Does the AIGS have a web site or, if not, an e-mail address? ----- Original Message ----- From: Faye Guthrie <guthrigg@weblink.solutions.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 30 August, 1999 10:11 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] AIGS - On the Move > MEDIA RELEASE > > The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies is to have a new home in > the new year - the 1930s National Trust building, the Box Hill Town Hall. > > The Whitehorse Council approached the Institute with the offer some months > ago, and arrangements have been made for the lease of the premises, to the > satisfaction of both parties. > > The Institute saw the location as a solution to the problem of lack of space > in their current Library, which they have outgrown in just four years. The > new venue is 5 times larger than their current one and will allow many > activities to be carried out simultaneously, which at present is impossible. > > President Don Grant says this will enable us to provide better services and > facilities for our members. We will also be working alongside the Box Hill > Historical Society, which should complement each others' activities. > > The new premises will allow for a large volunteers' work area, lunch area, > more fiche and film readers, larger books area, separate office, reception, > booksales plus bright and spacious classrooms. Box Hill Area Meetings will > be held in the large and comfortable meeting room. > > Further information may be available at the AIGS' Open Day, World Vision on > Saturday 23rd October. > > Faye Guthrie > > Senior Vice-President > > > > > > ==== 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. >

Hi List I am interested in obtaining a copy of the microfiche of the Sale Cemetery. Would someone please let me know where I can obtain them? Thanks Carolyn > >I have just found a cemetery that has previously escaped me!!!!! > >I was not aware how large the Gormandale Cemetery is. I now realise it was >in the previous shire of Rosedale (therefore now in Wellington), and it was >not previously transcribed by Sale Family History Group. > >Sale, following the success of their Sale Cemetery fiche, are now updating >transcripts for all other cemteries in Wellington shire (less the

MEDIA RELEASE The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies is to have a new home in the new year - the 1930s National Trust building, the Box Hill Town Hall. The Whitehorse Council approached the Institute with the offer some months ago, and arrangements have been made for the lease of the premises, to the satisfaction of both parties. The Institute saw the location as a solution to the problem of lack of space in their current Library, which they have outgrown in just four years. The new venue is 5 times larger than their current one and will allow many activities to be carried out simultaneously, which at present is impossible. President Don Grant says this will enable us to provide better services and facilities for our members. We will also be working alongside the Box Hill Historical Society, which should complement each others' activities. The new premises will allow for a large volunteers' work area, lunch area, more fiche and film readers, larger books area, separate office, reception, booksales plus bright and spacious classrooms. Box Hill Area Meetings will be held in the large and comfortable meeting room. Further information may be available at the AIGS' Open Day, World Vision on Saturday 23rd October. Faye Guthrie Senior Vice-President

Hi Listers I have a few stray death certs. if anyone is wanting them, in the Beechworth - Myrtleford areas. LYONS, Samuel George. HUMPHREYS, Thomas DUVENALL, Jeremiah RATH, Patrick HENNESSY, Mary all from Beechworth. AH SHUE YOUL, David MCHENRY, Thomas TRESIXE, Sarah REES, Ernest all from Myrtleford. If you are interested, please let me know and I will send details. Regards Irene - EX GIPPSLAND,VICTORIA, NOW GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND Searching for:REES,LEYSHON-Wales. Samuel DAVEY-Cornwall. David Edward SMITH,PHILPOT,SCARLETT,BARTLETT-England. McHENRY,MOORE,NOLAN,MCMILLAN,-Irl. HAMILTON(TUMALTY),RATH-Irl 1800+ RATH-Aus 1830+ GOLGERTH, BISCHOFF,WESTWINK-Germany. CARMICHAEL,SIMS-Tas. all around mid to late 1800s

I am seeking information on a hotel in Trafalgar c1910-1930 owned by John and/or Julia O'Brien. I believe John O'Brien also had a hotel in Traralgon during the period 1900-1935(?) Can anyone tell me how many hotels there were in these towns during that period or know of these O'Briens? My ggGrandfather (Francis Conley) died in the Club Hotel Moe on 4th May, 1889, does anyone know if this hotel still exists? Would appreciate any advice. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

