BAIRD History & Genealogy
World wide BAIRD website with families from the Ballarat area.

BEASLEY / SHARP
"When the Beasley family was called up, a surprise awaited us. It recorded James¹ parents marrying at Ballarat. Another look and there was almost the same family marrying in Adelaide as we had already discovered! I suspect that these two apparent families are likely the one single family but I cannot explain the two distinct marriages.
FAMILY 1
Louis BEASLEY, born 1831 Somerset married Ann SHARP, born 1832 Yorkshire in Adelaide 5 Nov 1853 and they had a son, James born 1859 near Linton VIC.
FAMILY 2
Lewis BEASLEY, born 1833 Somerset married Hannah SHARPE, born 1835 Yorkshire in Ballarat 29 Jan 1857 and they had children, Louisa born 1848 Smythe Creek VIC, James born 1860 place unknown and Lewis George born 1862 Linton VIC."

BIRCH, FASHAM, NORRIS, REGAN Families
"Living Trees Research" website with Ballarat connections by Glenys Rasmussen

BOWEN Staffordshire > Avoca
My Bowen's came from Darlaston Staffordshire GB in the 1700's,however I believe they originated in Wales before that, but I have no definite proof yet! My G,G,G,Grandfather Michael bowen arrived in Adelaide South Australia in @ 1842 and died there in 1846,his sons and wife moving to the goldfields of Victoria by bullock dray shortly after.The two sons became prominent citizens of Avoca Victoria where my relations still live today!

BRYANT
The last entry in his family bible reads: "Left London for Victoria in the ship "Winifred" 1st January 1864, amidst the prayers and tears of our parents".

BURKE, Michael John (1812-1869)
Galway, Ireland, "Burke's Pass", Canterbury, New Zealand, Ballarat. Michael's wife was Maria MINCHIN who had siblings in Ballarat.

CALDER Family History
Thomas CALDER born 06 Mar 1796 at Kirkintilloch, SCT. and Christina BLAIR (the daughter of John BLAIR and Christian MCANDREW) were married about 1821. They lived in Kirkintilloch, SCT and were to have ten children of whom three, William, born 18 May 1831, George, born 1834 and Margaret, born about 1840, were to emigrate to Australia.
As new settlers in Australia these three Calders were marry and and establish three distinct lines. William and Margaret CALDER were to marry another Scottish brother and sister pair, Anne and William ROGERSON. George would marry an Irish girl, Matilda DEAN.

CLUGSTON Family History
Website researching world wide CLUGSTON families of which there are some in Ballarat.

COWARDS, KINGS & CROOKS
COWARD, CRAGO and KENNY family links with Ballarat - Graham COWARD.

COWLEY, Isle of Man > Ballarat
COWLEY article in the Isle of Man Family History Journal.

DAVIDSON of Mt Egerton
Welcome to the DAVIDSONs of Mt Egerton Genealogy site. This family history site contains research into the Davidson family, who settled in the Mt Egerton district near Ballarat, Victoria, in 1854.

DENNIS Family History
Ballarat area, Victoria; Creswick, Victoria; Truro area, Cornwall, England pre 1854.

German migration from the village of Nieder-Weisel to Australia
These pages attempt to summarise the amazing research carried out by Kelvin Williams over a period of about 20 years up until his death in October 1999. Some of Kelvin’s ancestors came to Australia, as did mine, from the small German village of Nieder-Weisel in the 1850s in an attempt to better their lives. Kelvin began to research those ancestors, but before long he extended it to cover all of those who came, their family histories, why they came, and where they went to.

HANNAN, Paddy
Mention of Paddy HANNAN and his uncle William LYNCH in Ballarat.
"In Kalgoorlie, the famous gold-mining town in Western Australia, the main street is Hannan Street, the railway station is Hannan Station, there is the Hannan Hotel and in the local pub you can drink a pint of Hannan lager."

