Journals by Subject 1988- 2013
About the journal
Ances-tree is the journal produced by our group and is published three times each year. Family History Groups should request written permission to reprint any articles. Acknowledgement of the source must be given.
Buying a copy
Copies of the journal are available for $5.00 each including postage with Australia and $AUD10.00 for overseas. Payment options: Cheque, money order. Send your order, payment and postal address to: The Secretary, Burwood & District Family History Group, c/o Burwood Library, 4 Marmaduke Street, Burwood NSW 2134, Australia, and the requested journal(s) will be posted to you
OR For a Direct Deposit contact us via the "Contact Us" page and we will forward the bank details.
Ances-tree is the journal produced by our group and is published three times each year. Family History Groups should request written permission to reprint any articles. Acknowledgement of the source must be given.
Buying a copy
Copies of the journal are available for $5.00 each including postage with Australia and $AUD10.00 for overseas. Payment options: Cheque, money order. Send your order, payment and postal address to: The Secretary, Burwood & District Family History Group, c/o Burwood Library, 4 Marmaduke Street, Burwood NSW 2134, Australia, and the requested journal(s) will be posted to you
OR For a Direct Deposit contact us via the "Contact Us" page and we will forward the bank details.
SUBJECTS
Australian Biographies European German Local History Records - Australia Research United Kingdom & Ireland
Australian
17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot and Great- Great Grandfather Denis Kenny
100 years ago "Town Hall - Remains found"
110 Years Ago - November 1, 1890
1837 Agreement Between the Macarthurs and 6 German families, The
1st World War Diaries
A Landmark for Woman in Australia
A Voyage to a New Land
An Historical Approach to the Care of the Graves Rosewood NSW Cemetery
Assisted Immigration from New York to Sydney 1877-1878
Australia and the 19th Century Novelists
Australia's First Bank
Bathurst Connection, The
Bethania : The early years Camperdown Cemetery - some Success
Celebrating St. Philip's Church, Sydney 1788-1988
Census to be retained
Convict System, The
Devonshire St. Cemetery - A few more notes
Devonshire Street Cemetery - A Few Notes
Distractions Emigration to Australia in 1867 Family Stories- True or False
Fact in the Fiction, The
Female Factory, The
Flag Raising Ceremony at Circular Quay
For Some, Not Such a Lucky Country
Gleanings - "The Bombala Times"
Land Grants 1788-1809
Mitchell Bequest Project, The
Mitchell and Dixon - Library Benefactors
My Ancestor Was a Convict (Thomas Priest)
My Ancestor Was a Convict (William Jenkins/ William Henry/ Jane Carr/ John Hughs/ William Maher)
My Convict Ancestor (Thomas Dunn)
Old Burial Ground, The
Parish of St. James, County of Cumberland
Reflections- 50 years of Australia Remembers Tarakan 1945
Relics of old Sydney
Rocky Road to a Gravesite Rosewood Cemetery - Servicemen's Graves
Ship 'Caroline' (1833) Wives of Convicts on Board
Skeleton in the Closet
St Peters Richmond NSW
Students at the Pharmacy college Melbourne
Sydney Harbour Bridge - Memories
Sydney Hospital
Sydney Street Numbering
Tracing a Convicts Career
Trial of Margaret Smith alias Edney- the -Ances-tree Vol 26. No1 2013
Voyages of the 'Vixen'
Was your uncle a NSW Railway man?
Waverley Cemetery
Why Did Grandpa go to Mittagong
Biographies
A
Abberton Family in Brisbane, 1852 - The search continues, The
Alma, Where are you?
Andrews, , Mary -My Grandmother nee Gehrig (1863-1954)
Andrews -My Grandmother Were (Andrews,Evers, Gehrig,Reinhard, Hembrow, Hussey, Baillie, Hood)
B
Barnett, James: Colonial Architect - Key Figures of Rookwood
Barnsley, William George - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Beeton, Isabella nee Mayson - A Place for Everything and Everything in it's place
Bell, Captain Arthur Robert
Bonner, Margaret - My Grandmother Was - (Bonar)
Brammer, John - Tasmanian Land Grant -
Brien, Susan -My Great Grandmother was / Susannah / Bryan/ O'Brien
Brealey, Sharp Mr - A Tale of a Tanner
Breneger, Alf Mr.
