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Jun 17, 2014 •
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N.B. Sydney Jim is a real mystery. The name indicates that he was from Sydney but the lack of a surname indicates that he may have been aboriginal. Angela Evans said that he was a half caste but no pr...
Jun 15, 2014 •
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Advertising
Mornington Standard (Frankston, Vic. : 1911 - 1920) Saturday 2 November 1912 p 2 Advertising
GOLD MINING (Column 4, item 4.)
BLAIR'S (Column 3, item 2.)
Sometimes when I'm looking ...
Jun 14, 2014 •
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TALK ON CHANGE. "I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you." ?SHAKSPEARE. "Quamquam ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat?"?HORACE.
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Saturday 5 Jan...
Jun 13, 2014 •
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I recently wrote about Cr William Ford's nautical cook on Wannaeue Station. This was bounded by Eastbourne Rd (still known as Ford's Lane in about 1903),Jetty/Old Cape Schanck Rds, Hiscock Rd and Bone...
Jun 12, 2014 •
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FROM BEZZA.
Hi XXX I am still working on this (WILL WILL ROOK) cemetery list. The family Howse, have the name of the hotel as Travellers Home Hotel Deep Creek Road Tullamarine. It is listed family c...
Jun 6, 2014 •
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It can take hours to find something on trove that I know perfectly well is there. Rosebud now has a great little community paper called ROSEBUD RIPPLE and I was about to write an article about Thomas ...
Jun 2, 2014 •
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This is the first time I've written about something that never existed (as far as I know.)I have suggested that coastal town historical societies and like bodies compile a roll of honour of maritime h...
May 30, 2014 •
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Having discovered that descendants of Mornington (Osborne) pioneer,George Hutchins, had moved to the Williamstown area, I recalled that descendants of Ben Stenniken (Rye,Tootgarook)and William Jamieso...
May 27, 2014 •
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The ceremony was again wonderfully attended and the guest speaker,Chief Petty Officer Natasha McRoe R.A.N., HMAS Cerberus mentioned three lads born in Rosebud who served in W.W.2. Two of them were fro...
May 26, 2014 •
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George Page Barber, one of Melbourne's early lawyers, married the daughter of Thomas Napier, (one of Melbourne's early residents) and spent many years practising law in Warrnambool before Eleanor inhe...
May 23, 2014 •
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FOR THE TEACHERS.
It will be the 110th anniversary in November, 2015, of William John Ferrier's heroic rescues of crewmen from the La Bella at Warrnambool. Ferrier became an OVERNIGHT NATIONAL HERO w...
May 16, 2014 •
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Steve Burnham's website
Hi XXX, just a note to say the website is back up. But it's at www.burnham.net.au
Pass it on!
Cheers.
In previous journals I have referred readers to Owen (Vin) Burnh...
May 13, 2014 •
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Anzac Day ceremonies are fantastic but one thing that is rarely mentioned is the pain,torment and suffering experienced by families, especially mothers,and the fact that many of those who returned wer...
May 4, 2014 •
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EXTRACT FROM EMAIL.
Maybe you can help me. I am doing bio’s on the names on the 1st W.W. Honour Roll and the only one I can’t find a record for or any information at all is a T.Hutchins.
Would you m...
Apr 30, 2014 •
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Believe it or not,I chanced upon this article while I was trying to establish the identity of T.Hutchins who is listed on the Mornington Roll of Honour (W.W.1). A huge list of names was suggested,many...
Apr 29, 2014 •
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This is a reminder to myself to get cracking. I wrote an email to the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum when I was writing the journal about William John Ferrier,Australia wide hero in 1905 and as a result...
Apr 26, 2014 •
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Compared with England, most European countries, Egypt and so on,Australia is a very young country. There are a great many reminders of this fact in England, France,Italy, Greece,Egypt and along the gr...
Apr 24, 2014 •
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While I was on duty at the Dromana museum on Easter Sunday we had a visitor who was chasing information about Safety Beach. She was a descendant of James Manson Sharpley after whom Sharpley Avenue (Me...
Apr 24, 2014 •
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Last year's edition about Christie Johnstone, the Tucks etc was superb and this year's is just as good.
There are some articles of general interest such as the first shots in both world wars being fi...
Apr 15, 2014 •
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Every Anzac Day, a large crowd assembles near the Edna Dunk memorial clock to honour our Anzacs. Tonight I discovered that the Dromana Historical Society and the Dromana R.S.L. have received funding f...