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The Grapeline Volume 17 no. 2, September 2017

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Your Elected Committee for 2017-2018

Committee members can be contacted via our email address: [email protected]

INDEX Page 2: Note from the Editor Page 3: Guest Speaker – Simon Clemence Page 4: Windows into the Past project Page 5: Research Queries – Can you help? Page 6 - 9: Guest Speakers - Helen Petschel and Christine Cook 0: Member Profile Page 11-12 Helen Stagg and life in S.A. Page 13: Library Accessions

Mildura & District

Genealogical Society Inc.

AOO23291P

P.O. Box 2895

Mildura Victoria 3502

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



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Note from the (reluctant) Newsletter Editor

I was hoping that someone might step forward for the Newsletter Editor role - but as no-one did and because I believe that a newsletter is essential to maintain interest in our group - a way to promote, educate and create a sense of community within the society – I decided to put my hand up. Also – as it is sent to other societies – it’s a way of helping the interaction between societies and perhaps creating interest from members from these groups.

I can’t promise that the Newsletters will be of as high quality or as polished as when Helen Stagg was at the helm, but I am willing to give it a go.

Please remember the success of this Newsletter going forward lies in the hands of all the members. We really need members to contribute, and not just the people who always do. So, if you have an old photo that is much loved, a funny family story, suggestions, helpful titbits – please feel free to submit.

I would also especially like to thank Paul Nicolias and Tom Heard for their continued support and suggestions, Helen Stagg for her help from afar, and all the Committee Members.

P.S I am hoping that I can produce Newsletters quarterly, but due to work and study commitments they might run a little later than normal.

Sue Andrews

I am a lover of old family photos – so I would like to share one from my family favourites.

Three generations of my family. The little girl on the left is my grandmother, the lady in plaid is my 2nd great grandmother, and the lady with the child on her lap is my great grandmother. The children are my grandmother’s siblings. My grandmother was born in 1915 and she is about 10 years old here.

A warm welcome is extended to new members:

• Jim Graham • Denese Smythe


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Simon Clemence –

August 2017 Guest Speaker

September 2017 Guest

Speakers

Simon Clemence spoke about his history working for the Victoria Police for 39 years as a police officer, primarily a detective and senior investigator. Before his retirement he was the Police Inspector and Local Area Commander for Mildura. He worked in various crime squads including Homicide, Organised Crime and Sex Crime squads. He spoke frankly about some of the situations he had been involved in, and some of the “characters” he had met. Simon also discussed his experience dealing with drug problems in Mildura and specifically the problems related to the drug Ice. He is passionate about getting a drug rehabilitation centre in this area. An entertaining and informative talk.

The British Newspaper

Archive is now available

at M&DGS rooms.


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A Window into the Past The Mildura (Nichols Point) Cemetery books are a great reference source for people trying to locate the resting place of their ancestors. Wouldn’t it be great for future genealogists to be able to get information about the person to bring them alive….so to speak? If you would like to submit a profile on a person who has been interred in the cemetery, here are some ideas to get you started:

• Parents and sibling’s names. Where and when were they born. • Married/Partner? Name & where and when married. • Did they have children? Names & where and when born. • Did they immigrate to Australia? How and when. • Where did they live? • Where did they go to school? • Occupation? • War Service details? • Played Sport? • Volunteer or Member of Association in the district?

If a headstone or maker is on the grave we can add to your submission, but you can also submit a photo of the person if you like. What do we need from you: A photo of the subject person/persons if available A 350 word profile if a photo is submitted A 650 word profile if no photo is submitted Formatting and Submission: The profile must be in Word or RTF (rich text format) file. Photos are to be in a separate file and not embedded in with the profile. The heading for the profile should be as follows:

John and Betty Citizen or John Citizen Submitted by: Betty Citizen

Email to [email protected] , including in the subject box “A Window into the Past”, including your and contact details. Please remember that M.D.G.S retain the right to:

• Include or exclude profiles • Edit the profile in which case it will be returned for approval.

