Hello friends, This is the sort used by podiatrists etc. ...... I have one I use for very fine detailed drawings ...... if you can't find one, ask your local podiatrist for the name of his supplier. Kindest Regards ...... Corinne. > Now, it always pays to ask an old person. We have a large magnifying glass > on a stand, and the glass swivels, and there is a fluro light around the > glass, boy you can see everything, hubby needs this for his model trains. > we bought if at a lighting store > Penny > > Can anyone tell me where I can buy a magnifying glass. Not the little ones > you buy in the newsagencies but much stronger.

Thanks Pen. And as to the comments about night owls, remember you are one hour ahead of us there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Dean" <Deans@bigpond.com> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [AVNE] Resources > Now, it always pays to ask an old person. We have a large magnifying glass > on a stand, and the glass swivels, and there is a fluro light around the > glass, boy you can see everything, hubby needs this for his model trains. > we bought if at a lighting store > Penny > > -------Original Message------- > > From: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 23:53:16 > To: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [AVNE] Resources > > Can anyone tell me where I can buy a magnifying glass. Not the little ones > you buy in the newsagencies but much stronger. > > I have been using a magnifying sheet, under a lamp with a torch shining onto > the subject. > I now have a photo of a minutes book taken in the St. Johns Lodge and I am > trying to read the names. > > I have found that shining a good torch onto the paper > /photo/book/newsprint/whatever makes things much clearer. > > It also shows up marks which naked eye can't see on the back of photos. I > have found a few names on the backs of 1800 photos which I couldn't see, > until the torch was shone on it.. Obviously the pen/pencil or whatever was > used has faded, but the indentation is still there. > > Thought it may be a good clue for everyone. > > Denise > >

Hi Denise, I have seen large round magnifyiers that you hang around your neck that include a light being sold in Spotlight stores. I think they are to help embroiders but it sounds just like what you're after Cheers, Robynne ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise McMahon To: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: [AVNE] Resources Can anyone tell me where I can buy a magnifying glass. Not the little ones you buy in the newsagencies but much stronger. I have been using a magnifying sheet, under a lamp with a torch shining onto the subject. I now have a photo of a minutes book taken in the St. Johns Lodge and I am trying to read the names. I have found that shining a good torch onto the paper,/photo/book/newsprint/whatever makes things much clearer. It also shows up marks which naked eye can't see on the back of photos. I have found a few names on the backs of 1800 photos which I couldn't see, until the torch was shone on it.. Obviously the pen/pencil or whatever was used has faded, but the indentation is still there. Thought it may be a good clue for everyone. Denise

Now, it always pays to ask an old person. We have a large magnifying glass on a stand, and the glass swivels, and there is a fluro light around the glass, boy you can see everything, hubby needs this for his model trains. we bought if at a lighting store Penny -------Original Message------- From: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 23:53:16 To: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AVNE] Resources Can anyone tell me where I can buy a magnifying glass. Not the little ones you buy in the newsagencies but much stronger. I have been using a magnifying sheet, under a lamp with a torch shining onto the subject. I now have a photo of a minutes book taken in the St. Johns Lodge and I am trying to read the names. I have found that shining a good torch onto the paper /photo/book/newsprint/whatever makes things much clearer. It also shows up marks which naked eye can't see on the back of photos. I have found a few names on the backs of 1800 photos which I couldn't see, until the torch was shone on it.. Obviously the pen/pencil or whatever was used has faded, but the indentation is still there. Thought it may be a good clue for everyone. Denise

No, he was still at home with his mother, he was far too young to be there -------Original Message------- From: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 23:38:33 To: AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AVNE] 10th February 11th February >From on this Day 10.2.1857. Wang celebrated its new racecourse with a three day meet. Those who attended voted it the best in the colony. Was Mary Dean's Mather there that day??? 11.2.1906 We've had one or two snake tales and a few others to boot, but here's one on the bunnies. By 1906 rabbits were in plague proportions so this story may not be so unbelievable. The most inexperienced shooter couldn't have missed at this time. One shot killed several bunnies at one time. The record for one shot was 27. Determined to beat that, Mr. Gibson of Gilgandra went out and shot 33. He laid a trail of water in the parched countryside and when the bunnies lined up for a drink he let go...........bang. Got the record too! Denise

