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Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina:

a genealogical and biographical record

First published 1936 - 572 pages

Henderson's Australian Families:

a genealogical and biographical record

First published 1941 - 385 pages

Compiled by Society Librarian Elizabeth Marks. A5, 30 pages. 

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Barefoot & Pregnant? Irish famine orphans in Australia volume 2  

"Their homes broken and their parents dead, the adolescent Irish orphan girls sent to Australia, at the time of the Great Famine faced new hardships when they arrived. Maligned as "useless trollops", "barefoot little country beggars", "easily given to the gratification of their desires", they battled to carve a new life for themselves in the city and the bush.

This collection of documents allows the reader to decide if they were wrongfully condemned from the outset. The register of all orphans who came to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart proves to be an essential reference tool for family historians and anyone interested in the migration of Irish females.

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Ancestor - Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
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Victorian Pioneers Who Signed the Loyal Address to The Duke of Edinburgh in 1867
By D.J. Mickle
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From Shamrock to Wattle - Digging up your Irish Ancestors
By Trevor McClaughlin
Out of print

MICROFICHE

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CEMETERY SERIES

Lilydale Cemetery (Victoria) Headstones Index 14 May 1864-1 May 1993
4 Microfiche

The indexes give the deceased person's name, date of death, and section in the cemetery.

Example:

SMITH John George 17 Sept-1879 2 D09 LAWN A

Ballarat New Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions
All Denominations
4 Microfiche

Example:
Wilson Husband/Thomas H WILSON/died 3rd Oct.1899 aged 62/ch./Thomas George/d.1 Sept.1876, aged 10 mths/Lilian Victoria/d.14 July 1902 5 yrs./Adelaide Mary WILSON/wife and mother/d. 28 May 1941 in her 88th year.

The following three BALLARAT CEMETERY MICROFICHE  -  ALL SOLD OUT

Ballarat Cemetery Registers Microfiche 1856 -1988
3 Microfiche

Ballarat New Cemetery Register Index 1867-1988
6 Microfiche.

Example:
Name: Age: Buried: Residence: Occupat.: Area: Loc :
ABBOTT WILLIAM: 39: 10/7/1972: 25 Hertford St. Sebastopol: Labourer: Lawn F.: 68R24:

Ballarat Crematorium Register 1958-1988 Coming soon on CD
2 Microfiche

Footscray Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions
Introduction and Index
13 Microfiche

The headstones in this book have been transcribed by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Footscray Ward as a Community Service project.
Index is Alphabetical
Example:
Adamson
In fond memory of our dearly loved only son Alfred James Adamson, died 26th January 1946, aged 20 years. Also our dearly loved husband and father Arthur James Adamson died 2nd March 1946, aged 67 years. Father and son reunited. Mary Ethel Adamson died 20th April 1971, aged 85 years. A J Adamson, Ord Seamen PM 6346, Royal Australian Naval Reserve, 26th January 1946 aged 20 years.

HOSPITAL SERIES

Ballarat Base Hospital Admissions Register 1856-1913
4 Microfiche ALL SOLD OUT (See Victorian Goldfields Hospital Index on CD)

This publication is a transcript of the Ballarat Base Hospital Admission Register 1856-1913 which has been arranged in alphabetical sequence by surname of the patient. As it is a literal reading of the register the spelling and dates have been carefully reproduced. The early books of the register did have a shipping column but it was never used. The information given in the "patient's complaint" column has not been transcribed.
Example:
Patient's Name: Age: Sex: Address: Marr: Occup.: Rel.: Adm.date: Dis.date: Dead?: Birth:
Abbot Charles A: 46: M: 46 Sturt Street S.: Artist: 10: 14 Dec.1875: 24 Feb.1876: R.: London:

Dunolly Hospital Admission Register 1860-1900
2 Microfiche

This publication is a transcript of the Dunolly Hospital Admissions Register 1862-1900 which has been arranged in alphabetical sequence by surname of the patient. As it is a literal reading of the register the spelling and dates have been carefully reproduced. The information given in the "patient's complaint" column has not been transcribed. In order to make the information easier to read, there has been an amalgamation of the carried forward "date of admission" as at the 1st July of each year. There is no further information available from the hospital for this period of time.
Example:
Patient's Name: Age: Address: Marr.: Occu.: Rel.: Adm.date: Dis.Date: Dead?: Birthplace.:
Addison Isabella: 37: * Tarnagulla: M: Wife: 12.: 09Nov1876: 01 Jan1877: N Scotland: D.O.B.

Maryborough and District Hospital Index to Admissions 1855-1907
4 Microfiche

ALL SOLD OUT  see Victorian Goldfields Hospital Index on CD

Hospital records are useful in tracing elusive forebears as they contain a wealth of information of interest to the family historian. The older hospital records, unlike their modern counterparts, list some surprising facts, which today would be regarded as useless and unnecessary. Maryborough and District Hospital, chose to include length of stay in colonies, the ship travelled to Australia and sometimes the number and ages of children, to their records of inpatients.
A List of abbreviations used.
Example:
Abel, Elizabeth DA12.10.1865, 36, of Tarnagulla. PE Liverpool, ship Slatley, IC 18 yrs, single, Religion.Wes.

CONVICT SERIES

Index of New South Wales Convict Indents
10 Microfiche

Index to convicts who arrived in New South Wales, 1788-1842 and an index to the ships that transported them.

Index to Tasmanian Convicts 

18 microfiche

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CONVICT SERIES

Index to Tasmanian Convicts on CD

System requirements: Pentium processor recommended, 486DX minimally required. VGA display or better. CD drive required. Windows 95, 98, NT4.0 2000. Hard drive (approx 10 to 20 MB depending on the installation options chosen.


Index of New South Wales Convict Indents
Index to convicts who arrived in New South Wales, 1788-1842 and an index to the ships that transported them.  


CEMETERY SERIES

Melbourne General Cemetery

Version 2 now available. All purchasers of the first edition must return the original CD to receive a replacement.

The Victorian Goldfields Hospitals Index: The Hospitals and the Information the Records Contain.

The CD is an amalgamation of indexes to records of the following eight hospitals. They are all admission records, except that which we have called the Kyneton Hospital Family record:

Amherst Hospital 1869-1888

Ballarat Hospital 1856-1913

Castlemaine Hospital 1855-1920

Castlemaine Benevolent Asylum 1860-1922

Creswick Hospital 1863-1882

Creswick Hospital outpatients 1873-1877

Creswick Hospital 1883-1894

Dunolly Hospital 1860-1900

Kyneton Hospital Admissions Register 1862-1885

Kyneton Hospital Family Record 1869-1884

Maldon Hospital 1864-1905

Maryborough Hospital 1855-1907

The index comprises ten fields of information: surname; given name(s); admission date; age of patient; patient's place of birth; whether single, married or widowed; occupation; residence; and source. 

Various additional information is contained in the records. 

St Kilda Cemetery, Transcripts of Memorials and an Index to Names

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