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From: "hazelknersch" <>
Subject: Re: [AVG] Mt. Egerton miners become Gippsland farmers
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:27:39 +1000
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I live in Warragul Vic. Australia, and although these names I can help you
with, I will do my utmost to see what I can do to help.
Hazel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorne & Joyce Groves" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 6:32 AM
Subject: [AVG] Mt. Egerton miners become Gippsland farmers


> This is my first message to introduce myself to this particular group.
> These are the names in the Gippsland area starting in 1917: CHANDLER,
> JONES, CANTILLON, Maitland Henry WHITE, and BRIGGS.
>
> I am a Canadian, but have a son living in Victoria with his family. On
> my visit April-May of this year I was able to confirm a family legend
> that Joseph Groves, brother of our Canadian ancestor, John Groves,
> settled in Australia. John left Somerset in 1857; Joseph left in April
> 1858 and arrived in Melbourne in August 1858. He must have gone right to
> Ballarat where his first child was born Feb. 11, 1859.
>
> Having a gold miner in the family has been a whole new ball game. I have
> learned that an engineer does not drive a choo choo train, but works in
> a gold mine. The machine he runs is called a battery and it sits in one
> place for the purpose of extracting gold from quartz. Joseph Groves was
> a battery operator at Mt. Egerton, his 1st son went to Hill End NSW,
> where he did the same thing and his daughters married miners, ODGERS,
> JENKINS, and JONES. All remained in Victoria except the one son, Joseph
> Herbert Groves.
>
> Until I connect with living relatives, I can only guess at the story of
> the Jones family, based on public records. The children of Annie Maria
> Groves and John Ebenezer Jones were all born at Mt. Egerton, where
> father was a miner, between 1887 and 1899, five girls and then a boy!
> Four girls survived, namely Gertrude Venetia, Ethel May, Myrtle Blodwin,
> and Bertha.
>
> Gertrude Venetia married Richard Chandler at Kalgoorlie [ don't ask me
> why- I don't know either]. Their second child was born at Warragul, and
> marks the first known shift for this family to Gippsland. Then in 1919
> the two youngest girls were both married at Warragul on the same day.
> Myrtle Blodwin married Maitland Henry WHITE, and Bertha married a
> farmer, son of a farmer, Edward Thomas Briggs from Buln Buln East. The 3
> other parties lived on Williamson Road, Nilma. The father of the brides
> was a FARMER!
>
> The WHITE and BRIGGS families moved east from there. WHITE children were
> born at Sale- in 1922 and 1923. Three BRIGGS children were born at
> Bairnsdale, 1919, 1921, and 1924. This is as far as I can go with this
> family unless they can be found in a cemetery. I would be glad to hear
> from anyone who knows of any of the above.
> Joyce Groves in Canada
>
>
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