Edition 20, 2022

Traces

Uncovering the past

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Welcome To The 20th Edition Of Traces!
Hello and welcome to edition 20 of Traces! Making it to 20 editions feels like a bit of a milestone, which has prompted me to take stock of how things have changed over the past five years. Most significant, of course, has been the global pandemic, w
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Editor in Chief: Giulia Heppell Consulting Editor: Eden Cox Designer: Sam Garland Contributors (in order of first appearance): Guy Salvidge, Michael Adams, Dr Peter Hobbins, Ann Wilcox, Roy Maloy, Eden Cox, Helena Melton, Dr Dianne Snowden AM, Peter
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Letters To The Editor
I’m enjoying your fabulous history magazine! I pace my reading so the delicious content lasts two months, but when I rush through it in less time, I read it twice and wish it were monthly. Carol, NSW Love your magazine. Takes me to places I hadn’t th
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Heritage News
Virtual public record office goes live In June this year, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched, allowing visitors to explore a virtual recreation of the Public Record Office of Ireland and its collections as they were on the eve of the
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Dimora
Built in 1882, Dimora’s design and construction was commissioned by one of Adelaide’s most prominent socialites of the time, Harry Lockett Ayers. Son of Sir Henry Ayers, the eighth premier of South Australia who served five terms between 1863 and 187
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Why Did He Fly?
Where we find our archives often shapes how we think about their meaning. Preserving context is both a key tenet for archivists and an interpretive challenge for historians. This is why we should always be alert to the oddities: items that seem out o
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Hanging Ned Kelly
To understand Elijah Upjohn, I needed to understand his predecessors and their victims. This introduced me to a trio of brutal, boozing hangmen, along with poor, doomed characters such as John Weachurch, ‘martyr’ of Victoria’s penal system, and Charl
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Queenstown: Where The Empire Never Ended
The first time my wife and I visited Queenstown, in December 2016, we were on our honeymoon. We stayed one night and then continued on to Stanley and its iconic Nut – exactly the sort of place honeymooners in Tasmania like to go. I didn’t plan on eve
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The Hangman
Between 1842 and 1967, 187 people were hanged in Victoria. Until 1949, a range of crimes attracted the death penalty – rape, carnal knowledge of a girl under 10, sodomy, aggravated burglary and arson, murder, and treason. Most victims of the gallows
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Victorian Mourning Jewellery
Mourning jewellery is most often associated with the Victorian period, popularised by Queen Victoria’s very public mourning after the death of Prince Albert in 1861. For the next 40 years until her own death, Queen Victoria wore nothing but black, an
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A Promise To My Grandma
When I was younger, I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandmother, Margaret Snowden nee Parker, known as ‘Dolly’. She was what we would probably call a ‘stickybeak’ – she took a great interest in the lives of those around her. Grandma had an ord
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Researching Your Convict Ancestry
According to Ancestry, one in five Australians descend from convicts. But despite Australia’s strong connection to convicts and their stories, it wasn’t very long ago that people were ashamed of their convict ancestry; for most Australian families, t
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A Link To Ancestors
Family heirlooms offer a fragile, precious link to our ancestors. They are imbued with meaning through stories of love, loss and success, and they ensure that family legacies live on. Heirlooms connect generations in a deeply personal way, while prov
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James Byrne, the Blue Mountains guide
In May 1813, Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and William Lawson crossed the Blue Mountains with servants and dogs, guided by an emancipist whose name sounded like ‘James Byrne’. A year later, the same man gave initial assistance to Lieute
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The Hurstville Chain Letter
Chain letters usually follow a similar format: one person writes a letter and sends copies of it to other people. They might ask the recipients to send money or mention a charity that requires financial assistance. The final request is always the sam
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What’s That Thingamajig?
Answer: a glove pattern This strange-looking, flat, tin device is a glove pattern, used at Simpson’s Gloves Pty Ltd in Melbourne during the 1950s and 1960s. Looking at the object, it’s hard to imagine how it would have assisted in making a pair of gl
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What’s New Online?
Australia • Adelaide Burials: 282,623 records• Brisbane Burials and Cremations: 279,593 records. Austria • Vienna, Jewish Emigrant Applications, 1938–1939: 228,241 records. Brazil • Sao Paulo Immigration Cards: 4,756,768 records. Canada • Quebec, Cat
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A Visit To Beechworth Asylum
What was once the largest psychiatric hospital in Victoria is now one of the country’s most haunting locations. Giulia Heppell dives into the asylum’s bleak past. Keeping watch over the Victorian country town of Beechworth, Mayday Hills – built in 18
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Discovering Dolly – Madam of Melbourne
Growing up, my friends and family would actively avoid studying, embracing or investigating Australia’s past in any way at all. This made me all the more determined to know what I was missing out on – and, boy, was I missing out on plenty! We all wer
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The Jewish Stockman Of Bombala
There are not many Jewish graves at Bombala Cemetery, but the headstones of most of them stand tall despite more than 100 years of sun and frost. Somewhere here is the grave of my great-grandfather, John Coronel. John was born in the East End of Lond

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