Listowners please excuse this 'ad' but I want to get wide coverage for my 'new list' (Got to start somewhere!!). This is to announce the mailing list 'AUS-Koori' mailing list for the research and distribution of information for those with Aboriginal links and ancestors. To subscribe, send a message to AUS-Koori-l-request@rootsweb.com with 'subscribe' (no quotes) in the body. For some reason, the confirmation message is not being sent however that will be rectified very shortly. To confirm, post your interests to AUS-Koori-l@rootsweb.com for distribution to other list members. I look forward to sharing information with those of you who are researching this area. Regards, Ivan Sanders http://www.alphalink.com.au/~isanders

Kevin, I am sure the honour board is in the Mechanics Institute Hall at Swifts Creek, I will make some enquires for you. By the way who were his parents? The Butter factory - yes I m sure there is a bit mentioned on it in several local history books. I will follow this up for you as well. ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Regards Dianne Carroll Join List :- Alpine Heritage at = http://www.onelist.com Online : - http://www.users.bigpond.com/mountainfestival/

Can anyone tell me if there is a similiar list to your wonderful list operating for Western Australia ? I have WA ancestors and I want to find out more about them. I am grateful in anticipation of receiving some relevant e-mail addresses. Thankyou, Philip Milward ~ from the "Shaky Isles"~ New Zealand.

Hello Joy The Sth.Gippsland Family History Society has all school records of Korumburra & Leongatha they are at the Historical Rooms Leongatha and open Thurs & Frid 12 - 4 their contact address is in the Family Tree Maker Magazine Hope this helps Noelene Inverloch -----Original Message----- From: Joy & Rob <lyko@tig.com.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:32 AM Subject: [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND] DUNBABIN/HOLMES >Hello > >My name is Joy Light and I have been on this list for several months >just lurking and enjoying the information, thought it was time to post >my interests. > >My maiden name was DUNBABIN. I am trying to find out more about my >fathers early life. He was born in Korumburra in 1918 and in approx. >1939 he married an Isle Myrtle HOLMES. Had 3 children, Dawn b 1941, Joy >Patricia who was born in approx. Feb. 1941, but who died aged 6 weeks in >March 1943 and Cheryl who was born in approx. 1945. Cheryl was known as >Robyn. > >Dad and his family attended school in Korumburra so I was wondering if >there are any indexes perhaps of school records for the Korumburra area. > >James father was Frederick DUNBABIN who was one of 11 children, born to >John DUNBABIN and Amelia ALLEN. It does appear that only Frederick >DUNBABIN was the only child that was registered at birth. I have found >all the others by marriages and deaths. > >Hoping these names ring a bell. > >Cheers >Joy > > >==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== >Check out the Gippsland Mailing List Home Page at: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ >

Hi all, as a new person to this caper, and very green, would some kind soul please advise if there are any web sites specialising in detailed maps of our great country. Thanks in anticipation, David; researching CRAY , MADDERN , ROUSE , and MURRELLS