Burden, Catherine Alice -Where is it ?
Bussell, William - Extract from "Who's Who in the Hunter Valley Towns 1888
C
Cameron, William Wardrop = My Great Grandfather
Campbell c. 1836 - First Ancestors
Carr, Wm. Henry & Jane- 200th Anniversary Reunion
Christina - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Coffill – the family name
Coffill, Joseph Taylor Esquire 1841-1919
Colton Family - Holy Trinity Church
Connell,Samuel -My Grandfather was a Saw Doctor
Connell, Ellen Fulton nee Edmiston and the Christening Shawl
Cook and Tahiti
Cook, William: How a Tatoo helped trace his Life
D
Dawson Family Reunion at Singleton
Dawson, James(1813-1876)
Doty Family - Penny's Great Grandma Clara
Dowling, Mary & Thomas - Drummoyne
Dunn, Thomas - Dunn Dunne, Dun, Done
E
Eason
Edmiston, Ellen Fulton and the Christening Shawl
Edney, Margaret (Smith) - The Trial of - Ances-tree Vol 26 No.1 2013
Ellery, Lily May
F
Fanning Family, The
Fearn, William Alfred - Bring a good supply of insect power and plenty of money
Fitzsimons Family of Drummoyne
Foster,Sarah Amelia -My Grandmother Was - k.a. Adams nee Phillips (1906-1980)
G
Gandy, Mary - Mothers. Daughters, Nieces, Aunts
Ghiggino, Columba -Great Great Great Grandma was born in a tent
Ghiggino, Florence
Ghiggino, Philip Oscar
Gibbs, Sarah
Goldsworthy - Andrews Family Reunion
Guilfoyle, Mary - My Grandmother
Guilfoyle, Michael c. 1853 - First AncestorsGuilfoyle - My Great -Grandfather and Great- Grandmother
H
Haigh, Samuel - Insolvency Record
Hallworth, Daniel
Hallworth, Bombardier Leslie
Hallworth, Peter
Hallworth, Wilfred & Lily
Harresky , David -Descendants of
Hayes, Francis Daniel (Frank) A.M.
Hembrow, Charles - From My Grandfathers Scrapbook
Henry, William - Once there were Three Williams
Henry, William - 1802 - First Ancestors
Hollis, William - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Humphries, Henry
Hutchinson, Jane
I
J
Jack, David and Jane Hutchinson
Jenkins, John - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Jenkins, William - Once there were Three Williams
Jenkins William - 1801 First AncestorJohnson, Alfred William
K
Kenny, Denis and Jane
Kernahan -My Great Grandparents were My Great-Grandfather and Great- Grandmother
King, George Thomas My Great Grandfather
Kirby, Mary Agnes - My Grandmother is still a Mystery
L
M
McCue, Patrick Aloysius - Olympic Gold
McCue/ McHugh - Variations in names
McDonagh Sisters, The
MacKenzie, - Finding of Grand-Dad
Maber, Dorothy Eunice
Maddock, Ernest (1858-1935) and Sarah Maddock (Porter) (1860-1955)
Maddock, Sarah nee Porter -Len Maddock's Grandmother: Toothdale's Pioneer Cyclist
Maher, William - Once there were Three Williams
Martin, Chas. Herbert (1857-1932) - 100 years ago - diary of
Mason, Arthur and a Strathfield Church
Mason, (Edward Who to Believe
Mason, Charles Willmot - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Mason, Walter George - The Final Insolvency
Moore, Charles - Key figures in the development of Rookwood
Murdock, John - Hobart at last!
N
O
P
Pearce, Simeon Henry - Key figures of Rookwood
Phillip, Arthur Admiral R.N. - The Father and Founder of Australia
Polding, Archbishop and his 'Tomb'
Poole, Jane
Pritchard, Robert John (Bob)
Q
Quince, John Edward and Family: Episode 1
Quince Family Episode 2
Quinlan, Kevin - Vale
Quinlan, Patrick - Members Stories of their Grandparents
R
Riley - Cousin Matthew
Roffe, Edward and Sarah (nee Gibbs)
S
Shore, John and Adelaide
Smith, Margaret -The trial of alias Edney - Ances-tree Vol 26 No1 2013
Smith, William James- In Search of Missing Pieces
Smith , William James- The Early Years in Maitland
Steele - The Fijian connection
T
Todd, David Blair - Members Stories of their Grandparents
Tool, Ellen - Who is / Toole
U
V
W
Walker- The End of the Line.