At 05:35 PM 28/08/99 +1000, Robert wrote: >Does anyone know the date when the above factory closed down.? > Not an easy question!!!! The Orbost Butter Factory (and that may be only its "common" name) probably went through a heap of name changes and ownerships. The Orbost Butter and Produce Co. Ltd was registered as a co-operative 18 May 1892, and was still operating in 1911 (Greg Brinsmead, Gippsland Heritage Journal no.3). Like all the other factories in Gippsland it will have been slowly absorbed within the co-operative structure, which is now almost totally represented by the Murray Goulburn Co-operative, with its closest factory to Orbost still operating at Maffra. I do know that by some time in the 1970s the milk from Orbost was being carted to Maffra, but even then the Butter Factory building MAY still have been open as a depot. So the closure would have been so gradual it would be difficult to say when it actually happened. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Dear List, I know this is a long message but pleeeease read it. We are having a Family Reunion for the SMITH side of my family on October 31st this year and I really need help to locate members of 3 families. My GGGrandfather William Smith (from Midsomer Norton Somerset England) married Charlotte Fletcher in Castlemain Victoria Australia in 1856.They moved to Sarsfield near Bairnsdale Victoria and raised 9 children.A son and two daughters just disappeared and help is needed please to locate descendants of JOHN JAMES SMITH born 1858.He returned to England and was residing in Wellow Somerset in 1893.After that we don't know but he may have returned to Western Australia. ELIZA LOUISA SMITH born 1862 married JOHN CHARLES WARD in Bairnsdale Victoria and had the following children. John Daniel Ward 1883--1955, Ellen Louisa Ward 1886 --- Annie Matilda Ward 1894--1955 married a Jones and died at Footscray . Eliza Temperance Ward 1888 --1962,also married a Jones and died at Melbourne. Charlotte Ward b 1898-----1946 married a Lavelle and died at P'ville.(could it be Paynesville near Bairnsdale or Parkville in Melbourne) ANN SMITH born 1865 married RUEBEN NICHOLLS in Bairnsdale Victoria.They had the following children , Grace Emma Nicholls,b 1890, Martin Louis Nicholls b 1892 and Elsinore Nicholls b 1898. This family moved to Perth Western Australia and we know nothing of them. Any help to locate any descendants would be greatfully received. Regards Elaine Skehan, Sale,Victoria. Australia. ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== Have you checked out the Gippsland Links on the Gippsland Mailing List Home page?? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

Does anyone know the date when the above factory closed down.?

Hi List, I have just found a cemetery that has previously escaped me!!!!! I was not aware how large the Gormandale Cemetery is. I now realise it was in the previous shire of Rosedale (therefore now in Wellington), and it was not previously transcribed by Sale Family History Group. Sale, following the success of their Sale Cemetery fiche, are now updating transcripts for all other cemteries in Wellington shire (less the former Alberton shire) and will be releasing them on fiche. But Gormandale slipped through the net. Can anyone from Yarram or Mid Gippsland Genealogical Societies confirm that they do not hold transcriptions??? Thanks Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

