RESEARCH CATALOGUE

Browse the following history topics to see what you can discover at the Mount Rouse & District Historical Society

A   |   B   |   C   |    D - E   |   F - G   |   H - K   |   L   |   M - N   |   O - Q   |   R   |   S - general   |   S - Schools   |   S - Sport   |   T - V   |   W - Z

A

Accommodation
  • Alexander House
  • Bed & Breakfast
  • Burn Brae
  • Glenoe
  • Parkview Stays
  • Bushmen’s Home
  • Cricketer’s Arms Hotel
  • Granny Hill’s Boarding House
  • Hotels - General
  • Housing Commission
  • Mountain View Hotel
  • Mount Rouse Inn
  • Munro’s Boarding House
  • Penshurst Hotel
  • Prince of Wales Hotel
  • Shearers Arms
  • Temperance Boarding House
  • Victoria Hotel
Aboriginals
  • The Protectorate
  • “Lost in the Bush” by Mr Olle
  • “The Hated Protector”
  • Letters from Mount Rouse Protectorate
Agricultural & Pastoral
  • Members 1967 – 1984
  • Show Society Minutes 1916-1954, 1970-1990 
  • Victorian Graziers Magazines
Almanacs

see also Directories & Almanacs

Ambulance Service
  • Minutes and members record 1948 – 1955 (18) 
  • Glenelg District Ambulance Service – Records of Cases 1950 - 63 (see also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Angling (see Sport)
  • ANZAC DAY
  • Arbor Day (see Special occasions)
  • Audio Tapes – Interviews (taped) Magistrates Room
  • Athletics (see Sport)
  • Australian Comforts Fund (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Australia Day (See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Avenue of honour

B

  • Back to Penshurst, 1961 (see Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Bands (see Music) (see also band music in storage shed)
Banks and banking
  • Bank of Victoria
  • National Australia Bank
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • Basketball and Netball (see Sport)
  • Baths (see Penshurst Park) 
  • Bed-and-Breakfast (see Accommodation)
Bibles and religious text 
  • German Bible; To Johanna Mirschin from Caroline D Rissmann 1933
  • German Confirmandenbuch
  • Bible; From Miss McPherson to Miss Mary Burns 26-1-1857. Family births recorded in front. King James Bible; Miss E M Barker from her sister MB 23-1-1897
  • Bill’s Horse Trough (see Penshurst Park)
  • Biographies
  • Boer War (see Wars)
  • Books
  • Botanic Gardens & Wetlands (see Penshurst Park)
  • Bowls (see sport) See also Rule book & Programmes File (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
Bullock Teams and Bullockies
  • Minutes and members record 1948 – 1955 (18) 
  • Glenelg District Ambulance Service – Records of Cases 1950 - 63 (see also Weekly Times articles 1960)
Businesses
  • Collins Bros. Grocery, Wine and Spirits – ledgers 1903 & 1905 
  • CB Cook Ledgers (29) 
  • McLintocks Fruit and Vegetables – Ledger 1923, 1923 – 1928 (34) 
  • D McNee Railway Store Accounts 1914-1918 
  • Penshurst Butter and Cheese Factory 
  • Minutes 1899 – 1944 (26)
  • Monthly Returns
  • Accounts 1933 – 1952 (48)
  • Wages 1954 – 1961 (43)
  • Large Ledgers
  • Share Register
  • Tilley, Joseph – Ledgers 
Butter Factory
  • Byaduk (see Towns)

