Hello, I am presently working on the family of Charles Nicholas BLEWETT and Catherine UREN. Both Charles and Catherine, along with two of their children, are buried at the Clunes cemetery. Their children are as follows: Samuel James b. 1879 BETH William b. 1881 Clunes Sydney b. 1882 Clunes Lizzie b. 1884 Clunes, d.1884 Clunes Catherine b.1886 Clunes John b. 1890 Clunes d. 1897 Clunes Ruby Violet b. 1895 Clunes Burials at Clunes Cemetery BLEWETT, Charles Nicholas 17th July 1895 Age 48 BLEWITT, Catherine 8th February 1935 Could the birthplace BETH be anywhere around Clunes? (Another possibly is Bethanga in north east Victoria). Does anyone have further details on this family? Thanks, Ronda Shambrook

margaret trewick wrote: >Has anyone heard of the Dalziel Boulder West Tin Mine Syndicate or Dalziels Tin Mines Ltd. please. http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-vc/dalziel-vc.htm This site has info I think you might be referring to Henry 'Harry' Dalziel VC., was born at a small mining camp near Irvinebank, Far North Queensland on 18th February 1893, the son of James and Eliza Maggie (nee McMillan) Dalziel. Henry and his brother Victor as young boys are credited with discovering tin samples, which led to the opening of the Boulder Mine near Emuford. This mine one of the largest mines in the area remained in production until the 1960s. Regards Cathy West Australia

Hi Margaret, whilst I couldnt locate a place called Dalziel and presume it might be named after a person, its worth noting where tin deposits and mining have occurred in Victoria. To quote a 1910 report reproduced by the Bureau of Stats - their home page at: http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs "In Victoria lode tin has been discovered at Mt. Wills, Beechworth, Eldorado, Chiltern, Stanley, and other places in the north-eastern district; and stream tin has been found in a large number of places, including those just mentioned in the north-eastern district. The bulk of the production last year was obtained by dredging and hydraulic sluicing, the chief yields being 39 tons of ore, valued at £3289, raised in the Beechworth district, and 23 tons, valued at £1555, raised at Toora." In the Beechworth area there were a number of companies set up to mine tin, which after it became valuable staple (initially it was seen as a nuisance to alluvial gold mining) was sent to Sydney or Melbourne. Do you have any more information on the company? It doesnt sound like a Victorian company, and in other states eg Queensland there was a lot more tin mining going on. Also do you know of any people associated with the company and their BDM dates? This would help fix the company into a time period and possibly a location. Regards, Peter Matthews margaret trewick wrote: >Has anyone heard of the Dalziel Boulder West Tin Mine Syndicate or Dalziels Tin Mines Ltd. please. >Margaretwh@dodo.com.au > > > > > >==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== >Do NOT send virus warnings <- considered off-topic. > > > >

Maureen asked: > Does anyone have information on the 'depot' where single female migrants > were sent after arrival in Port Phillip? I notice on some of the ship's > registers there are notes about how long the girls stayed there at > public expense etc and how/where they were 'disposed'. > > Would there be surviving records about this depot? Maureen Have you checked the Immigration Museum in Melbourne? It might be worth it. http://immigration.museum.vic.gov.au/ Trevor

Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I now recognise the need to learn historical frameworks to get a full picture. Made a complete idiot of myself recently when discussing ancestors who lived near Albury and I mentioned to someone that there was a family in the region named Hume and that they must have been well known. She replied dryly 'As in Hume Highway?' Cheers Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Thomas" <pmthomas@bigpond.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: RE: Female Immigrants Depot > > G'day, I haven't researched this in detail. Circa 1889, great-grandma > had a child out of wedlock. The child was fostered. When I accessed > the child welfare records, great-grandma was recorded as residing in the > Immigrant's Home. G-grandma was hardly an immigrant: born in Tas; came > to Vic very young. I did a little research. I gather that what began > as a hostel for migrants later became a more general benevolent > institution. > > So the answer you get may well depend upon the era under discussion. > > > Peter THOMAS > Darwin, AUSTRALIA > <pmthomas@bigpond.com> > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Player [mailto:player6@bigpond.com] > Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 7:42 AM > To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fw: Female Immigrants Depot > > > ----- > > Hello List, > > Does anyone have information on the 'depot' where single female migrants > were sent after arrival in Port Phillip? I notice on some of the ship's > registers there are notes about how long the girls stayed there at > public expense etc and how/where they were 'disposed'. > > Would there be surviving records about this depot? > > Kind regards Maureen > > ______________________________ > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Threaded archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/aus-vic-goldfields >

