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Narre Warren & District Family History Group

Address: 65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road 3977

Website: http://nwfhg.org.au

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25.01.2022 Molly Mckew was commissioned to write a history to mark the 40th anniversary of one of Australia's longest-running workers' co-operatives, the Worco Crafts Co-operative (originally based on William Street in Hawthorn, before moving to a Preston factory in 1985).

25.01.2022 Can anyone help? Shared from Hawkesbury Family History Group

25.01.2022 Great to see another local history book has been published. Over 500 pages covering 125 years of history of the Monbulk Football Netball Club. Shared from Sherbrooke Foothills Historical Society

24.01.2022 THE RULE OF THUMB Domestic abuse is not a modern phenomenon. Cases of assault in the home appear in historical records such as magistrates’ notebooks, Quarter... Sessions and Assize records. Newspapers reported incidents too, generally focusing on the more dramatic and salacious details. Husbands were seen as owners of their wives, with their wives’ possessions and money becoming their property on marriage. Women were deemed inferior to men, considered no better than children, and therefore treated as children with beatings, etc. if the husband was unhappy with her. Women relied on family and community support and would go only to a magistrate as a last resort but not all magistrates or judges were sympathetic to their cause. If a man was sent to gaol, his income would stop and the wife and any children would be forced to seek parish help. Therefore a wife had to weigh up the risk of abuse against financial ruin which might dissuade her from reporting an assault. Attitudes began to change slowly during the 19th century and led to the Custody of Infants Act of 1839 and the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 The Acts may not have stopped domestic violence but they did help to recognise women in their own right. Image courtesy of: https://www.historyandwomen.com/

24.01.2022 Thank you for your continued support, it really means a lot to FIBIS. Onwards and upwards into the next month and good luck with your research!

23.01.2022 Our doors are open, our lights are a' twinkling', and our welcoming staff are beckoning you back to the National Library of Ireland... It's a Christmas mirac...le! Plan your visit: https://nli.ie/en/covid-19.aspx #MuseumsUnlocked #LIW20

20.01.2022 Who is in this mystery photograph? Family photo dating expert Jayne Shrimpton helps a reader:

19.01.2022 LOST AND FOUND The Lost Property Office at the Perth Railway Station in the 1930s, was a monument to forgetful memories on Perth’s trains, trams and buses. To...kens significant of bad memories, included gloves, umbrellas, cases, clothing of every description, size and sex. Also well represented bicycles, rifles, handbags, jewellery, cabin trunks, toys, perambulators, push carts, musical instruments, spectacles, cricket bats and tennis racquets. Which all begs the question, is woman more forgetful than mere man? Evidently yes. Based on the unclaimed articles left behind at Perth Station in July 1937, the Sunday Times reported the fair sex to be the most forgetful. Most frequently omitted from the feminine memory - powder compacts, hankies, umbrellas and gloves. Of course you could not just saunter in to the Lost Property Office and say That’s mine. A record was kept of every article. Claimants had to satisfy questions, sign and give their name and address. In 1937 items were held at Perth Station for three months, before being sent on to join the WAGR collection of lost property for auction - a truly embarrassing expose of the bad memories and negligent habits of people from all over Western Australia. Do you have a lost and found story? We'd love you to share it here... Note - This commentary was sourced newspaper articles using the magic of Trove. It provides an insight into the event at the time but is not intended to be a definitive history. Image: Lost Property Office at the Perth Railway Station Photograph | 1931. Available at Online (Call number: 050095PD) ABC Perth Transperth The West Australian PerthNow WAtoday.com.au The Perth Voice

19.01.2022 Anyone able to help? Shared from Gympie Family History Society Inc

19.01.2022 Flooding in the West in 1923

17.01.2022 Did you know The entire outer building of Titanic Belfast is covered in 3,000 individual silver aluminium shards! Helps give it the perfect Christmas sparkle... Titanic Belfast #FillYourHeartWithIreland #ChristmasInIreland

16.01.2022 What a fantastic piece of modern history. Lots of familiar faces and some that are no longer with us. It all happened nearly 20 years ago.