C

  • Caramut (see Towns) see also books Plenty of Possums
  • Caravan Park (see Penshurst Park)
  • Casterton (see Towns)
  • Catholic Women’s Social Guild. (see Societies, Organisations and Groups)
  • CDs & DVDs 
Cemetery
  • Burial Records
  • Boram Boram Cemetery Record of income and expenditure 1865-1984 
  • Boram Boram Headstone photographs on CD
  • Boram Boram Map & Plans
  • Lutheran Cemetery Headstone photographs on CD
  • Bushy Creek Cemetery
  • Brie Brie Cemetery
  • Servicemen & women buried at Boram Boram Cemetery (See war files)
  • Dunkeld Old Cemetery
  • Centenary Celebrations ( See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • CENSUS
  • Challicum (see Towns)
  • CHINESE
Churches
  • Methodist 
  • Ladies Guild Minutes 1939- 1943
  • Rev William Cox Curry (Family Research)
  • Presbyterian
  • Roman Catholic (See also St Joseph’s 80th Birthday Celebrations Album in Photo section)
  • Salvation Army
  • Uniting Church
  • Christ Church, Hamilton Centenary 1851-1951, Local Research
  • Church of England
  • Baptismal Records
  • Closer Settlement & Soldier Settlement (see also maps on CD)
  • Clubs (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Comforts Fund (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Commonwealth Bank (see Banks)
Communications
  • Penshurst News
  • Penshurst Free Press
  • Television & Telephone
  • Community Carols (See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Cookery Books and Recipes
  • Country Fire Authority (C.F.A.) (see Fire Brigades)
  • Country Women’s Association (C.W.A.) (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)(see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Coursing, Grey Hound racing (see Sport)
Court House
  • Court Cases from the Penshurst Free Press 
  • Court Documents 
  • Inquests- see court cases
  • Cricket (See Sport)
  • Cricket Reserve (see Parks Ovals & Reserves)
  • Croquet (See Sport) See also Rule book & Programmes File
  • Crimes, Courts and Inquests, (see court cases)
  • Cycling (see Sport)

D ~ E

  • Dance Academy (see entertainment)
Diaries
  • Keith Cameron. Also transcribed on CD 1904 to 1913.
  • Mat Brown
  • Directories & Almanacs
  • Dog in a Ute (See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Drought (see Elements)
  • Dunkeld (see Towns)
  • Education (see Schools)
  • Electoral Rolls, (see Local Government)
  • ELECTRICITY
Elements
  • Rainfall
  • Floods
  • Drought
  • Storms
Entertainment
  • Dance Academy
  • Dancing (See also Rule book & Programmes)
  • Films
  • Heritage Ball 1988
  • Truck Show 1988, 1991

F ~ G

Family Histories
  • Addinsall Family History 1640-1993 by Heather Kruger, 1993
  • Burger – “Moments & Memories” by Ray Burger 2008
  • Burger Family 1851-1893
  • Cook, Leila
  • Cook, Robert “The Life and Times of Robert ‘Yorky’ Cook 2021
  • Doherty “From Derry to Thornlea”
  • Downes “Family of Downes”
  • Downes “The Three Musketeers” by Sue Downes 2013
  • Eales – “At the foot of MountRouse” by Patricia Hodge
  • Field – “A Tree Has Many Branches” 1812-1978
  • “Reminiscences of a Pioneer” by Charles Gray 1840s
  • Greed- Life’s Journey 1808-1998
  • “Habels of Linlithgow” by Dr Norman Habel 1979
  • Hatherells - “Wiltshire to the Antipodes” by Val England 2012
  • Hudgson, Patricia – Autograph Book 1950s
  • Huf 1847-1997
  • Keilar – descendants of John Keilar & Ellen Mailer
  • Kurtze
  • McLean, Patricia-High School Pupils Record Book 1949-1951
  • Mackichan, John – 1839-1912
  • McIntyre - “From Croy to Muddy Creek” by Ian Black 1988
  • Mibus - The Mibus Family in Australia, Edna Nagorka 1985
  • Mirtschin
  • Moodie, William “A Pioneer of Western Victoria”
  • O’Brien, Terrence 1819 – 1893 by Pauline &Brian O’Brien
  • Olle – by the Mount Rouse Historical Society 2012
  • Page & Greelish by the Mount Rouse Historical Society 2010 .
  • Pennycuick – “My Dad Jack” by Sue Pennycuick 2002
  • Petschel, By Helen Petschel 1987
  • Philip, ‘From Ship to Sheep” the Philip Family of Miga Lake
  • Robertson, Joan Naoimi – Australian Passport 1950
  • Sharrock- “The Sharrock Family of Northamptonshire & Victoria” by Penny Mercer 1998
  • Sharrock Family (on DVD)
  • Sharrock Family Reunion 2008
  • Staudinger, Wilhelm & Amanda Christine Passports 1964
  • Sweetnam
  • Tilley
  • Vinen & Young
  • Walker “Growing up at Boram Boram”
  • See also Keith Cameron Diaries

