tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24465020164398498932024-03-13T23:05:57.375-07:00Maffra and District Historical SocietyM&DHS operates the Maffra Sugar Beet Museum, part of the Local History Collection at the Maffra Library, and a Dairy Museum at the Robotic Dairy at Winnindoo.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-972101034161987422014-10-26T16:12:00.000-07:002014-10-26T16:15:24.696-07:00Maffra Show<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had an absolutely super time at the Maffra Show on Saturday to end History Week. Many thanks to Judy from Stratford, who made it possible with her ute, and was with us for the day, and to Margaret from Briag who was also lending a hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were perfectly positioned in the food court, with Glenmaggie Wines (nice neighbours) next to us, and plenty of good food options on the other - and even the Galloping Bean about twenty steps away for coffee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh Yes - and we did talk to a lot of people about history too. We will be back there next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Johnson Street, Vol 2, the south side from the river to Empire Place, is now here, and on sale from Sunday. Price is $12.00 plus $3.50 postage, from P.O. Box 321, Maffra 3860. Although there will be a special during <b><a href="http://maffrahs.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/volume-2-of-johnson-street-is-on-its-way.html" target="_blank">the launch</a></b>. All welcome.</span></div>
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Surname Index<br />
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Alvin 48
Anderson 33
Andrews 33, 41, 43<br />
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Backman 33
Balfour 42
Barbour 9
Bates 23
Bennett 26
Bertino 23
Bicker 13
Borthwick 42-43
Boyd 41
Brown 31
Bryant 47
Burnett 5
Burns 9
Byrne 6<br />
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Cameron 12
Casbolt 25
Clark 27
Clarke, 18, 47
Coridas 9, 12, 32
Cowden 41
Craig 8
Crisp 6
Cunninghame 20<br />
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Davidson 48
Davis 4, 5, 6, 8
de Visser 33
Donnelly 15
Duffin 27, 33<br />
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Eatwell 41
English 42<br />
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Fendley 9
Ferguson 6
Field 27
Fullerton 32, 44-45, 48
Fulton 20, 21, 28, 29, 35, 38-41, 43, 48<br />
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Gault 26
Gibbs 18
Gibney 4, 5, 30
Goodwin 25
Gorman 33
Graham 13
Green 47
Griffiths 47<br />
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Haiz 30, 31
Hales 28
Hall 27
Hammond 46, 47
Harding 12
Harper 7
Hastings 4
Hawes 35
Hearne 33
Hibbins 13
Hollingworth 25
Hunter 33
Hurley 47
Hussey 36<br />
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Jenner 24, 25, 35, 36
Johnson 4, 5
Jose 33<br />
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Kellett 23
Kennedy 26
Knight 41, 43<br />
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Lancaster 41
Lawson 33
Lee 33, 48
Lees 25, 29, 45
Lestrange 27
Little 42-43
Lyons 13<br />
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MacNicol 6
Manson 5, 8
Marshall 41
Maxwell 19, 20
McBride 31, 34
McDonald 47, 48
McLean 43
Meddings 28
Mellon 47
Merry 5
Moss 41<br />
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Neilson 26, 48
Nelson 23
Nisbet 34<br />
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O’Keefe 21
Oliver 8<br />
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Patterson 41, 43
Peck 42
Pettit 4
Phillips 48
Pitt 25, 33, 35-37, 39, 48
Pleydell 20
Powell 37
Pruden 47
Pyvis 16, 18<br />
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Rautman 26
Reeves 9
Rice 47
Roach/Roche 20
Roberts 23
Robotham 21, 22
Roche/Roach 36<br />
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Scott 23
Semmens 36
Shea 5
Sheedy 19, 20
Shingles 34
Silvester 6
Slattery 28
Stagg 7
Standish 9
Stocks 46
Streeter 24, 25, 31, 35, 36<br />
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Taylor 27
Thomas 4
Thompson 23
Tulloch 18<br />
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Wain 15
Warriner 48
Warry 42
Watts 48
Webster 47
Weir 8
Whieldon 6
Williams 7, 8, 25, 31,
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Wilson 19
Wishart 26
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-2132034914891836762014-09-19T01:54:00.002-07:002014-10-15T21:00:41.637-07:00Volume 2 of Johnson Street is on its way<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aP-WmuMiRGs/VBvuL_oNxsI/AAAAAAAABYw/B_tG0QMOphc/s1600/P04997VMFF.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aP-WmuMiRGs/VBvuL_oNxsI/AAAAAAAABYw/B_tG0QMOphc/s1600/P04997VMFF.JPG" height="408" width="640" /></a></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just a reminder - keep the date free for Sunday 19 October. That is when we will gather at the Macalister Hotel for lunch at midday (for those who choose to), and then at 2pm a walk along the south side of the first block in Johnson Street (ie opposite the hotel). At the same time we will launch the book for that block.