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 - ------------------------------------------ 1862 Feb: Rev. Hagenauer arrives and establishes Ramahyuk Jun: Duffy Act (selection before survey) sets aside a further 4m ha for selection. Effective to March 1865. Jul: Donelly's Creek and Fulton's Creek goldfields near Jordan discovered. Sep 29: Berwick Roads District formed. Oct 19: The brigantine Hugh Roberts goes down near Ram Head with considerable loss of life. Dec 16: Gold was discovered at Walhala. unk: Public meeting at Sale offers a reward for the discovery of a track to the new Jordan goldfield. unk: Cobb and Co takes over Sale to Port Albert run. unk: NSW establishes a permanent light on Gabo Island. unk: Sale school declared a National school. unk: Common schools bought under the control of the Board of Education. 1863 early: The Enterprise is sold to a Melbourne businessman, and leaves the Lakes. Feb: Ned Stringer and party find gold at Stringer's Creek, later known as Walhalla. Feb: Extensive flooding in Gippsland, with the loss of at least 7 lives. Floodwaters cut a deeper channel in to the Lakes. May 18: Area of Lake Tyers Mission gazetted. Aug 1: Samual Anderson dies at Western Port. Aug 10: Sale declared a Borough, the first in Gippsland. Sep: Ned Stringer dies at Toongabbie. Oct 23: First meeting at Bairnsdale in an attempt to form a Roads Board. unk: McMillan acquires 16,000 acres at Tabbarabbara, regranted Cuigmungie. unk: Howitt appointed to Omeo as Warden and Magistrate. unk: Alluvial gold discovered at Haunted Stream, first reef opened at Omeo. unk: Dargo gold rush. 1864 Feb: Report submitted to Parliament regarding the delay in the construction of the Yarra Track to the Wood's Point and Jordan goldfields. Feb 2: Alberton Roads Board becomes a Shire. Mar-May: McMillan in charge of a party that cuts Alpine track between the alpine goldfields. Apr: Reefs discovered Crooked River. Howittville, Talbotville and Grant townships begin. June: Gippsland Lakes Steam Navigation Company advertises its intention of providing a service from Sale with lakes steamers to connect with coastal steamers to Melbourne. Jul: Meeting called at Sale by Dr Hedley that leads to the Sale Hospital being built. Jul 22: McMillan reported as having injured himself in a fall from his horse while track cutting. Aug: The Tambo arrives to begin service for the Gippsland Lakes Navigation Company. Sep 13: Avon District Roads Board formed. Nov: Gaol built at Sale to replace an earlier one. unk: Miners Taylor and Brache report 200 Chinese diggers in the Bendoc-Delegate-Hayden's Bog area, with trouble between them and white miners. unk: Sir William J. Clarke acquires Orbost station, employing Robert Henry to manage it. unk: Deptford known to be a town.

Is there someone at Swifts Creek who would be kind enough to tell me if my great uncle Reginald MILLS is listed on a WW1 honour board/plaque anywhere in town? He managed the Swifts Creek Butter Factory before going off to WW1 in 1915; he was the manager from at least 1912. Has anyone written a history of this butter factory? Kevin Mills Jamberoo, NSW

My G.Grandmother's sister, Margaret Hannington married Frederick Childes James in 1876 in Ballarat before moving to Bena.They had a son, Frederick James who accidently drowned at Anderson's Inlet in 1900. Other children were Mary Ann, Thomas Henry, Sarah Jane, and Ellen. Sarah had a son, Robert (Bob)James who became a policeman in Coburg.Sarah m William Miles. Ellen m Jonathon Tyers and lived in Bena. I would love to hear from anyone with a connection to this family.

>My maiden name was DUNBABIN. I am trying to find out more about my >fathers early life. He was born in Korumburra in 1918 and in approx. >1939 he married an Isle Myrtle HOLMES. Had 3 children, Dawn b 1941, Joy >Patricia who was born in approx. Feb. 1941, but who died aged 6 weeks in >March 1943 and Cheryl who was born in approx. 1945. Cheryl was known as >Robyn. > >Dad and his family attended school in Korumburra so I was wondering if >there are any indexes perhaps of school records for the Korumburra area. > >James father was Frederick DUNBABIN who was one of 11 children, born to >John DUNBABIN and Amelia ALLEN. It does appear that only Frederick >DUNBABIN was the only child that was registered at birth. I have found >all the others by marriages and deaths. > >Hoping these names ring a bell. > >Cheers >Joy My mother was born in Korumburra in 1918 so I rang her and asked her... She remembers the name Dunbabin, they had a dairy farm, cant remember where now though. Perhaps Bena or Poowong. They did not go to school with her, however some were at school with her sister, who is 4 years younger, at the Korumburra Elementary High. School records shld be at Laverton. My aunt lives in Qld. Wld you like this taken further? as I cld write to my aunt. They left the 'burra in 1938. regards Lauris in Adelaide - cool & damp!

