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Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory Inc.

The Family History Place

Community event in Darwin, 1915. The man standing at right, facing the camera, is

thought to be James (Jimmy) Lawrence Cain. (Source: NT Library)

Progenitor 2 September 2017

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY INC

Unit 4, 84 Smith Street Darwin Northern Territory Australia

Opposite the Chinatown Carpark

POSTAL ADDRESS: The Secretary Genealogical Society of the NT Inc.

PO Box 37212 Winnellie NT 0821 Australia

ENQUIRIES: Telephone 08 89817363

Email: [email protected] Web Page: www.gsnt.org.au

PATRON - His Honour the Honourable Austin Asche AC QC

HONORARY OFFICE BEARERS:

President: Keven Young

Senior Vice President: Dianne Tessmann

Vice President: Julian Schuller

Secretary/Public Officer: June Tomlinson (0412 018 015)

Treasurer: Patsy Hickey

Committee Members: David Boys

Janet Leather

Elaine Barry

Research Officer:

Assistant Research Officer: Beatrice Mayo

Cemetery Coordinator:

Pioneer Coordinator: Keven Young

Editor Progenitor: Dianne Tessmann

Web Administrator: June Tomlinson

Auditor: Sue Lee and Associates

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Joining Fee $10.00 (for one address)

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includes 4 hours Research - available to those living beyond Batchelor in the Northern Territory

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CONTENTS

President’s Report 4

The Territory’s first and only Gallipoli prisoner 6 by Judy Boland James (Jimmy) Lawrence Cain a Territory Hero 9

by Norman Cramp The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas 12 Book review by Mim Regan Emily Caroline Barnett 1860—1944 13

Louisa Eleanor Boyd 1865—1954 14

News from the General Register Officer (GRO UK) 28

Northern Territory Police Day Journals 18

and the only known Ned Kelly gang member in the NT

Ten common mistakes when researching your family 20

What is the Ryerson Index 21

Searching in Trove 22

A Follow up on the Giese Family and the ss Douglas Mawson 24

Find that MI 25

New Book for sale – A Stubborn City: Darwin 1911–1978 26

This Society does not hold itself responsible for statements made or opinions expressed by authors of papers pub-

lished in this journal. The accuracy of offers, services or goods appearing in Progenitor cannot be vouched for by

this Society.

ADVERTISING IN PROGENITOR : - Advertisements for members less 5%

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Members can advertise their research name free of charge.


President’s Report to GSNT Inc. AGM 9th

September 2017.

Welcome to the 2017 Annual General Meeting of our Society. A very special welcome to The Honoura-

ble Austin Asche AC QC, our long time Patron, and to Dr. Valerie Asche AM.

Well, more than a year has already passed since we opened our ‘new’ premises here at 84 Smith Street.

We older members still find ourselves occasionally going to the wrong shelves, or into the wrong room.

Our inbuilt GPS is gradually sorting itself out and by the next AGM we should be moving confidently in the

right direction to wherever we set out to go, - I think.

Sadly, we lost our much-loved Vern O’Brien, OBE, aged 91, ex-RAAF, on the 13th of June 2017, along

with his astounding knowledge of all things Territorian. In every respect we miss the man-mountain.

Memories of him reside with us and in many of the publications and files in our research library.

Some of our major projects have been completed or are approaching completion. Patsy Hickey has now

completed the mammoth task of determining who is buried in the old Palmerston (Goyder Road), Ceme-

tery and where possible’ the location of their graves. The completed work has been handed over to the

City of Darwin, from whom we obtained a Grant to carry out the work. We do not yet know how the results

of our research will be displayed, or otherwise made available to the community. We fully expect that we

will be making additions to the works in coming years when further information is discovered. We

acknowledge the valuable assistance given by Phyllis Williams and Katherine Hamilton of the National

Archives, Darwin, with regard to improving the legibility of the old cemetery registers.

We have also been doing further research on those ‘Top End’ residents who were evacuated soon after

WW2 came to this area, by other than the usual means of transport, or who evacuated by their own

means, to towns south of Darwin, or interstate, and whose names were not recorded in the official Evac-

uees lists. June Tomlinson and Katherine Goulding have been undertaking this difficult task, which

Dr.Tom Lewis, OAM, asked us to do as he was running out of time to complete this and other works he

had in train.

The team of members who have been working on the major Northern Territory Pioneers project has

reached the milestone where we hope to be able to publish an alphabetical list of names online before

the end of this year. We will be inviting anyone who believes one or more of those persons listed may be

a relative of theirs, to contact us to confirm if this is so and to then arrange to obtain such information as

we have gathered, or to ask us to continue research for them on the respective persons.

That list will contain in excess of 17,000 names, - and counting.

I won’t attempt to name all members involved in this and other activities undertaken by the Society, as I

am bound to forget someone and that would be unforgivable You all know who you are and on behalf of

the Society, I extend to you our sincere thanks for the many hours of time and effort you give to us.


Our Society would find it difficult to function if we were not successful in securing various Grants. Below is

the list of Grants we received this year :

Seniors Grant: Which enabled us to invite Seniors to visit our Library during Seniors month and to

provide them with advice on the research our facilities would allow them to undertake, to build their ‘family

tree’, or to search for ‘lost’ relatives.

Volunteers Grant: Which assisted us to carry out imaging work to enhance the results of research

tasks being undertaken by our Society.

NT History Grant: This Grant, through the NT Archives Service, is specifically for researching and

publishing details of pioneer deaths which occurred in the Barkly Shire. A similar project to that which we

carried out in the Borroloola region.

We also raise funds by selling surplus books (those of which we hold multiple copies in our library) and

books which are given to us for fundraising purposes. Many thanks to Mim Regan for her help in this.

To all who donated money, books, equipment, etc to the Society this year, a huge thank-you for your

generosity. All donations are recorded in the minutes during the year and where possible (unless donat-

ed anonymously) we have placed the donor’s name on the donated item.

Thank you all for your attendance here today.

Keven Young

President, GSNT Inc.

MEMBERS RESEARCH INTERESTS.

