Part of the Reverend Chaplain Major Thomas Bruce Williams, No 556101, Collection.Australian Army khaki wool jacket with green polyester lining. Gold coloured plastic buttons with Army Christian Chaplain's insignia. Each lapel has a plain gold coloured metal crucifix attached. Captain's pips on each epaulette. There are two button down breast pockets and two button down side pockets on the jacket. Inside pocket on the left hand side. A white calico manufacturer's label is sewn onto this pocket.Printed on the manufacturer's label: 'A.G.C.F., VICTORIA, 1987 (upwards arrow) ARMY NO, NAME'. Handwritten in black ink on manufacturer's label: '556101, CHAPLAIN, T.B. WILLIAMS'.uniform, service dress, army chaplain, major thomas bruce williams

L-R: ? Alice Fechner & Margaret Williams (names below photo incorrect!)fechner, williams, prendergast, 1940s, ballarat, hospital

Extract from scrapbook of Mrs Jessie Williams. Death of Frank Paice, Mayor of Nunawading 1951-52, President Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham, 1938-39. Worked for 43 years with Humes Ltd.Extract from scrapbook of Mrs Jessie Williams. Death of Frank Paice, Mayor of Nunawading 1951-52, President Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham, 1938-39. williams, jessie, price, frank ernest, shire of blackburn and mitcham, city of nunawading, good neighbour council

A cut glass and embossed sterling silver serving dish (known as an epergne) presented to Mrs. Mary Williams at a banquet held at Knuckey's California Gully Hotel in October 1889. The banquet was held to honour Mr. Richard Williams, who had been the Mine Manager of the Johnson's Reef Gold Mines for the past 24 years. Mrs. Mary Williams (nee Thomas) was born in St. Austell, Cornwall in 1830. She migrated to Australia with her husband in two children in 1857, arriving on the 21st December on the 'Shakespeare'. The family lived in California Gully. Richard Williams was a mine manager, firstly for George Lansell and then for thirty seven years at the Johnson's Reef Gold Mines. Mary received the epergne at a presentation banquet for her husband in October 1889. She received the accolade as 'she was a kind and charitable lady, a genuine wife and a good mother'. Transcript of address presented to Mr. R. Williams, Mine Manager, Johnson’s Reef Gold Mines, Bendigo at a banquet held at Knuckey’s California Gully Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo. Description of presentation of epergne to Mrs. Mary Williams at the same function. “To Richard Williams, Esq., J.P., Fenton Gove, California Gully. Dear Sir, We, the undersigned, on behalf of the employees of the Johnson's Reef Gold Mines Company, California Gully, Bendigo, desire to place on record the very high esteem which we have always entertained for you in your responsible position of General Manager of the above company for the past 24 years. During the whole of that time the relations which have existed between you and those under your supervision have been of the harmonious kind. You were ever ready to appreciate and acknowledge our efforts in carrying out your orders, thus making it a pleasure for us to possess your confidence and to give satisfaction to our employers. We trust that you may long continue to maintain the position which you now occupy, feeling assured that in the future, as in the past, you will render faithful service to the company whom your instructions represent, and that we, by our efforts in following your instructions may succeed in retaining the good feeling which has hitherto existed between us. In presenting you with this small token of our esteem, we sincerely trust that Mrs. Willliams and yourself may be long spared amongst us to continue in the good works in which you are so thoroughly appreciated by those with whom you are intimately connected. With every feeling of respect to yourself and family, we subscribe ourselves, George Roberts, Andrew Leahy, Robt. Thomas, Geo. Smith, John Holt, Henry Tonkin, and 220 others. The chairman then presented Mr. Williams with a very handsome diamond locket, manufactured at the establishment of Mr. J. Moody. The large gathering of employees that night showed a genuine feeling of gratitude for past kindness, and was a means of keeping up the kindly feelings which always ought to exist between employers and employees. Much what is said with regard to there being no gratitude among workmen was false, as gratitude will be shown where fair play is given, which could always be relied on from a large-hearted man like Mr. Williams, was received with loud applause”. ‘Banquet to a Mining Manager’ Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), Tuesday 29 October 1889, page 3 The epergne comprises of a silver and mirrored glass base, a decorative silver centrepiece, a cut glass bowl with a conical base, and a small silver plaque. The silver centrepiece features two twining palm trees with a stag deer at the base. Epergne is from the Tui Mitchell Collection. Separate shield shaped silver coloured plaque.Presented to Mrs. R Williams By Her Friends As a slight token of esteem California Gully. October 28/89epergne, tui mitchell collection, richard williams, mary williams, california gully, knuckey's california gully hotel, johnson's reef gold mines