Weekes, Norman- Key Figures of Rookwood
Whitfield, Henry - My Great Grandfather
European
Irish in Australia: Exhibition at the National Museum of Australia 17 March 2011
Letters from France - World War I
More Irish Resources
St. Pierre de Calais as the Lacemakers knew it
Shores from Nottingham and Calais, The
Voyage of the Ludwina
Using the National Archives of Ireland Resources - Part 1
German
German Immigrant Ships to Eastern Australia - Resources and Problems
Part 1: Beulah 1849, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.16 no.1 Mar 2003. (London to Sydney)
Part 2: Parland 1849, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.16 no.2 Jul 2003. (London to Sydney)
Part 3: Harmony 1849 and Balmoral 1850, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.16 no.3 Nov 2003. (London to Sydney)
Part 4: San Francisco 1852, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.17 no.1 Mar 2004. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 5: Reiherstieg 1852, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.17 no.2 Jul 2004. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 6: Peter Godeffroy 1852, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.17 no.3 Nov 2004. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 7: Caesar Godeffroy 1852, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.18 no.1 Mar 2005. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 8: Johann Caesar 1853, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.18 no.2 Jul 2005. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 9: Helene 1853, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.18 no.3 Nov 2005. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 10: Triton 1853, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.19 no.1 Mar 2006. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 11: Undine 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.20 no.1 Mar 2007. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 12: Cateaux Wattel 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.20 no.3 Nov 2007. (Antwerp to Sydney)
Part 13: Caesar 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.22 no.1 Mar 2009. (Hamburg to Twofold Bay and Sydney) see also “Dr Middendorf of the Caesar 1855 and his long letter home”, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.21 no.3 Nov 2008.
Part 14: Marbs 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.22 no.2 Jul 2009. (Hamburg to Moreton Bay)
Part 15: Aurora 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.22 no.3 Nov 2009. (Hamburg to Moreton Bay)
Part 16: Commodore Perry 1855 (including the stragglers on Boomerang and Blanche Moore to Melbourne),in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.23 no.1 Mar 2010. (Liverpool to Sydney, and Liverpool to Melbourne)
Part 17: Peru 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.23 no.2 Jul 2010. (Hamburg to Sydney)
Part 18: Wilhelmsburg 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.24 no.1 Mar 2011. (Hamburg to Hobart and Sydney)
Part 19: San Francisco 1855, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.24 no.3 Nov 2011. (Hamburg to Hobart and Sydney)
Part 20:: Johann Caesar 1856, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.25 no.1 Mar 2012. (Hamburg to Moreton Bay)
In relation to Part 13, see also:
“Dr Middendorf of the Caesar 1855 and his long letter home”, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.21 no.3 Nov 2008.