If we receive enough submissions the intention is to produce a book or books. So, what are you waiting for? Let your ancestor’s live on today.



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Can you help? If anyone can help with these research requests, please email the Society ([email protected] )

and we will put you in touch with the persons concerned.

Dear society member

I am currently doing my family history project on my relatives who lived in Merbein around 1919 until around 1947. Their names are Stephen Harris b: 1863 - 1934, his wife Annette Letitia Harris (née Adams) b: 1863 - 1965. Their son Stephen Henry Locke Harris b: 1890 - 1974, his wife Alice Margaret Harris (née Clements) b: 1893 - 1981....they were sometimes referred to as Mae and Locke. Daughter Dorothy Muriel Britten Harris, spinster b: 1894 – 1972. My father, Clements Locke Harris b: 1924 - 2008. His brother, Graeme Stephen Harris b: 1929 - 1944.

Also other family members lived in Mildura - Florence Isabel Howse (née Clements) and her husband Roderick McKenzie Howse and their children Jack, Colin and Clements (or just Clem). My project mainly concentrates on where and how they lived during this time.... I only knew my grandparents from the time I was born in 1956 and only after Stephen and Alice moved down to Melbourne.

I have been approached by family members to assemble a snapshot of my grandparents / father's time in Merbein and would be very grateful for any records of said family members...

Yours sincerely Mrs Jolynn Atkin Nee Harris

P.S. My husband and I are planning to visit the Sunraysia district sometime in 2017 to donate certificates, trophies, photos, letters and memorabilia to any historical society that wishes to house them.

Hello

I was wondering if you could please give me some advice about where I could seek information on Mildura Primary School. I am currently trying to write a biography of my great grandmother, and I believe she taught at the school in its very early days. I would love to get a clear picture of the school from that time, if possible, but I'm not quite sure where to start. My great grandmother and her family lived in Mildura from around 1888, and I have found newspapers referencing her as a teacher at the school in Mildura during the 1890s. I would appreciate any advice you can offer about where to look for further information. I noticed that there was an article in your newsletter from September 1916 referencing her family - the Haworth family - in investigating a grave site. My great grandmother was Annie Haworth, daughter of Robert Haworth and James Hetherington. After living in Mildura she ended up marrying my grandfather, who was from Violet Town, but they lived near Broome in WA. I am now back living in Melbourne. Thanks in advance for any advice Jillian Watts



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Helen Petschel and Christine Cook – September 2017 Guest

Speakers

Our Uncle Lawrie Story

For the September meeting we presented a slide show titled ‘Uncle

Lawrie – The Uncle We Never Knew’. It was about our process in writing

a story on our Mum’s brother, Lawrie Barko who died in Rabaul in the

conflict there during WW2. A book was to be launched at the

commemoration of 75 years since the sinking, on 1st July 1942, of the Montevideo Maru. It included the campaign

on New Britain and other PNG Islands.

A friend, Lisa Cooper, made us aware of the proposed publication, a collection of stories of the people involved in

the war there.

‘The book will be about both the soldiers of the 2/22nd Battalion – Lark Force…

We are looking for engaging and well-researched stories using a creative non-fiction technique rather than a ‘facts

and figures’ story that links the soldiers and civilians to their home communities, including their family life prior.’

from the PNG Assoc. via our friend, Lisa Cooper.

Uncle Lawrie was in Lark Force, the 2/22nd Battalion.

The deadline was end of July 2016 so we had 6 months to get our story written. As happens we got involved in

other things including a Red Cliffs Duck Race but with a couple of weeks to deadline we decided to meet and make

a start! That very day Lisa forwarded another message which gave us a

breather. The deadline had been extended to September.

How did we try to create a picture of an uncle we never knew? We

approached the task in this way…

• Our purpose was to honour our Uncle and respect the family,

especially our Mum who cherished her brother Lawrie. She would

have valued our efforts to ‘get to know’ him.

