Good Morning Listers, Has anyone by chance any records re the Trafalgar School around 1908-1915 please. I am trying to locate where my father, Arthur Edmond Jones went to school. He and his family lived in Traf. & I imagine he & siblings attended school there. I have the AVR if anyone would like a look up any time Kind regards Bev

Hi List, I have been working away allocating schools to the South Gippsland Resources page on the list home page, and have stumbled across reference to a schoo, reg. no. 3657 at Cliffy Island in the Seal Islands, east of Wilsons Promontory. I knew there was a wooden lighthouse there at some stage, and the school appears to have been opened and closed some time around 1910. It does not appear in Vision and Realisation (histories of schools in Victoria) except as a note at the end of the Wilsons Promontory school. I THINK I am going to list it under South Gippsland, but my problem is - are the Seal Islands still in Victoria???? They obviously were in 1910 (we have a Victorian school opening there), but I thought I heard all those Bass Strait Islands were in Tasmania. Abyone have any thoughts, and can anyone give me the years of operation for the light at Cliffy??? I do know a lighthouse keepers schild lives at Maffra, so think it went until at least 1920. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Dear Linda, Thank you for your reply. The births I have showing this name were around the 1850's. I have looked up my maps/references and see that it flows near Yarram and on to Port Albert. Thank you for your help. Regards, Mary of Melbourne Researching, FOSTER, Coventry >Aust - PRITCHARD,Coventry>Aust GEOFFREY,Bloomsbury, Middlesex>Aust - ORCHARD, Warminster, Wiltshire>Aust STUART,Aberdeen, >Aust - EDWARDS,England>Aust GREATZ,NSW>Aust - PFITZNER, Prussia>Aust WILLIAMS,CUNNINGHAM, HUMPHREYS,MULVAHILL >Aust ,

Hello listers, Would anyone know what "Yarra Surv" Gippsland means on a birth entry. Regards, Mary of Melbourne Researching, FOSTER, Coventry >Aust - PRITCHARD,Coventry>Aust GEOFFREY,Bloomsbury, Middlesex>Aust - ORCHARD, Warminster, Wiltshire>Aust STUART,Aberdeen, >Aust - EDWARDS,England>Aust GREATZ,NSW>Aust - PFITZNER, Prussia>Aust WILLIAMS,CUNNINGHAM, HUMPHREYS,MULVAHILL >Aust ,

Hello all, In researching the possible parents of my g/mother ELLEN MCGINNIS, I have come across a few possibilities. Has anyone a connection with any of the following: >From Eaglehawk: JOHN HEYBURN JOHN MCGINNIS (maybe the bro. of below Michael?) >From Eaglehawk/S'hurst area: MICHAEL MCGUINESS m.MARGARET CASEY ELLEN MCGUINESS b. 1859 at Eaglehawk (Is this my g/mother? There is no mention of these parents on her MC or DC. Was she adopted informally?) JOANNA MARTHA MCGUINESS d. 1878 aged 21 at Sandhurst >From Eaglehawk: JEMIMA BURKE (an adult in 1877 and possible close friend of my g/mother.) >From Marong, S'hurst area: CHRISTOPHER BURKE m. ELIZA MCGINNESS MARY ANN BURKE b. 1855 JAMES HAYBURN BURKE b. 1861 ELIZA BURKE b. 1864 WILLIAM BURKE b. 1875 ANNE BURKE b. 1875 At my wit's end and hoping for a breakthrough very soon. Regards Julie from Cairns muffin@cairns.net.au

Thanks, Nandina. That looks like a really good resource. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I am trying to contact VIRTUE family members descended from the Virtue family who emigrated from Potton, Bedfordshire and Foxton, Cambridgeshire to Victoria between 1849 (John), 1851 (William) and 1852 (Mary and daughters Sarah and Ann). Would dearly love to hear from my "long lost cousins" and would be grateful if any list member could pass the word onto the Virtue families now resident in Victoria. With many thanks. Richard Whitchurch-Bennett 22 Mayflower Drive, Yateley, Hampshire, GU46 7RR, England

Many thanks to the people who suggested I obtain the book "Those Warners of Foster & Toora" from the South Gippsland Historical Society at Foster. Having purchased a copy I am delighted with the history. It will be an assett to my bookshelf as a record of the family's "contribution to the past". Elizabeth ______________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Landy emlandy@compcom.com.au "Bell Point", Tarwin Lower, Vic, 3956 Australia.