Can anyone tell me where I can buy a magnifying glass. Not the little ones you buy in the newsagencies but much stronger. I have been using a magnifying sheet, under a lamp with a torch shining onto the subject. I now have a photo of a minutes book taken in the St. Johns Lodge and I am trying to read the names. I have found that shining a good torch onto the paper,/photo/book/newsprint/whatever makes things much clearer. It also shows up marks which naked eye can't see on the back of photos. I have found a few names on the backs of 1800 photos which I couldn't see, until the torch was shone on it.. Obviously the pen/pencil or whatever was used has faded, but the indentation is still there. Thought it may be a good clue for everyone. Denise

1855 Wang got its bridge across the OVens. Canadian design, spanned the stream in a single arch (yep only one). The gangs used axes from America for the very very first time in the colony, so that made it a wonderful bridge............All good things came from America. Poor Billie the Puntman when out of business. Got into a bad mood about it too. then in 1866 on the same day. The First sparkling wine was made. Mr. P.D. Ramsey , Beechworth, mde it, with assistance from mr. Russom, the soda water manufacturer.

>From on this Day 10.2.1857. Wang celebrated its new racecourse with a three day meet. Those who attended voted it the best in the colony. Was Mary Dean's Mather there that day??? 11.2.1906 We've had one or two snake tales and a few others to boot, but here's one on the bunnies. By 1906 rabbits were in plague proportions so this story may not be so unbelievable. The most inexperienced shooter couldn't have missed at this time. One shot killed several bunnies at one time. The record for one shot was 27. Determined to beat that, Mr. Gibson of Gilgandra went out and shot 33. He laid a trail of water in the parched countryside and when the bunnies lined up for a drink he let go...........bang. Got the record too! Denise

Ann Can you contact me off list URGENTLY PLEASE. (sorry, I don't have your email address.) Chris

--=======3BB5205A======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thowgla State School No. 2661 1917 Bill Garing Angus Gay Bessie Gay Nellie Hamilton Ella Mann Eileen McConachy Eric Mildren Isobel Paton Percy Wind Peter Wind 1918 Ruby Draper Nell Gay Don McVean Noel Paton 1919 Bill Cadman Isla Campbell Hazel McKenzie Gracie Mildren Lorrie Mildren Frederick Smith Walter Smith Edith Wind 1920 Tom Evans Olive Gay Jock McKenzie Frank Murphy Jean Paton Margery Paton Dorothy Paton --=======3BB5205A======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 --=======3BB5205A=======--

--=======55766D2F======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Toowong State School Roll from 1932 1932 Hazel McInnes Gordon McInnes Roy McInnes 1933 Alfred Whitehead Eunice Whitehead June Whitehead Cyril McInnes Claude McInnes Gweneth Phillips George Fortnum 1934 Murray Griffiths Sylvia McInnes Maxwell McInnes Valda Phillips Joy Phillips Roy Dunstan Kevin Rogers 1935 Ada McInnes Gordon Porter 1936 Lorna Whitehead Wilfred Whitehead Ian Ross 1937 Nevan McInnes 1938 Rhonda Wheeler Bruce Wheeler Robert Whitehead John Whitehead Joyce McInnes Isobel McInnes Ida Phillips Trevor Reiners Lola Smith Elsie Reynolds 1939 Mavis McInnes Valerie Lebner 1940 Colin McInnes Ethel Wheeler May Whitehead Alex Dugan Norman Dugan June Smith Francis Byatt 1941 David Simmons Sheila Simmons Amy Williams Mary Williams Dulcie McInnes Robert Nankervis Kirkpatrick Chitty Kenneth Chitty 1942 Heather Smith Dawn Whitehead Noel Fraser Elizabeth Fisher William Looker Vernon Looker Max Reiners Brian Daly Alan Daly Verna Sheather 1943 Ethel Smith Clifford Daly Marion Reiners Joan Fidge Glen Daly Geoffrey Phillips Donald Campbell Joan Chitty Eilen McInnes 1944 John Smith Margaret Williams Douglas Wright 1945 Hazel Reiners Kaye Smith Shirley McKimmie 1946 Barbara Reiners Mary McInnes Gregory Smith Clive Daly Joan Boardman Robert Oxlade Lynette Oxblade Neville Hewatt Gordon Hewatt Kevin Hewatt Stanley Hewatt 1947 Frank Whitehead Max McKimmie Kevin Smith 1948 Frank McInnes Faye Smith Rodney Foley Barry Daly Faye Walpole Eric Crampton Daphne Crampton 1949 Gregory Whitehead Colleen Nugent Murray Pierce 1950 Stuart Whitehead Joy Whitehead Lilian Daly Jennifer Daly John Reiners Shirley Hewatt Graeme Nutt 1951 Dale Daly Dennis McInnes --=======55766D2F======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 --=======55766D2F=======--

