by Jenny Coates | 10 Sep 2014 | Trove Tuesday, Wangaratta
Research of our Irish forebears is difficult most of the time. Late civil registration in Ireland, an English, Anglican leaning aristocracy in Australia that thought recording someone as being born in “Ireland” was adequate, excruciatingly common surnames...
by Jenny Coates | 25 Aug 2014 | Trove Tuesday, Wangaratta
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. Having reviewed the temples of Bacchus, we naturally turn to the temple of Themis. This is represented by a...
by Jenny Coates | 27 May 2014 | Trove Tuesday, Wangaratta
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. As in all Australian cities, the public-houses of Wangaratta are a prominent institution, six in number;...
by Jenny Coates | 14 Apr 2014 | Trove Tuesday, Wangaratta
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. A tannery has been lately established in Templeton-street, and but for the doubts entertained by the...
by Jenny Coates | 8 Apr 2014 | Trove Tuesday, Wangaratta
In January 1863 the Beechworth based Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) published a fascinating and at times hilarious account of Wangaratta. The report is important as the office of the Wangaratta Dispatch (later Despatch) was destroyed by fire sometime in the...