Daylesford and District Historical Society Inc.

Catalogue of Publications

100 Vincent Street Daylesford 3460

Phone: 03 5348 1453 Email: history@daylesford.net www.daylesfordhistory.com.au

Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding postage and packaging

charges for all book orders.

May 2018

Gilburnia:

Carboni, Raffaello. (1872).

(Translated by Anthony Pagliaro 1993)

140 pages with illustrations & facsimile

of the 1872 original hard cover

Price: $27.50

The story of the Tarrang Aborigines in dispute with the miners who invaded

the traditional territory on the Tarrang Tribe and kidnapped Gilburnia the

daughter of the tribal elder. An ambitious text written in verse which Carboni

intended to be performed as a mimed theatrical spectacle with musical accom-

paniment.

Double Gold 1870s Mining and Farming Diaries with a History of Mount Franklin and District MacDonald J. & Powell Garry (2008) 266 pages soft cover Price: $35.00

Diaries of the 1870s together with supporting history focusing on the Welsh community of the Mount Franklin area.

100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining

History

Maddicks, Harry T. assisted by Butler

K.H. (Revised edn. 2016).

126 with photographs, maps and index

pages soft cover

Price:$25.00

Harry T.Maddicks’ book is more a collection of anecdotal stories and

comments relating to the mining history of Daylesford. It was originally

published in 1981 and has been sympathetically revised and expanded to

enhance what is a valid history of the era.

Trentham At War Bertrand I. & Robertson J. (2012) 126 pages soft cover Price:$12.00

The stories of Trentham’s volunteers who served in the Boer War, World War 1 and World War 2.

The Newstead District Murders 1857-

1859

Haas, Adrian . (2012)

88 pages with photographs and illustra-

tions, soft cover

Price:$30.00

There is nothing more that catches the attention of people than that of a

murder, and especially one that is unsolved. This book examines four

murders that took place in the Newstead area in the 1850s.

Timber - Spuds and Spa Osborne, Murrel. 84 pages with many lists ,photographs and illustrations soft cover Price: $15.40

A descriptive history and lineside guide written by a local about the railways in the Daylesford district 1880 - 1993. Published to mark the closure on 3rd July 1978 of the Carlsruhe to Daylesford section of the railway.

A Most Commodious Up-Country Hall

Patterson, R.D. (1985)

42 pages with a number of photographs

soft cover

Price:$5.50

This concise history of the Daylesford Town Hall was commissioned

by the Shire of Daylesford & Glenlyon to mark the centenary of the

laying of the Town Hall Foundation stone.

William Tibbits 1837-1906

Cottage, House and Garden Artist

Tibbits, George (1984)

96 pages with a large number of colour

and B&W photographs soft cover

Price: $12.00

William Tibbits was a prolific watercolour artist whose beautiful

paintings of buildings, gardens and landscapes reveal a lost world of

19th Century architecture. The books details his life and reproduces a

large number of his works in colour and black & white.

The Early Years

A Short History of Kooroocheang

Sewell, J. F. (1988)

48 pages soft cover

Price: $15.50

Kooroocheang was a progressive district - our forefathers were very

community minded and farsighted and our generation benefited greatly

from their efforts.

Wombat Woodsmen - Sawmills and

timber tramways of the Wombat State

Forest 1853—2008

Houghton, Norman (2013)

166 pages photos/illustrations soft cover

Price: $47.50

The foundations of large scale commercial sawmilling in Victoria were laid in

the Wombat Forest from 1853. This forest was the testing ground for ideas and

attitudes to harvesting, transport and sawmilling techniques that forged resource

management and sawmilling management styles well into the twentieth century.

The Narrative of Deserter Burman

Pyers, Greg. (2015)

246 pages soft cover

Price: $29.00

In 1834 Private Benjamin Burman is on the run to a new life in

America but is captured and banished to Van Dieman’s Land. Even

when his punishment is over he is destined to endure the greatest

tragedy of his life when his son becomes one of the tragic

Three Lost Children of Daylesford.

Saving the Glen

A history of the Glenlyon Fire Brigade

1914-2014

Dobbs, Anne & Lockwood, Margaret

(2014)

126 pages photographs/tables soft cover

Price: $20.00

Traces the history of the Glenlyon Fire Brigade from its inception to

its centenary year. The book contains photographs, lists of members

and office-bearers and other information.