--=======4724493C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Toowong State School Roll from 1904 1904 George Stockwell 1905 Beresford Anderson Lizzie Lambert George Griffiths 1906 Frank McInnes James Heyenga 1908 Jane Stephens Barbara Stephens Valerie Anderson 1909 Ray Daly Gladys Lambert Maynard Webster Dora Daly 1910 Millie Stephens Rita Anderson 1911 John White Evaline Lambert 1912 Mary O'Loughlin Harold O'Loughlin Adelaide Blundell Harry Murray Patrick Daly Wilfred Heyenga Florrie Blundell Leah Stockwell 1913 Eric Anderson Charles Wheeler 1914 Thomas O'Loughlin Ivy Anderson Rebecca Heyenga Nita Stockwell Ruth Murray Jessie Murray Laurence White Robert Broadhurst 1915 Myrtle Daly Walter Stockwell Albert Stockwell William Griffiths Jane McNamara 1916 Henry Stockwell Nona Blundell Melva Anderson Edwin Garing Frances Heyenga William Wheeler Clive Daly Jean Daly George Turner 1917 Isabella Barber Isabel Whitehead Linda Lloyd Jessie Lloyd 1918 Lennox Davis Claude Griffiths Noel Anderson Mavis Butler Zelma Maddison Archibald Whitehead 1919 John Stockwell Nellie Stockwell Kenneth Whitehead Douglas Whitehead Irene Whitehead Bertha Whitehead Neville Griffiths Dorothy Lloyd Lila Whitehead George Airey Doris Airey Margaret Airey Winnifred Airey Irene Airey Laurence Mooney Mervyn Whitehead 1920 Alice Waters Keith Patrick Byatt Amy Airey Agnes Heyenga Phillis Whitehead 1921 William Griffiths Jean Anderson 1922 Charles Stockwell Jessie Griffiths Winifred Daly Walter McCallum Kathleen McCallum Kathleen Whitehead Dixie Chapman 1923 Reginald Airey William Airey Queenie Whitehead Jean Stockwell Alice Stockwell Marion Byatt Jean Byatt William Wright Charles Webster Mary Hillas Stanley Daly 1924 Mona Whitehead Mary Smith Walter Smith Neta Dunstan Daphne Daly Isobel Edwards Francis Lloyd May Waters 1925 Doris Stockwell Donald Simpson Zenda Whitehead Alvia Whitehead Clive Whitehead Gwen McCallum Edward Doughty 1926 Noel Anderson William McInnes Gordon McCallum Frank Daly Geoffrey Chapman Erica Whitehead 1927 Ida Anderson Phyllis Dunstan John Herbert Gwyneth Waters 1928 Olive Whitehead Silas McInnes Frances Griffiths Mary Griffiths Bernard Reiners Gordon Herbert Eunice Evans 1929 Vernon McInnes Gloria McInnes Leonard McInnes James Anderson John Anderson Allan Collett Norman Collett Alice Stockwell Claude Phillips 1930 Dorothy Griffiths Clement Rogers Audrey Lambert 1931 Rosena McInnes Joyce Dunstan Nola Phillips --=======4724493C======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 --=======4724493C=======--

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--=======94F20F4======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The School Register from 1872 1874 (below this list) Thomas Harris James Harris Andrew Harris Mary Jane Harris Mary Charlotte Stratton John Briggs Angus McIntyre Briggs James Briggs Neil Briggs John Waters Thomas Beaumont Waters Elizabeth Evans Hector Fraser Arthur Land Charles Murphy Annie Harris John Land William Henry Stratton Alice May McKenzie Joseph Land Elizabeth Briggs Margaret Harris Mary Ann Waters Lovdy Grace Evans George Murrell Henry Murrell William Patrick McCormack James M. McCormack John Murrell Catherine Murrell Fred Ambrosius Klippel William Ordish Frederick Brown William Phillips Charles Wheeler Thomas Whitehead William Whitehead Agnes Harris William Henry Lamond Benjamin Wheeler Agnes Klippel Sarah Ann McCormack Edgar Sheather Isabella (Aboriginal) Minnie (Aboriginal) Jessie Mathieson 1874 Additional Enrolments Flora McIntyre Emily Ordish Elizabeth Barbara Seaton Ada Sarah Jarvis Alfred Graham Ernest Graham Louisa Susannah Wheeler Alice Ann Evans Alice Ann Mildren Further enrolments for this first school have been lost Teacher - Robert Stratton --=======94F20F4======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-475040E Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 --=======94F20F4=======--