Kerry Bishop Bishop from Crawley England 1833-1851

Susan Carter Carter from Wycheproof Victoria pre 1917

Harrison from St Arnaud Victoria 1870 – 1900

Scrutton from Warracknabeal Victoria 1880 – 1920

Simpson from Canterbury South Island NZ 1875 – 1900


The Territory’s first and only Gallipoli prisoner

By Judy Boland

2015 marked the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, and the centenary of the capture of Private

John Irving Beattie No 1827, 15th Battalion, Australian Infantry Forces (AIF), the only Territorian

captured during that campaign.

On 8th August 1915, Beattie, known as Jack, was captured during the opening stages of the Bat-

tle for Lone Pine, when his Battalion was ordered to mount an attack on Hill 971.

During his time overseas, both before and after capture, Beattie corresponded with friends in Dar-

win who arranged for his letters to be published in the Northern Territory Times and Gazette.

Jack Beattie’s life from his birth on 7 August 1889 in Liverpool UK up to his return to Australia in

February 1919 has been detailed in previous editions of Progenitor. In this September 2017 edi-

tion we look at Beattie’s attempts to re-establish himself, this time in Canada and finally New Zea-

land.

Jack Beattie, a man broken by Australian Government Bureaucracy, left Fremantle on 22 Febru-

ary 1930, on board SS Karoola, bound for Sydney. Here he joined RMMS Aorangi, bound for

Canada, intent on becoming a farmer.

RMMS Aorangi was well known in shipping circles and was renowned for its fast passage times.

It regularly ran the Sydney-Vancouver route with each trip taking about 3 weeks. It had arrived in

Sydney in February, well ahead of time, but more than half of its 240 passengers were detained

in quarantine at North Head Quarantine Station because of an outbreak of small pox.

After intensive fumigation, RMMS Aorangi departed Sydney on 6 March 1930 and went via Auck-

land NZ, Suva Fiji and Honolulu Hawaii to Victoria BC, Canada.

On 27 March 1930 RMMS Aorangi with Beattie on board arrived at Victoria British Columbia,

Canada. The ship’s manifest and Canadian Immigration forms list Beattie as follows:

Passenger No 7: Beattie, John Irving. Age: 40.

Conjugal state: Single. Born: Liverpool 7 August 1889.

Nationality: Australian.

Occupation in Australia: Miner and Plate Layer.

Occupation in Canada: Miner and Farmer.

Have you ever been to Canada before: No.


Do you intend to reside permanently in Canada: Yes

Business Address in Canada: C/o Thos. Cook & Sons, 554 Greenwich Street, Van-

couver BC.

Friend in Australia: Mr J Benson, RSL, Perth WA.

Passport: Australian No 97660, issued 13 February 1930 at Canberra ACT.

Funds: $1950 in possession.

One may wonder why Beattie chose to go to Canada. However during his incarceration by the

Turks, Beattie formed a close relationship with a fellow 15th Battalion prisoner William Bailey

(Regimental No. 1901) who was also born in Lancashire UK, with the pair sharing food and

‘looking out’ for each other. On return to Australia after the War, Bailey migrated to Canada

where he went into Real Estate and apparently did very well. He died in 1978, leaving his body

to science.

In 1931, the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (Western Australia) 1903-1980 lists Beattie, John Ir-

ving No 315 as living at Samphire, with his occupation Labourer. It is yet to be established

whether Beattie returned to Australia, or the Commonwealth Electoral Office was behind with its

paperwork.

It would seem that things did not work out for Beattie in British Columbia, as on 25 January

1932, per RS Niagara ex Vancouver, Beattie arrived in New Zealand, drawn no doubt by the

possibility of employment opportunities. The Depression years of the 1930s, saw New Zealand

embark on some public works such as the planting of exotic trees (Cyprus Pine) in the centre of

the North Island, which was to lead to a thriving development of forest products.

Further research needs to be done for the period 1930-1937.

On 6 November 1937 Beattie wrote to OIC Victoria Barracks Queensland advising of the loss of

his Discharge Papers. He gave his address as 37 Vivien St. Wellington, C3. New Zealand. By

26 November 1937 Beattie had completed a Statuary Declaration concerning the loss of his AIF

Discharge papers. His address was again given as 37 Vivien Street, Wellington C3 New Zea-

land. Then in 1938 Beattie again wrote to the Australian Military Forces from New Zealand ask-

ing for a duplicate of his letter of discharge, as he has lost the original.

It would seem that Beattie was intent on serving with the NZ Military forces, however there is no

evidence of Beattie having served with NZ forces during WWII.

In 1946 Beattie, John Irving No 695 on the NZ Electoral Rolls, was listed as living at Tokoroa,

Waikato. Occupation Labourer, and again in 1946 Beattie, John Irving No 684 was listed as liv-

ing at 62 Hanemoa Street, Onehunga. His occupation not stated.

By 1954 Beattie, John Irving No 823 was listed as living at 86 Kiwitea Street, Mt Albert and his

occupation given as Retired.


In 1963 Beattie, John Irving listed as No 05 on Onehunga Main Roll, was living at Masonic Vil-

lage Queenstown Road SE5.

New Zealand Electoral Rolls from 1963 to 1978, continue to list Beattie as living at Masonic Vil-

lage, Queenstown Road SE5 and his occupation given as Retired.

On 13 March 1978 John Irving Beattie died in Auckland NZ aged 88, a remarkable age for one

whose body had undergone the privations of a hungry childhood in Liverpool UK; existing on

corned beef and damper as he laboured with Railway Gangs and Survey parties in the Northern

Territory; incarceration for 3 years by the Turks where he was fed with grain ‘like you give chick-

ens’; poor rations (all that he could afford) as he struggled to make some money from his settle-

ment block in WA and the lean years of the Depression.

He was cremated on 15 March 1978 at Purewa Cemetery Auckland. He had been a resident of

Roskill Masonic Village, Onehunga for the last 15 years and regarded it as ‘home’. He was not

married and left no children. There were no known relatives.

Beattie’s ashes were given to the Management of Roskill Masonic Homes. The complex has

since been demolished and replaced by a large block of units. It is not known what happened to

Jack Beattie’s ashes during the redevelopment of the site.