A Forester's Log

The story of John Le Gerche and the

Ballarat - Creswick State Forest 1882 -

1897

Taylor, Angela (1998)

224 pages hardcover

Price : $32.90

A unique forest story told from the forester's point of view - John Le

Gerche a first generation forester in Victoria and managed the Ballarat -

Creswick State Forest - letters, books and pocket books have survived

to provide a rare insight into a bailiff - forester's burden in the 1880's

and 1890's.

Pine Plantations in the Otways

Speirs, Jim.

DVD (running time 28 minutes)

Price: $10.00

With a number of historic photographs and some rare film footage, we

trace the development of the softwood industry in the Otways. Jim Speirs

and a number of Otways residents give their insight into the early history

of pine plantations.

Eureka:

From the official records.

MacFarlane, Ian. (1995)

220 pages soft cover

Price: $18.60

The story of the Ballarat riots of 1854 and the Eureka stockade from

the official documents in the Public Records Office of Victoria - con-

tains more than 600 citations to official documents in the holdings.

“Let’s Talk of Graves ….And Epitaphs” Daylesford Cemetery Walk Daylesford & District Historical Society Inc (2013) 18 pages soft cover, photographs and cemetery map Price: $5.00

A cemetery is a treasure trove that links the past with the present. Daylesford Cemetery has existed since the 1850s, so many of our early settlers rest here. The book contains details of a number of notable and some less notable past citizens of Daylesford.. Biographical details, grave locations and photographs provide a fascinating glimpse into our past.

A Unique School

Darwin, Norm. (1990)

94 pages with many photographs soft

cover

Price : $11.00

The story of the Daylesford Technical High School’s evolution from

the Daylesford School of Mines, Daylesford Higher Elementary School

and the Technical School is told in the school’s centenary year.

A Successful Failure - a trilogy

The aborigine and the early settlers

Morrison, Geoff (ed) (2002)

312pages, some photographs hard cover

Price: $55.00

This volume is a reprint of three separate publications “Early Days in the

Loddon Valley”, Frontier Life in the Loddon Protectorate” and “The Lod-

don Aborigines”. The trilogy tells the story of the Aboriginal Protectorate

System designed to be a buffer between the original inhabitants and the

influx of white squatters.

The Story of The Three Lost Children

Menadue, John. (1999)

20 pages soft cover photographs

Price: $10.00

A brief story illustrating the tragic story of the Three Lost Children

and the subsequent inception of the Graham Dux Award at Daylesford

Primary School . It is a story of self -sacrifice, devotion, courage and

public spiritedness of the highest order.

Those Flannelled Fools - Daylesford and

District Cricket 150 years on.

Bull, Ian G. (2004)

156 pages soft cover

Price: $30.00

The book records the history of cricket in Daylesford and district, the

Daylesford and District Cricket Association, players and officials and

their records and achievements.

Boundary Gully Road

Culvenor, Claude C. (2017)

66 pages photographs & map soft cover

Price : $20.00

This local road was once part of an important early through road

between New South Wales and Melbourne and ran from Glengower

Station (now Campbelltown) to the Franklinford Aboriginal Protec-

torate.

Judicial Murder

The Crown Versus David Young

Benson, Deborah. (2015)

486 pages, soft cover

Price: $25.00

David Young, an ex-convict, was charged with the murder of Margaret

Graham, tried and hanged; the first at the Castlemaine Gaol..

This book lays out the case for David Young’s exoneration. It paints a

world where senior officials lived wealthy, dissolute lives from the ordi-

nary people made do in canvas homes and one or two-room shacks.

The Boundaries of Mount Franklin

Aboriginal Reserve

Culvenor, Claude C.

40 pages soft cover

maps and illustrations

Price: $8.50

A concise book of local history, particularly aspects of the early white

settlement and the pioneers who brought it about.

The Settlement of Yandoit Creek and

The Gervasonis

Culvenor, Claude C.

160 pages soft cover with illustrations

Price: $35.00

Yandoit Creek, north-west of Daylesford was known as an Italian

enclave from the beginning of its settlement in the 1860s.

The Gervasonis were central figures in the early settlement of Yandoit

Creek and to them is due much of the Italian character which is of such

interest today.

The Girl From Sulky Gully (1869 - 1965) A review of the life and works of art of Australian Artist Maude Glover -Fleay. Fleay - Thomson, Rosemary. & Fleay - Beasy, Mary. (1999) 96 pages soft cover numerous colour pho-tographs Price: $28.60

Maude Glover-Fleay was a Australian Pioneer Woman in every sense of

the word. She had entered what had previously been considered

the ' Man's World ' of art in the late1880's. This is her story and artwork.

