To find out the death place you will have to buy the cert.. quite easy, $17.50 on line, and once paid for on line it comes up straight away and you can print it off. You do have the option of getting it printed off and posted to you, but - easier, quicker to get it as a pdf or similar file. Exactly the same! http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/CA2574F700805DE7/HomePage?ReadForm&1=Home~& 2=~&3=~ takes you to the home page.. but I just google it as Vic bdm.. If you use the index it will cost you 99c per page - but you have the year and registration number o should not have to go that route. Dawn (Melbourne) -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Schoorman Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 8:32 PM To: 'Paul'; AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Todd Family Hi Paul, The information in the index is as follows:- Pioneer Index 1836-1888 -------------------- Surname: TODD Given Names: James Event: D Spouse Surname/Father: Unknown Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: UNKNOWN Age: 53 Sex: Birth Place: IRELAND Death Place: Year: 1879 Reg Number: 8712 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5600 (20101108) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

Hi Paul, The information in the index is as follows:- Pioneer Index 1836-1888 -------------------- Surname: TODD Given Names: James Event: D Spouse Surname/Father: Unknown Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: UNKNOWN Age: 53 Sex: Birth Place: IRELAND Death Place: Year: 1879 Reg Number: 8712 -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2010 9:03 PM To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Todd Family I have been given the following entry by a kind reader but it raises the question, why would both the place of death and the Registration Place both be shown as "Victoria" and not a town or city? Name: James TODD Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Of course not having parents names shown will mean I cannot claim him but the question remains. Your thoughts please kind readers. Paul in Sydney ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Geoff, For a start, you could try the Newspapers at the National Library of Australia - http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ Regards Mary -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Stevenson Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:31 PM To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Subject: Re Thomas Mason at Creswick and Benalla Hi there, I am relatively new to this list. I am descended from a guy named Thomas Mason and who registered the birth of his daughters in Creswick in 1855 and at Benalla in 1858 and 1860. In between another daughter was registered in Collingwood. About 1862 he went to Otago presumably to the NZ gold rush and returned from there in 1868. At various times in the registrations he stated he was a carrier and at other times a grocer and later a "gentleman of independent means. His family back in LIverpool were very successful grocers, tea dealers and coffee roasters It would seem that Thomas may have been some kind of providore to the miners in the various locations mentioned. He was not legally married to his wife - the mother of the daughters until 1868 - so perhaps this indicates he was a "transient" who 'came good". This lady was very young (17?) when she arrived as part of the "needlewomen" shipments of unmarried females from London in 1853. Does any one have any suggestions as to how I might determine more specifically about his activities. I have scoured the Internet and got a general picture of the times both in Melbourne, Creswick and in NZ but nothing more about him. Are there newspaper notices or commercial directories available for these locations? Any other suggested reading bearing in mind that I cannot easily access Australian libraries. Thank you in anticipation, Geoff.S. (USA). From: aus-vic-goldfields-request@rootsweb.com Subject: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 156 To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:00:43 -0700 --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: ay.familyhistory@gmail.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:19:46 +1100 Subject: re: Todd family Hi Paul ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as the cemetery records. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> about James Todd Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but perhaps order the certificate and see. Regards Anne --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: ay.familyhistory@gmail.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:27:35 +1100 Subject: Re: Todd family Hi Paul - more deaths to consider which match your birth date better Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Name: James Todd Death Place: Castlemaine, Victoria Age: 53 Father's name: U Mother's name: Isabella Registration Year: 1882 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 4769 The second one has the wrong mother; the first one would seem perhaps to be the right age (born about 1826) but no parents or other details on the index. Good luck with your researches regards Anne On 7 November 2010 20:19, Anne Young <ay.familyhistory@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul > > ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to > match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as > the cemetery records. > > Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> > about James Todd > Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration > Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 > Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was > just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. > Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but > perhaps order the certificate and see. > > Regards > Anne > --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: gayoneill@bigpond.