Jack Beattie was a man who all through life seemed to face insurmountable odds. By resilience

and optimism he overcame each ‘curved ball’ that life threw at him, and yet his one desire of be-

coming a farmer was never fulfilled. As we commemorate the centenary of Anzac and the First

World War, perhaps a street or park in Darwin named in his honour, would be a fitting tribute to

this remarkable man.

Hosted by the Society of Australian Genealogists

9-12 March 2018

International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney

www.congress2018.org.au

http://www.congress2018.org.au/


James (Jimmy) Lawrence Cain – a Territory Hero.

James (Jimmy) Cain was a ‘Territorian’ who enlisted in the 1st Australian Imperial Force (1

st AIF)

in 1915. He was among the first Territorians to enlist, along with Albert Borella, Robert Dingwall

Butters (real name Buttercase), James Park and Frank Thompson shown in the photograph be-

low. ‘Jimmy’ is seen in the images below at a community function and just prior to departing for

Townsville to enlist.

NT recruits in 1915.

L-R standing: Albert Borella, VC., MM., MiD., Lt. Robert Butters (Buttercase), James Park.

L-R kneeling: James Cain and Frank Thompson. (Source: NT Library

James (Jimmy) Cain, kneeling on the left in front of Albert Borella, didn’t survive the war and

never came home. The following is a precis’ of his life and his service in the 1st AIF.

Jimmy Cain was born at Port Wakefield, South Australia, in 1885, the son of Margaret (nee

Sauntrey) and Thomas Cain, the District Maintenance Foreman with the Palmerston-Pine Creek

railway . Jimmy, one of four brothers, (Joseph, Cyril and Norman) to serve in the Great War, ar-

rived in Darwin with his parents and four of his siblings on 29th June 1898 aboard the S.S.

Changsa. He was a popular young man, well-known in the town and ‘whose singing was such a

feature of all musical entertainments and social evenings’.

As there was no recruitment station in Darwin in the early part of 1915, the men who left to enlist

paid their own fare to eastern or western ports to do so. Jimmy Cain was one of them, departing

Darwin aboard the S.S. Aldenham on 8th March 1915 in company with Robert Butters, Frank

Thompson and Elgio Castaldi, who would enlist in March 1917. Private James (Jimmy) Cain

joined the 1st AIF in Townsville on 22

nd March 1915, was allocated Service Number 2060 and at-

tached to the 9th Infantry Battalion after arriving at Enoggera Camp, Brisbane.


At the time he enlisted he was thirty years and four months old, single and working as an

‘Engineer’. He recorded that he had served a 5-year apprenticeship in the Northern Territory

Railway workshops and listed his father, of Hergott Springs, SA, as his next of kin. Jimmy stood

5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed 9 stone and 7 pounds and boasted a chest measurement of thirty-

four to thirty-six inches. He was of a ‘Fresh complexion”, with grey eyes and grey hair.

He embarked in Brisbane on 16th April 1915 and sailed for Egypt aboard H.M.A.T. A55 Kyarra.

He joined the 9th Battalion at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, on 22

nd June 1915 and served there until 24

th

August at which time he was evacuated due to ill-health (recorded as a ’debility’ but possibly ty-

phoid fever). He was transferred to Alexandria, Egypt, aboard the Hospital Ship (H.S.) Nile dis-

embarking in that port on 27th August 1915. After disembarking, he was admitted to Number 3

Auxiliary Hospital, Alexandria, on 28th August and remained there until being discharged and

admitted to the Convalescent Camp at Halloran on 17th September.

He was discharged from the Convalescent Camp and transferred to light duties in Cairo on 5th

October. He remained on light duties until 7th January 1916 at which time he re-joined his battal-

ion at Tel-el-Kebir prior to being transferred to France.

On 27th March 1916, he left Alexandria bound for Marseilles, France, to join the British Expedi-

tionary Force (BEF) with the AIF’s 9th Battalion. He disembarked at Marseilles on 3

rd April 1916

and was posted to billets two miles from the front at Rouge De Bout, France. On 20th April, Jim-

my was struck and killed by shrapnel ’in field’ during a German artillery bombardment behind

the lines. He was buried in Grave Number F26, 13th London Grave Yard, Lavente, Pas de Cal-

ais, France where he lay today. And so, Jimmy Cain’s life came to end - suddenly and prema-

turely.

On 8th July 1921, his family was provided with three copies of photographs of his grave and in

March 1922, they received a Memorial Plaque and the King’s Message of thanks. However,

one folio in Jimmy’s service record indicates that his father, Thomas, had previously signed for

the memorial plaque in February 1922 but had not received same. It would appear the error was

rectified the following month. He was awarded the Victory Medal, received by his father on 27th

October 1922, the British War Medal, received by his father on 15th August 1921, and the 1914-

15 Star, although there is no record on his file of his family having received the medal, other

than the stamp of the Star on the last page of his file.

James Laurence Cain was 1 of 63 Territorians who lost their lives during the Great War. While

his remains lay forever in peace in a quiet corner of France, his name is inscribed on the Darwin

Cenotaph, The Esplanade Darwin, with his spirit being forever within that ‘empty tomb’.

Lest We Forget


Last page of Jimmy Cain’s service record. (Source: NAA: B2455, CAIN J L, p. 36)


MARY THOMAS 1787 – 1875

Mary Thomas was 49 years old when she embarked for South Australia from South Hampton,

England with her husband Robert and their five children arriving at Holdfast Bay in November

1836.

Mary was already a published writer in London in 1831 of Mary’s Serious Poems and with her

husband Robert, a newspaper proprietor, who commenced a printing business on Hindley

Street, Adelaide, Mary is said to have taken an active and useful part in the journalistic depart-

ment of the colony’s first newspaper.

In 1867 Mary transcribed her diary of the voyage to South Australia and the first weeks of settle-

ment, expanding these with reminiscences. The first edited version of The Diary and Letters of

Mary Thomas in 1915 and a second in 1925. They provide a lively and valuable record of the

first five years of settlement.

THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF MARY THOMAS

(1836 – 1866)

Being a record of the early days of South Australia

Edited by

Evan Kyffin Thomas

A Wonderful Little Book

Many wonderful people donate books to the GSNT. Some are added to the extensive library,

others are sold to raise much needed funds. It is always exciting to sort through these books,

never knowing what treasurers will be found.

In amongst the last lot of books was a small old sad little book with a homemade cardboard cov-

er. It was from a 1915 print run, so over 100 years old. No wonder it was looking a little weath-

ered. So would I!

The book, however, is just amazing, especially if you have an interest in South Australia.

It is called ‘The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas” edited by Mary’s son Evan Kyffin Thomas.

Mary aged 49 came out to South Australia on the first ever passenger ship ‘Africaine’ in 1836

with her four children, two of whom she smuggled aboard with Scarlet Fever! She must have

been an amazing woman. She had already published a book of poetry in 1831. Her diary, cover-

ing the trip, is riveting. She tells of the storms, the food, the accommodation and even the other

passengers in an entertaining manner. This firsthand information is priceless.

Her husband Robert was a newspaper proprietor and brought the first press to SA and published

the Governor John Hindmarsh - Proclamation of the Province - 28 December 1836. Robert pub-

lished the newspaper the Register and created a dynasty, their grandson Robert was Knighted –

an amazing legacy.


This little book has seen better days and its days are numbered. I’ve tracked down some family

of Mary Thomas through Ancestry.com; one in Spain. Maybe someone from their family should

have this little book. In the meantime – check out Mary Thomas nee Harris 1787 – 1875 on

Google. She must have been a wonderful if somewhat bossy woman.

Mim Regan

EMILY CAROLINE BARNETT 1860 – 1944

Formerly CREAGHE, nee ROBINSON

Emily was born on 1 November 1860 on board ship in the Bay of Bengal. She was the sixth child

of Major George Cayley Robinson, a civil engineer who, in 1845, joined the British army in India

where he served in the Royal Artillery. Her mother Mary Harriet, was the daughter of Major

Woodward who also served with the British army in India.

Not long after Caroline’s birth, Major Robinson returned to England and Caroline attended

school in Weston-Super-Mare near Bristol.

In 1876 Major Robinson retired from the army and emigrated to Australia with his wife and family

of eight children. Caroline was then sixteen years old. On arrival in Sydney they boarded at

Wynyard Square and then took up residence in Lavender Bay. Some years later, on a visit to

her uncle in Brisbane, Caroline met Harry Allington Creaghe, a grandson of the Marquis of Or-

monde. Harry had been in Australia also from the age of sixteen years, having migrated from

Ireland on the sailing ship Young Australia in 1865, Caroline and Harry were married in Decem-

ber 1881. Their first child Cayley, born a year later, died before he was one year old.

In 1882 Ernest Favenc and Harry Creaghe agreed to explore land west of the Queensland bor-

der from the head waters of the Nicholson River to Powell Creek on the overland telegraph line

and the McArthur River area, for the South Australian government. Both Mrs Favenc and Caro-

line were to accompany their husbands.

The Creaghes left Sydney on board Corea on 23 December 1882 bound for Thursday Island.

On arrival they awaited Truganini which took them on to Normanton. Caroline kept a day to day

diary and reported that ‘on the way we had a heavy thunderstorm and all got drenched as we

were sleeping’. In Normanton Mrs Favenc announced that she was not strong enough to under-

take the journey and the men decided not to take Caroline either. She was bitterly disappointed.

Favenc escorted his wife back to Brisbane while Harry and Caroline set out on horseback for

Shadforth’s Carl Creek station 320 kilometres inland, where Caroline would wait for the men to

return from their expedition. They left Normanton on 20 January 1883 at 3.30pm accompanied

by Shadforth and five other men. Caroline suffered heat, flies and fatigue from long hours in the

saddle to which she was unaccustomed, and was often drenched with torrential rain. She found

it hard to eat any of the food which she described as ‘dirty hairy dried salt beef, brown sugar half

dust and dried hard damper’. They completed the journey in nine days.


Caroline stayed with the Shadforths for two months. Harry returned to Normanton on 8 May to

await the return of Favenc. One month later he rode back with the good news that Caroline was

to accompany them after all.

The expedition left Gregory Downs station on 14 April 1883 with four horses under saddle, nine

packed on the lead and four loose. Favenc had brought along Lindsay Crawford, a ex-

telegraphist from Powell Creek. They rode for seven to eight hours each day and Caroline took

her turn with all the camp chores throughout the journey, including the unsaddling of horses.

She made no complaints but often longed for enough water to wash her face and hands.

On 14 May 1883 weak from exhaustion and lack of food and the horses failing they arrived at

the Overland Telegraph Line. Telegraphists Bole and Goss were surprised to have visitors ride

in from the east and amazed to find a woman in their company. Telegraph stations were spaced

at 240 kilometre intervals north and south.

Two days later Favenc and Crawford left to explore the McArthur River area with the fittest hors-

es while the Creaghes took the weaker animals the 560 kilometres to Katherine. Arriving there

three weeks later they awaited the return of Favenc and Crawford, then travelled to Southport by

horse and buggy, boarded a ship and returned to Sydney.

Caroline’s diary of this epic journey is in the GSNT library. A short and interesting read.

Taken from E Favenc, General Report on Country in the Northern Territory with Sketch Map; Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June

1899. E C Barnett, diary in possession of Mr E R Barnett, Newport, New South Wales. W J M Maff

LOUISA ELEANOR BOYD 1865 – 1954

Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) Tuesday 14 September 1954 page 5

“Ripple” is welcomed back to the ‘Campfire’ after a long absence, and he tells us about

one of the Far North’s pioneer ladies who passed away some months ago.

There passed away in Cooktown on April 29th last, at the age of 88½ years, Mrs Louisa Eleanor

Boyd, wife of the late John Boyd and another link in the chain of pioneers has been severed.

Mrs Boyd was born in Bath, Somersetshire, England, and lost her mother at the age of nine

years. She had an elder sister and a brother. Also two younger sisters and a brother. Her father,

an accountant in London, had to engage a housekeeper. Two very strict old maids, Mrs Boyd’s

aunts, ran a boarding school for girls; there Mrs Boyd and her eldest sister were place for a

number of years, where they received a rather high education, including music. The eldest sister

Charlotte migrated to Australia in the year 1885 and Mrs Boyd went across to Germany where

she accepted a position as music teacher and a teacher of English to a large German family.