This is the end of the series on ships bringing government-assisted German families to NSW all by Jenny Paterson
"Assisted German Immigrants" to Eastern Australia who weren't assisted
Part 1: Grasbrook 1855- Ancestree vol. 25 no. 2 July 2012 (Hamburg to Moreton Bay)
Part 2: Iserbrook 1856 Ancestree vol.25 no 3 November 2012(Hamburg to Moreton Bay)
Part 3: Caesar Godeffroy 1856, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.26 no.1 Mar 2013 (Hamburg to Moreton Bay and Sydney)
German ships with no ship lists
Part 1: Fanny Kirchner and Wilhelm Kirchner from Bremen to Sydney 1858, in: ‘Ances-tree’ vol.19 no.2 Jul 2006. - by Jenny Paterson
Part 2: Solon from Bremen to Moreton Bay 1859, in ‘Ances-tree’ vol.21 no.2 Jul 2008. by Lisa Burton
Part 3: Diana from Bremen to Moreton Bay 1858, in ‘Ances-tree’ vol.23 no.3 Nov 2010. by Lisa Burton
Others
1837 Agreement Between the Macarthurs and 6 German families, The
7th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Family History : a Goldmine for German Family History Research,
Articles on German Ships and Other Aspects of German Immigration
Assisted and Unassisted German Immigrants to NSW 1849- 1859 - Shipping Lists
Casting the net - Looking for German on CD-ROM
Cateaux Wattel 1855 - What Port Did She Sail From
Dr Middendorf of the Caesar 1855 and his long letter home
German Immigrants on "The Commodore Perry"
Germans on the Internet
Have you got Multicultural German Ancestors
Holdorf/ Fischer Line, The
Immigrants to Australia from Dodenau and Reddighasen in Hessen
List of Paterson Articles in Ances-Tree & Other places
Marriages in Hamburg 1852, The
Odd Spellings of German Immigrant Ship Names in NSW Naturalisation Records to 1889, plus some Commonwealth Naturalisations
Odd Spellings of German Place Names in NSW Naturalisation Records in 1889
On the trail of resources in Germany Passenger List of 'Prinz-Regent Luitpold' Bremen to Australia 1898
Planned illegitimacy among German immigrants
“Planned Illegitimacy" among German Immigrants by Jenny Paterson Ances-tree’ vol.20 no.2 Jul 2007.
Searching for German Ancestors?
Spelling Variants of German Surnames (NSW)
Spelling Variants of German Surnames in NSW Records (cont.)
Using a CD -ROM index for German names
Website:'Emigration from southwest Germany -Auswanderung aus Südwestdeutschland Wenz Von Rheingau - by Jenny Paterson Ances-tree vol.19 no.3 Nov 2006
Your German Ancestors arrived on the Commodore Perry… Right or Wrong?
Those strange German given names by Jenny Paterson ‘Ances-tree’ vol.24 no.2 Jul 2011. (Origins and spelling variants).
Local History
A Troubled corner of Rookwood Cemetery
A Visit to St Luke's Church Concord
Address Nine Milestone, Liverpool Road
An Unreliable Source
Arthur Mason and a Strathfield Church
Baptist's Estate and Everton Road, Strathfield
Bradman and Burwood
Burwood &District Family History Group - The Beginning
Burwood and District Family History Group Celebrates 25 Years
Burwood & District Family History Group's Website
Burwood Identities
Burwood Identities, April 1925
Burwood Intermediate Boys' High School (Swimming Carnival)
Burwood Municipal Band
Burwood National Association
Burwood Post Office - Historical Notes
Businesses in Sydney's Inner West 1924-39
Businesses in Sydney's Inner West 1941-57
Canterbury Electoral District 1859-60, The
Coming of the Railway, The
Concord (Longbottom) Cemetery,
Concord West Public School - 70th Anniversary
Coroner's Inquest - Bath Arms Hotel, Longbottom
Council Clerk Shot Fatal Bullet into Burwood's Mayor
Development along Everton Road
Early History of Burwood Estate
End of the Walker line
Enfield Tram Depot
Enfield War Memorial and the German Connection
Fitzsimons Family of Drummoyne
History of Iron Cove Bridge
John J Davies' Land
McDonagh Sisters, The
Mary & Thomas Dowling - Drummoyne
Memories of Early Strathfield
Mystery Headstones at Rookwood
Newington Asylum: The History, Matrons and
Inmates
Newington Hospital
NSW Garden of Remembrance- Rookwood Cemetery
Original Subdivisions of H S Briggs and wife Partition
Our Day at the Necropolis
Partitioning of the Burwood Estate
Petersham Cemetery
Pheolix Beats and Other Problems
Reminiscences of Old Drummoyne
Rookwood Cemetery
Schools in the Burwood Area
Some Burwood Street Names
Some Cemeteries in the Inner West
St Luke's Anglican ChurchConcord
St Thomas' Anglican Church & Cemetery Part 2
St Thomas' Anglican Church & Cemetery Part 3
St Thomas' Anglican Church and Cemetery
St Thomas' Anglican Church, Enfield
St Thomas' Anglican Church, Enfield
St Thomas' Church Enfield
Strangers' in Petersham Cemetery
Sub division of Baptist's Estate
Susan Campbell Retires from Burwood Library
War Memorial in Burwood and District - Ances-tree Vol 26. No1 2013
New Zealand
8th International Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, Lincoln University, Christchurch N.Z.
