Hi Everyone, I joined Offaly County in Ireland a few years ago. I see now not is inactive. Would anyone know whether it is linked to another County now or is there a new site? From, Carol

???? THANX! Inviato da Posta per Windows 10 Da: tcantwell@xtra.co.nz Inviato: giovedì 13 febbraio 2020 01:41 A: Aus-Vic-Goldfields Oggetto: Free Access to Australian and NZ records on Ancestry Free access to Australian and NZ records on Ancestry till 16 February. Shirlee Wellington, NZ _______________________________________________ All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Free access to Australian and NZ records on Ancestry till 16 February. Shirlee Wellington, NZ

Great workk re industrial schools, desperately need work to make them accessable, a thought the children that were boarde out to their own mothers would pssibly have been a sort of pension to help them maintain their children JUDY H

Hi David, Thank you. I will contact our local library. I live the country. I know awhile back we could only go to our State Library in Adelaide to get Ancestry free. Perhaps they have changed it. Thanks again, Carol, South Australia Sent from my iPad > On 11 Feb 2020, at 7:21 AM, David Warncken <d.warncken@gmail.com> wrote: > > Carol, > > Some local libraries subscribe to Ancestry. Maybe yours is one. > > David. > > _______________________________________________ > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Frootswebpref&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C059059167b25444de54408d7ae6b0f91%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637169647150531496&amp;sdata=zqYmZnu0uW274wT%2Fk6kyiYRlCiQPrDBV1s6hUy54Sqw%3D&amp;reserved=0 > Unsubscribe https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.com%2Fpostorius%2Flists%2Faus-vic-goldfields%40rootsweb.com&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C059059167b25444de54408d7ae6b0f91%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637169647150531496&amp;sdata=0BmUZz5y%2BBo4eax1w5p5NV39CY8xLyDZfKw0NsfDbOE%3D&amp;reserved=0 > Privacy Statement: https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2JWBOdY&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C059059167b25444de54408d7ae6b0f91%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637169647150531496&amp;sdata=6uAw4HSRB7nsIeN7xbelKK9ZHxQoyXc1byhiL8HEUqs%3D&amp;reserved=0 Terms and Conditions: https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2HDBym9&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C059059167b25444de54408d7ae6b0f91%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637169647150531496&amp;sdata=7aqMlcPHhgq%2F8JSO8COc8DgZZ5w8Jzdq0hAdHz8GAAQ%3D&amp;reserved=0 > Rootsweb Blog: https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frootsweb.blog&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C059059167b25444de54408d7ae6b0f91%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637169647150531496&amp;sdata=%2F4XV%2FMi8EqmO%2Fa0EkI34eVm6aiepELkxzDzskxJeDBQ%3D&amp;reserved=0 > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Carol, Some local libraries subscribe to Ancestry. Maybe yours is one. David.

Hi Shirlee, Thank you for replying to my question. I am sorry for taking so long in answering. We were away for a few days. I do not belong to Ancestry and have tried in Prov but without success. I am going to send an enquiry to them and hopefully will find some information. Thank you again, Carol Sent from my iPad > On 6 Feb 2020, at 3:49 PM, "tcantwell@xtra.co.nz" <tcantwell@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > Hi Carol > > If the GRIFFEY children were sent to any of the Industrial Schools in > Victoria you should be able to find their names indexed in the Victoria, > Australia, Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards 1850-1893 on > Ancestry. Sometimes the children were moved around so they might not have > remained at Ballarat. PROV have digested the records and you can the find > the records under Health and Welfare. > > Shirlee > Wellington, NZ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol Kelsh <carolkelsh@hotmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2020 5:23 PM > Cc: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > Subject: Industrial School > > Hi Listers, > I am interested in the Industrial School. I have been trying > to find Honora Griffey b.1883 for a few years. Her parents Patrick Griffey > and Maria Edwards. > Patrick Griffey died in September 1891. Maria put two boys > into Ballarat Orphanage and I think Honora went to Melbourne.Her mother > called her Nora sometimes. 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Dear People, My interest is John Crawford Logan GRANT and his 1st. wife, Elizabeth Ann Lee PLATT. Are there any GRANT researchers who may be related to John and Elizabeth.? Norman A.