Her sister, Charlotte, on arrival in Australia, decided to stay in Cooktown, where she took up do-

mestic duties and eventually married a Cornish stonemason working in Cooktown. During those

two years that the two sisters were parted, sister Charlotte wrote back and said, “Come out here

to Australia Lou. You often said you wished you were a Gipsy so that you could own and ride

horses. Well, here in Cooktown horses are used for all methods of transport, and nearly all folks

ride horses. There is a big gold rush over a hundred miles away from here out on the Palmer


River and horses are used for riding, packing and in drays, sulkies, wagons, buggies etc. I have

been offered a ride on a horse lots of times, but as you know, I am not in love with horses, as

you are.”

This was too much for Louisa. She came out to Australia and arrived in Cooktown in the year

1887 where she was met by her sister Charlotte, then Mrs Pascoe. Soon after her arrival Mrs

Boyd secured a position as music and pupil teacher at what was known as the Two Mile Hotel,

the proprietor having three children. During that period she came in contact with and married a

dashing young bushman named John Boyd. He had been droving cattle up into Cape York Pen-

insula to Lalla Rookh for Massey Bros. and to Merluna for Watson Bros. in the years 1884 to

1886 and having lots of horses. Louisa soon had her first lesson in horseriding and being eager

to learn was an extra good pupil and John being her boyfriend took all care and pains. Soon

wedding bells were ringing for John and Louisa. In the year 1888 about September, John Boyd

decided to go up to Merluna Station to pick up a lot of his horses that were left there to spell after

a long trip with cattle from the Bowen River district. Mrs Boyd was thrilled to know that she would

be going on a trip of 320 miles by horse into the Australian bush. She was really going to live the

life of a Gypsy at the age of 22; only one thing was a worry now, it took so long to get letters from

home, that was England.

Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) Saturday 18 September 1954 page 7

John Boyd and his wife decided to go North as far as Merluna Station, where he had left a lot of

his horses to spell after delivering a mob of cattle from the southern end of the State. At that time

the Cooktown - Laura railway line terminated at Sandown, a few miles from Laura. John and a

small aboriginal boy, Carpenter, started with a few horses, Mrs Boyd followed on by the train,

leaving her son, who was one year old, with her sister, the late Mrs Pascoe. John met his wife

and they went on a few miles then pitched camp. – Louisa’s first night in the bush. Standing by

as hubby and Carpenter were unpacking and hobbling the horses, she said “Is there anything I

can do?” “Yes, Lou, gather some leaves and put them by that log and make a fire within a few

minutes.” Later, the blackboy said to Jack, “That white mary belonga you him blanky fool – can’t

make ‘m fire like that.” Poor Louisa had gathered a bunch of green leaves. Tears came to her

eyes when she said “If my father heard a blackboy swear at me like that it would break his

heart.” “Never mind, my dear, he’s too far away to hear,” said hubby Jack.

On the way they pulled up at Breeza Plains to camp for a few days nearby what is now Lakefield

then owned by Donald McKenzie, who was later killed by blacks. Jack Boyd left a few horses

there to spell a few months previously. The couple camped in a tent. Leaving camp the first

morning, Jack put a piece of corned beef in a large billy full of water, saying, “Keep a fire under

the billy and keep it cooking, Lou.” She did so until his return at dusk. Of course, the meat was

roasted. There were more tears. “Never mind,” said Jack kindly. “I thought I’d be back sooner.”

From there they rode on up to Musgrave telegraph office. On arrival, the four men there were

quite excited at seeing and meeting a white woman. From there to Coen, a mining settlement

250 miles from the top of Australia the trip was uneventful.

From Coen they proceeded on up to Mein E.T.O. another 50 miles riding via Langht Station,

owned by Alan and Arthur Nott, where the stockmen yelled, “Look! Strike me roan, but it’s a


blanky white woman!” As soon as Mrs Boyd got off her horse two men escorted her into the bark

hut where a Chinaman cook was ordered to give her a pannikin of tea. Later, she was given a

bed made of bullock hide to sleep on – quite a novelty.

Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) Monday 25 October 1954 page 5

Jack Boyd and his wife arrived at the Mein telegraph station and were heartily received, Mrs

Boyd being the first white woman to put in an appearance anywhere north of the Coen (the year

was 1888). They were invited to stay a week but only stayed one day; then they packed up and

started for Merluna Station, 28 miles away, which had recently been selected by the Watson

Bros, Leo, Gandie and Eddie. Eddie was mustering on Pine Tree Station at the time. The home-

stead, built of bark and slabs, was only five miles away from Mein, enroute to Merluna. Jack and

Louisa called in on their way to meet the boss and his stockmen and to get some meat on their

return trip for themselves and for the four men at the Mein, also to leave the small blackboy Car-

penter at Pine Tree Station to become a young stockman.

They then rode on to Merluna and received another warm welcome. After a few days horse hunt-

ing Jack and his wife commenced their return journey to Pine Tree, their first night’s camp with a

plant of horses. The Chinese cook – gardener was pleased to have the company of travellers

which were very few and far between so he toiled in his kitchen to prepare the best his lonely

outback store could produce. After supper, he suggested the Boyds walk down to the scrubby

creek after dark and watch the aborigines from the wilds do a corroboree. Of course Mrs Boyd

was thrilled with the idea of actually seeing a dance of wild natives. About 10.30 they returned to

the homestead to go to bed and cook suggested a pannikin of tea and a piece of ‘brownie. That

done, they retired to their swages. During the night Mrs Boyd awoke several times and found

Jack walking around the huts, by daybreak he had the billy boiled when the Chinaman walked

into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

“Roll up the swags, Lou, while I muster the horses. After breakfast we will pack up and go to the

Mein. This is no place for you – I don’t like the situation here. Jack Boyd said he would return for

the meat tomorrow. The five mile journey was soon completed. Jack Brown, the office cook, was

very disappointed at the Boyd’s not bringing any meat with them. There were always four men at

these far northern telegraph stations – very lonely outposts in the early days – consisting of the

superintendent, two linesmen and a cook.

