List of blog posts

Avoca Walking Tour
2026/05/01 Avoca Walking Tour: #13 Watford House
Anzacs
2026/04/24 Charles Willmott (1888–1915)
2026/04/22 Dave Summers (1893–1916)
2026/04/16 Flight Lieutenant Colin Keith Astbury
2026/04/14 Francis James Lindsay (1894–1958), a hero of the Great War
2026/04/12 Lieutenant James Sutherland Beavis MC
2026/04/05 William Henry French (1885-1972): World War 1 service
2026/04/05 Harold William Davies MM
2026/04/03 John and James Brown died WW1
2026/04/01 World War 1: First enlistments from Avoca August 1914
Women of the Avoca district
2026/03/31 Women of the Avoca district
2026/03/28 The death of Chemimé, an Aboriginal woman of the Avoca district
2026/03/25 Margaret Calaby (1835–1893) of Homebush
2026/03/23 Miss Emily Bacon, 1849–1894, teacher and charity worker
2026/03/22 Mary Anna Brown nee Cudmore (1869–1900), the wife of a schoolteacher
2026/03/21 Eliza Henry nee Gay, 1833–1898, the wife of an Avoca bootmaker
2026/03/19 Mary Ellen (Minnie) Picking nee Daly, 1884–1923
2026/03/18 Mrs Isabella Galbraith A.T.C.L., music teacher
2026/03/17 Ellen Knight nee Reilly, 1838–1907, nurse
2026/03/16 Charlotte Wilkins nee Young, 1861–1925
2026/03/14 Ethel Redpath nee Hellings, 1871–1914
2026/03/13 Annie Caroline McKinnon 1868–1887
2026/03/11 Caroline Young nee Clarke of Lamplough, 1835–1879
2026/03/10 Agnes Snell nee Grewar, 1836–1920
2026/03/09 Six children of Eliza Kilpatrick died from diphtheria in 1864
2026/03/08 The Mockett angel
2026/03/07 Olive Moodie, found not guilty of poisoning her family
2026/03/06 Mary Ann (McCoy) Ah Car (1849-1872), the wife of an opium dealer
2026/03/05 Margaret (Kinsley) Howell (1843-1914): an Irish emigrant
2026/03/04 Elva Daphne Barker : 1928—2019 “A Life of Inspiration Born of Necessity”
2026/03/03 Eleanor Meade drowned in a flood at Amphitheatre
2026/03/02 Margaret (Smyth) Plowright (1834-1897)
2026/03/01 Eliza Crowhurst (1844-1919), a devoted mother
Chinese in the Avoca district
2026/02/28 Celebrating Avoca’s Chinese heritage
2026/02/27 Mr Loo Chin of Percydale
2026/02/25 Chinese pageant and speech at the opening of the Maryborough and Avoca Railway in 1876
2026/02/24 Chinese miners on the Avoca goldfields
2026/02/23 Ah Yen, sojourner
2026/02/22 1860s, Chinese travelling by stage coach
2026/02/21 Chinese coins found at Percydale
2026/02/20 Tending to graves in Avoca
2026/02/17 Chinese New Year at Avoca Lead 1865
2026/02/17 The murder of Ga Poo by Ah Lop September 1857
2026/02/15 A shortage of interpreters at Avoca
2026/02/13 The Avoca Chinese Garden
2026/02/11 Memorial to the Chinese in the Avoca Cemetery
2026/02/09 Ah Tow (1821 -1888 ), Ah Tow (1838-1877), and Ah Tow (1847-1909)
2026/02/08 The 1872 murder, or was it manslaughter, of Teang Kong
2026/02/07 1867 survey of Chinese in Avoca
2026/02/06 1855 evidence given by Howqua when examined by the Gold-Fields Commission
2026/02/05 Ah Kin How Qua (1829-1873)
2026/02/05 Chinese New Year 1870
2026/02/04 Grantsvale, Fiddler’s Creek (Percydale)
2026/02/03 The Onthong / Tong/ Cook family
2026/02/01 Chinese in Avoca cemetery
2026/01/29 More on visiting the Court House for research
2026/01/28 Visiting the Avoca and District Historical Society
2026/01/27 Avoca Football Club premiers in 1910
2026/01/22 The naming of Avoca, Victoria
2026/01/19 Bound for South Australia: Chronicles of Our Pioneering Ancestors
2026/01/18 Obituary for Mrs Eliza Squires
2026/01/17 Commemorating Major Mitchell’s 1836 expedition
2026/01/14 1836 journey of Major Mitchell: surveying Australia Felix
2026/01/10 A death at Mountain Hut
2026/01/08 Barkly-Navarre rush diggings 1861-2
2026/01/07 Rooted in the Pyrenees: Bridging the Past and Present in Avoca
2026/01/06 Never Surrender Lodge No. 187 I. O. G. T. Lamplough
2026/01/05 George Young’s land at Lamplough
2026/01/04 Commemorating the Lamplough Rush
2026/01/03 Avoca at the beginning of the twentieth century
2026/01/02 Albion Hotel, Avoca: ceased trading 1937
2026/01/01 Opening of the Maryborough and Avoca Railway in 1876
2025/12/31 Avoca Post Office in 1901
2025/12/30 Avoca River in flood 1870
2025/12/29 Moonambel in the 1910s
2025/12/28 Photographs of Avoca and district by Albert Arnall
2025/12/27 Avoca 29 October 1948
2025/12/26 Update to ADHS website
2025/12/23 President’s report 2025
2024/02/07 Prospectors at Homebush
2023/04/26 Vale Denis Strangman 29 June 1942 – 26 April 2023
2022/11/20 The Wise family of Avoca
2022/11/17 Update to contact details and opening times
2021/05/05 Moonambel children in the lock-up
2021/03/31 Tribute to Tony O’Shea from Denis Strangman
2021/03/25 Tony O’Shea
2019/08/15 2019 AGM notice
2019/03/22 President’s Report to 2018 AGM.
2018/10/09 Roses for sale – now sold out
2018/01/06 President’s Report to Members at the 2017 AGM
2017/10/25 New Moonambel book
2017/05/28 Lamplough research
2017/05/16 Our new website
2016/11/24 President’s report presented to the AGM on 12 November 2016
2016/06/15 30th Anniversary Celebrations of the Society – 18 May 2014.