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Orange Family History Group Inc
Newsletter
August 2009
National
Family History Week
Hooray! – its own
special week and we’re celebrating in style. Please join us for one
of these events.
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It’s
no surprise to us but tracing your family history is an addictive pastime -
but where do you start?
During
National Family History Week Orange City Library is hosting a one hour
seminar titled Tracing Your Family History – A Beginners Guide to
help family historians get started on the right path. Participants will also learn about useful
family history resources from catalogues to newspapers, websites and
photographs.
It is so
easy to be sidetracked by different family names, spelling variations,
occupations, locations or overwhelmed by information. This seminar is
designed to help you stay organised and focused. Even if you’re way
beyond the beginner stage we’re sure that you’ll know someone
who’d enjoy this seminar.
Place: Orange
City Library
Date: Friday 7 August
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Cost: Free
Bookings: Essential, please call the Library on 6393
8132.
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Catherine Jinks author of The Dark Mountain (and 30 other
books) talks about researching family history and writing novels at Orange
City Library on Saturday 8 August as part of Frost Fest and National Family
History Week. Her novel The Dark Mountain is dedicated to Orange City
Library after researching material for her project using the Local Studies
Collection and being helped by our own Carol Sharp!
Her book is about the Atkinson/McNeilly
family and has links to Orange.
Based on the true story of a colonial family, this compelling tale features
a memorable cast of characters, including Australia's first female
novelist and one of the country's earliest, most notorious serial killers.
Meet author Catherine Jinks on Saturday 8 August from 12pm – 1.30pm.
Please book your place by calling 6393 8132.
Place: Orange
City Library
Date: Saturday 8 August
Time: 12 pm to 1.30 pm
Cost:. Free
Bookings: Essential, please call the Library on 6393
8132.
Orange and
District Pioneer Register on CD-ROM!
We’re delighted to announce that the Orange and District Pioneer Register is now available on CD-ROM. The CD is a compilation of Volumes I and
II of the printed versions and wherever possible, duplicate information has
been merged. Where entries conflicted, the more complete entry was used,
and some revisions were made to families where updated information had been
submitted.
We have added 'Obituary' notes from our own index of the Orange Leader 1899 to 1919. We
cannot guarantee that all obituary notices have been indexed. These
obituaries may range from a notice of death to a full obituary. Copies of
the Orange Leader are available on
microfilm in the Orange City Library.
We’ve also included a sketch to give some scope to the area covered
by this register. Many old names have also been entered on the map. There
were a number of different names used for places whose locations are now
uncertain, or the same name used for more than one place.
A huge vote of thanks to everyone who has been involved in the production
of the CD-ROM and the printed Registers from which it sprung. If
you’d like to order a copy for the fabulous price of $20 (including
postage and packing) complete the order form on the back of this issue of
our newsletter.
From our Correspondents
We love
hearing from our readers. We recently received this email which we thought
we’d share:
“My
Aunt, (Alice) Maude Edmonds,
nee Fitzpatrick, lived in a little house opposite the hotel at Lucknow. The tiny
house had louvered glass windows all along the frontage. Her husband used
to own a Jewellers Shop in Summer Street, Orange at one time. I don’t
remember much more than that, it was a long time ago and I was very little
back then.
I do have
some photographs of the Gold mines in the area taken back in the 1970's.
We also had
family in Orange so a stop over at Lucknow was par for
the course, and that pub. Phew!!!!!!!! didn’t
a cold one go down well after the drive up from Sydney.”
If you’d like to
be put in contact with our correspondent please contact us at familyhistory@orange.nsw.gov.au
What’s new on Ancestry.com.au?
Over the years, Ancestry
has been gradually adding indexes of material from State Records of NSW to their
collections. Now the images for these indexes are available online. For
many of these records, this is the first time the images have been
available digitally – who knows what new information you'll find? Ancestry.com.au is available for you to browse in the
Local Studies and Genealogy Room at the Orange City Library – enjoy!
Collections
with indexes and images:
·
NSW
Convict Death Registers 1828-1879
·
NSW
Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists 1828-1896
·
NSW
Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists 1826-1923
·
Australian
Convict Ship Muster Rolls 1790-1849
·
1841 New
South Wales Census
·
1828 New
South Wales Census
·
NSW Historic
Electoral Rolls 1842-1864
·
Registers
of Convicts' Applications to Marry 1826-1851
·
NSW
Certificates of Naturalisation 1834-1903
Ancestry
has reached a formal agreement with State Records NSW that will see even
more material released over time, so keep an eye out for more exciting
announcements in the future.