Hello Peter, Could I ask a very, very big favour of you, please? My father's first cousin, Francis Roy Thompson taught at Scotch College ...... I believe that he was the Art Master there. If you have time could you see if there is anything on him? Kindest regards ...... Corinne. on 10/02/2002 9:41am, Peter Kelly at pgkelly@melbpc.org.au wrote: > Denise, Scotch College, Melbourne opened in October 1851 in Spring Street. > There is a bronze plaque set in the pavement in Spring Street to mark the > spot. The college moved to its present location in Hawthorn in 1916. When I > was a pupil there in the mid 1920s to mid 1930s, I remember a boy named > Gemmell, I think he might have been Bruce Gemmell; he may have been an > descendant of your man. It was common for sons and grandsons etc to follow on > at the same school. > There is a good history of the college published which lists many if not all > the pupils who passed through the school; when I next visit the library, > possibly early in the week, I will list the Gemmells that I find for you. So > hang in there and I will get back to you. Regards, Peter Kelly >

Thak you for that. What I really need to know is who John King married and if he had a daughter named Annie/Anne. Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc" <jdhs@mansfield.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [AVNE] Re: I need help > Hi Caroline > > It is Saturday night and I have just returned from Melbourne, please bear > with me, I am suffering from road lag. > I will pass your request onto our researcher, Helen Neill but off the top of > my head I am sure we have quite a bit of info about the Jamieson/Mansfield > King families, and some of the descendants still have contact with the area. > Whether it contains your John and Ellen I am not sure, but we will contact > you off list. > > Cheers > Barb Bateson > -- > Jamieson & District Historical Society Inc. > PO Box 26, Jamieson 3723 > Phone 03 57770690 > Fax 03 5777 0892 > jdhs@mansfield.net.au > www.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs >

Denise, Scotch College, Melbourne opened in October 1851 in Spring Street. There is a bronze plaque set in the pavement in Spring Street to mark the spot. The college moved to its present location in Hawthorn in 1916. When I was a pupil there in the mid 1920s to mid 1930s, I remember a boy named Gemmell, I think he might have been Bruce Gemmell; he may have been an descendant of your man. It was common for sons and grandsons etc to follow on at the same school. There is a good history of the college published which lists many if not all the pupils who passed through the school; when I next visit the library, possibly early in the week, I will list the Gemmells that I find for you. So hang in there and I will get back to you. Regards, Peter Kelly

Hi, I am getting a copy of the Bios Denise and Chris organised for the March "circus". The cheapest way to mail them to Perth is in a 3kg satchel, which would hold at least 3 copies. If anyone on the list lives in Perth, didn't order a copy, but would like one for not much more that the cost of the book, please e-mail me off-list. Regards, Jenny Perth. WA NE Names: LACHMUND, LAST, RODGERS

--=======54895397======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-52C18B2; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >There is a good history of the college published which lists many if not >all the pupils who passed through the school; Peter, I'd be interested in the name and author of the publication. Jackie QLD --=======54895397======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-52C18B2 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 --=======54895397=======--

Hi Beverly, I am also a Price descendant, and have quite a bit of information which I can send to you off list. James and Robina are buried in the Beechworth cemetery, and their son, James John Finnie Price was died in the first world war. Ronda Shambrook. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Wilson <ibwilson@bluep.com> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:47 PM Subject: [AVNE] PRICE / FINNEY around Beechworth circa 1890s > Hi listers, I am interested in the above names living around the Beechworth > area in the last part of the 1880s and 1890s. Can anyone pinpoint their > town or where they came from? Any info helpful as no one left alive to ask > in my family. > > James Price married Robina Finney, that's all I know. These would be my > gggrandparents I think. > Thanks Beverly >