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 17:35:45 +0800 Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: tomwoolman8@gmail.com CC: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; tompkins@ozemail.com.au To: aackers@alphalink.com.au Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:04:04 +1100 Subject: Re: Melb. Exhibition HI All, re the Tarrangower Times (the Maldon newspaper which, with a few changes of title, has appeared most weeks since June1858. The Maldon & District Museum (www.maldonmuseum.com.au) has both the microfilm and the original for 1866. I have been there for 8 hours today, but too busy dealing with customers to the Museum and the Research Centre, and doing curation work on the battered newspapers to sit and look at these. I will do asap and let you know. Cheers, Tom On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ada Ackerly <aackers@alphalink.com.au>wrote: > Dear Allan, > > There is a special file at SLV, and on microfilm: > > "Intercolonial Exhibition Press Contributions, 1866" > > I was lucky to be allowed to view the original newspapers (one printed > in gold on silk!!) > > But the "Tarrengower Times " really took my eye. > > I would think it would be simple to gain access to the microfilm, not > sure about the originals. The index I have came from the "Australian > Microfilm Services Pty Ltd" in 1983, and was a list of "master" > microfilms they had made for SLV. > > Hope that interests you > > > > > I suppose you know that the "Tarrangower Times"...(and here I am > > searching a memory of 20 odd years ago, so could be wrong).... was the > > first newspaper in Victoria (and, perhaps, Australia) to have real > > photographs in their pages? > > > > It was a special edition for the 1866 Exhibition in Melbourne. They > > actually pasted in real photographs on the pages! > > > > Have you seen it? > > > > Regards Ada Ackerly > > > > Did you mean the 1888 Exhibition? My great grandfather, Joel Smith > > Tompkins, attended and wrote a report for the Beaufort paper, The > > Riponshire Advocate. Do you know anyone who has a copy of the > > Tarrangower Times with the photos? > > > > Take care. > > > > Regards, Allan. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: gayoneill@bigpond.com To: gayoneill@bigpond.com; aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:52:54 +0800 Subject: RE: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Thank you to members who were kind enough to respond to my request. It has now been answered and I need to enter the data into my tree. So grateful Regards Gay O'Neill Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gay O'Neill Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2010 5:36 PM To: 'goldfields Mailing List'; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: susana@ncable.net.au To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:01:50 +1100 Subject: Re: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Looking at the Pioneers CD, there isn't a birth registered for Victoria though the 1872 marriage to Isaac is there (Reg. 2748). Marriage entry says her birth was Castlemaine. The marriage certificate should confirm where she was born and parents. There is one other birth for William Cutting and Jane King - Frank 1857 #11683 and another to a Wm George Cutting and Margaret Cummings - Lillie Ashford, 1870 #21921(at Castlemaine). Do you know when they arrived at VIC? Regards Sue Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: susana@ncable.net.au To: gayoneill@bigpond.com; aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:20:55 +1100 Subject: Re: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Just BTW, A Wm Cutting arrived in VIC on the Tasman in 1849 along with a Lydia and Thomas (all young adults) and one year old Thomas. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Anyone know anything of Colin McLeay who had a drapers shop in Market Square in Castelmaine in the 1860s or his wife Alexandrina Munro? I presume he is buried at Campbells Creek but dont know. Elizabeth

Just BTW, A Wm Cutting arrived in VIC on the Tasman in 1849 along with a Lydia and Thomas (all young adults) and one year old Thomas.

Looking at the Pioneers CD, there isn't a birth registered for Victoria though the 1872 marriage to Isaac is there (Reg. 2748). Marriage entry says her birth was Castlemaine. The marriage certificate should confirm where she was born and parents. There is one other birth for William Cutting and Jane King - Frank 1857 #11683 and another to a Wm George Cutting and Margaret Cummings - Lillie Ashford, 1870 #21921(at Castlemaine). Do you know when they arrived at VIC? Regards Sue Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have been given the following entry by a kind reader but it raises the question, why would both the place of death and the Registration Place both be shown as "Victoria" and not a town or city? Name: James TODD Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Of course not having parents names shown will mean I cannot claim him but the question remains. Your thoughts please kind readers. Paul in Sydney

