Databases and Indexes

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

Make sure you look at the two Research Options on their website and most importantly follow the link to the GFHG Research Files Catalogue List to check for these or many more indexes and documents.

• "Geelong in the Fifties": personal reminiscences, old identities, by G T Nutsford, published in the Ballarat Courier c.1907
• Geelong Family History Group document [B/NEW/30] - full transcript of the series of articles.  The details are available from the Geelong Family History Group or can be viewed in person in the GFHG library at the Bellarine Historical Society.

OR

• Ballarat Courier available at State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
  and various other locations on microfilm

NOTE: The entries reference a page number in the GFHG document, and NOT the date or page in the Ballarat Courier.  If you use the Ballarat Courier, you will need to search the years of issues for the articles in this series, and then the individual entry in the article(s).

• NAME: Name of person, place or subject
• COMMENT: occupation, location or other information
• REFERENCE: Page number in the Geelong Family History Group transcription document [27 pages]

• 197 entries

Articles include:

• Lawrence & Jones, timber merchants
• Horse and cattle thieves
• Wholesale cattle-stealing
• Checkmating a rogue
• Personal reminiscences
• An old-established hotel
• Immigrants' experiences - A narrow escape from the gallows
• Dishonest contractors
• An attempted imposition - Land swindles - A corner in parchment
• Mr P W Welsh
• Peter McMahon - Ashby Hotel, Geelong West
• Cullen and Edols - Captain Melville
• Big land-owners - William Harding, squatter-financier
• The discovery of gold - An old tale re-told but a different version