The Gippsland Time Line is posted to the list in irregular posts - if anyone has any additions, corrections or suggestions, please feel free to engage in historical discussion! :) Some of you may even come up with important dates we have missed. Some state, national and world events are included for comparison. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This time-line is copyright, and was extracted from "Steps in Time: A Gippsland Chronology to 1899". It is posted for private study only. Earlier, consolidated posts can be found through the AVG Home Page at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au - ------------------------------------------ 1865 Mar: Grant Land Act, effective to 1869, making it fairer for smaller selectors. May 18: Angus McMillan dies. Coach Road from Melbourne to Sale completed, with first bridges on Latrobe and Moe Rivers. The journey takes from 24 to 36 hours. Sep: Coach service from Sale to Melbourne instituted by Hewitt and Co., and taken over a short time later by Cobb and Co. Oct 10: Avon Shire proclaimed, the second shire in Gippsland. Ten new hotels built in Sale, bringing total to 15. Rev John Roberts arrives to assist Login after many short term assistants. Reef gold discovered at Dargo. 1866 Mar 2: The ketch Surprise leaves the Lakes for Melbourne and is lost at sea. May 17: The barque Ellen Simpson goes down off Cape Howe with the loss of nine lives. Jul 18: Meeting at Bairnsdale in a second attempt to have the area declared a Roads Board. Section 42 of Land Act comes into force allowing the lease of up to four twenty acre blocks within ten miles of a goldfield. A.W. Howitt appointed to Bairnsdale as magistrate. Reef gold discovered at Black Springs Gum Forest. Reefs discovered on Upper Bendoc River. By 1867 the Morning Star and Come Love reefs being worked. About 240 diggers on Bendoc and Delegate Rivers. A need arises to clarify if the Bendoc mines were in Victoria or NSW. 1867 Jan: Howitt visits diggings around Bendoc. Apr 30: Bairnsdale declared a Roads District. Aug 20: Gippsland Hospital opened at Sale. Gippsland Guardian newspaper moves to Rosedale C.J. Tyers retires from public service. Henry Goodridge builds a hotel at Russell's Creek 1868 Feb 24: Cranbourne Roads District declared a Shire. May 14: Poet and author Mary Fullerton born at Glenmaggie. Jun: Howitt re-visits Bendoc goldfields. Jul 18: First shire meeting at Bairnsdale. Nehemiah Guthridge, businessmen and Mayor of Sale, begins promotion for his new shipping company. Hamilton Reed and John Locke take up grazing lease at Goongerah. First contract let for construction of the artificial entrance to the Lakes. First hops grown in East Gippsland. Alluvial gold discovered at Clifton Creek and Freestone Creek. 1869 (DROUGHT ON THE MONARO) May 19: First meeting of the Rosedale Roads Board held in the Police Station. Aug: Poet Marie Pitt born at Bullumwaal. Alexander Black defines nearest tributary of the Murray, as part of the process of defining the Victorian/NSW border. The Grant Act (Amendment) allows selection before survey. To take effect 1.2.1870.

Hi Listers, Looking for McKenzies My gggrandfather Alexander McKenzie was transported to VDL in 1939. He later married Elizabeth Morgan in St Luke's United Church of England and Ireland on 10 May 1847 at Campbell Town in Tasmania. I am a decendant of their son, Thomas (see below) and have a great deal of info about this line. But I have no knowledge of what became of Thomas' siblings other than the details listed below. If any thing sounds familiar please let me know. I'd be delighted to hear form you Regards Ian McKenzie Alexander and Elizabeth McKenzie stayed on at Campbell Town in Tasmania until their first child, Catherine, was just over 2 years old. They left Launceston on 17 April 1850 for Melbourne on the ship Shamrock. They had the following children: i. Catherine (1847-) ii. Thomas Alexander (1851-1924) My ggrandfather iii. James. Born on 29/7/1855 in Melbourne, Victoria. iv. William Andrew (Twin). Born on 11/3/1858 in Melbourne. v. Campbell (Twin). Born on 11/3/1858 in Melbourne. Campbell died ? 1858. vi. Mary-Ann. Born on 2/6/1860 in Melbourne. vii. Elizabeth (Twin). Born on 28/8/1865 in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Elizabeth died on 22/3/1867, she was 1. Buried in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Cause Of Death: Whooping Cough viii. John (Twin). Born on 28/8/1865 in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. John died on 28/1/1875, he was 9. Buried in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Cause Of Death: Heart Disease. ix. Edward. Born on 7/7/1868 in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Edward died on 2/12/1894, he was 26. Buried in Meredith. Cause of Death: Chilitis x. Morgan. Born on 1/3/1871 in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Morgan died on 20/6/1872, he was 1. Buried in Eclipse Creek, Victoria. Cause Of Death: Teething and Pneumonia.

Hi list Does any one have Peter Synan E-mail address and if they do could they send it to me so I can contact him Thank you Glenn

Congratulations to Peter Synan, from Sale, for receiving a largeish (well, it looks large to me) grant to advance his work on George Henry Wise, Member of Federal Parliament for Gippsland, and his involvement in Federation. Also noticed Dr Tom Griffiths (who did much work in the Maffra Shire, and around the Noojee area) has received an even larger one for a history of Antarctica. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