Census to be retained ?
New Zealand Certificates – a new service
Searching for NZ families
Records- Australia
1st AIF Abbreviations
A Little-Publicised source of Information
Ancest-tree Index 1988 -2007
Australian National Maritime Museum, The
Bank of New South Wales first 175 customers
Calendars and Dates
Early Muster & Census records
Errors in the NSW Birth, Death, Marriage Indexes
Fact Sheet: The first 175 Bank of New South Wales Staff
Good Samaritan Archives, The
How to get to Kingswood without using your motor car
If at First
Inquests
Irish in Australia: Exhibition at the National Museum of Australia 17 March 2011
Is your family history recorded in maritime records
Newspapers Published in NSW and the Port Phillip District 1848
Passenger and Shipping Records at Australian Archives
Photographic Research Project
Places of Registration Errors in the NSW BDM
Pre- 1856 NSW BDM Records
Probate Index Abbreviations
Probate Packets at SRNSW
Problem Corner - More errors in CD-ROM Indexes. Pioneers Index- Births
Railway Employees Railway Employees History Cards
Record of Broken dreams (Insolvency Records)
Recording Researches
Religious Congregations in the NSW BDM's
Researching NSW Land Records for Family Historians
Searching for Mining Ancestors
Sex Change - Problems in the NSW BDMS
Some Newspapers held at the Macquarie University Library
Sydney Room
Sydney Street Numbering
Using the Colonial Secretary's Correspondence 1826-1894 Prrimary Source SRNSW -Extracted by Joan Reece
Vaughan Evans Library Australian National Maritime Museum
War Memorials of Burwood and District Index - Ances-tree Vol26 no1 2013
Wills, Probates and Charges
World War I records at the National Archives
Research
Ancess-tree Index 1988-2007
A Guide to Publishing Your Family History
About Electoral Rolls
Assisted Immigration from New York to Sydney 1877-1878
Books on Immigration
British Census, The
Camperdown Cemetery - Key Plan Found
Copying Family Photos
Day of the Week, The
Dead Persons Society
Ermington & Rydlmere Municipality- Extraordinary Vacancy
Erring is not cheating
Have you lost a Wilhelmia
Historical Records of NSW/Australia
Hobart at last!
London Gazette, The
Missing Ancestors
More Irish Records
Mystery of Lilly, The
New South Wales Register for Placement and Electors Contained within the 1859-60 /1869-70 Electoral Rolls and the Origin Thereof, The
New Zealand BDM Information Newspaper Goldmine, The
Oral history : I Wished that I'd listened to Grandma
Place name Puzzle solved but What Next?
St Patrick's Day 2012 17 March 2012: Griffiths Valuation
Some Ways of finding Death Records
Surnames Using the NSW BDM Index
Using the National Archives of Ireland Resources - Part 1
What will happen to your records
Where to find NSW Laws
United Kingdom & Ireland
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Balance Sheet of Church Concert 1913
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Baptisms - St John's Church
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Baptisms - St Paul's Church
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Baptisms - The Parish Church
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Burials - At the new church cemetery
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Burials - St Paul's Churchyard.
Abertillery Abertillery Parish Magazine - St Johns Church Altar Guild
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Subscriber - The Parish Church
Abertillery Parish Magazine - Weddings - The Parish Church
Abertillery Parish Magazine. August 1913. Abertillery Wales, U.K.
British Census, The
Channel Islands, The
Convict System – Economy of the Hulk
Epitaphs - The Scottish View
Holy Trinity Church Colton
Legend and Customs of the Corn Dolly, The
London Directories 1677-1899/1900, The
London Gazette, The
New Library - Barnstaple, North Devon
Red Hair Meant Trouble for London
Trial of Margaret Smith alias Edney.
St Patrick's Day -17th March 2012 - Griffith's Valuation
St Patrick's Day launch of Tithe Applotment Books Records - 1823- 1837- Ances-tree Vol. 26 No1 2013
Where is it ? - In Great Britain