Hi Carol If the GRIFFEY children were sent to any of the Industrial Schools in Victoria you should be able to find their names indexed in the Victoria, Australia, Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards 1850-1893 on Ancestry. Sometimes the children were moved around so they might not have remained at Ballarat. PROV have digested the records and you can the find the records under Health and Welfare. Shirlee Wellington, NZ -----Original Message----- From: Carol Kelsh <carolkelsh@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2020 5:23 PM Cc: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Industrial School Hi Listers, I am interested in the Industrial School. I have been trying to find Honora Griffey b.1883 for a few years. Her parents Patrick Griffey and Maria Edwards. Patrick Griffey died in September 1891. Maria put two boys into Ballarat Orphanage and I think Honora went to Melbourne.Her mother called her Nora sometimes. I am wondering if someone can find her Honora Griffey, Griffy, Griffin or Griffen in this site. From Carol. _______________________________________________ All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Hi Listers, I am interested in the Industrial School. I have been trying to find Honora Griffey b.1883 for a few years. Her parents Patrick Griffey and Maria Edwards. Patrick Griffey died in September 1891. Maria put two boys into Ballarat Orphanage and I think Honora went to Melbourne.Her mother called her Nora sometimes. I am wondering if someone can find her Honora Griffey, Griffy, Griffin or Griffen in this site. From Carol.

Hello everybody. I was only too pleased to be able to offer the suggestion. For some time years now I have been researching three great aunts and one great uncle who became child migrants from London, UK once their father died. My grandmother stayed in London. She would not talk about such painful times but I was told that her brother had 'gone off in The Gold Rush.' That is how I first came to be on this list. But I later found that my migrants actually all were shipped to Canada and not connected with any Australian gold rush. I grew up in London near some old industrial school buildings without knowing that my ancestors had been there. I also discovered later that others of my family went to Bendigo by choice so here I still am! Greetings to all from the UK. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Woolman <tomwoolman8@gmail.com> Sent: 31 January 2020 21:39 To: Rootsweb: Goldfields <aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com> Subject: Industrial Schools and Boarding Out. Hello to old friends from 2002ff., and thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Immigrant Aid Society thread. Particularly thanks to Connie in the UK for her link to a great explanation of the Industrial Schools. https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 My interest in these came from an 1881 Avoca court case where one of my two great great grandmothers in the area applied to the Court for her two month old oldest grandchild, conceived in rape, and born a few months after her own 13th child, to "be sent to the Industrial School". Lots of tragedy and community angst during that time, seeing the child's mother was very intellectually disabled, my great great grandfather was unsympathetic (be careful what you are remembered for)and gggrandmother was the main breadwinner, as the workmistress at a local school. The stern bluestone buildings of the Sunbury Industrial School are still there, being part of the former Sunbury Mental Hospital. One can drive up to them. As an Industrial School they were known locally as "the slaughter-house" due to the high rate of mortality, as infection spread rapidly. The descendants of my first cousin twice-removed and many others all agree that it was very fortunate that their ancestor was sent from the Girls and Babies Receiving House (in Parkville?) in 1881 to the wonderful care of Cath Ennis of Collingwood, a young wet nurse, part of whose tragic life had, of course, involved the loss of her own babe. (In her memory, I have recorded a family tree for her on Ancestry. It's private for now, but can be opened for a while if need be.) Cath returned the toddler, energetic and fat, to the Receiving Home from where he was "boarded out" , to adulthood, to childless friends whose parents my family had met on the Creswick goldfield in 1855/6. The boarding out system provided an allowance to those accepting the child and was overseen centrally by government inspectors, but run locally, usually by a committee of church ministers' wives. It seems that almost all their records have been destroyed, not least due to the descriptions of the terrible exploitation and cruelty which sometimes took place. Those which survive also show that approvals were increasingly given to destitute mothers to take in their own children as boarders. (or is that boardees?), but most decisions where left to the local committees, whom I sure might not have always been as objective or charitable as they might have been. Spare the whip and spoil the child? My first cousin, twice-removed grew up to be an inventor and business, travelled the world, and has many descendants now. There's a great deal more to this history, but understandably, his older descendants have asked for privacy. I'd be happy to reveal as much as possible where the information has come from, over 30 years. Thanks for reading, Tom _______________________________________________ All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