> There is to be reunion of the descendants of Thomas and Caroline > (Sellek) Penny held at Carisbrook Trotting complex, Chaplins Rd, on > Sunday 7th November from 10.00am to 5.00 pm. Their daughter Caroline married Martin Nicholls and by 1886 were living in Bairnsdale. Family who may still be in the area would be descended from Nellie Nicholls and Frank Holloway, who was a bootmaker. Another related surname is Reid. Thanks Marcia Penny Geelong

Thomas and Caroline were at the "Cat and Fiddle Inn" Sowton, 6 miles east of Exeter, Devon from 1831 until their emigration in 1849. They married in London in 1826, but think they had probably gone up there in search of work, as they came back to Colaton Raleigh, Caroline's home town by 1831. What is your interest in Devon Penny's? Regards Marcia aytonec wrote: > Hi, do you Penny's come from the DEVON region in Eng back further >

My great uncle Ernest Watt was employed in 1880's as an auctioneer/broker for M.Goold - Bairnsdale. In January 1889 he married Ellen Kirwan who is shown stepdaughter of M.Goold - Bairnsdale. I am trying to determine the natural parents of Ellen and believe she may have been born in Ingleside in 1856 and her father was possibly Francis Kirwan and mother was a Katherine Cussen. Presumably M.Goold from Bairnsdale would had to go through some formal adoption process of Ellen Kirwan. Does anyone know where the details of this would be kept. ie the Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Perhaps some kind Bairnsdale historian has some info, as I understand M (Michael I think) Goold was quite well known and was a Councillor. Regards Bruce Watt

Hi, do you Penny's come from the DEVON region in Eng back further Chris Ayton -----Original Message----- From: Kelvin and Marcia Penny <penny@pipeline.com.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, 20 August 1999 9:34 Subject: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] Penny/Warragul >There is to be reunion of the descendants of Thomas and Caroline >(Sellek) Penny held at Carisbrook Trotting complex, Chaplins Rd, on >Sunday 7th November from 10.00am to 5.00 pm. > >A grand son Nicholas Penny, and his wife Eva (Arthur) spent their lives >in Gippsland. there may still be some descendants in the Warragul area - >associated surnames are Spooner, McMaster, Mitchell, Logan and O'Connor > >Thanks >Marcia Penny >Geelong > > > > > >==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== >Please try and edit as much as you can out of return messages to the List. It helps make life easier for Rootsweb, as well as all of us on the List. >

Hi all, I am trying to find any information on Bert McNaulty/McAnulty who I believe resided in Gippsland from 1926 onwards. I believe he has died but I would like to make any connection to his family, as I am writing a book on his mothers family. I know his parents were Florence Edith and William McNaulty/McAnulty, and Bert was related to the Blackwell Family of Nar Nar Goon area. Any help appreciated. kind regards, Lorene

Thanks Noelene - I'll look out for it regards Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Noelene Lyons <noelene@compcom.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 20 August, 1999 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] DUNBABIN/HOLMES > Hi Peter > the magazine is actually "australian family tree connections" > i have lost in my system your original request re this magazine > regards > noelene > noelene@compcom.com.au > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Robinson <tworobbos@bigpond.com> > To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, August 15, 1999 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] DUNBABIN/HOLMES > > > >Hi Noelene > > > >Your reply caught my eye. What's this about Family Tree Maker magazine? I > >have the Family Tree Maker program but haven't heard about the magazine. > >Where does one access that? > > > >Regards > > > >Peter Robinson > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Noelene Lyons <noelene@compcom.com.au> > >To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: 14 August, 1999 9:19 PM > >Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] DUNBABIN/HOLMES > > > > > > their contact address is in the Family Tree Maker Magazine > > > > > > > >==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > >Have you checked out the Gippsland Links on the Gippsland Mailing List Home > page?? > >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Do YOU know about the Centre for Gippsland Studies at Monash University, Gippsland Campus? > http://www-mugc.cc.monash.edu.au/~meredith/gipps_studies/index.html >

There is to be reunion of the descendants of Thomas and Caroline (Sellek) Penny held at Carisbrook Trotting complex, Chaplins Rd, on Sunday 7th November from 10.00am to 5.00 pm. A grand son Nicholas Penny, and his wife Eva (Arthur) spent their lives in Gippsland. there may still be some descendants in the Warragul area - associated surnames are Spooner, McMaster, Mitchell, Logan and O'Connor Thanks Marcia Penny Geelong