This image is a reproduction of an 1899 original depicting the 'Williams Good Luck Mine' on the Mopoke Reef (also called 'Morepork Gully') in the Dingle Ranges, approximately three miles from Beechworth. The foreground of the image is littered with piles of smashed rock and detritus, known as ‘mullock’, beside a reinforced mine shaft, a vertical access passageway allowing miners to enter the mine and haul ore out using lifting technology such as a poppet heads, whims or windlasses. A group of miners and a dog appear close to an open-sided miner’s hut. Following the discovery of gold at Beechworth in 1852, rushes quickly followed at surrounding creeks and gullies in the district. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, small syndicates of miners continued to work old or abandoned quartz reefs, often persisting without the assistance of heavy machinery to remove the large amounts of rock, in order to obtain yields at ever greater depths. The group of miners in this photograph are Mr. Roger Williams and Sons, who revived operations at the ‘Old Good Luck’ mine on the Mopoke Reef in the Dingle Range near Beechworth around 1892, working the site for more than two decades. An emigrant from Cornwall with experience in the tin mining industry, 19 year old Roger Williams senior sailed to New Zealand in 1840, then to Australia where he spent time in the Bendigo Gold Fields before settling in Beechworth in the early 1860s. Mr Williams senior worked on various mining activities in the district, including the Rocky Mountain Tunnel project. Conversant with the character of gold-bearing reefs in the area, the syndicate dug an eight hundred foot tunnel, digging down as far down as two hundred feet with little capital save their labour, to connect and provide better working access to the mass of reefs and veins in the vicinity. Progress was hampered by poor air quality charged with fumes from dynamite and large quantities of rock had to be crushed to obtain payable yields. The Victorian Goldfields are filled with ruins and remnants of the area's rich mining history, ranging from small alluvial diggings to the remains of huge mining companies. Site names often changed several times throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some sites were abandoned and forgotten, others were worked continuously over many decades. The names of mines were often repeated at different locations throughout the Victorian Goldfields. For example, there is a Mopoke Gully heritage mine near Fryers Creek, Victoria. 'Mopoke' is a common onomatopoeic name for Morepork and Australian Boobook owls. This image has historical, social and research significance for patterns of emigration during of the Victorian Gold Rush, and the historical, social and environmental impacts of mining at Beechworth at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As gold became scarce and government support and large company investment waned, poor hard-working miners laboured intensively to make a living through periods of high unemployment. This image can be compared and studied alongside other historical mining photographs and objects in the Burke Museum Collection. It has potential to improve our understanding of miners working conditions and the shifting character of mining in the Beechworth district. Black and white rectangular reproduction photograph printed on matte photographic paper.Obverse: Williams Good Luck Mine Beechworth / Roger! / Reverse: 6858 / burke museum, beechworth museum, beechworth, gold fields, gold rush, victorian gold rush, gold ming history, colonial australia, australian gold rushes, mining technology, beechworth historic district, indigo gold trail, migration, indigo shire, good luck gold mine, victorian goldfields, mining syndicates, gold fever, quartz-mining, small-scale mining, old good luck mine, mopoke gully, quartz reefs beechworth

Full length, sepia photograph of the marriage of Rev. H. J. Williams and his bride. He is wearing a suit and his clerical collar and she is in a full length lace bridal gown with a veil and train and silver shoes.On the back front in white ink: "237 Collins St Frances Young Melb". On the back hadnwritten in ink: "H J Williams Wedding 1929 Appointment to New Britain"h j williams

Photocopy of newspaper article reviewing land prices in Vermont, Blackburn, Nunawading and Mitcham. Includes photo of Rangeview Shopping Centre, Mitcham Road, Mitcham 195?. From the scrapbook of Jessie Williams.Photocopy of newspaper article reviewing land prices in Vermont, Blackburn, Nunawading and Mitcham. nunawading, vermont, mitcham, blackburn, real estate, rangeview shopping centre, williams, jessie

Beheaded L-R: Srs Williams, O'Keane, McGrath. Front: Sheila Prendergast, ?williams, o'keane, mcgrath, prendergast, 1940s, ballarat, hospital

L-R: Nrs Elsa Wilkie, Alice Fechner, Margaret Williams, 1940snurses, wilkie, fechner, williams, prendergast, 1940s. ballarat, hospital

Part of the Reverend Chaplain Major Thomas Bruce Williams, No 556101, Collection.Green Army issue work trousers with adjustable waist band, two side pockets, two button down hip pockets and two button down thigh pockets. In addition there are five button down belt loops. All buttons are green plastic. The waist band is secured at the front with a button. Fly is a button down type. A green manufacturer's label with black printing is sewn on the inside back of the waist band.Handwritten in black texta on inner waist band: 'TOM WILLIAMS' Printed on manufacturer's label: 'A.G.C.F., VICTORIA,1987 (upwards arrow), WAIST AND SIZE, 84/94R, 8405.66.029.6610, ARMY NO, NAME'.army chaplain, uniform, major thomas b. williams