HARVEY
The Harvey family originated in Redruth , Cornwall. John Harvey was a miner and, by the time the family migrated to South Australia in 1840, Cornish mining was in decline. Free passage to the colonies, under the Assisted Migration Scheme of 1836-1840, would have looked very attractive indeed to this poor, devoutly Methodist, mining family. They set sail on the vessel 'Waterloo', London via Falmouth, arriving in Port Adelaide on the 9th of November 1840.
The family appears in the 1841 South Australian census, living in the newly created and still very primitive Adelaide on Currie Street, now part of the city's CBD. The population of South Australia at this time is only "15,485 persons".
At some stage after the census John and Elizabeth, along with their two younger children, Jane and William, disappear from South Australia. It is possible that the lure of gold during the 1850's Victorian gold rush saw John and Elizabeth travelling the lonely, dangerous bush tracks, with all the other hopefuls, to the bekoning gold fields of Victoria and Ballarat. Certainly there are tantalising hints of their presense in these regions, still to be investigated.

HEPBURN Family
For many years, a number of the descendants of James HEPBURN and Mary (nee GILLIES) of Fort Augustus, Inverness, Scotland, have been researching the history of the Hepburn family both in Scotland and Australia. A family reunion was held at Strangways near Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1992 at which members from all branches of the family were represented.

HOLLAND & CLARKE
The Holland & Clarke Family of Ireland, Cheshire and Victorian Goldfields.

JEWELL - Cornwall > Ballarat > Queensland

JOHNSTON of Derrykeighan & Dervock
Family Tree site by Gillian Johnston (Adelaide) and Donald Johnston (Melbourne). Descendants of Thomas Johnston, who emigrated to Australia 1850/60 from Derrykeighan, Antrim, Northern Ireland. "Thomas Johnston was born December 18, 1835 at Derrykeighan, Antrim, Northern Ireland to Peggy Anne Johnson and James Stuart Johnston and died April 22, 1916 in Linton, Victoria, Australia."

JONES, Ern - Jones, Hutchinson, May, Griffin

JUNGWIRTHS in Australia...
This page is under-construction - probably will be 'til the end of time - subjects may include:
* When did we get to Australia?
* The search for GOLD
* Ballarat - businessman!
* Fire in the mines!
* Tragedy strikes.

KIMBLE / KIMBALL / KIMBELL / KIMBRELL

LOWERY, Thomas (from Durham Eng.)
Thomas LOWERY (from Durham Eng.) married Elizabeth PEARCE (from Lelant, Cornwall, Eng). in 1875 in Ballarat. All children born in Ballarat. Lowery family descendants please contact me. Dianne Black

McNEISH
McNEISH of Scotland and Australia - McNeish (Ballarat), Cochran (Beaufort), Cameron (Beaufort), Meiklejohn (Melbourne), Woolcock (Ballarat), Bossence (Ballarat)

MENNEN "All Roads Lead to Ballarat"
This site includes family histories, biographies, family photo's, birth, death, marriage, baptism and other certificates, gravestones, passenger lists and other information relating to the following names, all of which are names that feature in my pedigree. These names are:
HAYES, BARRETT, BIGGIN, CAHILL, CARTY, CREED, DOYLE, KANE, CLARK, McILVENEY, MULQUINEY, QUAILEY, PORTER, MORRISSEY, MITCHELL, McKEOGH, TIDDY, RYAN, O'DONNELL, NIHILL, CROCKETT, HALLIDAY, O'BRIEN, YOUNG, CASSIDY, MENNEN, JANSEN, ENGELEN, VAN BREE, de VET, TOERSCHEN, Van BELCOM, FRANCZAK, PIETRASZ, OLSZEWSKI, KARLIKOWSKA, PASTUCHIA, BANAS and KUSTZATAL.

NICHOLSON, Joseph
This Joseph Nicholson and wife were from Cumberland England, 1853, [arr at Geelong] they farmed at Carngham & Snake Valley and later were Wood merchants in Ballarat until mid 1950s.

OGILVY Family
The branch of my Ogilvy family which eventually settled in Australia in the mid 1800s is derived from the Ogilvys of Shetland. John Ogilvy of Stove, the younger son of Ogilvy of Miltoun settled in Shetland in 1700, and in the early 1860s his great-great grandson established an Australian branch of the family. This great-great grandson was Charles Ogilvy and when he arrived in Australia, he brought with him a family history written by his father, also named Charles, which has been added to by subsequent generations. After arriving in Australia Charles Ogilvy and his wife Margaretta Lynn lived at Maldon, Ballarat and Buninyong before becoming one of the first 79 selectors at Mirboo North. Charles Ogilvy became heavily involved in local affairs as a councillor and public speaker.