Thank you to members who were kind enough to respond to my request. It has now been answered and I need to enter the data into my tree. So grateful Regards Gay O'Neill Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gay O'Neill Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2010 5:36 PM To: 'goldfields Mailing List'; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi there, I am relatively new to this list. I am descended from a guy named Thomas Mason and who registered the birth of his daughters in Creswick in 1855 and at Benalla in 1858 and 1860. In between another daughter was registered in Collingwood. About 1862 he went to Otago presumably to the NZ gold rush and returned from there in 1868. At various times in the registrations he stated he was a carrier and at other times a grocer and later a "gentleman of independent means. His family back in LIverpool were very successful grocers, tea dealers and coffee roasters It would seem that Thomas may have been some kind of providore to the miners in the various locations mentioned. He was not legally married to his wife - the mother of the daughters until 1868 - so perhaps this indicates he was a "transient" who 'came good". This lady was very young (17?) when she arrived as part of the "needlewomen" shipments of unmarried females from London in 1853. Does any one have any suggestions as to how I might determine more specifically about his activities. I have scoured the Internet and got a general picture of the times both in Melbourne, Creswick and in NZ but nothing more about him. Are there newspaper notices or commercial directories available for these locations? Any other suggested reading bearing in mind that I cannot easily access Australian libraries. Thank you in anticipation, Geoff.S. (USA). From: aus-vic-goldfields-request@rootsweb.com Subject: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 156 To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:00:43 -0700 --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: ay.familyhistory@gmail.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:19:46 +1100 Subject: re: Todd family Hi Paul ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as the cemetery records. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> about James Todd Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but perhaps order the certificate and see. Regards Anne --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: ay.familyhistory@gmail.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:27:35 +1100 Subject: Re: Todd family Hi Paul - more deaths to consider which match your birth date better Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Name: James Todd Death Place: Castlemaine, Victoria Age: 53 Father's name: U Mother's name: Isabella Registration Year: 1882 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 4769 The second one has the wrong mother; the first one would seem perhaps to be the right age (born about 1826) but no parents or other details on the index. Good luck with your researches regards Anne On 7 November 2010 20:19, Anne Young <ay.familyhistory@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul > > ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to > match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as > the cemetery records. > > Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> > about James Todd > Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration > Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 > Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was > just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. > Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but > perhaps order the certificate and see. > > Regards > Anne > --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: gayoneill@bigpond.com To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 17:35:45 +0800 Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: tomwoolman8@gmail.com CC: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; tompkins@ozemail.com.au To: aackers@alphalink.com.au Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:04:04 +1100 Subject: Re: Melb. Exhibition HI All, re the Tarrangower Times (the Maldon newspaper which, with a few changes of title, has appeared most weeks since June1858. The Maldon & District Museum (www.maldonmuseum.com.au) has both the microfilm and the original for 1866. I have been there for 8 hours today, but too busy dealing with customers to the Museum and the Research Centre, and doing curation work on the battered newspapers to sit and look at these. I will do asap and let you know. Cheers, Tom On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ada Ackerly <aackers@alphalink.com.au>wrote: > Dear Allan, > > There is a special file at SLV, and on microfilm: > > "Intercolonial Exhibition Press Contributions, 1866" > > I was lucky to be allowed to view the original newspapers (one printed > in gold on silk!!) > > But the "Tarrengower Times " really took my eye. > > I would think it would be simple to gain access to the microfilm, not > sure about the originals. The index I have came from the "Australian > Microfilm Services Pty Ltd" in 1983, and was a list of "master" > microfilms they had made for SLV. > > Hope that interests you > > > > > I suppose you know that the "Tarrangower Times"...(and here I am > > searching a memory of 20 odd years ago, so could be wrong).... was the > > first newspaper in Victoria (and, perhaps, Australia) to have real > > photographs in their pages? > > > > It was a special edition for the 1866 Exhibition in Melbourne. They > > actually pasted in real photographs on the pages! > > > > Have you seen it? > > > > Regards Ada Ackerly > > > > Did you mean the 1888 Exhibition? My great grandfather, Joel Smith > > Tompkins, attended and wrote a report for the Beaufort paper, The > > Riponshire Advocate. Do you know anyone who has a copy of the > > Tarrangower Times with the photos? > > > > Take care. > > > > Regards, Allan. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: gayoneill@bigpond.com To: gayoneill@bigpond.com; aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:52:54 +0800 Subject: RE: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Thank you to members who were kind enough to respond to my request. It has now been answered and I need to enter the data into my tree. So grateful Regards Gay O'Neill Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gay O'Neill Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2010 5:36 PM To: 'goldfields Mailing List'; gsv-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: susana@ncable.net.au To: aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:01:50 +1100 Subject: Re: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Looking at the Pioneers CD, there isn't a birth registered for Victoria though the 1872 marriage to Isaac is there (Reg. 2748). Marriage entry says her birth was Castlemaine. The marriage certificate should confirm where she was born and parents. There is one other birth for William Cutting and Jane King - Frank 1857 #11683 and another to a Wm George Cutting and Margaret Cummings - Lillie Ashford, 1870 #21921(at Castlemaine). Do you know when they arrived at VIC? Regards Sue Subject: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: susana@ncable.net.au To: gayoneill@bigpond.com; aus-vic-goldfields@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:20:55 +1100 Subject: Re: Eliza Cutting 1852, Castlemaine Victoria Just BTW, A Wm Cutting arrived in VIC on the Tasman in 1849 along with a Lydia and Thomas (all young adults) and one year old Thomas.

