The list commenced 50 years ago, and doesn't prescribe to current referencing standards, and is unlikely to get to that! The ever-burgeoning content, inter-connectedness and use of the internet means that for most people, the past opens up increasingly, and that includes access to all our ancestors, not just McVicars! thus, time to spend on the ever growing number of branches and their new shoots is reduced for each one.
Published Sources - hard copy
The International Genealogical Index & Scottish Parochial Records - various editions
Records held by the Australian Institute of Genealogists, Bendigo Branch
Records held by the Avoca & District Historical Society. See http://home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/ADHSMain.htm
Records held by the Bendigo Central Library
Records held by Health & Community Services Victoria
Newspapers held by the State Library of Victoria
Beavis, Margery and Betty: Avoca, the Early Years, Program Print,1986
Benedict, Sir J. Music: By the Sad Sea Wave, publisher unknown
Brewster, Bea. Amherst District Hospital 1859-1933 The Story of a Goldrush Hospital, Talbot Arts & Historical Museum, Inc., 2003
Education Department of Victoria, Vision and Realisation – A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2, Ed. Dept of Victoria, 1973
Elliott, Maisie; Lester, Betty; Pole, Merle; and the Book Committee, Early Memories Unfolded – District History of Torrita, Torrita Reunion Committee, undated c.1994
Flett, James. The History of Gold Discovery in Victoria, Rigby, 1970
Flett, James. Old Pubs – Inns, Taverns and Grog Houses on the Victorian Gold Diggings, The Poppet Head Press, 1979
comp. Lynch. J, Willsmore, M., Brown, C., A Vision Realised 1988 District History of Underbool, Torrita, Linga, Boinka, Underbool Back To Committee (undated, c.1988)
Oulton, Margaret. A Valley of the Finest Description – A History of the Shire of Lexton, Shire of Lexton, 3rd ed., 1995
Strangman, Denis. A forgotten Victorian Gold Rush: Lamplough, via Avoca, 1859-1860, Victorian Historical Journal, vol 60, No.1, March 1989
Wills, Margaret (ed) in association with the Avoca & District Historical Society Postcards from Avoca (undated)
Published sources - Internet - Numerous websites, especially google.com, and including
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Sepulchre-without-Newgate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James_Church,_Clerkenwell,
and especially, as it expands, http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Primary Sources
Photographs held by various family members
Letter of Archibald McVicar to his parents, dated 1878
Postcard from Elsie Brown to her aunt Janet McVicar, dated 27 January 1912
Postcard from Arch McVicar to his sister Florrie, dated 21 November 1916
Family History Report (Genealogical Records Collation) of Ms Janet C., granddaughter of Elsie Brown
Letter of Alexander McVicar to his brother Archibald dated 23 June 1952
Handwritten notes of the late Mrs Lil Cullinan, granddaughter of James and Janet McVicar
Lil Cullinan’s autograph book held by her daughter, Gwen S.
Birthdays from Lil Cullinan’s birthday book, provided by her daughter, Gwen S.
Personal Conversations and/ Correspondence with
The late Isabella Hastings, maid to the Glen family of Walpeup c.1914, and my great aunt.
The late Mrs Pearl M., granddaughter of James and Janet McVicar.
The late Selwyn McVicar, grandson of James and Janet, and his wife, the late Alma McVicar.
The late Mrs Dorothy Rothe, granddaughter of James and Janet.
Mesdames Gwen S., Heather V., Joan M. and the late Mavis Kear, Margaret Thorne and Evelyn Woolman, all great granddaughters of James and Janet, Trisha Leslie, cousin of Gwen S., Maxine Mossop, daughter in law of Caroline Janet Brown, and Coral A. great granddaughter of William and Margaret Glover.
Research Assistance has been provided by Mrs Dorothy Robinson, Mses Colleen Allen and Tammy Hammond, and the late Mesdames Elizabeth O'Shea & Mrs Jan Burnett, of the Avoca and District Historical Society. Ms Helen Jones (of London) provided the key to deciphering the Crawford McNab tombstone in the Aldeburgh Churchyard, and drove me there to confirm it. Mrs Margaret Young, great granddaughter in law of William & Margaret Glover, has provided much information by detailed searching of on-line records and undertaken painstaking restoration work on the most damaged photographs, and provided general encouragement to keep researching.
I thank all who have helped me for their time, patience, phone calls, emails and other assistance.
Tom Woolman 5 March 2016.
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