Maybe, just maybe, that is when we will be pointing out where C. McBride's Boot Shop was - does anyone know who owns the album where the original photo can be found? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or, does anyone know anything about Charles McBride? He was born in Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland, and married Anne Jane McIlwraith in 1873. They had five children in Maffra between 1874 and 1883.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS Tea (or coffee) and bickkies at the Museum after the walk. Bookings for lunch, and to let us know numbers for the museum, to Carol on 0408 461 740, or by e-mail to <a href="mailto:maffra@ausvic.net">maffra@ausvic.net</a>.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-17805104012341277752014-08-03T22:30:00.002-07:002014-08-03T22:30:53.940-07:00WWI Declared<span style="font-size: large;">Today, as we recognise the centenary of the declaration of World War I, we remember all those who served, and all the families who lost members in the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Research continues on Louie Riggall, who we now understand was one of only three Australian Red Cross women to die on service. We hope to be able to announce, in conjunction with Stratford and District Historical Society, publication in the near future of a small book on Louie, Alice Mitchell and Annie Whitelaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, the most pressing matter occupying Maffra immediately after the declaration of war, was the whereabouts of the sugarbeet seed for the next season, somewhere on the high seas on a German ship. Was it going to arrive, or would the ship get news of events, and immediately abort its arrival in Melbourne?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The full story will appear in our next Bulletin, which is currently being finalised.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-84343708922410132672014-07-30T05:53:00.002-07:002014-08-01T22:02:02.276-07:00Family Enquiry - DANIEL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Society has received an enquiry, seeking descendents of William Lawrence (or Laurence) DANIEL and his wife Cassandra <i>nee</i> GEDDES. William operated the Maffra Arcade, on the site of today's IGA Supermarket in Johnson Street, Maffra, from at least 1901 until his death in 1925. His son Charles may have then carried on the shop for a time. William was a grandson of Mary Daniel of Wolverton, through her son Frank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Known children were: Charles Reid and Frederick Belton (twins, b. 1886), William Lawrence b.1887, Vivian Belton b. Coalville 1889 and Barbara (b. Maffra 1897). Charles fought in WWI, and died in Melbourne in 1967, Frederick died "B'dale" (Bairnsdale?) in 1952, Vivian was <b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67387838" target="_blank">KIA in France in 1917</a></b>, and Beryl died as Beryl ENGELBACH in Richmond (Melb) in 1976.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone can assist, please contact the Society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">LATE NEWS: We have managed to connect our enquirer with Laurie Daniel, who is a son of Charles Daniel - we are happy to have been of assistance.</span><br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-35473352023668509922014-07-28T00:41:00.002-07:002014-07-28T00:41:30.535-07:00Maffra in 1882<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some readers may not be aware that the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/70" target="_blank"><b><i>Illustrated Australian News</i></b></a> (from Melbourne) is online through Trove. One gem in there is this engraving of Maffra, published on 13 May 1882. You can have a close up look at the engraving <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63185997" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is also a description of the town, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63185997" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bit of a worry though, that it still thinks it is the Shire of Avon (when Maffra was formed in 1875), and I am not really sure the Anglican Church quite looked like that. Was there an earlier one?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a lot of local family notices, and a search for illustrated articles where the words Gipps Land appear comes up with some gems.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-17387905090776203622014-06-28T01:59:00.002-07:002014-06-28T02:05:44.534-07:00Family Equiry - MOON<span style="font-size: large;">The Society has received an enquiry about the MOON family - John Hinton MOON (1858-1937) was at Maffra as a tailor by 1880. His father, James Hinton MOON died there in 1880 and was a clerk. John is said to have come to Maffra to learn tailoring from a relative, who we have not yet been able to identify.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One location that we have been able to tie him to is on the southern side of Johnson Street, just near the bridge. John married Wilhelmina RICHARDSON (c.1855-1947), a tailoress from Carlton in 1882. Their first child was born at Maffra in 1883, but the family was in Richmond by the birth of the next one in 1886.