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Back at work. Busy and stressful, but in a different way from holidays.
The Beechworth trip was good, even if it did include two days of 40˚C+ heat. I found Robert Taylor's grave. (Knowing in which section to look made it much easier). I looked through all the headstones in the Presbyterian section of the Yackandandah cemetery, but did not find a single Taylor. I suspect that they were all wooden headstones, and have been elided by termites, rot and bushfires. I will be contacting a guy to see if I can get my hands on a CD with the records of the Yack cemetery, saved from the gutted museum. (Apparently quite a lot of records in filing cabinets, and on hard drives, were saved from the rubble.)
Also, in Yackandandah I found a history of the Yack Primary School, which includes a list of the first hundred students: Robert is #19, and his big sister Eliza is #21.
I also found (I think) the house he lived in (it looks in places about old enough at the core, although there have been people living in it and changing it for almost a hundred years since. Once it was named "Iolanthe"), and the place he worked. (Now it is the Beechworth Galleries, and is for sale, but then it was a store owned by a man called, I think, Samuel Shaw (1826-1901). The ad for the property describes extensive cellars, and Shaw's entry in the Biog. Dict (#27) says that his stores were general stores, but also sold wine. The description says that the store was on Camp and Kerford, where it is now Albert and Kerford, but Albert is just a section of Camp st renamed, I think
( Genealogy and NE Victorian history within )
The Beechworth trip was good, even if it did include two days of 40˚C+ heat. I found Robert Taylor's grave. (Knowing in which section to look made it much easier). I looked through all the headstones in the Presbyterian section of the Yackandandah cemetery, but did not find a single Taylor. I suspect that they were all wooden headstones, and have been elided by termites, rot and bushfires. I will be contacting a guy to see if I can get my hands on a CD with the records of the Yack cemetery, saved from the gutted museum. (Apparently quite a lot of records in filing cabinets, and on hard drives, were saved from the rubble.)
Also, in Yackandandah I found a history of the Yack Primary School, which includes a list of the first hundred students: Robert is #19, and his big sister Eliza is #21.
I also found (I think) the house he lived in (it looks in places about old enough at the core, although there have been people living in it and changing it for almost a hundred years since. Once it was named "Iolanthe"), and the place he worked. (Now it is the Beechworth Galleries, and is for sale, but then it was a store owned by a man called, I think, Samuel Shaw (1826-1901). The ad for the property describes extensive cellars, and Shaw's entry in the Biog. Dict (#27) says that his stores were general stores, but also sold wine. The description says that the store was on Camp and Kerford, where it is now Albert and Kerford, but Albert is just a section of Camp st renamed, I think
( Genealogy and NE Victorian history within )