HI All, re the Tarrangower Times (the Maldon newspaper which, with a few changes of title, has appeared most weeks since June1858. The Maldon & District Museum (www.maldonmuseum.com.au) has both the microfilm and the original for 1866. I have been there for 8 hours today, but too busy dealing with customers to the Museum and the Research Centre, and doing curation work on the battered newspapers to sit and look at these. I will do asap and let you know. Cheers, Tom On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ada Ackerly <aackers@alphalink.com.au>wrote: > Dear Allan, > > There is a special file at SLV, and on microfilm: > > "Intercolonial Exhibition Press Contributions, 1866" > > I was lucky to be allowed to view the original newspapers (one printed > in gold on silk!!) > > But the "Tarrengower Times " really took my eye. > > I would think it would be simple to gain access to the microfilm, not > sure about the originals. The index I have came from the "Australian > Microfilm Services Pty Ltd" in 1983, and was a list of "master" > microfilms they had made for SLV. > > Hope that interests you > > > > > I suppose you know that the "Tarrangower Times"...(and here I am > > searching a memory of 20 odd years ago, so could be wrong).... was the > > first newspaper in Victoria (and, perhaps, Australia) to have real > > photographs in their pages? > > > > It was a special edition for the 1866 Exhibition in Melbourne. They > > actually pasted in real photographs on the pages! > > > > Have you seen it? > > > > Regards Ada Ackerly > > > > Did you mean the 1888 Exhibition? My great grandfather, Joel Smith > > Tompkins, attended and wrote a report for the Beaufort paper, The > > Riponshire Advocate. Do you know anyone who has a copy of the > > Tarrangower Times with the photos? > > > > Take care. > > > > Regards, Allan. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have been given the following entry by a kind reader but it raises the question, why would both the place of death and the Registration Place both be shown as "Victoria" and not a town or city? Name: James TODD Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Of course not having parents names shown will mean I cannot claim him but the question remains. Your thoughts please kind readers. Paul in Sydney

Hi Paul - more deaths to consider which match your birth date better Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 53 Registration Year: 1879 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 8712 Name: James Todd Death Place: Castlemaine, Victoria Age: 53 Father's name: U Mother's name: Isabella Registration Year: 1882 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 4769 The second one has the wrong mother; the first one would seem perhaps to be the right age (born about 1826) but no parents or other details on the index. Good luck with your researches regards Anne On 7 November 2010 20:19, Anne Young <ay.familyhistory@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul > > ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to > match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as > the cemetery records. > > Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> > about James Todd > Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration > Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 > Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was > just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. > Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but > perhaps order the certificate and see. > > Regards > Anne >

