Hi List, Just to let everyone know that due to the hard work of Glenys Wain (Sale Family History Group) and the Deputy, the Honour Rolls listed below have now been added to the Gippsland List Home Page at ********** The new listings are: Dutson Fernbank Maffra (St John's Anglican Church) Sale Temperance Hall Sale Baptist Church Sale Agricultural High School Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Not only Queensland and South Australia call the melons on the side of the road "Paddy melons" but so do NSW. I didn't know that the small wallaby was a "pademelon" until I read the list. Barbara Walker Researching: MENZ Tuchheim Germany, South Australia, New South Wales FORANT, BIEGER, WOLTER Germany, Tucheim pre 1854 BRUCE Scotland, Gundagai NSW 1880, NSW after 1880 KEITH Scotland, NSW after 1880 PENDRICK Victoria pre1887, NSW 1887+ HAMILTON VIC pre 1860 NSW 1860 to date ?Scotland/England prior to that LINSELL NSW 1860 to date ??where prior to that ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

And I always thought they were cow turds. Truly - so please don't take offence. Cheers, Nandina nandina@alphalink.com.au ---------- > Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some kind > of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but > now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I > am a city person from Footscray. > > I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a > curse in the suburbs as well. > > Lauris > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb asks us to keep our signatures on Mailing Lists short. > Please do not exceed five or six lines on this List. >

Dera Lauris, Pademelon is the common name for a small kangaroo type animal. Some still exist in Tasmania and another species in far NQLD is also known locally as pademelon. This probably applies to other species around Oz too. Cheers Margerie Linton Greer -----Original Message----- From: Lauris Crampton <crampton@senet.com.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 22 October 1999 03:51 Subject: [AVG] Re: Pademelons/unwanted kittens >Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some kind >of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but >now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I >am a city person from Footscray. > >I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a >curse in the suburbs as well. > >Lauris >

Hi Lori and Joy Thanks firstly to Lori for your tips. Some I have tried, some I haven't, so I will give them a go. Funny you should mention Emma Susan Twitchett/Mitchell/Owen. She ' became known as ' Owen but did not marry William Frances Owen. Her death certificate shows her as Emma Mitchell, as does the Bruthen Cemetery Register, but this has a notation ' known as Mrs Owen '. This lead me to discover that there were several Owen children, the 1st in 1901. But I believe that Henry John Mitchell had not died at this point but some form of seperation must have occured, for as I have already mentioned I have him recorded in the 1905 Electoral Roll. Thanks secondly to Joy for your interest. The Emma Mitchell death (Reg 12058) is the right one as I have it and as you have probably already read she did not marry William Owen and the death certificate refers only to her first marriage to Henry John Mitchell. The Henry Mitchell who died in Warragul in 1911, aged 75 would have been born in 1836. Ours was supposedly born in 1849, but you cannot believe all that is written about ages can you? With no connection via spouse or parents would the death certificate be worth a go in the hope that it might provide something else? I suppose that could only be children couldn't it? What do you think? Regards from Barry

Hi Lauris You are right on both counts as we in Vic calla shovel a shovel but the other states call things differently i.e. Pork German in SA is Fritz and so on however I think the South Australians and the Queenslanders call a small melon not unlike a cantaloupe a Paddy Melon.The ones I am thinking about grow along the roadside in the dry areas between Vic and SA borders they could have a smooth skin but the size of a cantaloupe.Come on the scraggers. Regards Graeme R Roberts graemer@melbpc.org.au Researching Roberts,Thomas ,Johnson. Millard,Gordon,Herbert,Brucciani ----- Original Message ----- From: Lauris Crampton <crampton@senet.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 22 October, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: [AVG] Re: Pademelons/unwanted kittens > Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some kind > of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but > now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I > am a city person from Footscray. > > I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a > curse in the suburbs as well. > > Lauris > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb asks us to keep our signatures on Mailing Lists short. > Please do not exceed five or six lines on this List. > >

Lauris Crampton, A pademelon or paddymelon is a type of small wallaby indigenous to the eastern mainland of Australia, the Bass Strait Islands and Tasmania. There are several varieties. Walter Savige

Thanks to all who replied so quickly about Amy's Track and the Foster Cemetery Records. val stevens mannum   sa  australia mailto:vstevens@lm.net.au http://www.lm.net.au/~vstevens/

Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some kind of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I am a city person from Footscray. I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a curse in the suburbs as well. Lauris

Dear Val, The Foster cemetery records up to and including 1931 were lost in a fire and no copies survive. "Foster Burials 1880-1932" by Norah Taylor is a book compiled from death certificates, newspaper notices etc, which will provide some information for that period. Records do exist for the years after 1931. My KEPPLER family lived in Amey's Track c. 1927-35; they had a dairy farm. It was possible to get from the high country to Gippsland by coming through the alps and down Amey's Track to Foster in the early '30s, but it must have been a hair-raising trip! Fi (in Melbourne)

