24 Tarakan Avenue, Ashmont, New South Wales 2650
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Opening Hours
Monday & Wednesday 10am-3pm Tuesday 1pm - 3pm During Daylight Saving, rooms will be open to 4pm on above days. Rooms are closed on Public Holidays |
Postal
PO Box 307 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Telephone 02 5925 7217 (Opening Times Only) |
Email: wwdfhs@yahoo.com.au
Website: www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au |
Latest News
Christmas.New Year
Please note the Society's Library and Rooms are closed from 13 December 2023, reopening on 3 January 2024.
The Society's Library & Rooms normal opening hours in 2024.
As we function with volunteer staffing, please confirm the library is available before you visit by ringing (02) 59257217.
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New CD Just Released!
Wagga Wagga & District Births, Deaths, Marriages, In Memoriums & Sundry Records 2nd Edition 1998-2022 Compiled by Neil Dallinger and produced by WWDFHS, this CD has over 49,500 entries compiled from the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser with additional information from Wagga Wagga City Council, Funeral Directors and the WWDFHS records Cost $35 + $5 postage Order Form |
Pastoral Review Journal Collection
1891-1977 Containing photos of WW1 Servicemen and Nurses contributed by their families. The WWDFHS has been fortunate to acquire the Pastoral Review Collection previously held by Charles Sturt University. When first published in 1891 the journal was called The Australasian Pastoralists’ Review, which became The Pastoralists’ Review then The Pastoral Review and finally The Pastoral Review and Graziers’ Record. The journals were issued monthly as a record of “all matters affecting the pastoral and agricultural interests throughout Australasia.” The journals issued between 1914 and 1919 contain wonderful images of First World War Volunteers from throughout Australia which were sent in by their families. The Society has now scanned and indexed these photos. Are any of your family featured like those below ? Check out the Index on our new Pastoral Review page under Resources or Click Here. |
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H. B. Baylis
Only son of Mr J. J Baylis, Goonigul, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. Driver, 8th Field Ambulance A.I.F. Dec 16, 1915 |
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Kenneth B. Hollings
Son of Mr T. B Hollings (Melbourne Victoria) Signaller, 7th Battalion A.I.F. Wounded at the Dardenelles and now again at the front. Dec 16, 1915 |
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Wagga Wagga Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium Burials Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & Forget Me Not Children's Section Alphabetical listing of inscriptions and plot numbers compiled to 25 February 2021 Order Form |
Wagga Wagga Rate Books and Digitisation Project These digitised records are now available through the State Archives or through the links below: 1870-1907: Valuation and rate book records 1920-1931: Valuation and rate book records 1908-1919, 1932-1949 [with period 1944-1946 missing]: Valuation Rate books |
Alan Harris Funeral Files
In 1935 Alan Harris opened a Funeral Parlour to service Wagga Wagga and surrounding districts and in 1965 he purchased the funeral home of JC McDonald and the business then became known as Alan Harris McDonald & Co. Over the years the company had branches in Wagga Wagga, The Rock, Coolamon, Ganmain, Tarcutta, Currawarna and Lockhart. For the last 4 years the WWDFHS has been working with the current owners of the business to transcribe all their Funeral Card records from January 1935-June 1965. The resulting "Alan Harris Funeral File" book contains 3,400 records of funerals from the local area and is available for purchase from the Society (CLICK HERE) or for research at the Society's Rooms. |
New Searchable Database
The WWDFHS library holds a wealth of material of interest to family researchers which is not available elsewhere. Over the years our Volunteers have indexed many books and records into Excel spreadsheets but we know that looking through these for a particular person or family can be a daunting and tedious exercise. Help is now at hand with our new Searchable Database. Using either of the public access computers in the Society's rooms, simply select the “WWFDHS Spreadsheet Search” icon on the desktop to open the search engine and then input the Surname and (if you have it) the Given Name of the person you are researching and in seconds you will have a list of the matches for that person from our indexed records enabling you to go straight to the source material! Stop in at the Society's Rooms and give it a try! Volunteers are available during opening hours to assist you. |
Digital Family Photo Bank
Contribute Your Family Photos The Society is looking to put together a digital photographic collection of people who were born, lived or died in Wagga Wagga and surrounding districts. We are asking anyone that has photos from before 1950 of people or families who lived in the area to allow us to scan them for inclusion in our collection. (You will retain the original photo) Generally we are looking for only one (i.e. the best) photo you have of each person along with any details (name, birth date, death etc) that you can provide on the person and photograph The digitised photos will then be made available through the Society's Rooms for family researchers at a nominal cost. If you have photos you can contribute please email the society at wwdfhs@yahoo.com.au |
Early Settlers
Henry Angel (1791-1881)
Henry Angel was born in Salisbury, England in 1791. In 1817 at age 26 he received a life sentence for robbery and was transported to NSW in the Neptune arriving 5 May 1818. In 1824 he was one of six servants assigned to accompany Hamilton Hume and William Hovell on their journey of exploration in which they explored the River Murray. Henry later reportedly claimed to be the first white man to have swum the Murray River. Hume and Hovell attributed part of the success of their expedition to Angel’s abilities with their horses and cattle. On his return Angel was rewarded with a pair of bullocks and a ticket-of-leave for the Illawarra district. On 3 September 1834 near Wollongong he married a young widow, Mary Ledwidge and in 1839 began buying small sections of farming land in Illawarra.
In October 1840 Angel was granted a conditional pardon and soon afterwards took up the rights to Uardry station on the saltbush plains of the lower Murrumbidgee. In 1844 he rented his Illawarra farm and moved to the Riverina. In the early 1860s he sold Uardy station leasehold and moved to Spring Vale south of Wagga Wagga where he died on 17 December 1881, at the age of 91.
The Late Mr Henry Angel
In this issue we present a portrait of an old and worthy colonist, recently deceased, Mr. Henry Angel, who died at the extreme age of 91 years. The deceased gentleman was one of the oldest colonists of New South Wales, having come out to this colony more than 60 years ago. He was one of those who accompanied the late Mr. Hamilton Hume and Captain Hovell, in their well-known exploring expedition to Victoria in the year 1824. He also connected himself with other exploring parties and was one of the first that traversed the Darling River: in fact he has been in many instances a thorough colonist, attaching himself to many objects of interest to New South Wales. He was one of the first squatters who settled down on the lower Murrumbidgee … He afterwards settled down at his residence, Spring Vale, Wagga Wagga, where he passed the last few years of his life. He leaves a widow, six sons and two daughters.
Australian Town & Country Journal, 28 January 1882
How Big Is Your Family Tree?
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Your extended family is probably bigger than you think. You will have at least 8 Great Grandparents, 16 Great Great Grandparents,
32 G.G.G. Grandparents and 64 G.G.G.G. Grandparents + Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. You may know some of their stories. What about the rest? Why not join us and start looking. The WWDFHS is happy to help you get started. But be prepared for a few surprises! |
Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc.
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“Friends come and go but relatives continue to accumulate”
(Unknown author) |