• Our need to get our story selected for publishing meant looking at

the criteria and maybe thinking of a different angle to make it

interesting and worthy of inclusion in a collection.

• We needed to know the background to the events, the feeling at the

time and the ‘facts’ of the invasion.

• Tell the story of our uncle’s short life as best we could from

documents and memories recorded. We knew we had very little

information on him.

• Chris is the researcher. Helen is the writer. We work well communicating ideas, asking questions about

possibilities and solving problems!


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Over the years we had recorded family information from our Mum and her brother and sisters. We had a picture

of the Barko family life from this. Only two of his siblings are still around and they were the youngest. But we had

enough to form an idea of Lawrie’s upbringing, his interests and family life. This is what we knew:

Lawrence George Barko was the first son of Jim and Ethel Barko.

Otto Julius von Barkowsky (Jim Barko) and Ethel Maude Bound were

married at St Margaret’s Church of England, Mildura in August 1913.

Lawrie’s sister Hettie was born in Mildura August 1914 and Lawrie in

Bayswater August 1916. Ethel had travelled to be with her mother in

Bayswater for his birth. Lawrie was also the first grandson for his

father’s parents in London. We had loving letters Grandma Barko had

written to him expressing her longing to meet him.

The 1920’s and 30’s were difficult times and the family moved often

to find employment. His mother Ethel took seasonal work too to

supplement their income. Other children were born and Lawrie and

Hettie had responsibilities around the home and in caring for their

siblings.

Jim’s family owned a nursery in London and he had been trained in Europe as a nurseryman. Gardening was part

of every place they moved to. All the children we knew had a good knowledge of plants, identifying them,

propagating, growing and pruning etc. Jim received seeds from Europe of new varieties which they tried in their

gardens. They also had an excellent knowledge of the native flowers in season. We knew Lawrie would have had

an interest in plants, flowers and crops.

Jim had a camera. Every year the family were photographed for the Christmas mail to England. Photos and post

cards from England came regularly too. These cards and letters encouraged an interest in travel and exotic places.

Jim’s sister was married to a tea buyer in Java. During the wet season she travelled to Mildura a couple of times

and Lawrie would have enjoyed the stories of the tropical life there.

29 5 1936

Bournemouth

(Tel Southbourne 904)

My dear Laurie,

I was so pleased to have your letter …

I enquired the prices from Melbourne to England

and was told it would be 25% more for you,

because of the state of the Australian money. So

it looks as if dad’s trip will be put off until it is

better. You might try get a job on board, we are

only 1 hour from Southbourne and we have a

room always ready…

Am sending a coach map to show you where we

are, My house is on the sea edge and this one is

on the river x place over

our love to all and write again soon

Grandma, Auntie Millie & Rosemary


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In 1939 the family, with eight children, moved to market garden at Iraak, near Red Cliffs. This was pioneer living

in the bush beside the Iraak creek on the Murray. Lawrie worked with his parents from dawn until dusk on the

clay flats and sand hills with the seasonal crops and hunted, swam and fished when he could.

In June 1940 he caught the Melbourne train and enlisted at Caulfield. He was 23.

Fortunately after speaking with our cousin, two of Lawrie’s photo

albums came to light. These had been kept by his parents and

then his brother Bert, safe at Iraak. Lawrie had taken a camera

with him when he enlisted. This was just a treasure for us as it

added to our picture of him and what he valued. One album

showed us his time at training camp at Trawool and Bonegilla.

The other his early days at Rabaul. We can only guess how they

came back to Iraak. What he photographed confirmed what we

had predicted about his interests and his personality.

These books gave us the angle we formed our story entry around - his childhood formative years, its influence on his captured vision of Rabaul, then the black, empty pages at the end of the album when we knew not what he experienced. Now we researched the story of the 2/22nd Battalion ‘Lark

Force’ and used the Australian War Memorial records

available on line to give us a picture of that theatre of war.