Websites involving Surnames
If you have
ancestral links with Great
Britain then you might want to know how
your surname is distributed around the nation. The National Trust is hosing
a web site that will display on a map how a particular surname was
distributed, either in 1881 or 1998:
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/
There is
now a facility called “Surname Navigator” that does multiple
searches for a particular surname. This search engine quickly goes through
all the web sites for a surname and lists all with each page having all the
listings of the name for that site. You can narrow the search to a
particular country as well.
http://surnamenavigator.org/
Another
interesting site allows you to see the distribution of a surname around the
planet, based on the occurrence by frequency per million of population. It
can be reached at:
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/
Research
REILLY/RILEY:
Michael
Reilly/Riley arrived on ship “Peter Maxwell” in 1858. Parents
were Edward and Rose Reilly/Riley from County Cavan, Ireland.
Sisters: Bridget Martin nee Riley living at Hartley and Catherine Vines nee
Riley living at Bathurst.
Grace
Violet Glynn married Patrick Hanrahan in 1937 at
Orange NSW. Grace’s parents
were Michael and Elizabeth Glynn nee Randall
Sue Griffin
404 Summer
Street Orange ph 02 6362 4228
READ:
In search
of descendants of Joseph Francis Read an his wife
Ethel Mary Shelton, married 16 September 1916 in Sydney. They had one son Charles who
served in the RAAF and lived in Canberra
during the 1950s and 1960s. Please email suegil52@yahoo.com.au or phone 6361
9019.
MCAULEY:
Descendants/relatives
of Robert McAuley, born Browns Creek, Carcoar on
14 February 1868, son of John and Mary McAuley.
Please email suegil52@yahoo.com.au
or phone 6361 9019.
BRAY, LANE AND PEARSE FAMILIES:
Nicholas
Bray and Joanna (nee Lane) Bray, their sons Samuel, William and John, their
daughter Mary; Mary’s husband Thomas Pearse
and Thomas; sister (and later Samuel’s wife) Joanna Lane. The eldest child in the
family, James Bray, emigrated with is uncle William Lane.
Enquiry
relates to where the Bray family might have lived when they arrived in
Byng/Cornish Settlement.
Contact:
Margaret Small
MCCONNELL
John
McConnell, son of Samuel and Agnes McConnell married Sarah Williams.
Sarah’s first marriage: Dooley; children Susan Ann Pulley, James
Dooley, Ellen Maria (first marriage Alexander Barnett, second marriage John
Douglas Williams). John and Sarah’s children: John Edward McConnell, Maruy Eliza Kissell, Margaret
Cunneen, Samuel McConnell, George Archibald MCConnell, Charles Conelius
McConnell, Sarah Amelia Miller, Agnes Emma McConnell and Donald McConnell.
Contact:
Virginia Nicholas.
COLLINS
John Collins born Canterbury,
Kent
between 1859 and 1862. He married Mary Jaques at
St Johns Church of England Wallerawang in 1887. Children: Emma Elizabeth
Collins, John William Thomas Collins, Albert Celvestine
Collins, Arthur Ernest Collins, Oswald Harold Collins, Elsie Beatrice
Collins and Leonard Clare Collins. The family has been told he arrived in Australia
with his brother, but to date cannot locate any shipping records which
confirm this. No record of brother’s name can be found.
Contact: Greig Collins
Information
on Aboriginal name – was Jimmy then changed name to Euroka Coboone.
Donald
McLean married Mary Ann Lewis at Bathurst
1859. Information on Henry Lewis and Ellen Purcell.
Contact:
John Brasnet
Obituaries
and Probates for the following people: Ada
Livingstone (nee Cornish) died 12 November 1953; John Cornish died 6 August
1939; Ellen Angus (nee Doyle) died 23 August 1900; John Angus died 20
December 1923; Sarah Angus (nee McMullen died 27 March 1887; Hector Angus
died 18 November 1876; Mara Agland (nee Pike)
died 14 May 1908; William Agland died 10 December
1906; Madge Livingstone (nee Gallagher ) died 7 September 1913; James
Livingstone died 10 July 1902, Lillian McArdle
(nee Angus) died 16 August 1934; John Smith (died surname McArdle) died 25 May 1936; Rose Ann Pollett
(nee Godfrey) died 17 September 1935; and Emma Cornish (nee Agland) died 10 September 1928
Contact: Corolie Larrea
James Woody
died 21 July 1936, buried Roman Catholic Section, Orange Cemetery,
unmarked grave. Possibly James Wooby born Hobart,
Tasmania, his father Thomas.
Contact
Carol McCaul
Henry
Pollard born in Exeter UK in 1858. Arrived in Australia
some time prior to 1878. He joined the NSW Artillery in Sydney
and joined the NSW Police Department in 1883 as a Police Photographer in Sydney. He was
transferred to Goulburn. Pollard was a Police Constable stationed in Temora
and he resigned from his job and became a travelling photographer but the
business failed after just three months. His business partner was George
Fletcher, also a Police Constable from Temora. It appears when in Orange he sold all the photographic gear to Mr King,
an Orange Photographer and the wagon and horses to Mr Ridge, proprietor of
Ridge’s Royal Tycoon Circus which was in Orange at the time (October or November
1885). Henry Pollard returned to the Police Force and re-enrolled on 7
November 1885 as a Probationary Constable in the Sydney Metropolitan
District. Henry’s wife was Alice Pollard.
