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  • $11.00 Among the Diggers: George Dunderdale
    Book Dedicated to the memory of Andrea Ferrari and the pioneers of Hepburn.Andrea Ferrari was born in 1836 at Semione in the Ticino region of Switzerland. He went to school there until the age of seventeen. In 1858, at the...
  • $26.40 And from one and all: the story of an early Wesleyan minister Rev. James Robert Bradbury
  • $36.00 Australian Family Histories 3rd edition (Book)
    Book Based on the success of the first and second editions of this title, the compiler Ralph Reid has now expanded and updated his publication, to be over 250% larger than the original. This unique guide covers family...
  • $29.50 Australian Family Histories 3rd edition (CD)
    CD record Based on the success of the first and second editions of this title, the compiler Ralph Reid has now expanded and updated his publication, to be over 250% larger than the original. This unique guide covers...
  • $34.50 Book of the Duffs
    CD record Written in 1914 by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler, this two volume history aims at providing a record, complete as far as possible, of those Scotsmen who have borne, and now bear, the name of Duff, giving the...
  • $20.00 Botany Bay to Ballarat: Thomas Chipp and Jane Langley 1788-1998
    Book Joan Schoch: The Story begins on 14.9.1785 when Jane Langley aged 21 years was tried at the Old Bailey with Mary Finn for stealing five guineas from Robert Robinson on 29th July...
  • $11.00 Call it Seaford: The memoirs of Carmen Tomlinson
    Book Edited by Patricia Draper Contents: Call it Seaford - Preface Life in early Seaford Memories of the 1920s A Sense of Community Memories of Seaford State School Survival - 1930s style Memories of Queenscliff...
  • $19.50 Cannell Connection: The Story of Thomas Rackham Cannell and his Family
    CD record Written by Graham Jaunay in 1994, this book is the story of Thomas Rackham Cannell, his wife Mary and their children starting in about 1830. It tells the story of a South Australian family and how its members...
  • $24.20 Children of the dead end - although written as fiction, this book is Patrick MacGill's autobiography
  • $39.50 Colonial Life and Christian Experience
    CD record Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated from England to Australia with his parents and siblings in 1839. More Than Half a Century of Colonial Life and Christian...
  • $29.50 Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea
    CD record [1 CD (689 pages)]Published in 1891, this two volume set by Hume Nisbet describes his extensive travels through the Australian colonies and New Guinea. His journey commenced in 1886, travelling to Australia via...
  • $30.00 Father and Daughter
    Book For fifty years a manuscript written by the late Dr C.N. Button lay in a trunk belonging to his daughter. Eventually Muriel Mathers was enticed to read her father's autobiography and find out more about the man who died...
  • $19.50 For Generations Yet Unborn The Jamieson Family 1747-1978
    CD record For Generations Yet Unborn: the History of the Jamieson Family 1747-1978 was written by Kingsley Ireland in 1978 to preserve some of the history of the Jamieson family ancestry. It is a history of Alexander...
  • $27.50 Friedrich Wurfel Family History 1880-1982
    CD record Beginning in Germany with Friedrich and his wife Friedrike in 1880, the book follows the long line of descendants to South Australia in 1982. 'Friedrich Wurfel Family History 1880-1982' was published in the 1980's...
  • $33.00 From Tipperary to Port Phillip
    Book The O'Brien and Rahaley families Part 1: The O'Brien Family O'Brien Family Beginnings in Bansha Life in Early Melbourne for the O'Briens The Goldfields Part 2: The Rahely/Rahilly in Ireland Rahely/Rahilly Family...
  • $18.00 Georgiana's Journal 1838-1845
    Book G McCrae While the boys were away at the beach, I heard somebody shout excitedly, five or six times, and, on going out of the house, I noticed Mr McLure ahead of me, running towards the saw-pit. I followed as fast as...
  • $29.50 History of the Haby Family
    CD record In the 1850s two Haby brothers (Johann Christian and Johann Carl) and their families came to South Australia from the Crossen area in Prussia. They were after a better life. Starting with their German roots, then...
  • $16.50 India Stewart: Ardrossan, Ayrshire and Richmond Plains (Sharpe)
  • $27.50 Irish fortunes Clarke and Russell families in Creswick
    Book Gradually the information was gathered; not only the story of the Clarke and Russell families, but also the story of the community of Creswick in which they lived. We found that, despite the impression given in some...