It was disturbing to read some military decisions and the sad

consequences.

In our haste, we overlooked information and

misread the dates on one of the Service and

Casualty documents online. We read he

embarked on the Katoomba on 12th March

and arrived 3rd May in Rabaul. But 3rd May

was the date the cleric recorded the

information and he had actually disembarked

in Rabaul 28th March. We included this to

remind researchers to check everything!

The bombing of Rabaul began 4 Jan 1942. Lark Force were told ‘everyman would fight to the last’. No preparations

of dumps of food, medicine, ammunition or maps were made. The Japanese landed 23rd Jan and the troops were

told ‘everyman for himself’. Rabaul was Australian territory. This was the first attack on an Australian town and

they were left for dead. Lawrie died 26th February 1942 as a POW.

The story was written and submitted with a selection of the photos from the album.

Time passed and we heard nothing.


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On February 26th 2017 a group of his relatives met at the Red Cliffs Cenotaph to remember and honour him 75

years on. His name is on the memorial there. We placed some flowers and I read the story we had submitted.

Then in June, Facebook gave a sneak preview of the published book to be

launched on 1st July 2017. There was our story, used as the example to

promote the book! I emailed Chris holidaying in South America: ‘We have

been published!’

The launch was at the Australian War memorial on 1st July but we couldn’t

get there. We could order the book but postage was quite expensive.

Fortunately in emailing the PNG Society we learnt books were being taken

to Trawool to the Lark Force gathering and we reserved ours. Danny Pitt, a

Genealogical Society member, was attending and he was happy to collect

them for us. The next Saturday we connected with Danny at the Carnegie

Centre and picked up the books.

The stories in the book are similar and sad. It is a book to be read

in small parts, with a box of tissues beside. We understand why

the deadline was extended, every story was recognition of a hero

remembered by loved ones but forgotten in the mess of wartime

disasters. The sinking of the Montevideo Maru on 1st July 1942

with 1053 POW from around Rabaul was Australia’s worst

maritime disaster yet only recently recognized at the Australian

War Memorial. In 2010 approval was given for a memorial to be

built in their Canberra grounds and in 2012 it was unveiled.

Recognition now after 75 years has already brought us in contact with others who had an uncle, brother, dad or cousin with connections to the fall of Rabaul, the first attack on Australia in WW2.

Pictures: 1. Facebook post extending the submission date. 2. Baby Lawrie taken to send to the Barko relatives for Christmas 1916 3. Letters and postcards from England. Jim and Ethel with Hettie, Lawrie with the tie, Jimmy and baby Nell. 4. Photos from Lawrie’s album of Rabaul. 5. June 17th our story appears on Facebook. 6. The published book and our story showing the photo of Lawrie in

Do you ever have moments where you feel your family tree is as confusing as this?

I am my own Grandfather……. Many many years ago when I was twenty-three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. My father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed. This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life. My daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife. To complicate the matters worse, although it brought me joy, I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy. My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad. And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad. For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother to the widow's grown-up daughter who, of course, was my stepmother. Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run. And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son. My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue. Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too. If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild. And every time I think of it, it simply drives me wild. For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw. As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

- Ray Stevens


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Member Profile: Paul Nicolias I was born Paul Nicolias in the Mildura Base Hospital on the 6th of April 1951

to Thomas and Vass Nicolias (Greek Heritage). I attended Irymple Primary

school with my two sisters. In 1964, I started secondary school at the Mildura

Technical school. In 1967, I started an apprenticeship at the Aurora Packing

Sheds workshop as a welder. In 1970, I was called up for Army Service in the

Engineers Corp. I was a welder/driver with Field Squadron 1 in Sydney for 6

months then I transferred to Construction Squadron 21 at Puckapunyal. I was

discharged in 1973. In April of that year we bought a vineyard, beginning my

new career as a viticulturist in Irymple. After 44 years I am still living on the property. I dried all my

currants, sultanas and walthams.