Thanks fir the replies re The Springs. Funny, isn't it, how we learn things. I didn't know about The Springs near Ballarat until now! John in Wagga ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

The Springs near Ballarat is now called WAUBRA. Carl MATTHEWS

Hi Peter, My dad built several shacks around Paynesville in the 1970's. Pop was a professional fisherman at one stage and also owned a fish shop at the iceworks or something similar. I have fond memories of going fishing at 5am and coming back and offloading boxes of fish at the iceworks. (Pop was Bob Jarred.) I did check out the Orbost war memorials and did not find my name I was searching for (James Gall), so will have to go search some more to see where he is listed if anywhere. Regards,Bronwen.

Arthur Baddeley was born 1906 no. 17455 From the Victorian Edwardian Index 1902-1913

This book is available from the Foster Museum which is open on Sunday afternoons

Les Blake's "Place Names of Victoria" lists only one: former goldfield discovered July 1854, between Ballarat and Creswick. Not quite Geelong ...... Maybe it is yet another - like all the Stony Creeks Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

For those that asked, there are two places in Gippsland called The Springs. One is on McEvoys Track about 40 km NW of Heyfield. That is where the Clean up will be this year. Another one is 15 km west of Gelantipy and Wulgulmerang near the NSW border. BUT, seeing that two people have a Geelong-The Springs connection, I would think it must be the one mentioned as being near Ballarat. (I can't find that one in my VicRoads directory). Unlikely to be the McEvoys Track one, as I think it had a maximum of about 10 families in its heyday. No idea about the history of the one near Gelantipy. Regards Peter Lakeman

I noted the message re the Cleanup at The Springs. Sorry, can't come, but the name rang a bell. My Gippsland family, the REYNOLDS', had children at Geelong and The Springs. I thought The Springs must have been a little place near Geelong. (I suppose it still might be!) My roadmap doesn't show The Springs. Can someone tell me where it is? Regards from Wagga Wagga John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Oops! Peter I think I've just sent two messages to the request list when they should be on the L list. I've just corrected my address list. Shirley

Hi All, John Sheahan wrote: > I noted the message re the Cleanup at The Springs. Sorry, can't come, but > the name rang a bell. My Gippsland family, the REYNOLDS', had children at > Geelong and The Springs. I thought The Springs must have been a little place > near Geelong. (I suppose it still might be!) My roadmap doesn't show The > Springs. Can someone tell me where it is? > Regards from Wagga Wagga > John This interests me as well. My Gippsland family (Korumburra/Kardella/Fairbank) the MITCHELLS, also started in Victoria near Geelong, and one branch also had births at The Springs. I'd thought it was the one near Ballarat (?), but perhaps they came to Gippsland sooner than I thought? Best! Lloyd Mitchell Also interested in Walkers in Korumburra and (earlier: 1880s) Inverloch

Dear AVGers, An honour roll (whose source was unknown) was transcribed at the Omeo courthouse (thanks to Dianne Carroll). It has since been determined that this was from the Methodist Church at Omeo, and has been added to the Shire of East Gippsland section of the War Memorials pages. To view it, go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ and from there to Resources, then to War Memorials. Regards Peter lakeman

Dear AVGers, Thanks to offers from, Bob for Orbost, and, Bruce for Benambra, the two 'forgotten' memorial gates are being transcribed (in case anybody else was thinking of offering). I appreciate the offers. Regards Peter Lakeman