Family History Stories and News from Lake Macquarie
Charles Howard "Chocka" Orman (1900-1970), who was Secretary of the Belmont 16 ft Skiffs Club, features in many articles on Trove. The following article tells of his interest in sailing.
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| 1949 'AS WELL KNOWN AS THE BEACON', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 4 November, p. 4. (SPORT SUPPLEMENT), viewed 29 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134165876 |
We are pleased to announce that Kerry Farmer will be the guest speaker for our next monthly meeting. Non-members are welcome to join us for this 90 minute event (1 hour lecture followed by questions).
There are many sensational headlines on Trove about a Toronto honeymoon in 1925 that went wrong for Mona Beacher (pictured below).
You can read some of the many articles by following the links under each of the following images.
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1925 'THE MURDER OF MONA BEACHER WHILE ON HER HONEYMOON', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 4 June, p. 1. , viewed 22 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113915492 |
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| 1936 'Honeymoon Murderer Goes Mad In Gaol', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 26 January, p. 13. , viewed 22 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169589487 |
Several newspapers in the Trove collection relate sad news from Swansea.
William Hill was injured in May 1920
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| 1920 'OUR NEWCASTLE LETTER.', The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), 31 May, p. 2. , viewed 15 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127958154 |
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| 1920 'MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 9 November, p. 5. , viewed 15 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140080516 |
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| 1920 'BOOLAROO.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 12 November, p. 6. , viewed 15 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140086365 |
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| 1922 'Family Notices', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 22 December, p. 6. , viewed 15 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140019212 |
Guest Speaker for our Monthly meeting on Saturday 19th September will be Paul Parton, Familysearch Outreach Presenter. Paul, who will be sharing the latest news from Familysearch, is looking forward to answering your questions. Prior to Paul's presentation at 1:30pm we will have a short general meeting from 1pm to 1:25pm to share news from your Committee and members.
During the week members of Lake Macquarie Family History Group will receive a link to join the Zoom session by email.
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| Paul Parton |
This letter from Gwen Boyd of Swansea won a prize in the Daily Telegraph's Children's pages. Perhaps Gwen carved out a career as a journalist.
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| 1924 'PRIZE LETTER OVER 12.', The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), 23 February, p. 15. , viewed 08 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245897564 |
During the Lake Macquarie FHG presentation, Trawling in the Lake, for National Family History Month last week an important element of the resources shared was a list of books and printed materials to assist with local research.
As an alternative to sharing a printed book list the free Librarything online platform was used. The bibliography contains not just books held locally in our Group's collection but in local public libraries, the University of Newcastle, the State Library of NSW and the National Library of Australia. It is a dynamic list that will grow as new resources are identified.
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| Our Librarything bibliography for researching Lake Macquarie Family History |
To access the list select the bibliography tab below the header image on this blog or go to this URL in your browser:
https://www.librarything.com/profile/LakeMacFHG .
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| To access the book list select Bibliography |
Once at the site clicking on any of the links on the page will take you to other areas of the site. If you know of any books that are not on the list please leave a comment on this post and we will add the details to our Librarything account..
After reading an obituary for Percy Pickles I wondered what else I could discover about this chap's life.
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| 1943 'OBITUARY', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 10 September, p. 4. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133411897 |
Local newspaper articles from Trove give us an insight to the life of Percy, a chap whose alliterative name caught my attention.
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| 1895 'ACCIDENT AT THE PACIFIC COLLIERY.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 22 February, p. 5. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133352347 |
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| 1901 'FENNELL'S BAY', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 26 February, p. 7. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138481140 |
Continue to read this lengthy report here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138481140
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| 1921 'TERALBA POLICE COURT.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 26 November, p. 10. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139927336 |
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| 1933 'FOUR FIRES IN DISTRICT', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 13 April, p. 7. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165339438 |
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| 1934 'Brevities', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 27 March, p. 4. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166240961 | |
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| 1943 'Family Notices', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 26 August, p. 2. , viewed 01 Sep 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133414830 |
