Warrnambool Family History Group Inc. in Warrnambool, Victoria | History Museum

Warrnambool Family History Group Inc.

Locality: Warrnambool, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5561 0283

Address: 2 Gilles Street 3280 Warrnambool, VIC, Australia

Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aigswbl

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25.01.2022 We love old shots of the Hopkins River. Annette B sent us this beauty from the 50s/60s.

23.01.2022 Hello our HeritageWorks research centre is closed as a precautionary public health measure effective Tuesday 17 March. Research enquiries will be attended to through email or phone to the relevant research officer. Family History Group: [email protected] Ray 0409 023 854... Historical Society: [email protected] Janet 0409 624 059 Stay safe and well everyone

23.01.2022 Sans Peur by Marguereta Williams The origins and history of the Glare family - published 2002 - medium soft covered - available at HeritageWorks or can be posted $5 plus $9.40 postage

22.01.2022 VOTING FOR CATTLE YARDS SITE, 1883 A recent display featured an1883voting card for determining the site of new cattle yards in Warrnambool. The choice was betwe...en a Raglan Parade site (the present Swan Reserve Children’s Services Centre) and anAllansford Road site east of the old Bryen Boiroimhe Hotel (corner of Japan Street and Raglan Parade). The Raglan Parade site at the corner of Kepler Street was the preferred option, polling 373 votes to 222. These sale yards were moved to the present site in Caramut Road in 1970. Portions of the old stone walls around the Raglan Parade/Kepler Street site can still be seen. See more

22.01.2022 Hope all our followers are well and safe - in the last few months we have had quite a few research enquiries - we are always happy to help but we do have a small charge to enable us to purchase further resources - there are several folk for whom our Research Officer (he is a volunteer) has done work but payments are outstanding - please if you fall into this category we would appreciate hearing from you

19.01.2022 Jim’s Story by Mary Reddrop About James Henry Roberts with the 37th Battalion AIF - small hard covered 131 pages with footnotes - available at HeritageWorks or can be posted $5 plus $9.40 postage

16.01.2022 ANZAC Day 2020 Tribute. Some photos from our archives

15.01.2022 Staying at home is a great time for hunting out historical items and for some researching of your family history - both Warrnambool Family History Group and Warrnambool and District Historical Society are here to help via our Facebook pages

14.01.2022 Hello our HeritageWorks research centre is still not fully operational. Research enquiries will be attended to through email or phone to the relevant research officer. Family History Group: [email protected] Ray 0409 023 854... Historical Society: [email protected] Janet 0409 624 059 Stay safe and well everyone

13.01.2022 Hello to all our followers from WFHG. We hope everyone is well and keeping busy during this Covid isolation. Maybe you are working on your family history - maybe you have always wondered how to get started - we are here to help - although we have not been able to physically attend our headquarters at HeritageWorks, our committee has been meeting on zoom and researchers have been working from home to keep our group running and ready for when we can reopen HW. Please let us know if we can help - we are all volunteers but we do charge for research and this enables us to purchase further resources for research. When posting a query please give an email address so that any info can be forwarded to you. HAPPY RESEARCHING

11.01.2022 Until further notice all monthly meetings and Family Tree Interest Group meetings are on holdUntil further notice all monthly meetings and Family Tree Interest Group meetings are on hold

10.01.2022 An article from the WHS newsletter. This might be a time to search through you archives and talk to relatives regarding our ladies from the past. Please share y...our stories with us. A chance reply in recent times to the Winnie Willock album has led me down the path of remembrance and the Silent lives of those past. A relative of Winnie had shown an interest in our entry on Victorian Collections and had posted the comment that she had served as a nurse in World War 1. Taking it a step further, I wondered how many other women had enlisted in WW1 as nurses and of whom we have little if any knowledge.So along with Winnie, I found the names of six other women who volunteered their nursing services for the war. No doubt there are many more from our district. From a variety of sources, Trove AWM and National Archives I have managed to put together a few details. So to Annie Winifred Willock, Margaret Delahenty, Beatrice McGennan, Jessie Buchanan McDonald, Eveline Vicars Foote, Frances Ellen Chambers and Florence Maude Swan, we say Lest we forget and thank you for your service

06.01.2022 Thank you Lost Warrnambool

05.01.2022 Dysons Ford by David Turland Early settlers of the Woodford and Yangery districts Hard covered 185 pages including index - available at HeritageWorks or can be posted $45 plus $15.70 postage

03.01.2022 Leatherwood Honey for Gall By Mary Reddrop A convict marries an immigrant girl - published 2000 - small soft covered 210 pages including index - available at HeritageWorks or can be posted $5 plus $9.40 postage

01.01.2022 Learn from the past. Influenza became rampant at the end of World War I causing the deaths of more than 50 million people across the world, far more than the w...ar casualties. It was considered second to the Black Death (plague). It was referred to as the ‘Spanish flu’ as it was first widely reported in Spain. Quarantine measures were quickly put in place in Australia to reduce the spread of the disease but despite this the first cases appeared in October 1918. Usually children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems contract influenza but the prime sufferers of the ‘pneumonic influenza’, as it was called here, were healthy young adults. Altogether approximately 40% of the Australian population contracted the ‘flu resulting in about 15,000 deaths. Preventing the virus entering Australia was the first response by the Australian Quarantine Service and they intercepted almost 200 ships which carried flu affected passengers. A conference of federal and state health ministers and directors-general of health agreed that the states would organise emergency hospitals, vaccinations, ambulance services, medical staff and public awareness campaigns. The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) produced more than 3million doses of vaccine for returning troops and the general population. The result was that Australia’s death rate of 2.7 per 1,000 people was the lowest of any country during the pandemic. By the end of 1919 the influenza pandemic was over. SOURCE: Influenza pandemic/National Museum of Australia Some memories Mrs Vera Giles as told to her daughter Aurelin in 1995 Warrnambool It started just before my fiancé came home from the War in February1919. I was in Melbourne and came down with him, and I was staying with Mrs Marfell when they called for volunteers. I’d previously spent quite a lot of time up at Sister Ingpen’s and know a bit about nursing, and so I volunteered. There were all kinds of chalets and buildings brought in from wherever they could get them, apart from the permanent Infectious Diseases wards.. There was a big stone wall around the Isolation Ward. We were more into Hider and Koroit Streets. Then we had the men’s ward and that was onto Ryot Street. They brought all the chalets up into the top corner We slept in the Dispensary which was part of the nurses’ accommodation in Isolation. We were paid by the Council, not the Hospital. I think it was about 4 shillings a week (or something like that) plus our keep. It wasn’t very much. (W&DHS newsletter)