OXLADE - "An Oxlade family of Victoria"
Benjamin Oxlade born 1827 London and Elizabeth Shelley born 1822 at Brighton Sussex, married 1848 at Newington in south Thames area where both were living. Ben was then apprentice waterman and lighterman having been bound 9 January 1845 at Pauls Wharf to master John Hasler. On 11 March 1852, he gained the freedom of The Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames. Lightermen operated light tidal barges steered by oar to carry goods and watermen carried passengers.
In January 1862, Ben and Elizabeth arrived in Victoria Australia with their children. It was time of great interest at Melbourne in rowing races. In 1862 Ben featured in a singles match race on the Yarra River. In November of 1862 and of 1863, he competed in professional events at Melbourne Annual Regattas. In 1862, he and partner won the paired-oars event for watermen. In 1863, he won the Watermen's Scullers' Race. Later in November 1863, he competed at the Ballarat and Learmonth Regatta.

PASCOE
Names : BARTLE . BLAMEY . BREMNER . CHRISTENSEN . CHRISTESEN . FREDERICK . HANSDATTER . HANSEN . JAGOE . KINSMAN . LITTLEJOHN . LOCKET . LOW . MADSDATTER . MARTIN . MCCURE . MICHEL . MORRISON . NIELSEN . PAINE . PASCOE . PENNEY . PENNY . RUTHERFORD . SHORT . SIMONS . SINCLAIR . SORENSEN . STEVENSON . WILLIAMS.

PAINTER and others in Australia, Britain & Ireland
Morris and Lewis (Ballarat), Walker (Carngham, Ballarat, Stawell, Smythesdale, Scarsdale, Linton) plus much more ...

PREECE, June & Max's Page
Isset, Lorimer, Merriman, Preece, Roberts, Sykes

PROSSER, Wales > Stawell
"Currently I have traced my Prosser ancestry back to John Prosser who married Margaret Phillips circa 1875 in Tredegar, Bedwellty Parish, Monmouthshire in Wales. John & Margaret had three sons Thomas Edward (b 10 May 1875), Edgar (b c1879) and John Arthur (b 10 Sep 1885) all born in Tredegar.
About 1886 the family emigrated to Australia and settled near Stawell in Victoria. Thomas and John A. went to the School of Mines in Stawell and about 1900 all three brothers went to the goldfields in Western Australia. Not long after this Edgar disappeared with out trace and family history has it that he was murdered, but his cannot be proved. Thomas and John A. spent many years in the goldfields with Thomas eventually becoming a battery manager."

PROUDFOOT, Alex
Cook(e), Duke, Jarvie, etc ...

QUINANE Genealogy Home Page
Welcome to the Australian Quinane Clan Home Page. The Quinanes emigrated to Australia from the Upperchurch and Borrisoleigh Parishes near Thurles in County Tipperary Ireland between 1845 and 1880. Most of the families arriving in Australia landed at the port of Melbourne in the State of Victoria and then headed to the Ballarat Gold Fields. After a number of years in the gold fields, the two main families moved to the Bellarine Pennisula near the city of Geelong in the State of Victoria. From here the family has spread throughout Victoria and the neighbouring state of New South Wales.

ROBERTS / RAPA Family Tree
Website contains information our family connection with Ballarat is strong and on going. My grandfather Owen Roberts served at the Ballarat Police Station in the early part of last century. His wife Mary Ann Gwynn, my grandmother, was born and bred in Ballarat. As far as I know her grandparents came to Ballarat around the mid 1800s.