Dear Val, Amey's Track is just out of Foster in Sth Gippsland. Foster cemetery (burial) records are held at the museum in Foster. Contact the Research Officer ( Mrs Rosie Crawford) South Gippsland Shire Historical Society PO Box 231 Foster 3960 Cheers Margerie Linton Greer -----Original Message----- From: Val Stevens <vstevens@lm.net.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 19 October 1999 20:29 Subject: [AVG] Amy's Track, Foster >I have two families, ORAM and PETERSEN who lived at Amy's Track from about >1907. Can anyone tell me exactly where Amy's Track is and also where I can >find Foster cemetery records. > >Val Stevens >mailto:vstevens@lm.net.au >http://www.lm.net.au/~vstevens/ > >Researching the following: >BENNETT,BERRY,BIGGAR,BOWMAN,BUNN,HENTSCHEL,IRVING,MADDOCK,MOLLER,NIMM O,O >RAM,PETER,PETERSEN,RAE,ROWE,STEVENS,WILEY,WOLF > >______________________________

In 1887 there were fears that Rabbits on Sunday Island and other islands would reach the mainland. It was reported by Dr. MacDonald that the selector on Sunday Island had to abandon the island because of the rabbits and that parties who visited the island rabbiting very often carried off young rabbits for pets which later escaped. Such was the case at Welshpool where rabbits had obtained a foothold in a narrow belt of coastal scrub. They were often confused with the Hare. In 1890 it was thought they existed on a hill between Armadale House and the Dutson Lime Company Works,where burrows were found but not conclusive if hares or rabbits. Gippsland Rabbit Suppression League reported that a communication had been received stating that four rabbits had been seen at Lake Bunga, and that one of them had been shot. However Mr Roadknight had been reliably informed that what had been killed was a leveret and that he did not think there was a rabbit in the locality. A curious fact : the rabbit may have been in Gippsland as early as the late 1840s. In 1891 the Gippsland Mercury described the early survey of the Ocean Grange area by Malcolm Campbell and James Gove it claimed "they found nine feet of water between the little island and the beach.....Mr.William Thomson paid rent for the island for nineteen years, and stocked it with all the rabbits he could get, some 22 in number, but they do not appear to have thriven for, for none are to be found there now. This is said to have been long before Mr. Pettit and his party made an inspection." ( Pettit's survey was in 1869, Campbell was surveying in the 1840s and 1850s.) Also note: Rabbit island off east coast of Wilson's Prom, presumably rabbits released there very early. Listers may have info on the introduction of cats to control rabbits, thus compounding the problem of feral cats. Cats were introduced to Rotamah Island in the 1920s(?) for this purpose. A cat house was built on the southern side of the island on the back channel and was used to breed up cats to keep rabbits down. In 1966 Frank Bury of Metung observed 'Phalangers, [gliders] once so plentiful, owe their destruction to domestic cats which slaughtered them in hundreds when they glided to earth to run up another tree. In fact cats are one of the major curses of our bird life. Yet I know a supposed bird lover who regularly releases broods of unwanted kittens on Boole Poole.'

Ameys Track runs north from the South Gippsland Highway, joining this about one kilometre west of Foster. It is sealed for about eight km or so, but then sort becomes a gravel track connecting to the Foster North - Mirboo South Road.

Hi Val I have a Hans Petter Petterson married to my Sarah Payne around 1870 they had 8 children between 1870 and 1883 in Oxley any connection to you Petersons? regards Joanne

By golly, they certainly knew how to enjoy themselves. Lauris

I have two families, ORAM and PETERSEN who lived at Amy's Track from about 1907. Can anyone tell me exactly where Amy's Track is and also where I can find Foster cemetery records. Val Stevens mailto:vstevens@lm.net.au http://www.lm.net.au/~vstevens/ Researching the following: BENNETT,BERRY,BIGGAR,BOWMAN,BUNN,HENTSCHEL,IRVING,MADDOCK,MOLLER,NIMMO,O RAM,PETER,PETERSEN,RAE,ROWE,STEVENS,WILEY,WOLF

Can anyone tell me where Mailman's Creek is or was? It is listed as a place in 1860 and maybe in west Gippsland.

Dow, Coral (DPL) would like to recall the message, "Mailmans Creek".

Can anyone tell me where Mailman's Creek is or was? It is listed as a place in 1860 and maybe in west Gippsland.

Barry I had a look for the death of Emma Mitchell and found this.  It should have her marital status at the time of her death.  If she remarried it would have when, which should give a clue as to what period we are looking for the death of Henry John Mitchell.  I did find another entry which could be his death but not sure so am including that too. I replied to the list as as I that I personally like to know results of other peoples searches. Digger - Death Index. Victoria 1921-1985 Surname: MITCHELL Given Names: Emma Father: Twitchett Wm Mother: Sarah  WARD Death Place: BDALE Age: 74 Year: 1937 Reg Number: 12058 Event: D Surname: MITCHELL Given Names: Hy Event: D Spouse Surname/Father: Unknown Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Unknown UNKNOWN Age: 75 Death Place: Wgul Year: 1911 Reg. Number: 7106 Hope this helps. Regards Joy Light