NEWS - AUGUST 2019
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Tues 20 August 7.30pm General Meeting
VENUE: Sunday School Hall, St John's Park
GUEST SPEAKER: Robert Tanner
TOPIC: Visiting Great Gran Spaulding. A report of a journey from Launceston to Dunalley in 1937 and some of the Spaulding family visited in Dunalley
More for Your Diary
Sat 17 August - 10.30am TFHS Executive
VENUE: Branch Library, Bellerive
Thu 22 August - 2.00pm Library Committee Meeting
VENUE: Branch Library, Bellerive
Tue 17 September - 7:30pm - General Meeting
GUEST SPEAKER: Ged Lagerewski
TOPIC: Ged is the operator of the Tasmania Military Museum in Glenorchy. He will 'show and tell' some interesting objects from his collection
Thu 19 September - 10.00am Branch Committee Meeting
VENUE: Branch Library, Bellerive
Thu 19 September - 1.30pm DNA Group Meeting
VENUE: St Marks Church Hall, corner Scott and Church Streets, Bellerive
Library Accessions June 2019
The following items were accessioned during the month of July.
Books
* Aberdeen & North East Scotland FHS; THE KIRKYARD OF ELLON [929.3209412 SMA]
* Burbury; S, WWI - THE STORIES BEHIND THE NAMES OF THE OATLANDS WAR MEMORIAL [9403946 BUR]
* Honan; G. SHAMROCK TO SALTBUSH [Q929.2 HON]
Sargent; J, TALES OF SALES - A window into our local culture & history through advertising [Q659 SAR]
Tyson; P. & T. Eastmen, THE CONVICTS' GOOD PARSON [283.092 EAS]
Computer Disks
Archive CD Books, Australia AUSTRALIAN MEN OF MARK.
* Denotes complimentary or donated item
Digitised records from Libraries Tasmania
Recently Digitised records from Libraries Tasmania, April to June 2019
CONVICT
CON61 Absolute Pardons for Tasmanian convicts
CON62 Conditional Pardons for Tasmanian convicts
CON88/1/1 Tasman's Peninsula - Discharged Prisoner Register
CON89/1/1 Tasman's Peninsula - Discharged Prisoner Register
CON90/1/1 Tasman's Peninsula - Discharged Prisoner Register
CON91/1/1 Tasman's Peninsula - Discharged Prisoner Register
VOLUMES
Logs and other journals of ships on whaling and trading voyages, to or from Hobart, collected by Sir William Crowther
CRO82/1/6 Log - Caesar (barque), to Hong Kong - Capt. Edward Woodin
CRO82/1/7 Log - Caesar (barque), to Hong Kong - Capt. Edward Woodin
CRO82/1/8 Log - Caesar (barque), to Hong Kong - Capt. Edward Woodin
CSD7/1/60 Selected file 1476 from Colonial Secretary's Office, General Correspondence (Du Cane) series
POL324/1/3 Register of the Appointment, Transfer, Registration and Dismissal of Members of the Police Establishment
NS829/1/3-5 Hebrew Congregation Minutes (1842-1922)
CSO1/1/60 Colonial Secretary's Office (1244-1267)
HSD274/1/2-3 New Town Infirmary and New Town Rest Home Admission registers
Photographs/Art works
NS3195/1/2 Consignment 2, an additional 2,337 images. Photographs taken by Jack Thwaites, largely in Tasmania. The images include bushwalking trips, wilderness scenery, flora and fauna, coastal scenery and historic buildings in Tasmania
A small selection of pre 1955 images from NS3195/2 are now on Flickr Commons.
LMSS754 Historic portraits. Photographs of prominent Tasmanians, particularly those from the north of the State
LPIC101 Glass Lantern Slides of Early Launceston Scenes
LPIC147/7 Launceston Collection of Photographs of Places, Events, Buildings and General Subjects. An additional 224 images, the seventh consignment, to this series
LPIC81 Clarence Talbot Launceston Photographic Album. Thirty one lantern slides
FCRC Spring Seminar Registration - Sunday, 20th October 2019
Topic : "A more hopeless class of subjects?" Convict Women at the New Norfolk Asylum
Venue : Hobart Town Hall
Our next seminar will explore the lives of convict women admitted to the New Norfolk Asylum. Presentations will include:
• An historic overview of the New Norfolk Asylum
• Stories of convict women admitted to the Asylum.
• The psychiatric impact of solitary confinement.
• Female delinquency and madness in VDL
Registrations are now open. The seminar program and registration details are available on our website
Registration will be $50 (plus 50c Trybooking fee) and must be finalised by Sunday, 13th October.
Regards Dianne Snowden (President) Female Convicts Research Centre Inc