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1. Lowe Kong Meng and Chinese Engagement in the International Trade of Colonial Victoria

   Written by Provenance on October 31, 2012

   ….[110] Far from presuming a Chinese-quarter domicile, Kong Meng lived in European suburbs – South Melbourne,[111] East Melbourne,[112] then Malvern[113] – in grand homes. He also chose an English-Australian bride, Annie Prussia. It is clear from their houses, dress and grooming that Kong Meng, Annie and their children lived as affluent upper bourgeoisie. Nor did their mixed-race union preclude attending British Victorian social events…

2. ‘In future, only female teachers’:

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   …the Education Department as having been ‘so well suited to manage the difficulties with aboriginal children’.[65] However, she only taught to the end of the year, with it being unclear as to why she left. Her replacement was Annie Seymour, who had previously taught at Camberwell (No. 888).[66] After two years of working at the Ramahyuck school, Seymour also requested a transfer to another school. Her letter of request to the Department reads in…

3. The Kelly Family

   Written by Digital_Projects on September 6, 2011

   Ned Kelly The couple that would become the parents of the notorious Ned Kelly, John Kelly and Ellen Quinn, were married on 18 November 1850. At the time of their marriage, the pair lived in Beveridge, near Wallan. Their first child died in infancy and a daughter, named Annie, was born to them in 1853. The third of eight children and the eldest son, Edward (Ned) Kelly was born in 1854. Ned’s role in the family changed dramatically in 1866…

4. ‘The state of feeling in the district’:

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   …ed as a labourer in the school enrolment records and in a Tarrangower times report of a court case in which he was a witness.[21] The nature of her elder brother John’s employment with Inspector Bolam is not known. Her sister Annie, aged eleven, and brother Samuel, aged eight, were pupils at the Baringhup school. Mary may have always told the head teacher that the pupils ‘had behaved themselves’ as he claimed, but she was in a vulnerable position…

5. Little Latrobe Street and the Historical Significance of Melbourne’s Laneways

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …lker   Mrs Mary Ann Williams   Thomas Fitzpatrick Mrs Elizabeth Musgrove Owner             Built Structures             1895             Occupant Mrs Rose Johnson   Vacant Vacant Ah Hay, cabinet maker (iii) John and Annie Morris Owner George Fyfe   Peter Fettling     George Fyfe Built Structures 5-roomed brick house   4-roomed brick house     3-roomed brick house 1900             Occupant Arthur Nicoli   John Lawson (iv)   Low…

6. Glenrowan telegrams

   Written by Digital_Projects on September 7, 2011

   …vilians allowed to leave the hotel. Police keep up incessant firing. 28/06/1880 Overview Dated the 28.06.1880 this telegram informs Captain Standish of the events as they occurred. At this stage, the civilians were freed from Annie Jones’s hotel, Joe Byrne was mortally wounded and Steve and Dan were still in the hotel. Police had also been instructed to keep firing at the hotel. Transcribed text Image         &nb…

7. John Sweeney and the Making of an Australian Farming Landscape:

   Written by Provenance on September 12, 2011

   …the aid of his brother, Patrick, for over twenty years before the latter purchased his own block from an original selector. Nine months after taking up the first block, the two brothers were joined by their unmarried sister, Annie, in January 1878 and their mother, Mary, in April.[16] Perhaps the most pressing task facing the selector was clearing. Initially timber was ring-barked and in the first years, according to Sweeney, only the small timb…