see also Biography Index & Biography files

Farming
  • Anthrax
  • Apiary
  • Dairy
  • Hydatids
  • Potatoes
  • Sheep
  • Weeds
  • Wheat
  • Victorian Farmers Union (see Societies Organisations & Clubs)
  • “Inglenook” Farm Records
  • Field Naturalists, (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
Fires and fire brigades
  • Fires
  • Fires 1939
  • Court Case 1939 Fires
  • Fires in buildings
  • Fire Spotting
  • Fire Spotters Book 1972 -1975
  • CFA Regional Directory, Region 5
  • Fire Brigades (see also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Bush Fire Brigade
  • 1st minute book 1936 (39) 1943 – 1946 
  • Country Fire Brigade
  • Minutes 1959 – 71; 1972 – 83; 1983 – 1993 
  • Accounts 1957 – 1969; 1970 – 1982
  • Croxton East Bush Fire Brigade
  • Minutes 1940-1996
  • FLAXMILL
  • Penshurst Flax Growers Association Minute Book 1943-1949 
  • Floods (See Elements)
  • Flour Mill (see Businesses)
  • Football (see Sport)
  • Free Press (see Communications)
  • Glenthompson (see Towns)
  • GOLD
  • Golf (see Sport)
  • Government Gazettes 
  • Government- Local(see Local Government)
  • Gravel Pits (see Mount Rouse)
  • Grocers (see Businesses)
  • Gun Club (see Sport)

H ~ K

Halls
  • Masonic Hall
  • Memorial Hall (see also plan)
  • Minute book 1954-2005 
  • Mechanics Institute
  • Hardware (see Businesses)
  • Harrow (see Towns)
  • Hawkesdale (see Towns)
Heritage Study- Tim Hubbard 2002
  • Bell Street
  • Martin Street.
  • Penshurst Township (except Bell & Martin Streets)
  • Penshurst Outskirts
  • Woodhouse / Croxton East / Lake Linlithgow
  • Major Properties Penshurst district
  • Herrnhut / Burger’s Museum / Gnadenthal / BoramBoram
Heritage, Magistrates Cupboard
  • Historic Buildings
  • Planning & Urban Growth
  • Development Orders
  • Planning & Environment
  • Heritage Magazines
  • Historical films (on CD)
Historical Society
  • Microfilm report
  • Constitution (suggested)
  • Annual Reports
  • Minute books
  • Homesteads And Pastoral Properties (see properties)
  • Honour Rolls (see War)
  • Horse Troughs - Bills (see Penshurst Park)
Hospitals & Medical
  • Aged Accommodation
  • Doctors
  • Hospital Bush Nursing
  • Infant Welfare Centre (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Kolor Lodge
  • St Martins
  • Penshurst Hospital (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Mossgeil Old Folks Home
  • See also Local Research
  • Ladies Auxiliary Cash Book 
  • Ladies Auxiliary Letter Books 
  • Ladies Auxiliary Catering Books
  • Ladies Auxiliary Hospital Shop
  • Annual Reports
  • Footprints from the Past, Nathalie Gash, 2007 
  • Hotels (See Accommodation)
  • Independent Order of Rechabites (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Infant welfare (see Hospital)
  • Institute for the Blind (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Interviews (taped)
  • Interviews (CD & DVD) see separate index.

L

  • Lake Bolac (see Towns)
  • Lake Kennedy (See Parks, Ovals & Reserves.)
  • Lake Linlithgow (See Parks, Ovals & Reserves)
  • Lake Linlithgow Reserve Minute books, accounts etc.
  • LANDCARE
  • La Trobe Journals, Magistrates Room
Ledgers
  • Butter & Cheese
  • Collins
  • Cook, C.B
  • Madigan’s
  • McClintock
  • Penshurst Hotel
  • Schramm
  • Sharrock

