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Comment by Carmel M Reynen on October 13, 2009 at 3:42am

Gee Mary Hannah b 1893 reg 9267
Gee Bertha Frances b 1895 reg 26271 m Charles William Henry Armytage 1926 d 1963 Melbourne
Eileen Veronica b 1898 reg 23713 m Hy George Weir 1917 m Maumill d 1964 Melbourne
Stella florence b 1900 reg 15981
Henry Charles b 1905 m Marjory Willaton 1926 d 1973
Kathleen Frances b 1911 d 1911
Luretta Amelia b 1903 Bernard Timothy O'Connor 1928 d 1975 Ferntree Gully
Millicent Margaret 1908 Malcolm Noonan 1929 d 1940 Hawthorn
Charles Gee b 1863 12454 to George and Harriet Smith, d 1925 Ballan
George Gee d aged 74 yrs ballan 1893 son of Walt and Mary
No sign of Stella may be worth looking interstate or New Zealand?
Carmel

Comment by Co Ordinator on October 13, 2009 at 2:55am

Hi Carmel
This is what is spread on my screen:

A message from Albertus Lang to all members of Australian Genealogists on Genealogy Wise!

Looking for details B.D.M. on Stella Florance Gee,Parents Chas Gee & Mary Walsh,Stella was born in Ballan about 1900 ,would like details on Marriage & Death ,many thanks Albertus.
will contact you
Wayne

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on October 13, 2009 at 2:42am

also there are a lot of photos of graves on ozgenonline. I have photographed a number of graves in Ballarat area and they are all on line, also have many records of cemeteries. some photos in Ballarat as well and have access if pics needed.

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on October 13, 2009 at 2:40am

someone posted a question looking for the Gee family but cannot find where it has come from? I can help out on this one

Comment by Co Ordinator on October 13, 2009 at 2:14am

Hi to All

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to Anja Van Steel who went out of her way to find some of my missing relatives in Ballarat Victoria.

It only takes a question to find some one on this site who is will enough to look something up and find that missing link for you.
This is why I have joined and like Anja, give out information that is there for some one who needs it, to just go that little bit further in their searching with in this social networking.

Anja I really thank you for your time in finding more of the family.

Another hole has been filled.

Wayne

Comment by Anja van Steel on October 10, 2009 at 7:01pm

Hi fellow genealogists/researchers.

I have specialised in photographing headstones in the goldfield region beyond Ballarat (not Ballarat itself). So far I have done about 20 cemeteries and taken close to 800,000+ pictures and still indexing them. Aside from my own photos I also have a fairly extensive library of photos within Victoria, lesser of NSW & SA.

I try to link the country cemetery family groups together, as many of the area have the same links.

Happy to help anyone that may need a photo I have on file.

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on October 9, 2009 at 9:36pm

Decades ago when I'd just gotten out of the Navy, dad had a guest at his country club who was a reserve Navy Officer. Dad proudly told him I'd just gotten out of the Navy.

The reserve officer asked me what I was in the Navy? A "JO-3" I told him; that's an enlisted job, burt a rare one. This reserve officer had little real Navy experience knowledge, but we started talking Navy.

After a while he looked at me funny; "Is a JO-3 ,JUST an enlisted man?" Me: "Yeh!" He: "Ohhhhhhh...."; no more conversation from him, to this non-equal.

This steamed me and I later asked an ex-Navy officer I respected; how I could have better handled it better (I really meant, "put him down too., like he did me")?

The officer said when you meet his type; just tell him that in the Navy you weren't commissioned, that I was "straight salaried". The friendly officer said it does no good to quibble with people who thing like that.

So here is what I think that good Navy officer would suggest to you, should you meet a proud American who puffs his Puritan heritage, a bit much: tell them, "Like your Puritan ancestors were people of their convictions; mine were people of convictions too".

Comment by Ellie on October 9, 2009 at 6:51am

Hi James, welcome, I read your post with interest, I do celebrate my convict ancestry, I too understand the political reasons to why they were sent here, My youngest convict was a 14 year old girl, her one and only crime was to steal some cloth, her file is marked Irish rebel ? she never re-offended she married a British soldier (sounds like your Pelican girl don't you think ? ) we have some wonderful records that are available that give you so much detailed information that helped me build a profile on them, Did you know that in 1839 Convicts were sent to Tasmania and New South Wales from Upper Canada for taking part in rebellions against the British crown, The Convict Ship Buffalo departed from Quebec on 28th September 1839 and arrived here in Australia on the on 11th February 1840,. I too descend from Canadian ancestry as well as Irish, English and whatever else is yet to be found, I am proud of my ancestors and this nation, as you are proud of your history and that to me is worth celebrating. If you have any brick walls don't forget to look down under you never know what you might find lol, cheers Ellie

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on October 8, 2009 at 11:35pm

Never been to Australia, so I don't know if it's true; but I've long heard genealogy-wise, that many Australians, perhaps-tongue-in-cheek; celebrate their non-Puritan, Australian pioneer criminal ancestors?

Now I'm a descendant of one of three French-Canadian "Pelican Girls" sisters (poor, but good-family girls from France, sent by the King, so the French soldiers in Alabama would stop wedding Native American gals) who arrived old up-river Mobile, Alabama, 1704 aboard the good ship "Pelican".

The sister's mother was a Canadian "King's Daughter", not by their Burel father; but by her first marriage to a Canadian soldier, Dutcheron. There was once an old Mobile families, "Pelican Girls Society"; for those who descend that boatload of poor, but good girls; I think, gathered from convents 'round and about France.

Now New Orleans got it's own boatload of more cosmopolitan po'gals; I've seen the ship's name, but don't recall it. These gals were found not within, but without covenent's walls, 'round about the streets of Paris.

Some wed good Cresent City men and started good New Orleans families I believe. But me thinks; New Orleansians, may be less tongue-in-cheekie than down-under Australians.

I doubt we will ever see a FFNO society named after those gal's ship?

Hey, but why not; we don't get to choose our ancestors in Australia, old Mobile, or New Orleans; and all that genealogy jazz!

Come N.O. Carnival Time, that new heritage society idea might float--even be a float?

Comment by Ellie on October 5, 2009 at 5:50am

Daph if you want help for Australia just scroll up a bit on this page and you will see a heading
IF YOU WANT HELP/LOOK UPS POST IT HERE, post your info in there
for other places you will see a tab at the top of the page
click on groups you will see a search bar, type in scotland and all the groups will come up, there is one for Perthshire as well as many others, have fun cheers Ellie

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