December 2005 Members' Queries and Reunions

CLOSURE OF FAMILY RECORDS CENTRE
To read the full background behind the closure of the FRC visit the FFHS website < www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/civil-reg-0707.php > or the report in The Times < http://tinyurl.com/2u99fd >

An E-petition to ensure that the General Register Office completes ASAP, as promised, the digitisation of, and online index to, the national BMD ledgers dating back to 1837 previously held in the Family Records Centre in London, has been created on the Prime Ministers Website for more information visit < http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BMDonline/>
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies www.ffhs.org.uk

CHRISTMAS READING
GOOD NEWS FOR IRISH RESEARCHERS.
For those many researchers who complain that ‘there are insufficient sources for Irish search’, here is good news. The library has had donated an excellent book ‘The Emerald Strand – The Irish-born Manufacturers’ of Nineteenth- century Victoria by Keith Pescod. It draws together information on the Manufacturers and the Environment in which they managed their businesses. Although not as well-known as politicians, lawyers and public servants the manufacturers are an un-tapped source of information. For those family historians wanting to flesh out their family history skeletons ‘The Emerald Strand’ is good value. Please check the catalogue for its location.

William Borrodaile Wilson and his family by Euphemia Grant Lipp.
This slim book of 92 Pages, including Index. Illustrations which sells for $15, including postage, traces William Wilson's forebears in the north of England, his early life in England and his life in Australia. It continues with the lives of his 11 children, and provides information on his later descendants. It has been compiled from a large mass of records accumulated while there was a lot of Wilson search going on in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The book provides a convenient summary of the story of William Borrodaile Wilson and his many descendants which will interest not only his descendants, but also many others who wish to know more about the early settlers of Australia.
For further information contact Phemie Grant Lipp
Dexter Street
COOK ACT 2614

Ralph Neale is the author of a new book, recently published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, entitled Racers of the Deep. This covers the history of the Black Ball and the White Star shipping lines, but also includes a number of unusual sea stories, based on new research uncovered in the last four years. 396 pp with many illustrations, charts, fleet lists, etc. RRP $44. Contact Ralph Neale 9890 0067

To those members who subscribe to ‘Practical Family History, did you notice the story in July 2007 issue titled ‘Prizes for the Poor’ by Malcolm Walford? The article refers to ‘premiums’ given to Agricultural Labourers. The AIGS holds a copy of Malcolm Walford’s Index together with photocopies of relevant pages from the newspaper of the time. At present the AIGS is the only library holding this index outside of England. Members will be pleased to know that we are currently preparing for use in the library a similar index for the West Sussex Agricultural Association .

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Published in the December 2007 edition of

"The Genealogist"

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