www.perthdps.com ... putting the FAMILY back into Family History * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hi Everyone, Here, for archival purposes, is the CAN YOU HELP? column published in The West Australian on Monday, August 28, 2006. Cheers....... Erica Hills ________________________________________ The CAN YOU HELP? column (incorporating REUNIONS) is compiled by Jenny KOHLEN and published on Mondays as a free service. E-mail your requests to <mailto:canyouhelp@wanews.com.au> or write to : Can You Help? "The West Australian," GPO Box N1027, Perth 6843. Fax (08) 9482 3830. Phone (08) 9482 3382 (Mon-Fri). mailto: <mailto:canyouhelp@wanews.com.au> ================================================================================= CAN YOU HELP? : Monday, August 28, 2006 (The West Australian p33) ALLEN : Descendants of Joseph and Susan ALLEN (nee HARRIS) are sought for a family tree. Any information would be welcome. Joseph and Susan were originally from Bulli, NSW, and settled in Kalgoorlie about 1894-1898. Their children were David, Thomas Francis, Margaret, Mary May, Anne Jane, Daniel Leslie and Francis Llewellyn. Joseph and Susan died in 1920 and 1924 respectively and are buried in Kalgoorlie cemetery. Francis Llewellyn died in 1989 and is buried in the same plot. Contact: Terry Allen, 50 Piercy Way, Kardinya 6163. Tel: 9337 8356; or Peter Allen, mailto:pallen@comeonaussie.net BELMONT CHURCH : St Mary's Anglican Church in Epsom Avenue, Belmont, will celebrate its centenary on Saturday, September 9. Information is urgently needed in order to write the history of the church in the Belmont/Cloverdale parish. Does anyone have any knowledge of the actual building of St Mary's during the early 1950s? Contact: Joyce Hopkins, 9277 4795. BRIDGEMAN : Edward BRIDGEMAN was born in Cornwall, England, in 1818. He sailed to South Australia with his wife Annie (nee WILTON) in 1848 and settled in the Fleaurieu Peninsula town of Old Noarlunga. They had eight children: William W., James Wilton, Eden (m. SMITH), Jabez, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Mary J. (m. PRIDEAUX) and Rebecca (m. TREZIRE). Edward farmed in Georgetown, South Australia, and died in Morphett Vale in 1873. About 1906-07, son Jabez and his wife Mary Anne moved to Northampton, WA, to farm. They had three sons, Edward (b. 1873), Alfred Ernest (b. 1879) and David Wilton (b. 1881), the writer's grandfather. They also had a daughter, Gertrude, who moved to Northampton with her husband George TEAKLE. Hoping to hear from relatives for family history. Contact: Glenda Steed, 82 Regency Drive, Thornlie 6108. Tel: 9459 3235. mailto:steedofcrestwood@westnet.com.au. BUSSELTON RAILWAY HISTORY : Long-time readers of Can You Help? may recall a request from Arch McNESS in November 2000 for information about the construction of the BUSSELTON-MARGARET RIVER-FLINDERS BAY railway line. After five years his booklet, ORIGINAL RAILWAYS OF THE SOUTHWEST, is a wealth of information with its 53 pages containing local and rail history, tables, photographs and anecdotes. It would be of interest not only to rail enthusiasts but also to those who lived in the areas from the time the construction commenced from Busselton in February, 1921. Cost: $21 (inclusive). Contact: Arch McNess, MacNamara Lodge, 41 Portrush Parade, Meadow Springs 6210. COUNTRY CALLING GNOWANGERUP BOWLING CLUB : The club has installed two "magnificent new carpet greens" which will be officially opened on Saturday, October 14. All past members are cordially invited to return to Gnowangerup to help celebrate this big event m the club's history. Play will start at lpm, with an evening meal. Please RSVP. Contact: Mike Moore, 9827 1364 (a/h); 0429 099 179. Fax: 9827 1323; or Kevin Heberle, 9827 1355 (w/k); 