Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc

Our Library

The Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc. maintains an extensive genealogy/family history library. Use of these resources is available:

• free to members
• for an daily fee of $10 to non-members

Having established the local genealogy we can then delve back into the past via other resources which we hold, i.e. all indices of Births, Deaths and Marriages for every Australian State which have been published on CD-ROM and many published microfiche for Australia and overseas. The list below details some of our library resources, which is growing all the time.

We meet at the Stawell Branch of the Wimmera Regional Library and have access it's collection of genealogy resources which supplement those owned by our group.

Local & Regional Resources:

The resources which we hold from Stawell and district and the region broadly described as Western Victoria include:

CEMETERY REGISTERS:

Apsley	1965 onwards
Ashens (headstones & genealogy)	-
Barkly (Old Cemetery)	1874 - 1898
Buangor/Buangor Private/Chillicum (Incomplete)	1866 1967
Burrum Burrum (Banyena)	c. 1884 - 1988
Crowlands	1841 - 1997
Glenorchy Copyright Dorothy King (incomplete)	1862 - 1988
Gray's Bridge (Marnoo)	1881 - 1990
Great Western	-
Landsborough (incomplete)	1863 onwards
Moonambel	1862 onwards
Navarre	1852 - 1998
One Tree Hill (Stawell) Copyright Dorothy King	1857 - 1858
Pleasant Creek (Stawell) Copyright Dorothy King	1850 - 1987
St.Arnaud	-
Stawell (Pleasant Creek) Copyright Ronald Booth	1850 - 2000
Stuart Mill	1868 - 1987
Swan Water West	1877 - 1987
Timor	1970 onwards

CHURCH REGISTERS:

Church of England (includes Glenorchy, Halls Gap, Landsborough, Navarre and Stawell)	Baptisms 1860 onwards Burials 1877 - 1996 Confirmations - Marriages 1862 - 1996
Roman Catholic Church: Landsborough & Surrounding Parishes	-
St. Matthews Presbyterian Church	Baptisms 1869 - 1977
Wesleyan Methodist Church	Baptisms -
St. Patricks Roman Catholic Church	Baptisms - Marriages 1858 - 1907

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS:

Amherst	-
Stawell District Hospital (Transcripts: Card Index)	Incomplete
Stawell District Hospital (Transcripts: Word File)	Incomplete

SCHOOL REGISTERS & INDEXES:

Black Range State School No. 2442	1881
Deep Lead State School No. 721	1932 - 1962
Green's Creek State School No. 1381	1913 - 1955
Green's Creek State School (Teacher’s Days Absent)	1937 - 1951
Glenorchy State School No. No. 263	1908 - 1996
Great Western State School No. 860	1906 - 1979
Illawarra State School No. 1681	1875 – 1914
Landsborough Common School No. 710	1864 – 1876
Landsborough State School No. 1862	1877 - 1997
Ledcourt State School No. 4623	1946 - 1952
Marnoo State School No. 1554	-
Raglan Primary School No. 532	-
St. Patricks Catholic School. No 782	1928 - 1996
Stawell State School  No. 502 Index and Registers	1892 - 1959
Stawell East  No. 1986	1906 - 1912
Traynor's Lagoon State School No. 1832	1909 - 1926

SCHOOL HISTORIES:

Bulgana State School No. 1699 History	1873 - 1932
Callawadda State School  No. 2750	Read, John C. 1986
Concongella  State School No. 1136	1872 - 1997
Great Western State School No. 860 : 1867 – 1984	Ingham, D. 1984
Inkwells at Illawarra (Old Pleasant Creek) 1875 – 1932	Middleton, J. G. 1992

STAWELL NEWSPAPER INDEXES:

Stawell Times & Wimmera Advertiser (News Items)	1899
Stawell Times-News  B.D.M., etc. Extracts	Cox, Beryl (Compiler) (1992-2004)
Stawell Times-News  B.D.M., etc. Extracts	Campbell, Ann (Compiler) (2005 onwards)

STAWELL PIONEERS INDEX - BIRTHS:

Pleasant Creek and Stawell (Extract from Pioneer’s Index)	1837 - 1888
Glenorchy (Extract from Pioneer’s Index)	1837 - 1888

LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS & MAGAZINES – STAWELL (Pleasant Creek):

100 Stawell Gifts : Stawell Athletic Club	Blake, J. 1977
A Short History of the Churches who Formed the Stawell Uniting Church	Hemley, M. & Sutton, G. 1994
Church Worship in Stawell  (Early Beginnings)	-
Hotels in Stawell - 1878	-
Ready to Save ( A history of Stawell Volunteer Fire Brigade)	Bennett, Neil 1998
St. Matthew’s Presbyterin Church, Stawell : 1860 - 1960	-
St. Patricks Church Stawell	Paxton, I (Mrs)
Stawell & District Electoral Roll (1975) (Sub-division)	-
Stawell Athletic Club  -  Centenary Gift	-
Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc. is Ten Years Old  1987 - 1997.	-
Stawell Common Petition  1860	-
Stawell Community Directory    1996	-
Stawell High School Reunion 1964-1969	-
Stawell Methodist Circuit Centenary : 1876 - 1976	-
Stawell Past and Present (Photocopy)	Ord, Maynard
Stawell People : World War 1 (Australian Roll of Honour) 1914 - 1916	-
Stawell State School No. 502 Then and Now	Coward, Allan 1987
Stawell Water Supply : 125th Anniversary Celebrations	Syme, 2000

LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS & MAGAZINES - STAWELL DISTRICT:

A History of the Grampians Tramways	Whitehead, R.K. 1972
A Range of Views of Jallukar & Bellellen	Armer, Isabel 1996
Bridging the Gap : Halls Gap	Stanton, Ida
Campbells Bridge : 1861 – 1991	Hyslop, Ken 1991
Carr's Plains : 1836 – 1945	Wettenhall, R.R.
Concongella School Centenary 1872 – 1972 Recipe Book and list of Pupils	-
Concongella & District Men & Women : 1st World War	-
Concongella 1861 – 1961	Heal, A.E. 1961
Deep Lead and Back	-
Golden Days of Mount William, Mafeking  1900 – 2000	-
Good Country for a Grant : A History of Stawell Shire	Kingston, Robert 1989
Landsborough Centenary : 1862 - 1962	-
Mt. Difficult - Heatherlie Quarry	Dept. of Conservation Forests & Lands, 1985
Navarre “Rails to Wood” - The Opening and Closing of the Navarre Railway Line 1914  -  1954,	Robson, D.A. 2000
Pomonal – A Picturesque Place	Armer, Isabel

REGIONAL HISTORY BOOKS & MAGAZINES - WIMMERA & WESTERN VICTORIA:

Birchip : Essays on Shire	Senyard, June E. 1970
Boort District  1836 - 1968 : Smoke from the Hill	Stevens, Fae 1969
Country Fire Authority  Region 16  Maps, 1992	-
Don’t Dare Say Dinkledoodledum	Finch, Alan 1977
Dundas Shire Centenary  1863 - 1963	-
Gallipoli Heroes: A tribute to the men of Western Victoria who gave their lives for their country	Massey, Graeme, 2003
Ghosts of The Glen (Glenpatrick & Nowhere Creek_	Armer, Isabel
Legends of the Lake : Lake Bolac Eight Family Pioneer History	McIntyre, K. 1999
Napoleons District First 150 years	George, L. 1987
Pictorial History of Rupanyup, 1999	-
Tattyara : Kaniva & District History	Blake, Les 1981
The Great Majority - Castlemaine - Mt. Alexander 1855 - 1885	-
The Pinnacle (School Magazines covering the Wimmera ) 1923 - 1928	-
Then the Waterwheel Turned: Lockington & District 1867 - 1967	Priestly, Susan
The Wimmera Quarterley (School Magazine)	-
Trawalla: Life in the Bush	-
Trawalla  - Squatters and Soldiers : 1839 – 1971	Nunan, J. 1971
Victoria's Wonderland: A Grampians History	Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society, 2006
Warracknabeal, a Wimmera Centenary	Priestley, Susan 1967
Wimmera Diggers at War :1939 - 1945	Barber, Tania

Family Histories

We have a growing collection of family histories; all contributed by our members:

AKINS Family : A History of	Akins, Robbie J. 2007
BLACHFORD (extract)	Unknown
BLAKE	Blake, Trevor
BRODIE - BRODY Family History	Hallam, Julie 1995
BROOKSBY	Brookesby, R.J. 1985
BYRON FAMILY : Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know	Morrison, Norma 1992
CARRA, Demetrious	Walton, Cassandra
DAVIS (William) and MORGAN (Margaret) : Descendants of	Davis, Rodger & Claire 1997
DOVASTON.  WATTS.  MORTON.  TREWENACK. &  SMALLEY	Cox, Beryl
FREELAND FAMILY HISTORY STAWELL : Clipperships, Gold & Clydesdales	Steele, Audrey N.
GRANT	Campbell, Robin 1995
HATELEY	Hateley, Doug
HUNT Family History	McRae, J. 1979
HUSBAND, JUDD et. Al : The Deveon Years : 1440 – 1875	Toomey, Val 1998
KJELLERUP - KIELLERUP  Erasmus – Rasmus	Gavin, Dorothy & Croft, Frances 1998
KRAEFFT FAMILY - From Germany to Australia	Greham, Valerie (NZ)
LOATS - Thomas and Mary	Loats, Dulcie 1989
McCRACKEN - William & Jane & McGHIE - George & Isabella: The Families of in Australia	McCracken,Peter 2006
McKENZIE et. Al. Voyage & Mutiny of the ‘Georgiana’ 1852	Mc Kenzie, Lorraine 1994
OAKLEY FAMILY HISTORY  1836 – 1984	Thorpe, Heather 1984
POPE/HUNTER	Walton, Cassandra
READING Family - England to Australia 1826 2001 - Descendants of Joseph READING & Eliza TURRELL	-
SCHNEIDER, Johann	Walton, Cassandra
SCHNEIDER Peter and Isabella	Brumby, Dorothy
SLORACH'S FROM SCOTLAND	Cox, Beryl 1997
SPONG Family Tree	Spong, K.I. & McCurdy, N. 1986
TROUETTE & BLAMPIED	Barton, Jenny
WATSON John & Maria : 1856 – 1979	Hateley, V.M. 1979
WESTMORELAND To Australia on the ‘Melpomene’	Holmes, Marie 1997

NOTE: Other Stawell and district resources are held by the Stawell Historical Society.

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