ROBSON - "Joseph Robson family of early Victoria"
Joseph Robson (1798-1879) and Jane nee Hudson (1800-64) arrived Victoria Australia in August 1853 on ship Bore with their six children and three grand-children (more below on children, descendants and relations). Alluvial gold mining had suddenly become leading industry of Victoria and with long experience in industrialised gold mining in Brazil, Joseph Robson became a leading worker in implementing large scale quartz gold mining. His employer, the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company, was controlled by the same British interests chaired by J.D. Powles as the Brazil venture for which he had worked. Established 1852, it opened a smelting and assay office at Melbourne April 1853. Its early mining efforts met resistance. By 1856, Joseph was engaged in erecting and working its crushing batteries. In 1857, the company under resident director Rivett Bland, shifted its main interest to Clunes, north of Ballarat. Joseph and Jane settled there 1857 with much of the family. Joseph was stamp manager of a large profitable mine and was still working 1864, having charge of the amalgamating department.

ROWLAND Family Tree Online
" The discovery of gold in Victoria in 1852 lured George, William's eldest son, who was now 17, across to the gold fields around Avoca. When he arrived only a small gully had opened by the prospectors Bell, Burns and Co. who were neighbours of the Rowland's in South Australia. George, who considered himself among the earliest prospectors in the Avoca area, decided that this was the place to be if he and his family were to make their fortune....."

SAW Family Pages
Good mornin' sport, welcome to Sawpit Gully. I'm Henry. Well actually I'm Henry's ghost, but let's not stand on ceremony. I'll show you about the place and tell you a bit about me family's history in Australia. There's some interestin' tales to be told if you care to stick around.

SMITH / CHRISTIE
SMITH - Bothwell, Summerleas and other places in Tasmania; Melbourne and other places in Victoria.
CHRISTIE - Angus, Scotland; Tasmania and Victoria.

SMITH Family Directory
Directory of Martyn and Helen Smith's FIRST FAMILIES 2001 Webpages - Bernasocchi, Bullas, Coghill, Olver, Rix, Smith, Tresise.

SYMONS Family Genealogy
The SYMONS had a substantial presence in early Ballarat, and the website has a good historical account of early life in Ballarat of one of the families. The following related surnames in the website have a local Ballarat connection:
Ballantyne, Beveridge, Breese, Browne, Burchfield, Byrne, Capp, Clay, Daff, Dale, Flack, Fletcher, Foster, Fryar, Giljohann, Grills, Hall, Higgins, Hilf, Hinds, Hocking, Hordern, Hutchins, Jasper, Joliffe, Keith, Kentish, Kovachevich, MacNeil, Malfroy, Master, McCrae, McKellar, Moreham, Officer, O'Shannasy, Pettifer, Price, Purser, Redman, Rees, Russell, Scott, Selkirk, Simpson, Singleton, Slater, Smith, Stewart, Tasker, Thomas, Tuttle, Wellington, Wells, Williams.

THOMSON Family - Thomson families in the Hamilton & Wannon areas of south-west Victoria,

THOMPSON, Alan - Hepburn, McDonnell, etc ...

TREWEEK - TREWEEK, Brothers Benjamin, Joseph and Nicholas from Gwennap, Cornwall joined the goldrush to Ballarat in 1854-55. Joseph and Harriet settled near Creswick, Victoria. Their children married Clarke, Davidson, Hutchins, Pascoe, Robinson, Stephens, Wallace.

TUDDENHAM
This web site contains loads of information about the name Tuddenham and listings of the Birth, Marriage and Death indexes held at the Family Research Centre in London for the name Tuddenham and abbreviations, they have been compiled over a long period of time and although it is hoped that the listings are accurate, they are not guaranteed.

WHITEHAND Family
This page is intended; to give an overview of the Whitehand history. It is not intended to provide a genealogy of the family but rather a narrative of material presently known or understood.

WINNETT / VINET Family History
Our world wide research into the Family Name WINNETT began in the 1960's. There appears to have developed several "families" with the name Winnett, but with no common connection. We have found early families pre 1800 in Ireland, and several parts of England. Variations of the name (eg.Winnot, Whinnett Winet) were common, even within the same family. Irish and English Winnetts migrated to Australia, Canada, and North America, and we have been in contact with descendents of many of these families.
This site covers 12 generations of the Winnett (previously French Huguenot Vinet) family from England in the early 1700's to their immigration on the Nepaul in 1852 to the Australian Gold Fields.

Please email Daryl (click on animated computers) with the URL to your Ballarat or Western Victorian link.