9827 1261 (a/h). GOOMALLING FOOTBALL CLUB : The date for the centenary reunion is now Saturday, September 16 at 6.30pm. Cost: $40 a person. RSVP: September 4. Contact: Murray Siegert, 9623 2288 or Corey Leeson, 9625 1141. PINJARRA BOWLING CLUB : Past members are invited to afternoon tea at the club on Sunday, September 24 at lpm (for 1.30pm) to celebrate the opening of the new green and the naming of the Jack Spurge rose garden. Any persons with past connections to the club are cordially invited to attend. Contact: Jean Spilsbury, 9531 1509 or Ralph Devonshire, 9531 3771. --- JOHN CURTIN HIGH SCHOOL : Later this year John Curtin High School/College of the Arts will commemorate 50 years since the first classes began at John Curtin. Looking for photos, anecdotes and other memorabilia to display on the celebration day (copies would be ideal). Information is sought about the achievements of all past students since leaving the school — particularly in the 1970s which has an information gap. Contact: Ros Marlborough, 69 Swanbourne Street, Fremantle 6160. Tel: 9335 7618, or Trudy Holmes by email or the school website: mailto:tholmes@upnaway.com www.jc.wa.edu.au. FLYING OFFICER CHARLES EDWARDS : Following an earlier request (Escape from Singapore, 7/8), the writer hopes to hear from anyone who has information about her father's time in the air force serving in intelligence in the latter part of 1945-1946 and especially in Borneo where he served for eight months after the war. FO Charles Patrick EDWARDS and others left Darwin for Labuan, Borneo, on January 22,1946 and was believed to have been discharged at the end of 1946. He was probably chosen because of his expertise in the jungle and his fluent Malay. Charles died in 1952 and never spoke of the hundreds of photographs of human bones and ID tags in small woven baskets and the aerial photographs of dense jungle that were found in his wardrobe after his death. The RAAF in Melbourne took possession of the photos soon after his funeral, but the question remains as to who took the photos, what was her father doing with them and what were his duties during 1942-1945? Charles joined the RAAF about November 1942 and had two service numbers — 125074 plus another on Wings - 112128. Hoping to hear from relatives of airmen during those years and anyone with information. Contact: Patricia Giudice, Post Office Box 165, North Fremantle 6159. Tel: 9430 8825. GILLAM DEDICATION : A dedication service will be held in Kings Park (Lovekin Drive, adjacent to Pines carpark) on Saturday, September 30 at 10.30am. Plaques will be placed in honour of Troopers Sydney D. GILLAM and his brother Hubert E. GILLAM, who both died of wounds at Gallipoli on August 29,1915. Relatives and friends are invited to attend and to be present by 10.15am. Contact: Mervyn Gillam, 9341 4734. GORDON : Lindsay Charles GORDON was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1891. He was the only son of David Philip GORDON and Kathleen Josephine CUNNINGHAM. When Lindsay was five, his parents and sister Marion Josephine (then aged six), moved to Kalgoorlie where David worked at Miller & Gordon's saw mill in Forest Street. But within 18 months of moving there David contracted typhoid and died in 1898 aged 36. His wife, Kathleen, stayed in Kalgoorlie and became a nurse. Sadly she too died in 1908 leaving the two children orphaned then aged 16 and 17. Lindsay's ancestors emigrated from Scotland in 1852, but he was the only "GORDON" son to survive beyond 1908. Hoping to hear from the families of Lindsay and his sister Marion. Contact: Karenn Layne, 11 Michell Street, Monash, ACT 2904. mailto:klayne@webone.com.au HAYES : Information is sought for family history about descendants of John R. and Augusta HAYES who were married in