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Journals (Page 32 of 36)
Feb 23, 2012 •
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The hunt report will be given verbatim except that in brackets after each property will be a Melway reference (so you can follow the hunt's progress as you read) followed by a key number relating to t...
Feb 23, 2012 •
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Any family historian who has moved house will understand what prompted this journal. You have a book or notes but in which of 25 boxes did you put them. Neil Mansfield wanted information from "Broadme...
Feb 22, 2012 •
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TOMORROW, I PROMISE! I'VE HAD ABOUT TEN 3 A.M. NIGHTS IN THE LAST FORTNIGHT AND I'M BUSHHHHED!
ARGUS 7-7-1903, PAGE 8.
Feb 21, 2012 •
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Milleara Rd was still called North Pole Road until the 1940's. This name came about because of the West Melbourne Swamp. Eventually a road, called Swamp Road in directories, passed through this area; ...
Feb 20, 2012 •
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Much information about the Hattys can be found in the comments after my RHYMES OF OLD TIMES IN TULLAMARINE journal. This includes janilye's link to a Hatty family website. The attached article deals w...
Feb 20, 2012 •
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Green's Corner is now occupied by the 711 service station. It was a Mobil garage when I arrived in Tullamarine in 1971 and until very recently. All the old timers knew it as Green's Corner because Cec...
Feb 20, 2012 •
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EXTRACT FROM EMAIL.
I have read bits and pieces of your journals and find them fascinating. I am trying to ascertain where the farms of John Crighton and Henry Parker exactly were along Saltwater. I ...
Feb 19, 2012 •
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ARGUS, 29-4-1920 page 1. Death notice for Fred Vine's wife. Great genealogy explaining reference to Fred's stepdaughter, Mary B.Stone, answering to both surnames (in Peter Wilson's "On the Road to Ros...
Feb 18, 2012 •
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THE FEMALE DROVER :A HISTORY OF MOOROODUC. PAGE 1.
(THE PHOTO CAN BE SEEN IN LESLIE MOORHEAD'S BOOK.)
PHOTO FROM MOOROODUC PRIMARY...
Feb 18, 2012 •
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INDEX (THIS WAS IN COLUMNS BUT DID NOT COPY AND PASTE IN THAT FASHION. i WILL TIDY IT UP.)
PROPERTY NAMES ARE IN ITALICS.
ABSOLOM 7 17 41 44 48 49 57 60-1 ABRAHAM 4 ACCIDENTS 17 33 40 42 4...
Feb 16, 2012 •
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If I had not taught at Franklinford S.S. 257 in 1965 and 1966 I would not be writing this journal. Happy memories of my time there were revived when I was writing the Inverness Hotel journal (in regar...
Feb 14, 2012 •
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I am often prompted to write a journal by something I read in an old newspaper on trove. The spur for this journal was an article about fly-fishing on page 15 of the Sunday Herald Sun of 12-2-2012. I ...
Feb 11, 2012 •
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I would estimate that hundreds of people have helped me with my research. Some were referred to me for help, resulting in win-win situations. Some contacts, such as Judith Durham and Laurie Wilson (Bo...
Feb 11, 2012 •
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While looking for specific information on trove, I can't help having a peek at other articles, with the result that my sheets of notes for the NAMES IN A LIST AIN'T MUCH GOOD journal, contain detail w...
Feb 9, 2012 •
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EXTRACT FROM AN EMAIL SENT TO jotreloar, AN ALBRESS DESCENDANT.
In regard to your query, the most important thing, and the reason genealogical sites don't have death details for Maria Albress, is t...
Feb 8, 2012 •
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The following is an extract from my Peninsula Dictionary History, which I have not touched for over a year since I read Leila Shaw's THE WAY WE WERE and got sidetracked into Henry Gomm, Joseph Porta e...
Feb 8, 2012 •
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What do you mean by "That's not good Grammar,"; I bet you wouldn't say that to Granpa! Sorry, my attempts at humour take control at times.
I strive to provide some sort of detail for family historian...
Feb 8, 2012 •
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My wife is always complaining that I spend so much time dealing with dead people so here's a live, and lively one for a change. I was waiting for Chris Fatouris to finish a song so I could buy the CD ...
Feb 6, 2012 •
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Most pioneers worked from dawn to dusk but Saturday was THE BIG DAY. They would work on Saturday morning (as even the V.F.L. players did and Jock McHale, famed Collingwood coach and a foreman at Carlt...
Feb 6, 2012 •
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Most pioneers worked from dawn to dusk but Saturday was THE BIG DAY. They would work on Saturday morning (as even the V.F.L. players did and Jock McHale, famed Collingwood coach and a foreman at Carlt...