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20.01.2022 The Queensland Family History Society's next on-line meeting is on Wednesday the 18th of November from 8:3010:00 pm AEDT (20:30 UTC+11-22:00 UTC+11). Attendance is free. Dr Hilda Maclean (see CHAA's 25 September post) is currently compiling the Queensland Chinese Death Index QCDI (1857-1985), which combines the death entries from the Registrar with cemetery and inquest records and newspaper reportage. The purpose of the QCDI is to assist family historians identify which ind...ividual with the same name and occupation is the one they are interested in, in order to assist with certificate ordering. However, as it is the QFHS Christmas party night, she will lighten up and talk about birth and marriage registrations as well. This QFHS event will be presented on-line via ZOOM. Please register on their Eventbrite page via the link below if you'd like to 'attend'.
19.01.2022 Can anyone assist Dr Sandi Robb in her search for descendants of Chinese and Indigenous marriages?
17.01.2022 Yesterday, Column 8 in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' published a query from one 'Avid Eddie' of Berkeley Vale: Around 1945-46, horse-drawn vehicles were an unusual sight in Sydney, except around the Double Bay/Edgecliff area. I recall regularly seeing an elderly man of Asian appearance sitting in his cart, laden with fruit and veg, as his well-trained draught horse slowly traversed the hill on New South Head Road at Edgecliff, against the motor and tram traffic. From where did... he start, and did he buy or grow the goods himself? I am hoping some C8er, maybe a relative of either his or one of his customers, may know more. https://www.smh.com.au//not-even-superman-could-sort-this- Today (3 November), Column 8 published part of a response from Kate Fraser of Scone asserting that the horse and cart were a well-known sight of my childhood [i]n Wolseley Road, where the horse moved from house to house while his owner sold his vegetables. One day the horse was found standing still for a while. The owner had got back into the cart and died. This is reminiscent of a query from earlier this year asking after Ah Moon, a market gardener who had plots under cultivation in Woollahra. Does anyone have similar memories?
16.01.2022 As a follow-up to our post on November 3, two days later Column 8 reported that 'Hamish Macfarlan of Burradoo remembers that particular horse and dray in the 1940s and early '50s, also from around Wolseley Road. "I can only add that the owner’s name on the side of the dray was Yew Lee, Thomas Street, City. And his vegetables, whether grown or merely retailed by him, were excellent." Thomas Street is in the heart of the Haymarket district, which includes Sydney's Chinatown, but Wolseley Road is in what is nowadays the very exclusive harbourside suburb of Point Piper.
13.01.2022 Two sons of an established Chinese market gardener in the Central West of NSW, circa 1905.
01.01.2022 All things being well, the Uncovered Past Institute will be running a new season of excavation in Harrietville a year from now.
01.01.2022 Owing to a Facebook 'feature', the link to MOCA's Executive Director position we posted on 11 November did not take applicants to the correct site. If you are interested in applying for this position, please respond to Brad Chan's advertisement on Seek.