I have retired now and spend time writing family history into the Nicolias, Theofelos and Bobo’s family’s.

I am on the Committee and also volunteer in the rooms.

Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc. Family History Expo 13 -14th October 2017

Friday 9.30 – 5pm – Saturday 9am -4pm Deniliquin RSL Club – 72 End Street, Deniliquin

$10 entry fee per day - Nationally known Speakers and Exhibitors

Sunday 15th October 2017 Seminar

“Getting The Best Out of Family Tree Maker” presented by Doug Elms & John Donaldson For more information contact: Val Hardman 03 5881 3980 [email protected] Carol Tresize 03 5881 4314 [email protected]

Website: http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg/

Attention all Members Would you like to be featured in the Member Profile section? All

you need to do is send in a blurb about yourself and photo. Is there a book or website that you would recommend to fellow

family history buffs? Please feel free to send contributions marked "Attention

Grapeline Editor" to [email protected] .



http://members.bordernet.com.au/denifhg/



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The diary of a new South Australian: (Helen Stagg August 2017)

Three months ago, to the day, (as I sit and write this,) I am taking the time to reflect on my big move to Adelaide. It was a mammoth task, decluttering our Mildura home after 28 years of raising our family, then marketing and selling it, travelling back and forth to Adelaide in the search for our next home and then making the big move. This was made a little more complex by bringing our elderly dog with us, who did not sleep or rest for the entire car trip, having watched the packing and cleaning frenzy over previous weeks! Happily, she adjusted well, both to our rental property while we continued our search for the right property, and to our new home which we finally moved into in July. We are located just 5 minutes’ drive to the beach and 20 minutes’ drive to the city, fabulously positioned for all we want to do.

We have fallen in love even more with Adelaide since we arrived. It is a ‘paradise’ for the historian/genealogist. We arrived in the middle of the ‘History Festival,’ a month-long smorgasbord of fabulous events. We took full advantage of this opportunity and attended as much as we could. One memorable day was the visit to Charles Sturts’ home, the 'Grange'. Sturt lived there from 1840 to 1853 and the building now houses a nationally significant collection of many of his original possessions and documents. I was amazed to see the ‘actual’ flag Sturt used on his Murray River expedition in 1830 along with his writing desk etc. I had a sense of walking in the footsteps of one of our national heroes.

We also visited Cummins House and Beaumont House. Cummins house was the home of John Morphett who arrived in 1836 on the Cygnet, one of the survey vessels sent from England. Morphett was present on 28 December 1836 when the first Governor of South Australia, Captain John Hindmarsh, read the Charter of Proclamation beneath the 'Old Gum Tree' at Glenelg and he was among the first party of surveyors who worked with Colonel Light surveying the state. Beaumont House built in 1849, was home of the first Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, Augustus Short, and later of Sir Samuel Davenport, politician, horticulturist and founder of the olive oil industry in South Australia. At each of these sites a well-informed and passionate volunteer walked us through the house, sharing its story. Beaumont House has a distinctive Mediterranean character with an open brickwork parapet in soft terracotta colours. Afternoon tea that day presented a total surprise when in casual conversation, another visitor turned out to be the grandson of one of the engineers on the Murray River lock-works which had been the subject of my 2015 book. (He and his brother subsequently each bought a copy of my book.)

Apart from these and other historical wanderings, we have joined the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society. The society has several special interest groups and Lloyd and I have gone along to most of them. There is the Germanic and Continental European Special Interest Group, as well as a group for the English, the Irish, the Scottish, DNA in Family History, Computer Users for Genealogy and Family History Writing. We have found the meetings to be very interesting and the people very welcoming.