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, about April 1894, John's younger brother, Alfred (Albert) Ernest MOON (1869 -1935) arrived in Maffra, and remained there, Maffra's tailor until his death. His shop, in McFadyen's Emporium (under what is now Slattery's/Cervus machinery yard) features in our first volume on Johnson Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Maffra Spectator</i>, 18 April 1894</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A.E. Moon married Ellen Emma HARRIGAN in 1894, and they had a number of children in Maffra. By Christmas Day, December 1913, he was operating from further along Johnson Street, when his was one of the shops destroyed in the <b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67395167" target="_blank">Great Fire of Maffra</a></b>. As a result he moved back to McFadyen's, and held a fire sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wilhelmina RICHARDSON has proved elusive in records, said to have been the daughter of Roland RICHARDSON, a farmer and Margaret MILLER, born about 1855 at Creswick, but this needs confirmation. Nothing is yet known of Ellen Emma HARRIGAN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone can assist with further details of this family, please contact the Society.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-62864863015075875142014-05-17T04:16:00.001-07:002014-05-17T04:16:08.325-07:00Family Enquiries - Low and Jessop<span style="font-size: large;">The Society has received enquiries about two very similar families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">James Lowe married Ann DAVIDSON/DAVISON in 1865, and in October 1867 purchased two lots in a Crown Lands auction, on the Macalister River in the Parish of Tinamba. This was on the western side of Hagans bridge at Upper Maffra. This section shows those blocks. James was first described as a carrier, and later a farmer. He and his wife had six children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In October 1868, James JESSOP purchased one lot of 22 acres at a Crown Lands sale - the full list of purchasers can be seen <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61341992" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. This land was on the eastern approach to Mansons bridge - so just across the river and a bit downstream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">James Jessop married Maria PAGET, and they had at least six children from 1857 to 1865 at Tarraville/Alberton, and the seventh at Maffra in 1868. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those who do not know Mansons bridge, it is between Tinamba and Newry, and distinguished by being curved, not straight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone can assist with further details of these two families, it would be appreciated if you would contact the Society on <a href="mailto:maffra@ausvic.net">maffra@ausvic.net</a></span><br />
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<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-67551103440289398122014-05-04T05:07:00.000-07:002014-05-04T05:07:11.769-07:00Bulletin 134 is out<span style="font-size: large;">Bulletin 134 will be going in the mail tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Contents are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">President's Report (and here is the picture of her, with the Mayor and the Purple Pig, in colour!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, back at the serious stuff. We have:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Donald McFadyen, the bootmaker in Johnson Street</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Horresdale family</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Details of the first land sale, on 1 June 1864. All names included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Louie Riggall - Gippsland's Florence Nightingale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Baptisms in the former Maffra Shire by the Rev John Roberts, Dec 1877 to December 1881.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Ted Clark Collection - details on an important addition to our photographs and records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Single copies $4.00 from the Museum, or just add postage for a letter.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-21319197610342431842014-05-04T02:00:00.000-07:002014-05-15T07:02:22.407-07:00Please Join Us for our 150th!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"> The Macalister Hotel, Johnson Street, Maffra. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maffra's longest-operating business, and a feature of our new book.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Maffra & District Historical Society </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Invites you to celebrate with us </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the 150th anniversary of the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">first Land Sales in Maffra, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">which occurred on the 1st June 1864 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are invited to join us for lunch at the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday 1st June 2014
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12 noon </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(at your own expense) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(The Sugarbeet Museum will be open </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from 10am to midday) </span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mhWAmM5wuNU/U2X-r0FQFEI/AAAAAAAABOM/55M_9TXZ1H4/s1600/P03709VMFF.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;">This will be followed by a conducted walk starting at 2pm