Hi Paul ancestry.com now have death indexes on line. The following entry seems to match your burial - ie the death certificate would appear to be the same as the cemetery records. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985<http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1779&enc=1> about James Todd Name: James Todd Death Place: Victoria Age: 67 Father's name: U Registration Year: 1873 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3195 Seems not to be your chap OR the informant did not know the age, he was just guessing - the informant apparently did not know James Todd's father. Under these circumstances not sure how you would link back to your tree but perhaps order the certificate and see. Regards Anne

Hi lovely listers just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Eliza Cutting born 1852 parents William Cutting and Jane King? Not sure how correct that info is..found it on ancestry family tree. I would like to know if she has siblings or more about her parents. I am doing the Budge family tree and she married Isaac Budge. Would anyone have that marriage date or details. They had their children around St Arnaud, Victoria...I do have the children of this couple but now interested in Eliza Cutting and her family Thanks Gay O'Neill Western Australia

I have been doing transcription/proofreading work at Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/) for a period of time, and one of the works that I currently have started is William Bramwell Withers's "History of Ballarat" as it is a glaring omission of works available online. If there is interest in learning about how to wiki and in helping proofread this book then please either join in if you are comfortable with wikis, or email me if you want some help. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_History_of_Ballarat.djvu * * * * As background, Wikisource takes scanned works that are available, grabs the scan (get it into an OCR'd text layer in djvu format) and uploads it. We can then extract the text layer and proofread against the image, and then pull the text together into a book. Some of the other works that I have made available or am still working on for Victoria are: * An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=An_account_of_a_voyage_to_establish_a_colony_at_Port_Philip_in_Bass%27s_Strait * The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Captain_Matthew_Flinders,_R.N. * Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong (incomplete) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Victoria:_with_a_description_of_its_principal_cities,_Melbourne_and_Geelong * The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (well incomplete) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography To me the work is like the early RootsWeb days of a community and people contributing to bring things online. It is one of my current passions and you can join projects, or start your own. If anyone wants more detail about Wikisource, then similarly drop me a line or if you know me, then give me a ring. Heck, if you know me you can give me a ring and say hello anyway. ;-) Regards, Andrew http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst

In London about 3 years ago, I was foraging around a Market in Hampstead when my eye caught a brass badge with a familiar building embossed on it. On closer inspection, it turned out to be the Melbourne Exhibition Building. The owner of the stall told me that the small lapel badge had been issued to attendants/guides at the 1888 Exhibition. I bought it for my son whose great great great grandfather from Dunolly won medals at the 1888 Exhibition. Trevor Sent from my iPod. On 07/11/2010, at 1:15 PM, Ada Ackerly <aackers@alphalink.com.au> wrote: > Dear Allan, > > There is a special file at SLV, and on microfilm: > > "Intercolonial Exhibition Press Contributions, 1866" > > I was lucky to be allowed to view the original newspapers (one printed > in gold on silk!!) > > But the "Tarrengower Times " really took my eye. > > I would think it would be simple to gain access to the microfilm, not > sure about the originals. The index I have came from the "Australian > Microfilm Services Pty Ltd" in 1983, and was a list of "master" > microfilms they had made for SLV. > > Hope that interests you > >> >> I suppose you know that the "Tarrangower Times"...(and here I am >> searching a memory of 20 odd years ago, so could be wrong).... was the >> first newspaper in Victoria (and, perhaps, Australia) to have real >> photographs in their pages? >> >> It was a special edition for the 1866 Exhibition in Melbourne. They >> actually pasted in real photographs on the pages! >> >> Have you seen it? >> >> Regards Ada Ackerly >> >> Did you mean the 1888 Exhibition? My great grandfather, Joel Smith >> Tompkins, attended and wrote a report for the Beaufort paper, The >> Riponshire Advocate. Do you know anyone who has a copy of the >> Tarrangower Times with the photos? >> >> Take care. >> >> Regards, Allan. >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Allan, There is a special file at SLV, and on microfilm: "Intercolonial Exhibition Press Contributions, 1866" I was lucky to be allowed to view the original newspapers (one printed in gold on silk!!) But the "Tarrengower Times " really took my eye. I would think it would be simple to gain access to the microfilm, not sure about the originals. The index I have came from the "Australian Microfilm Services Pty Ltd" in 1983, and was a list of "master" microfilms they had made for SLV. Hope that interests you > > I suppose you know that the "Tarrangower Times"...(and here I am > searching a memory of 20 odd years ago, so could be wrong).... was the > first newspaper in Victoria (and, perhaps, Australia) to have real > photographs in their pages? > > It was a special edition for the 1866 Exhibition in Melbourne. They > actually pasted in real photographs on the pages! > > Have you seen it? > > Regards Ada Ackerly > > Did you mean the 1888 Exhibition? My great grandfather, Joel Smith > Tompkins, attended and wrote a report for the Beaufort paper, The > Riponshire Advocate. Do you know anyone who has a copy of the > Tarrangower Times with the photos? > > Take care. > > Regards, Allan. > > > >