Hello Joy Just for interest, there's a Dunbabins Road at Woorarra in the hills north of Toora. Cheers Shirley Westaway Foster

Hi Wendy, There were are Duncan's living in Paynesville. They are the family of my uncle, who was born in Western Australia. My Uncle was a bank manager in Omeo in the 1970's.( His surname is Duncan.) regards,Bronwen. Wendy Croome wrote: > Dianne, you said > >Ethel did die in Omeo, but is not buried here (I am secretary for the Omeo > Cemetery Trust). Do you know why she was in Omeo?< > > I wish I did know! I was kind of hoping someone would write back to say > something like 'the Duncan family was an old Omeo family' and then I would > know why. But no-one has. > > Ethel is an offshoot from my direct line, so I know nothing about her. The > only family reason for her being in Gippsland, that I know of, would be if > she kept in contact with her cousins on the Guy side. They would be > descendants of her grandfather's brother, Edward Remington Guy (1836-1910). > He had a large family, who seem to have stayed around Gippsland - Crooked > River, Cassilis, Grant, Talbotville, etc. Thanks to our listowner, I am in > touch with one of his descendants who lives near Maffra. > > On the other hand, maybe Ethel was in Omeo for a holiday and just happened > to die there! > > Thanks for writing and letting me know that she is not buried in Omeo. > > Wendy > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Check out the Gippsland Mailing List Home Page at: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/

> Greetings. > My great mother was Eliza Fanny PRICE b 1862 in Buni (?) or Clunes (?). > I found on the Australian Vital Records CD (at our local NZSG Branch) that > her parents were William PRICE & Eliza Cat. MORRIS. Ref 6923 > Also born to the same parents in Ballarat in 1857(died 1859) was Fanny Eliza > PRICE. Ref 5847. > I'm not sure what or where I would go to check out the "Ref" #. > If any one is able to assist I would be most grateful. > Phil Linklater > Howick, Auckland, NZ. > >

Dianne, you said >Ethel did die in Omeo, but is not buried here (I am secretary for the Omeo Cemetery Trust). Do you know why she was in Omeo?< I wish I did know! I was kind of hoping someone would write back to say something like 'the Duncan family was an old Omeo family' and then I would know why. But no-one has. Ethel is an offshoot from my direct line, so I know nothing about her. The only family reason for her being in Gippsland, that I know of, would be if she kept in contact with her cousins on the Guy side. They would be descendants of her grandfather's brother, Edward Remington Guy (1836-1910). He had a large family, who seem to have stayed around Gippsland - Crooked River, Cassilis, Grant, Talbotville, etc. Thanks to our listowner, I am in touch with one of his descendants who lives near Maffra. On the other hand, maybe Ethel was in Omeo for a holiday and just happened to die there! Thanks for writing and letting me know that she is not buried in Omeo. Wendy

Hello My name is Joy Light and I have been on this list for several months just lurking and enjoying the information, thought it was time to post my interests. My maiden name was DUNBABIN. I am trying to find out more about my fathers early life. He was born in Korumburra in 1918 and in approx. 1939 he married an Isle Myrtle HOLMES. Had 3 children, Dawn b 1941, Joy Patricia who was born in approx. Feb. 1941, but who died aged 6 weeks in March 1943 and Cheryl who was born in approx. 1945. Cheryl was known as Robyn. Dad and his family attended school in Korumburra so I was wondering if there are any indexes perhaps of school records for the Korumburra area. James father was Frederick DUNBABIN who was one of 11 children, born to John DUNBABIN and Amelia ALLEN. It does appear that only Frederick DUNBABIN was the only child that was registered at birth. I have found all the others by marriages and deaths. Hoping these names ring a bell. Cheers Joy