from the Macalister Hotel to the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Commercial Bank of Australasia
then walking along the other side of the street
to </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the Beet Museum for afternoon tea </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> and the launch of the first book in a series, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">on the history of Johnson Street </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> RSVP
FOR LUNCH BOOKINGS
BY 23RD MAY 2014 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">CAROL </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">0408461740 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">51 471740</span>
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-6362088077992145722014-03-29T02:07:00.002-07:002014-03-29T15:11:18.569-07:00Callander and Forer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are currently working our way through a collection of photographs of Maffra and surrounds from the late Ted Clark, and are stumped by this one. We do not know of a Callander and Forer store locally, and checking on Trove shows them at Dookie and Wangaratta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We have really worked hard on it, but cannot read any words on the other shops.<br /><br />This looks more like Wangaratta to us, but can anyone confirm it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Late Note:</b></u> Thanks to Jackie on the Rootsweb AUS-VIC-NORTHEAST mailing list - This is in Mary Street
Dookie in 1906.
The two men in suits with the boy to the left are Callander and Forer.
</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-82422943593275481972014-03-23T03:43:00.001-07:002014-03-23T03:43:51.764-07:00Burgoyne Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Society has received an enquiry about the Burgoyne family at Maffra, with two later branches marrying into the McMichael family at Licola (so Linda knows them pretty well).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photograph above is of the Burgoyne home on the Macalister River below Burgoynes Gap on the Licola Road. The site has since been re-roofed and had a verandah erected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The family consists of Thomas Burgoyne (1833-1893, died Maffra) and Mary Ann Moore (1834-1924, died Maffra). Associated family names known for the next generation are McMichael, Teychenne and Graham.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We know Thomas was connected with the first Maffra Cheese Factory in the 1870s, which was somewhere on Finchley (we think).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone is connected with the family, and wishes to be put in contact with the enquirer, who is descended from a sister of Mary Ann Moore, please contact the Society. Any further information would also be appreciated.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-20293976161615878422014-03-06T01:27:00.005-08:002014-03-06T01:27:56.909-08:00Robert Curwen at Mewburn Park<span style="font-size: large;">Does anyone out there know anything about Robert Curwen, who was a soldier settler at Bushy Park after World War I? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sgt Curwen appears to have been there about 1920. He was actually the first to have his sugarbeet into the factory one year, but was gone by 1925.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can read a little about his exploits in the war, when he was in the first group to embark (and that is another whole story!), on Lenore Frost's blog <b><a href="http://empirecall.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/missing-embarkation-roll-n-1914.html" target="_blank">The Empire Called</a></b>.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-37644781332177079722014-02-15T14:35:00.000-08:002014-02-15T14:35:04.790-08:00Bulletin 133 available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bulletin 133 is now available. Its contents include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A detailed description of the <b><a href="http://maffrahs.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/factory-aerials-from-1940s.html" target="_blank">c.1945 photograph</a></b> on the cover</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Histories of the Saleyards, Scout Hall and Clark Bros, in the first three blocks under study in Johnson Street. This Bulletin is the last of our research for these blocks - the book is coming soon, and we will then move to to the block from Dalgetys' Corner to the Post Office. Any further information on these blocks/buildings would be appreciated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Story of the grave of William Saffon at Blanket Hill, north of Glenmaggie, and his family's life in Maffra. Includes details of the actual location of the grave, and construction of the current memorial by the Maffra Shire in the 1930s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Presbyterian Baptisms by the Rev Roberts in the former Maffra Shire, 1876-1877</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">News and notes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Copies have been mailed to subscribers - single copies are available from the Society at $4.00 posted - please add 60cents postage.