Perth in December 1910. John was the son of Robert Charles and Sarah HAYES and he may have been involved with the Helena Vale Racing Club. Contact: Judy Miles, 106A Muritai Street, Nelson 7001, New Zealand. mailto:jude.miles@xtra.co.nz HIGGINS : Sarah Maria HILL married Edward James HIGGINS in Quorn, South Australia, in 1893. Their children were Alice (married Thomas LANE), Moira (m. Stan KIRBY), Edward, Alf, Walter ("Billy)", Fred and Frank. Some members of this family moved to WA. The writer has been researching the Hill family for many years and would love to contact any descendants of this HIGGINS-HILL line and would be happy to share information. Contact: Delys Wright, 4 Seque Way, Dalyellup 6230. Tel: 9795 5901. Mobile: 0407 972 401. mailto:delys@e-wire.net.au HOLDEN AMBULANCE : Does anyone recall anything about a 1962/1963 E. J. Holden panel van (three door) that was once used as an ambulance in WA? Contact: Trish Wells, 84-92 Barnes Road, Cedar Vale, Qld 4285. Tel/fax: (07) 5543 1627. LEIGHTON : John LEIGHTON and his wife Ann lived at the railway crossing in North Fremantle from 1881 to 1893, operating the gates. Leighton Beach and the railway station memorialise the LEIGHTON name. John was the son of pensioner guard John LEIGHTON Sr who arrived in WA on the Runneymede in 1856 and became a convict warder. All descendants are advised a 150 year reunions will be held on Saturday, September 3. Contact R. Leighton, 9276 4695. mailto:rossvict@tpg.com.au MALEY : As part of the Greenough Pioneer Museum 40th celebrations and following recommendations in the recently completed interpretation plan, the museum aims to extend displays about the MALEY family. John MALEY was a flour miller, farmer, store owner, hotel proprietor at Greenough and also built and owned a brewery in Geraldton. John and Elizabeth MALEY (nee Waldeck) had 14 children: George (1863), Hannah (1865), Martha Mary (1866), Frederick William (1868), Amy (1869), Ada (1871), John Morrison (1872), Albert Edward (1874), Charles Crowther (1876), Henry Kennedy (1878), Arthur Roy (1880), Solomon Shenton (1881), Septimus Frank (1883) and Grace Alma (1885). Looking for photographs (donated or loaned for scanning) and memorabilia relating to this family. Contact: Gary Martin, Post Office Box 2011, Geraldton 6531. Tel: 9926 1058. mailto:pioneer_museum@westnet.com.au MARTIN : Hoping to trace the family of John Edward and Victoria Adelaide MARTIN (nee HISLOP) who were living in Stirling Street, Perth, possibly between 1923 and 1958 when Victoria died on July 2, 1958. Victoria is buried in Karrakatta Cemetery with her father George Smith Hislop, her sister Elizabeth ROSSER, brother David Knox HISLOP, and the ashes of her husband. Contact: Dell Paton, 28 Centenary Drive, Maleny, Qld 4552. Tel: (07) 5499 9192; 0408 771 166 (a/h). GNR MUNRO : London military researcher Pete WOOD is investigating the German air raids on Britain between 1914 and 1918 for a book on the subject. One of the victims was Eric James Garfield MUNRO, son of John James and Annie Caskie MUNRO, of Grange Street, Claremont (originally from Melbourne). Eric was a gunner in the Australian Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade and was 24 when he was killed on February 16,1918 along with his fiancee Gertrude KEYWORTH, a VAD nurse, as they were leaving a London theatre. The old Perth firm of GOODE DURRANT & CO had a representative at the funeral, so there must have been some connection there. Seeking Eric's relatives in the hope of obtaining a photograph for Pete's book. Contact: Don Munro, 9390 5065. mailto:dmunl249@bigpond.net.au NARROGIN HOTEL : The new owners of the DUKE OF YORK HOTEL, Narrogin, are looking for any memorabilia and photographs relating to the hotel. Contact: Bill Tingley, assistant