Presentation to be made to Family History ACT on 27 February 2023 on using NSW Historical Land Records to assist in your Family Research.
This will be a hybrid meeting with both in person at the Cook Community Hub and via Zoom.
Cook Community Hub
41 Templeton Street,
Cook ACT 2614
I spoke about the maps showing locations in Egypt and Palestine for a memeber of the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment. I have created four maps to show some 45 locations. This was made more diffficult due to the nature of the names and their spelling. English translations of place names in the Middle East can be different to the local spelling and also to the verbal sounding of a name. There can be multiple spellings of the same place in Australian archives and records.
I used Google maps to determine the location and Latitude and Longitude before transferring this data to MapInfo Professional to prepare the finished maps.
Four maps were created due to the large area covered and the close proximity of many of the locations. Map 1 showed Egypt and Palestine with major centres displayed for reference on the other maps. Map 2 was of Egypt with Map 3 of Cairo displaying the location of various Hospitals around the city centre. Map 4 showed the locations in Palestine.
I have shown Maps 1 and 4 below.
I have been asked to prepared some maps showing the locations that a Trooper of the 1st Light Horse Regiment, AIF served at in Egypt and Palestine during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
My presentation is complete and has been sent off to the Convenor of the Conference. An outline of the presentation is below:
Bernard Cavanagh arrived in Australia with his brother James and sister Anne in 1841 as Assisted Immigrants from Ireland. They were sent to work for Andrew Lang’s Dunmore Estate, near Maitland. Bernard’s story was put together using TROVE articles but the more important part of the story came from the property that Bernard and his brother purchased in the area. With the absence of British type Census records, land records can assist us to track family movements and status in Australia.
This talk will show how land records accessed from the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) allowed the story of Bernard Cavanagh of Dunmore and Knockfin, near Maitland, to be expanded after initial articles found in Trove provided the basis for their family story.
Land Records can provide a great deal of information to the family researcher, including
Hear how information was obtained from the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) and from other sources to create the story of Bernard Cavanagh in New South Wales.
A copy of the completed story of Bernard Cavanagh will be available for download as well as a copy of the presentation.
I have been accepted as a speaker at the Conference to be held virtually on 16 and 17 September 2022. I will be using some of the work that I have done on the CAVENAGH family Land Records for my presentation as this will fit very well for the locality of the host Societies.