L-R: Ying, Williams, Fechner - nursing friendsying, williams, fechner, nursing friends, ballarat, hospital, 1940s, prendergast

L-R: Srs Alice Fechner, Sheila Prendergast, Elsa Wilkie, Margaret Williamsfechner, prendergast, wilkie, williams, ballarat, hospital, 1940s

Harriet Cecilia Hordern Williams (1889 - 1968) was the grand-daughter of William Hordern (1830 - 1881) and Cecelia Monger (1830 - 1914). William Hordern was the sixth of seven children of Anthony Hordern Snr. who established the Anthony Hordern & Sons department store in Sydney which operated from 1923 to 1970. Harriet's mother Cecilia (1854 - 1934) was married to Christopher Williams. Harriet's uncle William was appointed commissioner of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1903. Her cousin Doris Amelia Hordern (1889 - 1970), as Doris Blackburn won the Federal seat of Bourke in 1946 following the death of her husband who had previously held the seat. This branch of the Hordern family has a strong connection to Hawthorn through their home "Stramshall" in Auburn Road Hawthorn and also with the Auburn Baptist Church. Harriet Williams enlisted in the Australian Army Nurse in December 1916 and served as a Staff Nurse until her marriage in London in 1919. This certificate is significant to the history of Hawthorn and Australia through its connection with the Hordern family, the home Stramshall in Hawthorn and with the Auburn Baptist Church. It is significant to the history of the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne as an example of early 20th century training protocol, in the persons who signed the certificate and the photographs of the hospital buildings of that time. Leather bound certificate of two pages hinged together as a book. Gold lettering embossed on the front. Gold ornamental border embossed on front and back. Inside a personalised presentation certificate on one page. Second page has photographs of the Melbourne Children's Hospital circa 1916.Certificate Reads: Childrens Hospital/ Training School For Nurses/ Melbourne October 5th 1916 This is to certify that Harriet Cecilia Hordern Williams has attended the prescribed course of Three Years Teaching at the Training School for Nurses in connection with the Childrens Hospital and has passed the examinations necessary for registration as a TRAINED NURSE. Signed by: Lalla Williams - Signature of Nurse M. J Turnbull, President Cora C. Oakden , Honorary Secretary Examiners: F. Hobill Cole M.D. A. Jeffreys Wood M.D. E. Alan Mackay M.B.B.S. Douglas Stephenson M.D.M.S. A. E. Rowden White M.D. Stuart W. Ferguson M.D. Captions on the photographs read: Convalescent Home Brighton Nurses Home Children's Hospital Princess May Pavilion Red Cross with banner beneath reading BY LABOR MUST THE PRIZE BE WON Printed on certificate: Sands & McDougall Limited Melb.childrens hospital, certificate, nurse, hordern, williams, hawthorn, harriet williams, lalla williams, rowden white, cora oakden, hobill cole, jeffreys wood, mary jane turnbull, alan mackay, douglas stephenson, stuart ferguson, brighton convalescent home, princess may pavilion

Donated by Betty Bradley, one of the debutantes. Some names provided by Betty. Checked and others added by Elly Berryman and her mother, Charlotte Berryman nee Cleeland. 2/6/2020 Mrs Jones was the wife of the Shire president, Mr Arthur Jones and Mrs Leggatt was the wife of the MP for the area Sir William Leggatt.. June and Gladys Williams were sisters from Bass.Black & White photograph of Debutante Group. Back row: Carol Bennett, June Barton, June Williams, Betty Bradley, Marie Regos, Gloria Jenner [added by Elly Berryman 23/4/2024] Front row: Standing Mrs Sainsbury, Gladys Williams, Jean Denham, ??, Mrs Roz Jones, Mrs Dorothy Leggatt, Deidre Cleeland, Heather West, ?? Mrs Harry Harris debutantes phillip island, betty bradley, carol bennett, june barton, marie regos, jean denham, heather west, gladys williams, mrs harry harris, deidre cleeland, mrs roz jones

Part of the Reverend Chaplain Major Thomas Bruce Williams, No 556101, Collection.Green coloured canvas bag closed with a heavy plastic zipper. Handles are made from thick khaki coloured stitching. A clear plastic pocket is sewn onto one side to house a name card. Below this is a side pocket closed via a plastic zipper. On the inside of the bag are two large canvas pockets, one of which has a white manufacturer's label attached. On the white manufacturer's label: '8465-66-024-5926,ARKA, 1983' Handwritten in black texta on the plastic pocket: 'M Williams, 2 McClure St, Bendigo, 3550, Australia, Southern Hemisphere'.personal equipment, army chaplain, kit bag, major thomas b. williams