LIBRARY

Local Government
  • Amalgamation of the shires 1994
  • Board of Health Inspection 1924
  • By Laws 1985
  • Centenary Meeting (see Minutes)
  • Financials
  • Health, Infectious diseases
  • Inward Correspondence
  • Index to shire contracts 1861 to 1907
  • Insurance
  • Letter Books 
  • Minutes 
  • Mount Rouse Shire & Councillors
  • Mount Rouse Shire Centenary book- research notes
  • Outward Correspondence 1983-amalgamation
  • Pound
  • Presidential robes & Chain
  • Property transfers
  • Rate Books
  • Septic tank installations, index 
  • Shire Documents
  • Shire maps
  • Shire Personnel
  • The Shire Building (see also Plans)
  • Town Services
  • Valuations
  • Vehicles
  • Voters Rolls
  • Waterworks Trust
Local History
  • Directories
  • Exploring Penshurst (see Tours & Tourism)
  • Women’s Suffrage Petition
  • Heritage Study
  • Refreshing Penshurst (See Special Occasions)
  • Naming Penshurst
  • Penshurst History
  • Special Occasions
  • 150th Celebrations
  • Arbor Day
  • Australia Day, 2007, 2012
  • Balls
  • Centenary Celebrations – Back to Penshurst 1961
  • Centenary celebrations, 1964
  • Community Carols
  • Dog in a Ute
  • Governor’s Visits
  • Market Day
  • Re-enactment of 1898 bank robbery.
  • Refreshing Penshurst
  • Reunions
  • Truck Show &Music Festival
  • Various
  • Street Lighting
  • Johnson, Tom “Diary of a Farmer” V1 & V2
  • The town
  • See also CDs & DVDs
Interviews (taped, poor quality)
  • Mrs Augusta Kruger Tarrington 1980
  • Miss Henrietta Down 1980
  • Thomas Johnson 1980
  • Mrs Dorothy Gardner, Penshurst 1980
  • Burn BraeSchool Pupils
  • Mrs Olive Woodburn, Dunkeld 1979
  • Alma Madigan 1980 (2 tapes)
  • Les O’Callaghan, Warrnambool
  • Marie Rees & Mrs Puls, Tarrington
  • Mr James Day, Dunkeld Rd, Penshurst 1980
  • Jack Chesswas
  • Mrs Norma Turrell
  • Mrs Annie King 1980
  • Mt Rouse Historical Society, District Schools
  • Hilary Newton, Ministry for Arts
  • Geoff Hewitt, Aboriginal Protectorate
  • Mrs Mogford, Flax (Penshurst)
  • Mr Theo Tischler
  • Brian Hatfield, National Trust Photos
  • Mrs Pat Giles, Woodhouse Settlers
  • Sheila Harrington (Cameron)
  • Ian McFarlane, Aboriginals Mt Rouse 1983
  • Roland Whiting (Blind Institute) Talking Machine & Experiences
  • Marg Brown reading from a book on Penshurst by the late Matt Brown (2 Tapes)
  • Kevin Carroll (Yambuk), talk on books etc. on Port Fairy
  • Mr S Williams, Film night.
Lutheran
  • Herrnhut (See also Local Research for Krumnow’s Manifesto)
  • Tabor
  • Hidden Treasures 1838-1938 Lutheran women of Australia
  • Tabor School 1976 – 1990 Book
  • Triennial Convention 1932

M ~ N

  • Macarthur (see Towns and books in Local Research)
Maps & Plans
  • Index of maps & Plans (see Plans & Maps)
  • Market Day ( See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • MECHANICS INSTITUTE
  • (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Memorial Hall (see Halls)
  • Men’s Shed (See Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Milk Bars (see Businesses)
  • Minhamite (see Towns)
  • MinhamiteWomens Social Club (see minute books)
  • Minute Books, Registers and Ledgers
  • Mission Group (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Monivae (The Property) (see Homesteads and Pastoral Properties; also’ Booklet 'Monivae', by Ian Black, published by Hamilton History Centre in May 1996)
  • Mortlake CD “A stroll around Old Mortlake”
  • Motor Businesses (see Businesses)
  • Mount Gambier (see Towns)
Mounts
  • Mount Rouse
  • Scoria Pit
  • Visitors Book Mt Rouse Lookout 1962-1967
  • Mount Napier
  • Mount Rouse Shire Council See Local Government
  • Municipal Directories 1877, 1878, 1880, 1881, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1889, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1968, 1980,  1982, 1986 Cabinet 3
Murders
  • Codd (by Roger alias Tegara, alias Calkipareele.
  • Quinlivan (by Robert Francis Burns)
  • Catherine Jenkins
  • Illegitimate child of Catherine Carey
  • James Buchanan & William Holmes
  • Mary Kennedy (by her husband, Patrick)
  • Murdum Creek (see Spring)
Museum
  • Music festival, ( see Local History, Special Occasions)
Natural History
  • Eruption Centres
  • Water Resource Infrastructure Storage (Yatmerone Swamp)
  • Lake Linlithgow Flora & Fauna
  • Netball and Basketball (see Sport)
  • Newspapers (see Communications)
  • Newsletters - other societies Magistrates Cabinet

