SALES
The Bendigo Family History Group currently has for sale the following items which can be ordered by sending a cheque or money order made payable to
AIGS BENDIGO AREA
PO Box 145, Bendigo, 3552
GST & POSTAGE IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE UNLESS STATED
BOOKS FOR SALE
Book ...........Bendigo's Lost Miners.
Accident Reports of 828 mining fatalities 1852-2001. Author John Kelly.
Price $55.00 (please add $8.20 for postage for Australia)
Entries include - Name and date of death, information from newspaper reports, inquest, place of abode if known and family, burial place.
Sample entry - page 303.
STREADER Alfred John 51yrs 23 June 1912.
Killed at Central Red, White and Blue Mine corner of Honeysuckle and Barnard Streets on 21st June 1912. Streader was killed in the 1st fatal accident for 1912, also killed with him was Thomas Lane age 48yrs of Thistle Street. They were attempting to clear a blocked shute in the Eade shaft by using a small amount of explosive, the mullock moved and completely covered them, 20ft below, (80ft below the surface). They were found standing on the ladder. Funerals took place on Sunday, both to the Bendigo Cemetery, Lane left his Thistle Street house at 3.00pm and Streader left his Lilac Street house later, Lane buried in Methodist Section (Miners attending were conveyed by tram).
Streader had earlier lived in Booth Street 1897 to 1905, now 47 Lilac Street.
Married : Helen FOOT 14 March 1883 - 9 children still living.
Father : David Murray STREADER (killed on 11 May 1883 aged 56yrs at New Garden Gully Freehold Company Mine).
Mother : Mary Ann Sarah MARTIN.
Burial : Bendigo 'E1' Headstone '21594' Baptist Section.
Ref: Bendigo Advertiser 24th & 25th June 1912. Inquest : 794.
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♦NEW PUBLICATION♦
WHO DISCOVERED BENDIGO GOLD?
The latest book published by the AIGS was researched and written by the late David Horsfall, and takes a new look at the 1890 Select Committee Report into the claims of Henry Frencham for the reward as “Discoverer” of the Bendigo Goldfield.
This committee did not follow the rules for granting rewards which previous committees had set down. Instead it fell into the trap, like so many present-day people, of thinking the word “discover” has the same meaning as the word “find”.
Margaret Kennedy, speaking on behalf of herself and Julia Farrell, never claimed to be the first to find gold in Bendigo Creek. What she did claim was that they were there before Frencham (but they were panning in secret).
It was Henry Frencham who proclaimed to the world that gold was abundant at Bendigo, and caused the Rush which resulted in the founding of the City of Bendigo.
Has David Horsfall worked out the answer to an age-old query?
68 pages with centre map reproduced from the original report; cost $15
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GENIES GUIDE TO BENDIGO 2007 EDITION..........
contact addresses for 16 groups and archives in Bendigo $2.20
STREET NAMES OF BENDIGO
Interesting facts and stories of how street names came to be & changes made to them..... $11.00 ea
Extracts/Summaries from the newspaper COURIER OF THE MINES $11
CD'S FOR SALE
BENDIGO VOTERS ROLLS 1896 TO 1914
Copied from the original rolls and reproduced to CD, includes surname index, voters rights explained, populations list, wards explained................. by Bendigo AIGS $35.00
MICROFICHE
Bendigo Cemetery Memorials, 12 Fiche.................................................$22.00
Kangaroo Flat Cemetery Memorials, 3Fiche..........................................$11.00
White Hills Cemetery Memorials, 4 Fiche...............................................$11.00
Eaglehawk Cemetery Memorials, 4 Fiche...............................................$11.00
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum Index, 2 Fiche, 1860-1941..........................$5.50
Bendigo Regional Cemetery Indexes Northern & Southern Districts..$11.00ea
St Andrews Baptisms 1903-1925 & Marriages 1859-1925 Indexes...........$6.60
All Saints Baptisms 1853-1935 & Marriages 1852-1963 Indexes.............$16.50
St Pauls Baptisms 1868-1930 & Marriages 1868-1940 Indexes...............$16.50
Sandhurs Parish Land Maps Name Index.............................................$16.50
Gravel Hill School Pupil Register Index, 1875-1925............................$16.50
Sandhurst (Bendigo) Unclaimed Letters Index 1856.............................$5.50
