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Girls Make History

30 Sunday Oct 2016

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Deakin Workshops, Girls Make History, Louise King Funerals for Women

Girls Make History WorkshopsLast week I had the pleasure of participating in the “Girls Make History” Workshops at Deakin Waterfront.  It was presented by Deakin Contemporary Histories Research Group and the Master of Applied Learning and Teaching.

As part of my workshop I promised to provide a number of links for further research.

Starting with some of the case studies I used:

  • Search the Geelong & District web site for … Squatters … there are numerous pages relating to Anne Drysdale and Caroline Newcomb.
  • Grannie Ferris and the Newington Private Cemetery.
  • Grannie Ferris – the Don Grant Memorial Lecture at the State Library – includes the discussion on tracing female ancestors and the Midwife and Nurse registers.
  • Sewerage (and building) records.
  • Sparrovale Farm (without the “W”

Some other links that will help with your research – PLENTY here to keep you occupied for some time:

  • Victorian Government Gazette – and many other links for Victoria and across Australia – the austlii (Australian Legal Information Institute) site (don’t forget to go back to the Home page and investigate the numerous other links – as well as the State Library of Victoria Government Gazette site
  • Public Record Office Victoria – so many avenues to search for digitised records online as well as huge indexed databases of Public Records
  • TROVE – particular the digitised newspapers.
  • Geelong & District database – more than 1.7 million records for our region.

Enjoy your research!

Louise King Funerals for WomenI greatly appreciate that my time participating in the “Girls Make History” program was sponsored by Louise King Funerals for Women.

Don Grant Memorial Lecture 2016

29 Monday Aug 2016

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Grannie Ferris, Midwives, Nurses

Grannie FERRISSince I presented the 2016 Don Grant Memorial Lecture for VAFHO (Victorian Association of Family History Organisations at the Family History Feast at the State Library of Victoria I’ve received a heap of emails.  Many saying how much they enjoyed my presentation and others asking when the presentation would be put online on the SLV web site.

  • I would like to thank everyone for their very kind emails and comments.
  • I would like to say how much of an honour it was to be invited to present the annual Don Grant Memorial Lecture
  • It was also a great honour to have Don’s widow, Lorraine, his daughter Ally, and his grand-daughter in the front row for my presentation.

My presentation titled ‘Grannie Ferris: midwife, nurse, doctor and undertaker‘ is now online on the State Library of Victoria web site.  Above is a photo of the formidable looking Grannie Ferris.

Some of my presentation related to the registers of Nurses and Midwives appearing in the Victoria Government Gazettes – this was the subject of an earlier blog I published on these registers.

During my presentation I also mentioned the two web sites from which you can download these detailed registers:

  • Victoria Government Gazette 1836-1997 – State Library of Victoria
  • Victorian Government Gazette 1843-1999 – Austlii – Australasian Legal Information Institute

A special bonus for family history organisations who are members of VAFHO:

Send a USB to VAFHO with a stamped self-address envelope requesting a copy of the files mentioned in the presentation and the earlier blog site.  These files have been updated through Acrobat so that you can search ONCE in the folder containing all of these 70+ files – the search will search each individual file.

Enjoy!  And thank you to VAFHO and SLV for inviting me to present the 2016 Don Grant Memorial Lecture.

Nurses and Midwives in Victoria

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Midwives, Nurses, women

Nurse B.P. Frankston, VictoriaI spotted a post on Facebook and was going to check my files when I realised that I should do a blog with the details for others to research their nurses or midwives.

And while we’re at it, someone might know the identity of the nurse in the photo.  The image is from the State Library of Victoria collection [H2006.188/34] and it states she is a young woman, identified only as “B.P. from – a nurse from Frankston, Victoria”.  The photo was taken in 1900.

The files I mentioned?  Some years ago I spent many hours searching for and finding these files – hence I recorded them in a couple of spreadsheets.

The Victorian Government Gazette included lists of Midwives and lists of Nurses generally annually in the 20th century – it wasn’t always easy finding them hence my reason for keeping a record of them.  The two best places for finding and downloading the relevant Victorian Government Gazette :

  • State Library of Victoria
  • Australasian Legal Information Institute [includes documents for other states and New Zealand – worth investigating from HOME page]

Most of the lists are alphabetical BUT DON’T STOP at “Z” because you may be reading the initial list of those added to the register, then there may be a list of those removed from the register, then those who changed their names [i.e. by getting married], and others who changed their address.  All wonderful information for family historians and researchers.  Now and again the Gazette will include the entire list of everyone registered and year of registration.  Some lists include their date of registration.

I haven’t had the need to search but I presume that all states would have had this type of register in their Government Gazettes.  And of course Nurses and Midwives weren’t the only lists: Railway employees being one occupation that comes to mind.  If they had to be “registered” or were Government employees, then LOOK FOR THEM!  There are Dentists, Doctors … the list goes on and on.

So back to my lists – the reason I looked for them and then downloaded them was to select [with help from some of my wonderful volunteers] any nurses or midwives and therefore add them to my Geelong & District Database.  Women aren’t easy to trace and midwives in particular were some of the women who didn’t have to give up their job when they married.

You also learn what files may contain by being observant – e.g. I included page numbers / ranges – this might give you the clue as to whether it was a yearly register or a complete register.  Have a look at the Nurses board for 31 December 1935 – page range is 2051-2135 – that’s more than 80 pages – whereas 1929 is less than 20 pages.  The 1935 list includes ALL nurses registered at that time.

As the tables didn’t transfer well into this blog, I’ve created a PDF file for each which you can download:

  • Victorian Midwives file
  • Victorian Nurses file

Enjoy researching your nurses and midwives!

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