The musterers arrived home at Pine Tree that afternoon as the Chinaman had said. A nice fat

beast was yarded, horses hobbled out and the butcher’s knives sharpened and left on the butch-

er’s block with the steel and axe ready for the morning. All was well at the Mein Telegraph Sta-

tion when they went to bed that night, but such was not the case at Pine Tree. By just after mid-

night the black had sneaked in. They drove a butcher’s knife into Eddie Watson’s jugular vein

and chopped Jimmy Evan’s jaw and throat with the axe. In the melee, Jack Boyd’s former black-

boy, Carpenter slipped away in the darkness taking a bridle in the hope of getting a horse but the

station horses had gone down the creek, and he was making up the creek to the Mein. About a

mile from the Mein he hears Jack Boyd’s horse bells – having been his horse boy for a year or

so he knew Jack’s bells quite well. I might mention that bushmen not only can distinguish


strange bells from their own but know the different sounding bells on each horse. Carpenter un-

hobbled all Jack’s horses and drove them up into the horse yard about 3am.

On this terrible morning back in the year 1888 Louisa was awakened by the sound of the bells

but was afraid to admit it lest it appear she was showing fear. In a few moments a youngster’s

voice could be heard at the foot of the deep stairs, “Jack, Jack! Mr Boyd please come quick!”

Louisa heard and awakened her husband who was at first hard to convince that anyone should

want him at that time of night. The little blackboy poured out his story in pidgeon English. “Wild

blackfella longa creek been killum altogether man longa Pine Tree. Jimmy Evans he been plenty

yakal, might be dead this time. Boss, he bin plenty shootem. Me bin muster horse belonga you,

he longa yard now.”

Christensen, the superintendent and Jack Boyd rode away in the early morning light. Louisa was

full of inquisitiveness. “What’s wrong Jack. I want to go” ‘No, Lou you stay. One of the men down

at Pine Tree has been taken ill. Jack Brown the cook will make you a cup of tea.” The sun was up

clear of the trees in the east when Jack and Christensen returned with the sad news that the

blacks had killed Eddie Watson and smashed Jimmy Evan’s jaw, but they had stopped the bleed-

ing. After a hurried breakfast Jack said to his wife; “Lou have you any white calico garments that

you can spare for bandages?” She had. “You can come down with us,” Jack added. She had the

spirit of adventure but this sheltered English girl had hardly ever seen blood other than a

scratched finger.

Eddie had been stabbed in the main artery of the neck. All his bedding and blankets were hang-

ing on a fence covered with blood. A grave had been dug and Louisa had to say a prayer for the

deceased man. Then she returned to re-bandage Jim Evans. Louisa asked the Chinese cook

many times for something for a dressing;’ he produced some dirty neatsfoot oil used for oiling

saddles and finally some carbolic crystals. The neatsfoot was heated, strained, mixed with some

carbolic and put on this great gash after it was washed and thoroughly cleaned with warm water,

then bandaged – Louisa’s first job as a nurse. Jim Evans then set off to ride 75 miles into Coen

for a further dressing. From Coen he continued on his journey per horse to Cooktown via Laura

over 200 miles and he survived the ordeal. He was working around Coen in the late nineties.

Louisa was asked by the deceased Eddie’s brothers Leo and Grandie Watson to write to their

mother and break the news for them.

After this tragedy Mrs Boyd and her husband returned on horseback to Cooktown where her

small son was being cared for by her sister. Jack Boyd drove his plant of horses over to Hugh-

enden where his father and mother were running a mixed farm. Louisa spent a few weeks in

Cooktown then she and her son sailed down the coast to Townsville, then by train to Hughenden

at that time the end of the line. She was met there by Jack and taken to Coalbrook, where Gran-

ny Boyd taught her to cook, milk cows, make butter and cheese and lots of other bush arts and

Louisa was an expert at learning and remembering. Later Jack and Lou went out kangaroo

shooting up around the Woolgar and around Hardtack.

In 1893 Ambrose Boyd wrote to his brother Jack from Coen advising him of a good chance for

him to start a butchering business in that settlement, because the prospectors had opened up

payable reefs. Jack and Louisa packed up their horses and commenced what turned out to be a


trek of hundreds of miles with son Stanley, over five years of age riding on a pillow on the pom-

mel of the saddle in front of Dad. There were some exciting moments; packing up in the dark and

moving on, owing to aborigines following the horsetracks; the campfire having to be doused be-

fore dark, so as to hide the location of the camp. They arrived at Coen just before a race meeting

was to be staged. The course then was on the flat in the town. Louisa’s £75 hack, Jim, won for

her the Ladies’ Bracelet. It was her first appearance on a race track. The Boyd’s settled down in

their tents for a time, then slabs were split, and ant bed gathered and with these primitive materi-

als, a home was built.

Northern Territory Police Day Journals and the only known member of the

Ned Kelly Gang to be in the Northern Territory.

The Genealogy Society of the Northern Territory Inc has a very large collection of records from

Northern Territory Police Day Journals and Mortuary Returns. The Late Len Cossons spent

many years gathering information to index these records and many of our Lone Grave infor-

mation comes from the Police records and Police Station Day Journals and Mortuary Returns.

The history of the Northern Territory police force is one of isolation, hardship, loneliness, vio-

lence, heroism, danger, sadness and humour (J R Johns, Patrolling the "Big Up": edited by Dar-

rell Lewis, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Darwin). It was for a long time a small force

scattered across a large land mass as police stations were slowly established in remote areas of

the Territory. As the police were often the only official government figure in these remote areas,

they regularly found themselves undertaking a number of additional duties such as Clerk of Local

Court, District Registrar for Births, Deaths and Marriages, Temporary Stock Inspectors and Pro-

tector of Aborigines. As a consequence the records held by GSNT relating to the police in the

Northern Territory are not only an important source of information about law and order issues,

they also provide a much broader picture of what was happening in the communities where they

were kept.