I am so glad to read that your 1c2r grew up to have a successful life and many descendants after such a sad start. On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 8:39 am, Tom Woolman <tomwoolman8@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to old friends from 2002ff., and thanks to everyone who has > contributed to the Immigrant Aid Society thread. Particularly thanks to > Connie in the UK for her link to a great explanation of the Industrial > Schools. > https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 > > My interest in these came from an 1881 Avoca court case where one of my two > great great grandmothers in the area applied to the Court for her two month > old oldest grandchild ... >

Fascinating, Tom. It’s a shame our elders can’t wallow in the strides made over the years! Susan Patterson Dunnstown 3352 0412653618 or 0353347782 > On 1 Feb 2020, at 8:39 am, Tom Woolman <tomwoolman8@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello to old friends from 2002ff., and thanks to everyone who has > contributed to the Immigrant Aid Society thread. Particularly thanks to > Connie in the UK for her link to a great explanation of the Industrial > Schools. > https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 > > My interest in these came from an 1881 Avoca court case where one of my two > great great grandmothers in the area applied to the Court for her two month > old oldest grandchild, conceived in rape, and born a few months after her > own 13th child, to "be sent to the Industrial School". Lots of tragedy and > community angst during that time, seeing the child's mother was very > intellectually disabled, my great great grandfather was unsympathetic (be > careful what you are remembered for)and gggrandmother was the main > breadwinner, as the workmistress at a local school. > > The stern bluestone buildings of the Sunbury Industrial School are still > there, being part of the former Sunbury Mental Hospital. One can drive up > to them. As an Industrial School they were known locally as "the > slaughter-house" due to the high rate of mortality, as infection spread > rapidly. > > The descendants of my first cousin twice-removed and many others all agree > that it was very fortunate that their ancestor was sent from the Girls and > Babies Receiving House (in Parkville?) in 1881 to the wonderful care of > Cath Ennis of Collingwood, a young wet nurse, part of whose tragic life > had, of course, involved the loss of her own babe. (In her memory, I have > recorded a family tree for her on Ancestry. It's private for now, but can > be opened for a while if need be.) > > Cath returned the toddler, energetic and fat, to the Receiving Home from > where he was "boarded out" , to adulthood, to childless friends whose > parents my family had met on the Creswick goldfield in 1855/6. > > The boarding out system provided an allowance to those accepting the child > and was overseen centrally by government inspectors, but run locally, > usually by a committee of church ministers' wives. It seems that almost all > their records have been destroyed, not least due to the descriptions of the > terrible exploitation and cruelty which sometimes took place. Those which > survive also show that approvals were increasingly given to destitute > mothers to take in their own children as boarders. (or is that boardees?), > but most decisions where left to the local committees, whom I sure might > not have always been as objective or charitable as they might have been. > Spare the whip and spoil the child? > > My first cousin, twice-removed grew up to be an inventor and business, > travelled the world, and has many descendants now. There's a great deal > more to this history, but understandably, his older descendants have asked > for privacy. > > I'd be happy to reveal as much as possible where the information has come > from, over 30 years. Thanks for reading, Tom > > _______________________________________________ > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