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-25928980644784619732014-01-30T13:27:00.001-08:002014-01-30T13:28:15.481-08:00Factory Aerials from 1940s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qpp8Cvo05m4/UurAfb1xAHI/AAAAAAAABGQ/51St09n0yjg/s1600/P04820VMFF+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qpp8Cvo05m4/UurAfb1xAHI/AAAAAAAABGQ/51St09n0yjg/s1600/P04820VMFF+cropped.jpg" height="330" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a set of 24 aerial photographs of the Maffra factory area, taken about 1945-1946 by the RAAF Base at East Sale. These came out of a good camera, and while we cannot quite read the registration numbers on the trucks (!), they are pretty special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so is our secretary/treasurer, Spencer, who started work at the Maffra Co-op in 1946, and was there for fifty years. His knowledge of the area is invaluable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this one, above, cropped from a larger photo, the Maffra Co-op is in the foreground, with Nestles on the other side of the railway line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the left of Bundalaguah Road, which passes the two factories, are two houses in the foreground. The first was the Merlo family, the second a man whose name Spencer cannot recall – but he remembers he milked a cow in the back yard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Passing Nestles, in the small triangle of land is a factory built in 1891 as the first dairy factory in the town – the Melbourne Fresh Food and Frozen Storage Company. It closed in 1896, and later became the cordial factory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Behind it is the Nestles hostel, with the single men's huts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other side of Bundalaguah Road, going towards the town, the large building is the old Nestles stables, from the time they collected milk cans with a horse and cart. The next shed is probably part of that complex too, next to the where Kris Bodenstaaf lived as the Nestles foreman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next is the station master’s house, with its ornate garden, and across Railway Place, the railway gate-keeper’s house. Mr Hill, who had lost both his legs, was one gate-keeper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other side of the railway line is the turntable, where locomotives were turned around to face the opposite direction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, across Station Street was a house where we are still looking for names for the occupants. Can anyone help? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out of the picture, on the right, are the railway station, the wine saloon, Willsmere, the sugarbeet factory and the dehydration factory (now The Shed). We have them in other photographs in the set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, how did we do the identifications?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We sat around the big table in the Library, and projected the photographs up on a small screen, and everyone had a go at them. Library staff put up a sign at the desk inviting people to join in, and a few did. They are good like that, our Library people. All in all - a good afternoon's work.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-67481108547720967482013-11-15T07:15:00.001-08:002013-11-15T07:17:02.207-08:00Maffra Buildings in 1939<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-wokGHR_18/UoY1soYGb2I/AAAAAAAAA8A/WZVKfVX8RPQ/s1600/SCAN2602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-wokGHR_18/UoY1soYGb2I/AAAAAAAAA8A/WZVKfVX8RPQ/s640/SCAN2602.JPG" width="544" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the gems in our collection that we are currently digitising is a set of two maps prepared in 1939 when Maffra was sewered. These show the outline of all buildings, including sheds and outhouses, and their construction materials - usually W for weatherboard or B for brick. GI stood for galvanised iron, B&FC was brick and fibro-cement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, in the example above, between Kent and Alfred Streets, the bottom house is concrete, with a weatherboard kitchen. This was the home of, and probably designed by shire engineer and surveyor G.T. Jones. It was demolished many years ago, and the site is now occupied by six houses and a much larger hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the top is a detailed outline of the hospital, with its extensive verandahs. The house between the two even shows the outline of a "fish pond".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far we have only copied the buildings either side of Johnson Street, but once completed these detailed views will be a valuable resource for historians and genealogists.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-10920766747741482692013-10-30T04:16:00.002-07:002013-10-30T07:21:26.791-07:00Early Labor Party records<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1ljPtmkDnYw/UnDpMhHmk2I/AAAAAAAAA6I/wtNUXMbB4iQ/s1600/P01339VMFF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1ljPtmkDnYw/UnDpMhHmk2I/AAAAAAAAA6I/wtNUXMbB4iQ/s400/P01339VMFF.jpg" width="393" /> </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes, something unexpected comes along. We are working away cataloguing, and have just found that what we previously thought was a set of farm records from 1944 to about 1956, was actually written in a much earlier book, which held the records of membership payments by the Maffra Branch of the Political Labor Council. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Digging around, we found this had actually become the Australian Labor Party in 1908 - although this book, with the above stamp, was used for the records for 1913 to 1915. [Late note - see comments - it obviously operated under this name well after 1908]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a few women in there - not many, but a few. It will be interesting to be able to pass on to families who enquire, details of their ancestors' political affiliations - not something we usually know.</span></div>
