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From: "Lenore Frost" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] Melbourne Abbatoirs/Butchers
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:28:35 +1000


>Kia Ora,

>I am wondering if anyone can help with information and early history on
> >the Melbourne Abbatoirs. The reason for my request is because of the
> >following information I have on my great great great grandfather John
> >GEE. He died on 27th January 1893, and his death notice mentions that
> >his funeral left from his residence at the Melbourne Abbatoir.
> >Reference books on early Melbourne are scarce here in New Zealand, and >a
>google search has failed to turn up any on-line sites. Can anyone >help
>with a photo or information?

>Thanks. Fingers crossed.

>Bill and Jacqui GEE
>Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Hi Bill and Jacquie,

There was a book published some years ago which may turn up in some public
library in NZ, and which you might get hold of via inter-library loan. It
is called "On the Fall of the Hammer" by Keith Vincent, and it was a
personal memoir of his time at the Newmarket saleyards. It's years since I
looked at it, but I would think there would have been some sort of
historical overview of the saleyards before his own time - and there are
lots of pictures in it.

In fact, now that I think of it, the Essendon Historical Society Inc has
available for sale some photos of the saleyards, taken by Ellen Nihill,
before it closed - I forget the year, in the late 80s I should think.

If you can get hold of a copy of the Sands & Mac Directories on microfiche
for 1892- I would think they would be available in either the Turnbull
library or a genealogical library, you might be able to pinpoint the street
where the residence was.

Best wishes

Lenore Frost
Essendon, Vic
http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/

See details of my new book:
"Essendon and the Boer War, with letters from the veldt, 1899-1902"
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