O ~ Q

  • Organisations (see Societies, Organisations)
  • Parish Maps (see also CD)
Parks, Ovals & Reserves
  • Cricket Reserve
  • Recreation Ground Minutes 1899, 1933
  • Recreation Ground
  • Caravan Park (see Penshurst Park)
  • Lake Kennedy
  • Lake Linlithgow
  • Mount Rouse Public Park
  • Town Common
  • Pastoral And Agricultural Society (see Agricultural & Pastoral )
  • Pastoral Properties (see also separate Property file)
  • Research for Mt Rouse Centenary Booklet 1864-1964
Penshurst Park
  • Bill’s Horse Trough
  • Botanic Gardens
  • Caravan Park
  • Olympic Pool
  • Swimming Baths
  • The Spring (including Murdum Creek)
  • Penshurst Reunion photos
  • Penshurst town plans 
  • Penshurst town maps 
Pests
  • Rabbits
  • Dogs
  • Foxes
  • Snakes
  • Starlings
  • Photographic collection
  • Plans
  • POLICE
  • Pony Club (see Sport)
  • Population (see Census)
  • Port Fairy (see Towns)
  • Portland (see Towns)
Post Office
  • Wages book (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Pound & Pound Keepers (See Local Govt, Town Services)
Properties
  • See also individual Properties
  • Large Land Owners 1912
  • Subdivisions of estates
  • Property Sales & Transfers
  • Kolor, by Kate Ewing

R

Research - Local
  • “Boring not Likely” Macarthur, Simone Dalton 2005
  • “Windows of Yesterday”, 1988
  • The Major Mitchell Trail
  • “When the World was Wide” Hamilton during the 1880s Hamilton College Students 1988
  • “Dunkeld and District” a short History, Elise Claburn 1989
  • “Footprints from the Past” by Natalie Gash 2007
  • “From Forest Swamps and Stones” by Peter Yule 1988
  • “Hamilton, A Western District History” by Don Garden 1947
  • “Men of Yesterday” by Margaret Kiddle 1961
  • Byaduk Settlers Book
  • Dunkeld Calendar 2000 (see towns)
  • Dundas Shire 1863-1963
  • Glenthompson Booklet
  • Hidden Treasures 1838-1938 Lutheran Marie Rees & Anna Puls 1997
  • History of Football in the Western District- Compiled John Stoward 2008
  • Memories from Penshurst’s Past – Jack Chesswas
  • Mininera District Netball 1939-1999
  • Monivae Booklet, by Ian Black, published by Hamilton History Centre in May 1996 (see properties)
  • Mt Eccles, The Potato Village. Mt Eccles near Macarthur, Beverley M Ross 
  • Mt Sturgeon to Dunkeld 150 years
  • Mount Rouse Centenary Book
  • Penshurst Memories, (transcribed from Mat Brown’s Diaries)
  • Tabor 1853 – 1976 Back to Tabor 1976
  • Tabor School 1976 – 1990 Book
  • Wickliffe Booklet 1st Edition, 1970
  • Yambuk Lake
  • Penshurst & District Hospital Annual Reports
  • Lookout Visitors Book 1962
  • Rabbits and other Pests (see Pests)
  • Racing (see Sport)
  • Railways, see Transport
  • Railway Committee Minute Book
  • Rechabites (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Recreation Ground (See Parks and Ovals)
  • Recipes Magistrates Room
  • Red Cross (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • Ledger 1942-45
  • Re-enactment of Bank Robbery ( See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Refreshing Penshurst ( See Local History, Special Occasions)
  • Registers & Minute Books
  • Religion (see Churches)
  • Research – General - Magistrates room ( See Book index)
  • Reserves (See Parks, Ovals & Reserves)
  • Reunion, Photos of annual reunions
  • See also Local History (special Occasions)
  • Rifle Club (see Sport)
  • ROADS
  • R.S.L. (see Societies, Organisations & Clubs)
  • Rule Books & Programmes