This is myt favourite image showing the Immigrants Aid Society - State Library of Victoria http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLV_VOYAGER1729473&context=L&vid=MAIN&lang=en_US&search_scope=Pictures&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,immigrants%20aid%20society&offset=0 Magnificent photo! Regards ... Susie Zada Web: http://zades.com.au Blog: https://geelonganddistrict.com/ Mailing List: AUS-VIC <https://groups.io/g/AUS-VIC> Mailing List: AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT <https://groups.io/g/AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT> Email: susie.zada@gmail.com Postal: PO Box 989, Geelong, Vic 3220 On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 08:39, Tom Woolman <tomwoolman8@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to old friends from 2002ff., and thanks to everyone who has > contributed to the Immigrant Aid Society thread. Particularly thanks to > Connie in the UK for her link to a great explanation of the Industrial > Schools. > https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 > > My interest in these came from an 1881 Avoca court case where one of my two > great great grandmothers in the area applied to the Court for her two month > old oldest grandchild, conceived in rape, and born a few months after her > own 13th child, to "be sent to the Industrial School". Lots of tragedy and > community angst during that time, seeing the child's mother was very > intellectually disabled, my great great grandfather was unsympathetic (be > careful what you are remembered for)and gggrandmother was the main > breadwinner, as the workmistress at a local school. > > The stern bluestone buildings of the Sunbury Industrial School are still > there, being part of the former Sunbury Mental Hospital. One can drive up > to them. As an Industrial School they were known locally as "the > slaughter-house" due to the high rate of mortality, as infection spread > rapidly. > > The descendants of my first cousin twice-removed and many others all agree > that it was very fortunate that their ancestor was sent from the Girls and > Babies Receiving House (in Parkville?) in 1881 to the wonderful care of > Cath Ennis of Collingwood, a young wet nurse, part of whose tragic life > had, of course, involved the loss of her own babe. (In her memory, I have > recorded a family tree for her on Ancestry. It's private for now, but can > be opened for a while if need be.) > > Cath returned the toddler, energetic and fat, to the Receiving Home from > where he was "boarded out" , to adulthood, to childless friends whose > parents my family had met on the Creswick goldfield in 1855/6. > > The boarding out system provided an allowance to those accepting the child > and was overseen centrally by government inspectors, but run locally, > usually by a committee of church ministers' wives. It seems that almost all > their records have been destroyed, not least due to the descriptions of the > terrible exploitation and cruelty which sometimes took place. Those which > survive also show that approvals were increasingly given to destitute > mothers to take in their own children as boarders. (or is that boardees?), > but most decisions where left to the local committees, whom I sure might > not have always been as objective or charitable as they might have been. > Spare the whip and spoil the child? > > My first cousin, twice-removed grew up to be an inventor and business, > travelled the world, and has many descendants now. There's a great deal > more to this history, but understandably, his older descendants have asked > for privacy. > > I'd be happy to reveal as much as possible where the information has come > from, over 30 years. Thanks for reading, Tom > > _______________________________________________ > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, > especially footers. > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community >

Hello to old friends from 2002ff., and thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Immigrant Aid Society thread. Particularly thanks to Connie in the UK for her link to a great explanation of the Industrial Schools. https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 My interest in these came from an 1881 Avoca court case where one of my two great great grandmothers in the area applied to the Court for her two month old oldest grandchild, conceived in rape, and born a few months after her own 13th child, to "be sent to the Industrial School". Lots of tragedy and community angst during that time, seeing the child's mother was very intellectually disabled, my great great grandfather was unsympathetic (be careful what you are remembered for)and gggrandmother was the main breadwinner, as the workmistress at a local school. The stern bluestone buildings of the Sunbury Industrial School are still there, being part of the former Sunbury Mental Hospital. One can drive up to them. As an Industrial School they were known locally as "the slaughter-house" due to the high rate of mortality, as infection spread rapidly. The descendants of my first cousin twice-removed and many others all agree that it was very fortunate that their ancestor was sent from the Girls and Babies Receiving House (in Parkville?) in 1881 to the wonderful care of Cath Ennis of Collingwood, a young wet nurse, part of whose tragic life had, of course, involved the loss of her own babe. (In her memory, I have recorded a family tree for her on Ancestry. It's private for now, but can be opened for a while if need be.) Cath returned the toddler, energetic and fat, to the Receiving Home from where he was "boarded out" , to adulthood, to childless friends whose parents my family had met on the Creswick goldfield in 1855/6. The boarding out system provided an allowance to those accepting the child and was overseen centrally by government inspectors, but run locally, usually by a committee of church ministers' wives. It seems that almost all their records have been destroyed, not least due to the descriptions of the terrible exploitation and cruelty which sometimes took place. Those which survive also show that approvals were increasingly given to destitute mothers to take in their own children as boarders. (or is that boardees?), but most decisions where left to the local committees, whom I sure might not have always been as objective or charitable as they might have been. Spare the whip and spoil the child? My first cousin, twice-removed grew up to be an inventor and business, travelled the world, and has many descendants now. There's a great deal more to this history, but understandably, his older descendants have asked for privacy. I'd be happy to reveal as much as possible where the information has come from, over 30 years. Thanks for reading, Tom

