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