16.01.2022 Today we remember Douglas Grant, an Aboriginal WWI soldier, draughtsman and factory worker. Born into a remote Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland aro...und 1885, Douglas spent most of his childhood in Lithgow and then the Sydney suburb of Annandale. Douglas enlisted with the 34th Battalion in January 1916, though it is unclear how this happened at a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were excluded from military service. Upon finishing his training, Douglas was sent to the front lines in France. On 11 April 1917 he was wounded and captured at Bullecourt. During his incarceration, Douglas was tasked with receiving and distributing Red Cross parcels to fellow prisoners. He organised vital food packages, medical supplies and comforting goods. After the war, Douglas returned to his job as a draughtsman and later found work at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. He also lobbied for Aboriginal rights and was active in returned servicemen's affairs. The Library is lucky to hold Douglas Grant's papers, receipts and delivery slips. View the collection here: http://ow.ly/MfrD50Cg9eX The Australian War Memorial

16.01.2022 This week's trip through the Tooth & Company archives takes us to Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, specifically to Bondi and Bondi Junction. Bondi is an Aboriginal wor...d meaning "water breaking over rocks" and has been spelt in various ways including Bundye, Boondi and Bundi. European settlement in the area dated from the late 1820s and the first hotel in the area, the Waverley Tea Gardens Hotel, opened in 1854. It was situated at 2 Bronte Road in Bondi Junction and became known as the Tea Gardens Hotel. Although the hotel has been remodelled over the years, the site is significant as having continuously been home to a hotel since the 1850s. The most significant remodelling was completed in 1939 by builders Elvy & Co from a design by notable architects Prevost & Ancher. The remodelling cost 21,238 Pounds and was completed on 31 January 1939. One of the best known hotels in Bondi Junction was the Royal Surrey Hotel. The hotel was remodelled in 1937 from a design by notable architect Sidney Warden, who designed almost 400 hotels throughout his career. Some of Warden's work for Tooth & Company included the Marrickville and Henson Park Hotels in Marrickville, the Landsdowne and Clare Hotels in Chippendale, Woollahra's Light Brigade Hotel and Mascot's Tennyson Hotel. The Royal Surrey Hotel was an excellent example of the type of remodelling that Tooth undertook throughout the 1930s, a decade in which a large percentage of their hotels underwent remodelling in an Art Deco style. Tooth wanted their hotels to stand out and have architectural impact, and they recognised a hotel's role as the ultimate vehicle for advertising the company and its products. In 1961 the Royal Surrey became the home of the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, until 1968, when it moved from 195 Oxford Street to the present site at 93-97 Spring Street, which had previously been the site of the Bondi Junction Ice Rink. The Oxford Street building was later demolished and replaced by a Walton's department store. Hotel Bondi was originally constructed circa 1919 from a design by architect E. Lindsay Thompson. The hotel was constructed for brewers Reschs Ltd and became part of the Tooth portfolio when the company bought out Reschs in 1929. The hotel initially struggled for trade but is now one of the most recognisable buildings on Bondi's Campbell Parade. Do you have a favourite pub in the area?

15.01.2022 Shared from Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Family History Society

15.01.2022 Happy St. Andrew's Day! If you're needing a hand chasing down your Caledonian credentials, these might help! Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the... Internet, & Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church & State Records, from Pen & Sword Family History at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Chris-Paton/a/1799 See more

15.01.2022 The will of Dr Elsie Inglis, the inspirational physician & surgeon who helped to found the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Overseas Services in 1914. Inglis established the first maternity hospital staffed by women in 1901. She died #OnThisDay 1917. http://ow.ly/s1v350CuvGL

14.01.2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35120354

14.01.2022 Stanley Melbourne Bruce was the 8th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1923-1929. The National Archives holds a collection of his objects and papers, providing a fascinating view into his political and private life. View our Flickr Gallery here: bit.ly/2WV9iCp