Do an ADVANCED search on prov.vic.gov.au for immigrants aid society and select phrase Regards ... Susie Zada Web: http://zades.com.au Blog: https://geelonganddistrict.com/ Mailing List: AUS-VIC <https://groups.io/g/AUS-VIC> Mailing List: AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT <https://groups.io/g/AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT> Email: susie.zada@gmail.com Postal: PO Box 989, Geelong, Vic 3220 On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 06:52, Susan Patterson <susan.ea.patterson@bigpond.com> wrote: > Try the Victorian Historical Society. They may be able to help. > Also, State Library has a genie/ fam history section. > Susan’s > > Susan Patterson > Dunnstown 3352 > 0412653618 or 0353347782 > > > On 31 Jan 2020, at 10:13 pm, dawnwebb <dawnwebb@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > I had a brother of my g grandmother at Princes Bridge mind school too.. > You have taught me something Norm - I had not known it had a different > name!... DawnSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > -------- Original message --------From: norman A < > narchibald3@bigpond.com> Date: 31/1/20 9:35 pm (GMT+10:00) To: > aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Immigrants Aid Society Dear > People,Would anyone on the list know where I might find records of the > “Immigrants Aid Society” that was the prelude to the 1st. Victorian > Institution established in 1864.In fact the government of the day took over > IAS and called it the “Princes Bridge Industrial School”.My great > grandfather was incarcerated there, possibly from a baby he was number 14 > on their records, hence my > interest.Norm._______________________________________________All reply > posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially > footers._______________________________________________Email preferences: > http://bit.ly/rootswebprefUnsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.comPrivacy > Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blogRootsWeb is > funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community > > > > _______________________________________________ > > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, > especially footers. > > _______________________________________________ > > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community > > _______________________________________________ > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, > especially footers. > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community >

Try the Victorian Historical Society. They may be able to help. Also, State Library has a genie/ fam history section. Susan’s Susan Patterson Dunnstown 3352 0412653618 or 0353347782 > On 31 Jan 2020, at 10:13 pm, dawnwebb <dawnwebb@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > I had a brother of my g grandmother at Princes Bridge mind school too.. You have taught me something Norm - I had not known it had a different name!... DawnSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > -------- Original message --------From: norman A <narchibald3@bigpond.com> Date: 31/1/20 9:35 pm (GMT+10:00) To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Immigrants Aid Society Dear People,Would anyone on the list know where I might find records of the “Immigrants Aid Society” that was the prelude to the 1st. Victorian Institution established in 1864.In fact the government of the day took over IAS and called it the “Princes Bridge Industrial School”.My great grandfather was incarcerated there, possibly from a baby he was number 14 on their records, hence my interest.Norm._______________________________________________All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers._______________________________________________Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebprefUnsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.comPrivacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blogRootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community > > _______________________________________________ > All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000312 In case this helps anybody? Connie in the UK -----Original Message----- From: norman A <narchibald3@bigpond.com> Sent: 31 January 2020 10:36 To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Immigrants Aid Society Dear People, Would anyone on the list know where I might find records of the “Immigrants Aid Society” that was the prelude to the 1st. Victorian Institution established in 1864. In fact the government of the day took over IAS and called it the “Princes Bridge Industrial School”. My great grandfather was incarcerated there, possibly from a baby he was number 14 on their records, hence my interest. Norm. _______________________________________________ All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

I had a brother of my g grandmother at Princes Bridge mind school too.. You have taught me something Norm - I had not known it had a different name!... DawnSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: norman A <narchibald3@bigpond.com> Date: 31/1/20 9:35 pm (GMT+10:00) To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Immigrants Aid Society Dear People,Would anyone on the list know where I might find records of the “Immigrants Aid Society” that was the prelude to the 1st. Victorian Institution established in 1864.In fact the government of the day took over IAS and called it the “Princes Bridge Industrial School”.My great grandfather was incarcerated there, possibly from a baby he was number 14 on their records, hence my interest.Norm._______________________________________________All reply posts should snip out irrelevant parts of the original posts, especially footers._______________________________________________Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebprefUnsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.comPrivacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY  Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blogRootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Dear People, Would anyone on the list know where I might find records of the “Immigrants Aid Society” that was the prelude to the 1st. Victorian Institution established in 1864. In fact the government of the day took over IAS and called it the “Princes Bridge Industrial School”. My great grandfather was incarcerated there, possibly from a baby he was number 14 on their records, hence my interest. Norm.