Snippets from other Journals June-July 2025

LINKS ’N’ CHAINS. Liverpool Genealogy Soc. June

The Way it Was…. Historical sketches of Liverpool……From the First Fleet to the 21st Century…Part 2.

George Frederick Mullins 1857-1938

Colin Sharp McLaws & The Glasgow Southern Necropolis …a certain researcher show look at the photos of this article…. reminiscent of her own discovery!!!!!

The National Archives of England…. Ministry of Defence service records project

Deaths in Liverpool Camp 1915…. “In the Field of Mars cemetery, situated just 190 metres apart, are two graves….”

Top Eight Family Tree Builders of 2025….

KITH & KIN Cape Banks FHS.  June

Sister Mary Elizabeth Hammond: Letters from a Prisoner of War….

Restitution of Conjugal Rights…. “While researching…. stumbled upon divorce papers.

A memory of the Coast Hospital…. seeing the buildings, and absorbing the fresh, windswept atmosphere of Botany Bay

The South Australian GENEALOGIST May

The Shopkeeper … 19th century Adelaide…Sarah Jane Hirst…born in NZ in 1840…  around 11858-59 she became housekeeper for a West End businessman and ex-convict, Thomas Dyster …he was twice married, father of 3 living children and 25years her senior (Jane was 19)

Jean Campbell; A Small but Important Part in SA’s History….. army nursing sister…. Later worked in David Jones…a woman police officer… Senior Woman Peace Officer…

Female School Teachers as Unsung Heroes of South Australia’s Settlement: My Grandmother Edith Bawden….. “From middle class upbringing, Edith’s father was a school headmaster…. Women as bush teachers in the early 1900s…

DESCENT SAGS June       

This publication sent to Society members via internet…. however, there are a couple of important and interesting articles to draw your attention……

At Sea: Shipping and Immigration….10 websites mentioned

The Jacksons: Story of a 10pound Pom Family and…

Mining the DESCENT Archives

GHOSTBUSTER Campbelltown Dist. FHS July

Unexpected Discoveries…. “Unexpected discovery was finding a Queenslander born and bred being buried in Macquarie Park cemetery in a northern suburb of Ryde, Sydney… Henry and his brother were interstate truckdrivers…. Henry George Hussey

HISTORY RAHS June

Lest We Forget: A missing WWII Anzac from the Battle of Crete, 1941. Cretans have never forgotten the support of the Australian and New Zealand troops in the defence of their island…

Working the Governor: in the service of Governor King…. an interesting article, somewhat reminiscing of the serial, “Upstairs Downstairs”

Legal records at Hawkesbury Library Service:  The Legacy of William Walker & John Jackson Paine… “a glimpse into the lives of two solicitors associated with records illustrates their deep involvement in their community…

Digitisation of the Tasmanian Archive… a most interesting read!!!…. the article relates recording historic data…. transcribing records in full…. use of digital cameras…. grouping of categories…. coding dictionaries are valuable tool…. examples of the authors’ work… locations and employment dataset. Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a Professor of Heritage and Digital Humanities at the University of New England.

Book Notes……several new book publications are listed …

Painting with Stone: The Story of the Melocco Brothers

The Greengate Hotel: A Social and Development History [my old stamping ground!]

Yirranma Place: Stories of Darlinghurst Corner

People Power: How Australian referendums are lost and won

Callan Park’s Veterans: A Century of Connections

An ‘important and necessary institution’: A history of the Australian Historical Association

Bridging the Years; A history of Manly, Warringah and Pittwater Historical Society 1924-2024

Paradise Interrupted; Tomaree Headland Port Stephens in WWII

Happy Reading Everyone

jgs