14.01.2022 THE KOOL KORNER - THE UNTOLD STORY The Kool Korner at 1 Scarborough Beach Road, was where the bus stopped at the Scarborough Beach in 1937. The deli offered Qu...ality-Service-Consistency, cool drinks, homemade pies and pasties. In the late 1930’s The Kool Korner had become quite the local hub. Famous for its afternoon teas, suppers and light luncheons. It stocked all brands of cigarettes and tobacco and was the go to place to find local accommodation. In 1943, The Kool Korner’s reputation suffered a hiccup, when its proprietor, Roderick Evans, was charged with receiving stolen goods. Namely a quantity of coffee essence, soap, vanilla essence, razor blades and a patent machine. He was remanded on bail. Less than two years later, Evans was back at the Perth Police Court, this time for overcharging and not displaying price tickets on vegetables for sale. An officer of the Prices Commission reported that when he called in at the The Kool Korner, he found oranges and mandarins at 3/ a dozen and lemons at 2/ a dozen - over the maximum price. He also observed beetroot, parsnips, cauliflowers and cabbages, on which no price tickets were displayed. Evans argued in court that was he was no judge of the size of oranges and mandarins and had made a honest mistake in their grading. He blamed his staff for overcharging on the lemons. In relation to the vegetables without tickets, Evans insisted that the stand was being dressed at the time the officer came by and this was the reason the the prices were not displayed. Evans was found guilty and fined. The Kool Korner’s reputation was not damaged too much though. In the late 1940’s, the deli was the venue for important public meetings, when the local hall was not available. It could comfortably seat up to 50 people within a few feet of luscious fruit, rows upon rows of green vegetables and shelves crammed with an assortment of good things. In the 1950’s The Kool Korner took a front row seat, as Perth’s rock ‘n roll history was forged on Scarborough’s foreshore. Do you have memories of old Scarborough? Share them here.. Note - This commentary was sourced newspaper articles using the magic of Trove. It provides an insight into the event at the time but is not intended to be a definitive history. The Kool Korner, Scarborough Beach, February 1951 Western Australia. Government Photographer. Photograph | 1951. Available at Online (Call number: 008344D) ABC Perth The West Australian Community News - Perth Scarborough Beach Scarborough Beach Bar The Scarborough Hotel Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough

12.01.2022 11th November 1918 - Today is Remembrance Day, marking the end of World War 1, in 1918. The first World War began in August 1914 and lasted for four years. At 5...am on the morning of 11 November 1918, Germany, lacking manpower, weaponry and supplies, and facing imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. This marked the end of World War 1, also known as the Great War. November 11 has come to be known as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day. Traditionally, British, Canadian, South African, Australian and New Zealand citizens observe the day with two minutes' silence at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, which is the time that the armistice became effective. The red poppy has come to be recognised as the symbol for Remembrance Day. It was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders, an area in western Europe now spanned by Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Pictured: 1. An unidentified cinematographer capturing the last shots to be fired before the armistice on 11 November 1918. Note the line of bare trees under which the guns are placed. Australian War Memorial. 2. Sydney, NSW. 1918-11-11. Crowd in Martin Place celebrating the news of the signing of the armistice. This date was celebrated in later years as Remembrance Day. Australian War Memorial. 3. Cambrai, France. 11 November 1918. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, centre front, with British Army commanders on Armistice Day. (Donor Imperial War Museum Q9690). Australian War Memorial. 4. Adelaide, South Australia. 1918-11. A huge crowd at Parliament House for the Declaration of the Signing of the Armistice. (Donor W.S. Smith). Australian War Memorial.

