Edition 7, 2019

Traces

Uncovering the past

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Letters To The Editor
My favourite story in Traces edition 6 was ‘Alice Anderson’, by Loretta Smith. I enjoyed it because it shows how strong women can be when they follow their ambitions, have a passion for the things they do best and always try new things. Alice Anderso
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Heritage News
A sophisticated 6600-year-old aquaculture system developed by the Gunditjmara people in Victoria is being considered for listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site. If successful, the site will be the first in Australia listed exclusively for its Aborig
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School Kids Discover Stolen Generations History
Developed by the Healing Foundation in consultation with stolen generations members, teachers, parents and curriculum writers, these new educational resources aim to promote greater understanding about an often overlooked part of Australia’s history
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Welcome To The Seventh Edition Of Traces!
Welcome to Edition 7 of Traces. I have been very happy to see that some of Australia’s most significant Indigenous heritage sites are currently gaining well-deserved recognition. Both Victoria’s ancient Budj Bim eel traps, and Western Australia’s Mur
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What’s New Online?
Norway • Norway Census: more than 6.8 million census records from 1891, 1900 and 1910 Visit www.myheritage.com Australia • South Australian Immigrant Ship Papers, 1849–1940: more than 49,000 indexed records added to an existing collection United King
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Brown’s Mart, Darwin
The original Brown’s Mart building, on the corner of Smith Street and Harry Chan Avenue, was designed by architect and government secretary JG Knight, who also designed the Town Hall and Courthouse. Built in 1885 using Chinese labour, the building wa
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The Batchelder Studio: Gold Rush Society Photographers
Before he took his landmark sequence of photographs of the racehorse Sallie Gardner in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge earned his reputation travelling through the Californian mining towns with his flying studio, a muledrawn wagon that functioned as both ph
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Murujuga’s Bid For World Heritage Listing
The Dampier Archipelago and the Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) in Western Australia is home to at least one million works of rock art that are intrinsically linked to the culture of the area’s traditional owners. The state government and the Murujuga Ab
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The Fiji: A Firsthand Shipwreck Account
magine being a 16-year-old apprentice on your first long voyage, 106 days out from Hamburg, Germany, in 1891, and just one day from the shelter of Port Phillip bay. Th is was young Welshman Louis Evans, part of a 25-man crew aboard the 1400-tonne, th
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Part 2
Previously, the term ‘luna park’ had been used for any kind of fair, outdoor carnival, or festival; the public would describe these events as ‘a luna park’. But with the arrest and imprisonment of Lionel Morris, the various showmen who collectively m
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WE ARE WHAT WE EAT Colonial cuisine
For as long as humans have walked the Earth, our complex dining cultures and rituals have provided glimpses into our living environments, social status, wealth and the traditions that inform our tastes. The cuisine of colonial New South Wales reflect
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Pillinger, Tasmania
At East Pillinger at the end of the 19th century, you would have found a bustling port town with three wharves, a sawmill, a brickworks, an ore crusher, and railway carriages rattling about laden with bricks, wood and copper ore. Hundreds of men work
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The Paisley Emigration Society
The humidity here in Queensland is nudging 80 per cent and despite being a fourth-generation banana bender, I’m struggling. In an undoubtedly cooler Scottish summer, 156 years ago, my great-great-grandfather sat with other members of the Paisley Emig
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Researching Paisley ancestors
John Higgins settled in Maryborough, Queensland, pictured here circa 1880–1936 I knew from immigration records and the stories of my Dad’s cousin that the Higgins family came to Maryborough on the Montmorency. Using both Ancestry and ScotlandsPeople
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Ever Wanted To Know More About Your Past?
Taught 100 per cent online, Introduction to Family History is part of an online suite of units that enables flexible study. It is one of five foundation-level units available in the Diploma of Family History. Students must complete four foundation-le
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Compiling Torres Strait Islander genealogies
began compiling Torres Strait Islander genealogies in 1981, in order to understand the contribution made by 19th-century immigrants and their descendants to the history of the region. Genealogy is a collaborative endeavour, and I have been generously
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Discovering The History Of Your Home
people often develop strong connections to their homes and find leaving them to be difficult, so it’s fascinating to learn about the people who lived in your home before you did. Whether you’ve lived in a house for years and are curious about those w
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In It ‘For The Boys: The Land Army Of WWII’
Women were present in almost every theatre of war. More than 66,000 of them enlisted in a branch of the women’s services during the war, and thousands more served as nurses, doctors and allied health professionals all over the world. At home in Austr
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Finding The Notorious Ann Gregg
Like many other people, I’d promised myself that once I was retired, and had plenty of spare time, I’d go back to researching my family history. I’d started a number of years ago, some time after my father died. I’d asked him many times over the year
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Finding Women Who Served In The Australian Women’s Land Army
Victoria, do you have any advice for readers doing their own research into these brave women? Some records exist in state collections, but others, unfortunately, have been destroyed. Try the state library in your capital city first. In my experience,
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Ask An Expert
‘I don’t know much about this photo, other than that it’s from a family album and was unnamed. My grandfather gave me a 1855 Tower Rifle with the British coat of arms stamped on it and said it was from a soldier in the family who was working on the g
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Constable Crowe’s Slang Dictionary
Constable Cornelius Crowe joined the Victorian Police Force in 1880. Throughout his time working as a constable, he compiled a list of words and phrases used by the criminal classes and, in 1895, published them in a small dictionary titled The Austra
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Australia’s sweetheart, Mary Magnise
?ary Maguire’s rise to prominence began in 1934, when, at age 15, she won a lead role in Charles Chauvel’s epic film Heritage. Two years later, Maguire landed the lead female part in The Flying Doctor, which co-starred American movie heart-throb Char
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A Passion For Colonial Bricks
llan Hackett has spent five decades of his life passionately researching, recording and collecting bricks from the early years of British settlement. Among his thousands of bricks, Hackett has English bricks dating back to the late 1700s, as well as
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The ‘Specials’ Mugshots
Nestled between Sydney Harbour and the city skyscrapers is a cluster of sandstone buildings known today as the Justice & Police Museum. The museum, managed by Sydney Living Museums, cares for an eclectic collection of material relating to Sydney’s cr

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