At the last Meeting of the German Group, the president of the Pioneers Association of South Australia gave a talk about the association’s function and purpose. To qualify for membership, you must have at least one ancestor who arrived in South Australia before 28 December 1846. Since my great great grandparents William and Sarah Rains arrived on December 6, 1837 onboard the Navarino, when the colony was just 12 months old, and my 3 x great grandparents Johann Martin Ludwig and Cathrina Margretha Christiana Hinze arrived on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel on 28 October 1846, I qualify on two counts!

William Rains portrait as taken from the mosaic John Rains portrait as taken from the mosaic


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Every month, we attend the free lecture put by the History Trust of South Australia at its headquarters at the Parade Ground in the city. Examples of the topics include “Hidden in Plain View: The Colonial Aboriginal Histories of Adelaide and Sydney” and “Archaeology Takes Centre Stage – the Archaeological Assessment of the new Queen’s Theatre site in the Adelaide CBD.” Another talk was about some of the earliest hangings in Adelaide and we were completely taken aback when one of the men mentioned was a ‘Joseph Stagg’. No relation of course! (Although Lloyd is the one with the convict ancestors!)

We are also going along to monthly talks at the Medical Heritage Society, a completely different cohort of people, and have heard some fabulous talks. One was given by Dr John Crowhurst, an anaesthetist whose interests include military and medical history, and whose topic was "The Legacy of the Anaesthesia Events at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941."

Next week we are going to the South Australian book launch for Australian Lives: An Intimate History by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson. Being a member of the Oral History Association SA/NT, I am very keen to hear Alistair talk about this major, new publication which captures in text and audio the extraordinary life stories of 50 so-called ‘ordinary’ Australians.

In addition to all the above we have attended several musical events including Matilda at Festival Theatre and two Operas put on by Opera SA at Adelaide Town Hall. This beautiful hall is where my great great grandfather, William Rains, attended the Old Colonists’ banquet in 1871 when the building was just several years old. The banquet was arranged to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the founding of the colony of South Australia. I couldn’t help my mind wandering a little during the operatic performance to imagine the sounds and the scene at the banquet so many years ago!!

A large photographic mosaic depicts those who attended the ‘The Old Colonists Banquet’ and contains 515 portraits, ostensibly arranged by the colonists' year of arrival in South Australia, from 1835 to 1840. However, there are a few additions and 13 of the images are of men born in South Australia, including John Rains, my great grandfather in row 11S.

It was indeed a great thrill, during the History Festival, to see the mosaic containing the images of my great great grandfather and my great grandfather on display in the foyer of the State Library of South Australia. It ‘hit home’ to me that this is indeed where my roots are, here in SA.

Helen in front of mosaic at SLSA

the Old Colonists’ Mosaic with Helen’s ancestors circled. (B47769 SLSA)


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Library Accessions for past six months

Thank You to the Family of MDGS late member Thelma Bock for the donation of the following books

• Australia a History in Photographs by Michael Cannon

• Tennant Creek Yesterday and Today by Hilda Tuxworth

• What’s in a Name by Rodney Cockburn

• Roads across the Oceans by Douglas Roads Maschmedt

• The Other side of Burke by Don Wall.

• Squatting on Crown Lands in New South Wales by L.F.Campbell

• Paddle steamers and Riverboats of the river Murray by Peter Christopher

• Gol Gol Township & School 1882-1982 by Kaye Voullaire

• Big Men Long Shadows by Claudia Richards-Mousley

• 100 Years of Wentworth 1859-1959. Centenary Souvenir.

• Leo Charles Percy, Charlotte Farrell and Family by Bruce Fry

• Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island by R. Nixon Dalkin

Thank You to Mr & Mrs Mac Gordon for the donation of the following books.

• Scottish Clan & Encyclopaedia by George Way & Romilly Squire.

• The Camerons- A History of Clan Cameron by John Stewart.

• The Clan Campbell.

• The History of the Clan Campbell Vol 1 & 2 by Alastair Campbell.

• Chief’s of Clan Donnachaidh 1275-1749 by James Robertson.

• Clan Donald by Donald Macdonald.

