Good morning to all, Is there anyone who can tell me if it is possible to obtain marriage notices out of a Bendigo Paper in the year 1901? are they kept at the Newspaper office or at the local Library, or even at the State Library? Would appreciate any info on the matter. Many thanks in advance Judy

Hello. Thought that I would re-post the names I am researching: CUNNING HALLS SEWELL JAMIESON RYRIE In the 1850's onwards in Ballarat, Creswick. Trentham. There were CUNNING and RYRIE Gold mines near Creswick. I would like to hear from anyone researching these names, I have most BMD, dates and photos of tombstones.. Cheers, Bob

Hi If I may clarify quoting from the book "Maryborough .. A social history". Page 33 says "A new rush broke out at the Alma, or Joyce's diggings as it was originally called in December (1854).... Alfred Joyce referred to them as 'some new diggings taken up on my spring creek". But then on page 36 "Commissioner A J Smith requested a police camp at Joyce's Creek (Alma) in mid January" So maybe they are all the same place - Alma. As an aside, my great grandmother was born & grew up in Adelaide Lead and named one of her daughters, Alma. Sue, Melbourne -----Original Message----- From: Lois Broad [mailto:broadlp@bigpond.com] Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:46 PM To: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Alma or Joyces Creek Hi Jenny, I am curious that you refer to Alma as being know as Joyces CREEK. My understanding is that it was referred to as Joyce's DIGGINGS (being situated in a part of Alfred Joyces holding NORWOOD) but it is a long way from Joyces Creek as such. I am not saying you are wrong but just wondered where you got the reference. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. regards Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: "jenny" <jenwy@netcon.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:46 AM Subject: Alma or Joyces Creek > Joan your best bet is to purchase or get hold of the book "Maryborough"..A > Social > History 1854-1904. by Betty Osborn & Trenear DuBourg. > ISBN 0 95994691 > > You could probably request it at your local library. It has a lot on the > history of Alma, which was previously known as Joyces Creek. > > Jenny..Kyneton..Vic. > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Threaded archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/aus-vic-goldfields > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 1/07/05 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 1/07/05 ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== Victorian place names database http://www.rootsweb.com/~auswgw/vic_place_names.htm

Lois you are right, that is what I get for scanning the page instead of reading it properly. Alma and Joyces Diggings is right. Jenny..Kyneton..Vic.

Hi All Joyces Creek is near Newstead and Alma is the other side of Maryborough Elaine

> Hi All > Just to let you know that the Shelbourne West school register is now in the > hands of the Maldon Historical Society it was passed to them a few months > back. I have copies of 404 Maryborough and 1030 Carisbrook Primary Schools. > Elaine > Secretary > Carisbrook Historical Society > >

hi all This is my first attempt at communicating via a list.... hope I do it correctly!!! I am wanting to respond to the request to find the proper name for the abbreviation MT W... There is a book called "Old Gold and Mining Towns of Australia" by John Darbyshire (1975) which I have seen at my local library - maybe you might be able to source it from somewhere local to you. I hope this may be of some assistance. Regards Samm Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

Hi Samm Thank you for your reply. It is appreciated. Will look out for the book. Regards Cindy Binks ----- Original Message ----- From: "samm menzies" <sammtoocann@yahoo.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: MT W request hi all This is my first attempt at communicating via a list.... hope I do it correctly!!! I am wanting to respond to the request to find the proper name for the abbreviation MT W... There is a book called "Old Gold and Mining Towns of Australia" by John Darbyshire (1975) which I have seen at my local library - maybe you might be able to source it from somewhere local to you. I hope this may be of some assistance. Regards Samm Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== Victorian place names database http://www.rootsweb.com/~auswgw/vic_place_names.htm

???????????????? Cheers, Bob in Melbourne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Stewart" <kenna.10@bigpond.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:25 PM Subject: james stewart storekeeper alma 186* > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Practice safe genealogy - don't include the personal details of the living. >

Hi Jenny, I am curious that you refer to Alma as being know as Joyces CREEK. My understanding is that it was referred to as Joyce's DIGGINGS (being situated in a part of Alfred Joyces holding NORWOOD) but it is a long way from Joyces Creek as such. I am not saying you are wrong but just wondered where you got the reference. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. regards Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: "jenny" <jenwy@netcon.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:46 AM Subject: Alma or Joyces Creek > Joan your best bet is to purchase or get hold of the book "Maryborough"..A > Social > History 1854-1904. by Betty Osborn & Trenear DuBourg. > ISBN 0 95994691 > > You could probably request it at your local library. It has a lot on the > history of Alma, which was previously known as Joyces Creek. > > Jenny..Kyneton..Vic. > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== > Threaded archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/aus-vic-goldfields > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 1/07/05 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 1/07/05

