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Apr 11, 2014 •
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For some reason the text in many of my journals is not visible although surname lists,and, where attached,images can be seen. The text has not disappeared but can only be seen (by me) when I click OWN...
Mar 30, 2014 •
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Last night I chanced upon a notice of the marriage of Robert Rowley and Christina/Christena Edwards which I added to my MALLEE TO RYE:THE ROWLEY CONNECTION journal. I also sent a copy of the addition ...
Mar 9, 2014 •
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It was only when I started transcribing my handwritten KILTS AND COW DUNG FLATS that I realised that I might have reversed two surnames which sound identical. I had tried googling the name of the auth...
Mar 8, 2014 •
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Much of my history cannot be reproduced as journals, because without the many maps etc., a lot of the text is meaningless. A copy of the handwritten KILTS AND COW DUNG FLATS would have been provided t...
Mar 8, 2014 •
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YARNS have disappeared from our way of life. I was fortunate to have interviewed a great many yarn tellers, mostly in their 90's and Ray Cairns ten days after his 100th birthday. Many of these yarns w...
Mar 7, 2014 •
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Dear XXX, what do you know about the Five Mile Estate mentioned by Batey in his HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE SUNBURY REGION? Where would this have been? Regards, John.
This is probably going to take s...
Mar 7, 2014 •
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When pvrd asked me if I knew the location of the Five Mile Estate that Isaac Batey had mentioned, I had to try to find the answer, because I had often wondered where it was. I have a feeling that Isa...
Mar 5, 2014 •
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Cr Antonella Celi was chairperson of the Rosebud West Renewal Project so there is no doubt she would have known the Aitken family very well. She would have been very busy and this might explain why sh...
Feb 28, 2014 •
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I'd never seen a mention of the above two pioneers in a Broadmeadows history. That's just the reason that I embarked on a bicentennial project in August 1988, to acknowledge pioneers overlooked by pro...
Feb 16, 2014 •
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Found this while chasing Bulla/Broady and Mornington connections.
Messrs. A. E. Gibson and Co. report having sold by private contract, on behalf of Messrs. James Harrick and Son, 200 acres at Tulla...
Feb 10, 2014 •
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Text wouldn't submit but was luckily saved and will be submitted when the OH NOES gremlins buzz off.
If you still have yesterday's Sunday Herald Sun (9-2-2014) have a look at "Packenham it in" on pag...
Feb 9, 2014 •
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ANDERSON,Joseph, MACFARLANE, Walter.
(Continuation of the journal WALTER MACFARLANE AND JOSEPH ANDERSON OF BROADMEADOWS, VIC., AUST. which I tried unsuccessfully, a great many times, to submit three...
Feb 9, 2014 •
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I suffer from local history dreams, usually at about dawn. There's a saying that you shouldn't believe everything you read, and that's exactly what I'm doing in my dreams, courtesy of the National Lib...
Feb 4, 2014 •
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DIED,
Drowned at Broadmeadows, on the 18th instant,William, aged 3 years and 3 months, third son of Peter M'Cracken, of Stewarton. (P.4, Argus, 20-10-1852.)
It was nearly twenty five years ago th...
Feb 2, 2014 •
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Should I include William Munsie in my Bulla or Broadmeadows journal? He was a pioneer of the north east side of Deep Creek road, having bought 28 acres 26 perches from John Carre Riddell in 1861; this...
Feb 1, 2014 •
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In THE CAIRNS FAMILY OF BONEO, written by Peter Wilson (descendant of Walter Burnham), the late Ray Cairns (then a spring chicken in his seventies) thanked Peter for putting his (Ray's) information in...
Jan 26, 2014 •
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As you enter the Rye Cemetery from Lyons St there is a group of old graves about 20 metres ahead on the left of the path. If I remember correctly, three of them relate to the Stenniken family, the fir...
Jan 25, 2014 •
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DEDICATED TO THE BROWN FAMILY, EARLY PIONEERS OF KEILOR.
FROM jOE27.
I have recently purchased Christine Laskowski's book "Steel's Crk.etc" and was interested in mention of Thomas Bertram and Ella...
Jan 23, 2014 •
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If you google, John Kernan, itellya, you will find many results which include the false claim that John Kernan of Merai Farm died in 1879. This claim was caused by the error detailed below. Genealogis...
Jan 21, 2014 •
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John Kernan started leasing Merai Farm in 1856. Had he just arrived, and, if not, what was he doing previously?
PUBLICANS' LICENSES - The following is a list of the applications filed for publicans...