In 1910-1911, the Police published in the N.T. Times and Gazette details of deaths occurring in

the Northern Territory. This included the following information.

Isiah Wright; date of death 27.5.1911, 62 years medium build 6 ft 1 in high, complexion fair, red-

dish whiskers and hair turning grey. Deceased had been working for Drover George Hooper for

12 months when he was taken ill. Drover Hooper brought him into Newcastle Waters in his bug-

gy. Wright gradually got weaker and died at Newcastle Waters Station of fever. Date of notice

sent to the Registrar of Death 29/5/1911. Born in Ireland and came to Australia in 1857 (aged8)

lived in Victoria, wife dead, son in Royal Artillery Barracks Melbourne, five married sisters in Vic-

toria.

Death Certificate details 7/459 – copy only shows Josiah Wright and place of death Powell

Creek. In 1911 there was no town site set aside at Newcastle Waters until 1931 and no Police

Station. The nearest station, apart from Newcastle Waters Station itself, was the Powell Creek

Telegraph Station, 78 kilometres south.

The Mortuary Return for Powell Creek on Isiah Wright indicates that he was buried by a Mounted

Constable in May 1911 and Mr Grainger J.P.


We can only surmise from these comments in the Mortuary return, that he was buried near the

Cattle Station Homestead (Newcastle Waters) and in its private graveyard, which was then

owned by John Lewis on Pastoral Lease No 2149.

ISAIAH ‘WILD’ WRIGHT

Arriving in Australia aboard the ‘Carlton’ in 1858 Isaiah Wright was to become one of the Kelly

Gang’s most staunch supporters. He moved to the Mansfield district when he was in his twenties

and married Bridget Lloyd, a cousin of Ned Kelly.

Ned came home from Beechworth to find his sister Annie’s husband, Alex Gunn, in the company

of a tall, softly spoken horsebreaker, Isaiah Wright, of Mansfield. Known as Wild Wright, the visi-

tor was in a fix because the chestnut mare he was riding had strayed, so Ned loaned him a

mount. Isaiah Wright said if he found his horse they would exchange it when he called in from

Mansfield again.

What Isaiah failed to tell Ned was that his lost horse was stolen. Ned did find the horse but while

riding it through Greta he was stopped by Senior Constable Hall who arrested Ned for posses-

sion of a stolen horse.

In 1871 Ned, Isaiah, and Alex Gunn (Ned’s brother in law) were sentenced at the Beechworth

Courthouse. Ned and Alex got three years while Wild, who actually stole the horse, received

eighteen months.

The following years saw Wild continue to be in trouble with the law, serving yet more prison

years. During his term, Wild’s records show he was a constant thorn in the side of authority. In

1877 he returned to Kelly country and became a known Kelly sympathiser and active assistant

openly defying the police. He was present at the destruction of the Gang in Glenrowan, being one

of the family who claimed the remains of Steve and Dan. Wild maintained a high profile during

the following court events to the point where he was refused admission to see Kelly at the Mel-

bourne Gaol prior to Ned’s execution.

Northern Territory Police Day Journals and Mortuary Returns Len Cossons Indexes

J R Johns, Patrolling the “Big Up” edited by Darrel Lewis, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Darwin

TROVE NT Times and Gazette September and October 1911

Ned Kelly, the iron outlaw by Brad Webb

General Register Office (GRO UK) have launched a new service which allows their historic

birth and death indexes to be searched online. In addition to this they are also trialling emailing

PDF copies of registration records. An announcement on the GRO site will give details of a 3

hour PDF service. At the moment the certificate can be ordered online and will be posted. Birth

records are 1837 to 1916 and death records are 1837 to 1957 for England and Wales.

It is necessary to register on the site to search and view the GRO indices.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/menu.asp

From Bedford Family History Journal December 2016


Ten Common Mistakes when researching your Family

From Ancestry.com.

1. Forgetting to record the information on family history forms.

Organisation is the key to research, and it helps you and future generations to

understand your research.

2. Ignoring your ancestors siblings.

Don’t narrow your search too much. Siblings can be incredibly valuable in

unlocking important family clues.

3. Overlooking the maiden names of your female ancestors.

Birth names can provide a valuable clue for future research since some families

use the mother’s maiden name as a middle name for the oldest male child, for

instance.

4. Assuming you are related to a famous person.

This is tempting but, always start with yourself and work backwards, proving

the connection between each generation. Then, if you prove you’re related to a

famous person you'll really have something to brag about!

5. Skipping a generation.

In lots of families, it’s common to have the same name running through three or

more generations of male ancestors. This can easily trip you up if you’re not

methodical, leading you to list someone as the father when he is the grandfather.

Record as many dates as possible and carefully evaluate things like place

names to avoid this happening.

6. Assuming a family name is only spelt one way.

Family names can be spelt in a number of different ways as our ancestors (and

the people who recorded their events) were very fallible! Smith can be Smyth,

Rawlins can be Rawlings and Kitson can be Kidston. Make sure you check all

the phonetic variations of your name just in case.


7. Jumping to conclusions.

The key to success is to prove conclusively the link between the generations.

Reaching a conclusion based upon incomplete evidence can throw your whole

tree out.

8. Researching the wrong family.

If you jump to conclusions you can easily set off in completely the wrong direction

and end up researching many generations of the wrong family. Do not start

working on the next generation of research unless you have concrete proof of a

link!

9. Relying on data found in an online family tree.

Always approach an unfamiliar source cautiously: just because you’ve found

the information doesn’t make it accurate.

10. Failing to document your sources.

The biggest mistake you can ever make is not documenting where you found

your information.

What is the Ryerson Index?

The Ryerson Index is a free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. The date

range covered extends from the Sydney Gazette of 1803 up to newspapers published within the

last week or so. The Index also includes many funeral notices, and some probate notices and

obituaries.

Because the Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, its strength lies

in notices from NSW papers - including in excess of two million notices from the Sydney Morning

Herald alone. However, the representation from papers from other states continues to grow, with

additional papers being regularly added, so that the Index can now truly be considered an Aus-

tralian index.

Indexing is being continuously carried out by a team of volunteers, too numerous to mention indi-

vidually, who give freely of their time to ensure the site continues to grow. Site updates generally

occur weekly.