Municipal elections for West Ward, City of Nunawading 24/8/1946. Pamphlet for L. J. Sutherland, Blackburn Progress Association. Extract from scrapbook of Mrs Jessie WilliamsMunicipal elections for West Ward, City of Nunawading 24/8/1946. williams, jessie, sutherland, l j., blackburn progress association, stephens, r., h. e., city of nunawading

The letter relates to the postage of a grave photo and folder of Pte Walter Williams No 1442 2nd Bn AIF. Refer Cat No 4342P for his service details also Cat No 1859P for photo and medals..1) Letter, official, Australian Imperial Force, yellowish colour, all print in black and white. .2) Envelope, official “OHMS”, orange colour, typing in black with purple stamp..1) Letter to, “Mr O.W.Williams 323 Lyttleton Terrace Bendigo Vic” .2) in pencil on the front, “Photograph of where Walter Williams buried”letters, graves, envelopes

Bruthen Netball team D grade premiers Jane Waterhouse Eileen Brooks Jo Holmers Julie Williams Debbie OKeefe Sue Bromage Brenda Streater Robyn Ball Lakes Entrance VictoriaBlack and white photograph showing Bruthen Netball team D grade premiers Jane Waterhouse Eileen Brooks Jo Holmers Julie Williams Debbie OKeefe Sue Bromage Brenda Streater Robyn Ball Lakes Entrance Victoriasports, netball, clubs, recreation

L-R: ?Auty, Sheila Prendergast, Margaret Williams, ?Trask - nursing friends, 1940sprendergast, williams, trask, 1940s, nursing friends, ballarat, hospital, auty

L-R: Elsa Wilkie, Margaret Williams, Elsa Knottman, Alice Fechner - nursing friendswilkie, williams, knottman, fechner, prendergast, 1940s, ballarat, hospital

Article on home-made telephone system linking the Pask family children and others in Blackburn in 'The Sun' 12 June 1961. Copy from scrapbook of Jessie Williams.Article on home-made telephone system linking the Pask family children and others in Blackburn in 'The Sun' 12 June 1961telephones, williams, jessie, pask, colin, lynette, lorraine, mcnaught, margaret, henderson, roger, jennifer

The grave is that of Martha Williams and her father John and is the only existing grave in the old Mickleham Cemetery which was associated with the Wesleyan Chapel and is a reminder of the strength of the Wesleyan faith in the Mickleham district in the 19th century.A coloured photograph of a grave site with a concrete edge and low iron fence around it and a simple tombstone with a curved top. There are clumps of tussocky grass scattered across the grass and two sprawling eucalyptus are growing behind the grave.former mickleham cemetery, mt. ridley road, williams, martha, john, george evans collection

Handwritten notes on the Williams United Mine. Notes mention Report of the York & Central Shafts and Machinery. Detailed on the condition of both shafts and stone encountered.document, gold, williams united, williams united, notes on williams united, ellenborough, belmont, york & durham, williams, newspaper (md) cutings 15/5/1913, t banner, rob't richards, catherine boundary, william brown

These girls were the daughters of John and Elizabeth (nee Jeffrey) Williams who married in 1870. Emily b. 1878; Mary Elizabeth b. 1878; Florence b. 1882; Ethel May b. 1883; Evaline Grace b. 1887; Henrietta (Ettie) b. 1889; Melinda (Linda) b. 1891. There were also 3 boys in the family; John b. 1870; Thomas b. 1875 and George Henry b. 1880.Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. Seven sisters: the Williams sisters; Florence, Inda, Eveline, Ettie, Mary, Emily and Ethel. Date unknown. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Part of the Reverend Chaplain Major Thomas Bruce Williams, No 556101, Collection.Green full length nylon raincoat with button-up front and adjustable belt with buckle. Mesh vent covered with a flap on the back. Under each arm are four small vent holes. Sewn onto the inside neck is a manufacturer's label. Washing instructions label sewn on inside right. Two side pockets.Printed in black ink on manufacturer's label: 'M. PENNISI CLOTHING CO. PTY. LTD., VIC., 1977, (upwards arrow), CLASS 8405-66-018-1271' Handwritten in black ink on manufacturer's label: 'PADRE TOM B. WILLIAMS'.army chaplain, clothing, uniform, major thomas b. williams

Sepia photograph: male portrait, man is dressed in uniform, wearing tie and Sam Browne belt across chest. Badges on both shoulders. Short haircut, with moustache. Written on back in print: ' to the memory of our friend Maldwyn Leslie Williams, Lt. Col. MBBS, who died of wounds received in France, March, 3rd. 1917.' See Research field for more information.Bartlett Bros.person, individual, m.l. williams, williams, maldwyn leslie. medical practitioners. bendigo base hospital. world war 1. bartlett bros.