<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-28560529511636756822013-10-26T01:13:00.000-07:002013-10-26T01:13:10.242-07:00Wonderful Day at the Maffra Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2fyWQnuW7kQ/Umt4ensirpI/AAAAAAAAA54/r86uSeX7Ng4/s1600/2013-10-26LMBf.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2fyWQnuW7kQ/Umt4ensirpI/AAAAAAAAA54/r86uSeX7Ng4/s640/2013-10-26LMBf.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Members of the Wellington Shire Heritage Network had a great time at the 125th Maffra Show today - our contribution to <b><a href="http://www.historyweek.org.au/" target="_blank">History Week</a></b>. We had all sorts of visitors, showed films, gave advice, handed out our new brochure and sold books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see the rest of our photos on the <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2337756@N24/" target="_blank">History Week Flickr group</a> </b>- everyone is too exhausted to type any more!</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-17422666456433783822013-10-25T01:47:00.002-07:002013-10-26T00:17:16.215-07:00Links<span style="font-size: large;">This post is to provide clickable links for websites we have mentioned to people at the Maffra Show for <b><a href="http://www.historyweek.org.au/" target="_blank">History Week</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44268933@N05/sets" target="_blank">Heyfield Irrigation Album photographs</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.communityheritage.net.au/" target="_blank">Australia's Community Heritage</a> </b>- for local stories of places, people and events.<b> </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/titles?state=Victoria" target="_blank">All newspapers from Victoria that are on the internet through Trove</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Individual titles on Trove </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/484" target="_blank">Gippsland Guardian, 1855-1868</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/108" target="_blank">Gippsland Times, 1861-1954</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/209" target="_blank">Maffra Spectator, 1882-1920</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/316" target="_blank">Gippsland Mercury, 1914-1918</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/316" target="_blank">Stratford Sentinel and Briagolong Progress, 1914-1916</a></b> (1911-1913 coming soon)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/568" target="_blank">Heyfield Herald, 1914-1918</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/560" target="_blank">Gippsland Standard and Alberton Shire Representative [Yarram], 1914-1918</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/602" target="_blank">Rosedale Courier, 1914-1918</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.communityheritage.net.au/christening-gowns-through-decades-0" target="_blank">Christening Gowns the Decades - Heyfield Memorial Hall April 2014</a></b></span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-26131985293494995172013-10-24T16:48:00.000-07:002013-10-26T01:24:13.788-07:00Release of Irrigation photographs<span style="font-size: large;">The Society is excited to be releasing not one, but three new books at the Maffra Show tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Heyfield Irrigation Alum, a large photograph Album from 1948 to 1952 is now being shown as a Powerpoint presentation, with two books to match - available by order only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first is a 109 page high-quality computer printout of the whole presentation, featuring select photographs in album order - there are over 650 in total, so this is only a small selection. This sells for $25. Delivery is free in the Maffra area, please add $6 if postage is required.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xNTY2PwzYxM/UmmxMMBHh5I/AAAAAAAAA5o/Rf8AiygJt1Q/s1600/P00751-07VMFF.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="341" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xNTY2PwzYxM/UmmxMMBHh5I/AAAAAAAAA5o/Rf8AiygJt1Q/s400/P00751-07VMFF.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second is a half-size facsimile of the whole album, reproducing each page similar to above. The photographs are small, but all captions are legible. This gives a detailed history of an important time in Heyfield's history, and of irrigation in general. This is </span><span style="font-size: large;">69 pages, and sells for $20. Free delivery in the Maffra area, or please add $5 if postage is required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will be having these printed as required, so please allow several weeks for the order to forwarded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The majority of <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44268933@N05/sets" target="_blank">the album can also be seen online</a></b>.