S - general

  • Scrapbooks (cuttings on various subjects, 
  • Shire 1903- 1941, 1981-1986, 1986-1989
  • Senior Citizens Club (see Societies, Organisations and Clubs)
  • SHIRES (not local)
  • Minhamite
  • Warrnambool
  • Ararat
  • Spring (see Penshurst Park)
  • Snakes (see Pests)
  • Stawell (see Towns)
  • Storms (see Elements)
  • Streatham (see Towns)
  • STREETS & ROADS (see also Residences File)
  • Street Lighting (see Local Government)
Swimming Pool
  • Swimming Baths (see Penshurst Park)
  • Swimming Pool(see Penshurs tPark)
  • Minutes 1922-1925; 1927 – 1935
  • Special Occasions (see Local History) 
  • Soldier settlement (See Closer Settlement) see also CD. 
Societies, Organisations and Clubs
  • Agricultural & Pastoral (see individual folder A&P) (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960). See also Members list, bottom shelf
  • Apex
  • Advance Penshurst
  • Catholic Women’s League. See also Catering books 1960-61, 1961-63, ? – 1968, 1972 -74 (24) 
  • Country Women’s Association
  • Comforts Fund Penshurst Branch - Receipts 1942 - 45
  • Field Naturalists Minutes - 1908 - 09
  • Friends of Penshurst
  • Grampians Tourist Association
  • I.O.R - Independent Order Rechabites. See also Sick List (42)
  • Lions Club
  • Loyal Princess Alexandra Lodge
  • Manchester Unity I.O.O.F Minutes
  • Men’s Shed
  • Methodist Ladies Guild. See also Minutes
  • Mission Group. See also Treasurers reports 1974- 1982 (16) Cabinet 3. See also Minutes 1971 – 79
  • Ratepayers & Citizens Association
  • Red Cross. See also Accounts 1939 – 1947)
  • R.S.L. (Returned Servicemen’s League) (See also Weekly Times articles 1960, and Minute Books 1953-1966, 1968-1992 and Cash Book 1983-1986
  • Senior Citizens Club. See also Cash book 1969 – 1990 (35) 
  • State Emergency Services
  • Victorian Farmers Union
  • Youth Club. See also Minute Book & Correspondence Sept 1958 – Feb 1975 and Ledger 1958-1976

S - Schools

Schools
  • Boram Boram
  • Chatsworth pre-school
  • “History of Education in Victoria” Critchley Parker 1922
  • Mrs. O’Reilly’s School for Young Ladies.
  • Lake Linlithgow Lutheran # 199-Magistrate’s bench
  • General
  • Teachers
  • St Joseph’s Primary School (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Tabor School
  • Tabor # 198 Magistrate’s bench
  • Kolor South #3701 Magistrate’s bench
  • Minhamite #3999 Magistrate’s bench
  • Gazette #4268 Magistrate’s bench
  • Penshurst 486
  • History of S.S 486,1858-1962 by Val Heffernan 2016
  • Teacher’s record of collections 1966-1977 Magistrate’s bench
  • Attendance roll & Examination Registers 1964-1975 Magistrate’s bench (also transcribed)
  • Inspectors report Books 1914-1926 Magistrate’s bench
  • Teachers Time Books 1951-1962 Magistrate’s bench
  • Teachers Time Books 1948-1966 Magistrate’s bench
  • Junior teachers Record Book 1909-1948 Magistrate’s bench
  • Cleaners Time Book 16th May 1964- 2nd May 1969
  • Accounts & Receipts 1971 Magistrate’s bench
  • Account Cash book 1967-8 Magistrate’s bench
  • Works and Buildings Cash Sheets 1960-70 Magistrate’s bench
  • Summary of Attendance 1964-1971 Magistrate’s bench
  • Pupils Register 1931-1963 Magistrate’s bench (also transcribed)
  • Transfer Notes 1945-1970
  • See also Weekly Times articles 1960
  • Penshurst North # 4576 Magistrate’s bench
  • Pupils register 1939-48 Magistrate’s bench (also transcribed)
  • Burn Brae State School
  • Mothers Club Minutes Magistrate’s bench
  • School papers 1916, Magistrate’s bench
  • Hawkesdale School 1963-2013
  • See Also Registers and reports for Tabor, Burn Brae, Penshurst North, Kolor South and Gazette in Magistrate’s bench
  • See Vision and Realisation, (Volume 2) compiled by Les Blake and published in 1973 for the Centenary of the Education Department. 