Hi Ada With regard to the Avenue in Bacchus Marsh, the Moorabool Shire has been working on replacing trees (cloning) due to the age of trees, their decline, and their tendency to drop branches due to the drought, compaction, ... etc. With regard to the current intersection work for new freeway entry with the Anthony's Cutting bypass, that discussion is still ongoing. (Personal thoughts withheld.) Regards, Andrew On 6 Nov 2010 at 11:13, Ada Ackerly wrote: > Hello Listers, > > Today, in the "Age" gardening section, our attention is drawn to: > > An exhibition of photographs, taken by Rosemary Simpson's daughter Sarah > Wood, of the six heritage-listed AVENUES OF HONOUR has been opened at > Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance by historian Geoffrey Blainey. I will > run until the end of January 2011. > > I well remember the lonely fight to preserve the Ballarat Avenue and the > threats to the Bacchus Marsh Avenue due to road widening.Does anyone > know how successful each of those struggles were? How much was lost? > Replacement trees planted? Plaques remade and re-attached? > > Both of those activities co-incided with one of my "withdrawals through > illness" and I have often wondered. > > Regards Ada Ackerly > >

OK, it has been very slow on the list of late so here is a little puzzle I have, there may not be anything in it but would be neat if I can find out once and for all if he is part of the family or not. On the Ballarat Cemetery CD there is a James Todd, Blacksmith age 67, buried 13/5/1873 New Cemetery Location OGNK. Now, if he was either 47 instead of 67 years old or the date was 1893 instead of 1873, he would fit into the family very well. Perhaps someone could have a look at the applicable CD for me. His parents may be George Charles and Hannah (Ann) Todd and born in London. Paul in Sydney

Sorry remittance not admittance. The old grey matter not working!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lyn Craig Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 6:23 PM To: 'Ironside'; 'Goldfields Mailing List' Subject: RE: Ballarat Cemetery (was RE: Avenues of honour) Hi Paul The last time I was at the Ballarat Archives I came across this abbreviation. It was explained to me that OGNK stood for "Old Ground Not Known" - no section or location numbers known. My lady was ill and died in hospital 1869 and it was also explained that she may have been buried in a paupers grave and that the hospital made a monetary admittance for the burial. Maybe others can through some more light on the subject for you. Hope this helps. Lyn -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ironside Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 12:45 PM To: 'Goldfields Mailing List' Subject: Ballarat Cemetery (was RE: Avenues of honour) Next time I will change the subject line - sorry -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-goldfields-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ironside Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 12:41 PM To: 'Goldfields Mailing List' Subject: RE: Avenues of honour Regarding the Ballarat Cemetery disc, could someone tell me what the notation "OGNK" stands for in the location column (new cemetery). I had taken that it stood for "open ground not known" but not sure. There is a section on the map shown as open ground. Seems to appear on older burials. Paul in Sydney ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message