manager, Post Office Box 408, Narrogin 6312, Tel: 9881 1008. mailto:dukeofyork@westnet.com.au QANTAS/CATALINAS : Seeking copies of photographs about the Qantas Catalina Service (secret) that the company operated from Nedlands Bay to Ceylon in 1943-45 — depicting workshops, engineers, marine personnel, air crews etc. Contact: Les Jubbs, 9309 2241. mailto:lesjubbs@iinet.net.au SWEETMAN : Information is sought about Thomas SWEETMAN who died in South Australia in 1899 aged 84. He married Emma MOULD who arrived in WA on January 17,1833 aboard the Cygnet as a servant. They had 10 children including Isabella Mould SWEETMAN, a direct ancestor of the writer's husband. In 1857 Thomas left his wife and children and sailed to South Australia aboard the Lochinvar and never returned to WA. Later, daughter Isabella sailed to South Australia on the Kestrel, arriving in Adelaide on February 27,1862. Seeking any information about where Thomas and Emma came from originally and whether Thomas or his kin were involved with the whaling or pearling fleet in Broome. A now-deceased uncle once recalled he survived a cyclone that wiped out the fleet at Broome. Contact: Mrs E. Sweetman, Post Office Box 1503, Mylor, SA 5153. Tel: (08) 8388 5404. mailto:rogoz@picknowl.com.au THORLEY : Descendants and relatives of Douglas and James CABLE, who operated Cable Oil Company then bought into the Mineral Sands Industry and formed CABLE (1956) Ltd in Bunbury, are sought by Bemax Resources Inc Cable Sands. Memorabilia and photographs are also sought and CABLE SANDS hope to have a family representative in attendance at the 50th anniversary celebrations to be held in Bunbury on November 5. Contact: Barbara Wilson or Julie Fairhead, Bemax Resources Inc Cable Sands, Post Office Box 133, Bunbury 6231 Tel: 9721 0200. Fax: 9791 1249. mailto:b.wilson@cablesands.com.au WALKER : Looking for the descendants of Samuel Henry WALKER who married Ada Lilian OSBORNE in Perth on August 25,1905. Their children were Henry (born 1904), Eric Reginald (1908), Ada Lillian Drusilla (possibly married McQUOID), Emily M. (married Peter IVERSEN-SELAJAST) and Constance BERYL (1915). Also, seeking descendants of William WALKER who married Emily ALLEN in Norseman in 1900. Hoping to confirm William's parents were Josiah Henry Wesley WALKER and Drucilla COBLE. Contact: Robert Coble, c/- 12 Hazeldean Way, Airds NSW 2560. Tel: (02) 4620 4778. mailto:coblecovellfamily@yahoo.com.au WOODBURNE : John R. C. WOODBURNE of Lake Grace married Barbara FELL in England in 1930. They had three children in WA, including Marion, whose birth was announced in The Times in London. John and his wife are recorded as being in Ulverston, England by 1955 — the date of their second daughter Bridget's marriage to Benjamin Dobson in Carmel, England. They are members of the "RONALDS" family tree being researched in England and Australia by the writer. Any assistance in establishing the family's movements in WA would be appreciated. Contact: Carolyn Chalmers, 4 Parnell Place, Fadden, ACT 2904. mailto:cmchal@tpg.com.au PARTNERS OF VETERANS : An Information Forum will be held at the RAAFA Estate, main clubhouse (end of main drive-in gate), Oakleigh Drive, Erskine, on Wednesday, August 30 commencing at 9.30am with morning tea followed by the forum at 10am. Agenda includes PVA, ProgramASIST, men's health, peer education and much more. A counsellor from VVCS will show the video Agent Orange. All members of the Australian veteran community (all war veterans, peacekeepers, their partners, children, family members, carers and health providers) are welcome. A light lunch provided. Please RSVP for catering. Contact: Sam, 0421 573 700 mailto:scrosspvawa@yahoo.com.au VETERANS & SERVICES BATTLE FOR AUSTRALIA COMMEMORATIVE LUNCH : A luncheon will be held at the RAAFA Estate, Bull Creek, on Wednesday, September 6. Cost: $22.50 a person. Contact (for tickets): Heather Anderson, Anzac House, 9287 3799. ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION (FREMANTLE) : The Fremantle branch meets at the Naval Club, High Street, Fremantle, on the first Tuesday of every month (except January) at 2pm. Any ex-service personnel or kindred spirits would be made most welcome. Contact: Roy, 9594 0359. ------------------------------------------------------------------ REUNIONS MIDLAND JUNCTION STATE SCHOOLS : The annual reunion of the Midland Junction schools (primary, high or central) will be held at the Hyde Park Hotel, Perth, on Wednesday, September 20 from 11am. All past students and teachers welcome. RSVP September 12. Contact: Loyia Whitworth (Primose) 9457 0410, Audrey Holland (Wisbey) 9274 2042 or June Hondris (Wisbey) 9302 3505. mailto:hondris@optusnet.com.au MLC CLASS OF 66 : The 40-year reunion of the 1966 leaving year will be held at METHODIST LADIES COLLEGE on September 22. Among those still missing are: Anne KELLY, Carolyn READ, Catherine MERRILEES, Chee CHONG, Gayle BUKEY (BEST), Gillian CRAWFORD, Gloria VIRGO (LOCK), Janice REID, Judith WILLIAMS, Kathryn INGLETON, Kerry McDOUGALL, Lorraine CLAYTON, Margaret FRASER, Margaret MOIR, Pamela MOORE, Patricia VAUX, Rosslyn ARTHUR, Sandra GORBY, Suzanne CAMPBELL. Contact: Dawn Snook (Maddock) 9293 3205; Penny Thomas (Hall) 9272 1735; Zoe Howard 9470 1453; mailto:661snooky@iinet.net.au mailto:pennythomas@westnet.com.au MLC/ANNESLEY COLLEGE (ADELAIDE) : South Australian Old Scholars are invited to meet for afternoon tea at Methodist Ladies College, 356 Stirling Highway, Claremont, on Saturday, September 23 at 2pm. Contact Judith Montgomerie, 9381 2462. mailto:jmonte@globaldial.com BUNBURY HIGH SCHOOL : Past students, staff and partners of Bunbury High School and Bunbury Senior High School are reminded the 2006 annual reunion will be held at the RAAF Association Club, Bull Creek, on Saturday, October 14 at 1.30pm. Cost: $14 (single); $10 (partners). Guest speaker, Malcolm BENNETT. RSVP for catering: September 29. Contact: Phoebe Pinker (Hawksford), 95241242, Judy Stokes (Lewis), 93416692 or Laurel William*. (Tweedie), 9367 3230. NORTHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL : The graduating class of 1986 will hold a 20-year get-together on the weekend of October 14-15. The reunion will be held on Saturday at 7.30pm. Cost: $20 a person (no door sales). A family BYO barbecue will be held at Sir James Mitchell Park on Sunday. Please reply for details. Contact: Gavin Hill, 9488 5050; 0400 664 227. mailto:gavin.hill@securityallied.com.au BENCUBBIN : Residents past and present and their descendents are invited to a reunion to be held on Sunday, October 15. Especially welcome are those who came to the district for short periods — teachers, policemen, railway staff, publicans, business people, farm workers, students, sports players. Venue: Perry Lakes Hockey Pavilion, Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat. Bring your own picnic lunch (hot water and a food warmer available). The centenary of the settlement (1910) of the Mt Marshall district approaches and they are also looking for memorabilia and memories of past times. Contact Kevin Hogan, 22 St Michael Terrace, Mt Pleasant 6153. Tel: 9315 1293. mailto:bonview@bigpond.com NARROGIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL : A 50-year reunion for the Leaving Class of 1956 (and those who left the Junior High School in 1954) will be held on Sunday, October 22. Venue — either Perth or Narrogin — to be decided after interest is gauged. RSVP: September 19. Contact: Gerry Brown, 9293 2517. mailto:browngt39@bigpond.com --End--