Tracks
of M'Kinlay and Party Across Australia
By John Davis, one of the Expedition, edited from Mr. Davis's
Manuscript Journal with an Introductary view of the recent
Australian Explorations of McDougall Stuart, Burke and Wills,
Landsborough, etc. by William Westgarth (1863) (pdf)
Australia
Twice Traversed
The Romance of Exploration being a narrative compiled from the
journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central
South Australia and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest
Giles in two volumes (1889)
The
Emigrant's Family Or Scotland and Australia, A Tale founded on real life and other
poems by William Jamie (pdf)
Eric
Winchester Winchester was born in 1827 and Baptised at Drainie in
Morayshire. Over many years I have endeavoured to discover more of
his heritage without a great deal of success, but the search goes
on. (pdf)
James
& Maria Snedden
In 1854, my great great grandparents James and
Maria Sneddenleft their Scottish homeland forever and
travelled half way around the world to Australia in search of a
better life.
Professor Ian Frazer
HE MAY be little known in his homeland, but a Scottish scientist has
been dubbed an Australian national treasure and “the man who saved a
million lives”.
McDonald's
in Australia
My father, Donald Angus McDonald, is the great grandson of John
McDonald who was born in Scotland in 1802 and died in Bendigo,
Victoria (Australia) in about 1897.
Death of James Ossian McPherson
Introduction to MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY,
Into the DEATH of James Ossian McPHERSON,
alias Robert BLAKE
Garry Barr
Nehl
Deputy Speaker of the Australian Government's House of
Representatives, addressing a sitting of Parliament in his
kilt! A first in Australian history!
Log of the
Ship Dauntless
Sailed from Greenock, 17th February 1840 with about 150 passengers for
Adelaide, Port Philip and Sydney. Kept by James Falconer.
The Colony of Victoria
Its History, Commerce, and Gold Mining: Its Social and Political
Institutions; down to the end of 1863 with remarks, incidental and
comparative upon other Australian colonies by William Westgarth
(1864) (pdf)
The Picture of Australia
Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and all the settlements,
from the first at Sydney to the last at the Swan River by Robert
Mudie (1829) (pdf)
The
Shetland Female Emigration Society
And the Emigration of single women to South Australia and Tasmania
in the early 1850S by Véronique Molinari (pdf)
Dr Mac
Dr Mac was a series of
self-contained quarter-hour episodes, recounting tales of Dr. Robert
McIntyre, a gentle old Scottish medico, practicing in a country town in
Australia, known only as Dr. Mac to his patients, friends and his many
thousands of warmly devoted radio listeners. The series was created by
E. Mason Wood for the Macquarie Network and the keynote was simplicity.
In most episodes we find Dr. Mac dealing more in homespun wisdom and
philosophy, always laced with compassion, rather than in the clinical
practice of medicine.
Lou Vernon played Dr. Mac; one of radio's most experienced and
best-loved character actors. He came to radio in the mid 1930s after
some 30 years in show business, first as a ballad singer (a baritone),
then in vaudeville, and in the theatre. He played everything from
black-faced comics to Grand Opera excerpts and Shakespeare. On radio in
1936 he was famous for his Italian greengrocer Luigi in Dolly and Dan
for the BSA Players, and among many hundreds of dramatic performances
his Thomas Carlyle in Genius at Home for the Macquarie Radio Theatre was
a standout.
Several actresses played Ettic, Dr. Mac's wife, but Enid Lorimer, an
actress of great strength and experience, played her more often than
anyone else. She is heard in this episode.
Enlish-born Enid Lorimer (1887-1982) was a distinguished actor in radio
plays, stage productions, film and television. She lectured on theosophy
and was a foundation member of Actor's Equity. Lorimer was posthumously
awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1982.
Mini Bios of Scots-Australians
Looking at all the
significant people that had biographies written about them 12 per cent
were born in Scotland.
Alexander Black (1827-1897) A
Scot that ventured to Australia and made his name in the field of
surveying, becoming a pioneer surveyor who marked a state boundary
between New South Wales and Victoria and who later went onto become a
Victorian Surveyor-General. Article by Bob Taylor.
Ultima
Thule
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony in Australia (1929) (pdf)
Son of a Highlander Is the true story of the author, a third-generation Australian
of Scottish Highland descent discovering his ancestral history over
eight generations, from father to son. This is a search for
authenticity of a verbal story handed down over a two-hundred-year
period, along with a 1797 penny and a collection of photos and
correspondence that are one hundred years old, which were from his
late grandfather's old tattered leather case. The author descended
from the Clan MacLeod--Clan meaning 'Children in Scottish Gaelic,'
Mac meaning 'son in Gaelic,' and the Leod derived from the Viking
era; it basically means 'children of the son of Leod.' The family
originated from a small two-acre semisubsistent existence on the
Isle of Skye in far western Scotland. The Macleod Clan was once a
warrior race that feuded with neighboring clans in the most
bloodiest of warfare. A clan system of traditions and culture that
lasted hundreds of years that eventually came to an end with the
notorious Highland Clearance, whereby thousands of people were
evicted from their lands and replaced by sheep. With the mass exodus
of people, some forcibly left while others left in desperation. This
book is the history of one Highland family who survived a dangerous
sailing journey to Australia only to continue their struggle against
adversity on foreign soil. A search for the whereabouts of a
Gaelic-speaking great-great-grandfather to discover he was sent to
an island off the Australian coast, where he eventually died and was
buried in a pauper's grave along with 8,500 souls, whose only crime
was that they were poor"--Publisher's website You can borrow this
book from the
Internet Archive.
Bushmen
All
A Romance of the Never-Never by Giles Seagram (1908) (pdf)
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