Contact:
Tony Slattery
William
Duggan died 23 April 1914. He was married to Charlotte Pulley who died 29
November 1932. Children: Mary
Philomena Madded, died 1968 in Dubbo; William Thomas Duggan died 29 March
1955; Catherine McAlister died 1964 in Sydney; Thomas Duggan died 14 August
1954, buried at Botany Cemetery; Margaret Theresa Smith died 11 July 1953,
buried botany Cemetery; Dennis Duggan died 29 February 1896, buried Orange
Cemetery; Bridget Cecilia Duggan died 7 October 1976, buried Orange
Cemetery; Ellen (Nellie) Duggan died 2 February 1900, buried Orange
Cemetery and Josephine Duggan, died 24 December 1925.
Charlotte
Pulley: father William Pulley and
mother Mary Bulger
Contact:
Brian Duggan
John
Withers who operated a tinsmith shop at Anson Street, Orange.
He laid town water in Orange
and his name adorned trapdoors on control boxes in the ground. He served as
a council alderman in Orange Council from 1894 to 1896. He was in the
Masonic and Oddfellows Lodges. He died at Private Hospital at Marrickville on 9
September 1934 aged 92 years. Wife Elizabeth Withers (nee Cooper) died 30
March 1925 at her residence 2
Gowrie Street, Newtown,
aged 82 years.
Henrietta E
Barnett (nee Withers) born 1877 reg Orange
married William Barnett. She died 23 May 1979 aged 101. Buried at Woronora Cemetery.
Contact:
Jon Rankin
Barnett and
Withers families.
Contact:
Patricia Davies
Stella Madalean Jenkins (nee Kidd0 married John Thomas Jenkins
in April, 1912. He died 11 July 1962 and is buried in Cudal Cemetery.
She died on 30 November 1975. Children: Edna Muriel married George New man
in February 1947 in Cudal. She died in 1997 in Innisfail Qld. Wallace
Stanley married Catherine Grace Goldspink in May
1941 in Manildra. He died 7 April 1987 in Hurlstone
Park, Sydney and Doris Aileen (twin Wallace)
Jenkins, she never married and lived in Cudal from 1940, died 25 August
1991. Buried at Cudal Cemetery. Goldspink
surname.
Contact
Yvonne Hall
Newsletter Rewards
Our Newsletter has certainly shown its
value. It is distributed to a very wide area, and the feedback is
remarkable.
I submitted
an article about my Hurle family (my maternal
grandfather and others) which was printed in the journal, and lo and behold
an email was sent to me via the Orange library from Queensland from a Hurle
descendant of my grandfather’s brother.
Neither
this girl nor I know of each other, and we are now having a wonderful time
keeping in touch and exchanging miles of information. Each of us is filling
in many blanks and it is just wonderful fringing a new ‘cousin’
and her family.
Keep
reading this Newsletter and other
journals – you might be lucky, as I was, and come across an unknown
‘cousin’. Shirley
Great Viewing
Television
stations have just recently realised what we family historians have known
for years – that family history is a dynamic
interest, an addictive hobby and an important quest. The acquired knowledge
can be an asset in many areas – certainly including the medical
history which can result in life-saving decisions.
The
television programs dealing with family history are: ‘Find my
Family’ and ‘Missing Links on commercial stations and
‘Can We Help?’ on ABC TV as well as repeats of ‘Who Do
You Think you Are?’ on SBS. The interest seemed to start with
‘Who Do You Think You Are’ on SBS and soon the other channels
saw it was a winning subject (and
got in on the act) and well worthwhile having similar programs.
All have
been most successful and have triggered much interest and make all research
officers of Family History Groups very busy.
PROV on line
Proactive,
The magazine of Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is now available on
line at http:///www.prov.vic.gov.au/publications.
The best way to stay in touch with PROV news, and to keep informed about
our public programs, is by regularly checking in with rEsearch,
our free, bimonthly online newsletters. If you would like to be contacted
whenever a new issue of rEsearch goes online,
contact PROV on ask.prov@prov.vic.gov.au
and ask to subscribe to the rEsearch mailing
list.
Time to Remember
The
Australian War Memorial’s website is a great starting point for your
research into Australia’s
involvement in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. They have
databases, digitised images and on-line exhibitions to lead you where you
want to go. Initially, go to: http://www.ofhg.com.au/client/index.cfm/2009/4/24/time-to-remember.
a comment from one user of this site: Í cannot thank you enough for this
information. I managed to download my grandfather’s army record
– all 40 pages of it! – and my
recently deceased uncle’s navy record!, as well as other information.
I am ever so grateful, thanks a bunch”.
www.ofhg.com.au | familyhistory@orange.nsw.gov.au
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