A Fraternity of Foresters A history of the Victorian State Forest-ers Association. Gillespie, Jack. & Wright, John. (1993) 150 pages soft cover photographs and illustrations Price: $14.50

A chronological history of the origin, evolution activities, achievements

and sadly, the ultimate demise of the Victorian state Foresters Associa-

tion. Primarily an industrial union but more importantly both a society

and a forum for the social and work orientated exchange for professional

and technical staff employed in the forestry by the Victorian Government.

A Difficult Case

An autobiography of a Chinese Miner

on the Central Victorian Goldfields.

Jong Ah Siug. (2000)

148 pages soft cover photographs

Price: $32.90

Translation and annotated diary by a Chinese miner from the Dunolly

district which includes a personal account of the events which lead to

the author's incarceration in gaol and then a Asylum.

The Settlement of Swiss Ticino

Immigramts in Australia

Gentilli, J.

134 pages soft cover

Price: $24.75

The Ticinesi were probably unique as an emigrating group because of

the very short time in which their exodus took place and because of the

determination of many to return home as soon as possible.

Thomas Smith of Sandon

Miner, farmer, geologist.

Culvenor, C.C. (1994)

32 pages soft cover photographs and il-

lustrations

Price : $7.70

Thomas Smith was a son of the gold-rush era who grew up on a pioneer

farm at Sandon, north-west of Daylesford. His collection of graptolite

fossils from the Sandon Campbelltown district enabled him to make a

significant contribution to the geology of Victoria.

Bullboar, Macaroni & Mineral Wa-

ter

Spa Country’s Swiss Italian History

Gervasoni, Clare 2nd edn, (2007)

128 pages photographs soft cover

Price: $30.00

In the gold rush of the early 1850s over 1000 miners of Swiss-Italian

descent came to the region from northern Italy and the Italian speaking

Canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Discover and learn about the Swiss

Italian early settlers who helped shape the region, both the landscape and

the community, particularly as much evidence from this era remains.

Snapshots of Glenlyon

McKillop[, Wendy. Ed. (2010)

78 pages some photographs soft cover

Price: $15.00

A collection of history stories from various authors taken from the

first 100 issues of The Glenlyon and District News April 2001 to

March 2010.

A Hard Day’s Work - Growing Spuds

Around Trentham.

Bertrand, Ina & Elliott, Gael (2009)

36 pages soft cover photographs

Price: $7.00

The history of potato growing in the Trentham district with the focus

on the spud diggers and their huts. Some of the huts can still be seen in

the area. They are often in poor repair, even derelict, but now recorded.

The Colveneres of the Old Netherlands

Culvnor, C.C. (1990)

132 pages hard cover photogaphs &

illustrations

Price : $8.50

A biography of George Colveneere, 16th Century theologian and an

account of the Colvenere families of the old Netherlands and their link

with the Culvenors of Australia.

Notable Bushfires in the Daylesford Dis-

trict over more than a century

Gray, Peter (1976)

pamphlet

Price: $1.00

From a talk given by Peter Gray, B.E.M. , Queen’s Fire Service Medal.

Former Captain of Daylesford Brigade and C.F.A. Deputy Chief Officer

with 47 years fire fighting experience to the Daylesford Historical Socie-

ty, 1976. Information on some of the disastrous bushfires experienced in

this district since 1851.

Australian Aboriginal Word and Place

Names

Endacott, Sydney J. (reprinted 1990)

64 pages soft cover

Price: $6.50

An extensive listing of aboriginal words which presents a choice of

3,000 words from which to choose an appropriate Australian name.

Aboriginal Artefacts

Powell F.G.

4 page pamphlet

Price : 60 cents

The history of the Aboriginal artefacts displayed in the

Daylesford Museum.

Print “Logging in the Wombat Forest” Size: 460 mm x 325 mm (18 inches x 13 inches) Price: $33 .00

The Good Country - The Djadja

Wurrung, the Settlers and the

Protectors.

Attwood, Bain (2017)

225 pages photographs soft cover

Price: $29.95

The story of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria is one of de-struction, decimation and dispossession, but, equally powerfully, it is not one of unceasing conflict. It describes the relationship which was developed with sympathetic protectors, pastoralists and gold diggers.