Heather wrote: > I read the question about the photos of Majorca and Alma but missed > the name of the site. Could you repeat it please, as I have ancestors > in both localities. Sorry, Heather. I replied to Joan by email, so you wouldn't have seen it on the list. So for others who might be interested, here are the details again: Have you looked at the photos in the State Library's online collection? I know there are about 60-odd wonderful photos of Majorca between 1860-1900, and some of those probably cover Craigie as well. See: http://sinpic.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First and enter a locality in the 'search' line. -- Regards John

Hi Cindy, It could also be Mount William, in the Grampians. Dave in Ballarat At 02:48 PM 6/07/2005, Cindy Binks wrote: >Hi List Members > >Thank you to David, Laurence, Trevor and Peter for assisting with my >Place Name location query. > >A death was registered in 1970 and place of death is given as MT >W, State of Victoria. > >Many thanks > >Cindy Binks >South Africa > > >==== AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS Mailing List ==== >Victorian place names database >http://www.rootsweb.com/~auswgw/vic_place_names.htm

Hi Folks, Heather wrote, . I have visited the Melbourne PRO twice recently (a great place) and read odd school records- they have hoards of Bet Bet records, but where else are school records likely to be found, if they are still in existence, please? My reply: Local historical societies and libraries. For instance, the Avoca Society has good (probably duplicates of the PRO's ) records of attendance at the Mountain Hut School. The Carisbrook Historical Society has the Shelbourne West register, after it had been on my cousin's aunt's wardrobe for 35 years. (The Maldon Historical Society was offered it, but never came to collect it.) Some libraries have copies of early Inspectors' Reports, which list teachers' names and salaries, and other miscellaneous school info, and information collected during Back-To's. Of course, sometimes records, such as old photos, have survived at schools themselves. There are some privacy issues in relation to some of these. Tom

I read the question about the photos of Majorca and Alma but missed the name of the site. Could you repeat it please, as I have ancestors in both localities. Which leads me to query two. I have visited the Melbourne PRO twice recently (a great place) and read odd school records- they have hoards of Bet Bet records, but where else are school records likely to be found, if they are still in existence, please? Heather Brain Melbourne, Vic. A. ----- Original Message ----- From: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:00 PM Subject: AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS-D Digest V05 #174

Cindy Binks wrote: >Hi List Members > >Can anybody please tell me where the place MT W is situated in the State of Victoria? Could it possibly be Mornington West near Melbourne? > >Regards >Cindy Binks >South Africa > More likely to be Mount Waverley, but it could be several other places. Do you have any contextual clues to guide us? Trevor

Hi List Members Thank you to David, Laurence, Trevor and Peter for assisting with my Place Name location query. A death was registered in 1970 and place of death is given as MT W, State of Victoria. Many thanks Cindy Binks South Africa

Joan your best bet is to purchase or get hold of the book "Maryborough"..A Social History 1854-1904. by Betty Osborn & Trenear DuBourg. ISBN 0 95994691 You could probably request it at your local library. It has a lot on the history of Alma, which was previously known as Joyces Creek. Jenny..Kyneton..Vic.

Hi List Members Can anybody please tell me where the place MT W is situated in the State of Victoria? Could it possibly be Mornington West near Melbourne? Regards Cindy Binks South Africa

Hello Listers, I am not new to lists as such, but new to this list. I am seeking links to this family and trying to 'give it up' for a while. Lieut.Francis Crossman Doveton was first Gold Commissioner sent to Ballarat and was at Mt Alexander at the time of Eureka. However, he was doing his job when asked to collect the licences, so was part of the problem. His wife was Margaret Bostock who died in 1853 and he remarried to Annie Snell with links to CONNELL.... Part of the story in pages as under... I have word documents for those with family links... For now Sincerely in Searching.... Thelma in Queensland.. Bostock Blease Wilkinson http://birrell.1hwy.com/index.htm Wm.Cox Upjohn Blachford Clarendon www.angelfire.com/rnb/mrbirrell/ Jas Cox Mary Connell Clarendon Tas. http://matthewbirrell.tripod.com/index.htm Wilson Stokes Yates Haigh www.freehomepages.com/mrbirrell/ Birrell Robertson Kirk http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/birrell2.html Scots Irish English Families http://matthewbirrell.50megs.com/index.html Montgomery Down Skates http://montgomery.50megs.com/index.htm Robe - Bostock www.electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/r/robe_family.htm Crawford Sarkies McKay www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/crawfor2.html Maltman Landsborough www.electricscotland.com/history/world/landsb.htm