11.01.2022 Shared from Australian Cemeteries Website

11.01.2022 The story behind the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.

10.01.2022 BURIED ST KILDA CEMETERY ARTHUR WOLFE CHOMLEY (1837-1914), judge; County and Supreme Courts, Victoria; Dromkeen homestead, Riddells Creek; a sound lawyer and ...a good judge of facts; fifty-seven continuous years in the public service. Arthur Wolfe Chomley was born on 4 May 1837 at Wicklow, Ireland, the fifth son of Rev. Francis Chomley, vicar of Wicklow, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Griffith, ward of Lord Downes, chief justice of Ireland, with whom she resided after her father's death until her marriage. After eighteen years of happy married life Francis Chomley died in 1847 and his widow decided to take her seven sons to Australia. She arrived at Port Phillip in February 1849 in the Stag with her sons, and soon afterwards built a home in High Street, Prahran, where the family lived for some years. Like his brothers, Chomley was educated at Richard Budd's school, St Peter's, on Eastern Hill, Melbourne. In 1853 he joined the public service of Victoria as a cadet in the Crown Law Department. He studied law at the University of Melbourne and was called to the Victorian Bar in 1863. In February 1862 he had been appointed secretary to the Crown Law Department, an office he held for eight years. In July 1870 he was appointed a Crown prosecutor and soon won distinction by the fair manner in which he carried out his duties. In one action the prisoner tried to establish an alibi by claiming that he was at a certain hotel when the alleged crime was committed. In cross examination Chomley asked how he was so sure of the time he was at the hotel. In reply the prisoner distinctly remembered looking at the clock on the wall of the hotel. He was then invited to look at the clock in the court and say what time it was. After some hesitation he had to admit that he could not tell the time on any clock. On 28 July 1885 Chomley was appointed a County Court judge. Outside his strictly judicial duties he was appointed chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Public Service and of the Public Service Reclassification Board. However, he was best remembered as a judge not only by the legal profession but by the community in general. Patient and courteous to all who appeared in his court, he was also a sound lawyer and a good judge of facts. Nothing seemed to ruffle his judicial serenity and in his court displays of ill temper were rare. His only idiosyncrasy appears to have been his avidity for taking notes, his court notebooks giving a full record of cases that came before him. In May 1906 he was appointed an acting justice of the Supreme Court while the chief justice, Sir John Madden, was on six months leave. Chomley returned to the County Court bench and in November 1910 retired after fifty-seven continuous years in the public service. On 4 September 1867 he had married Juliana Charlotte Hogg; they had four sons, two of whom died in infancy, and five daughters. His wife died on 14 August 1896. Chomley died at his home in Bruce Street, Toorak, on 25 November 1914. Next day in the Supreme Court and in the County Court high tributes were paid to his memory. Built in 1889 in the hamlet of Riddells Creek in the Macedon Ranges, the Dromkeen homestead was part of the country estate of Judge Arthur Chomley. Chomley named the homestead Dromkeen after his mother's family home in Ireland. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chomley-arthur-wolfe-3204 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10819175 https://www.slv.vic.gov.au//scholarships-awards/dromkeen-a https://www.dromkeen.com.au/ Photos: SLV

09.01.2022 Volume 47 of the Melbourne Historical Journal, a post-graduate journal founded in 1961, includes articles by: -- Mary Tomsic on Polish video games and war histo...ry; -- Nayree Mardirian on public historical apologies and the history of post-war Lebanon; -- Adelaide Grieg on fifteenth-century Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain; -- Elizabeth Tunstall on royal correspondence and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts; -- Mali Rea on Pentridge Prison as a site of heritage and dark tourism; -- Sabine Cotte on Mirka Mora's Melbourne legacy; -- Nat Cutter on early modern Maghreb; -- Henry Reese on soundscapes in rural Victoria; -- Fallon Mody on doctors and migration in the Cold War. It also features interview with Carolyn Fraser (State Library Victoria); Sophie Couchman; and the hosts of popular history podcast Queer as Fact. MHJ's Call for Papers for volume 48 is now open, and the MHJ Collective also welcomes postgrads interested in joining the group to help produce next year's edition.

08.01.2022 Robur Tea was a once big advertiser in #Melbourne. What ever happened to them? If you don't know, tell us what you can about this photo of a #tram - what, when, where and why. Image from our collection.

07.01.2022 Dandenong House boarding house. Photographer: Albert Jones. It opened in 1911 in Foster Street near the railway station and was burnt down in 1978. You can rea...d more about it here on my blog https://victoriaspast.blogspot.com//dandenong-house-boardi Image: Museums Victoria https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/767809 See more

07.01.2022 Shared from Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society

05.01.2022 Donated photo from our collection - Commercial Street - looking east

02.01.2022 Shared from Lost Bendigo & District