Early History of the Trentham District

Trewhella, G.W.

26 pages soft cover, photos and maps

Price: $7.00

George Trewhella’s book is still the only general history of

Trentham. Although the text was first published in the Kyneton

Guardian in June 1957 it still remains valuable as a detailed account

of the early development of the Trentham district.

The Swiss in Australia

Wegmann, Susanne (1989).

144 pages soft cover with photo-

graphs,

Price: $25.00

Describes the history of the Swiss emigration to Australia from

the 1850s to the 1980s and their effects on Australia culture.

The Poschiavini were probably unique as an emigrating group be-

cause of the very short time in which their exodus took place and

because they were willing to work in a mine to earn the necessary

funds to buy land, build a home and become independent farmers.

Swiss Poschiavini in Australia

Gentilli, Joseph (1999)

55 pages soft cover

Price: $23.60

This book reaches into every corner of Victoria and presents a sur-

prising and detailed picture of this hitherto virtually overlooked

group of people and their important role in the history of the state.

Cousin Jack Man for the times

Hopkins, Ruth (1994)

250 pages soft cover

Price: $20.00

George and James Brown Patterson emigrated from Nothunberland

and settled in Central Victoria. Both were successful—George in

business and as mayor of Daylesford and James as an MP and even-

tually premier of Victoria.

Djadja Wurrung Language of Central

Victoria

Tully, John (1997)

92 pages soft cover

Price: $21.50

This book cross references the English-Djadja Wurrung translations

together with the Djadja Wurrung-English words. It also includes

the Djadja Wurrung translations of place names for an extensive

area of Victoria..

Golden Dreams and Geordie Nous

Calder, Winty (1992)

250 pages soft cover, photos

Price: $16.50

This publication provides an extensive listing of the nurses who

trained at Ballarat Base Hospital between the years 1888 to 1988. It

provides trainee’s names, dates of entry and departure, and, where

possible, an outline of their later careers.

Ballarat Base Hospital ~ Nurse Training

Registers .. 1888 ~ 1988

Menadue, Winsome (1993)

114 pages soft cover, photos and tables

Price: $10

Jim Speirs worked in the Forest Commission for 37 years and re-

lates the story of the development of the forest industry in the

Otways from the 1890s. Historic photos and some rare film footage

show a fascinating period in Victoria’s history.

Forestry in the Otways

Speirs, Jim

DVD (running time 25 mins)

Price: $10.00

A brief history to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the construction of the ' New Church '.

Redeeming The Time: A View of The History Of The Daylesford Uniting Church Garner, Dr. Mark. (1990) 1860 - 1990. 29 pages soft cover Price: $5.50

Letters From The Front: The experience of Daylesford district WW1 soldiers, told through their letters home. Dobbs A., Files J. & Pitt L. (2015) 107 pages soft cover, photographs and maps Price: $20.00

A collection of letters from the many conflicts of WW1 sent to the families and friends of Daylesford district soldiers and which por-trays their lives, hopes and aspirations. The tales are at times fasci-nating, sad, poignant and uplifting. A few of the letters are among the last ever received by their families as many made the supreme sacrifice. An excellent publication of which the Society is extremely proud. The book contains a number of photographs sourced from the Society’s Collection, the Australian War Memorial and from the private collections of members of the public.

“Mud, Blood & Gold…..Daylesford The early years” Pitt, Les (2016) 229 pages soft cover, photographs Price: $30.00

The history of Daylesford in the early years, from the laying out of the Municipality in 1854 to 1870 as penned by local historian, Les Pitt. The book tells the early stories of the town and its people and some of the colourful characters who made Daylesford their home and those who made Daylesford.

Spa Country

Victoria’s Mineral Springs

Stone, Derrick et al (2010).

232 pages hard and soft cover

with photographs and illustra-

tions

Price for 2 book package:

$15.00 both soft cover

The books provide both an historical background and up to date infor-

mation concerning our mineral waters and major springs in Victoria

and they identify the importance of the resource to the bottling, hy-

drotherapy and tourism industries.

Great companion volumes for those who wish to know more about

and to sample all the different springs in the Spa Centre of Australia.

Bonus offer!

2 for the price of

1!

The Spa Country - A

field guide to 65 mineral

springs of the Central

Highlands,Victoria

Wishart, Edward and

Maura (1990)

192 pages soft cover with

photographs, maps, tables.