a Newcastle policeman…while in Singleton took an important part in the suppression of crime…his coolness and good temper always saved the situation.
Edward Fisher: Convict to Van Diemens Land Colonist….the 1819 muster showed he had 73 acres at Queensborough under pasture.
Life in a Bank…. Athol Holden Smith was manager of the Commonwealth Bank Kinsford from 1957-1963…
Cleveland FHS. July 2018
Branch News and Information Round up.
Features…Genealogical Research Tips/ Planning your visit to a County Record Office/ Know your Parish/ Local Heroes; Samuel Alexander Sadler
Members Contributions and stories…..John (Frederick) Constantine(a tale of Highway Robbery, Transportation and Murder….They Married at Christ Church, West Hartlepool-are you sure?….this is a very abridged version of a lengthy story told in great detail in “Jackson’s Town”….A Bullet with his Name on it….and Ashes to Ashes…the Longstaff family.
Ghostbuster. Campbelltown Dist. FHS. July 2018
Photographs of Unusual Cemetery Headstones/Memorials, unexpected finds….and unknown photos.
The Confusion of Ancestors with the Same Name…..The Mystery of the Two Violets….and The Charles Whittalls of Sydney.
Eagle Eye. Cowra FH. June 2018
Henry Wallace 1931 buried at Cowra Cemetery….a victim of the ‘flu…..
Jane Baldwin(nee Perry)1845-1939……there seems to be two celebrated bank robberies in Ballarat reported in Trove…..
“Larrikins on the Lachlan, the Luck of the Irish on Goolagong Run….book review.
Shellharbour’s Forgotten Cemetery and Selected Pioneers….book review.
Margaret Pearce…born 7/2/1833 Windsor Castle, England and wife of Henry(John) Pearce Keeping it in The Family….brothers Alexander and Ewen McMillan were born at Little River, near Geelong Victoria in 1858 and 1868 respectively….
Beryl Frances Rudd nee Appleton….died at the age of 97….a graduate of Sydney University 1939….a tennis player…member of the Red Cross…
The Grant Family from Lower Back Creek…significant contributors to the Progress of Early Cowra.
The Lachlan Queen….described as a farm wagon or farm lorry, began her life in the Rivett’ Wagon and Coach Building Works in Kelso outside of Bathurst NSW.
Royal Australian Historical Society. June 2018
‘At all events on the through lines’: the century-long journey to Australia’s rail gauge unification.
Prayer and Carbolic: reactions to the plague in Sydney in 1900…..Dr J Ashburton Thompson confirmed the theory that the plague is primarily a disease of rats, transmitted by the flea… Tension Among Friends: internationalism in Sydney in 1923….The London Peace Society and League of Nations Union in Sydney…strong advocates of the League, Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin and Professor Archibald Hamilton Charteris…Marian Fleming Harwood provided “constant generosity and help” to the NSW Peace Society.
James Ralfe and the Early Surveys at Port Macquarie….surveys in NSW…free settlement begins…The New England Road….
Crime Pays: women transported for forged bank notes….women’s roles in the crime of bank note forgery…..incentives to plead guilty……life in NSW….
Book Reviews…… including “Looking for Rose Paterson: how family bush life nurtured Banjo the Poet.
The Tamworth Family Historian July 2018
Extracts from “Carrabobbila”…a book to commemorate the Centenary of Currabubula Public School and Record the history of Currabubula District…..Currabubula Police Station….Farmers and Settlers’ Association….Mrs Stanley Hayter- formerly Lorna Byrne ….Extract from Northern Daily Leader.. Tamworth Post Office opened 119 years ago.
Murrumbidgee Ancestor. Wagga Wagga Dist. FHS. June 2018
Society’ Happenings……..
‘Ilford’: A Centenary Event……..the house on McLachland Street, East Orange, and the family that lived in it…
Australian Slang…..ankle biters/ wowsers/ pommies/ grog/ a pocket in a sock/ an ashtray on a motorbike !!!
The Last Post…….Anzac Day….Stanley James Lugton WW2 survivor of Changi…played the trumpet….and the historical bugle….
The Argyle Bulletin. Goulburn Dist. H & GS May 2018
When the Lights Shone…..May 1850
Identities…Early Pioneer Family….Dudley William Gibson
Queen of Eastgrove….Miss Annie Tooth Crowned…
Liedertafelo….New look Now For an Old Hall…….Goulburn boasted a large choir and a concert orchestra of fine musicians in the 1920s….
History of the Goulburn District Family History Society…..and recollections of the formation
Sib Folk News. Orkney FHS June 2018
Mabel’s letter was like travelling back in time….the Matches Family….travel to Orkney Life at the Palace…..a brief History of the Comloquoys of Birsay.
Margaret Halcro – ancestor or not?….Margaret’s branch of the family began with William Halcro of Aikers….
I unravel the mystery of the rider on the white horse in Macraes Flat, Otago N.Z.
The Isbister at the Hall of Gorn…..a farm tenant was obliged to provide specific quantities of farm produce, as rent, to the landholder…..
Mother was a Gerwin Girl……..Gerwin is the family farm located on the West side of Orphir Meet the Simisons….from Orkney to Argentina
What’s in a surname?….Ann Hercus with copies of the book based on two decades of research into the family name Hercus…
JGS