G'day, I haven't researched this in detail. Circa 1889, great-grandma had a child out of wedlock. The child was fostered. When I accessed the child welfare records, great-grandma was recorded as residing in the Immigrant's Home. G-grandma was hardly an immigrant: born in Tas; came to Vic very young. I did a little research. I gather that what began as a hostel for migrants later became a more general benevolent institution. So the answer you get may well depend upon the era under discussion. Peter THOMAS Darwin, AUSTRALIA <pmthomas@bigpond.com> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Player [mailto:player6@bigpond.com] Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 7:42 AM To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fw: Female Immigrants Depot ----- Hello List, Does anyone have information on the 'depot' where single female migrants were sent after arrival in Port Phillip? I notice on some of the ship's registers there are notes about how long the girls stayed there at public expense etc and how/where they were 'disposed'. Would there be surviving records about this depot? Kind regards Maureen ______________________________

Has anyone heard of the Dalziel Boulder West Tin Mine Syndicate or Dalziels Tin Mines Ltd. please. Margaretwh@dodo.com.au

Hello everyone Isaac PIKE and Elizabeth GILL (my ggp) were married in Adelaide in 1848, and later settled in Sebastopol, Vic. I believe they had 11 children, some born in Adelaide and the others in Victoria. I would like to hear from anyone who has information of this family. Cheers David Cullen Launceston -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 69 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 23/09/2005

Hi Janine - This won't be of much help to you, but as a matter of interest, my husband remembers being friendly with a Iris Rosewarne who lived at St.Just Point many years ago. He thinks her father had something to do with the Nell Gwynne mine - Have you tried the Bendigo Library - there is plenty of reference material there re the mines. Good luck

Hi Janine - Just read your posting re the Central Nell Gwynne mine, and my husband remembers being friendly with a girl called Iris Rosewarne, and he thinks her father had something to do with the mine. It was so long ago its hard to remember. She lived at St.Just Point. That was probably late 1930's (we really are quite old!!!) I guess you have tried the Bendigo library, they have plenty of reference material re the old mines. Good luck- Pat Hussey

I am new to this list and I am looking for possible ancestors mentioned in the book "Jericho on the Jordan" by J G Rogers. A Jacob R VICTOR is mentioned in this book on pages 41,43,83,166,167,286, so could some kind person who has access to this book, please look up these pages and briefly tell me what is said about this person. I have not been able to locate a copy of this book where I live. Murray VICTOR Christchurch New Zealand Searching for Solomon VICTOR, Frank VICTOR, period 1855-1867

Hello Bob. Does it say where the family depot was in Melbourne please? Cheers, Bob in Melbourne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob McKenzie" <mck@datafast.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: Re: Female Immigrants Depot > G'day Maureen and List > There is a great and informative book called "A Place To Lay My Head", Immigrant Shelters of Nineteenth Century Victoria, by Keith Pescod. Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne. > I think it is still in print? > The Female Immigration Depot is mentioned. > > There ia a companion publication by same author and publisher, called "Good food, bright fires & civility", British Emigant Depots of the 19th Century. > > Two of the most treasured books in my library! > > Cheers.....Bob in Geelong

G'day Maureen and List There is a great and informative book called "A Place To Lay My Head", Immigrant Shelters of Nineteenth Century Victoria, by Keith Pescod. Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne. I think it is still in print? The Female Immigration Depot is mentioned. There ia a companion publication by same author and publisher, called "Good food, bright fires & civility", British Emigant Depots of the 19th Century. Two of the most treasured books in my library! Cheers.....Bob in Geelong ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Player To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:11 AM Subject: Fw: Female Immigrants Depot

Are Bullock Creek Cemetery and Marong Cemetery the same? Or has Bullock Creek Cemetery disappeared? -- Best regards, Julie from Cairns mailto:tropikkal@mytown.net.au

Thanks to all those who responded to my request for lookups in the Cemetery Transcriptions: Index to Monumental Inscriptions from 258 Cemeteries. Having been told the large amount of entries I realise that it would be easier to purchase the disk and peruse it myself. I'm sure it will be $29.95 well spent! -- Best regards, Julie from Cairns mailto:tropikkal@mytown.net.au

----- Hello List, Does anyone have information on the 'depot' where single female migrants were sent after arrival in Port Phillip? I notice on some of the ship's registers there are notes about how long the girls stayed there at public expense etc and how/where they were 'disposed'. Would there be surviving records about this depot? Kind regards Maureen

Thank you to Peter,Denise,Tom&Libby&Jeanine for you informative answers to my query. As Peter suggested a few more details on Thomas Rosewarne might help, I have the following details to offer. Thomas Henry Rosewarne born Durham Lead in 1866. He was a son of James & Anne Rosewarne. James was a miner also who came to Australia from Cornwall in 1857. My grandfather always said his father in law Thomas ran the battery at the Nell Gwyyne. Thomas is also mentioned in the wonderfull The Cornish in Victoria cd under Mine Managers by Leanne Lloyd. " ROSEWARNE Thomas Henry. Died 1914. Was for some time manager of the Central Nell Gwynn. He was one the longest serving members of the Long Gully Firebrigade." Thomas spent his last eight weeks of life at Donald Vic. Where his wife Rose held the licence for the Racecourse Hotel. His disease was in an advanced stage by then "Chronic Phthisis" He was 48 yo. If any one has any idea of how to find out what years Thomas was at the Nell Gwynn or any other mine Ithat he may have worked at I would very much appreciate it. Hopefully there are some family connections who are members of the Goldfields list thanks again Janine