S - Sport & Recreation

  • Angling
  • Athletics
  • Penshurst Athletic Club Entries 1905
  • Bowling (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960)
  • Coursing and greyhound racing. See also Members book 1972-1977  
  • Cricket - see Minutes 1983 – 1991
  • Croquet - see Minutes 1956 – 1962; 1960 
  • Cycling 
Football
  • Minute Books 1970-1976; 1976-1994. 
  • Minute Books 1961 – 64; 1964 – 70 
  • Minute Books 1994 – 2007
  • Reunion July 16th & 17th 1988
  • Matches
  • Newsletters
  • Lewis Family collection of Photos & news articles
  • Football/Netball Club
  • General
Golf
  • Rule Books 
  • Visitor’s Book
  • Minutes
  • Associates
  • Victorian Ladies Golf Union
  • Correspondence
  • Ledgers 
  • Handicap Books
  • Catering
  • Incorporation & Winding up
  • Gun Club. See also Gun Club score book and trophy winners 1905-1912. (23). Also Gun Club 1905-1915 (57/15) 
  • Horse Racing
  • Hunt Club 
  • Netball See also Netball photo album
  • Pony Club (see also See also Weekly Times articles 1960) 
  • Rifle Club
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
Racecourse and Racing 
  • Race Course Reserve Minutes 1908-1929
  • Race Course Ledger 1908- 1955
  • Account Book 1914-1922
  • Bank books, cheque buts & deposits
  • Bookmakers & Entries 1919
  • Boxing Day Ledger 1925-67
  • Boxing Day Minutes 1930-1966
  • Building Insurance 15-3-1943
  • Correspondence
  • Entries 1884, 1886, 1888, 1889
  • Jockeys Book 1987-99
  • Minute Books 1900, 1904-14, 1915-20, 1924-38, 1938-39, 1917-66, 1966-74, 1979-86,
  • 1992-95, 1995 -2000
  • Nominations Easter Monday 1914-1915
  • Plans & Quotes for Track Improvements 1986
  • Proposed Signage 1999
  • Racecourse Ledger 1909-1955
  • Racecourse Reserve Minutes 1929-1950 1908-29
  • Racing Entry Book 1874-1889, 1901, 1907, 1912-1927, 1929-1964, Nov 1995 to 13-4-98, 31-3-1997 to 26-12-1999
  • Racing Rule Books.
  • Receipts 1886, 1886, 1888
  • Statement of Accounts & Subscriptions 1889
  • Tender & Contract for fencing 15-3-1989
  • Tender for Publicans Booth & Gates for Easter Monday Meeting
  • Victorian Racing Calendar 1883

T ~ V

  • Tabor (see Towns) (see also Lutheran)
  • Teachers (see Schools)
  • Tennis (see Sport)
Tours and tourism
  • Tourist Group
  • Touring Penshurst
  • Exploring Penshurst & brochures
  • Town Common (See Parks Ovals & Reserves)
Towns
  • Avoca (book), Byaduk, Caramut, Casterton, Challicum, Dunkeld, Glenthompson, Hawkesdale, Harrow, Lake Bolac, Macarthur (see also Local Research), Minhamite (see also Local Research), Mortlake (CD), Mt Gambier, Port Fairy, Portland, Stawell, Streatham, Tabor (see also Lutheran settlement)Wickliffe, Woodhouse/Nareeb, Yambuk (See also Local Research).
  • See also town maps
  • Train Disaster (see Transport)
Transport
  • Coach
  • Cycling
  • Motor
  • Penshurst Railway accident
  • Railway
  • Community Bus
  • Undertakers (see Businesses)
  • Victorian Historical Journals
  • Victorian Year Book, 1967
  • Visits by Governors (see Local History, Special Occasions)
Volcanoes
  • Volcano Discovery Centre
  • Voter's Rolls (see Local Government)

W ~ Z

  • Water Supply (see Local Government, Town Services)
  • Weddings from Newspapers
  • WEEKLY TIMES ARTICLES
  • Wickliffe (see Towns)
  • Wind Farms (see electricity)
  • Woodhouse / Nareeb (see Towns)
  • Yambuk (see Towns)
  • YATMERONE RESERVE
  • Hutton’s Dam
Wars
  • Avenue of Honor
  • Beersheba Graeme Massey, 2007
  • Boer War (see also Soldiers Photos on DVD)
  • Education Department Record of War Service WW1
  • Letters from the front
  • Medal Presentation WW1
  • On Active service
  • Penshurst Nurses at War
  • Photocopies of Sketches by Mervyn Napier Waller
  • Servicemen and women buried at Boram Boram Cemetery WW1 & WW2.
  • Sketches by Mervyn Napier Waller
  • Soldier Settlement
  • The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900.
  • The Illustrated War News Oct 1914; Jan 1916
  • War magazines
  • War Memorial
  • World War I Roll of honour 1914-1917
  • Gallipoli Heroes, Graeme Massey, 2004