  • $29.50 Last Voyage to India and Australia in the 'Sunbeam' by Lady Brassey 1886-1887
    CD record [1 CD (562 pages)] Published posthumously in 1889, this book by Annie Brassey describes her last voyage to India and Australia on the luxury yacht 'Sunbeam' The voyage was undertaken to improve her health but, in...
  • $14.50 Life of Pastor Abbott
    CD record Jacob Abbott (1813-1908) came to South Australia in 1837 a few months after the proclamation of the province. This memoir by a long time friend, David Nock, outlines his life, especially as a minister of the...
  • $27.50 Missing Friends: Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland 1871-1880
    CD record [1 CD (436 pages)] Written by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer, the book describes his adventures in Queensland between 1871 and 1880. He was born in Copenhagen in 1850, the second son of a builder. At age...
  • $33.00 Mrs Alexander: a life of the hymn-writer 1818-95
  • $27.50 My Australian Girlhood Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life
    CD record Written in 1902, this book gives interesting insights into life in the Australian bush at the time. In the 18 chapters the author, Mrs Campbell Praed, touches on a many aspects of life in Australia, more...
  • $9.50 Narrative of James Murrells' Seventeen Years Exile
    CD record [1 CD - (47 pages)] Originally published in 1863, this edition of Seventeen Years’ Exile was edited and published by Edmund Gregory in 1896. It describes James Murrells’ life, and adventures among the...
  • $23.50 New Chum in the Queensland Bush
    CD record [1 CD - (218 pages)] Written in 1887 by Walter SS Tyrwhitt, it is mainly an account of the author's personal experiences in Queensland, and he ventures to hope that as it deals with the every-day life of a...
  • $27.50 Octogenarian's Reminiscences
    CD record James Bonwick, a teacher, author, historian and archivist, was born in 1817 at Lingfield, Surrey, the son of a carpenter. The book is divided into five parts: His early life: at the Old Boro' Road Boys' School,...
  • $27.50 Opals and Agates: Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia
    CD record [1 CD (341 pages)]Published in 1892 at Brisbane, Nehemiah Bartley's 'Opals and Agates' records memories of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia. 'At the suggestion of friends, I have herein collated, for...
  • $27.50 Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Shttps://www.familyhistorybookshop.org.au/admin/index.php?ToDo=editProduct&productId=3874quatter
    CD record [1 CD (435 pages)] Published in 1901, this book by Oscar de Satagé records the memories of more than thirty years of pastoral life and adventure in Australia. He came originally to Victoria in 1853 –...
  • $23.10 Quellers, Undertakers and Wild Irish Stew
    Book Author: Valda Strauss Fourteen year old County Clare girl, Catherine Hudson, rescued her Protestant soldier boy who had been left for dead on the battlefield at Waterloo. Seven generations later her story is still...
  • $33.00 Remember that heavenly gingerbeer: a history of the Sharpe Bros
    Book The history of Sharpe Bros, cordial manufacturers is traced back from its conception in Cumberland, England through its beginnings in New Zealand and then Australia in the early years of this century, until its...
  • $19.50 Seven Years in the Australian Bush
    CD record [1 CD - (181 pages)]Written in Sydney in 1877 by James B Stevenson, this book was published in 1880 and tells how he spent his first seven years in the bush in the Australian colonies. He arrived during the 1860s...
  • $19.50 Slee Family History c1490-1976
    CD record First published to coincide with the Slee family reunion held in October 1976, this book has long been out of print. This comprehensive family history has been republished as a facsimile of the original on fully...
  • $39.00 Story of the Browns and Scarsdale
    Book Patrick McGrath and others. First published in 1912. Hardcover; A5; 173pp with Illustrations, Index and map The story goes back to 1855 - within four years of the first discovery of a payable goldfield in Australia...
  • $5.50 Sutherland Home School 3660 June 3, 1910-1975
    Book Miss Sutherland Homes for neglected and destitute children For 28 years an unwearied friend of Melbourne's poor, the truest helper of its fallen and the devoted foster mother of all destitute ones, for who she taught...
  • $27.50 Toast to the Future The Story of George Johnson and his Family (and Supplement)
    CD record Here we have two books on one CD. Written by Graham Jaunay in 1989, with a supplement published in 1992, the first book gives an account of a family's movement from England to South Australia in 1847 and the...
  • $43.00 Up and down the river: the Butlers from Benenden
    Book Here is a story about a family named Butler whose roots in their native parish in Kent can be traced back to 1693. One hundred and sixty years ago, in 1839, they pulled up stakes and emigrated to Australia, leaving...

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