No, I haven't heard of either of those, Tom & Libby Thanks for the references. I am really engrossed in these accounts at the moment, and will look up the Olivers Diary to see if I can get it on interlibrary loan. I recently came across another diary (in transcript, and in private hands) which I have on loan at the moment. Although much later than the 1851 - 57 diaries I recently quoted from, it is actually 2 years of letters written by the son of the man whose accident and subsequent "gruesome surgery" I reported last week. In 1917 the son boarded ship in Albany, W.A. for the Front in France and Belgium, and spent time in England. He records walks of 20 or so miles quite routinely. When on leave in England, he hired a bike and rode from Oxford to Wales and back just for sight seeeing. No wonder we have an obesity problem! Trevor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom & Libby Luke" <tomluke@optusnet.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 2:02 PM Subject: Adelaide to Mt.Alexander Goldfields | Hello Trevor, | | You wrote: | From: "trevor" <tjwilliams@iinet.net.au> | To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com | Message-ID: <016d01c5c12f$6328a940$6401a8c0@testerccb5031d> | Subject: Re: Gold Mine called Lorna Doone | Content-Type: text/plain; | charset="iso-8859-1" | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | Jack, | The fact that the Lorna Doone mine seems a long way from Maldon should not | distract you. I am often staggered at the vast distances that our forebears | walked or rode in the pre-car days. Their mobility was quite extraordinary, | particularly in the days of early European settlement here. My current line | of investigation, for example, involves a party of 5 men walking 800kms from | Adelaide to the Mount Alexander gold fields. | | Trevor have you read the book called: | "Olivers Diary -an' andkichef of eirth" | | This marvellous little book was Edited by Margaret E. Ragless a Great Great | Niece of Oliver Ragless. | He was part of a party that walked to the Mount Alexander Goldfields and | particularly Fryers Creek. | There were five Ragless brothers in the party of seven which left Adelaide | on 23 January 1852. | One member had gone ahead in December 1851. | | In a similar vein the recently discovered diary of Cornishman Thomas Ninnes | is being transcribed by family descendants and other interested Cornish | descendants. | Thomas and his extended family walked from Burra to the Bendigo Goldfields | in early 1852. | His wife Maria and children lie buried on the outskirts of Bendigo in what | was always known as "The Lonely Grave" | It is also a wonderful story of tenacity in the face of tragedy. | | Best wishes...Tom and Libby. | | | ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== | Searchable archives at | http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L |

27 July 2005 Hi All, I would like to make contact with any one who is researching James Arthur WISE born 1850 London to John Gifford & Mary Ann WISE (nee HARDING). James married Emma WALLIS 1876 and the children born to them that I know about are: Ethel Maud b. 1877 Amy Florence b. 1881 William Arthur b. 1883 Edith Wallis b. 1887 Thanks Anne Hanson

Can you tell me anything about Jack Stanistreet mentioned in your paragraph on Central Nell Gwynne mine. A Richard Jno Sarsfield Stanistreet was married to one of my relatives, Mary Elizabeth Simpson Mee. Richard Jno Sarsfield Stanistreet died at Snadhurst On 25/09/05, Tom & Libby Luke <tomluke@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > You wrote > > Hello Janine, > > The Central Nell Gwynne mine was just off Victoria Hill in Bendigo and is > marked today by the steel Poppet Legs which are still standing. > It was one of the last mines to close on the Bendigo Gold-field. > We have a photograph of the miners and management including Mr Jack > Stanistreet at the mine the day they declared their first dividend > There are still two Poppet legs standing in the area the other being the > famous Victoria Quartz mine which in it's time (1910) was the deepest mine > in the world. > You will see it plainly if you drive out Marong Road. > > Best wishes...Tom and Libby. > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb and help it support genealogy > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > -- Laurence E Stephenson www.users.bigpond.net.au/steppayne I am Researching:- Butcher..............Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.................>1856 Fortune..............Berwickshire, Scotland................................>1858 Garlick...............Liverpool, Lancashire, England.....................>1863 Mee...................Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland (Palatine)................>1884 Payne................Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England........>1863 Ritchie...............Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.................>1860 Stephenson........Pickering, Yorkshire, England .....................>1856 Wittick...... .......(Convict) Walsall,Staffordshire,England..........>1822