Wendy, Ethel did die in Omeo, but is not buried here (I am secretary for the Omeo Cemetery Trust). Do you know why she was in Omeo? ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Regards Dianne Carroll Join List :- Alpine Heritage at = http://www.onelist.com Online : - http://www.users.bigpond.com/mountainfestival/ > Ethel Rose WIDDY b. 1896; d. 1975 Omeo, Gippsland, Victoria; > married name DUNCAN

Lorraine, try the Warragul Historical Society and Museum, this is situated on the South east corner of Queen St. and Smith St. intersection (roundabout). The historical society holds hard copies of several newspapers dating back to the early days of the township and surrounding area, they also have some microfilm of some papers, I think from the Neerim area, I think the Museum is open weekends, but once again, I am not sure. The West Gippsland Genealogical Society is on the net at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wggs/ The Cemetary at Warragul has a person on duty on Monday's, also another day of the week, but can't remember which one. Were very helpful when I went looking for info and gravesites. Hope this helps. Regards, Bernie G.

Hi I am new to this list would anyone know if there is old newspapers for around Warrigal if so where. I have just started doing research in this area. I am researching a Thomas john Clark his wife Alexina nee Duncan, they lived around the area as far as I know from approx 1899 to 1917 and there son George till 1935 maybe some rellies are still there. I hope to go to Warrigal cemetery on Saturday.. I'm also looking for Thomas's parents John Clark and Martha Davies/Davis hoping someone can help regards Lorraine Key.

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One of my ggrandmother's sisters was: Emily GUY b. 1863 Newstead, Goldfields, Victoria; d. 1936 Beechworth, Victoria m. 1889 Thomas WIDDY b. 1859 Ballarat, Victoria d. 1916 East Melbourne children: Charles Theodore WIDDY b. 1890 Footscray, Victoria; d. ? Emily WIDDY? Ethel Rose WIDDY b. 1896; d. 1975 Omeo, Gippsland, Victoria; married name DUNCAN Would love to hear from anyone with connections to this family. Wendy Croome Ottawa, Canada

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01BEE43E.F9A814C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alan Griffiths married Charlotte Seaman in 1886, and had five children, after Charlotte's death in Omeo, Alan remarried Elizabeth Isobel Smith and had six more children - They are as follows - To Charlotte: Theodore b Benalla Lillian Charlotte - b: Benalla m William Vernon Elizabeth May - b: Benalla m Herbert Geo King Irene Sarah - b: Omeo Andrew - b: Omeo To Elizabeth George Allan Thomas - b: Bruthen William Roche Atkins - b: Bruthen Gerte Barbara May - b:Bruthen m Richard Grossman Edward Charles - b: Bairnsdale Emily Valantine - b: Bairnsdale Leslie Herbert - b: Coongulmerang d: Lindernow Any information on any of these families would be greatly appreciated ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Regards Dianne Carroll Omeo - Victoria Join List :- Alpine Heritage at = http://www.onelist.com ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01BEE43E.F9A814C0 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="Dianne J Carroll.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Dianne J Carroll.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Carroll;Dianne;J FN:Dianne J Carroll ORG:High Country Heritage Reserch TITLE:Historia & Author TEL;WORK;VOICE:03 51591535 TEL;HOME;VOICE:03 51591535 TEL;WORK;FAX:03 51591535 TEL;HOME;FAX:03 51591442 ADR;WORK:;;Lot 15 Day Avenue;Omeo;Victoria;3898;Victoria LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=3DQUOTED-PRINTABLE:Lot 15 Day Avenue=3D0D=3D0AOmeo, = Victoria 3898=3D0D=3D0AVictoria ADR;HOME:;;Lot 15 Day Avenue;Omeo;Victoria;3898;Australia LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=3DQUOTED-PRINTABLE:Lot 15 Day Avenue=3D0D=3D0AOmeo, = Victoria 3898=3D0D=3D0AAustralia X-WAB-GENDER:1 URL: URL:http://www.users.bigpond.com/mountainfestival BDAY:19990822 EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:omeo@tpg.com.au REV:19990811T111708Z END:VCARD ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01BEE43E.F9A814C0--