DESCENT September/Spring 2023
Dinah McGregor (1898-1992)… “born in Long Gully, Bendigo and died in Rochester, having been award the Order of the British Empire for services to Rochester and District community.”
The Australian Welfare Experience….Delving into Australia’s Historic Welfare Systems. A guide to the 18th to early 20th Century information….{Colonial Secretary’s Papers/Trove/State Archives and Libraries/Asylum Records/Orphanage records/Adoption and Foster Care Histories/ all with website provided./Parliamentary reports/religious Institutions” archives
Desertion in South Australia…. “South Australia was intended to achieve an economic balance between land, labour and capital…….land sales, careful selection of migrants for the workforce and free passage to the colony, ..the need for social welfare was not considered…..however, byu the mid-1850s, destitute individuals and families seeking government relief reached a peak….
A Foundling in the Family….
Three Little Girls in an Orphanage….
Orphan Ancestors in Colonial Australia….
Barnardo Boys
What’s in a Name? ….Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point…a historic home….Charlotte Stuart Russell nee Pinnock….Philip Pinnock, Sheriff of Queensland….
The Ghost Towns of Western Australia…. “Mining Towns of Day Dawn, Kanowna, Mount Morgan and Nannine, all of which are ghost towns today….
LIKNK ‘N’ CHAINS Liverpool Genealogy Soc. October 2023
DNA Glossary .. Beginner’s Corner…. DNA has a language of its own…have a look! Five Great Ways to share your family history……Reach out….submit to data basses…print family trees….publish short family stories
A Liverpool Enlistment… “a photograph of your Liverpool soldier has someone else in the phot with him…who could this person be?
A Solution to an Erroneous Entry…. “fortunately for our generation the internet is being continuously updates….case of a great aunt…no marriage records…
rederick Garling Jr. 1806-1873……
Thomas William James Whitney a Family Pioneer …. “Whitney family have helped to pioneer and shape the character of Liverpool over the centuries….
TRACES Uncovering Australia’s Past….
The Hero of Waterloo Hotel Sydney…… “in Millers Point, it is steeped in colonial history,….
A History of Sydney Harbour… “one that has been cut, restyled and polished many times over….”
Sideshow Barkers….. “In 1908,, a lanky young vagabond d and petty criminal fought the New South Wales Government in the High Court to recover his family’s macabre sideshow exhibit…..”
Acts of bravery – lives saved at sea….. “For more than 140 years, the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of New South Wales has recognised bravery in saving human life, and reminds us that heroes are the everyday people who walk among us….”
Finding Skeletons in the Closet….. “moral dilemmas…badly behaved ancestors….cruel treatment of forebears….social conditions and the effect on ancestors… secrets and betrayal…..positive family history research…making peace”
Researching Chinese-Australian family history….cultural context….Political context…what’s in a name?….clan migration and Chinese kinship…ports of arrival…vial records…Chinese-language newspapers…networking.
When truth is a healer…..Shauna Bostock “is an Aboriginal historian….”
The Admiralty Islets diorama……..”Lord Howe Island…. World Heritage listed… isolated volcanic outcrop has plants and bird that have evolved in isolation….
Wait awhile in Western Australia…… “gold found in Cue in 1891, Coolgardie in 1892 and Kalgoorlie in 1893, it is not surprising that many people on the east coast of Australia turned their attention to west by 1894
These articles and many more may be read or borrowed ….. available in our rooms … come in for a chat and a cuppa when we are open ….. it is your facility, come and use it…
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