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-22176065103989781112013-10-24T16:38:00.002-07:002013-10-26T01:16:24.636-07:00Traction Engine photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Society is releasing a small A4 booklet of all its Traction Engine photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This book, of about 30 pages, will be released as part of <b><a href="http://www.historyweek.org.au/" target="_blank">History Week</a> </b>at the Maffra Show on 26 October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book will be available by order only - it will be printed as ordered. It is priced at $15 a copy, with free delivery in the Maffra area, or please add $5 if postage is required.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-91751621735729937842013-10-22T17:39:00.002-07:002013-10-22T17:39:46.847-07:00See us at the Show<span style="font-size: large;">We are off to the Maffra Show next Saturday, with other members of the Wellington Shire Heritage Network, for <b><a href="http://www.historyweek.org.au/" target="_blank">History Week</a></b>.</span><br />
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From the Heyfield Irrigation Album 1948 - 1952, which we will be featuring.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Maffra's 125th show, so we will fit in well with the historical theme - in this case showcasing Irrigation, Dairy Factories and Milk Trucks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are there, do stop by and see us in the Food Court area.</span><br />
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<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-59473640351272016632013-09-25T04:34:00.003-07:002013-09-25T04:34:49.087-07:00Heyfield Herald online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Heyfield Herald</i> is now <b><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/568" target="_blank">online through Trove</a></b>, for 1914-1918.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/607" target="_blank"><b><i>Stratford Sentinel and Briagolong Express</i></b></a> for 1914-1916 is there also. From 1911 to 1913 is still to come.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-86715688626565497622013-07-25T00:02:00.000-07:002013-08-07T19:52:50.115-07:00Psssst! Want to see our Rates Books????<span style="font-size: large;">As part of <b><a href="http://www.familyhistoryweek.org.au/" target="_blank">National Family History Month</a></b>, Wellington Shire Library Service will be hosting the Maffra and District Historical Society at the Maffra Library, Johnson St, Maffra, from 1.30pm to 3pm on Thursday 22 August.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will be taking the opportunity to show a range of examples of the types of information to be found in the Rates Books from the former Maffra Shire, recently copied. And, if time permits, we will also update people on our work on photographs of the first block in our Johnson Street research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please RSVP to Maffra Library on 03-5147 1052 for catering purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, just as a teaser, we showed a section of an early rate book page <b><a href="http://maffrahs.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/maffra-shire-rate-books.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>, when we started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We thought you might just like to know how it ended up - here is a random shot (in other words, not specially chosen) of the book from 1948-1952. Enjoy!</span><br />
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(<b>Late Note</b>, for those becoming excited about Margaret Pendlebury, above, a carpenter. In 1943, when the previous book was compiled, this property was owned by Kenneth Pendlebury, carpenter. It was transferred, probably some time in 1946, to Margaret Pendlebury. At the same time land in the same street, in the name of Charles Matthew Pendlebury was transferred to Thomas Edwin Cyril Pendlebury. So when this roll was compiled in 1947, the term "carpenter" was probably incorrectly carried over. Would have made a good story!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did think, however, that this is the best pick of the miscellaneous pieces of information we found randomly inserted. The Heyfield and District Co-operative Butter Factory was a progressive and important part of Heyfield. But even in 1951, it would have been unusual for the all-male directors of a company to decide to give votes to which they were entitled in council elections, so that a woman had the opportunity to vote.</span><br />
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<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446502016439849893.post-83623971834311708222013-07-14T00:00:00.002-07:002013-07-14T00:00:50.173-07:00Saffon, Quirk, Clarke etc<span style="font-size: large;">The Society currently has an enquiry about the descendents of Ellen Ford, through her marriage to William Saffon (the grave at Blanket Hill, north of Glenmaggie) and Edward Penders (or possibly Pendergast) at Tarraville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were four children - a son killed young on the Walhalla Road, possibly without issue, and three girls. They married into the Quirk, Clarke and Hogan / Lyon families, who all lived in Maffra. One family in the next generation of Quirks was the Shingles family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you wish to share information, please feel free to contact the Society.</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205010291496207355noreply@blogger.com0