• The History of the Clan Gunn by Mark J. Gunn.

• A History of Clan Grant by Lord Strathspey

• The Lamont Clan 1235-1935 by Hector McKechnie.

• The Clan MacNeil by Ian Roderick.

• The Macleods The History of a Clan by John E. Macleod.

• History of the Clan Ross by Alexander M. Ross.

• A History of Clan Shaw by Major C.J. Shaw.

• Anderson Families by Michael A. Anderson.

• History of the lands and their owners in Galloway Vol 1-5 by P.W. McKerlie.

• Burke’s Colonial Gentry Vol 1&2 by Sir Bernard Burke.

• Burke’s Dormant and Extinct Peerages by Sir Bernard Burke.

• Burke’s General Armory by Sir Bernard Burke.

• Genealogical and Heraldic history of the commoners of Britain and Ireland Vol 1-4 by John Burke

• Family records by Ashworth P.Burke.

• Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage 1964 Edited by P.W. Montague-Smith

• The Jacobite Peerage Baronetage, Knightage & Grants of Honour by Charles Skilton.

• A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur C.Fox-Davies.

• First Fleet Families of Australia by C.J. Smee.

• Third Fleet Families of Australia by C.J. Smee.

• 1788 the People of the First Fleet by Don Chapman.

• Pioneer Families of Australia by P.C. Mowle.

• This our Fathers did for us - the story of a pioneering family in Tasmania by Derrick Loane.

Thank you to Patricia J. Riordan, Fay Mannes & Raylee Schultz for the following books

• The Little Church in the “Valley” St Luke’s Anglican Church Irymple a History compiled by Fay Mannes

• Some Journeys continue The History of St Joseph’s College Mildura by Patricia J.Riordan.

• Carnegie Library Re-Development 5th March 1997 to 31st May 1998 compiled by Raylee Schultz.


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Helpful Free Websites

The National Library of Wales – free search engine for wills proved in the Welsh Ecclesiastical

courts before 1858 - www.llgc.org.uk/en/discover/nlw-resources/wills .

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – free search for criminal trials held at London's

central criminal court – www.oldbaileyonline.org .

World Through the Lens – Obscure Old English Census Occupations showing a brief description -

http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations .

Grapeline is published in March, June, September and December. Deadlines for submissions:

• 15th February 1st Quarter March Issue

• 15th May 2nd Quarter June Issue

• 15th August 3rd Quarter September Issue

• 15th November 4th Quarter December Issue.

Material needs to be received by the deadline as above to be included in the next available issue.

We welcome all contributions from you, our readers, so please send your genealogical stories, suggestions for successful

searches which may help other members or reviews of reference materials from our Society Library or elsewhere. Photos with

a brief story are also welcome. We look forward to hearing from you. Send contributions marked "Attention Grapeline Editor"

to [email protected] .

MDGS is celebrating its 40th Birthday in 2018.

Watch this space for news about the 40th

Birthday Book and Luncheon.

http://www.llgc.org.uk/en/discover/nlw-resources/wills

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations



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The M&DGS Inc. gratefully acknowledges the contribution of

Mr Peter Crisp

Member for Mildura

whose office has printed this newsletter, free of all cost, as a community service.

MILDURA & DISTRICT

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC AOO2391P

P.O. BOX 2895 MILDURA 3502

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MILDURA

Membership Benefits:-

Free use of library. Quarterly newsletter (subject to the position of Newsletter Editor being filled)

Meetings: - 1st Monday of month except January and December, 7.30 pm Carnegie Centre, Deakin

Avenue Mildura.

Library Hours: - Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday: 11.00 am - 4.00 pm.

All times subject to volunteer availability

Closed all Public Holidays. Library Fees: - $10.00 for non-members per day.

Research Fees: $30 for first 2 hrs. $15 per additional hour.

Membership: - Joining Fee $10, Ordinary $22, Concession $16.50, Joint $33. Badge Fee $10

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