The index itself cannot by definition be considered a primary source of data, but is purely a re-

search aid to direct the researcher to the original source of a notice.

Source: https://www.ryersonindex.org/index.htm


Making the most of Trove: meet the tilde, ‘~’

Hopefully by now you‘re familiar with the wonders of Trove for family and local history research.

History comes alive through over one million family notices, articles and advertisements. Are you

making the most of Trove? Do you want to search for a common name, but you‘re getting too

many results? Here‘s a tip which will help.

The tilde is a symbol on your keyboard which you can get to by holding down the shift key and

pressing the grave accent (to the left of the number 1). This is how you can tell Trove how close

together the words you‘re searching for should be. Say you have a common surname like White

or Black? Try this search: add a title, Mr or Mrs, and the surname in inverted commas and then

add the tilde and a number immediately after that.

Here‘s how it would look in Trove:

This tells Trove to look for the words ‗mr‘ and ‗white‘ within three words of one another. This will

in-crease your chances of finding your ancestors. Experiment with this search and see what you

find.

You can find more search tips like this in Trove’s Help Centre: http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/

using-trove/finding-things/power-searching.

13 Tips For Searching Trove’s Historical

Newspapers

Australian’s are spoilt by having Australian historical newspapers available at their fingertips and

online through Trove. Not also forgetting that it’s all totally free as well.

Can you believe that there are over 200 million articles already on the National Library of Austral-

ia’s Trove Newspapers site, and that figure grows every month, with new papers being added.

It is a vast resource which is used not only be tens of thousands Australian genealogist, histori-

ans, students and academics on a daily basis, but also by many overseas who are researching

something about Australia, or someone who was in Australia.


But how do you search? Type in a name and see what comes up? Well, there’s more to it than

that.

When searching newspapers you have to think of how things would be written in the newspaper

at the time, which can be quite different to general search websites. So here are some tips for

you.

1. When searching for a birth, don’t just look for the person’s name, as they often aren’t men-tioned. (ie. On the 23rd June, at Hobart, Mr and Mrs E. Smith of a daughter)

2. When searching use initials, not just their full name – or an abbreviation (ie. Wm instead of William)

3. When looking for a wife, look for “Mrs W. Baker” (as in wife of Mr William Baker) rather than her own name of Elizabeth

4. Use place name together with a surname to help narrow down your search

5. Or as an alternative to using a place name, use an occupation and surname

6. Remember to use different spellings of names, as every name has variants

7. Remember some places changed name, so look for a previous place name (ie. Friezland in Brisbane was renamed to Kuridala in 1916; or Tweedvale in South Australia became Lobethal etc)

8. If you are looking for immigration details and can’t find a shipping list, look for an obituary. Many say when they arrived, and often what ship they came in on

9. When looking at newspapers don’t dismiss newspapers from other states, because the news may well have been reported elsewhere (and sometimes has better information) than the ones you’re looking at

10. When looking for a death, don’t dismiss papers that occur years after the death as they may be mentioned in a “In Memoriam” entry

11. You’ve done a search, and it’s come up with 1000s of entries, too many to go through every one, use the “Refine Your Results” options on the left hand side of the page. So you can choose a state, choose a paper, choose an entry type, narrow down by decade

12. When looking at the paper and date range, it doesn’t mean that ‘every’ issue between that range has been scanned yet. So check what’s actually covered by browsing

Also one more point is that the text of the newspapers has been scanned and OCRd (Optical

Character Recognition). So how well it reads (and can be found by searching), depends on the

quality of the original. Sometimes it’s best to browse, rather than simply rely on searching as you

will pick things up that the search didn’t

Source: gouldgenealogy.com


To the Editor of Progenitor June 2017

I have just read your latest journal and was most interested in your story about the SHIPWRECK

- S.S. DOUGLAS MAWSON 1923 as my Great Uncle, Maurice Giese is mentioned. He was the

younger brother of my grandfather, Albert Victor Giese, who was a sailor and later a skipper on

tug boats on the Brisbane River and their father, Emil, was also a sailor originally from Rostock in

Germany.

I have attached a family photo which is the last one taken of Maurice or "Mossie" as he was

known to his family.

Regards Sue Brownjohn

Caloundra Clipper Editor

Caloundra Family History Research

Queensland, Australia

“Giese Family Picnic at Bishop Island, Brisbane” photo taken 1922

Maurice George “Mossie” Giese (1905-1923) bottom right.

His parents Emil Carl Giese (1862-1938) & Emma Freda nee Schwemer (1864-1924) are the old-

er couple (middle row on left). They were both born in Rostock, Germany.


Qld BDM 1923 Ref# B40019 Name: Maurice George Giese

Father: Emil Carl Giese Mother: Emma Schwemer

I included the story “Emil Giese Arrives” Page 16 to 19 in the Caloundra Clipper – Nov 2015 –

Number 91 if you have back issues in your library.

I give permission to use the photo and all or part of the above information.

Regards

Sue Brownjohn

FIND THAT MI

A new website has been launched recently that aims to be a directory of memorial inscription sur-

veys. Colin Ashworth, a self-confessed ‘Tombstone Tourist’, created the site, https://

findthatmi.wordpress.com, to act as a resource for anyone who is trying to find out if there has

been a survey of the memorial inscriptions in a particular churchyard they are interested in.

The project was born out of his own experience as a prolific cataloguer of memorials, having con-

tributed over 5,000 photographs to Find-a-Grave. He found that while a large number of surveys

have been carried out many of these have not been officially published and their existence is

known only at a local level.

He is mainly concerned with memorial inscriptions in churchyards as he feels municipal cemeter-

ies are already well indexed. Colin’s hope is that family historians who may know of the existence

of churchyard surveys in their area of interest will share their knowledge through his contact page

so that he can add these details to the site.

If you are browsing the site for the first time, a great place to start is the ‘Church List’ from the

main menu. Colin’s hard work and attention to detail are clearly evident and he has already es-

tablished a very useful resource. Hopefully through his efforts to publicise the site and encourage

people to contribute it will continue to grow and expand.

From Bedford Family History Journal December 2016


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